Original scientific paper Aerosol particle thickness measurements were performed at the "Politehnika" University in Timisoara (Romania) during March 2011 using a CIMEL SUN solar photometer, as part of the global AERONET network. The aerosol optical thickness (AOT) represents a parameter of optical visibility in an atmospheric air column from the instrument towards the sun, affected by the prese...

The present work aims at a detailed study and explanation of the pollution transport in the air basin over South-westem Bulgaria and Northem Greece and assessment of the air pollution exchange between Bulgaria and Greece. Some weli known specific climatic air poilution effects were studied and explained. Calculations were made ofthe S02 poilution ofthe Balkan peninsula from both Greek and Buiga...

This is a review article concernning the development of a gas chromatographic analytical method for the analysis of 70 air toxic compounds. Not only the operating conditions, but also the column system is optimized. Optimization of the GC analytical methods for air toxic compounds is based on a unified method with a system comparising two columns. An optimization strategy with stepwise temperat...

The first ground-based remote sensing measurements of the column averaged volume mixing ratio of CO2 (XCO2) in tropical South America have been obtained at Paramaribo, Suriname (5.8 N, 55.2 W). The remote sensing observations are complemented by surface air-samples collected at the site, analyzed for CO2 and CO2. The surface in-situ measurements are strongly influenced by local sources. From th...

Anexperimental investigation of the deformation andbreakupproperties of turbulent round liquid jets in uniform gaseous crossflows is described. Pulsed shadowgraphandholographobservationswere obtained for turbulent round liquid jets injected normal to air crossflow in a shock tube. Crossflow velocities of the air behind the shock wave relative to the liquid jet were subsonic (36–90 m=s) and the ...

Reduced sulfur compounds are considered to be important odorants from pig production due to their low odor threshold values and low solubility in slurry. The objective of the present study was to investigate the use of a portable method with a single silica gel column for trapping/separation coupled with chemiluminescence detection (SCTS-CL) for measurement of methanethiol and dimethyl sulfide ...

Article history: Received 26.04.2012. Received in revised form 17.07.2012. Accepted 17.07.2012. Sea wave energy is one of the high potential renewable energy sources. The Wells turbine as the main part of Oscillating Water Column energy plant is analyzed in this paper. The Wells turbine uses air flow produced by the pressure change inside the oscillating water column. Efficient energy transform...

We report a novel system to analyze atmospheric nitrophenols (NPs). Rain or air sample extracts (1 mL) are preconcentrated on a narrow bore (2 mm) aliphatic anion exchanger. In the absence of strong retention of NPs exhibited by aromatic ion exchangers, retained NPs are eluted as a plug by injection of 100 microL of 0.1 M Na(2)SO(4) on to a short (2 x 50 mm) reverse phase C-18 column packed wit...

A falling rigid body through air, water, and sediment is investigated experimentally and theoretically. Two experiments were conducted to drop rigid cylinders with density ratio around 1.8 into shallow water (around 13 m deep) in the Monterey Bay (Exp-1) and into the Naval Postgraduate School’s swimming pool (Exp-2). During the experiments, we carefully observe cylinder track and burial depth w...

[1] Lake Vostok is a large lake located 4 km beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet that should be supersaturated with dissolved gases in equilibrium with clathrate present in the water column. Here we show that if the age of the lake is such that the lake water mass has been cycled over 30 times then the total dissolved gas equilibrates at about 2.5 liters (STP) of gas per kg of water; high enou...