In recent years, there has been an enormous amount of research and development in the area of removal of phenol by various physiochemical methods due to their carcinogenic nature and pungent odour. The MOEF has set a maximum concentration level of 1 mg/L of phenol in industrial effluents for safe discharge into surface waters, the WHO recommends a permissible phenolic concentration of 0.001 mg/...

A decision support system for designing effective noise hazard prevention (NHP) strategies is proposed. NHP consists of four modules: (a) database, (b) input, (c) algorithms, and (d) solution. The user can choose among single-, two-, and three-approach solution procedures. Heuristic and genetic algorithms are used to determine appropriate noise controls (NCs). From the given noise condition and...