Water is life and its preservation is not only a moral obligation but also a legal requirement. By 2030, global demands will exceed more than 40 % the existing resources and more than a third of the world's population will have to deal with water shortages (European Environmental Agency [EEA], 2010). Climate change effects on water resources will not help. Efforts are being made throughout Euro...

Inside air ventilation ducts of the confined space such as subway stations become contaminated by various contaminants and particular matters after long time operation. The accumulated various pollutants at inner duct surface easily transport and cause secondary air contamination and injure subway passengers’ respiratory system and health. In fact, only periodic duct cleaning works can improve ...

To optimize the water distribution of three industries based on the water demand prediction under multiple uncertainties, a fuzzy credibility-constrained interval two-stage stochastic programming (FCITSP) model base on the Cobb-Douglas production (CD) function was developed. The CD-FCITSP model integrated fuzzy credibility-constrained programming (FCP), an interval two-stage stochastic programm...

increasingly, companies are focusing on waste reduction in the entire manufacturing process rather than just on end-of-the-pipe waste. The techniques used in waste reduction can be broken own into four major categories-managing inventory, modifying production processes, educing waste volume, and recovering waste. Within each category, examples are given of process or materials changes or modifi...

the effects of unleaded gasoline and unleaded gasoline–ethanol blends on engine performance and pollutant emissions were investigated experimentally in a single cylinder, four-stroke spark-ignition engine with variable engine speeds (2600–3500 rpm). four different blends on a volume basis were applied. these are e0 (0% ethanol + 100% unleaded gasoline), e3 (3% ethanol + 97% unleaded gasoline), ...

Phenolic compounds are widely used in industries and other daily life for various purposes and enter in the industrial effluent and ultimately the final disposal of this effluent which contain phenol compounds are different water bodies which may get contaminated through the continuous disposal of the these effluents. Highly toxicity and carcinogenicity of these compounds can cause considerable...

The Associated Flood Management Programme of the World Meteorological Organisation and Global Water Partnership (2002) has suggested that there are a number of implications for flood management. he first of these is to recognise that the catchment is a system. If we consider the functioning of the catchment; it is a dynamic system in which there are exchanges and movements of sediment, water an...

The present paper is a review on the status of mercury (Hg) as a pollutant in South African aquatic ecosystems. Spatial patterns of Hg distribution and bioaccumulation in water resources were investigated by collecting and analyzing multimedia samples for physiochemical and Hg-species determination from 62 sampling sites. The data presented showed a wide range in concentrations, which was expec...

by Xiaorong Xiang Natural organic matter (NOM), a heterogeneous mixture of molecules, plays a crucial role in the evolution of soils, the transport of pollutants, and the change of global weather. The evolution of NOM over time is an important research area in biology, geochemistry, ecology, soil science, and water resource. Due to its complexity and the structural heterogeneity, new simulation...