This paper identifies the dilemma faced by the stakeholders of existing buildings in regards to a decision making process for energy retrofitting. This paper also identifies the missing stage viewed as the “integrity audit “which can lead to substantial savings in the area of building operation. The methodology is centered on identifying energy waste first, reducing the overall peak electrical ...

Eight senior government representatives outlined the views and policies of their countries in the field of radioactive waste management at a "scientific afternoon" during the 27th Regular Session of the General Conference of the IAEA in Vienna in October. The countries represented were Argentina, France, the Federal Republic of Germany. India, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA; sta...

in accordance with waste strategy for turkey, the study was carried out to analyses waste engine crankcase oils and waste gearbox oils generated from vehicle maintenance services in order to determine their suitability for recycling, recovery or final disposal based on regulation published by turkish ministry of environment and forestry on 21 january 2004. the regulation requires all waste oil ...

The scope of this paper is to outline and discuss fundamental guidelines for an expired medication collection program for Brazil and to provide evidence supporting campaigns to raise the population's awareness for the program's success. It is a document-based descriptive review that analyzes official, technical and regulatory documents from Portugal, Canada and Colombia, where there are expired...

Postconsumer plastics recycling constitutes a small fraction of public recycling, primarily because of the costs associated with collecting, sorting, and processing. As a result, the cost of manufacturing us. ing virgin material is often less than using recycled material. Plastic waste must be sorted to achieve the highest value recycled resin. Optical and artificial neural network technology m...

Collection of raw data from different sensors, processing the data and extracting information from it is a very challenging task. Because of the enhanced memory capacity of the present day computers, data logging has reached to a new level. The analyst has to classify the data according to their traits from the offline logged data. The whole task of collection of raw data, classification of dat...