The airborne particles were collected near the power plant and the opencast coal mine of the Kolubara basin. This paper represents the part of the one-year project aiming to collect, characterize and then determine the mineralogical composition of the airborne particles. Samples of deposited particulate matter from the air were collected between March 2007 and March 2008. Mean concentrations co...

These days, the extension of reactor operation periods and plant life extension is the worldwide trend for efficient and economical operation of nuclear power plants. Plant maintenance methods have been changing from the traditional time-based maintenance (TBM) or periodical shutdown maintenance (where reactor operation is stopped and all the equipment is checked, disassembled, tested, and asse...

Much of the collective knowledge of organisations is scattered in different types of document archives and in incompatible electronic documents within unintegrated applications. Along with technological challenges, organisational challenges caused by increasingly ubiquitous information technologies in everyday working need to be taken into account in the design of enterprise document management...

Urban regeneration and renewal is one of the urban development subjects that have undergone substantial changes in last decades in its approaches and also management process. Despite these global changes, policy making in this field of urban development have been delayed in Iran. In the last three decades, the spread of distressed urban areas in Tehran and their vulnerability against earthquake...

1 Overview Electricity generation from coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear sources involves the use of large volumes of process water. Two significant water-related issues confront the energy industry. The first involves biofouling of process surfaces and other power plant structures, leading to reduced energy efficiency and increased operational costs. A second challenge involves the accumulati...

Abstract Renewable Energy Sources (RES) is the spearhead of current global energy and technological market. However, RES has been part our everyday life for many decades. Hydroelectric energy, prime RES’s, had a pioneer presence at non-interconnected island Crete, where Small Power Plant (SHPP) Agia ceased its operation after eighty years service. Subsequently, owner plant decided to grant perm...