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Alternative energy sources in transition countries. The case of bioenergy in Ukraine
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 1 AbstractDuring the transition to a market economy, many countries with a planned economy in Central and Eastern Europe face similar challenges when the established socio-economic systems and infrastructures deemed inefficient in a market economy. Also new issues are being raised by the trends of globalization and the vision of sustainable development. In the energy sector the challenges raised by the Kyoto Protocol and its implementation mechanisms are especially interesting, because they are in... Autori: Andrius Plepys, Giulia Gervasoni, Jean-Philippe Boutin, Kes McCormick, Kristin Seyboth, Luis Mundaca, Marko Ratton, Patrick Lamers, Robert Hlep ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25104
Solid waste management systems assessment: the municipality's point-of-view
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 1 AbstractThe objective of the paper is to present sustainability indicators for municipal solid waste management (MSWM). Sustainability implies environmental, economic and social acceptance. The complexity of the system-in-focus requires the employment of a systems (or cybernetic) approach: Acceptance implies clear objectives, from a specific point of view (here, the viewpoint of the municipal administration is taken), over a time horizon covering at least two generations, a life-cycle considerat... Autori: Demetrios Panagiotakopoulos, Konstantinia Tsilemou ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25112
Emerging academic responsibilities and opportunities for promoting regional sustainability
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 AbstractAcademics have had numerous responsibilities during the centuries. However, now with global climate changes and the attendant, looming crises, it is increasingly crucial that administrators, faculty members, graduate, undergraduate students, staff members and alumni work together with governmental, non-governmental and industrial members in envisioning societies that are truly sustainable. The visions must then be effectively and efficiently implemented in numerous locations throughout t... Autori: Donald Huisingh ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25149
Removal of zinc (II) from aqueous solutions by romanian sphagnum peat moss
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 3 In recent years the removal of toxic substances especially heavy metals from water and wastewater by using of non-conventional low-cost sorbent (industrial wastes and some natural material including microorganisms, plant-derived materials, agricultural products and by-products, mineral oxides, clays) has received much attention. In this paper efficiency of Zn (II) removal from aqueous solutions by sorption onto Romanian sphagnum peat moss was studied in batch experiments involving process parame... Autori: Angelica Kicsi, , Matei Macoveanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25126
Environmental problems of copper complex in Bor area
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 4 AbstractThe paper discusses some environmental problems caused by the presence of the copper mining and processing complex in the Bor area (Eastern Serbia). The Bor area is a serious hot spot in Serbia. Unsupervised operation of the mining company RTB Bor, without any protective measures, has led to extreme pollution of the Bor River, the Danube and underground waters, soil pollution with heavy metals, air-pollution with sulfur-dioxide etc. Recommendations are suggested as follows: a sustainable... Autori: Slavka Zeković ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25137
Wet hydrogen peroxide catalytic oxidation of parachlorophenol over clay based catalysts
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 This study presents an evaluation of the catalytic performances of Fe containing clay-based catalysts for the wet hydrogen peroxide catalytic oxidation (WHPCO) of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) aqueous wastes. The catalysts were prepared by well-established techniques, their properties being determined by DRX, BET and chemical analysis techniques. All the tests were performed on a laboratory scale set-up. The ion-exchanged clays were the most active catalysts (100 % 4-CP and 84 % COD removal for Fe-Mt) b... Autori: , Cezar Catrinescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25157
Quantification of lead pollution in bucharest area and potential risks for human health
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 AbstractLead is unique among the toxic air contaminants that the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified it in several ways. Lead concentration is increasing rapidly in the environment due to increased use in anthropic activity. Lead is released into the atmosphere from metallurgy and siderurgy industry, during coal burning, oil or wastes, from power plants which use solid fuel, from traffic and the building sites. Regardless the exposure mode, the presence of lead in urban air, even in r... Autori: Alina Murariu, Aurelia Meghea, Aurelian Stanescu, Ioana Lacatusu, Mihaela Mihai ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25205
Study of the non-catalytic and catalytic oxidative destruction of VOCs
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 In recent years, the release of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has received much attention. Catalytic oxidation of VOCs, found in small concentration in industrial gas emissions constitutes an alternative for environmental pollution reduction.In this paper, a comparative study regarding the non-catalytic and catalytic oxidative destruction of non-halogenated or halogenated C6 hydrocarbons (C6H14, C6H12, C6H6, Cl-C6H5, Br-C6H5), is presented. Catalytic oxidation was studied in the presence of ... Autori: Florin Bandrabur, Heinz Koser, Ion Balasanian, Liliana Lazar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25162
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 1 Nr. 2
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 1 › Nr. 2 Contain all the articles from this issueICEEM /01 PLENARY CONFERENCETen years of Environmental Engineering and Management education and research at the Technical University of IasiMatei Macoveanu, Carmen Teodosiu ICEEM/01 - Environmental Engineering SectionRemoval of nitrogen oxides from Diesel exhaust: Laboratory studies for development of an SCR-catalyst-system using solid urea as reducing agentWerner Weisweiler High temperature desulphurization of hydrogen sulphide containing ... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25167
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 1 Nr. 4
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 1 › Nr. 4 Contain all the articles from this issue:ICEEM/01 -- Environmental Management Section Corporate environmental competence: A concept for characterising and assessing the environmental practice in companies and product chainsMichael S?¸gaard J?¸rgensen, Marianne Forman Life cycle assessment of some alternatives for the supply of thermal energy in the municipality of Iasi (Romania).Nicolae Peiu Management options for the industrial and municipal wastes in the city of Iasi Carmen Teod... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25169
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 2 Nr. 2
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 2 › Nr. 2 Contain all the articles from this issueEditorialEstablishing effluent discharge limits - have we got it right?Yusuf Chisti Full papersSurvey on the treatment of gaseous streams containing volatile organic compoundsOana Penciu, Maria GavrilescuEU environmental policy for industrial pollution control. IPPC DirectiveElena Bobu Environmental monitoring Antonius A.F. KettrupProcess The sonochemical degradationof cyanide ions using atmospheric oxygen as oxidizing agentIoan Iordache, Mircea Teodor Nec... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25171
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 3 Nr. 1
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 3 › Nr. 1 Contain all the articles from this issueConsiderations concerning ecological footprint of RomaniaNicolae Peiu, Matei MacoveanuEffects of some industrial wastes on different plant species in hydroponics experimentsRuxandra Bodarlau, Carmen-Alice Teaca, Valentin I.Popa The pollution index, a new technical tool in water quality assessmentMihai Nicu, Marcel Perjoiu Solid waste management in pulp productionDan Gavrilescu Curricular development perspectives: education for sustainabledevelopmentCarmen ... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25174
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 3 Nr. 4
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 3 › Nr. 4 Contain all the articles from this issueICEEM /02 PLENARY SESSION:"Environmental Engineering and Management in the Context of Sustainable Development"Design for sustainability (D4S): towards advanced product conceptsHan Brezet, Sacha SilvesterICEEM/02 - ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SECTION"Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies"Complex approach to the problem of persistent organic pollutants degradation in water environmentVictor Covaliov, Olga Covaliova, Angela Cincilei, Gilles Mailhot, Pasca... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25176
Modelling and simulation of heavy metals transport in water and sediments
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 2 AbstractHeavy metals can be transported by rivers which flow through areas with industrial pollution, both as metal in solution and metal adsorbed to suspended solids. They can settle in lakes and accumulate in the sediment, exhibiting significant effects on wildlife and humans if they enter into the food chain.In this work, heavy metals transport and sedimentation is simulated based on an analytical model proposed in literature, considering the material balance and complementary equations, unde... Autori: Camelia Beţianu, Florina Ungureanu, Loredana Branza, Lucian Vasile Pavel, Maria Gavrilescu, Simona Pintilie ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25197
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 9 Nr. 1
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 1 ? Kinetics considerations concerning the oxidative degradation by photo-fenton process of some antibiotics
? Catalytic wet hydrogen peroxide oxidation of 4-chlorophenol over iron-exchanged clays
? Researches on the negative effects assessment (slugging, clogging, ash deposits) developed at the biomass-coal co-firing
? Contribution to the study of the environmental heritage of a former chemical plant
? Impact of chemicals on derivatives with important therapeutic activity in C... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25376
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 7 Nr. 3
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 3 Include urmatoarele articole:â? Cost sensitivity analysis by Monte Carlo simulationâ? Mathematical modeling of gas drying by adsorptionâ? Methyl isobutyl ketone combustion over Pt/Al2O3 catalystâ? Distribution of oxygen transfer rate in stirred bioreactors with simulated brothsâ? Unsteady heat transfer inside an elliptic cylinderâ? Triphasic external-loop airlift reactors. Hydrodynamic and dispersion studiesâ? Sustainable combined utilization of renewable forest resources and coal in Roma... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25209
Nonmarket valuation of acequias: Stakeholder analysis
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 6 AbstractFrom a traditional market economy perspective, the productivity attained when water and land is used for acequias is much lower than the productivity achieved when applying these same resources to urban and industrial uses. An analysis of key stakeholders has indicated that there are cultural and environmental attributes of acequia agriculture landscapes that are not captured in the market-assigned value of acequias. This analysis revealed the motivations behind the value placed on acequ... Autori: Joseph Ulibarri, Steven Archambault ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25212
Environmental pollution with VOCs and possibilities for emission treatment
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 6 AbstractVolatile organic compounds (VOCs) constitutes an important class of environmental pollutants, which, together with other contaminants as NOx, SOx, CO, NH3, CO2 etc. participate in degradation of atmosphere and exhibit a potential risk for human health. VOC emissions may be generated in more than 25 percentages through the use of solvents in different industrial or house holding activities. For applying a certain plan concerning the pollution reduction, any user of organic solvents contai... Autori: Florin Bandrabur, Ion Balasanian, Liliana Lazar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25218
Using GPS technology and distributed measurement system for air quality maping of rezidential area
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 6 AbstractThe projectâs idea is really simple: using the LabView environment, we have realized a virtual instrument able to get from the GPS the information about latitude, longitude, altitude and from a prototype data acquisition board for environmental monitoring parameters the information about air pollution factors. The perfect solution regarding the costs, the covered area and the accuracy of the measured data is the use of a glider for flight, because of its characteristics: free flights (... Autori: , Codrin Donciu, Marius Branzila, Marius Paslaru, Romeo Cristian Ciobanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25221
Waste not, want not" a study of household attitude toward recycling of solid wastes
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 1 AbstractSolid waste management in Malaysia has become an increasingly important task of local government authorities over the recent years as a result of urban population growth, industrialization and an increase in quantity and variation in the types of waste generated. For this reason the government of Malaysia through the Ministry of Housing and Local Government has taken various measures to promote recycling amongst its population. However, a recycling program is only successful if household... Autori: Abdelnaser Omran, Adam D. Read ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25228
Removal of cadmium (II) from aqueous solutions by sphagnum moss peat: Equilibrium study
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 1 AbstractCadmium is listed by US-EPA as one of priority pollutant and as a known carcinogen, and therefore its removal from wastewaters of various industrial processes is a very important environmental problem. The paper analyzes the effectiveness of a Romanian sphagnum moss peat as available and cheaper sorbent in removal of Cd (II) from aqueous solutions. Batch sorption experiments were carried out in order to establish the influence of solution pH, peat dose, contact time and initial cadmium c... Autori: Catalin Balan, , Matei Macoveanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25231
Impact of dust emission on plant vegetation in the vicinity of cement plant
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 1 AbstractEnvironment is a major issue which confronts industry and business in today's world on daily basis. Different industrial activities are degrading various environmental components like water, air, soil and plant vegetation. Cement industry is one of the 17 most polluting industries listed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The Jaypee Rewa Cement Cement industry, Rewa, Madhaya Pradesh is located between 24o 33' North longitude and 81o 10' east latitude and is situated at Jay Pr... Autori: Baby Sunisha, Nagpure Ajay Singh, Shrivastava Preeti, Shukla Ravindra Nath, Shukla Sudheer Kumar, Singh Deepali, Vivek Kumar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25233
Polyelectrolyte - surfactant complexes used in the coagulation floculation processes
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 1 AbstractThe removal of formasine fines particles from water by precipitation with polyelectrolyte and surfactant complex of Polyacrylamide (industrial product Praestol 611 made by Degussa) and Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (SLS) was experimentally studied. Calcium oxide was added to initiate precipitation of the polyelectrolyte complex together with the fines particles. The experiments were carried out with complexes having the surfactants concentration higher then the critical aggregation concentratio... Autori: Cristina Costache, Gabriel Dabija, Mihaela Mihai ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25238
Pulsed plasma treatment of surface water using lowtemperature corona reactor
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 2 AbstractThe disinfection of water containing microorganisms by exposure to pulsed-discharge plasma using a low-temperature gas-liquid hybrid discharge (HD) reactor was studied.The HD reactor consists of a plexiglas cylinder containing the liquid of high voltage electrode above liquid' s surface and grounded electrode submerged in the liquid. The HD could produce both arc discharges in gas and liquid phases. The high-energy plasma arc produces a pressure shock wave, which kills the targeted micro... Autori: Gamal M. El-Aragi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25242
Analytical approach to estimate the air flow rate in the boundary layer of a heated furnace wall
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 3 AbstractThe critical analysis of the transfer processes intensification techniques is carried out by identification of the methods that can be applied, regardless of the process nature. The main priority is the development of a consistent methodology that will represent the basis of specific practical methods development by establishing a theoretical frame for studying the heat transfer processes. The main purpose is to reduce the stationary time of the charge in the installation, accomplishing ... Autori: Adrian Dima, Alina Adriana Minea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25253
Utilization of coal fly ash from power plants I. Ash characterization
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 3 AbstractA comprehensive characterization of fly ash from Iasi, Romania has been carried out in order to set up the utilization potential of fly ash resulting in appreciable amounts from thermal power plants as a waste, which leads to soil and groundwater contamination, as well as atmospheric pollution. This fly ash can be classified on the base chemical and technological properties in F class. Having in mind the assignment of the processing conditions, the fly ash can be used as sorbent for poll... Autori: , Maria Harja, Marinela Bărbuţă, Nicolae Apostolescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25259
Distribution and migration of chrome in urban soils - Case study: IaÂ?i city (Industrial zone)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 2 AbstractIn this study, we follow the chrome distribution and his association forms with mineral and organic components, from 14 soilsamples from industrial zone of IaÂ?i city.The total chrome concentration in studied soil samples varied between 11.73-129.35 μg/g, being lower than the normal values only for four samples. The Cr(VI) weight of total chrome content varied between 3.78-14.52 %. For none of studied soil samples the chrome content is not over to value of alert concentration. The q... Autori: Constantin Rusu, Doru Juravle, Dumitru Bulgariu, Laura Bulgariu, Matei Macoveanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25260
Quantification of impact and risk induced in surface water by heavy metals: Case study - Bahlui River Iasi
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 3 AbstractThe purpose of this paper was to quantify the environmental impact and risk applying a new integrated method designed as a soft SAB. The evaluation of impact and risk induced in environment was performed for surface waters (Bahlui River, IaÂ?i), considering the presence of some minerals and heavy metals in surface water in high concentrations. The new method for integrated environmental impact and risk assessment that considers the pollutants concentration levels in surface water w... Autori: Brindusa Robu, Dumitru Bulgariu, Laura Bulgariu, Matei Macoveanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25262
Study on new complex compounds of Ti(IV) and Zr(IV) in aqueous solutions: synthesis, stability and application in cleaner technologies of natural leather
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 3 AbstractIn this paper, the study of synthesis and stability in aqueous solutions of new coordination compounds of Ti(IV) and Zr(IV) with ligand N-hydroxy-succinimide is presented. The salts: TiOSO4¡2H2O and ZrOCl2¡8H2O used for obtaining the studied coordination complexes, can derive from recycling metallic residues resulted in mechanical technologies applied for titanium and zirconium in S.C. ZIROM S.A. Giurgiu.The new complexes were synthesized in aqueous solutions and stability were study u... Autori: Adrian Cailean, Daniel Sutiman, Doina Sibiescu, Gabriela Apostolescu, Ioan Roşca, Marian Crudu, Mihaela Vizitiu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25265
Municipal solid waste management in developing countries: A perspective on Vietnam
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 4 AbstractEnvironmental pollution has posed and continues to cause specific to and complicated problems. The unsustainable production and consumption patterns result in waste that can harm health and the environment. Because of rapid population growth and urbanization, industrialization process and rural to urban migration, solid waste management is becoming more and more critical now, being a problem in rapidly growing urban centers in developing countries. All these threaten the health and well-... Autori: Abdelnaser Omran, Maria Gavrilescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25275
Analysis of fluxes between industrial branches using technological coefficients
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 4 AbstractIn the theory of relations between economical branches, a variety of balance of connections between the branches (BLR) models is used, whose theoretical construction is based on a series of hypotheses according to the purpose of each model. In this paper models which make use of the natural units are applied in the analysis of fluxes between industrial branches. ... Autori: Aurel Burciu, Ionel Bostan, Petru P. Condrea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25277
Performance of traffic noise models for metropolitan cities
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 4 AbstractIn India, transportation sector is growing fast and the number of vehicles on Indian roads is increasing at a rate more than 7 percent a year. During the period of 50 years from 1951 to 2001, the number of vehicles has increased from 0.3 million to 43 million i.e. an increase of almost 143 times. This has led to overcrowded roads and noise pollution. The transportation sector is one of the major contributors to noise in urban areas, accounting to as much as 55 percent of total noise on t... Autori: Arvind Kumar Shukla, Jyoti Bhushan Srivastava, Manoranjan Parida, Sukhvir Singh Jain ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25279
Analytical noise contour construction using inverse square law of sound propagation
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 4 AbstractOne of the most important environmental problems is traffic noise in urban areas. In order to assess and monitor its influence on environmental quality, road traffic noise measurements are necessary. In generation of noise contour map, two main problems are encountered: noise measurements, which take considerable amount of time, and the method for rigorous production of noise contour map.An extrapolation technique was developed to construct noise contours using actual sound level measure... Autori: Cahit Tagi Celik, Lale Guremen ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25284
Recovery of some inorganic compounds from the sludges resulted after the leaching of uranyl ions from uranium ores
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 4 AbstractIn this work it had been tested the recovery of some compounds like: Fe2O3, TiO2, PO4 3- ions, Al2O3 from the sludges, which result in the industrial facilities for output of pure uranium dioxide. Solubilization of the chemical compounds from the uraniumwastes was performed in strong acidic media, using adequate methods.... Autori: Alexandru Cecal, Doina Humelnicu, Romeo Iulian Olariu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25288
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 7 Nr. 4
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 4 Include urmatoarele articole:â? Removal of nickel from aqueous solution by Nordmann FIR (ABIES Nordmanniana (STEV.) SPACH SUBSP. Nordmanniana) conesâ? Determination of heavy metals in extracts and macerates from garden flowersâ? Biological phosphorus removal in a high performance single reactor â? Advanced Cd2+ removal on dispersed TioO2-fly ash â? Remediation techniques for contaminated soilsâ? Separation of uranium(vi) from soils by extraction in aqueous PEG (1550) - Na2SO4 - Na2CO3 two-... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25296
Phytoremediation: the application of vermicompost to remove zinc, cadmium, copper, nickel and lead by sunflower plant
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 5 AbstractA greenhouse experiment was conducted to determine the phytotoxic effect of heavy metals such as Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn on the growth of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus): on the seed germination, root/shoot growth and uptake of metals in soil-vermicompost media. The selected metals were dosed at various concentrations ranging from 0, 5, 10, 20, 40 and 50 ppm separately in soil - vermicompost media (3:1) in pot experiment. The seed germination, root and shoot growth were found significantly a... Autori: Chhotu D. Jadia, Madhusudan H. Fulekar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25306
Energy from biomass in pulp and paper mills
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 5 AbstractPulp and paper mills generate various quantities of energy-rich biomass as wastes, depending on technological level, pulp and paper grades and wood quality. These wastes are produced in all stages of the process: wood preparation, pulp and paper manufacture, chemical recovery, recycled paper processing, waste water treatment. Energy recovery from wastes of different origin has become a generally accepted alternative to their disposal. Pulp and paper industry expresses an interest in adap... Autori: Dan Gavrilescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25307
Biomass - A source of chemicals and energy for sustainable development
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 5 AbstractNowadays, energetic utilization of biomass, biotechnology attracts a big attention not only from the environmental point of view but also have a social, political and economical impact. According to the Directive 2003/30/EC of the European Parliament and the European Council the emission of greenhouse gases can be reduced by 49% using bioethanol produced by a manufacturing process based on corn, instead of crude oil based fuels. Moreover in Hungary from 1st of July 2007 only gasoline wit... Autori: , , Gyula Marton, , Jenő Hancsók, Tatiana Yuzhakova ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25312
Quantification of environmental impact and risk induced by industrial activities on ground water quality: Case study Cordun - Roman area, Romania
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 6 AbstractThe question of whether environmental assessment has achieved its goal of helping to reach better decisions has continually engaged the attention of academics, policy makers and environmental impact assessment practitioners. Answering this question requires several different groups working together and/or in sequence, and examining the effectiveness of environmental impact and risk assessment. EIA has tended to focus on the identification of impacts associated with planned activities or ... Autori: Brindusa Robu, Elena Doinita Carlig, Matei Macoveanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25321
Groundwater contamination from waste storage works
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 6 AbstractGroundwater is an important source of drinking water, especially for rural population. In the last years, bacteria, nitrate, organic chemicals and other pollutants existing in groundwater have increased public concern about the quality of groundwater. Groundwater provides about 22% of all freshwater withdrawals; 37% of agricultural use (mostly for irrigation); 37% of the public water supply withdrawals; 51% of all drinking water for the total population and 99% of drinking water for the ... Autori: Ancuţa Rotaru, Paulica Raileanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25329
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 9 Nr. 2
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 2 - Artificial intelligence applications in the atmospheric environment: status and future trends- Kernel methods and neural networks for water resources management- Environmental decision support systems based on models and model-based reasoning- Towards an intelligent tutoring system for environmental decision makers- SBC-MEDIU: A multi-expert system for environmental diagnosis- Fast and accurate residential fire detection using wireless sensor networks- Validation of a knowledge-based risk mode... Autori: http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25377
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 7 Nr. 6
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 6 Include urmatoarele articole:â? Composite membranes with cross-linked matrimid selective layer for gas separationâ? Determination of organic compounds from different types of coffee by Hplc and Gc-Ecd analysisâ? An integrated assessment of the suitability of domestic solar still as a viable safe water technology for Indiaâ? Investigations on the possibility of natural hemp fibers use for Zn(II) ions removal from wastewatersâ? Removal of acid red 398 dye from aqueous solutions by coagulation... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25340
Research in the engineering of complex systems safety
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 1 AbstractAn efficient design and development of the occupational health and safety managing system in a working system involves a suitable tailoring of occupational health and safety state in relation to the risk level associated to the conditions for the occurrence of general and specific hazards all through its length of operation.This paper presents a methodological approach for the analysis and for a likelihood estimate of industrial risks identified inside complex structures of the working s... Autori: Constantin Baciu, Gabriel Dragoş Vasilescu, Tiberiu Attila Csaszar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25347
The Algae Blooms phenomenon - A mathematical model
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 1 Pollution with sources from towns and industrial centres affect considerable the ecosystem waters. An accumulation of nutrients favourable to the growth of certain tiny marine organisms called phytoplankton stimulates their rapid reproduction in the water.These plankton blooms appear as patches on the surface of the water. The consequence of this process is the diminishing of the amount of oxygen from water (in the process of decompose the algae), the decease of aquatic animal and the multiply o... Autori: Laura Stefanescu, Laura Ungureanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25351
Environmental impact assessment induced by an industrial unit of basic chemical organic compounds synthesis using the alternative method of global pollution index
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 1 AbstractThe technological process of basic chemical organic compounds synthesis is included among the economic activities that can affect the environment quality. The environmental impact of chemical organic synthesis is evaluated using the alternative method of global pollution index that considers the concentric circles graphical methodology proposing a scale of the arithmetic mean values for the evaluation scores of each environmental components (e.g. water resources, gaseous emission, soil a... Autori: Carmen Zaharia, Ilie Murăraşu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25352
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 8 Nr. 1
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 1 Include urmatoarele articole:â? CsHSO4/mesoporous silica composites - new electrolytes for solid acid fuel cellsâ? Trend in exhaust emissions from in-use gasoline vehiclesâ? Analysis of distribution of oxygen transfer rate in stirred bioreactors for bacterial brothsâ? Electrochemical characteristics of Ti6Al7Nb alloy in Ringer's solutionâ? Pulsed high voltage discharge technology as a new method for killing Hepatitis C virus (HCV) cellsâ? Hydrodynamic modelling of pollution with LNAPL gene... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25367
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 8 Nr. 4
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 â? Photocatalytic properties of titania - fly ash thin filmsâ? Study of the viscosity of some biodiesel â diesel oil blendsâ? Aspects refering to technical and leaching properties of the secondary aluminium slags - cement compositesâ? Studies regarding phenol and 4-chlorophenol sorption by surfactant modified zeolitesâ? Cu-Ni nanostructured electrocatalysts obtained by electrocodepositionâ? Molecularly imprinted poly (vinyl alcohol) films for the selective absorption of glycyrrhizinic ac... Autori: http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25373
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 8 Nr. 5
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 â? Photocatalytic properties of titania - fly ash thin filmsâ? Study of the viscosity of some biodiesel â diesel oil blendsâ? Aspects refering to technical and leaching properties of the secondary aluminium slags - cement compositesâ? Studies regarding phenol and 4-chlorophenol sorption by surfactant modified zeolitesâ? Cu-Ni nanostructured electrocatalysts obtained by electrocodepositionâ? Molecularly imprinted poly (vinyl alcohol) films for the selective absorption of glycyrrhizinic ac... Autori: http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25374
Priority organic pollutants removal by ultrafiltration for wastewater recycling
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 2 AbstractUltrafiltration (UF) represents an important option for the advanced wastewater treatment as it offers good performances from both technical and economical points of view, for the removal of suspended solids, colloids and some of the organic compounds present in different effluents. The occurrence of priority organic pollutants in wastewaters streams and the environment has raised intensive scientific debates about their effects and the possible abatement technologies. As part of a broad... Autori: George Barjoveanu, ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25390
Application of natural materials as sorbents for persistent organic pollutants
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 2 AbstractPersistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic chemicals that adversely affect human health and the environment around. This group of priority pollutants consists of pesticides, industrial chemicals and unintentional by-products of industrial processes. Natural materials, waste from industry and agriculture and bioadsorbents can be employed as inexpensive adsorbents to remove POPs from environmental components by sorption processes. The paper presents various natural sorbents and some ou... Autori: Laura Carmen Apostol, Maria Gavrilescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25395
Bioengineering aspects of tissues culture bioreactors for medicine and environmental applications
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 2 Abstract
Development of industrial cell culture processes needs a good engineering practice and system expertise in achieving a successful integrated process using disposable components. The bioreactors for 3D tissues systems could be an advantageous alternative in terms of low contamination risk, easiness of handling and scaling-up. A careful and strategic design of these equipments provides a better process control and a safe and reproducible production of tissue construct. They can offer t... Autori: Anca-Irina Galaction, Dan Caşcaval, Dan Zaharia, Radu Ciorap ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25404
From the risks evaluation to the health and safety preservation at work
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 3 Abstract
As the prevention of the risks is one of the major stakes of any industrial activity, a priori, the evaluation of these risks constitutes one of the principal progress levers of the risks prevention step at a company. It is an opportunity to engage a prevention step in order to preserve health and to improve the employees' safety at work. However, as the companies are increasingly concerned of hygiene and quality, health at the work should be taken into account with the same interest... Autori: Ghania Chaib, Rachid Chaib, Ion Verzea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25423
Energy conservation and CO2 emissions reduction for clinker portland cement manufacturing process
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
At present, dangerous industrial wastes are a main source of environmental pollution because they are stored and deposited improperly. Besides, dangerous industrial wastes could also be a source of secondary raw materials which are not well capitalized. This fact causes substantial losses of secondary raw materials and energy and it is explained by the lack of certain technologies of treatment, capitalization and final removal that are technically and economically sustainable. To ide... Autori: Neculai Mihailescu, Vasilica Daescu, Elena Holban, Mariana Nicoleta Badea, Jenica Paceagiu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25447
Uncertainty estimation-Case study for phenolic compounds determination in municipal wastewaters
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
The Romanian standard for the analytical method for phenols measurements in aquatic media was subject of internal validation procedure, adapted to the specific concentration domain of the laboratory. Method performance criteria were investigated on standard samples measurements: selectivity, linearity domain, precision, accuracy, limit of detection, limit of quantification androbustness. The validated method was further used on real samples of domestic and industrial wastewaters from... Autori: Carmen Dima, Cristina Jelescu, Camelia Draghici ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25448
Case studies regarding the remediation of polluted soils from inactive industrial sites
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
The methods generally used for developing these studies are the assessment and investigation. Assessment â all methods used for measuring, reckoning, modeling, forecasting or estimating the presence of a pollutant in the environment. Investigation - the process of identifying the presence of pollutants in the environment, the spatial dispersion of these pollutants, the level of their concentration, as well as the analysis of the environmentâs structure. The steps that were follow... Autori: , Gheorghe - Viorel Cosara, Calin Baciu, Ileana - Codruta Stezar, Augusta - Diana Crisan, Camelia Costan, Cristina Modoi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25451
Noise pollution and health impact in urban Arges area
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
Economical development in the Arges district, in the recent years, presents some aspects regarding the compliance with noise environmental regulations. The noise and its impact on human health is one of the most important objectives of the health assurance policy. In this paper a comparative study of urban noise in the principal cities of the Arges district is performed. The data monitoring of noise polution were carried out by using of specific standard methods with a Sonometer Delt... Autori: Ion Iosub, Silvia Iosub, Victor Grigorie, Aurelia Meghea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25463
Surface water pollution generated by mining activities. Case study: Aries river middle catchment basin, Romania
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
The Aries River, due to its geographic position and its significance in the Mures - Tisza Basin, has a major impact on environmental media, influencing their quality. In the Middle Catchment Basin the main industrial activity is mining, since the Roman times, when the first mines were opened. The mining operations in the region generated a severe pollution of all the environmental media.
The paper identifies the risk areas in the middle Aries River in terms of surface water pollutio... Autori: , Lucrina Stefanescu, Camelia Costan, Mirela Miclean, Cristina Modoi, Serban - Nicolae Vlad ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25470
Enhanced heavy metal adsorption on dye-modified fly ash
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
The use of fly ash (FA) in wastewater treatment received a lot of attention for the immobilization of heavy metal cations, mainly Cd2+, Pb2+, Ni2+, Zn2+, Cu2+. For an up-scalable wastewater treatment process, the substrate must have good adsorption efficiency and relatively constant behaviour. Modifying the fly ash surface can be a solution for reaching both goals. The use of FA for heavy metals removal, from wastewaters resulted in the dye finishing industry, faces a supplementary p... Autori: Maria Visa, Anca Duta ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25471
Nanoparticle-based materials for catalysis
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
Highly dispersed nanoparticles of transition and noble metals are utilized for hydrocarbon reactions and rearrangements important to the chemical industry. The need to obtain 1 to 3 nm particles with narrow size distributions has prompted the development of alternative processing methods. Due to widespread speculation concerning the enhanced properties of nanoparticles over their bulk and atomic material equivalents, nanoparticle synthesis has become an active field of research withi... Autori: , Irina Dumitriu, ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25482
The impact of regional development on the environment
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
Various specialists draw attention on the conflict between the industrial civilization and the environment and mention two aspects:
1. The tendency of depletion of natural energy resources, raw materials and food, or consumption of renewable into a rhythm superior to their capacity of regeneration
2. Physical damage and pollution of the environment: water, air and land.
It can be said that a sustainable society is the one that shapes its economic and social system so that natural ... Autori: Dan Duran, Irina Duran, Ciprian Costescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25485
Research on eco-business training requirements
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
The motivation of this paper derives from the lack of integrated research and structures for managerial training and consultancy regarding the environment responsibility for eco-business. Also, the research underline the need of training and consultancy for eco-business in industrial small and medium size enterprises (SME) from the West part of Romania. The main aspects that were investigated were: the most needed items regarding the training programs, details about the consulting it... Autori: Anca Draghici, Monica Izvercianu, Mihaela Vartolomei, Vasile Duran ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25487
Issues on costs and investment for environmental protection
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
The concept of sustainable development has emerged in order to correlate the need to continue increasing the level of human and increasingly fragile â?health?? level of environment. At the industrial level, things have moved more quickly. Thus, many companies use waste as fuel, and in some localities they are trying to implement systems for heating cottage on the combustion of waste. They are first to have acknowledged the eco-economical importance of recovery and reuse waste.... Autori: Dan Duran, Irina Duran, Adrian Diaconu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25488
Reducing of pollutants emissions and heavy liquid fuels consumption in boilers by using of additives
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
The paper presents the experimental results, obtained using a pilot installation and hot-water boilers for reducing the pollutants emissions in combustion of heavy liquid fuels by using of additives for catalyzing of burning processes.
The experiments were made using additives based on iron and cerium carboxylates. Experimental results, which are presented both in variant of heavy liquid fuels burning with additives and without additives, highlight the reducing of pollutants emissio... Autori: Aurel Gaba, Stefania Iordache, Mircea Vladescu, Dan Ungureanu, Petrica Vizureanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25509
The product's anticipated success ratio on the turbulent markets: A genuine tool for the agile enterprises
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
To become "flexible" is the equivalent of becoming successfully for almost any firm - the activities based on old and traditional product "recipes" are, obviously, excluded. But, in the framework of a global economy crisis, the statistics seems to prove that flexibility is no longer enough in order to avoid troubles. At the same time, another statistics prove that almost 80% of the products are failing at their first release on market. The paper presents a genuine marketing aggregate... Autori: Gabriel-Petru Luca, Ion Verzea, Irina Cozminca ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25511
Innovative solutions creates environmental advantages
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
This paper is a study about the symbiosis between the environmental aspects â innovation and competitive character of an industrial organization in our modern and sophisticated world. In actually global market and in conditions of world sever recession, for any organization or economic sector, the chance for surviving and development is given by adopting an innovative culture. This work contains case studies about the necessary steps for developing an innovative organization, a deb... Autori: Florin Negoescu, Eugen Axinte, Gheorghe Nagit, Adrian Iosub ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25517
Risk assessment and measurement of hazards in estonian enterprises
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
The paper focuses on occupational hazards and the determination of risk levels. Indoor climate, lighting, noise, chemicals and dust are examined. A simple/flexible risk assessment method is provided. The results of measurements of occupational hazards in six industries (mechanical, printing, wood, plastic, clothing and water purification plants) in Estonia are presented. The overall purpose of the paper is to draw the attention to the importance of measurements of occupational hazard... Autori: Piia Tint, Marina Jarvis, Karin Reinhold, Onnela Paas ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25521
Wastes used in obtaining polymer composite
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
In the paper is analyzed the possibility of using some industrial wastes for obtaining new building materials. From the industry or from the power station a lot of by-products or wastes have resulted and their storage is a big problem for the environment. In the building material industry a part of these wastes can be used in different ways: for replacing the cement, as addition in concrete, as component of cements, in the mixture of polymer concrete, etc.
In the present investigati... Autori: Marinela Bărbuţă, Nicolae Taranu, Maria Harja ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25525
Using of industrial waste materials for textile wastewater treatment
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Sorption is one of the several methods that have been successfully utilized for dyes removal. A large number of materials have been used as suitable sorbents for decolourization of industrial effluents: activated carbon (the most common but expensive adsorbent), polymeric resins, various low-cost adsorbents (agricultural and industrial by-products, peat, chitin, silica, bentonite, other clays, fly ash).
Our paper is a review about our researches regarding different types of industri... Autori: Daniela Suteu, Carmen Zaharia, Augustin Muresan, Rodica Muresan, Alina Popescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25532
Study of morphology for geopolymer materials obtained from fly ash
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Geopolymerization is a continuous developing field of research for utilizing solid waste and by-products. It provides a solution to many problems where hazardous residue has to be treated and stored under critical environmental conditions. Consumption of fly ash in the manufacture of geopolymer is an important strategy in making materials more environmentally friendly. Fly ash has been chosen as a base material in order to utilize this industrial waste.
Previous researches have show... Autori: Maria Harja, Marinela Bărbuţă, Maria Gavrilescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25542
New carbonic adsorbents for industrial sorting purification in vodka production
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Modern requirements for activated carbons utilized in the refinement of water/alcohol mixtures are discussed. It is demonstrated that activated carbons obtained from coconut shells and apricot and peach stones are very similar in terms of durability, physicalchemical and adsorptive properties, providing high quality sorting. Utilization of novel stone-derived carbons allows 2,5 fold enhancement of filtration rate, as well as 3 fold enhancement of working resource of carbon columns.
... Autori: Viktor Mihailovici Mukhin, Natalia Alexandrovna Shubina, Irina Mihailovna Abramova, Inna Dmitrevna Zubova, Tudor Grigore Lupascu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25543
Environmentally friendly industrial technologies: Case studies
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Nowadays the global climate change is one of the most significant questions from environmental, social, political and economic point of views. Global warming caused by green house gases emitted into the air is a result of the human activities (Energy Revolution, 2005-2007).
The majority of the industrial processes has significant impact to human life and deteriorates the natural environment. In this paper different technologies (three industrial technologies) will be dealt with spec... Autori: Zsofia Kovacs, Orsolya Kakucs, Janos Lako, , Tamas Fulop, Tatiana Yuzhakova, , Endre Domokos ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25545
Assessment of the environmental impacts generated by rubber processing activity
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 6 Abstract
This work presents a global approach of the impact generated in the environment by rubber processing activity. The objective analyzed as a case study is a company that produces rubber tires for trucks and industrial vehicles.
The experimental part includes the determination of quality indicators for each environmental factor (air, water, soil) and the evaluation of environmental impact on these factors. Determination of the environmental quality indicators was done by sampling and a... Autori: Aurica Grec, Florin Dumescu, Corneliu Maior ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25547
Contributions to the improvement of ambiental comfort in residential buildings
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 6 Abstract
The aim of the study is to outline new opportunities of improving buildings ambient comfort and thus to determine energy consumption cut down. The second half of the XX century witnessed the development of society disregarding the extent to which environment was affected by the industrial production; pollution was triggered by the widespread industry which made use of technologies whose main target was the increase of production output at any cost, an aggressive industry with respect... Autori: Vladimir Corobceanu, Răzvan Giuşcă, Raluca Giusca ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25549
Water footprint and challenges for its application to integrated water resources management in Romania
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 6 Abstract:
This paper analyses and discusses the concept of water footprint, developed in order to have an indicator of water use in relation to consumption of people. The water footprint of a country is defined as the volume of water needed for the production of the goods and services consumed by the inhabitants of the country. The use of water resources comprises water use in the agricultural, industrial and domestic sectors. The overall objective of water management, which adopts integrate... Autori: , Simona-Andreea Ene Popa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25556
Assessment of human and natural impacts over water quality in the prut river basin, Romania
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 6 Abstract
The Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) concept evolved over time, the focus on river basin management, consultation and coordination with all water users, and the use of the â?polluter pays?? principle being all included in the EU Water Framework Directive (EC Directive, 2000), which forms the basis of water management undertaken in Europe.
The role and significance of water resources for sustainable development, as well as the water crisis experienced nowadays are ... Autori: , Claudia Cojocariu, Corina - Petronela Musteret, Ioana Gabriela Dascalescu, Ionut Caraene ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25559
Halotherapy: From ethnoscience to scientific explanations
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 6 Abstract
This article presents the use of salt water springs in the Moldavian Oriental sub-Carpathians for treating certain diseases, based on archaeological discoveries and ethnographical surveys, correlated with known facts from the literature in the field.
Nevertheless, what differentiates it from other similar area in Europe is the intense, unexpected continuity of traditional, nonindustrial water supplying coming from salt springs. Among the uses of salt water and halite in the area, th... Autori: Ion Sandu, Marius Alexianu, Roxana-Gabriela Curca, Olivier Weller, Constantin Pascu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25574
Enhancement of separation performances of a new azoic derivative from industrial water and the posibility to recover its complex as nanomaterial
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 1 Abstract
In order to obtain new complexes of Fe(III) with multiple uses, their characteristics, important applications and also the obtaining conditions are studied. The obtaining conditions consist in mixing solutions of the same concentrations of ligand 2 amino-6-methoxy-benzothiazole sulphonic acid??â â1-naphtol-4-sulphonic acid with FeCl3. The solutions are mixed in molar ratios of 1:1, 2:1 and 3:1 (ligand to central metallic atom). For determining the molar ratio ligand:central metall... Autori: Daniela Zavastin, Doina Sibiescu, Igor Creţescu, Ioan Roşca, Mihaela Dana Tutulea, Mihaela Vizitiu ISSN: 1843-3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25581
Valorization of plaster molds waste from fine ceramic industry
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 1 Abstract
The Environment Action Program foresees the development of a Thematic Strategy concerning the sustainable use of natural resources and waste management (Report EUR 21002 EN, 2004). In this context, the activities regarding the research and industrial development related to waste valorization through recycling and reusing have been grown. The wastes resulted from the fine ceramic technological process (scraps, used molds etc.) may be valorized. The used molds can be valorized in other... Autori: Ion Balasanian, Liliana Lazar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25582
A case study of industrial water polluted with chromium (VI) and its impact to river recipient in western Serbia
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 1 Abstract
In this work the method for the treatment of industrial waste waters effluents containing hexavalent chromium in three companies during process of treating metal surface with chromic acid is described. Industrial water polluted with hexavalent chromium is collected in separate sewage system. Polluted water is collected in precipitation tanks which are directly connected with neutralization reservoirs. The treatment process includes pre-neutralization by lime-milk, sedimentation, floc... Autori: Igor Creţescu, Mirjana Cvijovic, Predrag Djurdjevic, Slavica Cvetkovi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25596
Industrial district revitalization through sustainable development policies
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 2 Abstract
Despite their success, the so-called Italian Industrial Districts (IIDs) have to face the crisis caused by the phenomenon of globalization. The paper presents the interventions carried out in two industrial districts, tannery district of Arzignano and artistic glass district of Murano, in order to help the public administrations to improve the environmental situation.
Introducing strategic and social considerations in environmental initiatives and implementing ?radical? environmenta... Autori: Flaviano D'Amico, Giulio D'Amico, Ion Tanase, Marian Mihai Buleandra, Mihaela Buleandra ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25603
Reduced water consumption in recovered paper plant for sustainable development
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 3 Abstract
Regardless of the production branch, advanced closing of water circuits in an industrial unit is a today?s requirement. To fulfill this, an advanced treatment of residual water is needed. Use of both specialized devices and specific chemicals leads to clear water that can be further reused. In this paper, the obtained performances with a unit, which uses dissolving air flotation principles for treating the residual water from a recovered paper de-inking plant, are presented.... Autori: Emanuel Poppel, Nela Dumea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25629
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 9 Nr. 7
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 7 ? MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLING AND TREATMENT OF RESULTING LIQUID EFFLUENTS
? ROMANIA: ENTREPRENEURIAL VALUES AND SUSTAINABILITY
? THE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF WOODEN BRIQUETTES USED AS RENEWABLE FUEL
? ECO-FRIENDLY EXTRACTION AND SEPARATION METHODS OF CAPSAICINES
? ADDRESSING ISSUES OF GEOENVIRONMENTAL RISKS IN DOBRUJA, ROMANIA/BULGARIA
? ADSORPTION OF 2,4-DINITROPHENOL AND 2,6-DINITROPHENOL ONTO ORGANOCLAYS AND INORGANIC-ORGANIC PILLARED CLAYS
? APPLICATION
O... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25659
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 9 Nr. 9
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 9 ? STUDY OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION FROM OILSEED PLANTS II. EVALUATION OF BIODISEL PRODUCTION FROM SOME CULTIVARS OF RAPES
? STUDY
OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION FROM OILSEED PLANTS I. EVALUATION OF THE
GENETIC SIMILARITY OF SOME Brassica Napus CULTIVARS USING RAPD MARKERS
? STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION AND IN VITRO CYTOTOXIC POTENTIAL OF COAL DUST IN A ROMANIAN POWER PLANT
? MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN BENGHAZI (LIBYA): CURRENT PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES
? COMPARATIVE ENVIRONM... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25661
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 9 Nr. 10
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 10 ? AN ASSESSMENT OF OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS FOR THE REMOVAL OF CHLOROPHENOLS FROM WASTEWATER
? ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: A PSYCHOLOGICAL-BEHAVIORAL MODEL FOR RESEARCHERS
? ECOLOGICAL
AGRICULTURE: DYNAMICS OF THE BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES IN SOILS CULTIVATED
WITH MAIZE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIC FERTILIZATION
? SOLAR-ASSISTED JOULE-BRAYTON ENGINES USED TO REDUCE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS
? STUDY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF HEATING SYSTEMS
? MIXED JET-VORTEX METHOD FOR ... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25662
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 10 Nr. 1
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 1 ? COMPACT MICROPULSE BACKSCATTER LIDAR: AIRBORNE AND GROUND-BASED APPLICATIONS
? STUDIES OF THE IMPACT OF AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTIES ON CLIMATE CHANGE PROCESSES
? A STUDY OF THE AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTIES AT TWO AERONET STATIONS FROM ROMANIA
? COMPLEMENTARY ATMOSPHERIC URBAN POLLUTION STUDIES IN THE NORTH-EAST REGION OF ROMANIA, IASI COUNTY
? ?NGSTR?M TURBIDITY IN THE LOWER LAYERS OF THE TROPOSPHERE
? LIDAR MONITORING OF ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION AND NATURAL PHENOMENA
... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25665
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 10 Nr. 3
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 3 ? ADSORPTION OF DYE FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION USING SILVER WOOD SAWDUST CARBON
? TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF THE HEAVY METALS LOADED WASTEWATERS RESULTED FROM CHROMIUM ELECTROPLATING PROCESS
? WATER QUALITY CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PRUT RIVER
? ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS - BETWEEN REALITY AND HOPE
? INTERACTIONS AMONG CLIMATE, VEGETATION AND SOILS IN RADUCANENI ? IASI AREA
? DISTRIBUTION OF MIXING INTENSITY OF OXYGEN-VECTOR DISPERSIONS IN AERATED... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25669
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EIPs-MFA MODEL FOR THE EVALUATION OF MATERIAL METABOLISM EFFICIENCY IN INDUSTRIAL AREAS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 6 Material Flow Analysis (MFA), as a method of Industrial Ecology (IE), is a useful tool to measure and analyze the material metabolism or physical dimensions of a societyâs production and consumption at various scales. However, there are different MFA frameworks and points corresponding to different researching scales. This paper proposes to introduce a physical Input- Output Table (PIOT), as means to establish the Eco-industrial parks MFA model (EIPs-MFA) and indicator systems, for analyzing t... Autori: Yao Shi, Rusong Wang, Jingru Liu, Jianxin Yang, Tianzhen Juhttp://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25676
SOLAR SYSTEMS FOR WOOD DRYING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 8 Abstract:Drying wood requires a significant amount of thermal energy, in order to heat-up wood and evaporate the water inside it.Therefore, solutions to minimize this consumption are a topic of maximum interest for wood-processing industries. Employingsolar power for drying wood is not a novelty, considering that this possibility was already acknowledged at the end of the 17thcentury, but since then, kiln design was significantly improved, once with the progress of knowledge regarding the mechan... Autori: Ion Marinescu, Mihaela Câmpean ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25727
QUANTIFYING THE BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF DIFFERENT PLANT SPECIES ON AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 7 The beneficial effect of urban plants in improving air quality is often mentioned in literature but is seldom quantified and valuated. Quantification and valuation of the benefits provided by urban plants allow direct comparison between plant species and help make more informed urban planning decisions. Based on fieldwork study and data processing, carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration, oxygen (O2) generation, transpiration cooling, sulfur dioxide (SO2) removal and dust interception are quantified ... Autori: Qijiao Xie, Zhixiang Zhou, Fang Chenhttp://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25710
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON AN ENERGY-SAVING MAGLEV TRAIN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 7 The permanent magnet EDS train has been considered to be one of the most promising urban transportation vehicles due to its particular characteristics: simple configurations, low energy consumption, low noise, and suitable for high speed conditions. In order to study the characteristics of permanent magnet Electrodynamic Suspension (EDS) system, an experimental mechanism was established in this paper. The optimization of Halbach magnet array has been carried out and appropriate track for the EDS... Autori: Zhiqiang Long, Guang He, Ning He, Zhizhou Zhanghttp://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25713
EVALUATION AND APPLICATION OF SEMI-DRY FUEL GAS DESULFURIZATION (FGD) WITH FABRIC FILTER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 7 Semi-dry FGD with fabric filter has been extensively studied in recent years. After a series of industrial tests on 300MW boiler with semi-dry FGD and fabric filter, some operation notes were obtained. The test results show that CFB-FGD with fabric filter can be run longer and stable, and its actual performance is even higher than the design parameters. Moreover, the pressure drop of fabric filter after CFB-FGD is 600~800Pa (higher than normal). The fabric filter, which contributes to the desulf... Autori: Tong Li, Han Yi, Han Xu, Reti Hai, Wang Wenxinghttp://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25716
HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND MICROTURBINES WITH POWER OF 10 KW
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 8 Abstract:Under the circumstances of the deficit in total energetic resources of the Republic of Moldova, non-traditional sources as wind,solar and hydraulic energies are very opportune. Concurrently with the conventional energy resources (fossil fuels, atomic energyetc.), wind energy begins to regain its positions not only from ecological, but also from economical point of view. Also, the windenergy conversion systems could play a significant role in the production of mechanical, electrical ener... Autori: Anatol Sochireanu, Ciupercă Rodion, Ion Bodnariuc, Ion Bostan, Ion Dicusară, Ion Sobor, Iulian Malcoci, Marin Guţu, Nicolae Trifan, Oleg Ciobanu, Radu Ciobanu, Radu Crudu, Valeriu Dulgheru, Viorel Bostan, Vitalie Gladîş ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25717
PHOTODEGRADATION PROCESSES FOR ADVANCED TREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 8 Abstract:The textile industry uses high quantities of water which in many cases are disposed to the environment with inadequate treatment.In this work the effluents from the polyamide textile industry containing Bemacid Gelb, Bemacid Rot and Bemacid Blau weretreated by heterogeneous photodegradation. Treatment performances have been evaluated in terms of conductivity, turbidity, totaldissolved solids (TSD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total organic carbon (TOC), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5... Autori: Luminita Andronic ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25720
DEVELOPMENT, MANUFACTURING AND TESTING VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES WITH HELICAL BLADES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 8 Abstract:Under the circumstances of the total energetic recourses deficit in the Republic of Moldova appears the problem of non-traditionalsources utilization. An important source of renewable energy is the wind energy. This paper deals with two new concepts ofvertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) with helical blades, elaborated by the authors.The main element of the wind turbine is, certainly, the rotor. It is directly subdued to the action of the air flow and transforms thekinetic energy of the ai... Autori: Ion Bostan, Ion Vişa, Rodion Ciupercă, Valeriu Dulgheru ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25722
A MICRO-HYDROPOWER STATION FOR THE CONVERSION OF FLOWING WATER KINETIC ENERGY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 8 Abstract:An efficient conversion of kinetic energy of river waters into mechanical or electrical energy without building barrages isprovided by micro-hydropower stations. Increased efficiency is achieved by an optimum position of the blades withhydrodynamic profile. The formulation used to compute the hydrodynamic forces is an inviscid - boundary layer model. Microhydropowerstation provides kinetic energy conversion of river water into mechanical or electrical energy without buildingbarrages. In... Autori: Anatol Sochireanu, Ion Bostan, Ion Dicusară, Nicolae Trifan, Oleg Ciobanu, Radu Ciobanu, Valeriu Dulgheru, Viorel Bostan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25723
DESIGN OF THE SUSTAINABLE URBAN VEHICLES - NEW CONCEPTS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS IN AUTOMOTIVE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 8 Abstract:The demand for new and high performance products in the automotive industry is increasing exponentially and this trend imposesinnovative concepts for cars. The future solutions for the automotive industry may find their answer in the fabricationtechnologies and also in alternative propulsion and energy production.The car design field cannot ignore the global economic crisis, imposing new approaches in terms of materials and cost effectivetechnologies and by the means of environmental pr... Autori: Mihai Comşiţ ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25733
SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE MINING INDUSTRY APPLIED FOR GORJ COUNTY, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 8 Abstract:The national legal framework harmonization, including in areas concerning environmental protection, with the Europeanstandards in the field, is a goal of paramount importance with regard to Romania's accession to the EU structures. From thisperspective, all the organizations, agencies and individuals operating in this field must be acquainted with the European Union'sprograms of environmental action.In this context, the paper aims to provide an overview of the relevant trends and develo... Autori: Constanţa Enea, Constantin Enea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25742
RAPID MANUFACTURING BY POLYJET TECHNOLOGY OF CUSTOMIZED TURBINES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 9 Abstract:In Romania, the small hydro power scheme (mini-, micro- and pico- hydro power) represents a potential renewable energy sourcefor electrical energy. Nevertheless, this small hydro potential must be used efficiently. The paper proposes an innovative e-methodof integrating design with manufacturing, for a small Pelton turbine. The first part presents the application of Rapid ProductDevelopment (RPD) with focus on Product Design (PD) of a new, very small customized hydropower turbine. This ... Autori: Anisor Nedelcu, Bogdan Deaky, Razvan Udroiu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25769
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROACTIVITY INTO MANAGERIAL STRATEGY. IDENTIFICATION OF BENEFITS, DIFFICULTIES AND FACILITATORS AT THE SPANISH AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 12 Industrial firms around the world are focusing on environmental sustainability seeking competitive advantages. Environmental proactivity stands as a fundamental part of these actions. The objective of this work is to understand who and why, companies include the environmental proactivity as an element of the company's strategy. This research has been divided into two separate but interconnected, methodological phases. The first step applied qualitative methods to describe a generic model environ... Autori: Ángel Peiró-Signes, Baldomero Segura-García-del-Río, Conrado Carrascosa-López, María-del-Val Segarra-Ońa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25818
PREDICTIVE MODELLING OF ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE LEVELS IN LITHUANIAN URBAN AREAS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 12 Modelling of environmental noise is a process aimed at estimating the noise levels in an area of interest under a particular set of conditions. The aim of the work is to evaluate the impact of the planned reconstruction work on the change of noise level in Panevė??ys city. The software MapNoise was used for modelling work. Strategic noise maps are updated on a regular basis and information dating back not more than three years will be used for their build. Values of emissions from each indi... Autori: Egidijus Petraitis, , Petras Vaitiekūnas, Raimondas Leopoldas Idzelis ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25830
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Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 12 â? SUSTAINABILITY IN ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION
â? EVALUATING THE CLIMATIC CHANGES IN THE HYDROLOGICAL FLOW REGIME OF THE MOLDAVIAN AREAS
â? ENSURING ECONOMICAL AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: STATE FISCAL CONTROL - A WAY TO PREVENT AND REDUCE TAX AVOIDANCE
â? COMBINED OXIDATION AND ULTRAFILTRATION PROCESSES FOR THE REMOVAL OF PRIORITY ORGANIC POLLUTANTS FROM WASTEWATERS
â? THE FREE LEVEL UNIFORM POST-DARCY FILTRATION THROUGH A SPHERE-MADE HOMOGENOUS MEDIUM
â? HSLA ST... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25838
EFFECTS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS ON TWO FISH POPULATIONS REVEALED BY STATISTICAL AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 11 › Nr. 1 The aquatic species are permanently subjected to various stresses through the ecosystem and the food habit. Elucidating the impact at the cellular level allows us to understand the ways in which the polluting elements and their derivatives can disrupt the metabolism of aquatic organisms triggering apoptosis in individual cells or necrosis affecting groups of neighbouring cells. The aim of this preliminary study is to highlight the influence of the environmental factors on two fish population by ... Autori: , Camelia Ureche, Dorel Ureche, Gabriel Lazar, Ileana Denisa Nistor, Irina Loredana Ifrim, Iuliana Mihaela Lazar, Marius Stamate, Valentin Nedeff ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25861
REMOVAL OF Cd(II) IONS FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION BY RETENTION ON PINE BARK
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 11 › Nr. 1 Among the different types of waste products tested, the bark of different Pinus species have been identified as a promising class of low- cost sorbents for heavy metal binding. In this context, the potential of Romanian pine bark wastes as green and economical sorbent for cadmium (II) ions removal from aqueous solutions has been tested in batch conditions as function of initial pH, contact time, sorbent dose, metal ion concentration and temperature. The equilibrium data at three different temper... Autori: Anca Miron, Brindusa Robu, Carmen Paduraru, Lavinia Tofan, Roxana Laura Mihailescu Amalinei ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25871
MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF HERBICIDES REMOVAL BY INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 11 › Nr. 1 Herbicides industry is a large consumer of water, as well as a major wastewater generator, its effluents contain priority organic pollutants in very high concentrations which have severe effects on human health and on the environment due to their toxicity and bio-recalcitrant nature, persistence in the environment and bioaccumulation. A vast number of herbicides and other priority organic pollutants have been found in wastewater effluents, surface water, and drinking water around the world. The ... Autori: Bianca Weinberg, ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25874
MODELING THE IMPACT OF ROAD TRAFFIC ON AIR POLLUTION IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT CASE STUDY: A NEW OVERPASS IN THE CITY OF CRAIOVA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 11 › Nr. 2 Since the last century, as a consequence of advanced industrialization, the remarkable growth of population, and its mobility have turned the field of transport into the main factor responsible for air pollution attributable to mobile sources of pollution. The continuous accumulation of various pollutants in the environment determines severe consequences on humans, animals and plants, buildings, works of art and landscape. Road transport represents, through its characteristic features â high f... Autori: Gabriela Mitran, Ion Tabacu, Sorin Ilie, Viorel Nicolae ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25898
STUDIES ON THE BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER STREAMS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 11 › Nr. 2 Two experimental periods have been undertaken to investigate the biodegradability of sewage streams (mainly regarding the organic substances) produced by a gas cartridge production, filling and distribution company. A sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was used for the laboratory examinations launched with municipal sewage sludge with a concentration of approx. 3 g MLSS/L. The various conditions in the reactors followed each other cyclically (fill, anoxic, aerobic, settle, draw) three times a day. T... Autori: Bence Fazekas, Karoly Reich, Krisztian Varga, Viktoria Pitas, Viola Somogyi, Zsuzsanna Banyai ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25902
A SPECIAL ISSUE ON RECENT ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND POLLUTION CONTROL: WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 7 A fast economic development in China over thelast three decades has lifted hundreds of millions ofpeople out of poverty. However, an annual GDPincrease of over 10% due to the large scale industrialactivities and fast urbanization has released substantialamounts of pollutants into the environment and exertedtremendous pressure on local ecosystems. Although alarge amount of investment has been made by theChinese government and a series of efforts have beenmade by the environmental regulators, scie... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25965
EDITORIAL A SPECIAL ISSUE ON PROGRESS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT IN THE FRAME OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 8 The Exploratory Workshop Progress inEnvironmental Engineering, Biotechnology andManagement in The Frame of Knowledge-BasedSustainable Economy took place in the contextwhen worldwide research shows that the currentindustrial system supports a population that useresources and generates waste, consuming the Earth'ssupply, but whos biocapacity is far outweighed bythe increased demand of products for a developmentsystem that often works on unsustainable bases.Todays challenge is the integration ... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25969
INDUSTRIAL AND COMMUNAL SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN HUNGARY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 8 AbstractConsumption and related waste production is an integral part of our daily lives. The waste generation worldwide depends on theeconomic strength of the given region/country, and it increases from year to year. More and more attention is drawn to the re-use,recycling, reutilization of the waste which are driven mainly by environmental concerns and economic interests. Regional wastemanagement systems have been established in Hungary with the support of EU funds, which process the waste acco... Autori: Ákos Rédey, , Attila Sarkady, László Dióssy, Róbert Kurdi, Tatiana Yuzhakova ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25970
ENGINEERING CHALLENGES IN ADVANCED WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 8 AbstractWastewater streams and particularly industrial effluents tend to increase in volumes and to get more complex in terms ofpollution. Nevertheless, nowadays the focus is directed towards recycling or reuse of treated wastewater so as to close the wateruse loop. Advanced wastewater treatment allows these possible applications by achieving good quality effluent to suit the newpurposes, but the implementation of this treatment stage is a difficult task. This study gives an example on how to ap... Autori: , Daniela Cailean, Florina Ungureanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25971
VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS AS A WAY TO STIMULATE INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND THEIR CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 8 AbstractNumerous governments have adopted innovative policy instruments to deal with important environmental policy challenges.Various forms of negotiated instruments may offer the potential to improve on environmental performance beyond whatregulation alone can accomplish. Dutch covenants, which represent negotiated agreements with sectors of industry as targets ofbehavioral change in terms of mitigation of pollution, waste minimization and sustainable products and processes, provide auseful sa... Autori: , Kris Lulofs, Laura Franco, Theo de Bruijn, Yanyan Xue ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25972
DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR SURFACE WATER QUALITY MONITORING IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 8 AbstractThe paper presents and discusses some aspects concerning the development of an expert system designed for surface watermonitoring in the context of sustainable management of water resources in Romania and neighboring countries. Technicalconsiderations, which are worthy to be included in the analysis of such kind of systems, are addressed: the system structure(number, type and location of hydrometric stations), number and type of measured indicators, transducers and sensors used formeasur... Autori: Anatolie Iavorschi, B. S. Nanda Kumar, Victor Sontea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25988
ANALYSIS OF MAGNETIC GRADIENT SIGNAL IN UNSHIELDED ELECTROMAGNETIC ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 6 AbstractThe paper analyses the spatial distribution of the magnetic field and the first and second order gradients produced by two sources,a disturbances source and a biosignal source, as well as the effect of the gradiometer basis on gradient measurement. Thecontribution of a magnetic disturbance to signal/disturbance ratio is analyzed when the biomagnetic field is measured in anelectromagnetic unshielded environment.... Autori: Miuta Carmina Rau, Octavian Baltag ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26000
REAL TIME ELECTROCARDIOGRAM SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR R PEAK DETECTION USING WIGNER AND WAVELET FUNCTIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 6 AbstractElectrocardiogram (ECG) signal processing systems must consider various levels of noise/artifacts and develop the techniquesto deal with wide range of noise situations. The authors develop a method based two functions (Wigner and Wavelet),highlighting the importance of selecting one of these functions for signal processing in real-time or off-line case. Making use ofvirtual instrumentation, it was showed that Wigner function can be appropriate for real time monitoring and for mobile devi... Autori: Marius Branzila, Valeriu David ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26003
STUDIES ON HEAT RECOVERY FROM CELLULOSIC TEXTILES FINISHING WASTEWATER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 6 AbstractDue to high energy costs and the rising consciousness of energy issues in the textile industry, saving energy became a significantproblem. Since a large amount of the energy required in textile finishing is needed in the form of steam for various processes,recovering wastewater heat has great potential for cost reduction. In this research, it was studied the heat recovery from cellulosictextiles finishing wastewater, based on a case study in a textile company. After examining the wastewa... Autori: Armand F. Bertea, Gheorghe Condurache, Răzvan Berariu, Romen Butnaru ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26013
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ROMANIA: CURRENT AND FUTURE ISSUES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 AbstractWaste management includes all activities of collection, transport, treatment, recovery and disposal of waste, includingsupervising of such operations. The framework law that regulates waste management activities in Romania is Law no. 27/2007,approving Government Emergency Ordinance no. 61/2006, amending and supplementing Government Emergency Ordinance no.78/2000 on waste regime. This legislation sets the responsibilities for waste management from generation to disposal, thepriorities in ... Autori: Constantin Mircea Orlescu, Ioana Alina Costescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26020
REMOVAL OF TWO INDUSTRIAL DYES FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS USING HYDROTALCITE-LIKE ANIONIC CLAYS AND THEIR DERIVED MIXED OXIDES AS HIGHLY EFFICIENT PHOTOCATALYSTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 AbstractMultifunctional materials based on iron substituted anionic clays and their derived mixed oxides owning specific porousproperties and textural characteristics are synthesized, characterized and tested as photocatalysts in the process of the azo-dyesdegradation from aqueous solutions. The features of X-ray diffraction patterns point out the modification of the lattice parameterswhen Fe3+ is substituted Al3+ in the brucite like layer. N2 adsorption-desorption analysis reveals specific poro... Autori: Carmen Gherasim, Gabriela Carjă, Magda Puşcaşu, Mihaela Bîrsanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26024
KINETIC STUDY OF HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM REMOVAL FROM WASTEWATERS BY ION EXCHANGE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 AbstractIn spite of the fact that concern on water quality protection raised in the last decades heavy metals pollution still represents agreat threat for both human health and environment quality. Ion exchange proved to be an effective technique for industrialwastewaters treatment, as long as it ensures an effective recovery of valuable compounds. The main purpose of this work is toassess the performances of a commercial ion resin sort (a strong basic anionic resin VIONIT AT 21), to remove ch... Autori: Alexandra Raluca Miron, Cristina Costache, Cristina Modrogan, Dumitru Giani Apostol, Oanamari Daniela Butucea, Redha Kouachi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26025
MAGNETIC FLUID EQUIPMENT FOR SORTING SECONDARY POLYOLEFINS FROM WASTE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 AbstractThe paper presents the research made on the FP7 project Magnetic Sorting and Ultrasound Sensor Technologies for Productionof High Purity Secondary Polyolefins from Waste in order to develop a magnetic fluid equipment for sorting of polypropylene(PP) and polyethylene (PE) from polymers mixed waste streams. Because both PP and PE float in water, it is difficult to separateone from the other. The paper presents the principles of inverse magnetic density separation process and the results ... Autori: Bin Hu, Francesco Di Maio, Guillaume Houzeaux, Liana Baltes, Mircea Tierean, Peter Rem ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26028
SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN SUCEAVA COUNTY, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 AbstractMaking tourism more sustainable, means not only to control and manage the negative environmental impacts of this sector.Tourism is unique in the sense that it can provide both economic and social benefits for local communities and it can alsostrengthen the awareness and support for environmental conservation. The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework formore sustainable tourism development policies, but also a set of instruments to implement these policies. We used in this stud... Autori: Carmen Teodosiu, Elena Elisabeta Pomeanu, Eric Boutin, Simona-Andreea Ene Popa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26031
PHYTOEXTRACTION OF HEAVY METALS FROM INDUSTRIALLY POLLUTED ZONE USING Lolium perenne AND Lemna minor
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 AbstractThe paper intends to contribute to the stages of bioremediation technologies elaboration, by means of experiments and efficiencydemonstrations of adequate biological depollution and ecological reconstruction methods. During the 2009-2011 period, heavymetals and metalloids, etc phytoextraction tests were performed with Lolium perenne L, from tailing samples collected fromwaste heaps and tailings dams of the mining exploitations (Rodna, BistriţaNăsăud, Fundu-Moldovei, Sucea... Autori: Alexandru Crihan, Alin Bolonyi, Bianca Malschi Florian, Cecilia Roman, Dana Malschi, Dorian Brăhaiţa, George Ghira, , Marin Şenilă, Mirela Miclean ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26044
CROSS-SPECTRUM ANALYSIS APPLIED TO AIR POLLUTION TIME SERIES FROM SEVERAL URBAN AREAS OF ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 4 AbstractThe paper presents the application of cross-spectrum analysis (CSA) to air pollution and meteorological time series collected fromseven air quality monitoring stations located in three urban agglomerations of Romania, affected by industrial and trafficpollution: Braşov, Ploieşti and Târgovişte. Data have been collected from November 2011 till March 2012, at one hour samplingrate. The purpose of the analysis was to reveal the correlations between two series at different fre... Autori: Ştefania Iordache, Daniel Dunea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26057
DEVELOPMENT OF A TOOL FOR INDUSTRIAL ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION MANAGEMENT IN THE APULIA REGION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 3 AbstractAtmospheric emission inventories are useful tools to support informed decision making in air quality management. In theframework of Apulia Region emission inventory, a tool for the industrial atmospheric emission management called TerritorialEmissions Cadastre (CET) was developed. CET is a Web-based system able to store all data related to the industrial plants and toperform spatial queries; its components are used for synchronizing, exporting and querying the underlined database. CET al... Autori: Eleonora Andriani ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26079
TRAFFIC NOISE MEASUREMENT AND PREDICTION OF THE BARRIER EFFECT ON TRAFFIC NOISE AT DIFFERENT BUILDING LEVELS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 3 AbstractWith the development of transportation systems, the associated traffic noise problem has drawn more and more attention in HongKong. Under the Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines, a standard of 70 dB(A), measured as LA10 (1 hour), has been setfor road traffic noise. The Calculation of Road Traffic Noise (CRTN) method has been adopted in Hong Kong to estimate suchnoise. This study first examined and evaluated the accuracy of this method in predicting traffic noise at different floo... Autori: Cheuk Ming Mak ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26082
SPEED DISTRIBUTION INFLUENCE IN ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE PREDICTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 3 AbstractIn road traffic noise issues, experimental measurements are a relevant element in order to understand the problem and to adjustmodels. Sometimes, when measurements are not possible or in the designing phase, prediction models are used to perform anestimation of the equivalent level produced by a road infrastructure. Usually models parameters are obtained by a statistical datafit and thus they are related to the area where measurements have been performed. These models are suitable for st... Autori: Gerardo Iannone ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26087
STUDIES ON THE TOXICITY OF COMPOSITE TANNERY EFFLUENT USING GUPPY (Poecilia reticulata) AS A FISH MODEL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 3 AbstractEast Calcutta Wetland ecosystem is a Ramsar Site in India covering almost 51 km2 and is one of the largest of its type. Thiswetland receives a massive load of almost untreated industrial and domestic effluents every day, throughout the year, that hasbeen effectively utilized in pisciculture for having a better yield (2.85 metric tons of fish per 0.01 km2 of water body per annum).The present investigation was carried out to study the toxicity of the untreated effluents discharged from tan... Autori: Utpal Singha Roy ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26094
SECOND GENERATION BIOFUELS AND BIOMASS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 3 Mother Earth Investments AG, is actively working onthe development 2nd generation bioenergy feedstocks.In this book, Mr. Jansen generously shares hisknowledge in the field, in particular, regarding thechallenges and opportunities in development ofbiomass-derived fuels. This essential guide toinvesting in bioenergy commodities details secondgeneration biofuels from a scientific, technical andeconomic perspective, and discusses their globalenvironmental, political and financial impact.The book is ... Autori: Roland A. Jansen ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26100
THE ROLE OF GREEN CHEMISTRY IN BIOMASS PROCESSING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 3 The book edited by Haibo Xie and NicholasGathergood focuses on one of the most importantscientific issues of the 21 century which is thereplacing fossil fuel with sustainable alternatives suchas biomass. Fossil fuels are conventional rawmaterials for many industrial sectors includingchemical and energy production. Usage of fossil fuelis limited by their availability, price and carbonfootprint. Biomass is a renewable resource globallyavailable, cheaper and carbon sequestering. Step bystep shiftin... Autori: Adrian Catalin Puitel ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26101
ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY OF THE VENICE LAGOON WATERS USING THE E-QUALITY SOFTWARE TOOL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 2
Abstract
According to the Water Frameword Directive the classification of water bodies environmental quality and the achievement of
good status by 2015 are requested for all the European aquatic environment, including transitional waters such as coastal
lagoons. Although progresses have been done and many results have been achieved, several aspects of the WFD implementation
can be further improved and current limitations are more evident for some categories of water bodies such a... Autori: Andrea Critto ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26103
BIODEGRADATION OF POLY(HYDROXYBUTYRATE)/POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) BLENDS BY FILAMENTOUS FUNGI
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 2
Abstract
Poly(hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) is a biodegradable thermoplastic polyester with very high potential for industrial applications. The
properties could be improved by mixing with another polymer, natural or synthetic, such as poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA). The
resulting polymer blends are potentially able to achieve the desired performance for different applications. Biodegradation
modifies mechanical, physical and chemical properties of a given material. PHB are degraded by diverse... Autori: Luiza Jecu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26111
ROMANIAN SURFACE WATER QUALITY: TARNAVA MARE RIVER BETWEEN MEDIAS AND COPSA MICA CASE STUDY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 2
Abstract
A set of 500 water samples collected from various sites of Tarnava Mare River, between Medias and Copsa Mica were analyzed,
during three years (2010-2012). The physicochemical parameters like: temperature, pH, electrical conductivity (EC), total
dissolved solids (TDS), salinity, calcium (Ca2+), magnesium (Mg2+), sodium (Na+), lead (Pb2+), chloride (Cl-), sulfate (SO4
2-),
ammonium (NH4
+), nitrite (NO2
-) and nitrate (NO3
-) were determined. The results were co... Autori: Ioana Piştea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26114
RISK-BASED ANALYSIS OF AN INDUSTRIAL ROMANIAN SITE HISTORICALLY CONTAMINATED WITH HEAVY METALS AND TOTAL PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 2
Abstract
Contaminated land is a major problem and its remediation costs in Europe and the USA exceed 550 billion; however,
rehabilitation proceeds only at a slow pace. The normally high cost of remediation, along with the inefficient use of the available
funds, gives rise to a need for a method of effectively allocating remediation funds. Risk assessment based techniques sustain the
decision-making process regarding contaminated sites rehabilitation, along with cost/benefit analys... Autori: Ileana-Codruţa Stezar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26115
STUDY OF TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOL TYPES OVER IASI, ROMANIA, DURING SUMMER OF 2012
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 2
Abstract
This research has been performed during summer time at Iasi Atmosphere Optics, Spectroscopy and Lasers Laboratory site
(LOA-SL), aerosol monitoring station (47.19N, 27.55E). In order to properly identify and characterize the aerosol types, Aerosol
Robotic Network (AERONET) data and sun-photometer measurements were analysed using parameters such as: optical
thickness, spectral dependence of Ĺngström exponent (α), spectral dependence of Single Scattering Albedo and the ... Autori: Florin Unga ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26116
RESEARCH ON NOISE POLLUTION IN DENSELY POPULATED URBAN AREAS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 2
Abstract
Being constantly surrounded by sound, in most cases we operate ignoring this environmental noise, but when the noise
intensity increases, it becomes a pollutant, adversely affecting the level of professional performance, leading to fatigue, causing
nervousness or decreasing the quantitative and/or qualitative level of performance. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate
the noise problem in the Strand district of Sibiu and to highlight the negative effects affect... Autori: Valentin Petrescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26131
BEHAVIOUR OF SOLID PARTICLES ON A FLAT OSCILLATING SURFACE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 1
Abstract
In many industrial applications most of the solid particles are separated by size and for this purpose there are used the oscillating
sieves. The separation process based on sieves is a complex one and it depends on several factors, such as the properties of solid
particles submitted to the separation process and on the operating regimes of the separating equipment. We have studied the
separation process of the behaviour of solid particles on a flat oscillating surface... Autori: Ovidiu Bontas ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26134
APPLICATION OF ORGANIC FLOCCULANTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF SLUDGE FROM MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 1
Abstract
After any treatment process of wastewater results residual sludge that is characterized depending on the type of the wastewater or
by the sludge treatment type. The sludge treatment process can be divided in three important stages: the preliminary stage (with
the sludge thickening), the stabilization stage, and the dewatering stage. The paper shows the results of the research for the
identification of the most efficient organic cationic flocculants, which might be used wit... Autori: Mariana Turcu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26149
EDITORIAL - A SPECIAL ISSUE ON PROGRESS IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR GREEN DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN AND RURAL AREAS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 9 The special topic PROGRESS IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR GREEN DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN ANDRURAL AREAS focus on the important issues of energy resources and anthropogenic pollution of the environment in modern agriculture and industrial manufacture, and proposes some ideas and methods for green progress in sustainability of energy andenvironment.... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26154
STUDY OF ECOLOGICAL INHIBITION OF SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIAL ACTIVITY AND ASSOCIATED POPULATION SUCCESSION IN OILFIELD FLOODING WATER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 9 AbstractIn the conventional water flooding process of Daqing Oilfield in China, the occurrence of abundant sulfate-reducing bacterialpopulations has substantially affected the industrial production. This study was conducted from the perspective of ecologicalsuppression by operating anaerobic ABR reactors and dosing ecological inhibitors in a continuous-flow experiment. The practicaloperating efficacy was investigated and associated dynamic bacterial population succession was analyzed. Results sh... Autori: Bin-song Wang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26165
UNRAVELLING THE RELATION BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROACTIVE ORIENTATION OF FIRMS AND THEIR ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.10 AbstractEnvironmental proactivity is a key research topic as it arises as a value-adding creator and therefore constitutes a competitiveadvantage for companies. In this paper, we classify industrial companies according to their environmental proactivity and thenwe determine whether their economic performance differs in relation to the firms environmental position. We analyzed 132Spanish industrial firms located in the Valencian region and apply quantitative methods to conduct the analysis. The ... Autori: María-del-Val Segarra-Ońa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26194
APPLICATION OF A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM TO THE TRANSPORT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.10 AbstractThe transport of hazardous substances is an essential economic activity because it represents a quite relevant percentage of thetotal goods transportation. The risk associated to such an activity is fundamentally related to the possibility of an accidenttriggering that may cause negative environmental and public health consequences. A recent example is the Viareggio accident(2009), which involved the blast of tank wagons containing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and caused more than thirt... Autori: Vincenzo Torretta ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26200
LOW-COST TECHNOLOGIES FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA: OVERVIEW AND APPLICATION TO THE NORTH OF VIETNAM
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 11 AbstractIn spite of the ambition of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), water supply and sanitation are still worryingly deficientin South-East Asia (SEA). Due to the rapid increase in population, increased urbanization and industrial activities, and absence ofa strong regulatory framework, water quality in this region is impaired due to the high levels of contamination. Because of thechallenge of providing safe drinking water from poor quality water sources, development of low-cost drinkin... Autori: Pham Thi Thuy ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26202
A NOVEL APPROACH FOR MODELING Cu2+ AND Zn2+ ADSORPTION FROM INDUSTRIAL LEACHATE BY PEANUT SHELLS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.12 AbstractIn this work the adsorption of Cu2+ and Zn2+ from industrial wastewater by peanut shells without any pretreatment wasinvestigated through optimization techniques such as a feed-forward back-propagation artificial neural network and a simplexalgorithm. The Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm was the best back-propagation algorithm, with a minimum mean squared error of0.000217 for Cu(II) and of 0.000229 for Zn2+. Mean square error on the validation set is used as an estimate for variance.Accordi... Autori: Başak Mesci ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26227
SOURCES AND OCCURRENCE OF NON-PESTICIDE PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POPs). THE CASE STUDY OF TAIWAN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.12 AbstractNon-pesticide persistent organic pollutants (POPs) under the Stockholm Convention include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDDs/PCDFs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers(PBDEs), polybromobiphenyls (PBBs) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), which are industrial chemicals and/orunintentional byproducts that remain in the environment, bioaccumulate in human and animal tissue through the food chain, andhave adverse effects ... Autori: Wen-Tien Tsai ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26239
ON THE NOx EMISSION LEVELS OF AN ASYMMETRIC VORTEX FLAME COMBUSTOR
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.12 AbstractThe vortex flame concept of combustion has been well known to produce low levels of NOx. This feature qualifies it to be usedin industrial processes and in power generation to comply with the environmental regulations concerning nitrogen oxideemissions. An asymmetric vortex flame combustor has been recently proposed by the authors. The present article reports thelevels of NOx emissions of such combustor for the first time. An experimental platform designed and developed to examine theNOx... Autori: Khalid M. Saqr ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26245
EXPLOITATION OF AN ANAEROBIC UP-FLOW COLUMN REACTOR (AUFCR) USING ACTIVATED SLUDGE BIOMASS FOR THE DECOLORIZATION OF DYES AND COD REDUCTION FROM TEXTILE WASTEWATER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.12 AbstractThe aims of this study were to investigate the performance of anaerobic up-flow column reactor (AUFCR) and immobilizedactivated sludge biomass (ASB) potential for the adsorption of dye drimarene Blue-K2RL (Db-K2RL) and removal of chemicaloxygen demand (COD) from textile wastewater (TWW). AUFCR with ASB at flow rate of 50 mL h-1 and hydraulic retentiontime (HRT) of 10 h showed 95% dye adsorption at pH 4 and 87% COD reduction at pH 6 while non-activated sludge (NAS)showed only 60% of adsor... Autori: Anwar Ahmad ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26246
UTILIZATION OF AGROINDUSTRIAL WASTE AND DAIRY WASTE IN SOLID STATE PRODUCTION OF LACTIC ACID
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.12 AbstractThe abundant availability of solid agroindustrial waste, sugarcane bagasse from sugar mills and juice extraction units, can bepotentially beneficial for the production of fermentation based biochemicals, paper boards and power. However, its role incausing bagassosis, an acute respiratory disease among the personnel handling large dry deposits has also been detected. Disposal of liquid waste whey from dairy industries poses a formidable threat to the aquatic ecosystem due to high BOD and ... Autori: Manoj K. Ghosh ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26248
STUDIES ON BUILDING CERAMICS MANUFACTURING BY INCORPORATING DRIED SLUDGE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 1 AbstractThe paper analyses the opportunity of recycling sewage sludge in the manufacturing of ceramic building materials. Wastewatertreatment plants (WWTP) produce annually a great volume of sludge and its processing become more difficult. On the otherhand, there is an increased need to develop new alternatives beyond the already known methods. The use of WWTP sludge asraw material for the production of bricks may become an interesting alternative, both from an industrial and environmental point... Autori: Anna-Maria Szőke ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26251
REMOVAL OF DYE AND CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD) REDUCTION FROM TEXTILE INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER USING HYBRID BIOREACTORS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 1 AbstractA bench-scale anaerobic bioreactor for the anaerobic treatment of textile wastewater using anaerobic sludge was experimented.The Top and bottom of hybrid bioreactor were functioned with UAF (Up Flow Anaerobic Filter) and UASB (Up Flow AnaerobicSludge Blanket), respectively. The effect of organic loading rate (OLR) and hydraulic retention time (HRT) on treatment oforganic matters in the textile wastewater was investigated. The maximum removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and colorwas 9... Autori: Reza Katal ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26255
EVALUATING TRENDS OF WATER QUALITY INDEX OF SELECTED KELANG RIVER TRIBUTARIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 1 AbstractConcerns for the river environment in Malaysia were highlighted. There had been occurrences of inadequate supply of water incertain cities and unexpected floods over the last few years. This paper discusses the results and efforts to clean the Gombak Riverwhich passes through several industrial areas and the City of Kuala Lumpur and the Penchala River which has an extra burden ofpassing through a highly densely populated Kuala Lumpur satellite city. Both rivers were considered polluted w... Autori: Zubaidah Ismail ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26257
URBAN ENERGY SAVING AND CARBON REDUCTION POTENTIAL OF NEW-TYPES OF BUILDING MATERIALS BY RECYCLING COAL MINING WASTES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 1 AbstractThe construction industry is one of the main sectors of energy consumption and carbon emissions in China. The new-types ofbuilding materials can be produced by recycling industrial solid wastes which is an effective solution to development of greenbuilding materials and abatement of environmental emissions. In this paper, new-types of bricks made of fly ash (residuesgenerated in coal combustion) and coal gangue (a kind of solid wastes generated in coal mining and coal production) and the... Autori: Haitao Zhang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26265
INFLUENCE OF OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS ON ELECTROCOAGULATION PROCESS IN PULP AND PAPER MILL EFFLUENT TREATMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 2 AbstractIn the present work an optimized experimental condition has been developed for the treatment of pulp and paper mill wastewater using an electrocoagulation process. The removal efficiency of 85 % COD and 94 % of color with a good repeatability of results (RSD <3%) has been achieved under the optimal experimental conditions of pH-7, treatment time of 2 h and a current density of 15 A/m2. In this study, wastewater from paper mill has been used and thus, high efficacy of removing the poll... Autori: Chhaya Sharma, Rajni Sharma, Satish Kumar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26281
ESTIMATION OF OPTIMUM FILTER CAKE IN PRODUCTION OF IMPERMEABLE LAYER USING FUZZY LOGIC
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 2 AbstractWorldwide, waste materials are produced as a by-product of industrial manufacturing and placed in storage areas. One of the waste materials is filter cake (FC). FC is formed during the infiltration of cooling water in steel factories. The main aim of this research is determination of optimum usage of FC in the production of impermeable layer on ground by using fuzzy model approach. Because of this, in the study, FC as a waste material was hardened with cement and an impermeable layer was... Autori: Ä°lker Bekir Topďż˝u, Murat Karacasu, Tayfun Uygunoğlu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26288
SORPTION OF HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM ION ONTO A STRONG BASIC ANION EXCHANGER: EQUILIBRIUM ISOTHERMS AND KINETIC STUDIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 2 AbstractHexavalent chromium can contaminate drinking water resources and should therefore be removed from industrial waste effluents. The use of ion exchange resin was examined in batch tests to remove Cr (VI) from acidic solution by Amberlite IRA 410. Equilibrium data were analyzed and modelled using Freundlich and Langmuir adsorption isotherms and the results showed that the adsorption behaviour of Cr (VI) could be accurately described by means of a Langmuir model. The monolayer adsorption cap... Autori: Abdeltif Amrane, Aicha Bensmaili, Malika Chabani, Yasmine Ait Ouaissa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26289
DISCHARGE FACTORS OF BIOMEDICAL WASTE OF HOSPITALS IN TAIWAN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 3 AbstractThis investigation consists of an analysis of data collected by the Industrial Waste Control Center Report System. Biomedicalwaste accounted for 20.90-25.54% of all hospital waste in Taiwan from 2005 to 2011. The waste discharge factors were 2.31 and3.26 kg/bed/day at bed occupancy rates of 80% and 60%, the biomedical waste discharge factors were 0.50 and 0.83 kg/bed/day,respectively. These discharge factors can be used to determine whether the amount of solid waste reported by a hospita... Autori: Jim Juimin Lin, Mei-Chuan Huang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26308
APPLICATION AND EFFICIENCY OF PACKAGING WASTE COLLECTION PRACTICES IN KOCAELI, TURKEY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 3 AbstractThe aim of this study was to evaluate the results of an urban pilot project on separate collection of packaging wastes. The projecthas been performed in a developed and industrialized city of Turkey, Kocaeli with the aim of collecting packaging wastesgenerated in residents, public offices and other business offices. The project was carried out according to packaging wastemanagement plans developed by sub-municipalities in coordination with Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality. Total monthly... Autori: İsmail Özbay ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26325
PREDICTION OF URBAN TRAFFIC NOISE USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 4 AbstractIn this study artificial neural network (ANN) has been applied to predict noise pollution level in Chandigarh, a newly plannedcity of India. Factors that predominantly influence noise pollution level in a traffic noise model framework were classified intotwo categories: traffic volume and traffic speed. Volume, speed and noise level data of traffic were collected at nine identifiedlocations in the city. For development of ANN model, classified traffic volume (Car/Jeep/Van, Scooter/ Motor... Autori: Kranti Kumar, Manoranjan Parida, Vinod Kumar Katiyar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26336
REMOVAL AND RECOVERY OF LEAD (II) FROM SIMULATED SOLUTION USING ALGINATE IMMOBILIZED PAPAIN (AIP)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 4 AbstractLead (II) can bind with papain at its active site, destroying the enzymatic activity. Papain a sulfhydryl protease has beenimmobilized in calcium alginate bead for the purpose of removal of lead (II) from industrial waste water. Effect of lead (II) onthe enzyme activity of immobilized papain, has been observed. A detailed kinetic study has been carried out and the data arefitted to different kinetic models. EDS (Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometry) and desorption study suggest that meta... Autori: Aparupa Bhattacharyya, Parameswar De, Soumasree Chatterjee, Srabanti Basu, Susmita Dutta ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26338
PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY USING SANITARY TAX: THE CASE OF AGRO-FOOD INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER IN SPAIN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 4 AbstractThe discharge of industrial effluents is a growing concern for companies, policy makers and the sanitary water system due to thepossible damage to environment. In Spain, wastewater discharge made into the sewer network is regulated locally by the SanitaryTax (ST). Consequently, for the latter, regulation and cost differences exist. In this paper, the role of Spanish STs to promoteenvironmental protection through the treatment of industrial wastewater (IWW) is analyzed. The study is focus... Autori: Irene Carra, Isabel María Román Sánchez, José Antonio Sánchez Pérez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26350
CARBON TAX DESIGN AND ITS IMPACT ON CHINESE REGIONAL ECONOMY BASED ON EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 5 AbstractThe adoption of Carbon tax is usually thought to be one kind of important economic measures to reduce carbon emissions. Onthe one hand, the adoption of carbon tax can reduce the use of fuels that contain high percentage of carbon, and promote thedevelopment and use of renewable energy. On the other hand, the measure will affect energy prices, supply and demand, andincome distribution, thus causing negative effects on economic growth. This paper discusses the design of the basic taxations... Autori: Yan-bing Cai ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26371
STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS AND REGULATION OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI) IN CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 5 AbstractThe environmental pressure brought by foreign direct investment (FDI) to China has been an increasingly common topic. It is thecurrent and later policy tropism to protect environment all-sided and keep the environmental elements continual use in making useof FDI in China. Environmental effect of FDI is a "double blade sword". This paper first analyzes the environmental effects ofFDI and the terms of its positive effect, and then analyzes the negative environmental impacts of FDI in China... Autori: Hong-Min Qu, Lu Yang, Yan-Bo Zhang, Ye Liu, Ze-Shen Wang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26372
DYNAMIC EVOLUTION MECHANISM OF CHINA TOTAL FACTOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY: COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS USING THE PANEL DATA FROM 1991 TO 2009
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 5 AbstractIn this paper, the panel data model is built to research the dynamic evolution mechanism of the total factor energy efficiency(TFEE). Then by using the panel data of China from 1991 to 2009, this paper estimates Chinas TFEE based on the input to theguide DEA model, and empirically researches on the dynamic evolution mechanism of the Chinas TFEE by comparativelyanalyzing the contribution rate of every influencing factor to the growth rate of TFEE. The empirical research results show tha... Autori: Chuan-Xu Wang, Jian-Min Wang, Li Yang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26380
INDUSTRIAL TESTS OF WASTE ROCK DIRECT BACKFILLING UNDERGROUND IN FULLY MECHANIZED COAL MINING FACE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 5 AbstractFor efficient, economical and environmentally disposing the waste rock underground, based on principles of waste directbackfilling in fully mechanized coal mining, this paper carries out a field test in 6304-1 working face of Jining No.3 Coal Mine.We first design a waste rock direct underground processing system, including screening-crushing system, transportation system,transfer system, stope backfilling system and coal mining system. Then optimize the waste backfilling and coal miningt... Autori: Jixiong Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Xu Zhao, Yanli Huang, Zhan Liu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26383
ACCUMULATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF HEAVY METALS IN PLANTS WITHIN THE TECHNOGENESIS ZONE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 5 AbstractThe effects of natural (soil properties) and technogenic factors (atmospheric pollution by harmful industrial discharges, soilcontamination) on accumulation of heavy metals in natural grasslands have been studied at monitoring plots located within theinfluence zone of Novocherkassk power station. Contamination of grass plants by Ni, Cd, Zn and Pb occurs at plots located nearthis station along the line of wind rose. They are contaminated with Pb and Cd through vehicular emission as well. ... Autori: Galina Motuzova, Saglara Mandzhieva, Sergey Kolesnikov, Svetlana Sushkova, Tatiana Bauer, Tatiana Minkina, Victor Chapligin, Yuriy Fedorov ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26384
PREVENTING RISK OF NOISE EXPOSURE IN WORKING ENVIRONMENT USING NOISE MAPPING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 6 AbstractIn the developed countries, excessive exposure to noise represents at least half of the reasons for which workers lose hearing.Noise inducing hearing loss is among the most common causes of occupational illness. In this paper, the noise is considered themost expensive risk factor in terms of the occupational diseases costs. Noise maps are treated essentially as a tool for both urbanor industrial noise monitoring and control. The maps we analyzed enable the real-time monitoring of the cur... Autori: Silviu Nicolae Platon ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26392
RATIONALE AND CRITERIA DEVELOPMENT FOR RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL SELECTION IN WORK ENVIRONMENTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 6 AbstractWork accidents prevention is one of the strongest paradigms of safety management. When developing its own mental accidentcausation model, the occupational health and safety professional should acknowledge the benefits and drawbacks of the variousavailable models, to be able to critically assess the most fitted risk assessment tools for practical applications. Nevertheless, heshould be skilled enough to make the difference between "what is happening?" and what "should happen?" in the work... Autori: Roland Iosif Moraru ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26396
CORRELATION OF EXPLOSION PARAMETERS AND EXPLOSION-TYPE EVENTS FOR PREVENTING ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 6 AbstractThe naturally or industrially occurring flammable mixtures containing combustible gases or/and dusts represent a potential risk ofexplosion with major consequences on the environment and human personnel. Methane and coal dust are among the best knowncomponents able of leading to the formation of such mixtures either in coal mining activities or in different industries using coaldust as fuel. In order to assess the risk of explosion and the explosion evolution in such composite mixtures, ... Autori: Maria Prodan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26402
ANALYSIS OF EXPLOSIVITY PARAMETERS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY FOR COMBUSTIBLE DUSTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 6 AbstractIn industrial plants many types of combustible dusts are generated, processed, handled and stored. When ignited, they can burnrapidly and with a considerable explosion force, when mixed with air in proper proportions. This is the reason why adequateprecautions have to be adopted, to ensure all equipment is appropriately protected so that the ignition likelihood of the explosiveatmosphere is diminished.Explosion preventing and protection precautions aim to stop explosion occurrence, by el... Autori: Adrian Jurca ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26406
RISK ASSESSMENT OF WHOLE-BODY VIBRATIONS GENERATED BY INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 6 AbstractThis paper describes the model for forecasting the exposure risk of workers to global occupational vibrations. The research hasbeen achieved within the PN 07 45 01 18 Project in the framework of the NUCLEU/2012-2013 Program. This project has anational and European interest, entailing the increase of occupational health and safety level and ensuring sustainableenvironmental quality and comfort at workplaces.The scientific novelty is given by the complex and interdisciplinary aspect of the... Autori: Gabriel Dragoş Vasilescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26409
MODELLING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS IN A SMALL PLANT USING A SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR (SBR)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 7 AbstractThe industrial development, the demographic growth and the limitation of the natural regions have determined a continuousdegradation of the water quality due to high concentrations and complexity of pollutants from the wastewater. The centralizedand decentralized treatment systems apply treatment procedures and techniques which can be complementary in solving theenvironmental pollution problems due to wastewater. In the present paper a three-dimensional mathematical model waselaborated b... Autori: Narcis Barsan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26422
STUDY ON THE COMPOSITION OF MUNICIPAL WASTE IN URBAN AREAS OF PRAHOVA COUNTY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 7 AbstractIn Romanias industrialized areas there are a large number of people, and therefore the amount of generated waste becomesimportant. Moreover, waste management activities have a high share in local and national administration. Prahova County hadthe highest national average density of 62.83 inhabitants/km2. With two major cities, Ploiesti and Campina, the composition ofthe urban and rural waste stored in landfill does not always respect the existing norms at national and local level. The s... Autori: Casen Panaitescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26423
ACCIDENTAL POLLUTION WITH AMMNONIA. INFLUENCE OF METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 7 AbstractAir quality in urban areas mostly depends on the type and size of industrial activities, traffic intensity, municipal and industrialwaste management. In addition to these factors, air quality in urban areas also depends on the size and quality of green areas,population density, geographic and climatic conditions. This paper reveals the correlations between air quality aspects in BacauCity, Romania (related to 2011) and the most representative climatic factors that influence the pollutant... Autori: Doina Capsa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26424
NEW VIABLE INDUSTRIAL WASTES MIX FOR FODDER YEASTS PRODUCTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 7 AbstractThe study aimed the diversification of fodder yeast assortments with viable economic effects while reducing the environmentpollution by capitalization of wastewaters with high monosaccharides content from pulp and paper industry and residual wheyfrom milk industry. Using the Response Surface Methodology the fabrication recipe has been optimized according to anexperimental program based on a mathematical model with biomass, protein and residual sugar as response functions. Theculture medi... Autori: Livia Manea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26429
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF NOISE LEVELS GENERATED BY ROLLING BEARINGS IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF DETERIORATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 7 AbstractRolling bearings are one of the most commonly mechanical elements used in the construction of dynamic equipment. Thiselement can be considerate as a noise source as a result of relative motion of the components from their construction: rings,rolling elements and cage. The noise level increase with the increase of the roller bearings wear. By analyzing of the rollerbearings wear level, which appear due to the component failure, it can be determine the deterioration stage and their remaini... Autori: Dumitru-Cristinel Nadabaica ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26430
MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL ATTENUATION TRANSMITTED BY AN ACOUSTIC SCREEN IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 7 AbstractThis paper presents a three-dimensional mathematical model which characterizes the variation of sound pressure levelpropagation and the variation of attenuation of the sound pressure level propagated in an enclosed space. The variable taken intoconsideration both in the experiments and in the mathematical modeling were: the positions of the acoustic screen to noisesource; the height of the microphone to record the sound pressure level for a variable number of walls. The mathematical mode... Autori: Claudia Tomozei ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26443
APPLICATION OF SYNTHETIC CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS IN PETROLEUM SLUDGE TREATMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 7 AbstractThe sludge treatment processes represent a priority when we refer to the municipal wastewater treatment, but can implicate verycomplex studies and applications if we consider the industrial wastewater recovery and treatment processes. Even if the industrialsludges are seen as wastes, they can represent an important resource if are properly managed in the storage, treatment andrecovery processes. This paper aims to identify some methods to optimize the coagulation and flocculation process... Autori: Mariana Turcu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26444
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND NATECH RISK FOR TWO PETROLEUM PRODUCT TANKS LOCATED IN SEISMIC AREA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 8 AbstractThe failure of process equipment due to the impact of natural hazards, the so-called Natech events, have generated severalindustrial accidents, such as Fukushima, Japan - 2011, Ichihara, Japan - 2011, Tupras, Turkey - 1999, Northridge, US - 1994 etc.,causing the release of large quantities of hazardous materials in the environment. Earthquakes occupy a leading position in thelist of natural hazards with Natech potential, causing serious damage and the loss of containment in process equip... Autori: Augusta Diana Gheorghiu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26460
COMPARISON OF PHOTOCATALYTIC TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS ON SEWAGE AND INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS
› › Nr. 8 AbstractWater samples from two types of sources: partially treated sewage generated by a medium-sized city, with a high quantity oftotal coliforms and partially treated industrial wastewater, which contained mostly petroleum products from refineries, weretreated using the same concentration of TiO2 catalyst, for different exposure periods. UV-Vis and fluorescence spectroscopicevaluation of the composition changes of wastewaters under non selective oxidation conditions (achieved by photocatalysis... Autori: Gabriela Pavelescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26474
MONITORING OF MERCURY FROM AIR AND URBAN DUST IN THE INDUSTRIAL AREA OF IASI MUNICIPALITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 8 AbstractThe present work is dealing with the identification of the mercury sources and the quantification of the mercury level in air andurban dust in the industrial area of Iasi municipality. A correlation between some meteorological indicators, atmospheric mercurycontent and the urban dust from the investigated area was pointed out, based on the real time measurements as well as spatialdistribution of other heavy metals in urban dust.The measurements of mercury level in air were carried out at... Autori: Oana Maria Tucaliuc ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26479
WATER FOOTPRINT ASSESSMENT OF THE ETHYL ALCOHOL PRODUCTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 8 AbstractWater is essential for development and its use for the industrial and agricultural sector has grown to exceed natural supplies inmany parts of the world. Businesses have became more aware of the water-related risks of their products, facilities and/or supplychain and started to consider the water accounting tools useful for identifying the hotspots related to water use and its socialand environmental impacts, improving operational efficiency and communication with stakeholders.The main... Autori: Simona-Andreea Ene Popa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26482
PHONIC POLLUTION AND STRATEGIC ACOUSTIC MAPPING WITH GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 9 AbstractThe phonic pollution has become a more serious problem in the recent years, especially because of traffic increase. This kind ofpollution is generated by all kinds of means of transport. One of its peculiarities is the repercussion it has on people, unlike theother types of pollution, i.e.: water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, which can affect, to a certain extent, the entireenvironment. The phonic pollution is considered to be the most widely spread type. The numerous surveys... Autori: Carmen Grecea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26500
ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH OF DUST AND CHEMICALS FROM MODERN TECHNOLOGIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 9 AbstractThe paper concentrates on the risks of modern technologies (in wood processing and metal industry, spray-painting processes andcar washing technologies) in the industrial and office environments on human health. The problems discussed are the following:fine dust (PM2.5and PM1.0) penetrating deeply into the lungs; high concentration of carbon dioxide in the air of cities and officeareas that are situated close to the transport junctions. The health damages can be described as follows: all... Autori: Ada Traumann ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26501
COMPARISON BETWEEN A RETROFITTED AND A NEWLY-DESIGNED OXYCOMBUSTION BOILER INTENDED TO BE USED IN CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 9 AbstractGreenhouse gases emissions represent a first-degree concern in power generation from fossil fuels combustion. Over the past twoand a half centuries, since the dawn of the industrial era, huge amounts of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmospherefrom combustion processes, most of it coming from fossil fuel-fired power plants. The effects of CO2 accumulation in theatmospheric environment become more and more apparent due to the increasingly strong greenhouse effect leading to gl... Autori: Bogdan Horbaniuc ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26505
COST-EFFECTIVE MASS PROPAGATION OF VIRGINIA FANPETALS (Sida hermaphrodita (L.) Rusby) FROM SEEDS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 11 AbstractThe primary objective of this research was to develop safe, programmable and cost-effective technologies of plantlet productionfrom the seeds of undomesticated American populations of Virgina fanpetals (Sida hermphrodita RUSBY). During our seedpriming treatment experiments, approximately 40% of the Virginia fanpetals seeds that were high-quality, infection-free,normally imbibing and germinating seeds. Our spring propagation tray experiments indicated that the spring large-scale trayplant... Autori: Erika Kurucz ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26545
A THEORETICAL APPROACH OF A NEW INDEX-BASED METHODOLOGY FOR RISK ASSESSMENT OF PIPELINES (I)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 AbstractEnvironmental and territorial compatibility of industrial activities can be evaluated by considering several criteria, usuallyformalized in the contest of a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA); the pipelines sector, however, is not as wellstandardized as others. In this paper, a new methodology to evaluate territorial compatibility of proposed pipelines is presented.This approach can be useful to assess proper development compatibility of oil and gas pipeline networks, and it could ... Autori: Vincenzo Torretta ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26561
ECONOMICAL OPTIMIZATION OF AN INDIRECT SOLAR CABINET DRYER BASED ON MATHEMATICAL MODELING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 AbstractThis paper presents an optimization procedure to minimize the cost of drying in a solar cabinet dryer based on the results of amathematical model. The model has been developed previously for performance analysis of a solar cabinet dryer. The optimalvalues for geometry of the solar collector, mass flux of air through the collector, and initial moisture content are obtained in away that the drying cost is minimized. The results indicate that to optimize the drying cost, the best values of ... Autori: Samaneh Sami ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26564
GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE IN SPAIN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 AbstractThe problem of noise levels in the home is of increasing interest for reasons of health and psychological well-being, amongothers. This study analyses in detail the meta-data compiled in the Spanish Census of Population and Housing, which provideddata on a large number of environmental variables, including noise pollution in the home. A geostatistical study is conductedfrom the data provided by the latter survey, in which spatial autocorrelation is measured by analytical techniques by us... Autori: María-Dolores Huete-Morales ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26575
STUDY OF A ROAD TEST TRACK WITH AND WITHOUT CRUMB RUBBER. SOLUTIONS FOR NOISE POLLUTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 AbstractEnd-of-life tires are waste materials that pollute landscapes when they are disposed of in tire dumps. However, its life cycle is notfinished when they are scrapped. The rubber of end-of-life tires could be used for new purposes as construction material in roadrehabilitation. A gap-graded mix characterization was carried out in this work by means of laboratory and field performancetests. The mixture has a high content of crumb rubber (CR) by weight of bitumen. Crumb Rubber was added to t... Autori: Victor F. Vázquez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26577
INTEGRATED AND SUSTAINABLE SYSTEM FOR MULTI-WASTE VALORIZATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 AbstractThe general aim of this paper is to demonstrate the sustainable management of a broad spectrum of wastes (livestock, industrial,agri-food, agricultural and non-recyclable fraction proceeding from waste treatment plants) in an integrated plant. Thetechnological development and practical application of the Mixed Plant concept is used to achieve this objective. In order tovalorize in a joint form all the above-mentioned categories of waste, two different processes have been integrated. Th... Autori: Dolores Hidalgo ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26579
REMOVAL OF AROMATIC COMPOUNDS FROM WASTEWATER BY HEMOGLOBIN SOLUBLE AND IMMOBILIZED ON EUPERGIT CM
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 AbstractThe potential application of methemoglobin from bovine blood to remove aromatic compounds in the presence of hydrogenperoxide has been evaluated. The organic compounds herein tested include phenols, amines or hydrocarbons, which arepollutants deriving from different industries and display high persistence and toxicity in waters. The oxidative process has beencharacterized by soluble hemoglobin and immobilized on Eupergit CM, using 4-chlorophenol as a model substrate. Theobtained ... Autori: María Teresa Pérez-Prior ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26580
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SAFETY OF CO2 GEOLOGICAL STORAGE IN DEEP SALINE AQUIFERS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 12 Abstract
Carbon capture and storage is one of the critical technologies that can enable the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of
large industrial sites worldwide. The injection of CO2 into saline water formations is related with many factors and processes that
control the safety of its long-term storage. This paper analyzes the leakage risks and the factors that influence the integrity of the
cap rock in deep saline aquifer formation. Several pathways have leakage potential risks d... Autori: Xiaojuan Qiao ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26585
COD REMOVAL FROM SYNTHETIC WASTEWATER CONTAINING AZITHROMYCIN USING COMBINED COAGULATION AND A FENTON-LIKE PROCESS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 12 Abstract
In this study, the COD removal of Azithromycin from synthetic wastewater (produced to have a composition similar to industrial
wastewater) using a Fenton-like (Fe°/H2O2) system in combination with coagulation has been investigated. Chemical oxygen
demand (COD) was selected as the main parameter to assess treatment efficacy in the current study (COD° = 390mg/Lequivalent
to 200mg/LAzithromycin). First, the coagulation process was carried out on the synthetic wastewater and the... Autori: Ahmad Reza Yazdanbakhsh ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26586
PARTICULATE MATTER STATUS IN ROMANIAN URBAN AREAS: PM10 POLLUTION LEVELS IN BUCHAREST
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 12 Abstract
In the present study, the results of PM10 pollution levels assessment in the most populated town from Romania, namely
Bucharest, the capital of the country are presented for a 10 years period, 2004 – 2013, respectively, with the aim of emphasizing
the progress recorded after the implementation of Directive 2004/107/EC and Directive 2008/50/EC provisions. Data were
collected from 8 monitoring stations located in different areas of Bucharest. PM10, Cd, Pb and Ni from PM10 averag... Autori: Marian Proorocu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26606
BATCH AND COLUMN REMOVAL OF CHROMIUM (VI) FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION USING POLYPYRROLE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 1 Abstract
The present study deals with the removal of Cr (VI) from aqueous solution by polypyrrole (PPy). Response surface methodology
(RSM) was applied for the design and analysis of experiments in the optimization of pH, temperature, initial concentration,
contact time and adsorbent dose during the removal of the Cr (VI). The optimum adsorbent dose, temperature, initial
concentration of Cr (VI), pH and contact time were found to be 0.8 g, 46.5 oC, 187.5 mg/L, 5.3 and 15.4 min respectively. ... Autori: Ehsan Hasani ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26614
EVALUATION AND ABATEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE. A CASE STUDY FOR DISTRICT HEATING PLANT PLACED IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA OF BRASOV ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 1 Abstract
In order to reduce public annoyance produced by the noise generated from a District Heating Plant (DHP) upon an urban
residential area, a noise assessment was performed. The paper illustrates the evaluation of noise envelope around the DHP,
considered as an overall source made of six distinct sound sources. As receptors, there were considered five points on the facades
of the closest residential blocks. The specific feature of the research work was the configuration of the area havi... Autori: Mihail-Tudor Marcu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26632
RESEARCH AND TRENDS IN PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 1 Abstract
During the creation of a product, the majority of the enterprises still apply a linear approach. This approach has been imposed by
the organization way of the company and by the informational flow between the different departments.
In the present time different models of integrated engineering oppose to the sequential organization. These models permit the
simultaneity of the activities deploying or at least their partial overlap. The activities overlap can be imagined eliminating fi... Autori: Petrică Corăbieru ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26633
CASE STUDY ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF BIOGAS PRODUCTION IN INDUSTRIAL ANAEROBIC DIGESTERS AT MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 2 Abstract
Anaerobic digestion was analyzed as the biological process that converts the organic matter present in various types of wastes,
activated sludge from the wastewater treatment facilities respectively, into biogas. Latest advancements in the mathematical
modeling, simulation and control practices have helped in gaining a better insight of the process. In this paper, an energy
efficiency and techno-economical investigation of anaerobic digestion technology for the CHP cogeneration unit... Autori: Alexandrina Zuza ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26648
DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A PLANT FOR GLYCEROL CONVERSION TO ACROLEIN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 3 Abstract
The development of biodiesel industry in the recent past brought into discussion the valorization of glycerol as the byproduct of
this technology. Dehydration of glycerol leads to acrolein, mainly used as a raw material in the production of acrylic acid and its
esters. Several research efforts dealing with the synthesis of acrolein from glycerol are reported in the literature. However, they
are limited to catalyst testing on laboratory scale, no attention being paid to the process f... Autori: Ionut Banu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26666
MAGNETIC CONTAMINATION OF ENVIRONMENT LABORATORY SIMULATION OF MIXED IRON OXIDES IMPACT ON MICROORGANISM CELLS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 3 Abstract
Magnetic contamination is considered more and more as a challenging issue related to biosphere pollution with magnetic
materials originating in natural and artificial sources (volcanic eruptions and respectively industrial activities that contributed to
iron and other metal compounds spreading in air, water and soil). Aiming to study the impact of magnetic metal ions such as iron
and cobalt on the metabolism of some environmental microorganisms, in this paper an experimental simulat... Autori: Lacramioara Oprica ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26675
NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS REQUIREMENT IN ANAEROBIC PROCESS: A REVIEW
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 4 Abstract
Anaerobic processes have been successfully applied in the treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters. Judicious use of
nutrients in anaerobic treatment has not been systematically investigated. The optimal nutrient dosage for anaerobic wastewater
treatment systems is largely unknown. In this paper, COD:N:P ratio used by various researchers in anaerobic wastewater
treatment systems for treating different types of wastewaters are compiled and critically analyzed. In order to ha... Autori: Athar Hussain ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26697
COMBINATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND GENETIC ALGORITHM - GAMMA TEST METHOD IN PREDICTION OF ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 4 Abstract
This paper proposes an expert system based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to model road traffic noise. Feed-Forward
Neural Networks (FFNNs) that are trained with the Levenberg-Marquardt back-propagation algorithm were used. Models were
evaluated using mean squared error (MSE) and coefficient of determination (R2) as statistical performance parameters. In traffic
noise modelling, the noise level at a receptor position due to the source of traffic emission is modelled as a funct... Autori: Leila Khouban ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26700
NICKEL (II) REMOVAL FROM INDUSTRIAL PLATING EFFLUENT BY FENTON PROCESS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 4 Abstract
In this study, the efficiency of Fenton’s process to remove nickel (II) from industrial plating effluent was investigated. The effect
of pH, contact time, concentrations of Fe2+ and H2O2 were surveyed. Kinetic experiments were performed in order to predict the
nickel (II) removal rate from wastewater. At pH 1 to 4, nickel (II) removal efficiency increased and declined at pH > 4. The
maximum nickel (II) removal efficiency was 98% at 60 min contact time, pH: 4, and Fe2+ and H... Autori: Mohammad Malakootian ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26704
APPLICATION OF Mangifera indica SEED SHELL FOR EFFECTIVE ADSORPTION OF Fe(II) AND Mn(II) FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 4 Abstract
Adsorption has proved to be an excellent way to treat industrial wastewater, due to its significant advantages like easy
availability, inexpensive, ease of operation and highly efficient, compared to conventional expensive adsorbents like activated
charcoal, alumina etc. The present investigation focused on utilization of Mangifera indica seed shell substrate for the removal of
toxic heavy metals like Fe(II) and Mn(II) from wastewater. Mangifera indica seed shell substrate as an eff... Autori: Tikaram D. Kose ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26713
REMOVAL OF 2,4 DICHLOROPHENOL FROM WASTEWATER ON COST-EFFECTIVE SORBENTS: KINETICS AND THERMODYNAMICS INVESTIGATIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Maximum removal (94±1.2%) of 2, 4 dichlorophenol (50 mg.dm-3) was achieved on silica with agitation of 4 hours, at pH 8 and
42°C. The positive enthalpy (ΔH) and negative free energy values (ΔG315K) suggested the endothermic and a spontaneous nature
of sorption. The free energy of the process at all temperature was negative and increased with the increase in temperature. The
values of free energy suggested a spontaneous process where the spontaneity decreased w... Autori: Abdul Ghaffar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26718
APPLICATION OF MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES AS ADSORBENT FOR Cr, Cd, Ni AND Cu FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Magnetite nano-particles (Fe3O4) were synthesized in order to be used as adsorbent for some toxic metal ions (Cr, Cd, Ni and Cu)
present in aqueous solutions (industrial waste waters). The amount of toxic metals (Cr, Cd, Ni and Cu in quaternary aqueous
solutions) before and after contact with the magnetite nano-particles was analyzed by flame atomic absorption spectrometry
(FAAS). Different operational parameters such as metal concentration and pH of the quaternary solution, as well... Autori: Ecaterina Matei ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26721
THE EFFECTS OF TREE SPECIES ON REDUCTION OF THE RATE OF NOISE POLLUTION AT THE EDGE OF HYRCANIAN FOREST ROADS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Plants have an effective role in reducing noise pollution. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of broad-leaved and
coniferous species on reducing noise pollution according to the distance from the sound source and the tree species type. For this
purpose, 25 plots for coniferous species and 25 plots for the broadleaved species was selected. The decibel-meter (Casella
Enhances CEL-630) and the trumpet (FIAMM) of machine were used to measure the sound level. Results indica... Autori: Mehran Nasiri ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26723
AN EFFICIENT ACTIVATED SLUDGE MODEL FOR OPERATOR SUPPORT IN PAPER MILL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 5 Abstract
In paper processes, the variability of effluent composition and flow is impossible to predict and generally depends on the type of
production method used and the manufacturing breakdowns suffered. Wastewater treatment plant operators find it difficult to
maintain the efficiency of biological treatment processes. This paper focuses on activated sludge treatment modelling of paper
mill wastewater to provide operators with additional support. Based on both standard activated sludge mod... Autori: Catherine Cadet ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26732
MODELING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF CYBERNETIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Cybernetic Transportation System (CTS) is a relatively new branch of the Intelligent Transportation System, which can provide
flexible transportation services for university campuses, resorts, and industrial parks. The proposed simulation approach is
suitable for a preliminary assessment of CTS-related environmental impact in real-world driving conditions. The model is built to
allow performance prediction of a single cybercar or the whole CTS in a wide range of operational conditio... Autori: Leonid Tartakovsky ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26737
DISCHARGE WATERS: DETERMINATION OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON (PAH) LEVELS BY A GC-MS/MS METHOD
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 5 Abstract
The aim of this work was to determine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) levels in discharge waters from municipal and
industrial treatment plants. For this purpose a simple and sensitive method for the analysis of 16 PAHs at ultra-trace levels in
water has been developed and validated using liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) and gas chromatography-triple quadrupole mass
spectrometry (GC-MS/MS). The total PAH content was in the range 100-800 ng L-1 for samples from surface treatment ... Autori: Nadia Crini ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26740
LIFE CYCLE THINKING IN SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS: THE CASE OF RUBBERIZED ASPHALT PAVEMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 5 `Abstract
End of life tires require sound accounting of environmental performances to design sustainable procedures for material recovery.
Their use in rubber modified asphalt provides could lead to the improvement of technical and environmental performances of
asphalt roads, but the effectiveness of simplified procedures is to be proved. During LIFE+ project ROADTIRE, a rubber
modified asphalt road prototype, with the upper surface layer containing 10% crumb rubber in the bituminous binder,... Autori: Irene Bartolozzi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26741
MODELING THE MIXING PROCESS OF INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC WASTEWATER SLUDGE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 6 Abstract
An experimental study of mixing in autoclave vessel equipped with an anchor impeller was performed on the sludge proceeding
from the treatment of mixed municipal and industrial wastewater. This unit operation is part of a process for the recovery of
sludge. The mathematical modelling of the mixing was done having in view the scaling-up of this process. The mathematical
model allows the calculation of the mixing power N as a function of the impeller diameter d, the vessel diameter D,... Autori: Ancaelena Eliza Sterpu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26744
GEARBOXES NOISE REDUCTION BY APPLYING A FLUOROPOLYMER COATING PROCEDURE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 6 Abstract
Every day, millions of people are exposed to noise at work and to all the associated risks. It is a clear fact that the noise is an
important problem in the industrial areas and moreover it becomes a significant issue in a wide range of other non-industrial
environments as well.
The current trend in the construction of gearboxes, regarding the speed increasing, favors the increase of the dynamic loads,
which are accompanying the operation of equipments. The dynamic contact phenomen... Autori: Zoltan Iosif Korka ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26765
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS PLATFORM IN ITALY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 7 Abstract
This paper reports the activity, promoted by the Italian agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic
development (ENEA), in the framework of the project for the development and implementation of the first Italian Platform for
Industrial Symbiosis implemented in Sicily (2011-2015). The goals of the project were: to provide a methodology and an
instrument for industrial symbiosis implementation at regional scale, to implement a IS Platform as a support to SMEs to
ind... Autori: Laura Cutaia ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26774
MYCELIAL GROWTH AND ENZYMATIC ACTIVITIES OF WHITE-ROT FUNGI ON ANAEROBIC DIGESTATES FROM INDUSTRIAL BIOGAS PLANTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 7 Abstract
Solid digestate (SD) represents an environmental problem due to the continuous increase of biogas production. In the present
study four white-rot fungal strains were screened for their ability to grow on two different SD samples, obtained from industrial
biogas plants, using wheat straw (WS) as a control medium. Results show that i) the feedstock used in the biogas plant influences
the time required for the colonization of the corresponding SD and ii) different fungal strains have d... Autori: Guglielmo Santi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26792
PHYSICAL-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NEW GREEN BUILDING MATERIALS BASED ON GLASS WASTE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 7 Abstract
Recently several innovative suggestions on how industrial wastes can be utilised in new products have been presented in
literature, e.g. as filler or additives in concrete, incorporated in ceramic materials to produce glass-ceramics and pavement
construction. In this work, metallurgical materials from secondary aluminium scrap processing and glass waste derived from
treatments of packaging and fluorescent lamps were considered for fabrication of new ceramic materials using powder te... Autori: Rosa Taurino ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26794
INDUSTRIAL ENERGY CONSERVATION AND EMISSION REDUCTION TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY IN CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 8 Abstract
For the purpose of evaluating the effect of environmental regulations addressing Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction
(ECER) on Chinese industry, this paper introduces a non-radial, non-oriented and slacks-based data envelopment analysis (DEA)
model, energy conservation and undesirable output reduction slacks-based Malmquist index (EUSM index) and its decompositions.
This model can simultaneously measure energy and non-energy inputs along with pollutant emissions in addition t... Autori: Jing Xiu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26805
INFLUENCE ON THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE COASTAL AREA IN JIAOZHOU BAY OF CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 8 Abstract
Jiaozhou Bay, a shallow semi-closed bay surrounded by Qingdao City, has become one of the most important industrial zones in
Shandong Peninsula, China. The sound development of Jiaozhou Bay is crucial to the Qingdao regional economy and ecosystem,
but rapid urbanization and industrialization of Qingdao have imposed numerous environmental stresses on Jiaozhou Bay. The
influence of anthropogenic activities on the environment of Jiaozhou Bay is discussed based on satellite images, bath... Autori: Zhao Jun Song ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26811
WETLAND OF INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE: THE BRAILA SMALL ISLAND EXPOSED TO NOISE POLLUTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 8 Abstract
Braila Small Island is situated on the Danube, in Braila County, Romania being considered a protected area, in the category V
IUCN - Natural Parks. Because of aggressive tourism, inappropriate behaviour of the tourists as well as of the residents, as well as
of the fact that the navigation channels are open and the transit is made by engine boats, the whole ecosystem is endangered by
noise pollution. The purpose of this paper is to determine the level of the noise pollution emerging... Autori: Mihaela Picu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26823
ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN DRYING OF FROZEN SPRUCE WOOD
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 9 Abstract
Drying wood requires a significant amount of energy. This includes both thermal energy, necessary to heat-up wood, evaporate
the water inside it and cover the insulation and vent losses, as well as electric energy consumed to force air circulation through
the stacks. When wood is frozen, both energy consumptions increase; on one hand because frozen water requires a
supplementary heat for transformation into liquid and then into gaseous state, and on the other hand, because of the lo... Autori: Maria Bernadett Szmutku ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26841
IMPLICATIONS OF WIND POWER GENERATION: PERCEPTIONS OF PEOPLE EXPOSED TO TURBINE NOISE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 9 Abstract
The current study aims at analyzing the perceptions of people exposed to wind turbine noise. Noise measurements were carried
out in a wind farm in the north of Portugal and the data were analyzed and crossed with the answers to a survey applied in four
nearby villages. It was concluded that the direct visibility of the wind turbines from the respondents’ houses seems to affect the
reported annoyance due to noise exposure. Besides, there is a significant relationship between th... Autori: Pedro M. Arezes ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26845
INCLUDING SOLAR PANELS ON PARKING AREAS IN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT. WIND EFFECTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 9 Abstract
Solar energy is one of the most important renewable resources due to its unique set of advantages. In urban configurations, wide
open spaces used for parking areas close to malls, stadiums and industrial areas become justified challenges in revaluating them
by placing solar panels on their wide roofs.
The paper is a first attempt that reflects the scientific interest in the particularities of wind action upon the solar panels sustained
by structural framed elements and which cover ... Autori: Elena Axinte ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26849
ECO-TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY FOR TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIAL PARKS IN CHINA: PERSPECTIVES FROM SYSTEM ENGINEERING THEORY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 10 Abstract
The traditional industrial parks (TIPs) in China has been rapidly developed in the past 30 years, which have contributed to stable
and continuing GDP growth, but also caused severe pollution. In order to solve the conflict between local economic
development, environmental pollution and resource shortage, the TIPs in China should be transformed to eco-industrial parks
(EIPs). However, the eco-transformation of China's TIPs is still at an exploratory stage. So, the paper studies e... Autori: Jiang Wang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26855
INFLUENCE OF OPERATING CONDITIONS ON THE REMOVAL OF HEAVY METALS FROM INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER BY BIOSORPTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 10 Abstract
Free cells of Rhizopus oryzae were used to study adsorption of several cations (Cu2+, Zn2+, Mn2+, Ni2+, Cd2+ and Pb2+) from
wastewater within various experimental conditions. The influence of biomass dosage, pH and temperature on the removal
process was investigated. The sorption efficiency increased with increasing the temperature in the range from 25 ºC to 30 ºC and
pH from 5 to 8. The maximum removal percentage was achieved at a biosorbent concentration 0.25 – 0.3... Autori: Kolishka Tsekova ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26857
COLOR REMOVAL OF REACTIVE TEXTILE DYES FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION BY RAW AND MODIFIED FUNGAL BIOSORBENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 10 Abstract
This study concentrates on the reactive biosorption of dyes such as Reactive Red 3:1 (RR3:1), Reactive Orange 13 (RO13),
Reactive Blue 13 (RB13), Reactive Blue 72 (RB72). The modified fungal biosorbent, Paecilomyces sp., had a higher dye
biosorption yield in our study. 100% of biosorption yield observed on RR3:1 and RB13 and 94.09% of color removal of RO13
with the chemically modified biosorbent were great. Also, such modified biosorbent exhibited remarkable performance in
simulate... Autori: Ahmet Çabuk ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26860
METHODS TO REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF MUNICIPAL WASTE WATER SEWAGE SLUDGE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 10 Abstract
Municipal (urban) wastewater treatment creates environmental problems, especially in urban areas where urban waste water and
industrial waste water have a common treatment system. The present paper aims at describing a method which facilitates the
mixing of resulting sludge with metallurgical coke in the process of iron agglomeration due to the heat input brought about by the
combustibles in their composition. This method may be applied to reduce the huge quantities of sewage sludge... Autori: Catalina Iticescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26870
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE SORTING AND TREATMENT SCHEMES FOR THE MAXIMIZATION OF MATERIAL AND ENERGY RECOVERY IN A LATEST EU MEMBER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 11 Abstract
This paper analyses mass and energy balances of some Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Systems (IMSWS) focusing on MSW
sorting, treatment and energy recovery conversion chains suitable for the last entries into the European Union (EU). In particular
the Romanian case-study has been developed as reference scenario. In this context the actions timelines for the case-study are
immediate (S1A), midterm (S1B) and long term (S2). In the scenarios S1A, S1B a poor selective collection (SC) i... Autori: Gabriela Ionescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26878
INFLUENCE OF FIREBALL COUPLED WITH A TOXIC PUFF RELEASE ACCIDENT CONDITION ON CONSEQUENCES AND POSSIBLE DOMINO EFFECT OCCURRENCE FOR TWO RISKY NEIGHBORING CHEMICAL PLANTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 11 Abstract
A study of a classical BLEVE fireball model associated with a toxic Puff release one was made in order to evaluate the influence
of accident conjugate conditions on its consequences in two neighbouring industrial plants. The possible occurrence of the Domino
effect is also exemplified for the approached chemical complex including two sensitive neighbouring chemical plants including
tubular reactors for catalytic oxidation of butane to maleic anhydride and catalytic hydrogenation of ... Autori: Hasan Hadi Salman Khwayyir ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26880
CRITICAL VARIETY UNDER PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTY IN AN INDUSTRIAL REACTOR FOR BENZENE CATALYTIC OXIDATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 11 Abstract
Safe operation of highly thermally sensitive industrial reactors is still considered a major issue in chemical engineering practice.
The problem becomes even more stringent when highly exothermic reactions are conducted under randomly fluctuating operating
variables, and especially when the set-point is located in a close vicinity of the runaway boundaries for increasing the reactor
productivity. This study is aiming to derive the runaway boundaries and their associated region of co... Autori: Constantin Muscalu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26884
AN EXAMPLE OF THE USE OF BIO-INDICATORS FOR AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN AREAS WITH HIGH INDUSTRIAL PRESENCE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 11 Abstract
Air pollution is an increasing critical issue and the focus of innumerable studies and monitoring activities. In addition to
automatic monitoring systems typically used to measure fine dust, ozone, nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide, the use of
bioaccumulation monitors can also be exploited, especially when monitoring large areas. The advantage of biomarkers is the very
low costs involved compared to traditional monitoring systems. Bio-indicator techniques do not measure directly air q... Autori: Vincenzo Torretta ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26892
KINETIC TESTS OF ANAEROBIC DECHLORINATION OF A POLLUTED GROUNDWATER IN ITALY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 11 Abstract
The results of batch tests of anaerobic dechlorination on groundwater samples collected downgradient from an industrial site in
Northern Italy are presented and discussed. The experiments were carried out using sucrose as electron donor at equimolar
concentration and at selected excess with respect to the total reducible species. The purpose of the study was to investigate the
effectiveness of sucrose to achieve a complete chlorinated solvents degradations at the specific site, and ... Autori: Luca Di Palma ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26895
PERIODIC SYSTEMS AS ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE REDUCING DEVICES: PROTOTYPE AND STANDARDIZATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 12 Abstract
The design, the realization of the prototype and the acoustic standardization process of a novel periodic system made up of multiphysical
phenomena scatterers as a road traffic noise reducing device are reported in this work. The structure analysed here,
inspired by Sonic Crystals, has been designed following the guidelines established in recent works according to the concept of
tunability. Thus, the acoustic barrier proposed here includes several mechanisms of noise control, such a... Autori: Sergio Castińeira-Ibáńez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26900
INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE GOVERNORATES OF NABLUS AND RAMALLAH & AL-BIREH, PALESTINE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 12 Abstract
In Palestine, environmental problems associated with industrial solid waste (ISW) have increased significantly in recent years.
This paper presents survey results on current industrial solid waste management (ISWM) practices in the governorates of Nablus
and Ramallah & Al-Bireh, Palestine. Solid waste generated from industries was quantified, characterized and discussed in terms
of generation rate, storage, reuse/recycling, transportation, and final disposal. An attempt was made... Autori: Issam A. Al-Khatib ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26903
AN OVERVIEW OF MUD TECHNOLOGY AND CHALLENGES TOWARD GREENING OF DRILLING FLUID
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 12 Abstract
The current industrial trend is toward the development of sustainable technologies, and environmentally-friendly chemicals that
might be used to enhance the drilling activities. This is due to the fact that petroleum industry is regarded as one of the hazardous
and risky industries. Unfortunately, the majority of the toxic materials that are used in the formulation of drilling mud are
employed to improve the quality and functions of drilling fluid. Oil based muds (OBMs) from hydroca... Autori: M. Enamul Hossain ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26907
CONDUCTIVE-DIAMOND ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION OF A PHARMACEUTICAL EFFLUENT WITH HIGH CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD). KINETICS AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE PROCESS BY RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY (RSM)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 1 Conductive-diamond electrochemical oxidation processes are promising technologies for treating biorefractory industrial wastes
with organic loads below 20000 mg L-1. In this work, electrochemical oxidation of a real industrial pharmaceutical wastewater
with conductive-diamond anodes has been studied. The electrolyses were carried out in discontinuous operation mode under
galvanostatic conditions, using a bench-scale plant equipped with a single compartment electrochemical flow cell. For optim... Autori: Joaquín Ramón Domínguez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26927
POPULATION ANALYSIS IN HIGH-NITRATE WASTEWATER TREATMENT IN SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 1 The pickling liquor used in the stainless steel manufacturing process is a mixture of nitric and hydrofluoric acid which generates
wastewater with nitrate concentrations ranging between 500 and 6000 mgNO3--N/L. In the present study, laboratory-scale anoxic
Sequencing Batch Reactors (SBRs) were used to treat high nitrate wastewaters. Two different sludge inocula were tested: one
from a Municipal Solid Waste Leachate Treatment Plant (LTP), and the other from a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP). Meth... Autori: Ana Isabel Pelaez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26933
OCCURRENCE AND SOURCES OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHs) IN DRAINAGE CHANNEL SEDIMENTS IN VOJVODINA (SERBIA)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 2 A drainage channel network in Vojvodina, Serbia, made for collection and transition of (sub)surface waters from waterlogged
arable land areas, is exposed to diffuse and/or point contamination sources. Over time, the channel network has accumulated
sediment material containing potentially harmful organic substances such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). In this
study, the concentration of 16 environmentally relevant PAH substances from 42 sampling points in drainage channel sediments... Autori: Radovan Savić ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26950
STUDIES OF PLANT MATERIALS FROM MINING, INDUSTRIAL AND GREEN SITES BY SPECTROSCOPIC METHODS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 2 Various plants were investigated here as bioindicators for control of the environment. Grass, moss and leaves of maple, birch and
oak from different locations, i.e., mining, chemical industrial sites and open green area in a small industrial town in the southwestern
Poland (Zloty Stok) were examined. Concentrations of As, Ba, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Se, Sr, Ti, V
and Zn were measured by the ICP-OES and CVG-ICP-OES techniques. Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) was used to inves... Autori: Lukasz Zarebski ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26951
INCIDENCE OF SELECTED ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING ESTROGENS IN WATER BODIES OF HYDERABAD AND ITS RELATION TO WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 2 Environmental persistence of endocrine disrupting estrogen chemicals (EDC) subsequent to endocrine function even at nanogram
concentration in environmental matrices has garnered significant global attention due to their possible disruptive effects in an
intact organism, or its progeny. An attempt was made in present study to investigate the occurrence of two estrogens viz. natural
(estriol, E3) and synthetic (17α-ethynylestradiol, EE2) in the surface waster bodies of Hyderabad, India. A... Autori: A. Kiran Kumar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26953
EVALUATION OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTION INTO A COMPLEX INDUSTRIAL AREA FROM ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 2 The work studies the degree of heavy metal pollution in water, sediment and soil in the industrial platform area from Ramnicu
Valcea, Romania. The water and sediment samples were collected from three locations of the Olt River, in two distinct periods,
February and June 2010. Concentrations of nickel, copper and cadmium were analyzed. The soil samples were collected from
eight points and the same elements were analyzed, in the above mentioned interval of time.
The results of water and sedime... Autori: Mihaela Iordache ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26961
RESEARCH ON INCREASING THE REACTION SURFACE OF SELF-REDUCING BRIQUETTES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 2 Waste recycling in steel industry by turning grain-size and powdery waste into pellets is a must now more than ever for
economical motivation, in order to save raw materials and also for ecological reasons, as it leads to a cut down in the quantity of
dumped waste. Industrial practice offers processors various technologies of waste recycling (agglomeration, briquetting,
pelleting, mechanical mixture). The optimal variant should be chosen according to waste type, its content of useful elements... Autori: Ana Virgina Socalici ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26968
APPLICATION OF THE FLOCCULATION PROCESS IN THE INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 3 The flocculation process is applied in wastewater treatment to separate the destabilized colloid particles (or the particles formed
during the coagulation phase) by forming flocs. The scope of this research was to identify the predictability of the synthetic
organic flocculants use for industrial wastewater treatment. The research was performed at small scale, in laboratory, but also at
industrial scale, by applying the synthetic organic flocculants in a real industrial wastewater treatment p... Autori: Mariana Turcu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26975
IMPACTS OF OUTDOOR NOISE ON TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 3 This paper presents a study concerning the noise level in an enclosure, perceived through the envelope of the building, as a result
of the activities carried outside the enclosure. The building chosen for measurements was a teaching laboratory designed for
applicative activities and equipped with installations and devices used in laboratory work.
To establish the sound pressure level transmitted from outside the building to inside, three types of noise sources were
established: a diffuser, a... Autori: Claudia Tomozei ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26978
A COMBINED METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF RISKS AND INDUSTRIAL SAFETY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 3 Risk can be defined as the probability that an existing hazard could turn into an accident. It can be evaluated through the potential
losses in the manufacturing process or the harmful level of accidents with an impact on human health, caused by unpredictable
technical events. Romanian authorities have not found yet a nationwide method for evaluating the risks in the establishments that
fall under the scope of the SEVESO Directive. Starting from the potential risk that an accident might occur... Autori: Daniel-Cătălin Felegeanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26979
IDENTIFYING HISTORIC POLLUTION ON LAKE BACAU I, ROMANIA USING GIS AND SATELLITE IMAGES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 3 The Lake Bacau I, located in Bacau City, Romania was built in 1966 with a double purpose: as reservoir belonging to the energy
system of the Bistrita River and to provide the water needed for the industrial units located in the area. Also, for more than 40
years, the lake was used by the same plants to discharge the wastewater, more or less treated. In present, most of the industrial
units are closed and the discharge of wastewater in the lake is banned, the area being used mainly for recreat... Autori: Maria-Ema Faciu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26987
POTENTIALLY TOXIC ELEMENTS IN URBAN SOILS OF IASI (ROMANIA)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 3 Our study aims to analyse soil quality based on the concentrations of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in natural or slightly
modified anthropogenic soils, technosols and landfill deposits in Iasi. The pollution level analysis based on lognormal
distribution plot allows the differentiation of elements coming from the parent material (Mo, Cd, Ni and As) of those with
anthropogenic origin (Pb, Zn and Cu). The enrichment factor (EF) calculated based on manganese (Mn) as reference in the parent
... Autori: Cristian Vasilica Secu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26991
EVALUATION OF POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON PERFORMANCE FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT CONTAINING ORGANIC (C6H6 AND C6H5-CH3) AND INORGANIC (Pb+2 AND Zn+2) POLLUTANTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 5 The removal of toxic heavy metal ions such as lead and zinc from industrial and mining wastewaters has been widely studied
because their existence in surface and underground water is responsible for several types of health problems caused to animals
and human beings. Also, there are some organic compounds, which must be prevented from reaching in drinking water from
various sources of pollution. For these reasons in this paper the experiments were conducted to study the ability of activated
... Autori: Cristina Ileana Covaliu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27027
MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF HEAT TRANSFER PROCESSES FOR HEAT EXCHANGERS USED IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 5 The issues of global warming and reducing energy consumption led to an evolutionary progress of research to find as many
solutions as possible for solving these environmental issues. The need to ensure a sustainable energetic development while
achieving effective protection of the environment has led to the amplification of activities based on secondary energetic resources
combined with low energy consumption industrial technologies. In the present paper it is discussed how to recover thermal... Autori: Timea Gabor ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27030
PONDS DELINEATION IN VARIOUS URBAN LANDFORMS. CASE STUDY FOR CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 6 Urbanization and industrialization have led to the increase in impervious surfaces, the reduction of water seepage into soil and
the increase of runoff discharges in urban areas. The overland flow may be carried over long distances along the streets and
sidewalks depending on the land slope and morphology, while in lowland, water tends to accumulate in ponds. In this research,
we aim to identify these ponds in the floodplain, slope and urbanized interfluves in Cluj-Napoca. The ponds outline t... Autori: Ionel Haidu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27063
STUDY OF AN ANNUAL WASTE RECYCLING INDEX IN SPAIN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 7 The management of urban solid waste is a growing priority both in large cities and in rural settings, and in developed and
developing countries. Many factors can influence the type and amount of waste generated, including population density, level of
industrialisation, quality of life of households, type of area (urban/rural) and local climate. In this paper, we introduce an index of
solid waste recycling over a ten-year period and examine the influence of several such factors on this index. ... Autori: María-José Del-Moral-Ávila ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27071
DETERMINANTS OF ECO-INNOVATION: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE INDUSTRIAL AND SERVICES SECTORS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 7 This study analyzed the determinants of eco-innovation in a sample of companies drawn from several sectors of economic
activity in Spain and studied similarities and differences in their activity. The analysis used information obtained from the
Technological Innovation Panel (PITEC) database created by the Spanish Institute of Statistics. The methodology used showed
that although all the variables used in the model were significant for all sectors of activity, their effects were specific to e... Autori: Alejandro García-Pozo ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27072
OPTIMIZATION OF SOME ALTERNATIVES TO NOISE BARRIERS AS NOISE MITIGATION MEASURES ON MAJOR ROADS IN EUROPE. CASE STUDY OF A HIGHWAY IN SPAIN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 7 There is an extensive literature covering a number of considerations for installing noise barriers to protect living areas. In fact,
noise barriers are the most popular mitigation measure on major roads across Europe. This paper aims to review some situations
where the use of noise barriers is not fully recommended. Fortunately, there are available wide ranges of technical noise solutions
as an alternative to the barriers. What we propose in this article is to create a simple procedure to hel... Autori: Alina Mihaela Petrovici ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27088
SUSTAINABILITY IN RELATIONSHIP MARKETING: AN EXPLORATORY MODEL FOR THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 7 The present paper proposes a new perspective on relationship marketing in international businesses, advancing a
multidimensional model, further referred to as CRMS model (the Cs of Relationship Marketing Sustainability), developed on five
key dimensions of Relationship Marketing Sustainability: Convergence, Commonality, Compatibility, Credibility, Connectivity.
Surpassing unidimensional approaches, the study makes a step forward to proposing and testing the CRMS integrative model
which explo... Autori: Teodor Păduraru ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27090
PROGRESSES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CONCERNING THE RETENTION OF TOXIC WASTE FROM NEW PHARMACEUTICAL FORMS WITH ANTI-FUNGAL ACTION AND THE PROTECTION OF WASTEWATER QUALITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 7 Researching and industrializing a new pharmaceutical form results in an impressive amount of waste due to the methods used.
Despite numerous reports about the addition of pharmaceutical ingredients to the environment, the effect they have on the
environment at the nanogram (ng) level remains largely unknown; thus, it has been proposed to retain toxic compounds using
Dowex resins in biomucoadhesive tablets containing miconazole nitrate, an antifungal medication. This study demonstrates the
re... Autori: Magdalena Bîrsan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27091
AN INTERVAL-PARAMETER QUEUING MODEL FOR PLANNING MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH COST-EFFECTIVE OBJECTIVE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 8 In this study, an interval-parameter queuing model (IPQM) for planning a municipal solid waste (MSW) management system
with cost-effective objective is developed through introducing the queuing model with limited capacity into an interval-parameter
linear programming (ILP) framework. IPQM can examine the effects of limited queue capacity on waste-flow allocation pattern
and system cost under uncertainty. Random vehicles have to wait in queue due to limited capacities for disposing MSW, leadin... Autori: Yongping Li ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27094
COMPARISON OF SOME NON-CONVENTIONAL SORBENTS FOR THE REMOVAL OF ARSENIC FROM WATERS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 8 Iron humate (IH) produced as a waste by-product during the industrial manufacture of humic substances from young brown coal
was tested as a new cost-effective sorbent for the removal of inorganic arsenic from waters. Its removal efficiency was compared
with that of two other non-conventional sorbents – magnetite and oxihumolite (weathered brown coal). Magnetite and IH have
been found to be effective in removing both forms of inorganic arsenic (arsenite and arsenate) from aqueous solutio... Autori: Pavel Jano ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27098
INVESTIGATION OF CURRENT MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SITUATION IN AMASYA, TURKEY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 8 This research focuses an examination of municipal solid waste (MSW) generation and composition in Amasya, providing
overview of the current state of MSW management, an analysis of existing problems in MSW collection, separation, recycling
and disposal. Municipal solid waste comprises more than 95% of Amasya’s solid waste, while three other types of solid waste
comprise less than 5% of it, namely industrial waste (3.5%), hospital waste (1.0%) and construction and demolition waste
(0.5%)... Autori: Semra Çoruh ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27099
ASSESSMENT OF INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE USING THE INTELLIGENT DECISION SYSTEM (IDS) METHOD
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 8 About 1800 tons of daily solid waste disposal is one of the consequences of the speedy industrial expansion in the province of
Khuzestan in the south west of Iran. There are more often than not diverse criteria for assessing the resulted pollution loads from
solid waste disposal. In this paper, a new application for the Intelligent Decision System (IDS) is demonstrated for industrial
solid waste assessment. IDS software is a Windows-based package for handling Multiple Criteria Decision Making... Autori: Armaghan Abed-Elmdoust ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27105
PLASTIC WASTE STORAGE AS MULTIFUNCTIONAL GREEN MODULES FOR TERRITORIAL USE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 8 The roots of this study are generated by the problems of plastic waste accumulations: insufficiency of storage spaces, storage
costs and outgoings of plastic waste recycling, recovery, decomposition or reprocessing. The paper develops and details a
modular prototype, for multifunctional territorial use, offering non-polluting and aesthetic possibility of plastic waste storage.
The progress in the related fighting pollution areas have been approached, such as waste management through ecologica... Autori: Doina Mira Dascălu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27112
SIMULATION OF A STIRLING ENGINE USED FOR A MICRO SOLAR POWER PLANT: 0-D MODELLING, COMPARISON WITH 1-D MODELLING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 8 The goal of this paper is to determine the characteristics of a Stirling engine able to be used by a micro-solar power plant as
energy conversion system. The purpose is to use solar energy as heat source and a Stirling engine because of its numerous
advantages, as its high (theoretical) efficiency. This work was made in collaboration with several industrials involved in the
project named MiCST, whom objective is to electrify remote villages in Africa. Results of a simple 0-D model built on
M... Autori: Nadia Martaj ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27116
EVALUATION OF BIOELECTROGENIC POTENTIAL OF FOUR INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS AS SUBSTRATE FOR LOW COST MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS OPERATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 8 Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs), the bioelectrochemical devices for conversion of waste into electricity through bacterial metabolic
activity can use substrates with different complexity and strength. Wastewaters with moderate to high organic content can be
exploited as MFC substrates. In this study, four different industrial wastewaters (from a chemical company, milk industry, soyabased
food and soft-drink company and laundry) with different compositions were used as substrates in identical MFCs... Autori: Deepak Pant ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27117
PROJECT GREEN SYMBIOSIS 2014 - II PHASE. RESULTS FROM AN INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS PILOT PROJECT IN EMILIA ROMAGNA REGION (ITALY)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 9 The Project “Green - Industrial Symbiosis” (G-IS), in Emilia Romagna region (IT), took place in two phases: phase I, 05.2013 –
03.2014; phase II, 10. 2014 – 10.2015. During the first phase, it was completed the first part of the pilot project of industrial
symbiosis (IS) in Emilia-Romagna, which involved 13 companies in the agro-industrial sector, 7 laboratories of the High
Technology Network, with Unioncamere and Aster (promoters) and ENEA (technical and scientific co... Autori: Laura Cutaia ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27124
CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ODOR ACTIVE VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS EMITTED FROM PERFUMES BY GC/MS-O
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 9 The selection of proper compounds to include in perfumes’ formulation is of particular interest for the perfume industry.
Essential oils and perfumes are subject to quality control as well as to chemical characterization; therefore, GC/MS-O
methodology can be considered a useful tool for research purposes and/or for improving industrial manufacturing processes. In
this study, GC/MS-O methodology was applied to a commercial brand perfume and a natural-derived one, both characterized by
... Autori: Antonella Amenduni ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27125
SOLUBILITY AND DURABILITY OF CARDANOL DERIVED PLASTICIZERS FOR SOFT PVC
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 9 This work was aimed to test the suitability of an epoxidized cardanol derived plasticizer for the production of soft PVC
characterized by low environmental and toxicological impact soft PVC. Nowadays, the use of natural derived plasticizer in soft
PVC industry is emerging as valid alternative towards conventional phthalate plasticizers, in order to reduce the environmental
and toxicological impact of soft PVC. In facts, cardanol is a natural and renewable resource, characterized by a wide wor... Autori: Antonio Greco ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27128
RAPESEED MEAL: AN AGRO-WASTE FOR CHEAP/LOW COST LACCASE PRODUCTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 9 Rapeseed meal (RM) is an abundant and cheap by-product of oil extraction process. RM is a rich source of nitrogen, carbon, and
minerals. Thanks to these features, RM has a striking potential for eco-friendly production of high value products in
biotechnological processes.
In this study, the possibility of using a low-cost medium based on the water soluble fraction of RM for laccase production by the
fungus Pleurotus ostreatus has been evaluated and compared with the use of synthetic complex ... Autori: Lucia Guarino ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27129
EXTRACTION OF BIOCHEMICALS FROM THE WINE INDUSTRY BY-PRODUCTS AND THEIR VALORIZATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 9 The production process of wine and distilled generates several by-products (20-30% of total production). Currently, most of the
solid by-products (pomace, stalks, lees and seeds) obtained as downstream of the vinery industry, are conferred to the distillery
or, less frequently, used in agriculture and for energy production. As a consequence, much of the antioxidant compounds
contained in the grape is unused in the products of processing and is lost. These substances (among which the most impo... Autori: Paola Zitella ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27135
INNOVATIVE METHOD FOR THE EVALUATION OF PROFESSIONAL RISK DURING CONTROLLED DEMOLITION WITH EXPLOSIVES OF CIVIL USE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 9 This paper presents an analytical approach to the evaluation concept of professional risk specific to activities of controlled
demolition with civil use explosives of industrial/civil objectives, ensuring the appropriate level of safety to the effects generated
by performing blasting to these types of constructions. The scientific research highlighted in this article was performed within the
Project PN 7:45 1:28 in the frame of The National Programme for Research and Development CORE/2014. Th... Autori: Gabriel Dragoş Vasilescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27141
CHITOSAN-BASED ADSORBENTS GELS FOR THE REMOVAL OF TRIS-AZO DYE: ISOTHERMS AND KINETICS STUDIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 11 The adsorbent gels utilized in this research project were synthesized from non-commercially available chitosan, obtained by deacetylation of chitin, which was isolated from fermented shrimp waste by a major local industrial food biopolymer. Chitosan-based adsorbent gels were used for the removal of a tris-azo dye (Direct Blue 71) from aqueous solutions. Sorption experiments focused on the chemical modification of chitosan using two cross-linking agents, sodium tripolyphosphate (TPP) and glutaral... Autori: Reyna G. Sánchez-Duarte ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27184
ORGANIC ACID PRODUCTION FROM THE ORGANIC FRACTION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE AND COW MANURE IN LEACHING BED REACTORS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 11 This study was carried out to (1) investigate the potential of in-vessel solid-state anaerobic acidogenic co-digestion of high solids containing substrates, namely organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) and cow manure and (2) examine the feasibility of using leaching bed reactors (LBR) for hydrolysis/liquefaction and acidification of OFMSW and cow manure mixtures for maximum total volatile fatty acid (VFA) and alcohol production. Results indicated that hydrolysis efficiency of 20-25% ... Autori: Tuba H. Erguder ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27186
STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF PROCEDURAL SOUNDNESS AND RELIABILITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 1 The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is both a technical and administrative procedure with (mandatory) extensive application throughout Europe, holding a primary role in sustainable territorial development. Objectives of the SEA process are to: provide a high level of protection for the environment, and promote sustainability of development by contributing to the integration of appropriate environmental considerations in the adoption and implementation of specific plans and programs. In ... Autori: Vincenzo Torretta ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27231
HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT OF ARSENIC IN AIR, SOIL AND WATER IN AN INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN KOREA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 2 Many industrial complexes in Korea have produced a variety of potential toxic chemicals during manufacturing processes and activities by air emissions, effluents, or solid wastes over the past few decades. In this study, arsenic levels in air, soil, and water near an industrial complex were determined. Human health risk assessment for arsenic was conducted based on the levels and potential exposure pathways in a multimedia environment (air, soil, and water). The point estimate of incremental can... Autori: Yong-Chul Jang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27249
EFFICIENCY OF A FISHPOND AT EAST CALCUTTA WETLANDS IN IMPROVEMENT OF WATER QUALITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 2 The Storm Water Flow (SWF) and the Dry Weather Flow (DWF) canals carry composite industrial and municipal effluent (nearly 50,000 m3 d-1) from Kolkata city. Wastewater from SWF and DWF canals is used for pisciculture at the East Calcutta Wetland (ECW) for nearly a century. A wastewater fed pisciculture pond was selected to study the efficiency of the pond in treatment of wastewater. Monthly changes of hydraulic variables viz. inflow and outflow rates, depth, hydraulic loading rates, detention ti... Autori: Abhishek Roy Goswami ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27255
EVALUATION OF AIR POLLUTION SOURCES IN SELECTED ZONE OF TEXTILE INDUSTRIES IN PAKISTAN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 2 The present work reports the gaseous emissions of the following industries, Interloop Textile (IP Tex), Crescent Textile (CT Tex), Kalash Textile (KH Tex), Noor Fatima Textile (NF Tex), Bashir Textile (BP Tex) and Hina Sana Texile (HS Tex), which are located in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Industries were tested for the mixture of gases containing carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur oxides (SOx), carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) emitting from these industries. The maximum amounts... Autori: Muhammad Zubair ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27256
ASSESSMENT OF THE MOBILITY OF SELECTED ELEMENTS IN BIOLEACHED MINING WASTE FROM ZLOTY STOK (POLAND)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 2 Different bioleaching processes were applied to mining wastes deposited in the highly polluted post-industrial region - Lower
Silesia in Poland. The chemical characterization of the wastes before and after bioleaching processes was performed. The
characterisation was based on the distribution of selected elements (Fe, Mn, As, Co, Cr, Cu and Ni) between operationally-defined phases. The phases were defined using a six-step extraction procedure optimised according to the properties of the studie... Autori: Joanna Pałdyna ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27259
CHARACTERIZATION OF SOIL HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION AND POTENTIAL ECOLOGICAL RISK IN THE URBANRURAL TRANSITION ZONE OF TAIYUAN CITY, CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 2 Soil in industrial cities and their surrounding regions sustains high levels of contamination due to the intense industrialization and urbanization. Taiyuan, a city in northern China, and its surrounding regions are a hotspot for the development of heavy industry. To assess the environmental quality, we collected surface soil samples from Taiyuan’s urban–rural transition zone. We determined concentrations of Cr, Cu, Pb, Zn, As, Cd, and Hg. The primary inputs of Cr and As were pedogen... Autori: Jinchang Li ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27260
OPTIMIZING THE OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS OF AN INSTALLATION FOR THERMAL DESORPTION TO DIMINISH GAS EMISSIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 3 This paper presents the results of a scientific study on industrial emissions based on requirements of the European Directive 2010/75/EU and Law 278/2013 referring to the minimization of greenhouse gas emissions into the environment. In this context, our study was focused on the decrease (in terms of environmental protection) of gas emissions generated by an installation for thermal desorption belonging to a commercial agent by adjusting its tunings after performing emission measurements. The in... Autori: Angelica Călămar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27287
TRACE ELEMENTS IN FISH TISSUE WITH COMMERCIAL VALUE OF THE DANUBE DELTA BIOSPHERE RESERVE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 3 Researches and analysis of heavy metals concentrations in the fish species exploited as a food source are of great interest due to long term toxic effects on human health even at very low concentrations. Therefore, we have conducted this study in an area of great interest in terms of aquatic biodiversity, but also of tourism and trade. Depending on the degree of toxicity in delta aquatic ichtyofauna, five heavy metals (Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb) and a metalloid (As) concentrations were measured in the ... Autori: Adrian Burada ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27293
INCREASING ENERGY AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY AND DECREASING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS IN AN ICE CREAM COMPANY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 5 There are industrial processes where cold and heat are used. In such a process, a heat pump integrated into a refrigeration system lead to energy savings. This paper analyzes two-stage compression refrigeration combined with a compression heat pump. A case study is made based on a proposed mathematical model and on the measurements performed in an ice cream company. Three operation regimes are simulated for different hot water temperatures obtained from the heat pump. The energetic efficiency, e... Autori: Aneta Hazi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27297
GROUNDWATER QUALITY IN THE PROXIMITY OF A POLLUTED LAKE: A JOINT EXPERIMENTAL-MODELING STUDY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 5 Ground water is an important source of clean water supply throughout the world. A growing literature on the management of groundwater which takes into account the interaction of groundwater with surface water resupply sources (e.g., streams or lakes) is driven by concerns of intensified global fresh-water use coupled with increasing industrial and agricultural pollution levels. Our joint laboratory and numerical experiments simulate water withdrawals via two pumping wells from an unconfined aqui... Autori: Anca Marina Marinov ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27302
IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PACKAGING WASTE TRANSPORT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 5 Industrial packaging waste as an object of reverse logistics has nowadays from environmental and cost perspective become a huge task especially in retail. In addition to that most costs come from transportation, which if not rationalized leads to negative environmental impacts. The research consists out of two parts, where the first part provides an overview of domestic and foreign literature in the field of environmental impacts caused by transportation of packaging waste in retail and, the sec... Autori: Vaska Pejić ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27311
REVIEW OF ETHANOL PRODUCTION BASED ON PAPER SLUDGE: PROCESSES AND PROSPECTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 5 With population growth and increasing industrialization, enormous amounts of agro-industrial wastes are being produced. Without proper use, these keep piling up leading to tremendous pressure on environmental safety. There is also considerable economic interest not only in the proper utilization of these wastes, but also in developing appropriate processes for this purpose. Sludge generated in pulp and paper mills is one of such solid wastes. Although several studies have investigated its reuse,... Autori: Patrícia Raquel Silva Zanoni ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27320
EXPERIMENTAL ASSESMENT OF NANOFILTRATION FOR THE REMOVAL OF CHLOROPHENOLS FROM AQUEOUS EFFLUENTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 4 Chlorophenols, commonly found in industrial effluents, are considered as priority pollutants because they may cause severe environmental impacts and human health related problems. Nanofiltration (NF) represents an important option for the removal of chlorophenols present in aqueous effluents. This study presents some results on the performance of nanofiltration for the removal of 4-chlorophenol and 2,4-dichlorophenol from synthetic wastewaters considering the selection of adequate operating and ... Autori: Corina-Petronela Musteret ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27324
HEAVY METALS AND GAMMA RADIOACTIVITY BIOACCUMULATIONIN Artemisia absinthium L. GROWN ON A WASTE DUMP
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 4 In the current context of industrialization, chemical and radioactive pollution is a concern for environmental protection and
interference with human health. Care for environmental protection also includes vegetation that grows spontaneously in
potentially contaminated places, thus avoiding illness among the population if consumed. The study area is located at 4.5km SSE from downtown Bacău City, Romania and is the result of the manufacture of H3PO4 through the wet method. In this study, t... Autori: Mioara Săndulache Rachieru ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27331
GAMMA PRE-IRRADIATION EFFECTS ON NATURAL DYEING PERFORMANCES OF PROTEINIC BLENDED YARNS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 4 The objective of this study was to develop a naturally dyeing process of 70% wool /30% Angora mohair blended yarns by using bio-mordants as an environmentally friendly alternative for the conventional metallic salts. Bio-mordanting operation was achieved by using of condensed tannin extract from quebracho bark trees. Conventional mordanting has been performed using the conventional mordants like copper sulphate and tin chloride. Another specific objective of this study was to investigate the pos... Autori: Ioana Stanculescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27337
TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF A BUTANOL RECOVERY PROCESS BASED ON GAS STRIPPING TECHNIQUE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 4 Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol (ABE) industrial production by fermentation is strongly affected by the low concentration of solvent (<25 g/L) that affects the cost of the recovery process. To decrease the overall cost of the butanol production, alternative routes for the recovery have proposed in literature.
This paper presents a techno-economic analysis of an innovative butanol recovery process from ABE fermentation broth based on gas stripping technique. The comparison with a recovery process bas... Autori: Lucia Salemme ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27346
NEW ASPECTS REGARDING IGNITION SENSITIVITY OF AIR-METHANE MIXTURES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 6 In the economic activities related to combustible substances, it may occur possible emissions and explosive atmospheres. Some typical examples include industrial activities in general, firedamp mines and power generation in particular. The aim of this paper is to accentuate hidden aspects regarding ignition sensitivity of moisturized air methane mixtures. Therefore, the first objective of
the paper is to emphasize the air humidity as an extra factor needed to be considered in relation to igniti... Autori: Marius Darie ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27351
METHODS FOR REDUCING THE RISK OF HEARING LOSS IN POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE WORKPLACES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 6 Noise causes masking effect of the safety signals and alarms, covers the warning acoustic messages of danger and reduces attention and concentration capacity. To these may be added the degradation of communication between workers equipped with hearing protective equipment and it creates difficulties to locate the direction of danger signals.
This article presents two researches regarding noise exposure level of the workers on a marine platform and a gas compressing station and establishes techn... Autori: Silviu-Nicolae Platon ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27362
WORKERS EXPOSURE TO NOISE IN SURFACE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 6 Discomfort caused by noise is ever-present, having numerous physiological, psychological and social implications. One of the most important discomfort factors for personnel working in the processes of surface coal extraction is represented by noise. This paper examines how noise generated by the process of lignite extraction influences the working capacity of employees.
The covering effect of voice or different sound and verbal signals, during work, leads to tiring efforts of attention, thus de... Autori: Sorin Simion ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27366
UTILIZATION OF Citrus sinensis WASTE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF β-GLUCOSIDASE BY SOLID-STATE FERMENTATION USING A Bacillus subtilis MUTANT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 7 The utilization of agro-industrial waste as a potential substrate for producing enzymes may serve a dual purpose of reducing the environmental pollution along with producing a high value commercial product. Twelve different agro-industrial wastes were evaluated for extracellular BGL (β-glucosidase) production by a mutant of Bacillus subtilis on solid state fermentations (SSF). The Citrus sinensis bagasse was found to be the most suitable substrate with highest BGL titer (35 U/gds). Optimum ... Autori: Ruchi Agrawal ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27378
REMOVAL OF LEAD IONS FROM INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER USING PRECIPITATION PROCESS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 7 Chemical precipitation is an effective and relatively low cost method for removal of heavy metals. The removal of lead ions from wastewater by a precipitation process was investigated using sodium sulfide and sodium carbonate. Precipitation experiments were performed using storage battery wastewater with lead concentration of 8.8 mg/L and synthetic wastewater with different lead concentration ranging from 5 to 600 mg/L. A series of experiments (each concentration) were carried out under differen... Autori: Mehraban Sadeghi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27388
Environmental engineering and Management Journal No. 7
› › Nr. 4 • EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON THE PARAMETERS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS
• CONCENTRATIONS OF CHROMIUM, CADMIUM AND NICKEL IN TWO CONSUMED FISH SPECIES OF PERSIAN GULF, IRAN
• IMPROVING THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS BY USING A DRAIN WATER HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM
• ASSESSMENT OF METAL CONTAMINATION AND ECOLOGICAL RISK IN URBAN SOILS SITUATED NEAR A METALLURGICAL COMPLEX
• FINANCIAL DE... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27398
Environmental engineering and Management Journal No. 7
› › Nr. 4 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON THE PARAMETERS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS
• CONCENTRATIONS OF CHROMIUM, CADMIUM AND NICKEL IN TWO CONSUMED FISH SPECIES OF PERSIAN GULF, IRAN
• IMPROVING THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS BY USING A DRAIN WATER HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM
• ASSESSMENT OF METAL CONTAMINATION AND ECOLOGICAL RISK IN URBAN SOILS SITUATED NEAR A METALLURGICAL COMPLEX
• FINANCIAL DEVELOPME... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27399
SMART GROUND PROJECT: A NEW APPROACH TO DATA ACCESSIBILITY AND COLLECTION FOR RAW MATERIALS AND SECONDARY RAW MATERIALS IN EUROPE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 8 Steady Raw Materials (RM) supply is essential for the EU economy and increasingly under pressure to sustain the businesses and
industries demand. The supply of RM is not only a matter of availability of primary but also of secondary raw materials (SRM).
In fact a great amount of waste can be regained as practical and valuable SRM by enhancing the recovery processes from
industrial, mining and municipal landfill sites, especially if we consider that Europe is highly dependent on the imports of... Autori: Giovanna Antonella Dino ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27403
VALORIZATION OF AGRO-INDUSTRIAL WASTES IN LIGHTWEIGHT AGGREGATES FOR AGRONOMIC USE: PRELIMINARY STUDY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 8 This research was focused on the valorization of agro industrial waste/by products available in the local industry with the kilometer zero (km 0) concept, as a replacement of virgin raw materials (clay) to elaborate lightweight aggregates (LWAS). The alternative raw materials were employed as pore forming agent, in order to reduce sintering temperature and energy consumption of the furnace. The three technical nutrients studied were provided for local food industries: sludge from wastewater trea... Autori: Romina D. Farias ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27405
ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE AND ADVANTAGES RELATED TO THE USE OF A NATURAL COAGULANT IN THE INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 8 The paper deals with the demonstration of the technical and environmental advantages related to the use of a tannin based
coagulant in textile wastewater treatments. The natural coagulant was tested to evaluate its performance in the
coagulation/flocculation process, the level of biodegradability in both aerobic and anaerobic conditions and the eco-toxicological
risks for aquatic systems. Results were compared with a common inorganic metal based coagulant. The findings at lab scale
showed th... Autori: Antonio Giuliano ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27407
INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF EXPOSURE TO TRAFFIC-RELATED AIR POLLUTION IN IASI CITY, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 9 Despite the industrial decline, air pollution continues to be a major issue in Romanian cities. As in many other urban areas, in Iasi
city the traffic is one of the main sources of air pollution which has a high environmental impact, also exposing population’s
health to a high risk. The study focuses on the small scale examining the spatial and temporal variability of air pollution in a very
important and frequently circulated crossroad, Podu de Piatra. Using various data from air pollu... Autori: Alexandru Banica ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27443
MONITORING VARIATIONS IN FULL CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTIONS AT REGIONAL SCALE USING AMBIENT NOISE RECORDS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 9 Study on ambient noise cross-correlation has been progressively developed. However, it is still challenging for noise sources are
not evenly distributed. Therefore, we are concerned with how the multiple parts of the noise cross-correlation function are
affected by noise sources, so as to obtain more valuable information. The temporal variations of traveltime and amplitudes of
noise cross-correlations computed in a moving 5-day window for the two period ranges corresponding to the primary (10... Autori: Fang Ye ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27446
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SITE USING RAPID IMPACT ASSESSMENT MATRIX (RIAM) ANALYSIS IN MASHHAD CITY, IRAN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 10 Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) disposal is currently one of the major environmental issues in big cities. Several tools and techniques
have been developed for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of MSW disposal options, including scoping, checklists,
matrices, qualitative and quantitative models and decision-support systems. Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (RIAM) is a partially
new method which is particularly advantageous over others as it provides a transparent and permanent record of analysi... Autori: Zohreh Aliakbari-Beidokhti ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27465
STUDY ON THE USE OF GEOTEXTILES FOR ENSURING DRAINAGE CONDITIONS WITHIN INDUSTRIAL FLY ASH PONDS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 11 Fly ash ponds are dangerous for the environment because the fly ash can cause multiple harmful effects. This is cause for major concern for researchers and industry people alike. The rise of the water table level inside the ash structure may cause a loss of stability over time, with adverse effects on the environment. Therefore it is necessary to adopt efficient solutions to ensure the stability of ash ponds and rapid measures that can be applied. The use of geosynthetic materials has proven to ... Autori: Lidia Niculiţă ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27483
APPLICATION OF FEAHP METHOD IN NOISE PROTECTION PROJECTS SELECTION: THE CASE OF SERBIAN PUBLIC ROADS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 12 Noise is one of the most significant contemporary environmental pollutants. Sources of noise are numerous, but traffic is
undoubtedly one of the most prominent. In practice, there is a growing interest in traffic noise protection, but the selection of an
adequate solution represents quite a challenge. The purpose of this paper is to suggest an innovative approach to selecting the
optimal road noise protection solutions. The theoretical approach for public roads noise protection has been teste... Autori: Vladimir Lj. Obradovic ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27508
APPLICATION OF LANDSCAPE METRICS FOR ASSESSMENT OF LAND USE/ LAND COVER (LULC) CHANGES IN VARJIN PROTECTED AREA, IRAN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 12 Protected areas are valuable ecosystems standpoint providing various ecological processes and functions. Unfortunately, during the recent decades, population growth and human development have been changed the land use/land cover of the most protected areas in the world. Varjin Protected Area is one of the oldest protected areas. In this study, landscape metrics were used to reveal landscape patterns in Varjin Protected Area using Landsat satellite imagery from 1986, 2000 and 2010. For this purpo... Autori: Shirkou Jaafari ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27512
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PROCESSINGS BY ELECTROMAGNETIC FORMING IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 1 Reduction of environmental pollution in general, and emissions of greenhouse gases in particular, remain priorities for the sustainable development of human society. The strategies applied for designing industrial manufacturing processes were radically changed; nowadays the focus is mainly on the efficient use of energy sources. This means that at this moment there is a huge demand for innovative environmentally friendly technologies, for various industrial processing sectors. Electromagnetic fo... Autori: Dorin Luca ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27539
CLEANER AND ENERGY EFFICIENT PRODUCTION: A CASE STUDY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 1 A project called ’Cleaner Production’ is conducted in the organization of the Cleaner Production Centre of Serbia at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
The goal of the project is to perceive critical places in a company and define measures which would achieve significant financial savings and, at the same time, protect and improve the condition of the environment with minimal investment... Autori: Snezana Urosevic ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27541
POWDERED MARBLE WASTES REUSE FOR CADMIUM REMOVAL FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS UNDER DYNAMIC CONDITIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 5 A factorial design analysis was performed in order to determine the significant factors influencing cadmium removal from aqueous solutions by powdered marble wastes (PMW), using a continuous stirring tank reactor (CSTR) system. Investigated factors were initial cadmium aqueous concentration (5-30 mg L-1), PMW dosage (5-15 g L-1) and flow rate (20-40 mL min-1). Results showed that the cadmium aqueous concentration and PMW dosage were the most influencing factors on metal removal from synthetic aq... Autori: Ammar Mlayah ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27590
SEPARATION OF NATURAL MONOCYCLIC PHENOLICS USING MICELLAR ENHANCED ULTRAFILTRATION WITH A CATIONIC SURFACTANT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 6 Phenolic compounds are known as recalcitrant pollutants in many industrial wastewaters, e.g. olive mill wastewater. An efficient treatment is therefore needed before the discharge of phenol-containing wastewaters into the environment. The possibility of removing some natural occurring phenolics, namely tyrosol, p-coumaric acid and vanillic acid, by micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration (MEUF) using a cationic surfactant, cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), and polyethersulfone membranes of 20 and 50 kDa... Autori: Abdelilah El-Abbassi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27607
OPTIMIZATION OF WASTEWATER BASED MEDIA FOR BIOPOLYMERS PRODUCTION BY Rhizobium leguminosarum
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 6 The present work aimed to optimize a new economic medium for biopolymers production by Rhizobium leguminosarum. Biopolymers were poly-β-hydroxybutyrate and exopolysaccharide (EPS and PHB). They were extensively used in various industrial sectors. Statistical experimental designs and Response Surface Methodology were employed to optimize the medium components. A central composite design was applied to increase the production yield and predict the optimal values of the selected factors. An op... Autori: Mohamed Sellami ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27609
CARBON EMISSION MANAGEMENT FOR GREENING SUPPLY CHAINS AT THE OPERATIONAL LEVEL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 6 Increased concern about global warming in today’s world has led to the legislation of regulations that seek to gradually reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by industrial sectors and along their supply chains. This study focuses on the amount of carbon emitted in a two-echelon supply chain in which one supplier delivers a single product to a group of retailers and attempts are made to integrate and coordinate its different members. A mixed integer programming model is thus develo... Autori: Seyed Hesameddin Anvar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27610
EFFECTS OF OZONATION ON THE ULTRAFILTRATION OF MEAT INDUSTRY WASTEWATER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 2 Water is currently becoming a strategically important material, and the importance of water and wastewater treatment technologies is therefore increasing. Wastewater from the food industry has many special features originating from its high organic matter content. Meat industry wastewater additionally has a high fat content. We investigated the effects of ultrafiltration and ozonation, individually and in combination, for the treatment of meat industrial wastewater. Ozone gas was generated from ... Autori: Cecilia Hodúr ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27631
RE-USE OF INDUSTRIAL WASTES IN CEMENT BOUND MIXTURES FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 2 The paper describes the main results from a study of cement bound mixtures for road foundations with the aggregate matrix consisting of industrial wastes, i.e. foundry sands (FS), electric arc furnace (EAF) steel slags and bottom ash from municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI), combined in five different proportions. The laboratory investigation involved a preliminary analysis of the chemical, leaching, physical and mechanical properties of the industrial wastes, followed by a mechanical char... Autori: Marco Pasetoo ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27645
OVERVIEW OF EUROPEAN ECO-INDUSTRIAL PARKS: EVALUATION OF INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS POTENTIAL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 2 Eco-industrial parks (EIPs) and other eco-industrial developments have different histories, sizes, locations and organizational forms. In order to characterize them several classifications and models have been elaborated. In this work for the first time the existing European EIPs are overviewed with the help of four classifications. These classifications are based on (1) the stage of the development of the area, (2) the starting point, (3) the activity of the EIP and (4) the location of the comp... Autori: Ewa Liwarska-Bizukojc ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27652
RIVER DAM EFFECTS ON CUBAN FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE DEVELOPMENT WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MITIGATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 2 Dam construction in Cuba and their use for freshwater aquaculture development are explained. Some of the environmental impacts of Cuban freshwater reservoirs, particularly in fisheries, the salinization of coastal lands, and effects on marine fisheries, are reviewed and analyzed. Some argumentation and explanations given are in response to remarks on the impact of Cuban dams on species composition of reservoir fishery landings and on coastal marine fisheries. The main impacts of dams are on estu... Autori: Luis Alvarez-Lajonchčre ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27653
REUSE OF MAGNESIUM WASTES IN HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS OF A MAGNESIUM BORATE MINERAL: ADMONTITE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 3 Magnesium wastes are among the gradually ascending and therefore challenging metal wastes, which are produced by many
industrial activities. The purpose of this study is the usage of magnesium waste, a raw material in magnesium borate production by
hydrothermal synthesis. Boron sources (boric acid (H3BO3) and boron oxide (B2O3)) react with magnesium wastes in order to
synthesize the magnesium borate mineral of admontite (MgO(B2O3)3ꞏ7(H2O)). In addition to the synthesis from waste magne... Autori: Azmi Seyhun Kipcak ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27657
THE (DOMINANCE BASED) ROUGH SET APPROACH APPLIED TO AIR POLLUTION IN A HIGH RISK RATE INDUSTRIAL AREA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 3 This study presents a Rough Set Analysis (RSA) application, partially based on dominance in relation to air micro-pollution
management in an industrial place with a high environmental risk rate, such as the industrial area of Siracusa, located in the South
of Italy. This new data analysis instrument has been applied to different decisional problems in various fields with considerable
success. Therefore, it is believed that it could also be used for the environmental issue related to multi-att... Autori: Agata Matarazzo ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27663
AN INVESTIGATION ON GREYWATER TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR REUSE: RANKING BY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 3 The objective of the present study was to (i) compare different treatment options for greywater (GW) reuse, (ii) assess
the potential of treated GW for reuse, and (iii) select the optimal treatment option by using Analytic Hierarchy Process
(AHP). Raw GW was settled for 2 h. Five different treatment options were investigated simultaneously in parallel
using the same influent (settled GW). The treatment options were (1) sand filtration, (2) sand/brick bat filtration, (3)
alum coagulation/floc... Autori: Dilip Machindra Ghaitidak ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27669
INTEGRATED USE OF TWO MICROALGAL SPECIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF AQUACULTURE EFFLUENT AND BIOMASS PRODUCTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 7 One of the main challenges for the development of biomass algal system production is the high operational and capital costs for these technologies. A great opportunity to overcome these challenges may however exist in the integration of wastewater treatment with algal biomass production. The algae are used for treatment of industrial wastewater, for purification of effluent originating from livestock production, while the studies concerning the use of algae species for the treatment of aquacultu... Autori: Katya Velichkova ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27684
ANALYSIS OF COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE BOTTLED WATER IN POLAND
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 7 Bottled water (commonly called mineral) makes an important source of minerals for humans. Its consumption has been systematically rising in the highly industrialized countries, even though not every water type has appropriate health properties. As a result, drinking bottled water ought to be supported with understanding its qualities and physicochemical content.
The following article presents the results of the research into pH levels, electrical conductivity, selected inorganic anions (F-, Cl-... Autori: Rajmund Michalski ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27693
SURVEY OF INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PERFORMANCE WITH BIOLOGICAL MONITORING OF PROTOZOA IN THE INDUSTRIAL PARK OF ABADAN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 7 Industrial wastewater is of particular importance. In most wastewater treatments, physicochemical parameters are used to determine the performances which are costly while protozoa can be used as less expensive biological indicators to determine the efficiency of the treatment plant. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between protozoa and physic-chemical characteristics of the Abadan wastewater treatment industry.
Samples were collected from wastewater stabilization po... Autori: Abotaleb Bay ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27694
REMOVAL OF COPPER FROM INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER USING MANGANESE FERRITE NANOPARTICLES: EVALUATION OF EQUILIBRIUM AND KINETIC MODEL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 9 In this study, the removal of Cu(II) from real industrial wastewater, being taken from galvanotechnic industry, by means of manganese ferrite (MnFe2O4) nanoparticles (NPs) was investigated. The effects of pH, adsorbent dosage, and contact time on Cu(II) removal from wastewater were monitored using the real wastewater while the effect of initial concentration was studied on synthetic aqueous solutions. Optimal conditions were found for copper removal in this study. Cu(II) removal and adsorption c... Autori: Naim Sezgin ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27743
CHANGE OF THE GROUNDWATER QUALITY FROM INDUSTRIAL AREA ORADEA, ROMANIA, USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 9 During the years 1965-1985, a veritable industrial platform was developed in the west part of Oradea, Bihor County, Romania. It stretches on an area of 9 sq. km. and is placed in the meadow of Crisul Repede River. Throughout that period, several industrial facilities were built that lately became sources of pollution for the environment. The purpose of the present paper is to study the influence of historical stages of industrialization and restructuring of enterprises in Western Oradea, address... Autori: Tamara Romocea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27747
ECOLOGICAL RISK PREDICTION IN RELATION TO THE POTENTIAL DETRIMENTAL CONSEQUENCES AT DISPOSAL OF DIFFERENT INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 9 The ecological risk related to the wastes disposal is that attached to functioning, closure and the post-closure phases of an ecological landfill lyfe cycle. The prediction of ecological risk in each of those three phases - i.e. the manifestation and evolution of possible negative consequences of different severities for different environmental targets - is an endeavor that organizations that possess and operate those ecological landfills should consider in order to ensure the maximum protection... Autori: Lidia Kim ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27748
A STUDY OF POLLUTION IN SEDIMENTS FROM ANZALI WETLAND WITH GEO-ACCUMULATION INDEX AND ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 9 The Anzali Wetland, is located in south west of the Caspian Sea, is one of the most important aquatic ecosystems in Iran. In recent decades much domestic and industrial untreated wastewater has been deposited in the wetland. This study was done to obtain a preliminary assessment of heavy metals contamination in the wetland sediments. Tests were done to determine levels and distribution of the heavy metals Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, and Zn in surface sediment of the wetland. Results showed that averages of ... Autori: Maryam Panahandeh ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27753
EVALUATION OF ECO-EFFICIENCY BY MULTICRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS. CASE STUDY OF ECO-INNOVATED AND ECO-DESIGNED PRODUCTS FROM RECYCLABLE WASTE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 8 Until now, humanity has strived to makes efforts for warranting the economic development on a sustainable way for well-being improvement, simultaneously with resource preservation and environmental protection. The industrial production processes, which generate added value and ensure people welfare are in connection with the environment regarding resource consumption and waste generation.
In order to work on a sustainable basis, industry should attain a balance between economy, ecology and comm... Autori: Elena - Diana Comăniță ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27759
AN INTEGRATED HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION APPROACH TO MONITOR VOCs CONCENTRATIONS AND ODOUR ANNOYANCE NEAR A PETROLEUM PLANT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 10 This study aims to monitor Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and odour annoyance perceived by the exposed population living nearby a petroleum plant through an integrated high temporal resolution methodological approach. The area under investigation is considered one of the most critical industrial areas of the South of Italy (Basilicata) because of presence of the largest Italian petroleum plant, called the "Center Olio Val d'Agri" (COVA). In fact, VOCs and odours emitted from ext... Autori: Alessia Di Gilio ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27791
ASSESSING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN CONTAMINATION SOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY OF MARINE SEDIMENTS USING MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 10 Water sea pollution is influenced mainly by anthropogenic causes due to industrial and municipal activities which affect the quality of sea water, sediments and the whole ecosystem. In this paper, the correlation between contamination sources and the environmental quality of marine sediments was analyzed through multivariate analysis, in particular Principal Components Analysis (PCA), Cluster Analysis (CA) and Correlation Analysis. Considering the case study of Mar Piccolo in Taranto (Ionian Sea... Autori: Claudia Labianca ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27793
BIOSORPTION BEHAVIOR OF IMMOBILIZED Phanerochaete chrysosporium FOR HEAVY METALS REMOVAL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 12 Heavy metals are inorganic persistent pollutants with adverse health and environmental effects. In our study, self-synthesized iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles were encapsulated in the Phanerochaete chrysosporium (P. chrysosporium) hyphae. The prepared biosorbents possessed high efficiency for Pb(II) biosorption from single and binary metal systems. The maximum biosorption capacity was found to be 50.05 mg g–1 at pH 5.0. Environmental scanning electron microscope accompanied with energy d... Autori: Danlian Huang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27864
DETERMINING THE EFFICIENCY OF INVESTMENTS AND EVOLVING TEMPORAL-SPATIAL TRENDS IN ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE USING THE STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS (SFA) MODEL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 11 Environmental pollution has become a major global problem. However, despite increased environmental investment, studies have not clarified whether environmental pollution has been effectively controlled. On the basis of 1998-2014 panel data on three types of industrial waste from 31 mainland China provinces, a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model was used to estimate the input efficiency of environmental governance in China, explore the overall characteristics of input efficiency, and explor... Autori: Ye Zheng ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27862
REUSE OF THE RECYCLED NONMETALLIC FRACTION FROM WASTE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS IN PAVEMENT INDUSTRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 11 The aim of this paper was to investigate the possibility of incorporation non-metal fraction (NMF) in concrete products as a substitute for aggregate on industrial scale, while other studies are mostly based on NMF incorporation in concrete only on laboratory scale.
Mineral filler was supplemented with 5, 10, 15 and 20 wt.% NMF from waste printed circuit boards (WPCBs) and its influence on concrete quality was assessed based on compressive and tensile strength conducted on laboratory and indust... Autori: Vitomir Premur ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27857
ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING AS A RISK MANAGEMENT TOOL: CASE STUDY OF AN AUTOMOBILE AXLE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN INDIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 11 According to “polluter pays” principle, there is huge burden on the industries to remediate contaminated sites. Mergers and
acquisitions of industrial sites is a preferred mode of growth for corporations. The management of the acquiring company should
be mindful of potential environmental risks which they may inherit as part of the acquisition and take appropriate risk management
actions. If not, they may face financial, reputation and other liabilities due to the “polluter ... Autori: Shweta Gaur ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27854
BIOTREATMENT OF Cr(VI) - CONTAINING WASTEWATER MEDIATED BY INDIGENOUS BACTERIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 11 Indigenous Pseudomonas veronii 2E, Klebsiella oxytoca P2 and Klebsiella ornithinolityca 1P were tested as catalysts for the transformation of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) for Cr(VI)-containing wastewater biotreatments. The Cr(VI) biotransformation was assayed during bacterial growth and by using pre-grown quiescent cells. Proof of the unsuitability of a biotreatment based on Cr(VI)-reduction during bacterial growth was found: the reduction rate and the maximum Cr(VI) concentration able to be reduced were t... Autori: Mauricio Javier Alessandrello ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27853
FLUE GAS DEDUSTING IN VENTURI SCRUBBERS AT THERMAL POWER PLANTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 11 In this paper, an improved engineering model and analysis techniques are presented of the fly ash particles coagulation with droplets in Venturi tubes of industrial scale, based on spatial variation of the collection efficiency of particles on individual droplets, accounting for spray water flow polydispersity and particle size distribution, which allows to define optimal droplets size and spray water flow rate at different modes of thermal power units operation. The model is validated with the ... Autori: Igor Volchyn ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27836
A REVIEW ON OCCURRENCE, MEASUREMENT, TOXICITY AND TANNIN REMOVAL PROCESSES FROM WASTEWATERS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 1 A wide range and globally active agro-industries such as olive oil processing, winery, tannery, textile and food production discharge
a large volume of wastewater containing tannins. Tannins are complex structured chemicals which cause high organic content,
requiring high dissolved oxygen in wastewater treatment plants or producing oxygen depletion in the aquatic environment. Tannins
are known to be hardly degraded in biological treatment. There has been evidence that the presence of natural ... Autori: Giusy Lofrano ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27885
CACTUS JUICE PREPARATIONS AS BIOFLOCCULANT: PROPERTIES, CHARACTERISTICS AND APPLICATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 1 In this study, the flocculating properties of different cactus juice preparations were assessed using synthetic and real industrial and
leachate wastewaters. It was found that the crude CJ had a flocculating activity (FA) of 89 ± 2.2% which is significantly higher
than that of a powdery sample derived from a 60°C oven-dried CJ sample and which was about 37.8 ± 2.5%. Interestingly, both
crude and dried samples showed the ability to flocculate kaolin suspensions within a wide ... Autori: Moncef Khadhraoui ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27887
A MULTI -AGENT SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND ANALYZING THE AIR QUALITY INDEX
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 1 There has been an increasingly awareness over the environmental impact of human activities, along with the exponential industrial
growth, over the last decades. One of the negative important issues is the air pollution and its impact over the human health in
recent years. Therefore, there have been initiated several laws and projects in order to monitor, analyze and forecast the evolution
of the most important air pollutants. In this paper, it have been designed a multi agent system based mod... Autori: Elia Georgiana Dragomir ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27888
MULTI-OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS FOR THE SELECTION OF A SUSTAINABLE GREYWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 1 Greywater reuse is widely accepted as a suitable response to the increasing demand of fresh water in urban areas. On the other
hand, strict environmental regulations have obligated the development and implementation of membrane separation technologies
for production of municipal potable water, in industrial water supply and in wastewater treatment. Potential energy crisis in the
future has highlighted the importance of using renewable source of energy for membrane separation processes. This r... Autori: Mohammad Ramezanianpour ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27889
A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NEXUS BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING AND MARKET PERFORMANCE OF EUROPEAN COMPANIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 1 The paper aims to carry out a cross-country analysis of the effects of environmental reporting on company’s market performance.
For this purpose, we have used a set of data comprising information on industrial companies ranked in top 150 by net sales for the
year 2017 and originating from 15 European countries, for the period 2007-2016. The study included both environmental qualitative
reporting based on environmental scores calculated by the authors, and reporting combining qualitative... Autori: Maria Carmen Huian ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27897
CONCEPTION OF A MASTER DEGREE PROGRAM IN SOLAR ENERGY: INFRASTRUCTURE, STRUCTURE AND RESULTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 2 Sustainable development is a key issue for the modern world economy. A solution for reducing the impact of carbon dioxide
emissions on climate change and for compensating depletion of conventional energy resources relies on green economy and
renewable energy. Polytechnic University Timisoara has a pioneering role in research and applications of solar energy to industrial
and residential systems in Romania. The "Renewable Energies - Solar Energy" master program has been introduced fo... Autori: Ioan Luminosu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27901
OUTSOURCING ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE FACTORS INFLUENCING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 2 Recent studies have demonstrated how buyers can influence the environmental performance of suppliers. However, although
industrial waste accounts for much of the waste generated in the west, little is known about how industrial waste is managed
downstream. We present an analysis of the drivers influencing the decision to opt for waste-to-recovery rather than disposal
facilities. The drivers were investigated by a questionnaire survey. Findings show that the manufacturing industry is more like... Autori: Natalia Marzia Gusmerotti ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27915
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY CONDITIONS IN SMALL MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES OF IRON FURNITURE MANUFACTURING UNITS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 3 This study was planned to identify factors which affect workers health and their safe working in unregistered and partially registered
small iron units preparing 90- 95 % iron furniture under sheds. Focused group discussions (FGD) were conducted among workers
of iron furniture manufacturing units (IFMU) employing a cross sectional, descriptive, analytic and time limited study. Personal
interviews methodology was adopted to assess workers for their exposure to occupational risks, protective eq... Autori: Saima Aslam Bharwana ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27925
COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION MODEL FOR DYE ADSORPTION IN NANO TIO2 FILM FOR THE APPLICATIONS IN DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 3 The theoretical and computational studies of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) can contribute to a deeper understanding of these
types of solar cells. The DSSCs are the novel design of solar cells which could be used as power producing windows or skylights.
They represent a particular promising approach to a direct conversion of sunlight into electrical energy at low cost and with high
efficiency. The light adsorption occurs in dye molecules adsorbed on a highly porous structure of TiO2 film... Autori: Nnditshedzeni Eric Maluta ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27932
ADSORPTION OF PHENOL ON ADSORBENTS PRODUCED FROM COCONUT TREE WASTE: KINETIC AND EQUILIBRIUM STUDIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 3 Agro-industrial waste are seen as potential precursors in the development of adsorbents for the removal of phenolic compounds,
which exhibit a harmful effect to human health due to their high toxicity. This work evaluated the use of coal prepared from coconut
tree agro-industrial waste, for the adsorption of phenol in aqueous solutions. Three coal samples were prepared as follows:
carbonized only (Cb), activated with synthetic air (Cair) and activated with CO2 (CCO2). Based on the results of ... Autori: Marta Duarte ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27937
APPLICATION OF MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES IN WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF DANUBE RIVER, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 3 Multivariate statistical methods such as factor analysis (FA) and cluster analysis (CA) were applied to identify the main factors
and pollution sources affecting on the water quality of Danube River and to evaluate spatial and temporal similarities or
dissimilarities among the sampling sites and monitoring periods. Water quality of 14 parameters has been considered in four
sampling stations during 1 year period. The results of factor analysis specified three factors representing 64.369% of th... Autori: Alhassan H. Ismail ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27939
ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE: HEALTH AND POLICY - AN UP TO DATE MINIREVIEW
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 3 Noise is considered as an ”unpleasant sound”. Since ancient times noise was perceived like a disruptive element. In the last three
centuries, particularly in industrialized countries, the noise became a major public health issue, especially for the hearing system.
The harmful effects of noise are felt not only by the hearing system, but also by other systems (cardiovascular, central nervous
system by affecting sleep and cognition) and it was recently pinpointed that the immune sys... Autori: Bogdan Cobzeanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27942
Environmental engineering and Management Journal No. 3
› Vol. 14 › Nr. 4 • ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN NORTH-EASTERN ROMANIA A TRIGGER FACTOR FOR LYME DISEASE
• HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR EVOLUTION IN GEOTHERMAL GROUNDWATER IN YIZHANG, HUNAN PROVINCE, CHINA
• CONSTRUCTION OF A BIOGAS HEAT STORAGE GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM UNDER THE CONTEXT OF WATER POLLUTION RESULTING FROM LIVESTOCK BREEDING
• ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE: HEALTH AND POLICY - AN UP TO DATE MINIREVIEW &nb... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27946
Environmental engineering and Management Journal No. 3
› Vol. 14 › Nr. 4 • ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN NORTH-EASTERN ROMANIA A TRIGGER FACTOR FOR LYME DISEASE
• HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR EVOLUTION IN GEOTHERMAL GROUNDWATER IN YIZHANG, HUNAN PROVINCE, CHINA
• CONSTRUCTION OF A BIOGAS HEAT STORAGE GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM UNDER THE CONTEXT OF WATER POLLUTION RESULTING FROM LIVESTOCK BREEDING
• ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE: HEALTH AND POLICY - AN UP TO DATE MINIREVIEW &nb... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27947
CONTINUOUS INVASIVE MONITORING TECHNOLOGY FOR DETERMINATION OF AIR VELOCITY AT THE LEVEL OF MAIN VENTILATION STATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 4 Proper functioning of the main ventilation station depends on the mining network’s degree of ventilation. Also, knowledge of
changes in instantaneous aerodynamic parameters offers the possibility of taking operational measures necessary to maintain
optimal health and safety in the underground. The objective of the present paper is to identify a new method of monitoring the
aerodynamic parameters at the main ventilation station.
... Autori: Emeric Chiuzan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27949
PARTICULATE MATTERS GENERATED BY CAPRISOARA TAILING POND AND THEIR IMPACT ON AIR QUALITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 4 Analyzing and reducing the possible effects of air pollution on human health became important issues for improving the quality of
life in urban areas. Particulate matters (PM) are air pollutants with a potential important impact on the health of vulnerable people
(e.g., children, elderly) and non-vulnerable people as well. The level of PM air pollution is mainly influenced by the PM
concentration and by parameters such as the meteorological conditions and the synergic effects of other air pol... Autori: Adrian Florea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27951
NEW TOOLS FOR ESTIMATING THE EXTENT OF HAZARDOUS AREAS GENERATED BY GAS LEAK EXPLOSIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 4 The current paper is an overview on previous and ongoing research carried out by the authors concerning the use of Computational
Fluid Dynamics for the accurate classification of hazardous Ex areas generated by flammable gases, for the optimization of
computational simulation of air-methane mixture explosions by using ANSYS CFX and FLUENT and for calibrating computational
simulations of gas explosions using the Schlieren effect. These research works containing analytic studies have led to the... Autori: Vlad Mihai Păsculescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27962
INFLUENCE OF PYROPHORIC SULPHIDES OVER THE FLAMMABILITY PARAMETERS OF LIQUIDS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 4 Fire and explosion prevention requires the knowledge of the explosive or flammability parameters of combustible gases and vapours
that can be found in industrial and civil environments, as well as the influence of certain substances in the process on these
parameters. In some cases, pyrophoric sulphides can be formed and it is supposed that they may influence the known flammability
parameters of the substances used in various industrial processes.
In order to track the influence of iron sulp... Autori: Maria Prodan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27963
MODELLING THE SOURCE TERM FOR POLLUTANTS GENERATED FROM GALVANIC CELLS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 4 Being able to estimate the quantity of pollutants that can be spread in the environment is a factor of paramount importance in the
industrial panorama. In order to accomplish such aim, a crucial step is the estimation of the so-called source term, that is the rate of
generation (or release) of a substance in a generic process. A proper estimation requires to consider both the machinery and the unit
operations present into the analysed system. For such reasons, ad hoc considerations and models... Autori: Marco Barozzi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27964
Environmental engineering and Management Journal No. 3
› Vol. 14 › Nr. 6 • ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN NORTH-EASTERN ROMANIA A TRIGGER FACTOR FOR LYME DISEASE
• HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR EVOLUTION IN GEOTHERMAL GROUNDWATER IN YIZHANG, HUNAN PROVINCE, CHINA
• CONSTRUCTION OF A BIOGAS HEAT STORAGE GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM UNDER THE CONTEXT OF WATER POLLUTION RESULTING FROM LIVESTOCK BREEDING
• ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE: HEALTH AND POLICY - AN UP TO DATE MINIREVIEW &nb... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27968
EXPERIMENTING RIGID AND ELASTIC CLAMPING METHODS OF ACOUSTIC SCREENS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 12 The paper investigated a series of acoustic waves propagation modes in closed environments. Also, a series of experiments have been conducted in order to reduce noise with the help of acoustic screens. Screening a source of noise in an industrial enclosure has revealed a series of results described in our research. There have been used two methods of clamping the acoustic screens walls on a metal frame: rigid and elastic. The acoustic screens used in the experiments were made of Oriented Strand ... Autori: Claudia Tomozei ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27969
HEAVY METALS AND OTHER TRACE ELEMENTS IN THE BLOOD AND BREAST MILK FROM TWO DIFFERENT ROMANIAN AREAS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 12 In order to highlight the impact of environmental pollution for Romanian nursing mothers we evaluated the concentration of heavy metals and trace elements in their blood and breast milk. The evaluation was done taking into account the pollution level of mother’s residence: Bucharest (an industrial and heavy transited town, identified as the highly polluted area) and a small town (without industrial plants, identified as less polluted area). The determination of heavy metals and trace eleme... Autori: Larisa Prioteasa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27973
BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF WASTEWATER CONTAMINATED WITH Cu(II), Fe(II) AND Mn(II) USING Ludwigia stolonifera AQUATIC PLANT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 6 The release of metals from many industrial processes into aquatic ecosystems is currently a major environmental threat, especially
in developing and emerging countries. Most traditional treatment approaches are not efficient in terms of removal yield and cost.
Plants have the ability to stabilize metals in a fast and cost-efficient way. In this context, aquatic plants are successfully applied for
remediation of hazardous elements from industrial wastewater. This study demonstrates the capabil... Autori: Hosam M. Saleh ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28020
THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN REDUCING CO2 EMISSIONS: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 6 Based on the dynamic panel data from 29 administrative regions in China over the period of 2003-2013, we applied GMM system
method to the analysis of the relationship between financial development, economic growth and CO2 emissions. Empirical analysis
indicates that economic growth is usually accompanied by higher CO2 emissions, while the increasing level of final development is
associated with a reduction in CO2 emissions. Further analysis shows that the relationship between financial develo... Autori: Shushu Li ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28023
STUDY ON PREDICTION MODEL OF SPACE-TIME DISTRIBUTION OF AIR POLLUTANTS BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 7 Along with the development of industrialization and urbanization, the pollution of the atmosphere increases and the air quality
decreases gradually, especially in the developed regions such as Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei in China. The frequent occurrence of
haze leads to the decrease of visibility day by day, which causes great inconvenience to people’s mind and body. Therefore, an indepth
study of regional weather quality impact factors can improve the air quality in the regions, which ... Autori: Zhuang Wu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28043
WASTE TONER POWDER IN CONCRETE INDUSTRY: AN APPROACH TOWARDS CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 9 Substantial quantities of toner cartridges are produced and used in photocopiers and printers every year. Spent toner cartridges are classified as hazardous waste because they contain toner powder with specific chemical composition, making a recovery of waste toner cartridges a very important issue from the aspect of waste management and environmental protection. Spent toner cartridges are mechanically processed to exploit valuable materials such as metals, plastics and magnets and to separate t... Autori: Ivana Melnjak ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28053
DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF BIOPLASTICS FROM Hermetia illucens prepupae PROTEINS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 10 Proteins from Hermetia illucens (or Black Soldier Fly, BSF) have been employed in this study as possible source for bioplastic formulation. This type of bioplastic can replace the actual materials employed in agriculture, avoiding the critical issues concerning the soil pollution due to conventional plastic end-life. Different plasticizing agents (glycerol and polyethylene glycol) have been tested and the ability to generate a homogenous film, through wet casting, has been evaluated. Characteriz... Autori: Silvia Barbi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28074
NITROGEN AND Escherichia coli REMOVAL IN FACULTATIVE FINISHING LAGOONS RECEIVING TREATED URBAN WASTEWATER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 10 The scarcity of water resources, especially in the agricultural sector, is an increasing problem both in developing and industrialized countries. Recent studies and reports have shown the high potential of wastewater reuse mostly in South European countries. In this paper, we study the possibility to reuse wastewater from the Santerno full-scale wastewater treatment plant located in Imola (Bologna, Italy). Specific monitoring campaigns have been carried out in Basin 1 of the natural finishing tr... Autori: Carmine Fiorentino ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28085
CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND UPCYCLING OF WASTE AND PRE-CONSUMER SCRAPS IN CONSTRUCTION SECTOR. THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TO FACILITATE THE EXCHANGE OF RESOURCES THROUGH A VIRTUAL MARKETPLACE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 10 The activities connected with the construction sector are responsible for several environmental impacts, both in the construction sector, and in the many manufacturing sectors involved in the supply chain of materials and products (mining sector, manufacturing sector, waste treatment etc.). The building products have a marked cross-sectorial connotation, according to the ANCE 2016 report, 31 economic sectors out of 36 are suppliers in the construction sector. One of the possibilities to reduce t... Autori: Marco Migliore ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28090
EFFECTS OF CHINAS REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE ADJUSTMENT ON CARBON EMISSION TRANSFER BASED ON GRAVITY MODEL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 11 In China, there exist major differences in both the energy consumption and industrial structure between provinces and cities, leading to carbon emission transfer. Based on inter-provincial trade and industrial transfer, this paper measures the carbon emission transfer of China's sub-sectors and cities in 2007 and 2010 using the inter-provincial input-output model. The results show that, carbon dioxide transfers from economically developed regions and regions with a single industrial structur... Autori: Yawei Qi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28106
HEAVY METALS TRANSPORT FROM WASTEWATER SPILLS INTO A COASTAL AQUIFER AND SEAWATER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 12 Wastewater generated from industrial activities has delivered elevated heavy metal concentrations into fresh and salted aqueous systems. Herein, the migrated trace metals were studied from their initial location through a coastal aquifer up to the seawater. The experiments were carried out at lab scale using a sandbox with glass beads and two attached chambers containing natural groundwater and seawater. The study focused on the transport behaviour of heavy metals such as copper, zinc and lead i... Autori: Abdelkader Tawfeek Ahmed ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28111
COMPARATIVE STUDIES REGARDING MOLYBDATE ADSORPTION ONTO MgnFe LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES OBTAINED FROM REAGENT AND WASTE SLUDGE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 2 Molybdate anions are used in a lot of fields and represent an essential trace element for plant and animal life; however, excessive amounts can cause adverse effect on various organism and environment. Therefore, in the present paper the adsorption performance of MgnFe- layered double hydroxides in the removal process of molybdate from aqueous solutions was studied. The layered double hydroxide (LDH) was synthesized by co-precipitation at low oversaturation method. Different ratio between Mg and... Autori: Alin Golban ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28152
CONGO RED REMOVAL FROM AQUEOUS EFFLUENTS BY ADSORPTION ON CHERRY STONES ACTIVATED CARBON
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 2 Soluble dyes are intensively used in various industrial activities. They represent an important class of water pollutants from which they are rather difficult to remove. This paper focusses on the elimination of Congo Red (CR) ionic azo dye by adsorption on a low cost material. Cherry stones were used for activated carbon preparation by carbonization method. A temperature of 600 °C and a time of 4 h were found as adequate parameters for the physical activation and led to a final white powder... Autori: Cristina-Gabriela Grigoraș ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28153
PROCESS WATER TREATMENT IN A THERMAL POWER PLANT: CHARACTERISTICS AND SEDIMENT/SLUDGE DISPOSAL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 2 The industrial water quality of a thermal power plant is of high importance, and a process water treatment station being always required. Whatever the adopted treatment system is, it is accompanied by the production of different amounts of sediment and sludge, which must be disposed and valorized. This paper presents in detail, the physical-chemical treatment system applied for the industrial water production in a Romanian thermal power plant (Veolia Energy Iasi Co.), referring to its installati... Autori: Dorina StÄnciulescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28154
THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF HEAVY METALS PRECIPITATION FOR THEIR RECOVERY FROM INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 2 This work seeks to develop a suitable heavy metals precipitation modeling approach that could give reasonable results in mainstream use with industrial wastewater treatment. This paper is devoted to the thermodynamic analysis of the degree of precipitation of slightly soluble hydroxides and salts in industrial wastewaters in order to optimize the technological schemes of extraction and reuse
of heavy metals from industrial waste. Based on the notion of the solubility product, the equations desc... Autori: Igor Povar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28156
PACKED COLUMN SIMULATION FOR CO2 CHEMISORPTION IN ACTIVATED SOLUTIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 2 Apart of new equipment’s development such as absorption columns with higher efficiency, for chemical industry, there is a strong need for greenhouse gases reduction in order to assure the environmental protection and, consequently, many studies regarding the purification methods of exhausted gases have been performed. There are several types of reactors used for gases purification, such as: bubbling jet reactor, combined packed and spray tower absorber, cable wet scrubber and packed column... Autori: Elisabeta Droniuc Hultuana ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28160
OLEFINS AND FUELS FROM FRYING PALM OIL THROUGH PYROLYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 2 The pyrolysis of frying palm oil was studied in continuous stationary process, in a micropilot plant. The main factors affecting the products yields are temperature and residence time. For the studied parameters range (temperature: 475oC - 630oC and residence time: 120 s- 240 s), the gas yield varied between 7.9% (w/w) and 63.3% (w/w), related to feed. Unsaturated hydrocarbon yields (olefins) can reach 24-29% (w/w) related to feed, at the right processing parameters, the main products having goo... Autori: Ana Maria Sivriu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28162
AIR POLLUTION BY HEAVY METALS FROM PETROCHEMICAL INCINERATORS: MEASUREMENT AND DISPERSION MODELLING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 3 Distribution of solid particles in the atmosphere around the pollution sources has an important role in decision making to oppose with air pollutants. This study reports the concentration and distribution of 11 heavy metals including Cu, Co, Ni, Cd, V, Ti, Mo, Cr, Pb, As, and Hg emitted from 6 incinerators (A to F) with various feeds and operating conditions to determine the extent of exposure for industrial and residential areas. These incinerators located at Petrochemical Special Economic Zone... Autori: Akbar Pirbadali-Somarin ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28166
STATISTICAL APPROACH OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING AT LOCAL LEVEL: CASE STUDY IAĹI CITY, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 3 Environmental quality is directly influenced by the level of pollution generated by economic, industrial or anthropogenic activities and directly affect the citizens’ life quality and wellbeing, and ensuring a good status of environment it is a stringent topic that must become the major interest for the local public authorities. The main goal of this study is to evaluate the environmental quality in Iasi city, how the overall quality is influenced by the level of pollution and what are the... Autori: Silviu Petru Grecu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28180
IMPACT OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 4 Since the era of the Industrial Revolution, energy consumption has considerably increased. As a consequence, a significant rise in greenhouse gas emissions has become a serious threat to environmental sustainability through climatic changes, global warming, natural disasters and pollution. In this context, increasing energy efficiency as well as the use of renewable energy can serve as important instruments for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The related literature has thus far generally ... Autori: Yilmaz Bayar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28185
SUGARCANE BAGASSE BIOMASS APPLIED TO THE ADSORPTION OF REACTIVE BLUE BB DYE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 6 The textile industry has been contributing to the generation of wastewater containing dyes during the dyeing process. In this sector,
Reactive Blue BB is a dye used on a large scale. One method widely applied to dyes wastewater treatment is adsorption. This
technique is inexpensive since it can apply industrial by-products as adsorbents. In this work, the adsorption of Reactive Blue BB
dye by the sugarcane bagasse, a by-product from the sugar and alcohol industry, was evaluated in batch syste... Autori: Handria Hariane Piffer ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28226
FAST REMOVAL OF MALACHITE GREEN FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS USING HIGHLY HYDROPHOBIC WATERâDISPERSIBLE MAGNETIC NANOCOMPOSITE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 7 Release of dyes without performing adequate treatment into the water can lead to environmental risk and serious health problems. The development of effective and economic adsorbent materials for the removal of dyes from industrial wastewaters has gained great consideration in recent years. In the present study, a novel bio-based nanocomposite has been developed for ultrasoundassisted
adsorption of malachite green (MG) from aqueous solutions. The synthesized adsorbent consisting of both hydropho... Autori: Mohsen Nekoeinia ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28232
SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS ANALYSIS ON THE CONVERGENCE OF LOW-CARBON ECONOMIC GROWTH EFFICIENCY IN THE YANGTZE RIVER ECONOMIC BELT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 7 Based on the panel data of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in 1998-2016, this paper carries out a spatial econometrics analysis on the convergence of low-carbon economic growth efficiency (LCEGE) in the Belt. The main results are as follows: there are huge provincial differences in the LCEGE across the Belt; the spatial autocorrelation (Global Moran’s I) test shows a significant spatial correlation of the LCEGE, with an obvious regional spatial clustering effect; considering the spatial ef... Autori: Hualei Ju ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28235
ANALYZING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT QUALITY STATE AND EVOLUTION BASED ON A MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 7 The paper is focused on the integrated modelling of environmental quality. It shows how we can use multi-criteria decision analysis to study some aspects about the environmental quality status in a region and its evolution during a certain period of time. The global analysis is created by taking into account the concurrent contributions of different factors such as air quality, drinking-water quality
and noise pollution, on the quality of the environment people live in. We propose an indicator,... Autori: Luminita Grecu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28246
HEURISTICS FOR NOISE-SAFE JOB-ROTATION PROBLEMS CONSIDERING LEARNING-FORGETTING AND BOREDOM-INDUCED JOB DISSATISFACTION EFFECTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 8 In mitigating occupational hazards, there is often a need to use administrative controls such as job rotation over a prolonged period until the hazards can be eliminated or mitigated to safe levels. This research develops a noise-safe job-rotation optimization model that accounts for learning, forgetting, and boredom effects. Our analysis focuses on the case of human-paced and labor-intensive
operations, considering the trade-off between safety and productivity. A case of multi-skilled workers ... Autori: Pavinee Rerkjirattikal ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28256
DIFFERENCES IN CARBON EMISSION LEVELS AND INFLUENCING FACTORS IN THE LOGISTICS INDUSTRY OF BEIJING-TIANJIN-HEBEI REGION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 9 As one of China’s fastest growing regions, Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (B-T-H), which contains one of the most intensive logistics networks in China, developed rapidly from 2005 to 2016. However, such growth also led to increases in energy consumption and carbon emissions. From 2005 to 2011, the growth rate of logistics carbon emissions in the B-T-H was maintained at 8%–10%. Subsequently, owing to policies and technological progress related to energy saving and emission reducti... Autori: Jianfeng Zhao ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28274
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS WITH CARBON FOOTPRINTS IN CHINA: CONSIDERING THE INDUSTRY HETEROGENEITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 9 Environmental pollution is an anthropogenic phenomenon as a consequence of the industrialization process. Therefore, the balance among energy-economy-pollution performance becomes increasingly important. However, industry heterogeneity exists in the economic system, which makes industry performance differences. This paper focuses on the industrial performance evaluation in China based on the green input-output accounting. For the industrial heterogeneity, a four-stage dynamic Malmquist model is ... Autori: Xinna Zhao ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28275
ENTERPRISE GROWTH MODEL: âPOLLUTIONâ OR âENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONâ
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 9 The micro-evidence of the relationship between environmental protection and economic growth is still at the level of descriptive research and case analysis, and it is difficult to reflect the overall relationship between environmental pollution status and enterprise development models. This paper analyzes the sales growth model of industrial enterprises in Hubei Province by using micro data of industrial enterprise observations in 2004 and industrial sales growth rates of 2005-2009, and analyzes... Autori: Yan Hua Zhang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28280
DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CONTROLLED RELEASE PK FERTILIZERS FROM AGRO-RESIDUES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 10 The aim of this study is to design and characterize a new controlled release fertilizers category by using valorization of residues from agri-food, industrial and post consumers activities normally allocated into landfill disposal. The underlying strategy in materials research fully agreed with the circular economy perspective and the more recent European legislation about critical raw materials recovering. This study covers the development of lightweight aggregates, based on a local red clay (k... Autori: Silvia Barbi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28286
HOW TO TURN CAR FLUFF PROBLEM INTO AN OPPORTUNITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 10 Car fluff is an important problem for the industrial compartment, especially for Italy, considering the huge amount of waste produced by the automotive sector, approx. 180.000 ton/year. Although car fluff (CER 191004) is suitable for CSS-Combustible production,
with destination to cement factories, a very low amount of it reaches this destination.
An alternative way to transform this problem into an opportunity consists into the transformation of bioliquid after its thermochemical transformati... Autori: Ivana Moscato ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28289
OPEN SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPPORTING BLUE GROWTH
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 10 The long-term EU strategy to support the sustainable growth of the marine and maritime sectors (Blue Growth) involves economic and ecological topics that call for new computer science systems to produce new knowledge after processing large amounts of data
(Big Data), collected both at academic and industrial levels. Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can satisfy the Blue Growth strategy requirements by managing Big Data, but requires effective multi-disciplinary interaction between scientists.... Autori: Gianpaolo Coro ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28292
AUTOMOTIVE RECYCLING: A CIRCULAR ECONOMY CENTRE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 10 Every year 93 billion tonnes of raw materials are consumed, but only 9% of them are reused: a potential of about 3 trillion dollars worldwide, 88 billion in Italy, according to Growth Within: A Circular Economy Vision for a Competitive Europe by Ellen
MacArthur Foundation with McKinsey. A vehicle is potentially recoverable, in its components for more than 95%, an industrialised process of treatment of end-life vehicles
(ELVs). Optimising raw material recovery is currently possible and advantag... Autori: Luca Pomili ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28295
FIELD APPLICATION OF A REAGENT FOR IN SITU CHEMICAL REDUCTION AND ENHANCED REDUCTIVE DICHLORINATION TREATMENT OF AN AQUIFER CONTAMINATED WITH TETRACHLOROETHYLENE (PCE), TRICHLOROETHYLENE, 1,1-DICHLOROETHYLENE, DICHLOROPROPANE AND 1,1,2,2-TETRACHLOROETHANE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 10 Groundwater at an abandoned industrial area near Bergamo, Italy, was historically contaminated by tetrachloroethylene (PCE) (>100 μg/L) and, to a lesser extent, by trichlorethylene (TCE), dichloropropane (DP) and 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane (R-130). A
liquid reagent (EHC® Liquid) was selected for remediation of groundwater at the site. The reagent is provided in two parts: EHC® Liquid Mix (a soluble organo-iron salt), and ELS® Microemulsion (a lecithin-based carbon substrate), a... Autori: Alberto Leombruni ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28300
EXPLOITING THE POTENTIAL OF POLYETHYLENE MECHANICAL RECYCLING: ECONOMIC AND SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 10 Plastic and circular economy are key words that characterize our present and seek to address the future of the global social economic system. Plastic, on the one hand, is the emblem of modern times, a low cost material with unparalleled functional properties. Circular economy, on the other hand defines an alternative model to traditional economy that focuses on sustainability. In this work, the author presents a case study relating to a virtuous example of circular economy applied to the industr... Autori: Leonardo Mita ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28301
CITRUS AS A MULTIFUNCTIONAL CROP TO PROMOTE NEW BIO-PRODUCTS AND VALORIZE THE SUPPLY CHAIN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 10 Citrus is one of the most important fruit tree crops worldwide, with respect to both total production and economic value. About 80% of the world production is destined to the fresh market, the remaining is processed to obtain various products (juices, jams, etc.). Citrus processing residues account for about 50-60% of processed fruits; their huge amounts and peculiar characteristics need a correct management that imply cost for producers and processors. If not well managed, they can represent an... Autori: Paola Sangiorgio ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28309
LIGNINOLYTIC ENZYME SYSTEM OF WHITE-ROT FUNGI: A NATURAL APPROACH TO BIOREMEDIATION AND DETOXIFICATION OF AZO DYES IN TEXTILE WASTEWATER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 11 In the wake of advance industrialization, the intensive growth of modern textile production and inappropriate wastewater treatment strategies have led to the release of noxious and carcinogenic contaminants like azo dyes directly or indirectly into the environment.
Therefore, to ensure the protection of the humankind and natural bionetwork, cost-effective and efficiently regulated control measures are necessary. On this account, recent developments in biotechnology and microbiology have driven ... Autori: Geetanjali Rajhans ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28318
OPTIMIZATION OF THE ELECTRO-FENTON PROCESS FOR COD REDUCTION FROM REFINERY WASTEWATER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 11 This study shows the results of the experimental investigation of refinery wastewater treatment by the electro-Fenton process. The experiments were designed using Taguchi design approach with an orthogonal array (OA) of L16 runs. Four process variables
(current density (CD), temperature (T), Fe2+ concentration (Fe2+), and time (t)) at four different levels were considered for the present design. Regression analysis was performed to predict a correlation for the response function (chemical oxyge... Autori: Zainab I. Abbas ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28322
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RESEARCH COLLABORATION FOR EXTENDING LIFE CYCLE OF MATERIALS IN THE CONTEXT OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 11 This paper addresses the direct transfer of knowledge from university to manufacturing industrial sector, providing solutions to transform production/manufacturing waste into resources and closing loops in the process according to circular economy values. For this purpose, eco-innovation and eco-design were selected and discussed in order to be applied as tools to support knowledge transfer in the context of circular economy. These tools are focused on the re-design of process and products found... Autori: Petronela Cozma ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28328 |