Shrestha, Sunita Baral, Badri Dhital, Narayan Babu Yang, Hsi-Hsien
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Sustainable Environment Research
Vegetation traffic barriers along roads can be an effective structure to improve roadside air quality and to reduce human exposure to traffic air pollutants. However, the selection of the plant species should be considered as an important design parameter for vegetation traffic barriers because different plant species demonstrate different levels o...
Menon, Soumya Agarwal, Happy Shanmugam, Venkat Kumar
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Sustainable Environment Research
The release of textile dyes from the industries to the environment has become a significant health issue to humans and their surroundings, where a large number of dyes are wasted to the nearby water during the dyeing process. Therefore, the practice of the utilization of biosynthesized nanoparticles from numerous biological systems has been describ...
Richard, Edwin N. Hilonga, Askwar Machunda, Revocatus L. Njau, Karoli N.
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Sustainable Environment Research
The municipal solid wastes (MSW) management technologies in most cities of developing countries pose a continuous risk of contaminating the environment and affecting human health adversely; often because MSW technologies are not comprehensively analyzed before their implementation. For this purpose, the life cycle assessment methodology was applied...
Okpara, Donatus A. Kharlamova, Marianna Grachev, Vladimir
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Sustainable Environment Research
Inadequate collection and improper disposal of municipal waste have a direct negative impact on cities. Disease occurrence in Obio-Akpor (Port Harcourt metropolis, Nigeria) was suspected and linked to the proliferation of dumpsites and proximity to residential households. Evidence showed frequent incidence of diseases outbreak coupled with the topo...
Kristianto, Hans Reynaldi, Edwin Prasetyo, Susiana Sugih, Asaf K.
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Natural coagulants from plants resources have gained a lot of attention as it is renewable, biodegradable, non-hazardous, lower cost, and less sludge generated compared to chemical coagulants. However there are still some drawbacks, namely long settling time and possible increase of dissolved organic carbon in the treated water. In this paper we tr...
Calderon, Sandy L. Avelino, Pilar García Baena-Moncada, Angélica María Paredes-Doig, Ana Lucía La Rosa-Toro, Adolfo
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This study is focused on electrical energy generation in a double-compartment microbial fuel cell. Carbon felt impregnated with multi-walled carbon nanotubes was used as an anode, which contained gold nanoparticles and Shewanella spp. grown under aerobic conditions was used as a biocatalyst. The electrodes, used before and after biofilm growth, wer...
Sikdar, Dolanchapa Goswami, Sudipta Das, Papita
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The present work determines efficiency of domestic food waste like tea waste in removing indigo carmine from synthetic textile wastewater. Carbonaceous material (tea waste) has been employed and it showed removal percentage of indigo carmine at 90% through adsorption process. Carbonaceous material was chemically activated by using modified Hummer’s...
Yang, Hsi-Hsien Gupta, Sunil Kumar Dhital, Narayan Babu
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Manufacturing industries are one of the important emission sectors of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In this study, VOC emission factors, relative ozone formation potential (ROFP) and relative carcinogenic risk (RCR) were estimated for manufacturing industries (n = 13) located in central Taiwan. Emission samples were collected in ...
Ilyas, Sidra Bukhari, Dilara A. Rehman, Abdul
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In the present study a yeast strain isolated from industrial wastewater, identified as Candida tropicalis, showed chromium (Cr) tolerance level up to 5 mM. Yeast grown in minimal salt medium containing Cr (VI) ions for 48 h and crude enzyme extracts were tested for chromate reductase activity. Optimum temperature and pH of chromate reductase were 3...
Puchongkawarin, Channarong Mattaraj, Supatpong
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Sustainable Environment Research
The main objective of this study is to develop a decision-making tool for the design of the optimal municipal solid waste (MSW) facilities based on superstructure optimization. Currently, the disposal of MSW is a major problem due to the lack of awareness of the negative impacts resulting from dumping MSW into the environment. This poses a challeng...
