It is commonly recognized that knowledge is the only source of core competence of Environmental Projects in the knowledge based companies, but the productivity rate of knowledge workers is always Low. Based on knowledge ...

Asbestos applications were limited during past two decades in developed nations due to its debilitating health problems, while in developing countries it's various usages continues. The main goals of present study were ...

The market for carbon dioxide rights emerged as one of the tools applicable to the implementation of the measures adopted by the Kyoto Protocol to combat climate change. In this paper we analyze the case of Spain, because ...

The continuous addition of industrial, municipal, and agricultural effluents to the environment has led to a great increase of toxic pollutants. It is well known that these pollutants are hazardous to animals, plants, ...

This study presents a comparison between aluminum and iron plate electrodes on phosphate removal from aqueous solutions by electrocoagulation process. The effectiveness of main operational parameters such as initial pH, ...

Urban design and landscape Architecture are considered as modern Art (knowledge) which are developed through integration of various Art and science fields of studies. Formal emergence of urban design in 60s and landscape ...

This study aims at evaluating the completeness of the content of the ecological part in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) on content review basis. The requirements of the ...

The influence of leachate from open solid waste dumping near Salhad stream (Abbottabad, Pakistan) was investigated to quantify the variations of water quality during August 2007 to April 2008. Samples were collected from ...

In this study some thermodynamic parameters including freezing point, boiling point and the vapor pressure of Urmia Lake salt water were investigated as some important environmentally monitored physicochemical properties ...

After the Soviet Union fragmentation, the attentions of regional and international countries have turned to this region for oil and gas discovery in the Caspian Basin. After that, this region enjoys more geopolitical ...

A mathematical model was developed to predict the effects of wind speed, light, pH, Temperature, dissolved carbon dioxide and chemical oxygen demand (COD) on Dissolved Oxygen (DO) in fish ponds. The effects of organic ...

Q-mode hierarchical cluster (HCA) and principal component analysis (PCA) were simultaneously applied to groundwater hydrochemical data from the three times in 2004: June, September, and December, along the Ain Azel ...

In Vietnam, municipal solid waste (MSW) has being become increasing complex due to variety of reasons as the increasing quantity, changing composition of MSW, rising public awareness and municipal administration policies ...

A new cesium ion selective PVC membrane based on parent calix [4] arene was developed for potentiometric determination of cesium in environmental samples. The electrode based on p-5,11,17,23tetra(tertbutyl) 25,26,27,28 ...

Desert truffles, hypogeous Pezizales (Ascomycota), are difficult to identify due to evolutionary convergence of morphological characters among taxa that share a similar habitat and mode of spore dispersal. In this paper ...

Key dissimilarities between thermophilic and mesophilic anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge (WAS) were experimentally studied in this research. Typical WAS with total solids (TS) concentrations of 30 and 60 g/L ...

A chelating resin of polystyrene divinylbenzene resin functionalized by 1-(2-pyridylazo) 2- naphtol (PSDVB-PAN) has been synthesized and its sorption properties have been investigated for preconcentration and determination ...

A methodology is presented in this paper to find optimal location and dosage of chlorine injection in water distribution networks. The objective is to minimize the chlorine consumption while keeping the residual chlorine ...

The effect of temperature on the adsorption of heavy metals on not only natural bulk clay, but also for the individual phases that composed the bulk clay sample, was investigated. Combined Adsorption- Sequential extraction ...

A general overview on the prospective of various oxidation and combined processes in the treatment of tannery industry effluent are reported. Various oxidation and combined processes such as UV/H2O2/Hypochlorites, Fenton ...