Environmental Engineering
and Sustainability
Edited by Michael Theophanides and Theophile
Theophanides
ISBN: 978-960-6672-97-2, 368 pages
First
published in 2010 by ATINER
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copy: 30€
Table
of Contents
| List of Contributors |  | |
| Preface | 1 | |
| Environmental
  Carbon Emissions and Greenhouse Gases Michael Theophanides and Theophile Theophanides | 3 | |
| Part 1: Environment and Pollution | ||
| 1. | Analysis of
  a Refrigeration System Retrofitting Procedure on Environment Orhan
  Ekren | 9 | 
| 2. | Groundwater Pollution by Trichloroethylene:
  Transport Mechanisms and Environmental Fate Alessandro Erto and Amedeo Lancia | 15 | 
| 3. | Environmental Degradation of  Zhen-Ren Guo | 27 | 
| 4. | Sulfur and Nitrogen Accumulation in Leaves of Tree
  Species on Traffic Roadside of  Yan-Ju Liu | 37 | 
| 5. | Asian Dust
  Aerosol Budgets over the Asian Region in 2009 Estimated by ADAM2 | 49 | 
| 6. | Geostatistical
  Investigation of Forest Soil Contamination from Mining and Smelting
  Activities in Goslar District (Middle  Ragab Rabeiy, Wolfgang
  Busch, Steffen Knospe and
  Walter Schmotz | 69 | 
| 7. | Use of
  Solar Energy for Water Heating in New Popular Housing Projects in Brazil Paulo  Roberto dos Santos, Carlos Alberto Mariotoni, Daul Ruiz Dias Neto and Elisa de Podestá Gomes | 87 | 
| 8. | Modeling Chronic Hazards and Community Resilience around  Graham A. Tobin, Linda
  M. Whiteford and Carmen Laspina | 111 | 
| 9. | Transformation
  of a New Pyrimidynyloxybenzoic Herbicide ZJ0273 in
  Aerobic Soil | 129 | 
| 10. | Influence of Pressure Drop on Particle Residence
  Time Distribution in a Fast Fluidized Bed Tao Wang, Xuan Yao, Junnan Chao
  and Hairui Yang | 147 | 
| 11. | Environment, Health and Risk: Sustainability in
  Uncertainty Linda M. Whiteford,
  Graham A. Tobin and Carmen Laspina | 155 | 
| Part 2: Management | ||
| 12. | Cattle Manure Management by
  Composting in  Mithat Sinan
  Binici, Ebru Mehmetli, Ceren Tosun and Ahmet Baban | 173 | 
| 13. | Cleaner Production
  Implementation Process Focused on an Integral Water Management: The Case of
  Tanneries in Villapinzon and Choconta Carolina
  Tobón and Tania
  Santos | 185 | 
| 14. | Managing Waste
  through the Product Life-cycle  Pia Tanskanen | 199 | 
| Part 3: Waste Water | ||
| 15. | Treatment of
  Pharmaceutical Wastewater Containing Macrolide
  Antibiotic Tylosin in a Sequential
  Anaerobic-aerobic Reactor System Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan,
  Paul Sallis and Ali Yuzir | 213 | 
| 16. | Analyzing
  the Qualitative Characteristics of Compost and Bio-compost in  Issa Piri, Iman Homayoonnezhad and Paria Amirian | 227 | 
| 17. | Improvement of Activated Sludge
  Characteristics in the Model Experiment Liudmila Usachova and Katsiaryna
  Usachova | 233 | 
| 18. | Simultaneous Wastewater Treatment and Odor Elimination in an Integrated A/O Reactor Yi-Ning Wu, Li-Jiao
  Ren, Nan-Qi Ren and Zhao Li | 247 | 
| 19. | Incorporation
  of LCA and GIS for Effective Environmental Planning
  Tool: Case Study in  Sumiani Yusoff | 259 | 
| Part 4: Metal Recovery | ||
| 20. | Heavy Metal
  Profiling in the Sediments from  Rahimah Abdullah, Wang Chee Woon
  and  Mohd Jamil Maah | 269 | 
| 21 | Removal
  of Silver from Aqueous Solutions using Fly Ash: Full Factorial Design
  Approach  Semra Çoruh,
  Sermin Elevli, Gaye Şenel and Osman Nuri Ergun | 283 | 
| 22. | Clastogenic Estimation of Salts of Heavy
  Metals and Oxides with Application of Test-Systems of Tradescantia
  (Clone 02) Margarita Matevosyan | 291 | 
| 23. | Reaction Mechanism and Efficiency of
  Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Transition Metals in the Catalytic Wet Air
  Oxidation of Phenol (CWAO) Francesco
  Arena, Cristina Italiano, Antonino Raneri and Concetta Saja | 297 | 
| 24. | Silver-induced
  Changes in the Nutrient and Trace Element Uptake by Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
  and in the Amount of the Rhizosphere Proteins Irina Shtangeeva,Salla Venäläinen,
  Helinä Hartikainen, Marina Surgik and Sergey Timofeev | 309 | 
| Part 5: Recycling and Disposal | ||
| 25. | Separation
  of Textile Dye (Thioflavin T) by
  Using Supported Liquid Membranes Mohammad
  W. Ashraf | 323 | 
| 26. | Hospital Waste Management in Samsun, Turkey Gaye Şenel, Semra
  Çoruh, Gamze Turan and Osman Nuri Ergun | 331 | 
| 27. | Combustion of Animal Fat and Diesel Mixtures
  in a Mechanical Pulverization Burner Julio Fco.  | 339 | 
| 28. | The Degradation
  of Oligonucleotide Based Pharmaceutical Products by
  Selected Chemical Means Carol Robinson, Gary Walsh and Thomas F. O’Dwyer | 349 |