Essays on Environmental Studies

Edited by Amit Sarin

ISBN: 978-960-9549-75-2, 328 pages

First published in 2012 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

1.	Essays on Environmental Studies: An Introduction	1
	Amit Sarin
Part A: Environment and Pollution
2.	Evaluation of Urban Airborne Particulate Matter (PM2.5) in the City of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) by Mutagenicity Assays Claudia Rainho, Ana Maria Velho, Claudia Aiub, Sérgio Machado Corrêa, José Luiz Mazzei and Israel Felzenszwalb	13
3.	Contamination of Cadmium and Lead on Iranian Jujube Parisa Ziarati	21
4.	Geographical and Seasonal Variation of Taxol Content in the Needles of Taxus Baccata L. estimated by High-pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Angeliki Laiou, Vittorio Vinciguerra, Marco Cosimo Simeone, Federico Vessella, Rosanna Bellarosa and Bartolomeo Schirone	29
5.	Electromagnetic Fields Generated by Power Transmission Lines in Abu Dhabi Emirate – UAE Muthanna Al Omar, Fadi Al Jallad, Saeed Al Yalyali and Entisar Al Katheeri	41
6.	Study of the Urban Air Pollution over Stara Zagora, Bulgaria with a Μobile Automatic Station Nikolay Takuchev	53
7.	Evaluation of Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Sediments from Gediz and Bakırçay Rivers, Eastern Aegean Filiz Kucuksezgin	61
8.	Concurrent Biosorption and Biotransformation of Hexavalent Chromium by Immobilized Aspergillus Favus Strain Isolated from Tannery Wastewater Suman Das	73
9.	Globally Harmonisation System for Classification and Labelling of Mixtures and Consumer Products in Malaysia Letchumi Thannimalay and Sumiani Yusoff	83
10.	Research of Water-bearing Horizons by Geothermal Methods Irina Abrosimova	95
Part B: Optimization of Alternate Energy Resources
11.	Optimization of Biodiesel Production using Reactive Separation Process Apichit Svang-Ariyaskul, Apiwat Rodklai, Michael L. Kallal and Chak-krit Sawangsaensook	105
12.	Study of the Pyrolysis of Municipal Solid Waste for the Production of Renewable Fuels and Chemicals Inge Velghe, Robert Carleer, Jan Yperman and Sonja Schreurs	115

13.	Hydrogen Bioproduction with Xylose from Tropical Climate Environmental Sample Sandra I. Maintinguer, Isabel K. Sakamoto, Lorena Lima de Oliveira, Carolina Zampol Lazaro and Maria Bernadete Varesche	127
14.	Energy Performance of Solar Water Heating Systems in Subtropical Hong Kong Tin-tai Chow and Zhaoting Dong	139
15.	Modelling Viscosity of Raw Materials for Biodiesel Production Gustavo Aníbal Pizarro Bravo Ferreira Lopes, Maria da Conceição Machado Alvim Ferraz, Manuel Afonso Magalhães da Fonseca Almeida, Joana Maia Moreira Dias, Fernando Gomes Martins and José Carlos Magalhães Pires	151
16.	Highlights of the Studies for the Use of Landfills for Power Generation in Brazil Douglas X. Rezende, Paulo R. Santos, Carlos A. Mariotoni and Tathiane C.Santos	163
17.	Trnsys Simulation and Optimization of a Solar-thermal Collection and Storage System for the Heating of Agricultural Greenhouses Ignacio R. Martín-Domínguez, José A. Burciaga-Santos, Plinio E. Castro-López and María Teresa Alarcón-Herrera	179
18.	Phase Diagrams in Agricultural Engineering Abraham Rojano Aguilar, Raquel Salazar Moreno, Waldo Ojeda Bustamante, Uwe Schmidt and Martin Montero Martinez	191
19.	Ecohydrology Studies Concepts and Principles in Rangeland Ecosystems with a View Subject to Arid and Semi Arid Areas Nasrin Kolahchi	197
20.	Oily Wastewater Treatment by a Novel Fixed-film Baffled Bioreactor Mehdi Zolfaghari, Manouchehr Vosoughi, Iran Alemzahdeh and Hossein Maazallahi	205
21.	Design and Product. Eco-compatibility Perception of the Materials and Product Beatrice Lerma, Cristina Allione and Claudia De Giorgi	219
22.	Building Envelope Design in Terms of Visual and Thermal Comfort in Offices Gülay Zorer Gedik, Rengin Ünver and Esra Sakınç	231
Part C: Management of Water and Plants
23.	Investigation of TRIX in the Regulation of the Turkish Marine Aquaculture: Application to the Eastern Aegean Coastal Water (Izmir Bay) Idil Pazi, Guzel Yucel-Gier, Filiz Kucuksezgin and Ferah Kocak	247
24.	Inula Verbascifolia – Biogeographic Inferences on a Mediterranean Endemic Medicinal Plant Tamara Kirin, Maria Paola Tomasino, Marco Cosimo Simeone, Sandro Bogdanović, Roberta Piredda and Bartolomeo Schirone	255
25.	Optimization of Dry Mechanochemical Conversion Conditions of SrSO4 to SrCO3 Deniz Bingol, Salih Aydogan and Seda Karayunlu Bozbas	265
26.	Optimal Water Distribution Scenarios using Two Approaches Raquel Salazar Moreno, Ferenc Szidarovszky, Jazmin Zatarain Salazar and Abraham Rojano Aguilar	275
27.	Activation and Characterization of Pyrolysis Chars from Short Rotation Hardwoods Mark Stals, Jens Vandewijngaarden, Grazyna Gryglewicz, Robert Carleer, Sonja Schreurs and Jan Yperman	291
28.	Microbiological Quality of Minimally processed Vegetables Sold in Tirana, Albania Anjeza Çoku, Mirela Lika and Roland Bani	307