Investigation of Indoor Air Quality in a Hospital: A Case Study from Şanlıurfa, Turkey by Tuba Rastgeldi Doğan

“…CO2, a surrogate for indoor pollutants emitted by humans. In this research, CO2 was found to be under the standards in radiology, tomography, X-ray, orthopedics polyclinics and emergency services. …”
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Wear surface damage of a Stainless Steel EN 3358 aeronautical component subjected to sliding by Ferdinando Felli, Andrea Brotzu, Cristian Vendittozzi, Antonio Paolozzi, Francesco Passeggio

“…The components of such systems are subject to considerable mechanical stresses in harsh environment (presence of moisture and pollutants, significant and sudden temperature variations). …”
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Health Evaluation of Fenghe River Based on AHP-Fuzzy Mathematical Model and Item-by-Item Evaluation Method by ZHANG Zeyang, LIU Qiang, WANG Gang, XU Ziwei

“…This paper takes Fenghe River in Langfang City as the research object to conduct river health evaluation,which is expected to provide a direction for the future health management of Fenghe River and achieve the goal of healthy development of the water ecology of local rivers.On the basis of the relatively perfect evaluation standard,the scientific and reasonable health evaluation of Fenghe River is carried out by the item-by-item evaluation method and the AHP-fuzzy mathematical model,which is suitable for the local actual situation.An evaluation system is constructed,which consists of four criterion layers covering “basin”,“water”,“biology”,and social service functions and 12 subordinate index layers.The evaluation results show that Fenghe River is healthy according to the item-by-item evaluation method.In the evaluation of the AHP-fuzzy mathematical model,Fenghe River is “very healthy”,with a grade of 0.411 0.By this method,the grade of “healthy” is 0.343 8,and the grades of 0.223 9,0.021 3,and 0 denote the health status of “sub-healthy”,“unhealthy”,and “bad”,respectively.The Fenghe River Basin in Langfang Economic and Technological Development Zone has poor performance in terms of riparian bandwidth,sediment pollutants,and water quality.The proposed evaluation method can provide a reference for the health evaluation of rivers heavily influenced by cities and artificial interventions.…”
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Adsorption Mechanisms of Phenol and Methylphenols on Organoclays by Özlem Ceyhan, Hülya Güler, Raif Güler

“…It was shown that inorganoclays (Na–clays) and organokaolinites were incapable of adsorbing any of these organic pollutants. It was also determined that the adsorption of phenol compounds from water decreased in the order: 2,4,6-TMP > 2,4-DMP > P for HDTMA–B and DDTMA–B, 2,4-DMP > P > 2,4,6-TMP for TMPA–B and P > 2,4-DMP > 2,4,6-TMP for TMA–B. …”
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Determination of the Concentration of Total Cyanide in Waste Water of a Tobacco Company in Southwestern Nigeria by MT Osobamiro

“… Cyanide has been listed as one of the toxic pollutants that is usually released into the environment. …”
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Does environmental management system certification keep enterprises out of trouble? Evidence from stock price crash risk. by Hongyu Liu, Qin Binbin, Pengliang Qiao

“…The study is based on sample data of heavily polluting listed companies from 2008-2020. The study demonstrates that certification of environmental management systems has a significant impact on preventing share price collapse. …”
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Determination of the Concentration of Total Cyanide in Waste Water of a Tobacco Company in Southwestern Nigeria by MT Osobamiro

“… Cyanide has been listed as one of the toxic pollutants that is usually released into the environment. …”
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Activation and Impregnation of Chars — Nutshells and Pinewood Sawdust by Maria C.M. Alvim-Ferraz, Carla M.T.B. Gaspar

“…The utilization of activated carbons as catalyst supports for the treatment of gaseous effluents contaminated with volatile organic compounds allows advantage to be taken both of the adsorption of the pollutant on the well-developed porous texture of activated carbons and the possibility of an efficient catalytic conversion. …”
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Compositional Variation of PCBs, PAHs, and OCPs at Gas Phase and Size Segregated Particle Phase during Dust Incursion from the Saharan Desert in the Northwestern Anatolian Peninsul... by S. Levent Kuzu

“…Gas/particle partitioning of each pollutant was evaluated by plotting their subcooled vapor pressure against the partitioning coefficient. …”
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Unleashing green technology innovation in agribusiness: traditional environmental regulations, carbon trading, or synergies? by Wei Wang, Yanan She, Yue Peng, Yunqiang Liu

“…It was found that: (1) Although both traditional environmental regulatory tools and carbon trading provide incentive effects, the former tends to exhibit more pronounced direct effects, making it more suitable for adoption by local governments, while the latter demonstrates stronger spatial spillover effects, making it more appropriate for application in a national market context. (2) Command-and-control environmental regulatory instruments and carbon trading are complementary policy mixes, and other environmental policy mixes are to be used as appropriate in the context of the actual situation. (3) The incentive effects of environmental policies are more significant in eastern regions, non-heavily polluting, and state-owned agribusinesses, but not in the basic agricultural sector. …”
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Petrochemical Wastewater Treatment by Eggshell Modified Biochar as Adsorbent: Atechno-Economic and Sustainable Approach by Andy G. Kumi, Mona G. Ibrahim, Manabu Fujii, Mahmoud Nasr

“…Petrochemical industrial wastewater (PIW)contains toluene and xylene (TX), and various organic and inorganic pollutants, causing severe risks to human health if improperly released into the environmental matrices. …”
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How Architecture Builds Intelligence: Lessons from AI by Nikos A. Salingaros

“…While previous studies have explored environmental effects on health (other than from pathogens and pollutants), they largely focus on factors such as acoustics, color, and light, neglecting the fundamental role of spatial geometry. …”
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Analysis of Channel Evolution and Its Influence of Xunwu River in Source Area of Dongjiang River Based on GIS Technology by CHEN Chuan, ZENG Jinfeng

“…Based on the measured data of large fixed sections at Shuibei Hydrological Station from 2010 to 2020 and the underwater topographic survey data near Shuibei Hydrological Station,this paper constructs a topographic database of underwater sections and a three-dimensional underwater topographic model near Shuibei Hydrological Station for riverbed change analysis by using GIS technology,analyzes the channel scouring and silting in single Shuibei Station section of the main stream of Xunwu River in terms of temporal and spatial change,and discusses the influencing factors and the influence of the changes.The results show that:GIS technology is an effective method to study the changes of river topography.The average annual river-bed elevation of Shuibei Station section of the main stream of Xunwu River decreased by 0.75 m from 2010 to 2015,and by 0.52 m from 2015 to 2020.With the scouring of the main channel terrain during 2010—2020,the average undercut depth is 1.27 m.The main factors for the topographic change of the river channel in this section are the sand restraining of power plants,the sand mining of river channels and the comprehensive treatment of abandoned mines.The annual undercut of river channels will increase the storage capacity of river channels and increase the reverberation time of pollutants in the downstream channels,thus worsening the water quality.In a worse case,the severe evolution of riverbed may cause the dangerous situation of the bridge across the river and even the hollowing out or collapse of embankment.…”
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Potential of corn cob compost in corn fertilization on alfisol soil by Purnomo Djoko, Setyaningrum Desy

“…Corn cobs as waste material after the seeds are removed have not been utilized so they have the potential to become pollutants. Alfisols as marginal land require improvement materials for cultivated land. …”
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Analysis of Leaching Rate of Heavy Metals from Fly Ash at Varying Leachant pH & Cumulative Liquid to Solid Ratios by Tobby, Micheal Agwe, Sharma, S. N., Pandey, Govind

“…This continued disposal of FA into the environment makes the heavy metals contained therein to move out in the leachate generated, polluting the soil, surface and ground water sources among others. …”
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Optimizing mycelial growth of Trametes versicolor HBB 7328 for enzyme production and green energy by Nikita Goyat, Rajeev Kumar Kapoor, Baljeet Singh Saharan, Prexha Kapoor, Deepika Dhanda

“…The high laccase activity, in particular, underscores its potential in biotechnological applications such as pollutant biodegradation and biofuel production, advancing green energy solutions.…”
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Coupling of Modular High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor with Supercritical Rankine Cycle by Shutang Zhu, Ying Tang, Kun Xiao, Zuoyi Zhang

“…Furthermore, an MHTGR SC plant has higher environmental competitiveness without emission of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.…”
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Circular Economy Applied to Sludge Minimization: The STAR Project by Maria Cristina Collivignarelli, Stefano Bellazzi, Alessandro Abbà

“…The management of biological sludge from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) poses a significant environmental challenge due to increasing sludge production and the presence of emerging pollutants. This study investigates an innovative solution by integrating a thermophilic aerobic membrane reactor (TAMR) into the sludge treatment line of a medium-size WWTP, aiming to minimize biological sludge output while enhancing resource recovery. …”
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Photocatalytic Degradation of Aniline Using TiO2 Nanoparticles in a Vertical Circulating Photocatalytic Reactor by F. Shahrezaei, Y. Mansouri, A. A. L. Zinatizadeh, A. Akhbari

“…The results of the experiments indicated that it can therefore be potentially applied for the treatment of wastewater contaminated by different organic pollutants.…”
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Then and Now: COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown Misfire Atmospheric Methane over India by Manoj Hari, Rajesh Kumar Sahu, MS Shyam Sunder, Bhishma Tyagi

“…Abstract COVID-19 lockdown resulted in the revival of the environment due to reduced emissions of various pollutants globally. In particular, aerosols, NOx and SO2 showed significant reductions at most places. …”
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