2^nd International Conference on Pollution Control and Sustainable Environment October 5-6, 2017 London, UK

Biography:

Mr. Ben Lucas has been actively involved in the specific industry of source assessment and replacement of hazardous and toxic solvent used in industry for more than fifteen years. He has personally worked on successful projects with some of the largest companies in the aerospace, oil & gas, wind power and composite manufacturing industry. His support of these industry leaders has taken him all over the world to ensure the successful identification, implementation and ongoing benefits seen with adopting safer, green chemistry in operations. He has published and presented a number of articles and papers over his career

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Chemical characteristics dictate that any solvent that will have a more benign environmental and toxicological characteristic will have different behavioral characteristics. It becomes necessary to adopt systematic implementation guidelines for the required substitution. This paper will present specific guidelines for successfully implementing the adoption of alternate green chemistry in a given process related to industrial production, manufacturing and service related big box facilities. It will present a tested and easily utilized method for identifying the sources of hazardous waste, hazardous air emission, and worker-safety issues associated with the use of conventional solvents in most chemical use processes. Manufacturing processes, such as assembly, inspection and coating applications often involve the use of toxic solvents and degreasing chemicals throughout. The potential for worker exposure concerns, along with the highly regulated air emissions, as VOCs or HAPs, and disposal of these materials make them a high source for impact associated with regulatory burdens and can be low hanging fruit for replacement opportunities. Employing these guidelines will help assure a successful implementation. Solvent substitution guidelines include: Identification of suitable candidates, Process mapping, Group theory based analysis, Hybrid-Chemistry approaches, Engineering and QA analysis, Off-line testing, Orientation of technicians and supervisors, Training employees, Implementation, Process changes. Ongoing Support, Evaluation and of course Troubleshooting. This paper provides examples of successful solvent substitution projects that have been undertaken, the processes involved in assessment and implementation, as well as considerable detail on organizing process changes in production to accommodate the new materials and thereby gaining the environmental and health benefit without negatively affecting operational needs. These projects will showcase the tools needed, as regulations drive industry towards alternative chemicals, to ensure successful implementation of green, non-hazardous solvents in some processes. It will outline how they have successfully reduced hazardous emissions, hazardous waste generation and reduced the carbon footprint along with significant cost savings and improved worker exposure liability concerns for any organization that chooses to go green. It will do so with a thorough presentation of procedures that ensure a higher potential for success, and thereby less dependency on industrial habit and conventional chemicals that burden production by their ever increasing regulatory requirements.

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Javier Fernández García obtained his bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering in 2007 and master´s degree in Environmental and Processes Engineering in 2010 from University of Oviedo, Spain, while he worked in research activities for different companies such as Saint-Gobain and XSTRATA. In 2011 he started his PhD in Chemical Engineering working in the LOWCARB European Project. He received the cum laude award in 2014 and then he moved to the School of Engineering at University of Warwick, where he is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher.

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Power plants working on coal, gas and liquid fuel are one of the main contributors to the total CO₂ emissions. Due to their distribution, they are considered to be the most suitable localized centers for implementation of CO₂ capture technologies. By developing an integrated system of CO2 looping capable to operate at extreme temperatures of hot effluent power plant gas emissions, the problem of CO₂ mitigation can be resolved on a large scale, considering a consecutive conversion of the captured CO₂ into valuable products (methanol).CO₂ adsorption/conversion units can be integrated within power plants and powered during the periods of low energy consumption thus stabilizing the grid, reducing harmful emissions and yielding viable products. In this work, radio-frequency heated fixed bed reactor with CaO sorbent produced by template synthesis was proposed as CO₂ looping system. CaO-sorbents, prepared by template synthesis, benefit from higher pore volume and better stability under high temperature over several cycles. In comparison to conventionally heated reactor, which presents poor control and long stabilization, RF heating provided fast heat-up and cool-down regimes, overall better control of the temperature and less heat losses. Under RF heating CaO sorbent achieved its stable operation in much shorter period of time (10-15 cycles in comparison to 35-40 for conventional heating). In addition, higher desorption rate of CO₂ and lower degree of the sorbents sintering was observed for RF facilitated heating in comparison to conventional set up. It has been suggested that the implementation of this set-up in power energy plants is feasible and the radiofrequency is a suitable option to create a possibility to use hydrogen as purge gas that would create a mixture suitable for methanol synthesis.

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Prakash Sarwa has completed her PhD in Environmental Biotechnology from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India. She is presently pursuing post doctoral studies at department of Biological Sciences, BITS Pilani. She has 10 years of research experience in the area of environmental biotechnology and applied phycology. She has published many research articles in renowned international journals and presented papers in international conferences. She was also actively involved in international workshops conducted by American Society of Microbiology on bioremediation. 

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The potential of green microalgae Scenedesmus sp. MCC 26 isolated from textile and dyeing industrial site was investigated for removal of Malachite Green (MG) dye from aqueous solution. Batch studies were conducted to study the effect of pH, contact time and initial dye concentration. The adsorption kinetics were analyzed using  pseudo first order and pseudo second order model and sorption data tend to fit very well in pseudo second order model for the entire sorption time. The Weber-Morris model revealed two step adsorption of MG with initial cell surface adsorption followed by intra-particle diffusion of dye molecules. Langmuir, Freundlich and Dubinin Radushkevich isotherm models have been used to evaluate the equilibrium data for dye adsorption. The maximum adsorption capacity of algae (125 mg/g) was observed at pH 6.0 within first 60 min of contact time at 30° C. Freundlich isotherm model with r²₌0.986 represents the dye adsorption data successfully and shows the heterogeneous mode of adsorption. Algal biosorbent was characterized before and after dye adsorption using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) in order to obtain the information on the nature of possible cell–dye molecule interactions

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Thalatha Sreeni Ranasinghe has completed her BSc at the age of 26 years from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and two MSc degrees from World Maritime University, Sweden and Open University of Sri Lanka. She is the Assistant Manager of Marine Environment Protection Authority, a premier Maritime Service organization. She has published 3 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Sri Lanka Journal of Marine Environmental Sciences and the Proceedings of the Symposia related Marine Environmental Sciences in Sri Lanka. Currently she is conducting researches related on marine pollution in Sri Lankan coastal region

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The release of unmanaged ships’ ballast water (BW) affects marine ecosystems, humans and their activities. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention to prevent, and eradicate this risk.In this study, classification of the main requirements of the BWM convention was done by Flag State (FS), Port States (PS) and Coastal States (CS). Five basic requirements as FS are identified as Guidance, National Strategy & legislations, Survey, certification & recognized organizations, Approval for BWM Systems, Training of crew members & transfer of knowledge and Violation detections, sanction & investigation. Five basic requirements as PS was identified; Protecting port areas & socio-economic activities, Compliance monitoring & enforcement, Training of Port State Control officers, Regional and international cooperation and Sediment reception facilities. Also, five basic requirements identified as CS are Environment monitoring & scientific research, Contingency plans, preparedness, awareness & additional measures, Risk assessments, exemptions & determination of designated areas, Detection and investigation of violations & notification and Regional & international cooperation.Sri Lanka is exposed and vulnerable to Invasive Alien Species (IAS). Inclusive study of the risks of IAS was carried out and information collected regarding the exposure and the preparedness of the ratification of BWM in Sri Lanka as FS, PS and CS. Critically analyzed the current position of the country in relation to ballast water and sediment management practices. Financial, legal and institutional capacities are identified as the main challenges of the implementation process of the BWM Convention in Sri Lanka.

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Oleg G Kuzminykh got a bachelor degree in Material Sciences in 2016. Now he is the MA course student at Voronezh State University. Previously, his scientific interest concern was in the study of narrow-band gap semiconductors with infrared radiation sensitivity. In particular, he studied the microstructure of lead telluride thin films prepared on silicon and barium fluoride substrates by “hot wall” technique.  Now he studies the wide band gap metal oxide semiconductors for gas sensors.

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One of the environment protection important problems is a detection of oxidizing gases in the ambient air. Three out of six common air pollutants (also called as “criteria pollutants”) are oxidizing gases: nitrogen oxides, low level ozone (or tropospheric ozone), and sulfur dioxide. Breathing ozone and nitrogen oxides can trigger a variety of human health problems, particularly for children, the elderly, and people who have lung diseases. Therefore, monitoring of O₃ and NO_x concentration in the ambient air is a critical task for human health protection. For these reasons, the various types of the binary, ternary and quaternary metal-oxide semiconductors have been widely studied for oxidizing gas detection.Thin films of palladium oxide are set forth as promising material for oxidizing gas detection. PdO thin thin films were prepared by thermal oxidation at dry oxygen of previously formed Pd layers on different substrates. By high-energy electron diffraction and X-ray analysis it has been established that oxidation of initial Pd layers at T = 770 - 1070 K led to formation of homogenous polycrystalline PdO films. At ozone detection PdO films prepared by oxidation at T = 870 K have shown the good values of sensitivity, signal stability, operation speed, and reproducibility of sensor response. At ozone concenteration interval ~100 – 250 ppb the values of sensor response S varied from S = 8.5 to S = 14.2. In comparison with other materials, palladium oxide thin films have some advantages at gas sensor fabrication. Firstly, at rather low operating temperatures PdO films have shown good values of functional parameters. Secondly, the synthesis procedure of binary PdO films is rather simple and is compatible with planar processes of microelectronic industry.

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Nadezhda Kudryasheva completed M.Sc., Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR . She has published more than 300 articles. Her main research interests are spectroscopy, structure of molecules, chemiluminescence, bioluminescence, physico-chemical processes in biological systems, bioassays, toxic mechanisms, radiotoxicity, hormesis, antioxidant activity. Currently working at Institute of Biophysics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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Luminescence of living systems is a convenient parameter to monitor environmental toxicity. Luminescent systems of different complexity – luminous marine bacteria, their enzyme reactions, and coelenteramide-containing fluorescent proteins (CLM-CFPs) were used as bioassays to monitor toxicity of water solutions under model conditions; toxic effects were compared at cellular, biochemical and protein levels, respectively. Organic compounds, metallic salts, and radioactive elements (under conditions of low-dose irradiation) were applied to vary toxicity of media. Luminescence inhibition (toxic) and activation (adaptive response) effects were evaluated and discussed. Application of CLM-CFPs as toxicity bioassays of a new type is justified, they can serve as a proper tool for study efficiency of primary physicochemical processes in organisms under external exposures. Coelenteramide (CLM), fluorophore of CLM-CFPs, is a photochemically active molecule; it acts as a proton donor in its electron-excited states, generating several forms of different fluorescent state energy and, hence, different fluorescence color, from violet to green. Contributions of the forms to the visible fluorescence depend on the CLM microenvironment in proteins. Hence, CLM-CFPs can serve as fluorescence biomarkers with color differentiation to monitor results of destructive biomolecule exposures. Variations of spectral-luminescent and photochemical properties of CLM-CFPs under different exposures – chemicals and ionizing radiation is considered.Application of the luminescent bioassays for detoxification efficiency evaluation is discussed. Natural and artificial bioactive compounds, humic substances and fullerenols, are used as detoxifying agents. Detoxification mechanisms were revealed to be complex, with chemical, biochemical, and cellular aspects conditioning those.

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Dr. Constantinos Sioutas, Sc.D., is the first holder of the Fred Champion Professorship in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). His research has focused on investigations of the underlying mechanisms that produce the health effects associated with exposure to airborne ultrafine particulate pollutants generated by a variety of sources. He has developed many state-of-the-art technologies used by many academic institutions and national laboratories for aerosol sampling and characterization. He has authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal publications, and holds 13 U.S. patents in the development of instrumentation for aerosol measurement and emissions control. His work has been cited in more than 15,000 scientific publications.  He is the recipient of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) David Sinclair award in 2014 (AAAR’s highest distinction), the Hagen Smit award of Atmospheric Environment for seminal publications, the 2010 Scientific and Technological Achievement Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and a Fulbright fellow

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Transportation-related emissions are of particular concern in large metropolitan areas as they are associated with adverse health outcomes. Therefore, mitigation strategies and accurate assessment of these emissions are essential in improving the air quality and understanding the effectiveness of regulations. To this end, extensive measurements were carried out in different micro-environments in the megalopolis of Los Angeles (LA). On-road measurements of fine-particulate matter (PM_2.5) at three major roadways in LA (i.e. on two major freeways and surface streets) indicated substantially higher levels of carcinogenic including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and redox active metals on freeways in comparison to surface streets. The observed PM_2.5-induced toxicity on freeways was 2 times higher than surface streets. However, comparison with previous studies in the past decade in LA suggested an overall reduction in the contribution of carbonaceous species to PM mass, indicating the effectiveness of targeted vehicle emissions control policies implemented in recent years in the state of California. In contrast, greater contributions of certain groups of metals and trace elements that are indicators of non-tailpipe (e.g. brake and tire wear) emissions to both PM mass and toxicity over the years provided evidence on the increasing importance of non-tailpipe emissions which are largely unregulated, as vehicular exhaust becomes cleaner. An extensive sampling campaign in two lines of the LA Metro system indicated that PAHs concentration were about 4 times higher on freeways than both Metro systems resulting in 3.8-fold higher lung cancer risk due to exposure to carcinogens based on a commuter lifetime. Additionally, studies conducted in the Port of Long Beach demonstrated that quasi-ultrafine particles (PM_0.25) concentration and its chemical constituents have decreased as the result of stringent regulations during the past decade. In another study conducted in the metropolitan area of Milan, Italy, we demonstrated that developing pedestrian zones in the city center is also effective in drastically reducing exposure to carcinogens emitted by traffic, signifying that in addition to mitigation strategies, developing alternative transportation means and urban planning are essential in improving the air quality for a sustainable city.

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Hamad Al-Mebayedh, Currently second year PhD student at Salford University In Environmental Engineering, graduated from Aberdeen University with a BEng degree in Civil and structural engineering. obtained 2 masters degrees, one in Project Management, the second in drilling and well design both from Aberdeen. More than 10 years’ experience as an environmental engineer in Kuwait oil sector,  currently working for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) as Senior Engineer Projects. have involved in several environmental remediation mega projects, for instant  $3.2 billion environment remediation program of the Iraqi aggression environment damages to Kuwait awarded by the United Nation

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In any drilling operation for oil and gas the risk of contamination above and under the groung is very high. It is noiced that cracking in oil well casing under the groung could contaminate underground water. Furthermore, during oil drilling operation the contaminated soil that well be left behind required remediation technologies for cleaning up the miss.  The main objective of this research project  is is to charicterize oil contaminated soil and reveals the unkown phisical, chimical, and geotecnical properties inclouding  volumes, presence and the impact of oil contamination by the development of annovative novel 3D soil mapping technology for hydrocarbon contaminated sites. Morover, This research document will suport the decition makers on the most suitable environmental strategy and aproch to takel  the environmental damages. The objectives of this research achieved by investigating wet and dry oil lakes, sludge pits, and wellheads pits caused by the Gulf War 1991.The 3-D modelling technologies are highly efficient and effective for assessing the spatial distribution of various petroleum hydrocarbon fractions in soils with great contamination depth that makes field sampling highly costly and labour-intensive. The 3-D modeling technologies will allow significant reduction in the number of sampling points while the quality of soil characterization can be assured. in addition, this technology cover larger areas of soil characterization and investigation in time efficient with quality and cost effective which will assured QA/QC with optimum achievement towards HSE requirement . forthermore, this models could be used to predict the possible impacts of the petroleum hydrocarbons on the groundwater, and guide the sampling outcomes before and subsequent to soil remediation

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Dr. J. Hot is a lecturer in Civil Engineering at Toulouse University/LMDC in France (LMDC: Laboratory of Materials and Durability of Constructions). She was recruited in September 2015 to develop research activities on indoor air quality, the comfort and the health of building occupants. Her area of expertise is twofold: the study of indoor air depollution by photocatalysis at a laboratory scale with a photoreactor and in real-world conditions using a 10-m3 environmental chamber; and the characterization of the VOCs emissions of building materials. She is notably in charge of the development of the experimental procedures related to indoor air quality.

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For a few years, the improvement of indoor air quality has become a major concern of industrial countries and a priority in the French legislation. Indoor air is contaminated by a variety of gaseous and biological pollutants, which impact human health, comfort and productivity. Building materials, decorative products and furniture are regularly mentioned as potential sources of pollution in indoor environment. Moreover, urban areas are highly polluted with nitrogen oxides (NOx=NO+NO2) produced by intensive human activity, notably transport. In housing, NOx are produced by domestic combustion devices such as gas burners for cooking and come from outdoor pollution (infiltration). Depolluting materials active indoor have thus received increasing attention in recent years. The application of a photocatalytic coating based on TiO2 to surfaces is a promising method. However, most of research work in the litterature focused on the efficiency of such product at the laboratory scale under controlled conditions. This paper investigates a new test method to assess and compare over a relatively short duration the effectiveness of air depolluting materials in conditions approaching those of real-world. A 10-m3 experimental chamber was equipped to study the photocatalytic degradation of nitric oxides NO. Firstly, the experimental setup used to highlight photocatalytic activity of tested samples was presented. The adequacy of the defined experimental parameters was justified. Secondly, various photocatalytic treatments applied to plasterboard surfaces were tested. In addition, the effects of illumination and photocatalytic dispersion formulation on NO degradation efficiency by photocatalysis were studied.

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Associate Professor Daud Hassan joined the University of Western Sydney in 2009 with considerable teaching, research and community service experience. Daud taught at five different universities in Australia and Overseas, including University of Technology Sydney and Victoria University, Melbourne. Daud holds a PhD in the Law of the Sea. He has built up a formidable international reputation in the field of ocean governance. The international stature of Daud's work has been recognised by Visiting Professorships at various universities in Asia and Europe. His research work addresses global and regional environmental issues that are of international significance. His research spans many countries and jurisdictions including Australia, Bangladesh, China, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Norway and Switzerland. Currently Daud is the Director of International Centre for Ocean Governance at the University of Western Sydney.

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Land Based Sources of Marine Pollution (LBSMP) is responsible for 80% of marine pollution.  Although, several legal and policy arrangements have been undertaken at international level in the prevention and control of LBSMP such as the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the 1985 Montreal Guidelines on the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land Based Sources, Agenda 21 of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development 1992 and the 1995 Global Program of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land Based Sources (the GPA) questions remains as to the effectiveness  of the current regimes to control LBSMP.Identifying the major sources of LBSMP the paper will examine the problems, challenges and prospects of controlling LBSMP in developing countries. Highlighting the importance of controlling LBSMP for the effective protection of the marine environment in sustainable manner the paper will evaluate the applications of environmental management principles in developing countries.

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Ana Lucić Vrdoljak has completed her PhD from University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry. She is appointed as a Scientific Advisor at the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia, and as a lecturer at the Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka. Her research interest are focused on experiments dealing acetylcholinesterase poisoning and search for more effective therapy. She also possesses extensive experience in human biomonitoring using the acetylcholinesterase assay and cytogenetic techniques to assess and control the risk of long-term outcomes associated with exposure to organophosphate and carbamate pesticides. Her work has been presented through 60 scientific papers.

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Organophosphate compounds are among the most frequently used pesticides worldwide. In this study, we evaluated the in vivo effects of the insecticide chlorpyrifos, which was orally administered to male Wistar rats at 0.160 mg/kg, 0.015 mg/kg, and 0.010 mg/kg for 28 days. Following treatment, the level of lipid peroxidation and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity was estimated in plasma and brain. To establish the potential DNA damaging effects of the exposure, we applied an alkaline comet assay on the white blood cells and brain tissue of the exposed and control animals. We found that 28-day exposure resulted in dose-dependent changes in AChE activity, which was significantly more depressed in the brain. Lipid peroxidation, presented as TBARS concentration, was elevated both in plasma and in the brain. All of the tested doses of chlorpyrifos were slightly genotoxic, both to the white blood cells and brain tissue. Taken together, our findings confirmed the AChE-inhibiting potency of chlorpyrifos and indicated that its toxicity was mediated through free radicals, which contributed to DNA instability. Considering that our study focused on very low doses of chlorpyrifos within toxicology reference values our results call for further research using other sensitive biomarkers of effect, along with different exposure scenarios

Biography:

Janis Campbell is an Associate Professor of Research at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, College of Public Health, Department of Biostistics and Epidmiology and adjunch faculyt with the Department of Geriatric Medicine. She has over 25 year history working in disease surveillance in Oklahoma much of that working working in mixed methods, Of particular importance was the almost ten years that I was the PI for the Oklahoma Central Cancer Registry.

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Despite numerous epidemiologic studies, the etiology of childhood cancer is still largely unknown. Benzene is a known carcinogen in adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML). In addition, ambient air pollution has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen, but studies have not established whether air pollution is associated with childhood leukemia. The goal of this study was to determine if children with acute leukemia have higher odds of exposure to benzene compared controls, accounting for other sources of ambient pollution, specifically, traffic-related air pollution.

We conducted a case-control study matched on week of birth using the Oklahoma Central Cancer Registry as our source for acute leukemia cases diagnosed from 1997-2012 (n=307, including 79 AML and 228 acute lymphoid leukemia) and birth certificates to identify controls (n=1,022). Census tract-level benzene estimates were obtained from the 2005 National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) and assigned using maternal residence at delivery. Ambient concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) were obtained as a marker of traffic-related air pollutants and estimated using a satellite-based land-use regression model. To determine if benzene, categorized by quartile, was associated with acute leukemia after adjustment for NO₂ and other potential confounders, we used multivariable conditional logistic regression. 

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Abdeen Mustafa Omer (BSc, MSc, PhD) is an Associate Researcher at Energy Research Institute (ERI). He obtained both his PhD degree in the Built Environment and Master of Philosophy degree in Renewable Energy Technologies from the University of Nottingham. He is qualified Mechanical Engineer with a proven track record within the water industry and renewable energy technologies. He has been graduated from University of El Menoufia, Egypt, BSc in Mechanical Engineering. His previous experience involved being a member of the research team at the National Council for Research/Energy Research Institute in Sudan and working director of research and development for National Water Equipment Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Sudan. He has been listed in the book WHO'S WHO in the World 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010. He has published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 200 review articles, 7 books and 150 chapters in books

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Over the years, all parts of a commercial refrigerator, such as the compressor, heat exchangers, refrigerant, and packaging, have been improved considerably due to the extensive research and development efforts carried out by academia and industry. However, the achieved and anticipated improvement in conventional refrigeration technology are incremental since this technology is already nearing its fundamentals limit of energy efficiency is described is ‘magnetic refrigeration’ which is an evolving cooling technology. The word ‘green’ designates more than a colour. It is a way of life, one that is becoming more and more common throughout the world. An interesting topic on ‘sustainable technologies for a greener world’ details about what each technology is and how it achieves green goals. Recently, conventional chillers using absorption technology consume energy for hot water generator but absorption chillers carry no energy saving. With the aim of providing a single point solution for this dual purpose application, a product is launched but can provide simultaneous chilling and heating using its vapour absorption technology with 40% saving in heating energy. Using energy efficiency and managing customer energy use has become an integral and valuable exercise. The reason for this is green technology helps to sustain life on earth. This not only applies to humans but to plants, animals and the rest of the ecosystem. Energy prices and consumption will always be on an upward trajectory. In fact, energy costs have steadily risen over last decade and are expected to carry on doing so as consumption grows. This study discusses the potential for such integrated systems in the stationary and portable power market in response to the critical need for a cleaner energy technology for communities. Throughout the theme several issues relating to renewable energies, environment and sustainable development are examined from both current and future perspectives.

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Dr Hamideh Nouri is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. After earning her BSc in Irrigation Engineering in Iran (2000), she worked in the Irrigation industry for 7 years. She moved to Malaysia to do her MSc in Soil and Water Engineering (2009). In 2010, she moved to Australia for her PhD in Civil Engineering (2014) that was followed by a postdoctoral research position there (2016). She has over sixteen years’ experience in industry and academia as a consultant and research scientist, both in urban environments and agriculture in different countries. Her research covers the broad range of sustainable management of water and soil resources and applications of remote sensing & GIS in the local, national and global levels.

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The potential risk of salt leaching through wastewater irrigation is of concern for most local governments and city councils. Despite the necessity of salinity monitoring and management in urban greenery, most attention has been on agricultural fields. This study was defined to investigate the capability and feasibility of monitoring and predicting soil salinity using near sensing and remote sensing approaches using EM38 surveys, and  high resolution multispectral image of WorldView3. Veale Gardens within the Adelaide Parklands was selected as the experimental site. The results of the near sensing investigation were validated by testing soil salinity samples in the laboratory. Over 30 band combinations that form salinity indices were tested using image processing techniques. The outcomes of the remote sensing and near sensing approaches were compared to examine whether remotely sensed salinity indicators could map and predict the spatial variation of soil salinity through a potential statistical model. Statistical analysis was undertaken using the Stata 13 statistical package on over 52,000 points. Several regression models were fitted to the data and the mixed effect modelling was selected the most appropriate one as it takes to account the systematic observation-specific unobserved heterogeneity. Results showed that SAVI (Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index) was the only salinity index that could be considered as a predictor for soil salinity but further investigation is needed. However, near sensing was found as a rapid, practical and realistically accurate approach for salinity mapping of heterogeneous urban vegetation.

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Associate Professor in Chemistry in USTP. Obtained BS Chemistry degree in Xavier University, Ateneo de Cagayan as an academic scholar of the university and Pilipinas KAO (Kao Global Chemicals, Japan). A licensed Chemist and a trained Chemical Safety and Security Officer of the US Department of State. Earned MS Physical Sciences major in Chemistry minor in Physics at USTP. Also earned MSc Water Management at UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands, funded academically by Netherlands Fellowship Program (NFP) and research by PRoACC2. PhD studies in IHE-Delft and TU Delft is funded by NFP and Schlumberger Foundation

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Developing countries in Southeast Asia, are facing the challenge of the ASEAN Vision 2020 to produce quality agricultural products that will cater not only to its local consumers but to approximately 600 million people across ten ASEAN nations. Agricultural expansion through land conversion were intensified in developing countries experiencing rapid economic growth, especially those with transition in the economic structure. To obtain high yield and quality agricultural production, pesticides are used by farmers. It cannot be denied that pesticides provide huge benefits to people and the country’s economy by preserving agricultural products and control infestations. However, the potential to cause harm to human and the environment if mismanaged and overused are not fully understood even by the end users, the farmers. Despite economic gain, there is always a trade-off. It is not also well established that even small amount of pesticides, especially the banned pesticides, can give chronic effects to human. What is more alarming, banned pesticides in Europe and the US are still used and available in the market in the Philippines and Vietnam. These banned pesticides can biomagnify in the food chain and human body. Even when pesticides are developed with strict guidelines for a very reasonable purpose, the application and management of pesticides should be done with many precautionary measures.This research then aims to bridge the gap of knowledge on the long term effects of pesticide exposure to human health

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Pelumi is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. He is supervised by Dr Luigi Occhipinti, with Prof. Rod Jones as co-supervisor. His current research interests include air quality monitoring, and printable sensor technologies for monitoring air pollution.He has a BSc(Hons.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Olabisi Onabanjo University, an MSc in Signal Processing from The University of Edinburgh and has recently completed a Master of Research(MRes) degree in Sensor Technologies and Applications, he is an IEEE Member

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The health problems caused by exposure to airborne particulate matter(PM) beyond safe limits has been studied for many years. Government regulatory agencies have adapted and updated the safe exposure limits as more progress is made both in policy developments and detection system design. Bulky PM detectors, though very accurate do not provide sufficient spatial and temporal resolution, are static and expensive. Current much smaller commercial PM sensors are mobile but still mostly too expensive and largely still too big for real-time continuous personal use. They also must be calibrated to convert their counts to mass concentration despite their variation from unit to unit. The continuous drive towards having a cheaper, smaller, yet more effective PM sensors for personal exposure analysis and indoor environments is pushing the current boundaries of current techniques. Emerging PM sensing techniques must now achieve this, while also linking to other structured source apportionment and semantic analysis of air quality data aimed at providing useful information about user activities mostly provided via the internet. This review highlights works on PM detection and monitoring, covering history, theory, methods and principle of operation of detection instruments, large and small scale source apportionment, instrument calibration processes and performance evaluation techniques, emerging trends and future outlooks. Further, this work reviews PM2.5 detection and its challenges, assumptions in measurement interpretation and possible solutions going forward.

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Doron Lavee holds a PhD in Public Economics from the Ben-Gurion University, an MA in Economics and an MBA in Business Administration and Economics from the Hebrew University. He is a member of the Department of Economics and Management at Tel-Hai Academic College. He also serves as a Partner and General Manager of Pareto Group Ltd. He is a well-known expert with over 22 years of experience in economic and environmental consulting, financial advisory and strategic consulting in various fields, including issues related to economic efficiency and the periphery. He has extensive experience in managing complex projects and large-scale environmental economic consulting and conducting projects for the public and government sectors, including governmen

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It is estimated that a quarter of the world's population is exposed to high concentrations of air pollutants, resulting largely from human activities, causing premature death of approximately two million people annually. In particular, ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM) adversely affect human health and are associated with morbidity and premature human mortalities. Air pollution is one of the most serious environmental problems that Israel is facing today, causing morbidity and mortality in many parts of the country, and has long been a priority in Israel’s environmental policy. The aim of this paper is to identify the most suitable and economically feasible policy measures for reducing concentrations of PM and O3 in Israel. The analysis includes two main examinations. The first quantifies the economic cost of health effects caused by the failure to meet the target pollution values. The examined health effects include both chronic exposure effects and acute exposure effects. This examination is based on the estimation of health effects due to exposure to PM and O3, on the economic quantification of health effects due to pollution and on expected pollution values of pollutants based on the BAU scenario. The second examination is a CBA analysis of additional policy measures (additional to the measures assumed implemented in the BAU scenario) that are aimed to reduce pollution. This examination is based on quantifying the cost and benefit of the different policy measures. An applicability check that includes a global comparison of implementation of the different measures was performed as well, and the most appropriate policy measures are recognized. Table 5 presents the reduction rates, in terms of emission (kg/hr) of the various pollutants, expected from the implementation of the proposed policy measures. The table is presented as a comparison to the BAU scenario for each of the target years. The change in the emissions in the target years is calculated relative to the emissions in 2010. According to our findings, the vast majority of the examined measures are feasible, have a positive net benefit to the economy and are expected to lead to considerable reductions in pollutants. These policy measures have a significant impact on reducing air pollution on one hand, while constituting the highest net benefit to the economy on the other. Although the detailed estimates of benefits and costs presented in this paper refer to Israel, the basic methodology presented is applicable universally. Such assessments may assist policy makers to carry out informed decisions on such subjects.

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John Poté, is the Head of environmental biotechnology and microbiology group at University of Geneva,Switzerland.His project consulting on solid waste and waste water management and treatment.

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The contamination of freshwater resources with various organic and inorganic contaminants including toxic metals, persistent organic pollutants, pathogenic organisms, antibiotic resistant bacteria and their resistant genes is still a major problem in many parts of the world. This situation is particularly alarming in developing countries in which the poor water quality continues to pose a serious threat to public health. Building and strengthening of capacities in developing countries can be considered as a contribution to sustainable development in the World. The challenging water contamination, inefficient natural resources management as well as limited food production have the global consequences

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Dr. Chioma Nwakanma has completed her PhD at the age of 30 years from University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. She has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals and has Professional affiliations both local and International.

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This paper presents an extensive literature review on water supply and sanitation problems in Nigeria. Although, water resources in Nigeria are enormous, the uneven distribution in time and space creates problems for water availability. Pollution and poor waste management had crippled the revitalization of the country’s economy and environment. Due to this, the economy of Nigeria is developing under increasing water deficiency leading to potential high water loss rates and usage, inadequate accessibility to safe water supply. Unsafe water supply are the major sources of water for the rural populace in Nigeria. Urban areas have low traffic in combination with absent metering and low collection rates for water fees. This also means that operation and maintenance costs for basic services for water supply and sanitation are not covered and cannot be monitored properly by the government. As a result of this problems, water-borne diseases and microbial contaminants, heavy metal accumulations in water exceed maximum permissible limits are the order of the day. Therefore, it is paramount to urgently create awareness and the need to develop water supply systems in Nigeria to standards obtained in the developed world, in line with the implementation for more effective and efficient sanitation systems that can revitalized the environment.

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Dr.Marfiah has done her Ph.D. in Engineering (2011)  in KYOTO UNIVERSITY, JAPAN.Her research interests are Pathogenic microorganisms in the environment,Treatment processes for water and wastewater,Water reclamation and reuse,Relationship between water and air pollution.

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The occurrence of antibiotics in wastewater treatment plant has caused serious problems to the ecosystem and the environment. The emergence of antibiotics-resistant bacteria due to the release of antibiotics-contaminated water from treatment plant has become a worrying issue. This study investigated the removal of antibiotics from wastewater using UV treatments. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the removal of antibiotics from wastewater using two types of UV treatments. Four common antibiotics, namely Ciprofloxacin, Amoxicillin, Cloxacillin and Erythromycin were selected for the degradation using UV photolysis and UV/TiO2 photocatalysis at 254nm UV wavelength, 0.21mW.sec/cm2UV intensity and exposure time of 0, 3, 5, 10 and 15 minutes. The occurrence of antibiotics in influent and effluent at Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) was studied using Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (Q-TOF LC/MS) and High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). Q-TOF LC/MS revealed that the presence of antibiotic Erythromycin C (Macrolide) in both influent and effluent. Treatment of antibiotics using UV/TiO2photocatalysis was observed to be more efficient than UV photolysis due to the production of more OH radicals to degrade antibiotics. Removal of Ciprofloxacin, Amoxicillin, Cloxacillin and Erythromycin using UV photolysis at 15 minutes were 20.52%, 14.55%, 13.14% and 8.30%, respectively. Meanwhile, UV/TiO2photocatalysis recorded 43.23%, 37.49%, 35.22% and 27.23% respectively with increase in UV dosage (mJ/cm2). This study provides significant insight on the potential of UV treatments for the removal of antibiotics in wastewater treatment plant.

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The team is working at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Pannonia, one of the main fields is the study of the behaviour of aerosol particles. Publications cover a wide range of topics,        including ecotoxicological studies  on airborne pollution, microbial characterisation of resuspended dust, description of light absorption properties of laboratory generated tar ball particles, etc.

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Atmospheric particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than 10 mm (PM10) and 2.5 mm (PM2.5) is now identified as one of the most dangerous pollutants on human health by the EU new directive on air quality (2008/50/CE). Urban airborne pollution has been well characterised from (human) toxicological aspects, also, the role of plants in active/passive biomonitoring has been extensively investigated. On the contrary, little information is available on the ecotoxicity of airborne pollutants. Ecotoxicological tests are controlled, reproducible experiments where ecotoxicity of the sample is most commonly expressed in the form of ECx value, that is, the (calculated) effective concentration which causes x % of ecological effect. In our study the No. 227 OECD GUIDELINE FOR THE TESTING OF CHEMICALS: Terrestrial Plant Test: Vegetative Vigour Test was investigated to find out if it is applicable for assessing the ecotoxicity of water soluble aerosol compounds.  Following the protocol described by the Guideline, Cucumis sativus L. plants were sprayed with the aqueous extract of urban aerosol samples. After the termination of the test, on Day 21, the following end-points were measured: fresh weight, leaf length and visible symptoms. Fresh weight and leaf length did not seem to be negatively affected, the extract even elucidated stimulatory effect at low concentration. On the other hand, the highest concentration applied caused leaf necrosis. This pattern is typically found if the sample contains nutrients which might mask the toxic effect at such low concentrations.  

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Zhao Ruonan has completed her Master's Degree at the age of 24 years from Renmin University of China and now is studying for a PhD. At her Alma mater. She is working in Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, and is an engineer of Research Centre for Cleaner Production & Circular Economy, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, mainly reponsible for discharge permit system resaerch, environmental economics and environmental management. She has published more than 5 papers in reputed journals.

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The discharge permit system has been implemented for more than 20 years in China. Although some rules of discharge permit system can be found in laws and administrative rules and regulations, the discharge permit system has just been carried out as a pilot policy in some provinces. The discharge permit system only serves as a complementary measure of emissions reporting, registration system and total amount control system, while its important position in pollution management policies is still unclear. In fact, it can reduce the transaction cost by defining the property rights, to solve the problems of “free riders” and externalities in the first place. However, the pollution prevention system in China mostly works at a certain stage, with the lack of cohesion and connection. To problems existing in the environmental management, we should take advantage of the discharge permit system, and integrate the current environmental management system. The goal of atmospheric administration is better air quality, better public health, better public welfare, and better production capacity. To achieve this goal, we not only need to control total emissions, but also need to build continuously emission standards. Through the establishment of the atmospheric emission permit system, some of existing loose jumbled, high cost, inefficient management policies can be integrated together, which can benefit the improvement of the air quality, the reduction of the management cost and the increase of the management efficiency. The discharge permit system was first implemented in Sweden, after years of practice, its role in environmental management gains recognition. The discharge permit system in developed countries gradually became the pillar of pollution prevention, and became more institutionalized and normalized. The discharge permit system in China was first implemented in 1987, but our country doesn’t have a law of discharge permit system until now, and we have a certain gap with USA, Germany in emissions trading

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Yanping LI ,gradulated from Peking University in 2005,is the director of department of Cleaner Produciton and Pollution Prevention of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences. The major research areas of Prof.Li are co-control of CP&EPT, eco-industrial assessment, MFA and EMFA,etc.She has aresady published more than 30 articles and 5 books of pollution prevention and control  of environmental pollution.          

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Synergy is a new discipline that studies the common features of different things and their synergistic mechanisms which has already been used to transportation control,business management and greenhouse gas emission reduction and air pollutant control etc. With the seriously environmental problems and the more stringent environmental standards, relying solely on the end-of-pipe treatment(EPT) of production system performance is increasingly inadequate. The production system can be devided into two subsystems, namely the Cleaner Prodcution(CP) system  and the End-of-Pipe Treatment(EPT)system determing respectively the pollutant production load(W_pp)and the pollutant emission load(W_ept),based on the systematic analysis. So the environmental performance of production system has changed from the single system benefit of EPT into the synergies benefits of CP and EPT. The assessment model of synergy of CP and EPT of production system was established under the hypothesis that the production system pollution discharge meet the requirements of the standard and consume the  minimum energy. It shows that there is synergistic and optimal combination of CP and EPT. This study uses statistical correlation analysis from eight factors of influencing the CP level screening out  three core and quantitative indicators such as purity of raw materials (γ)、raw material yield(ε)and recycling rate(η). While the pollutant removal efficiency(e) is the only factor of EPT.On the basis of material flow analysis(MFA), the difference of environmental performance of industrial production process under different combinations of four indicators was completed by scenario analysis method. Using the above method to complete the case of recycled metal smelting industry. 

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Ahmad saleh has completed his MPH at the age of 24 years from Gadjah Mada University Indonesia and Pharmacist studies from Islamic Muslim Indonesia. He is the Head of Departement Of Pharmachy in STIKES Mandala Waluya Kendari Indonesia. He has published 3 papers in reputed international journals and 4 in local journals. 

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Professor (Dr.) Debi Prasad Tripathy is working as Professor in the Department of Mining Engineering at NIT, Rourkela since 2008. He obtained his B.E.(Mining Engg.) from VNIT, Nagpur; M. Tech. from I.T., BHU; and Ph.D. from ISM, Dhanbad. He has published more than 180 research and technical papers in reputed International and National Journals/Conferences and authored 6 books. His areas of teaching and research interests are: , Environmental Impact Assessment and Management, Computer Applications in Mining Industry, Soft Computing, Mine Planning and Financial Management. He is member, editorial board and reviewer of many International Journals. He has been honored with MEAI-Bala Tandon Award 2014, Smt.Veena Roonwal Award of SGAT and Abel Wolman Award for Best Paper in IE(I), BBSR for 2014 and 2015 and Geominetech Excellence Award, 2015.

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Air pollution is a major risk to health in many developed and developing countries of the world. Most of the pulmonary diseases related to air pollution are generally directly or indirectly related to the respirable particulate matter (PM10). Further the health impacts depend on the physical and chemical characteristics of the particulate matter. Mining industries produces huge amount of dust by drilling, blasting, transportation, loading, unloading and mine fires. Now-a-days in India, coal mining is mainly done by opencast methods rather than underground, which generates huge quantities of respirable dust. This paper focuses on the physico-chemical characterisation of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) in and around mechanized opencast coal mines of Talcher coalfields (Mahanadi Coalfield Limited), Odisha, India. The study was carried out for a period of one year from March 2015 to February 2016. The monitoring of particulate concentration reveals that the concentration of both PM10 and PM2.5 levels were far above the standard limit of NAAQS, 2009. The trace metal study by atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS) indicated the presence of Fe, Cu, Cr, Zn, Ni, Cd, Pb, As, Se and Hg in the samples. For the qualitative analysis, techniques like Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and XRD were used. Source apportionment study of particulate matter was also carried out based on the characterization. Statistical analysis such as correlation analysis and Principle Component Analysis (PCA) was also carried out. Different studies on the particulate matter suggested that monitoring stations near the mining area were mainly affected by the emission from opencast coal mining and its associated activities.

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Dr.Sehroon worked in different research areas and fought against chemical pesticides or plastics wastes, which are hazardous for both environment and humans. My research directions are isolation of fungi from soil and other dumping sites that could be utilized for applied side in various aspects to keep the environment safe. For example, isolation of entomopathogenic fungi or plastics biodegrading fungi that could have direct effect on ecosystem conservation. Similarly, isolation of insect toxin proteins from entomopathogenic fungi and identification of their gene sequence and their secretion expression in endophytic bacteria, the characterization of the engineered strain on biological control.Besides these, Dr.Sehroon is working on isolation and identification of elicitors proteins from phytopathogenic fungi/oomycetes, and determination of their gene sequence. My research interest also include the plant immunity mechanism involved in the Systemic Acquired Resistance pathways on molecular level, or developing biological based pesticides to kill the pests through environmentally safe biogenic compounds. More recently, I get involved in isolation, identification, and phylogenetic classification of micro and macro fungi based on morpho-molecular and phylogenetic analyses of ITS rDNA regions

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The xenobiotic nature and lack of degradability of polymeric materials has resulted in vast levels of environmental pollution and numerous health hazards. Different strategies have been developed and still more research is being in progress to reduce the impact of these polymeric materials. This work aimed to isolate and characterize polyester polyurethane (PU) degrading fungi from the soil of a general city waste disposal site in Islamabad, Pakistan. A novel PU degrading fungus was isolated from soil and identified as Aspergillus tubingensis on the basis of colony morphology, macro- and micro-morphology, molecular and phylogenetic analyses. The PU degrading ability of the fungus was tested in three different ways in the presence of 2% glucose: (a) on SDA agar plate, (b) in liquid MSM, and (c) after burial in soil. Our results indicated that this strain of A. tubingensis was capable of degrading PU. Using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), we were able to visually confirm that the mycelium of A. tubingensis colonized the PU material, causing surface degradation and scarring. The formation or breakage of chemical bonds during the biodegradation process of PU was confirmed using Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. The biodegradation of PU was higher when plate culture method was employed, followed by the liquid culture method and soil burial technique. Notably, after two months in liquid medium, the PU film was totally degraded into smaller pieces. Based on a comprehensive literature search, it can be stated that this is the first report showing A. tubingensis capable of degrading PU. This work provides insight into the role of A. tubingensis towards solving the dilemma of PU wastes through biodegradation.

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Miada A. Ali has completed her bachelor at the age of 26 years from UAE University. Since 2014, she joined United Arab Emirates University as a research assistant. Currently, she is a post graduate student in Chemical Engineering Department at the United Arab Emirates University.

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The excessive use of desalination, which is due to the increase in fresh water demand, results in large productions of reject brine. Therefore, the development of an efficient treatment process of the reject brine becomes vital. The Solvay process is one of the main treatment technologies, wherein NH₃ is introduced to converting soluble Na⁺ into insoluble NaHCO₃. Although the concentration of Na⁺ ions are reduced in this process, Cl^- ions are not affected. In addition, the concentration of  NH₄⁺  ions increase. Electrocoagulation has been tested for the remove Cl^- and NH₄⁺ ions and to regenerate the NH₃. When no current was applied, a very small removal of the ions was recorded. Applying a current density of 0.1167 A/cm² caused an increase in the removal of and Cl^-, by 45.9% and 25.87%, respectively at 20°C, 71.55% and 26.88%, respectively at 30°C. This clearly proves that the main removal was due to the electrocoagulation. The effects of current density, initial concentration, and temperature have been studied on the ions removal. It was found that increasing the current density and/or the temperature was found to decrease the residual ions concentration.  Whereas, increasing the initial ions concentration resulted in decreasing the percentage removal. 

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Ying-Hen Hsieh is an applied mathematician and a professor at the Department of Public Health, China Medical University in Taiwan. His primary research interests focus on mathematical and statistical modeling of infectious diseases as well as analysis of infectious disease epidemiology relating to public health policies.

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Recently, the impact of ambient fine particles, and especially that of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5), on human health has garnered much attention. Many studies have revealed positive associations of PM2.5 with human health outcome, including asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, and cancer. Annual PM2.5 concentration in most cities in Taiwan has been higher than the lowest concentration recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Long-term exposure to the ambient fine particles potentially causes more severe inflammation and pulmonary epithelium damage in human lung. This study aims to investigate the associations between PM2.5 and human seasonal influenza in cities and counties in Taiwan under the hypothesis that higher exposure concentration is associated with severe lung inflammation and epithelial damage, subsequently humans infected by the influenza virus are likely to have more exacerbating response

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QIAO Qi has completed her Master's Degree at the age of 23 years from Xi'an Jiao tong University and now is studying for a PhD. at Tsinghua University of Envrionment and Energy.She is the Deputy Chief Engineer of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, and is the Director and Chief Professor/Researcher of Research Centre for Cleaner Production & Circular Economy, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, mainly reponsible for Emission Reduction in Industry, Eco-Industry and Circular Economy. She has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and has been won more than 10 prizes of the national, provincial and ministerial levels. 

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Between 2011 and 2014 (the 12th FYP), China achieved over 7.5% year-on-year growth of per capita GDP; industrial output increased by 10.5%, with equipment manufacturing and high technology manufactures increasing by 13.2 and 11.7 percent, respectively. Most manufacturing activities in the country take place in industrial agglomeration zones. In 2016, there were 613 industrial zones/parks at the national levels and more than 1000 industrial parks in the provincial levels, including the Economic and Technical Development Zones (ETDZs), the Hi-Tech Industries Development Zones, the national Free Trade Zones, the national New Area, and so on. The average growth rate of industrial parks was more than 15%, which had made a greater contribution to our country’s economic development. However, as the concentrated areas of industrial production, industrial parks became the focuses of resource shortage, environmental pollution and ecological destruction. It is necessary to transform the traditional development mode of industrial parks. The general idea of the transformation is to make the industrial park as a large pollution sources, reduce resources consumption, improve optimal manufacturing technology, enhance pollution prevention, control environmental risk, innovate environmental management mechanism, and promoting ecological transformation. The traditional industrial parks could transform to ecological industrial parks with the coordination of economy and environmental protection. In China, there is a national program focused on improving the environmental performance of industrial parks initiated from 1990s, and actively implemented currently: Eco-Industrial Park Demonstration program. As of 2016, 93 zones have been declared as “National Trial EIPs”, and 48 have achieved “National EIP” status. This paper introduced how to evaluate the green development performance of the eco-industrial park according to a evaluation index system. The roles of ecnomic growth, industrial structure, resource utilization, pollution emission and environmental managment as influence factors of eco-efficiency were discussed. The results show that from 2006 to 2015, the intensities of water and comprehensive energy consumption of EIPs reduced 65.9% and 66.1% respectively. The COD emissions intensity and SO2 emissions intensity cut 81.5% and 87.7% respectively. So the EIPs were leading the whole country in resource energy conservation and emission reduction, and achieving transformation and upgrading of industrial parks green development.

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Basak Taseli is a faculty of Engineering, Environmental Engineering Department, Giresun University.She has published more than 20 articles.Her expertise areas are ecology,waste water management.

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This paper investigates the application of electrocoagulation (EC) and electroflotation (EF) in wastewater originating from mixed vegetable oil (hazelnut oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, corn oil and canola oil) processing factory. EC has been in use for industrial and domestic wastewater treatment finding more applications using aluminum (Al), iron (Fe) or hybrid Al and Fe electrodes. EF is proved to be perform better than any other methods and effective in removing colloidal particles, oil and grease as well as organic wastewaters.

This study aims to determine the optimum operating conditions for the treatment of wastewaters of mixed vegetable oil plant effluents with high organic pollution load by electrocoagulation method. The effects of pH, conductivity, current density and operating time on the removal efficiency of chemical oxygen demand (COD), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP) and turbidity have been explored. The results show that 87.32 % COD, 51 % TN and 88 % TP removal has been achieved with optimum pH of 7-8 with 3 minutes reaction time and optimum energy of 250 A.

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Jin-Ho Chung received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.  He has been Professor of College of Pharmacy at Seoul National University (SNU).   Jin-Ho Chung manages an organization as director at Institute of Environment Protection and Safety of SNU since June 2008.  In Jan. 2009, he served also as President of Korean Society of Toxicology.  He served and serves in numerous advisory functions in different national organizations.  He has contributed to the scientific achievements with a significant number of publications in major journals

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Arsenic is a ubiquitous heavy metal in various environmental media that include soil, air, and water. Numerous epidemiological studies have reported a close relationship between arsenic and skin carcinogenic effects. In addition, arsenic was also known as a blister agent in skin, and thus its derivatives have been used as a chemical weapon. However, the mechanism of blister formation, one of the most important targets for arsenic toxicity, remains poorly understood. Here we found that arsenic could induce cytotoxicity and inflammation in keratinocyte, which play key roles in the formation of blister. In this study, we used arsenic (AsIII) and trivalent methylated metabolites of arsenic, monomethylarsonous acid (MMAIII), which has been found highly reactive and toxic in various cells. Treatment of AsIII and MMAIII resulted in significant reduction of viability of keratinocyte (HaCaT) in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. Cell death forms, which are apoptosis and necrosis, are occurring simultaneously in AsIII and MMAIII. These cell death were found to be mediated by the reactive oxygen species (ROS), depletion of glutathione by AsIII and MMAIII.  Consistent with these findings, mitochondrial membrane potential disruption, caspase-3 activation and DNA fragmentation were observed by treatments with AsIII and MMAIII, as determined by fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry. Exposure to arsenicals also stimulated secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokine in keratinocytes, resulting in increased levels of TNF-α, IL-1α, and IL-6.  In summary, this study provides an important evidence for the role of AsIII and MMAIII in arsenic-associated cytotoxicity and inflammation response in keratinocytes, suggesting a new solution to inhibit the toxicant-induced blister formation.

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Dr. Indira Parajuli completed her Ph.D at the age of 35 years from Incheon National University, South Korea. She was Assistance Professor in Sapta Gandaki Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal from 2005 to 2006. She served as an Assistant Professor in Nepal Poly-technique Institute, Nepal from 2009 to 2011. She has over 15 years professional experiences with various agencies including UNDP, European Union, ILO, Helvetas, etc. She has more than 35 publications including text book, international Journal papers, conference papers, domestic publications. Dr. Parajuli is a member of Asian iNstitute for Environmental Research and enerGY (A.NERGY) and Korean Society of Atmospheric Environment since 2012.

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The integrated management of media based (both water and air) pollutants is the vital at current as the management and legalization of individual pollutant is very difficult. Integration of various environmental aspects associated with activities of production processes is one of the challenges in industrial sectors. It is of vital concern to find the scientific way of integration of media based pollutants for today. Based on amount and kind of media based pollutants, Integrated Environmental Performance Score (IEPS) is calculated applying Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and other Environmental Impacts (TRACI). The potential impacts of individual pollutants have been modeled for water-based pollutants viz., Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Total Phosphorous (TP), and Total Nitrogen (TN) and air pollutants viz., Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx), Oxides of Sulphur (SOx) and Particles Matter (PM10). A kilogram of individual pollutants is taken in modeling to compute the individual impact categories of unit pollutants. The EPS penalty of TN is obtained as highest score of 189.70 i.e. 90.82% shares among six pollutants. The total penalty score for TP, PM10, TN, NOx and SOx, is derived as 13.53 (6.48%), 2.59 (1.24%), 1.30 (0.62%), 1.30 (0.62%) and 0.44 (0.21%), respectively. Hence, it is necessary to integrate effects of pollutants as per the scientific and justified impact caused by individual pollutants derived from the industrial facilities. Therefore, this study recommends for the compliance of EPS penalty of the pollutants based on a result of TRACI. This helps to enforce a scientific and justified polluters’ pay principle.

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Amandine Laffite, is a PhD Student from University of Geneva.She has published many papers in different Journals.Her research interests are in Microbiology, Genetics, Ecology

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The contamination of freshwater resources with anthropogenic pollutant is a growing concern of interest because safe and readily available is a need for human. The situation is particularly alarming in developing countries where most rivers and lakes are receiving urban and hospital wastewater without any prior treatment. Furthermore, hospital effluents are known to play a major role in the emergence and the spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) because they discharge a high rate of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARBs) in a highly selective environment. Cumulative with the knowledge gaps in antibiotic prescription and the free access to last resort antibiotics, under-developing countries may represent a broth culture to antibiotic resistance emergence, maintenance and dissemination. In this study, we investigate the contamination of sediment and the resistance profile of extending-spectra β-lactamase E. coli (ESBLECs) isolated from 4 urban river subjected to hospital outlet pipes (HOP) discharge in order to determine the effect of HOP discharge on urban river quality and the pattern of antibiotic resistance dissemination. ARGs (bla_TEM, bla_CTX-M, bla_SHV and aadA) and selected bacterial species (i.e E.coli, Enterococcus, Pseudomonas spp.) where quantified in sediments using quantitative PCR (qPCR), toxic metals content were quantified by ICP-MS, and ESBLECs isolates where subjected to pulse-field electrophoresis to assess their clonality and characterized for their resistance to metal and β-lactams resistance. The results highlight the great concentration of toxic metals in sediments (47.87 (Cr), 204 (Cu), 1077 (Zn), 2.07 (Cd), 124.40 (Pb) and 3.94 (Hg), in mg.kg^-1 at the HOP reject point), and the high content of FIB and ARGs copy number in all sampling sites including control site and downstream the HOP discharge indicating that hospital effluents are not an exclusive source of the biological contaminant entering the urban rivers. The analysis of ESBLECs profile showed the high diversity of clones disseminated in rivers (150 isolates, 69 pulsotypes), a global resistance to Zn, Cu, Ni and Pb and a high resistance profile against β-lactams (100% resistant to CFM, CEC, ATM, AMP, FEP, CXM, CTX, PRL; 60% to SAM and 37% intermediate to MEM). These findings indicates the human and environmental potential risk link to exposure to these contaminants and the need of developing strategies to limit the spread of these emerging contaminant.

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Sara Kazemi Yazdi has completed her PhD in 2010 at the school of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. Her research interest is in the area of surface water pollution prevention and flood attenuation

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The aim of this study was to determine the specific water quality characteristics of stormwater constructed wetlands treating stormwater road runoff in a tropical climate. Four representative constructed wetlands were selected as study sites in the peninsular Malaysia. Runoff samples were randomly collected from each site twice every week. The samples were analysed onsite for pH, Dissolved Oxygen (DO) and Temperature. The samples were then transported to a laboratory at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus for  further analysis of nitrate-nitrogen and orthophosphate-phosphorus, selected haevy metals such as nickle and copper,biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), solids and microbial contamination by E.coli and intestinal enterococci. The water samples were collected over a period of 12 months from January 2015 until December 2016. Water quality evaluation of the four representative sites through physical, chemical and biological analysis indicated high removal effficiencies compared to published literature. The role of plant (Eleocharis dulcis and Scirpus mucronatus) in removing nitrogen and phosphorus from was also assessed. An analysis of variance revealed that some one the representative sites showed significant diffrences in terms of water quality indicators. The other three sites showed similar water quality charcteristics. This was then associated with the choice of plant species.