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Margarida Antunes, António Santos, Teresa Valente and Teresa Albuquerque
Uranium and thorium are toxic in different environments. The exploitation of uranium mines and associated mine drainage leaching towards streams, sediments, and soils cause relevant pollution. The U-mine areas present high concentrations of potentially t...
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Guoxing Xia, Alexandre Bonatto, Roger Pizzato Nunes, Linbo Liang, Oscar Jakobsson, Yuan Zhao, Barney Williamson, Can Davut and Xueying Wang
Beam dumps are indispensable components for particle accelerator facilities to absorb or dispose beam kinetic energy in a safe way. However, the design of beam dumps based on conventional technology, i.e., energy deposition via beam?dense matter interact...
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M. M. Biliaiev,T. I. Rusakova,I. V. Kalashnikov,I. O. Bondarenko,E. Y. Gunko
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Miroslav Kubásek,Jirí Hrebícek
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This paper describes the environmental project called www.ZmapujTo.cz which is intended to fight against illegal waste dumps in the Czech Republic with the use of geographic information systems (GIS). A smartphone/tablet GIS reporting application ZmapujT...
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María Luisa Álvarez, Ana Méndez, Roberto Rodríguez-Pacheco, Jorge Paz-Ferreiro and Gabriel Gascó
In Spain, there are more than 733 million tons of tailings stored in tailing dams. In addition, there is an undetermined volume of oxidized metal mineral dumps for which an application has not been found. We consider that the study of alternative and env...
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Tobius Thobile Poswa and Theophilus Clavell Davies
It is well recognized that the mining industry in South Africa is highly rated for its substantial contribution to the country?s economic growth, including employment and infrastructural development. It is also known that mining and ore processing activi...
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Jorge Luiz Audibert, Fernando Fernandes
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Trials conducted in controlled landfillsor dumps are still incipient in Brazil. This paper aimed to qualify and quantify the emission of biogas in the landfill of Londrina, Paraná State. Measurements were performed by three types of tests: static closed ...
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Mario du Preez,Deborah Lee,Leann Cloete
AbstractThis paper examines the Nelson Mandela Bay public?s willingness to pay (WTP) for the removal of a local undesirable land use, the manganese ore dumps and the oil tank farm situated within the boundaries of the Port Elizabeth harbour, Eastern Cape...
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José Domínguez, Víctor Villanueva, Emilio Martínez
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This paper presents the results that are obtained when recycled construction and demolition waste were used for the manufacture of useful elements inhousing of social interest. Although the application of the recycled aggregate is very wide, and this pap...
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Younes Gaga, Safaa Benmessaoud, Mohammed Kara, Amine Assouguem, Abdullah Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, Fahad M. Al-Hemaid, Mohamed S. Elshikh, Riaz Ullah, Artur Banach and Jamila Bahhou
The present research concerns the development of a new device and process intended for the purification and treatment of sulfurous elements, and more particularly, of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from the biogas produced at the time of the anaerobic fermentati...
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Rosendo Mendoza, Javier Rey, Julián Martínez and Maria Carmen Hidalgo
Conservation, rehabilitation and post-valuation of the facilities of old mining districts is considered a valid strategy to revitalize these areas. In this study, the northeastern sector of the Linares-La Carolina mining district was analyzed, integratin...
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Nataliya Yurkevich, Polina Osipova, Leonid Tsibizov, Ekaterina Tsibizova, Irina Fadeeva, Sergey Volynkin, Kristina Tulisova and Tatyana Kuleshova
The article presents the original results of the investigation of sulfide-bearing mine tailings dumps (Ursk, Western Siberia, Russia), the adjacent territory, and acid mine drainage flows. The novelty of this study is related to integration of geophysica...
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Agnieszka Dradrach, Anna Karczewska, Katarzyna Szopka and Karolina Lewinska
The uptake of As by various plants growing in highly enriched sites was examined in order to identify potential As accumulators and to assess the risk associated with As presence in plant shoots. Representative samples of 13 plant species, together with ...
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Rosa María Espinosa-Valdemar, Alethia Vázquez-Morillas, Sara Ojeda-Benítez, Gabriela Arango-Escorcia, Sonia Cabrera-Elizalde, Xochitl Quecholac-Piña, Maribel Velasco-Pérez and Perla X. Sotelo-Navarro
Waste with high biomass content generated in cities in developing countries is sent to landfills or open dumps. This research aims to degrade biomass content in urban waste through cultivation, at pilot scale, of the edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatu...
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WDMC Perera,NJGJ Bandara,MW Jayaweera
Abstract In Sri Lanka municipal solid waste is generally disposed in poorly managed open dumps which lack liner systems and leachate collection systems. Rain water percolates through the waste layers to produce leachate which drains in to ground ...
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Osvaldo Borges Pinto Jr,Ana Eveline Mendonça Mourato Lima
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A disposição do lixo no Brasil, onde o uso de ?lixões? ainda é muito comum, é um dos graves problemas ambientais. A emissão de gases produzidos pela decomposição anaeróbia da matéria orgânica pode ser uma ameaça ao ambiente local causando danos à vegetaç...
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Omayra Luzmila Mori-Sánchez, Lia Ramos-Fernández, Willy Eduardo Lluén-Chero, Edwin Pino-Vargas and Lisveth Flores del Pino
The Lurín River is one of the main sources of water for the city of Lima. However, the discharge of domestic wastewater, the presence of dumps, and long periods of drought cause the deterioration of the water resource. In this study, DO, BOD5, E. coli, T...
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