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Arwa A. AL-Huqail, Mostafa A. Taher, Ivan ?iric, Madhumita Goala, Bashir Adelodun, Kyung Sook Choi, Piyush Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Pankaj Kumar and Ebrahem M. Eid
With the increasing demand for electronic devices that use batteries, e-waste is also becoming a major threat to the environment. Battery e-waste contains hazardous heavy metals that affect the health of the soil ecosystem. Thus, the present study evalua...
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Zubairu Darma Umar, Nor Azwady Abd, Syaizwan Zahmir Zulkifli, Muskhazli Mustafa
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) comprised of many dangerous organic pollutants which affect human cell. The choice of phenanthrene and pyrene as model substrates was based on their classification among the most hazardous PAHs group by the US EPA ...
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Rajesh Kushwaha, Naba Hazarika, Arin Srivastava
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A pilot study was carried out in New Delhi, India, to assess the level of traffic related aerosol exposure, individually and associated metals. These investigations also try to formulate their risk assessment using different modes of transport on a typic...
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Vladislav Zaalishvili, Olga Burdzieva, Aleksandr Kanukov and Tamaz Zaks
The article considers the main sources of pollutionin the territory of the Republic of North Ossetia?Alania. A study of environmental geophysical factors in the city of Vladikavkaz was carried out at 126 points; indicators of noise pollution, electric fi...
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Ayansina Segun Ayangbenro and Olubukola Oluranti Babalola
Persistent heavy metal pollution poses a major threat to all life forms in the environment due to its toxic effects. These metals are very reactive at low concentrations and can accumulate in the food web, causing severe public health concerns. Remediati...
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Mirella Elkadi, Avin Pillay, Sai Cheong Fok, Fadi Feghali, Ghada Bassioni and Sasi Stephen
This paper explores the potential of concrete material to accumulate toxic trace elements using ablative laser technology (ICP-MS). Concrete existing in offshore structures submerged in seawater acts as a sink for hazardous metals, which could be gradual...
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Felix Flesch, Pia Berger, Daniel Robles-Vargas, Gustavo Emilio Santos-Medrano and Roberto Rico-Martínez
Following a quantitative analysis of adequate feedstock, comprising 11 woody biomass species, four biochars were generated using a Kon-Tiki flame curtain kiln in the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico. Despite the high quality (certified by European Biochar...
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Simone Perna, Zainab Ali AL-Qallaf and Qaisar Mahmood
Modern urban societies generate tremendous amounts of hazardous wastes, including toxic organics and metals. Toxic metals harm plants and pose a risk to human health; examples of them are copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), palladium (Pb), and cadmium (Cd). Wetland ...
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Fatin Samara, Sandra L. Knuteson, Tala A. Abdulateef, Fadi Yaghmour, Brendan Whittington-Jones, Sara Mohamed Al Abdalla, Baha Khalil and Norhan Ahmed
A hypersaline protected wetland in the UAE was assessed from February to April of 2021 for parameters such as temperature, pH, COD, total dissolved solids, ORP, electrical conductivity, total and E. coli, salinity, turbidity, chloride, ammonia, nitrate, ...
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Gennadii Kochetov,Oleksandr Kovalchuk,Dmitry Samchenko
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A study of the products of ferritization processing of galvanic waste: sludge and spent process solutions is carried out. As a result of experiments on dynamic leaching of heavy metal ions, the immobilization properties of the sludge, obtained at differe...
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Nuno Cristelo, João Coelho, Mafalda Oliveira, Nilo Cesar Consoli, Ángel Palomo and Ana Fernández-Jiménez
Mine tailings (MT) could represent a step forward in terms of the quality of the aggregates usually used in civil engineering applications, mostly due to its high density. The Portuguese Neves Corvo copper mine, owned by the Lundin Mining Corporation, pr...
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Carlos Monrabal-Martinez, Aamir Ilyas, Tone M. Muthanna
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This paper presents an estimation of the service life of three filters composed of sand and three alternative adsorbents for stormwater treatment according to Norwegian water quality standards for receiving surface waters. The study conducted pilot scale...
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Carlos Monrabal-Martinez, Aamir Ilyas and Tone M. Muthanna
This paper presents an estimation of the service life of three filters composed of sand and three alternative adsorbents for stormwater treatment according to Norwegian water quality standards for receiving surface waters. The study conducted pilot scale...
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Zeinab Naderizadeh,Hossein Khademi,Shamsollah Ayoubi
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Heavy metals in dust are causing health problems in humans and other organisms. The main objectives of this study were to determine (1) the concentrations and the sources of heavy metals including Zn, Cu, Pb, Fe, Ni, Cr, Co and Mn, and (2) the contaminat...
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Abeer S. Aloufi, Bahja Al Riyami, Mustafa A. Fawzy, Hatim M. Al-Yasi, Mostafa Koutb and Sedky H. A. Hassan
The release of heavy metals into the environment as a result of industrial and agricultural activities represents one of the century?s most significant issues. Cobalt is a hazardous metal that is employed in a variety of industries. In this study, respon...
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Ali Ghahremani, Scott D. Adams, Michael Norton, Sui Yang Khoo and Abbas Z. Kouzani
Solar panels are an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels; however, their useful life is limited to approximately 25 years, after which they become a waste management issue. Proper management and recycling of end-of-life (EOL) solar panels...
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Anna Sabbatini, Francesca Caridi, Giovanni Birarda, Elisa Costanzi, Adolfo Amici, Giovanna Mobbili, Carla Buosi, Giovanni De Giudici, Daniela Medas and Alessandra Negri
The most often dispersed environmental pollutants that are released both directly and indirectly into the environment that may eventually reach aquatic ecosystems and contaminate aquatic biomes are cigarette butts (CBs). Toxicants such as nicotine, dange...
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Igor Karlovic, Tamara Markovic, Andrew C. Smith and Kre?imir Maldini
Gravel pits are considered potentially hazardous in terms of groundwater quality protection as they represent an open part of the aquifer system, increasing the aquifer?s vulnerability to contamination from the surface. The aim of this research was to de...
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Mulin Chen, Hongyan Cai, Li Wang and Mei Lei
Understanding the risks posed by potentially toxic metals (PTMs) in large regions is important for environmental management. However, regional risk assessment that relies on traditional field sampling or administrative statistical data is labor-intensive...
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Fatemeh Mollaamin and Majid Monajjemi
Carbon dioxide (CO2) adsorption on decorated graphene (GR) sheets with transition metals (TMs) including iron, nickel and zinc was investigated for removing this hazardous gas from the environment. TM-doped GR results in higher activity toward gas detect...
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