Environments  

Ehsan Oveisi, Shahab Sokhansanj, Anthony Lau, Jim Lim, Xiaotao Bi, Fernando Preto and Cliff Mui

In this study, the moisture content, calorific value, and particle size of recycled wood chips were measured. The wood chips were used to fuel an 8.5 MWth updraft gasifier to produce syngas for combustion in a steam-producing boiler. In-situ syngas compos... see more

Georgina Guzman-Rangel, Daniela Montalvo and Erik Smolders

Zinc (Zn) and arsenic (As) occur as mixed contaminants in soil and the interactions between them remain unclear. Here, we investigated a Zn2+ and H2AsO4− mixture interaction and their effects on plant growth. Three different soils were spiked with Z... see more

Ludmila Naumova, Tamara Minakova, Nikolay Gorlenko, Irina Kurzina and Irina Vasenina

This study aims to solve the problem of deep destruction of organic pollutants in industrial effluents by creating new composite materials with prescribed functional properties. This paper researches the possibility of using composites based on a polyprop... see more

Giulia Cheloni and Vera I. Slaveykova

In the present review, we critically examine the state-of-the-art of the research on combined effects of trace metals and light on photosynthetic microorganisms in aquatic environment. Light of different intensity and spectral composition affects the inte... see more

Jonatan Ostrometzky and Adam Eshel

Commercial microwave links have a great potential to be used as sensors for rain. However, the use of commercial microwave links to monitor the rain depends heavily on the availability of the links’ attenuation measurements. The cellular operators w... see more

Theano Samara, Dimitrios Raptis and Ioannis Spanos

The peri-urban and urban forests in Greece occupy a total area of 105.353 ha. In these vulnerable ecosystems, fire constitutes a natural disaster presenting particular challenges and specific difficulties. These include the high number of visitors as well... see more

Anh T. T. Le, Tamao Kasahara and Varawoot Vudhivanich

Elevated nutrient concentrations are of concern in many agricultural streams. This study observed seasonal variation of inorganic nitrogen concentrations in small drainage streams that receive discharge predominantly from three different types of agricult... see more

Micky A. Babalola

Recently, the popularity of anaerobic digestion (AD) has been increasing, and selecting a site for AD is a complex process for both individuals and decision-makers. This process requires the selected site to fulfill all regulation requirements, simultaneo... see more

Robert B. Richardson and Murari Suvedi

Fisheries in Cambodia play an important role in supporting household food security and livelihoods throughout the country. Inland fisheries production is largely dependent on numerous ecosystem services, particularly the floodwaters of the Tonle Sap Lake ... see more

Lior Gazit and Hagit Messer

While the effect of rainfall and other environmental phenomena on a link budget in microwave wireless communication has been well studied for network design, it has usually been done for each microwave-link separately. Recently, attenuation in multiple mi... see more

Roi Raich, Pinhas Alpert and Hagit Messer

When monitoring rain rates by weather radar in semi-arid regions and when measuring precipitation at an arid region; precipitation particles, rain, or snowflakes may evaporate before reaching the ground. This evaporation is regarded as the Virga phenomeno... see more

Hagit Messer

The use of existing measurements from a commercial wireless communication system as virtual sensors for environmental monitoring has recently gained increasing attention. In particular, measurements of the signal level of commercial microwave links (CMLs)... see more