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Adsorption Curve Fits For Landfill VOCs On Bituminous Coal Based And Coconut Shell Based Activated Carbon
Athappan, Annaprabha (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2009-09-16)This study explores adsorption as a method of controlling hazardous gas emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (MSWL). In particular, the hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) para, meta, and ortho-xylene, ethylbenzene ... -
AERMOD MODELING OF AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS FROM BACKUP GENERATOR USE IN LAGOS, NIGERIA
Abayomi, Temitope; 0000-0002-7131-9153 (2017-12-07)Generator emissions contribute to increase in air pollution. In developing countries with inadequate electricity supply, many people rely on back-up generators for long-term electricity supply. Nigeria is the second biggest ... -
AIR DISPERSION MODELING OF MULTIPLE NATURAL GAS WELL PADS AT DIFFERENT TERRAIN CONDITIONS AND DETERMINATION OF INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING FUNCTION EXPONENT
Khalaj, Fatemeh (2016-05-12)Natural gas production and development has been widely spreading all over the United States. Texas has been leading the nation in natural gas production by holding approximately twenty three percent of the nation’s natural ... -
Comparison Of Adsorption Capacities Of Nanoadsorbents With Conventional Activated Carbon For Volatile Organic Compounds
Deshmukh, Namrata Baburao (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)This research explores the potential for using single wall carbon nanohorns (SWNHs) for adsorption of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) categorized as hazardous air pollutants and which contribute to ground level ozone ... -
COMPARISON OF METHANE PRODUCTION FROM HOUSEHOLD WASTE
Baniya, Sunita; 0000-0002-6711-4702 (2016-05-11)Anaerobic digestion is a biochemical process in which various microorganisms transform complex organic compounds to methane, along with carbon dioxide, water vapor and a small amount of other trace gases in absence of ... -
Determination Of Safe Buffer Width Of Roadway To Protect Human Health Form Harmful NOx Exposure
Bhatt, Hetal H (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)According to the 2004 EPA Trends Report, US on-road transportation sources emit 36% of nitrogen oxides (NOx), 63% of carbon monoxide (CO), and 29% of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This research determines a safe roadway ... -
Effect Of Termite Gut Microbe TAV5 On Methane Production From Municipal Solid Waste Degradation
Rahimi, Hoda (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2015)Methane from anaerobic processes is being increasingly utilized as an alternative energy source in developed countries, via large projects that extract methane from landfills or wastewater treatment plants. Anaerobic ... -
Effectiveness Of Signal Coordination As An Emission Reduction Measure For Vehicles
Parikh, Rajashi I (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)Air Pollution is a significant health and environmental concern. Vehicular emissions are major contributors to many air pollution problems. There is growing interest in reducing carbon dioxide emission because of the ... -
Feasibility Studies To Support Landfill Gas Recovery In Ghana
Jangikhatoonabad, NedaAccording to World Bank Ghana generates 0.09 kg of solid waste per person per day, where there are only 4 engineered landfills in the country. In 2010, Ghana contributed to 0.13% of global greenhouse gases emissions, 10% ... -
Impact Of A Pre-combustion Retrofit Device On Vehicular Emissions: A Case Study
Kanukolanu, Sri Harsha (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)Vehicular emissions are a major cause of air pollution in the cities worldwide. Increased numbers of vehicles and the vehicle miles traveled by them every year means that the emissions are going to have a detrimental effect ... -
The Impact Of Lime Dosage On Odor Reduction Of Biosolids
Abri, Arash (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-12)The amount of boisolids production is increasing due to developing cities and the mitigation of biosolids odorants is a key role to have a successful biosolids land application program. The objective of this study is to ... -
Impacts Of Signal Synchronization On Vehicular Emissions - An On-board Measurement Case Study
Munshi, Rupangi (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)Nearly 56% of total nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions are produced by mobile sources. Transportation and air quality managers at the state and regional level have the responsibility of developing and evaluating Transportation ... -
Investigation of reuse of coal fly ash to mitigate landfill methane gas
Homaei, Amin (2017-06-08)Methane (CH4) is a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), contributing 32% of current climate forcing (US EPA, 2015). In 2014 the White House released the “Strategy to Cut Methane Emissions” as part of the Climate Action Plan. ... -
Photocatalytic Degradation Of VOCs, Toxics And Odors From Air Emissions Of Wastewater Treatment Plants And Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Upadhyay, Mita Suresh (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) require more stringent controls of sources of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). Air quality managers at the state level are responsible for ... -
Physical characterization and evaluation of energy potential for mined waste from Irving landfill
Kakara, Vijay (2019-12-06)Historically landfills have been seen as the ultimate solution for storing waste at minimum cost. But, now it is a well-known fact that these deposits have numerous implications such as long term methane emissions, local ... -
Removal Of Carbonyl Sulfide Using Compost Biofilter: Measurement Of Removal Rates And Elimination Capacity In Conjunction With Hydrogen Sulfide
Garrepalli, Divya R. (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)A lab study using biofiltration was conducted using three PVC columns as biofilters, with hardwood chips and compost as the media. Previous research determined the removal efficiency of carbonyl sulfide alone. (Nawal, 2004) ... -
Sustainable reuse of fly ash to mitigate landfill methane
Priyadarshini, Sharon (2016-05-19)According to US, EIA 2014 coal alone produces nearly 40% of electricity more than another source in US. Out of the 110 million tons of Coal combustion by-products (CCBs) generated per year as a result of coal combustion, ... -
Trends Of Vehicular Emissions Due To The Effect Of Ethos® FR As Fuel Additive
Satyanarayan, Shruthi (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)The main objective of this research was to observe if the addition of the fuel additive Ethos Fuel Reformulator significantly reduced the emissions of CO, CO2, HC and NOX from a light duty vehicle. Data collection was ... -
Trends Of Vehicular Emissions For Clean Air Associates Precombustion Retrofit Device
Nagireddi, Jaya Vani (Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2008-04-22)The research study objective was to find if there was any reduction in onboard exhaust emissions from a light duty passenger car (2007 Dodge Charger) with a Clean Air Catalytic Converter manufactured by Clean Air Associates, ...