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CEST Proceedings are published under the ISSN 2944-9820.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF TOURISM AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE CULTURAL HERITAGE
FRAGKOU D., SINOU M.
Topic:
Environmental impacts of tourism and sustainable tourism development
The natural and cultural heritage, peculiar and living cultures are great tourist attraction. The intensive and inefficient management of tourism and the association with this development can damage the nature, integrity and the dominant characteristics of these. In this way the ecological...Read more
Keywords:
Architecture, cultural heritage, environmental protection
Production of activated carbon from oil palm shells via physical activation with H2O and its characterization for use in aqueous phase
(Corresponding) Rincon S., Alvarez D.
Topic:
Energy technologies and sustainability
Oil palm shells (OPS) are a solid residue of the extraction of palm oil having excellent characteristics for production of activated carbon. OPS worldwide production amounts to 17.214 ton (2018) from which Colombia participates with 364 ton. Oil palm shells were first carbonized in a horizontal...Read more
(Corresponding) Ntarladima A., Vaartjes I., Grobbee D., Dijst M., Schmitz O., Uiterwaal C., Dalmeijer G., Ent C., Hoek G., Karssenberg D.
Topic:
Environmental exposures and human health
Background: Studies relating air pollution exposures and health in children tend to show inconsistent associations. The most of the studies rely on the front-door air pollution estimates to represent individual exposure; however, there is evidence that residential address exposures tend to...Read more
Keywords:
air pollution, exposure, asthma, wheeze, lung function
Assessment of water quality of Asopos River in central Greece using multivariate analysis
Tsadilas C., Tzouvalekas M., (Corresponding) Evangelou E., Papadopoulos S., Papadoulis A., Petsoulas C., Tsitouras A., Grypari P., Smyrnis T.
Topic:
Lakes, rivers, estuaries and ecosystem health
The main objective of this study was to assess the quality of water from five monitoring stations in Asopos River (central Greece), and evaluate the main factors that affect the river water quality. Fifty one biochemical parameters measured both in situ and in the laboratory three times a year for...Read more
Keywords:
water quality, industrial pollution, agricultural practices, multivariate analysis
According to the latest environmental requirements, zero liquid discharge principle must be considered in all modern manufacturing processes. In principle, solid waste can be achieved only by evaporation plus crystallization, and therefore reverse osmosis is usually applied to decrease the...Read more
Keywords:
Zero liquid discharge, ZLD, electrodialysis, high concentration, saturation, evaporation
Identification and Quantification of Microplastic in Sewage systems by TED-GC-MS
(Corresponding) Altmann K., Goedecke C., Bannick C., Abusafia A., Scheid C., Steinmetz H., Braun U.
Topic:
Microplastics in the marine environment
Over the last years, the number of publications reporting the amount of microplastic (MP) all over the world increased rapidly. But harmonised sampling, sample preparation and analysis strategies are missing. Commonly used methods are very time consuming and not comparable to each other. Hence,...Read more
Keywords:
microplastic, TED-GC-MS, microplastic analysis, grey water, waste water treatment plant, combined sewer system
Screening of 102 organic pollutants in groundwater along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in China by GC×GC-TOFMS
(Corresponding) Rao Z., liang m., Liu L., Gong J., Zhu T.
Topic:
Emerging pollutants
Screening of 102 organic pollutants in groundwater along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in China by GC×GC-TOFMS. A total of 45 samples were collected. The targets of the investigation involve multiple types of organic pollutants such as Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their...Read more
Treatment of various agro-industrial wastewaters using electrocoagulation
Benekos A., Papadopoulos K., Triantaphyllidou I., Tekerlekopoulou A., (Corresponding) Vayenas D.
Topic:
Wastewater treatment
Greece, although not over-industrialized, is facing issues connected to pollution of its water resources, as conventional wastewater treatment methods often prove ineffective in terms of removing some pollutantssuch as suspended solids and pigments. Therefore, the need of developing efficient,...Read more
IMPREGNATED RESINS AS NOVEL SORBENTS FOR REMOVAL OF TOXIC METAL IONS FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS
(Corresponding) Zawierucha I., Nowik-Zajac A., Kozlowski C.
Topic:
Wastewater treatment
The adsorption/solid phase extraction (SPE) processes are the most attractive methods for effective removal of metals ions from different aqueous solutions. In SPE procedure, the choice of appropriate adsorbent is a critical factor to obtain full recovery and high enrichment factor.
For this...Read more
Keywords:
impregnated resins, sorption, macrocyclic ligands, toxic metal ions
REMOVAL OF TOXIC METAL IONS THROUGH POLYMER INCLUSION MEMBRANES CONTAINING MACROCYCLIC LIGANDS AS CARRIERS
(Corresponding) Nowik-Zajac A., Zawierucha I., Kozlowski C.
Topic:
Wastewater treatment
More strict environmental regulations on the discharge of toxic metals require developing various technologies for their removal from polluted streams. The separation of toxic metal ions using immobilized membranes with doped ligands, due to their high selectivity and removal efficiency, increased...Read more
Keywords:
polymer inclusion membranes, macrocyclic ligands, toxic metal ions
