CEST Proceedings are published under the ISSN 2944-9820.
Drinking water from surface and ground water: production costs and influence of the climate change
(Corresponding) Verlicchi P., Grillini V., Maffini F., Benini A., Casoni R., Mari M.
Topic:
Water treatment
Drinking water production may be affected by climate changes (i.e. intense rainfall events and high temperature periods) which impact on the availability and quality of the water source, above all surface water bodies. Efforts are being made to adopt the best strategies in the drinking water...Read more
Keywords:
climate change, drinking water treatment plant, groundwater, production costs, surface water
Removal of heavy metals from real mine tailings coupling electrokinetic soil flushing and Bioleaching
Acosta-Hernández I., Muñoz Morales M., Rodríguez Romero L., Villaseñor Camacho J., (Corresponding) Fernandez-Morales F.
Topic:
Soil and groundwater contamination and remediation
In the present work, polluted mine tailings from the abandoned Pb/Zn mine of San Quintín (Ciudad Real, Spain) have been treated by an innovative in-situ bioleaching process. Bioleaching uses the capacity of certain microorganisms of oxidizing iron and/or reduce sulphur which enhance the process of...Read more
Keywords:
electrokinetics, heavy metal removal, bioleaching, mine tailings
Vulnerability of Informal Settlements to Flood Disasters: A Review of Public Health Implication
(Corresponding) OLANREWAJU C., REDDY M.
Topic:
Urban environment and health
Floods are the most frequent disasters in the world with devastating effects on millions of people and the natural environment. The health status of any community is directly affected by the quality of their housing and the environmental risks they are exposed to. Rapid urbanization and the...Read more
Re-assessment Estimation of the Wastewater Treatment Plants’ Seismic Vulnerability
(Corresponding) Kerpelis P., Golfinopoulos S., Alexakis D.
Topic:
Sustainability & the SDGs
Many empirical studies use questionnaires for the vulnerability estimation of technical structures. Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) are critical infrastructure whose the seismic impacts may affect the environment and the society. Interesting results are revealed from the comparison of seismic...Read more
Domestic Photo-Voltaic installations - their contribution and practcalities
(Corresponding) Venables R.
Topic:
Renewable energy sources
The roofs of domestic-scale properties used to haveone overall main function – to keep the weather out. But since the first solar-PV panels were fitted in the UK in 1994, it has become increasingly clear that, to reduce carbon emissions and thus contribute to the transition to net-zero, all...Read more
Keywords:
Renewable energy sources; Net Zero emission transition; photo-voltaics; impact of citizen science on environmental attitudes, behaviour and knowledge
Domestic water consumption determinants in urban neighborhoods: A case study of Vijayawada, India
(Corresponding) Bandari A., Puttaparthi P., Sadhukhan S.
Topic:
Water policy, management and society
Domestic water consumption accounts for a large share of urban water demand. The present study discusses a study on domestic water consumption in ten different neighborhoods in Vijayawada, India. The study examines the relationship between per capita water consumption and various socio-economic,...Read more
Keywords:
Domestic water consumption, determinants, neighborhood, per capita water consumption, consumption pattern
Climate change, overheating and public health: analysis of dynamic and correlations in EU regions
(Corresponding) Tsemekidi S., Tsoutsos T.
Topic:
Climate change impacts, vulnerability and risks
An intense concern about global warming and increased temperatures as a result of climate change has been observed worldwide during the last decades. The need for cooling expressed in Cooling Degree Days (CDD) at the EU level has increased by 169.8% since 1980. Extreme temperatures, intense...Read more
Keywords:
climate change; overheating; correlation; mortality; vulnerability; public health
Environmentally-Extended Multi-Regional Input-Output Analysis of neodymium, cobalt and lithium used in electric vehicles
Martínez-Hernando M., Bolonio D., (Corresponding) García-Martínez M., Ortega M., Llamas J.
Topic:
Life cycle analysis (lca)
In the transportation sector, the market share of world electric vehicle sales has changed from 0.0% in 2010 to 3.2% (2.1 million) by 2020, and according to forecasts, sales in 2030 may rise to close to 30%. This drastic change is encouraged by environmental goals set to reduce CO2 emissions, not...Read more
Keywords:
electric vehicles, critical raw materials, life cycle
Adsorption of antibiotics and dyes with individual and simultaneous mechanisms onto halloysite nanoclay and regeneration by cold plasma bubbling technology of saturated adsorbent
Giannoulia S., Triantaphyllidou E., Tekerlekopoulou A., (Corresponding) Aggelopoulos C.
Topic:
Water and wastewater reuse
Methylene blue (MB) dye and the antibiotic enrofloxacin (ENRO) were individually and simultaneously removed from aqueous solutions while halloysite nanoclay (HNC) was also regenerated using cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) bubbling. In contrast to Fenton oxidation, the CAP-bubbling method efficiently...Read more
Comparison between plasma microbubbles and gas-liquid dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma for pollutants degradation in water
Meropoulis S., (Corresponding) Aggelopoulos C.
Topic:
Advanced oxidation processes
This study's main emphasis is the direct comparison between gas-liquid dielectric barrier discharge (GLDBD) and plasma microbubbles (PMB) concerning the kinetics related to the contaminant’s destruction and plasma-activated water composition. As contaminants with different structures,...Read more
