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Reasons Of Acceptance And Barriers Of House Onsite Greywater Treatment And Reuse In Palestinian Rural Areas, Rehab A. Thaher, Nidal Mahmoud, Issam A. Al-Khatib, Yung Tse Hung Jun 2020

Reasons Of Acceptance And Barriers Of House Onsite Greywater Treatment And Reuse In Palestinian Rural Areas, Rehab A. Thaher, Nidal Mahmoud, Issam A. Al-Khatib, Yung Tse Hung

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

© 2020 by the authors. In the last twenty years, house onsite wastewater management systems have been increasing in the West Bank's rural areas. The aim of this research was to reveal, in the context of providing onsite GreyWater Treatment Plants (GWTPs) for wastewater management in the rural communities in Palestine, the local population's perceptions, in the sense of acceptance of and barriers towards such a type of wastewater management, so as to figure out successes, failures and lessons. The data collection tool was a questionnaire that targeted the households served with GWTPs. The findings show that 13% of the …


Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers And Scientists Association (Oceesa) Report, Regular Issue, February 2020, Yung-Tse Hung, Wen-Chi Ku, Lawrence K. Wang Feb 2020

Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers And Scientists Association (Oceesa) Report, Regular Issue, February 2020, Yung-Tse Hung, Wen-Chi Ku, Lawrence K. Wang

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

This OCEESA report, which is regular issue of OCEESA Journal (Overseas Chinese Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association Journal). This report is OCEESA report number: OCEESA/JL-2020/3701, February 2020, ISSN 1072 -7248. This report is also OCEESA Journal, Volume 37, Number 1, February 2020. Yung-Tse Hung, Permanent Executive Director, OCEESA, is editor of this report. This issue includes: (A) 10 OCEESA Best Papers (B) 6 OCEESA Papers; 21.Zhang-Zhi Charlie Huang 黄长志 , Implementing Compensation System for Environmental Damages: Challenges and Solutions, 22. Hanlu Yan, Kaimin Shih施凱閔 , Quantitative X-Ray Diffraction for Characterizing P Recovery Products from Wastewater, 23. Kaimin Shih 施凱閔 , …


Cationic Surfactant Analysis With Good Laboratory Practice, Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, Valerie Renak, Yung-Tse Hung Jan 2020

Cationic Surfactant Analysis With Good Laboratory Practice, Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, Valerie Renak, Yung-Tse Hung

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

The objectives of this research are to: (a) demonstrate how to select an organic solvent (such as 1,1,1-trichloroethane) for spectrophotometric determination of cationic surfactant in water and wastewater, (b) investigate and recommend possible better organic solvents for surfactant analysis; and (c) introduce good laboratory practice for personal protection, laboratory protection and hazardous waste management. Specifically this research involves selection of alternate less toxic and greener organic solvent for use in a methyl orange method for colorimetric determination of cationic surfactants in the 0.2 to 2.0 mg/L range. The principles, steps and management of the methyl orange method include: (a) complexation …


Treatment Of Vegetable Oil Refining Wastes, D. Kaya, Yung-Tse Hung Jan 2020

Treatment Of Vegetable Oil Refining Wastes, D. Kaya, Yung-Tse Hung

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

The common vegetable oils are soybean, sesame, sunflower, corn, canola, and cotton seeds. Their yields, compositions and physical and chemical properties determine their usefulness in various applications aside edible uses. Crude oils obtained by pressing of such vegetable seeds are not usually considered to be edible before the removal of various nonglyceride compounds through operations known as refining. The refining processes remove undesirable materials such as phospholipids, monoacylglycerols, diacylglycerols, free fatty acids, colour and pigments, oxidised materials, etc., but, may also remove valuable minor components such as antioxidants and vitamins (carotenes and tocopherols). The major steps involved in chemical refining …


Application Of Ionizing Radiation In Wastewater Treatment: An Overview, Yung-Tse Hung Jan 2020

Application Of Ionizing Radiation In Wastewater Treatment: An Overview, Yung-Tse Hung

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

© 2019 by the authors. Technological applications of nuclear science and technology in different sectors have proved their reliabilities and sustainability over decades. These applications have supported various human civilization needs, ranging from power generation to industrial, medical, and environmental applications. Environmental applications of radiation sources are used to support decision making processes in many fields; including the detection and analysis of pollutant transport, water resources management, and treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters. This work reviewed recent advances in the research and applications of ionizing radiation in treating different wastewater euents. The main objective of the work is to …


Treatment Of Combined Acid Black 48 And Coffee Wastewater By Low-Cost Adsorbents, Yung-Tse Hung Jan 2020

Treatment Of Combined Acid Black 48 And Coffee Wastewater By Low-Cost Adsorbents, Yung-Tse Hung

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

© 2020, Kaunas University of Technology. All rights reserved. Removal of synthetic dyes from wastewater is essential both from the environmental and human health point of view. A small concentration of synthetic dyes can reduce water transparency and consequently influence photosynthesis and alter aquatic ecosystems. Acid black 48 is an Azo dye that falls under the category of synthetic dyes used in the textile industry. With dyes, coffee wastewater has high chemical oxygen demand (COD) that can affect dissolved oxygen (DO) in surface waters. A mixture of wastes in surface waters creates a need to investigate the efficiency of existing …