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Process Intensification Strategies For Green Solvent Mediated Biomass Pretreatment, Ahamed Ullah, Yuxuan Zhang, Can Liu, Qi Qiao, Qing Shao, Jian Shi

Markey Cancer Center Faculty Publications

Demonstrated to be highly effective for lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment, deep eutectic solvent (DES) has attracted increasing attention owing to its advantages of simple synthesis, relatively low chemical cost, and better biocompatibility as compared to certain ionic liquids. Here we provide a critical review of the status of the design/selection of DES for the pretreatment of biomass feedstocks with an emphasis on the process intensification strategies: 1) integration of microwave, ultrasound, and high solid extrusion for pretreating biomass, 2) one-pot DES pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, and fermentation, 3) strategies for DES recycling and product recovery; and 4) recent progress on molecular simulations …

Estimating Solar Energy Production In Urban Areas For Electric Vehicles, Shaimaa Ahmed

Theses and Dissertations

Cities have a high potential for solar energy from PVs installed on buildings' rooftops. There is an increased demand for solar energy in cities to reduce the negative effect of climate change. The thesis investigates solar energy potential in urban areas. It tries to determine how to detect and identify available rooftop areas, how to calculate suitable ones after excluding the effects of the shade, and the estimated energy generated from PVs. Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) are used in solar city planning. The goal of this research is to assess available and suitable rooftops areas using …

Virtual Accident Curb Risk Habituation In Workers By Restoring Sensory Responses To Real-World Warning, Namgyun Kim, Laurent Grégoire, Moein Razavi, Niya Yan, Changbum R. Ahn, Brian A. Anderson

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Faculty Publications

In high-risk work environments, workers become habituated to hazards they frequently encounter, subsequently underestimating risk and engaging in unsafe behaviors. This phenomenon has been termed "risk habituation"and identified as a vital root cause of fatalities and injuries at workplaces. Providing an effective intervention that curbs workers' risk habituation is critical in preventing occupa-tional injuries and fatalities. However, there exists no empirically supported intervention for curbing risk habituation. To this end, here we investigated how experiencing an accident in a virtual reality (VR) environment affects workers' risk habituation toward repeatedly exposed workplace hazards. We examined an underlying mechanism of risk habituation …

Co-Culture Models Of Endothelial Cells, Macrophages, And Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells For The Study Of The Natural History Of Atherosclerosis, Martin Liu, Saurabhi Samant, Charu Hasini Vasa, Ryan M. Pedrigi, Usama Oguz, Sangjin Ryu, Timothy Wei, Daniel R. Anderson, Devandra K. Agrawal, Yiannis Chatzizisis

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Background

This work aims to present a fast, affordable, and reproducible three-cell co-culture system that could represent the different cellular mechanisms of atherosclerosis, extending from atherogenesis to pathological intimal thickening.

Methods and results

We built four culture models: (i) Culture model #1 (representing normal arterial intima), where human coronary artery endothelial cells were added on top of Matrigel-coated collagen type I matrix, (ii) Culture model #2 (representing atherogenesis), which demonstrated the subendothelial accumulation and oxidative modification of low-density lipoproteins (LDL), (iii) Culture model #3 (representing intimal xanthomas), which demonstrated the monocyte adhesion to the endothelial cell monolayer, transmigration into the …

Anaerobic Toluene Biodegradation Potential At A Superfund Site Where Toluene Biosynthesis Was Observed, George Carson

LSU Master's Theses

At a Superfund site near Baton Rouge, LA, the subsurface injection of molasses has been used to stimulate anerobic reductive dechlorination of halogenated organic compounds (e.g., 1,2-dichloroethane and vinyl chloride) present in the groundwater. Following some molasses injections, temporary accumulation of toluene and p-cresol was observed in the groundwater. Accumulation of these aromatic hydrocarbons, which were not detected in the molasses, has been attributed to anaerobic biotransformation of the amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine. Experiments reported here were conducted in support of an effort to determine if toluene biodegrading bacteria were present in the area where anaerobic toluene accumulation was …

Greywater Treatment Using Integrated Sand Filtration With Ultrafiltration For Reuse, Aya El-Wattar

Theses and Dissertations

Membrane flux was observed and the two membrane sizes that achieved stable flux were chosen to be used in the later stages of the study. The chosen membranes were of 300 kDa and 400 kDa Molecular Weight Cutoff (MWCO).

The third phase of the study involved running the full system on synthetic greywater then on real greywater. The parameters investigated were COD, TSS, Turbidity and BOD₅. Total COD removal after sand filtration, 300kDa UF and 400 kDa UF was 65, 66 and 73.4% respectively. Total TSS removal after sand filtration, 300kDa UF and 400 kDa UF was 93.1, …

Soil Water Sensors For Irrigation Scheduling In The United States: A Systematic Review Of Literature, Sumon Datta, Saleh Taghvaeian

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Soil water sensors (SWS) have been widely researched and practiced for irrigation scheduling. Due to popularity of this approach, there is a need for frequent reviews of the SWS literature to keep the researchers, extension professionals, and end-users updated and to help with defining and modifying future directions. In addition, existing literature reviews do not systematically report and summarize the results of previous studies. To address this gap, a systematic review was carried out to identify and analyze related literature published in the United States in the past two decades. Two focus areas were SWS accuracy assessment and SWS application …

Evaluation Of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms With Sensor Data Assimilation In Estimating Crop Evapotranspiration And Crop Water Stress Index For Irrigation Water Management, Abia Katimbo, Daran Rudnick, Jingwen Zhang, Yufeng Ge, Kendall C. Dejonge, Trenton E. Franz, Yeyin Shi, Wei‑Zhen Liang, Xin Qiao, Derek M. Heeren, Isa Kabenge, Hope Njuki Nakabuye, Jiaming Duan

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Irrigation water management using automated irrigation decision support system (IDSS) as a smart irrigation scheduling tool can improve water use efficiency and crop production, especially under circumstances of limited water supply. The current study evaluated the performance of different artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and their ensembles in forecasting Crop Evapotranspiration (ET_c) and Crop Water Stress Index (CWSI) against calculated single crop coefficient FAO56 ET_c and Jackson’s theoretical CWSI, respectively. Soil moisture, canopy temperatures (T_c) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) were all measured from irrigated and non-irrigated maize plots in West Central Nebraska during 2020 …

Properties Of Cement Mortar Containing Recycled High-Density Polyethylene (Hdpe), Amany G. Micheal Prof., Esraa Torky, Merna Amir

Centre for Advanced Materials

Millions of tones of plastic waste are generated globally and only less than 10 per cent has been recycled. It is crucial to segregate and circulate plastic waste and repurposing it for countless other uses. There are many ways to repurpose and reuse these discarded plastics. One use that can be examined is the use of plastic as partial sand replacement in mortar. To contribute to this important and valid discourse, the research studies the mechanical and thermal properties of recycled HDPE mortar as an active way of integrating plastic waste into the construction industry to partially eliminate some of …

Survey Data: Optimising Retrofitted Insulation For Irish Residential Building Walls, Rakshit D. Muddu, Aimee Byrne, Anthony Robinson Dr.

Datasets

A survey was conducted to determine the preferred set point temperature and heating pattern among Irish households. The survey was sent to 237 people living across Ireland, out of which 32 respondents skipped the survey and 9 surveys were found to be incomplete. Amongst the counties in Ireland 71.1% respondents were from Dublin, 6.34% from Kildare, 5% from Meath, 5% from Wicklow and in all the remaining counties response rate was below 2%. Part 1: This section of the survey recorded information regarding characteristics of the building such as house type, wall type, insulation type, period the house was built. …

Plural Communities: A Cultural Mapping Project + A Framework Plan For Cherokee Village, Arkansas, Community Design Center

Community Design Center Project Reports

What do urban designers do with culture? How might we redevelop a mid-century modern planned community through the mapping of cultural influences that shaped it? We explored memory and heritage central to cultural mapping and its participatory-based forms of public inquiry. 54 drawings integrate maps, folklore materials, archived media, photographs, and new drawings into five synchronic cultural frameworks that shaped Cherokee Village—Native American heritage, Ozark pioneer and folk heritage, camping and scouting, midcentury planned communities, and regional modernism in design and planning.

Cherokee Village was developed within a mid-twentieth century planning ethos that valued uniformity …

Occurrence, Fate, And Transport Of Microplastics From Wastewater Treatment Plants To Receiving Waters, Rayyan Mirza

Wayne State University Dissertations

Environmental pollution due to the widespread presence of microplastics (MPs) is an emerging global problem. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are considered a significant point source for MPs. The first aim of this study was to develop extraction and detection methods of MPs from complex wastewater and sludge samples in the Detroit WWTP to understand the occurrence and fate of MPs in WWTPs. The second aim was to understand the spatial and temporal distribution of MPs originating from the Detroit WWTP discharge point into the Detroit River by utilizing the Mike 21 Flow Model FM to simulate the movement of MPs …

Optimal Spatial Design Of Groundwater Level Monitoring Networks Using Machine Learning Methods, Sadaf Teimoori

Wayne State University Dissertations

Groundwater plays a crucial role in sustaining ecosystems, providing drinking water, and supporting various industrial activities. As water scarcity becomes an increasingly pressing global issue, accurate groundwater level monitoring is essential for effective resource management and environmental protection. The study introduces a comprehensive methodology that integrates groundwater flow modeling, stochastic simulations, and ML algorithms to design efficient Groundwater Level Monitoring Networks (GLMNs) in regions with limited groundwater observation data. Two primary ML algorithms, K-means clustering and Relevance Vector Machine (RVM), are used to select and position observation wells strategically. The research addresses the challenge of minimizing data uncertainties and determining …

Nebraska Water Center Annual Report 2023, Nebraska Water Center, Daugherty Water For Food Global Institute

Nebraska Water Center: Administrative Materials

The report's highlights updates including the water sciences laboratory, AltEn contamination monitoring and the Know your well project.

Comparing Hydrogen Peroxide And Sodium Perborate Ultraviolet Advanced Oxidation Processes For 1,4-Dioxane Removal From Wastewater Effluent, Tulsi Shukla

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Ultraviolet advanced oxidation processes were compared using sodium perborate (UV/NaBO3 AOP) or hydrogen peroxide (UV/H2O2 AOP) for 1,4-dioxane removal from tertiary wastewater effluent. Both UV/H2O2 and UV/NaBO3 AOPs were also tested with the addition of acetic acid. Results revealed that sodium perborate performed similarly to hydrogen peroxide – the UV/NaBO3 AOP with 6 milligrams per liter (mg/L) as H2O2 resulted in 43.9 percent 1,4-dioxane removal, while an equivalent UV/H2O2 AOP showed 42.8 percent removal. Although the oxidants performed similarly, NaBO3 is an average of 3.3 times more expensive than H2O2. However, the solid form of NaBO3 can provide a major …

Exploring A Lab-Scale Cascade Upflow Bioreactor System For Nitrogen Removal Via Biosorption Activated Media, Alejandra Robles Lecompte

Graduate Thesis and Dissertation 2023-2024

Many Best Management Practices (BMPs) have been developed to reduce excessive nutrients in stormwater runoff and mitigate harmful algal blooms in downstream receiving water bodies. This study demonstrates a new BMP by comparing two green sorption media (i.e., specialty adsorbents) for nutrient removal in cascade upflow biofiltration systems operated in parallel. The proposed filtration technology can control hydraulic gradients, prevent clogging and settlements, and increase hydraulic loading while removing more nutrients in an integrated physicochemical and microbiological treatment process. The two green sorption media being tested in this study include zero-valent-iron and perlite-based green sorption media (ZIPGEM) and biochar, iron, …

Comparing Phosphorus Removal Efficiencies And Mechanisms Via Two Cost-Effective Specialty Adsorbents In A Cascade Upflow Filtration System, Sydney Kilgus-Vesely

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Finding solutions to treat water that contains phosphorus is an important effort due to the harmful impacts it presents to both human health and the environment. Phosphorus is considered a limiting factor in water oftentimes and therefore controls the growth of algal bloom in a water body. The increase of algal populations due to wastewater effluent, stormwater runoff, and agricultural discharge in Florida waters has a direct link to the event of harmful algal blooms such as red tide in coastal regions, eutrophication of waterbodies, and fish kills. Finding low cost, energy efficient, and low maintenance green sorption media (GSM) …

A Network Of Low-Cost Multi-Pollutant Air Quality Sensors For Evaluating Fine-Scale Exposure Disparity In Twin Cities, Mn, P M Varuni Abhayaratne

Masters Theses

"Poor air quality is detrimental to health and is a leading environmental risk factor for early death globally. The massive scale of urbanization and population growth has led urban air quality to become a global concern as the release of air pollutants into the atmosphere continues to increase. Air quality has traditionally been monitored using reference-grade monitoring stations that are expensive and sparsely distributed. Low-cost sensors can complement existing regulatory networks to provide more spatial detail, capturing fine-scale variations. This study investigates spatiotemporal pollutant patterns, exposure disparities and environmental justice using data collected from a two-year (2019-2021) deployment of a …

Rapid-Throughput Analysis Of 1,4-Dioxane In Plants By Centrifugal Sampling And Phytoforensic Analysis For Site Delineation And Assessing Enhanced Rhizodegradation, Anthony Eberechukwu Oha

Masters Theses

"Owing to its broad use and environmental persistence, 1,4-dioxane (dioxane) poses a notable threat to public health and is recalcitrant to traditional remedial systems. Dioxane moves readily in an aqueous environment and is an emerging contaminant in drinking water, surface water, groundwater, and wastewater. The extent of dioxane in the biosphere is also difficult to delineate, particularly in the subsurface. Phytoremediation has demonstrated the potential for dioxane groundwater remediation. Recent findings indicate that plant-microbial symbiosis may be more advantageous for limiting potential transport and transfer into plant tissues and the atmosphere. Bioaugmentation of the rhizosphere paired with soil amendments has …

Developing Cost-Effective Specialty Adsorbents To Meet The Emerging Challenges Of Pollutant Removal In Surface Water Systems, Diana Ordonez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

The production of clean water is emphasized under the United Nations goals for sustainable development (SDGs), enlightening the acute need of developing new sustainable technologies in all disciplines. SDGs have urged all engineers in the 21st century to mitigate pollution of drinking water sources and prevent all receiving waterbodies from the impact of agriculture discharge, wastewater effluent, and stormwater runoff. Current water matrix constituents of concern include traditional pollutants (i.e., total nitrogen and total phosphate), natural organic matters (i.e., total organic carbon (TOC), tannic acid), heavy metals (i.e., copper, calcium), and harmful algae toxins (i.e., microcystin), as well as contaminants …

Analyzing Residential Curbside Collection For Food Waste In Humboldt County, Yvette Lindler

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

The most prevalent material in the California landfill-destined solid waste stream is food. Food waste is not only an economic and social concern, but a significant environmental challenge as well. Most food waste is disposed of in landfills, where it anaerobically decomposes and releases methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas and driver of climate change. Policies passed in California, including AB 1826 and SB 1383, aim to implement organic waste recycling programs and reduce methane emissions by diverting organic waste from landfills. The technology to process this food waste exists, but these facilities are limited or nonexistent in rural areas …

New York State Waste Characterization, David J. Tonjes, Sameena Manzur, Yiyi Wang, Mohammad Rahman, Firman Firmansyah, Krista L. Thyberg, Elizabeth Heiwtt

Technology & Society Faculty Publications

Analysis of sampling results from 25 tons of MSW and recyclables sorted across New York State at 11 locations in 2021 found that the composition of the wastes were different from place to place even when measured by mean data for each location.

Parameter by parameter analyses found that recyclables comprise from approximately 18% (a narrow definition of recyclables) to 23% (a broader definition of recyclables) of disposed wastes. Paper tends to be the greatest element in the disposed waste stream, although food waste is the largest single component. Plastics are also a very large part of the disposed waste …

การประเมินประสิทธิภาพของอาคารเขียว: กรณีศึกษาในกรุงเทพมหานครและปริมณฑล, นภัสสร แพรกอุดม

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยฉบับนี้มีจุดประสงค์เพื่อประเมินประสิทธิภาพด้านคุณภาพของสภาวะแวดล้อมภายในอาคารของอาคารเขียวและอาคารสำนักงานทั่วไปในกรุงเทพมหานครและปริมณฑล และประเมินค่าใช้จ่ายด้านการใช้พลังงานของระบบระบายอากาศและระบบปรับอากาศภายในอาคาร โดยดำเนินการตรวจวัดทั้งเชิงวัตถุวิสัยและตรวจวัดเชิงอัตวิสัย ภายในอาคารเขียว 3 อาคาร และอาคารสำนักงานทั่วไป 1 อาคาร โดยใช้เครื่องมือตรวจวัดคุณภาพอากาศภายในอาคารและแบบสอบถาม จากการศึกษาแสดงให้เห็นว่ามีความแตกต่างกันของผลการตรวจวัดอย่างมีนัยสำคัญหว่างอาคารเขียว และผลการตรวจวัดในบางอาคารเกินค่าเฝ้าระวังฯ โดยเฉพาะ PM2.5 (16.67-40.26 µg/m3) เนื่องจากมลพิษภายนอกอาคารและพฤติกรรมของผู้ใช้อาคาร ผลจากแบบประเมินแสดงให้เห็นว่าผู้ใช้อาคารส่วนมากพึงพอใจกับคุณภาพของสภาวะแวดล้อมโดยรวม ส่วนข้อมูลผลกระทบทางสุขภาพวิเคราะห์โดยใช้ Odd Ratio พบว่า ผู้ใช้อาคารที่มีระดับมลพิษสูงมีโอกาสเกิดอาการทางสุขภาพมากกว่าผู้ใช้อาคารที่ได้รับสัมผัสในระดับที่ต่ำกว่า ในส่วนของค่าไฟฟ้าจากระบบปรับอากาศ อาคารสำนักงานทั่วไปมีค่าสูงที่สุดเมื่อเปรียบเทียบกับอาคารเขียว โดยการบริหารจัดการอาคารที่ไม่เหมาะสมและนโยบายการประหยัดพลังงานที่ไม่มีประสิทธิภาพอาจส่งผลกรทบต่อคุณภาพของสภาวะแวดล้อมภายในอาคารให้แย่ลงได้ โดยสรุป คุณภาพอากาศภายนอกอาคารและพฤติกรรมของผู้ใช้อาคารเป็นปัจจัยสำคัญที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อประสิทธิภาพของอาคารในด้านคุณภาพของสภาวะแวดล้อมภายในอาคารของอาคารเขียวได้

Développement De Stratégie Visant À Contrôler Le Niveau De Contamination Des Piscines Par Les Sous-Produits De Désinfection, Maximilien Debia, Elham Ahmadpour, Isabelle Valois, Sami Haddad, Robert Tardif, Stéphane Hallé, Hélène Proulx, Manuel Rodriguez, François Proulx, Ianis Delpla, Jean Sérodes, Sabrina Simard

Rapports de recherche scientifique

La présence de sous-produits de désinfection dans l’eau et l’air des piscines intérieures est une problématique de santé publique et de santé au travail. L’exposition aux sous-produits de désinfection et notamment à la trichloramine est associée à différents effets délétères comme l’irritation des voies respiratoires, l’irritation oculaire et l’hyperréactivité bronchique. La présence des sous-produits de désinfection résulte des réactions chimiques qui surviennent entre les agents désinfectants ajoutés et les matières organiques ou azotées présentes naturellement dans l’eau ou qui y sont amenées par les baigneurs.

L’objectif général de recherche visait à améliorer les connaissances sur les pratiques de gestion et …

Novel Nickel-Loaded Activated Carbon Cathodes For Hydrogen Production In Microbial Electrolysis Cells, Daniel Alejandro Moreno Jimenez

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) can electrochemically produce green hydrogen from waste streams. Although MECs are excellent options for implementing an energy recovery process while treating wastewater, the cathode side still hinders practical applications. Platinum (Pt) has been the top reference for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in MECs, however, Pt is not practical due to the high capital cost. Inexpensive nickel-loaded activated carbon (Ni/AC) cathodes were recently developed for replacing Pt in MECs and have shown comparable performance to Pt. This dissertation aims to breakthrough the current cathode challenges regarding the catalytic activity, manufacturing, and operational concept toward a cost-competitive scaling-up …

Climate Change And The Law Of National Security Adaptation, Mark P. Nevitt

Faculty Articles

The Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest employer in the world, owns and operates an enormous global real estate portfolio, and emits more Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) than many nations. Entrusted with the national security, the DoD is now threatened by a new enemy—climate change. Climate change imperils national security infrastructure while undermining the military’s capacity to respond to climate-driven disasters at home and abroad. However, legal scholarship has yet to address what I call “the law of national security adaptation” and related questions. For example, how do environmental and climate change laws apply to the U.S. military? What laws …

การประเมินก๊าซเรือนกระจกระดับเมืองและศักยภาพการลดก๊าซเรือนกระจกเพื่อเข้าสู่ความเป็นกลางทางคาร์บอน กรณีศึกษา จังหวัดสระแก้ว, จิรัชญา จิตรจารุวงศ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาการปล่อยก๊าซเรือนกระจกของจังหวัดสระแก้ว ในปี พ.ศ.2560-2564 ครอบคลุมกิจกรรม 5 ภาคส่วน ได้แก่ ภาคพลังงาน ภาคขนส่ง ภาคของเสีย ภาคอุตสาหกรรม และภาคการเกษตร และคาดการณ์ปริมาณการปล่อยก๊าซเรือนกระจกของจังหวัดสระแก้วในปี พ.ศ.2593 เพื่อนําเสนอมาตรการและศักยภาพการลดก๊าซเรือนกระจก และนำเสนอแนวทางเพื่อเปลี่ยนผ่านสู่ความเป็นกลางทางคาร์บอนในปี พ.ศ.2593 จากผลการศึกษาพบว่า ปริมาณการปล่อยก๊าซเรือนกระจกของจังหวัดสระแก้วในปีฐานคือ พ.ศ.2562 เท่ากับ 1,248,722 ตันคาร์บอนไดออกไซด์เทียบเท่า (2.21 ตันคาร์บอนไดออกไซด์เทียบเท่า/คน/ปี) กลุ่มกิจกรรมที่ปล่อยก๊าซเรือนกระจกมากที่สุดคือภาคพลังงาน คิดเป็นร้อยละ 42.17 รองลงมาคือภาคขนส่ง ร้อยละ 28.53 ภาคเกษตร ป่าไม้ และการใช้ประโยชน์ที่ดิน ร้อยละ 15.06 และภาคการจัดการของเสีย ร้อยละ 14.24 ผลการคาดการณ์การปล่อยก๊าซเรือนกระจกในปี พ.ศ.2593 ของจังหวัดสระแก้วเท่ากับ 1,462,231 ตันคาร์บอนไดออกไซด์เทียบเท่า ในกรณีที่จังหวัดสระแก้วดำเนินการตามมาตรการที่มีศักยภาพตามแผนการลดก๊าซเรือนกระจกของประเทศจะลดก๊าซเรือนกระจกได้ 1,119,718 ตันคาร์บอนไดออกไซด์เทียบเท่า และมีศักยภาพการดูดกลับก๊าซเรือนกระจกจากการเพิ่มพื้นที่ป่าไม้ได้ 217,371 ตันคาร์บอนไดออกไซด์เทียบเท่า หากจังหวัดสระแก้วต้องการเปลี่ยนผ่านสู่ความเป็นกลางทางคาร์บอนในปี พ.ศ.2593 จะต้องดำเนินการมาตรการคาร์บอนต่ำอย่างเข้มข้นเพิ่มเติม เพื่อลดก๊าซเรือนกระจกลงอีก 320,718 ตันคาร์บอนไดออกไซด์เทียบเท่า โดยเพิ่มสัดส่วนการใช้พลังงานทดแทน นโยบายรถยนต์ปล่อยมลพิษเป็นศูนย์ ร่วมกับการสนับสนุนการใช้พลังงานไฮโดรเจนเป็นเชื้อเพลิง การติดตั้งระบบบำบัดน้ำเสียรวมชุมชน การติดตั้งตัวดักจับและกักเก็บคาร์บอนจากโรงไฟฟ้าพลังงานขยะ การหมุนเวียนของเสียกลับมาใช้ประโยชน์ การทำเกษตรอินทรีย์/เกษตรอัจฉริยะ และการทำปศุสัตว์สีเขียว มาตรการเหล่านี้จะช่วยให้จังหวัดสระแก้วลดการปล่อยก๊าซเรือนกระจก ไปจนถึงการปล่อยก๊าซเรือนกระจกเป็นศูนย์ ซึ่งจะทำให้จังหวัดสระแก้วสามารถบรรลุได้ตามเป้าหมายของประเทศ

Comparative Assessment Of Environmental And Post- Occupancy Evaluation Of Green Buildings Vs Conventional Buildings, Wint Thiri Marn

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Due to increasing office space demand and rising rental rates, stakeholders seek cost-effective alternatives that align with sustainability goals. Therefore, green building offers an extensive solution particularly in growing office building rental rates and the need for cost-effective options that are consistent with environmentally conscious goals. Using the IPCC standard, the study assessed emissions across Scope 1 (refrigerant fugitive emissions) and Scope 1 emission from (Wastewater treatment system), Scope 2 (energy consumption emissions), and Scope 3 (emissions from water consumption, and waste generation). Scope 1 emissions are found to vary due to the usage of water-based fire-retardant systems, but they …

Bench- And Pilot-Scale Corrosion Control Inhibitor Effectiveness Studies For A Community's Blended Surficial And Brackish Groundwater Supply, Paula Campesino

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

The United States Environmental Protection Agency regulates the lead and copper content of a public water system's finished water at the consumer's tap, through the Safe Drinking Water Act's Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), promulgated in 1991. This rule was recently changed through the LCR Revisions (LCRR), that took effect in 2021. The more stringent requirements of the LCRR motivated the City of Sarasota, Florida (City), to work with the University of Central Florida (UCF) on a study of the municipality's finished water corrosivity. Initially, this evaluation investigated the City's existing finished water corrosivity using linear polarization resistance (LPR) measurements …

Smoke, Air, Fire, Energy (Safe) In Rural California: Critical Reflections On An Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration, Deepti Chatti, Carisse Geronimo, Cassidy Barrientos, Jana Ganion, Malcolm Moncheur, Peter Alstone Phd, Shawn Bourque, Tanya Garcia, Tesfayohanes Yacob

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

This article provides a synthesis of the interconnected problems of tenuous energy access, wildfires, and exposures to high air pollution in Indigenous communities in rural California through the lens of ongoing collaborative research being carried out by researchers at Cal Poly Humboldt, Schatz Energy Research Center, Karuk Department of Natural Resources, and the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe. The collaboration is funded by the Strategic Growth Council of the state of California, and we hope is the beginning of a longer term relationship between all partners. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers drawing on energy engineering, air pollution science, and …