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Green Regional Aircraft – the European Clean Sky Program aims for greener Aeronautics

Kaulfersch E., Schüller M., Hammacher J., Rzepka S., Fraunhofer ENAS Germany, DE

The ‘Clean Sky’ Joint Technology Initiative (JTI, cleansky.eu) is an innovative European program aiming at massively lower impacts of air transport on the environment. The objective of the Green Regional Aircraft sub-project is to validate [...]

Heterogeneous Catalyzed Oxidative Degradation of Indigo: A Theoretical and Experimental Study

Luga C., Solís-Correa H., Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MX

Almost fifteen percent of the total world production of dyes is lost during the dyeing process and is released in the textile effluents. Removal of colour and organics by photocatalytic degradation is emerging as an [...]

A new model for toxicity of uranium dust

Zucchetti M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

Depleted Uranium (DU) is mostly composed by the natural radioactive isotope U238 and it is a by-product of the enrichment process, that part of the nuclear reactors fuel cycle that produces the nuclear fuel to [...]

Green Remediation using Renewable Energy and Automation

Ambler M., Weston Solutions, Inc., US

The goal of the project is reduction of contaminants associated with gasoline at a retail fuel station. Groundwater gasoline range organic concentrations at the site were 500 mg/L prior to system startup. Advanced technologies and [...]

Sorption of Carbon Dioxide at High Temperatures by Slag

Tseng T.K., Chun K.L., Chu H., Chun K.L., National Cheng Kung University, TW

After industrial revolution, the increases of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere are resulted from the consumption of huge amounts of fossil fuels; hence causes global climate changes including temperature increasing and ocean level rising. Technologies [...]

Oil Production from Waste Plastics & News Paper using Catalytic Dissociation on Noble Metal supported on Zeolite

Lim D.-J., Kim M.C., Cheongju University, KR

Catalytic dissociation reaction of waste plastics and news paper was studied for oil production. SEM analysis were performed to find out crystal structure of prepared catalysts. GC-MAS analysis was also performed to find out product [...]

Recycling of Waste Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) into Feedstock Monomers

Siddiqui M.N., Redhwi H.H., King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, SA

Plastics play a very important role in our daily life with a dramatical increase in the consumption of plastics worldwide. To produce in vast and increasing amounts of plastics in order to meet the current [...]

STARBONS®: Preparation, applications and transition from laboratory curiosity to scalable product

Shuttleworth P.S., Budarin V.L., Breeden S.W., Luque R.L., White R., Clark J.H., University of York, UK

Starbons® are a novel family of mesoporous materials derived from polysaccharides, which have surface tunable functionalities ranging from hydrophilic to hydrophobic. This novel Starbon® technology utilizes the natural ability for polysaccharides to retain their organized [...]

Efficiency of Point-of-Use Water Disinfection Using Deep UV Light Emitting Diode Technology

Gaska I., Gaska R., Bilenko O., Bilenko Y., Shturm I., Bilenko O., Bilenko Y., Shatalov M., Gaska I., Gaska R., Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc., US

We present results of microbial disinfection of E.coli bacteria in water using Point-of-Use UV light-emitting diode (LED) chamber. A set of four UVCLEAN LED lamps was used to produce UV radiation at 272-273nm. More than [...]

Effects of calcination conditions and Fe/Al molar ratio on structure and properties of mixed Fe/Al-PILCs

Zheng H., Weidler P.G., Pu Y., Cai P., Wu Y., School of Materials Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, CN

In this paper, solutions containing hydroxyl-FeAl oligocations with Fe/Al molar ratio of 0.5 and 1.0 were prepared by adding Na2CO3 solution to mixture of FeCl3 and AlCl3 with constant stirring until a final OH/(Al+Fe) ratio [...]