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Environments, Volume 6, Issue 3

March 2019 - 13 articles

Cover Story: Reducing nitrogen content in swine manure could improve its management, optimizing land application while minimizing ammonia emissions and allowing its recovery as an ammonium salt fertilizer. In this study, ammonia was successfully removed and recovered from swine manure using a gas-permeable membrane system operated in semi-continuous mode. The recovery rate was uniform regardless of the total ammonia loading rate applied and the ammonia concentration in the reactor. View this paper.
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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,777 Views
13 Pages

Challenges and Limitations of Karst Aquifer Vulnerability Mapping Based on the PaPRIKa Method—Application to a Large European Karst Aquifer (Fontaine de Vaucluse, France)

  • Chloé Ollivier,
  • Konstantinos Chalikakis,
  • Naomi Mazzilli,
  • Nerantzis Kazakis,
  • Yoann Lecomte,
  • Charles Danquigny and
  • Christophe Emblanch

Aquifer vulnerability maps can improve groundwater management for sustainable anthropogenic development. The latest update of karst aquifer vulnerability mapping is named: the Protection of Aquifers base on Protection, Rock type, Infiltration and KAr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,489 Views
11 Pages

In the light of recent developments regarding electric vehicle market share, we assess the carbon footprint and water footprint of electric vehicles and provide a comparative analysis of energy use from the grid to charge electric vehicle batteries i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
8,963 Views
17 Pages

Forest areas in Portugal are often affected by fires. The objective of this work was to analyze the most fire-affected areas in Portugal in the summer of 2016 for two municipalities considering data from Landsat 8 OLI and Sentinel 2A MSI (prefire and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,217 Views
19 Pages

The Kuro-dake Campsite in Daisetsuzan National Park is situated in a fragile alpine setting. Since it opened in 1992, it has not been under formal management. With camping increasingly affecting the Kuro-dake Campsite, this study aims to gain deeper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,411 Views
15 Pages

Occupational Fine/Ultrafine Particles and Noise Exposure in Aircraft Personnel Operating in Airport Taxiway

  • Gabriele Marcias,
  • Maria Francesca Casula,
  • Michele Uras,
  • Andrea Falqui,
  • Edoardo Miozzi,
  • Elisa Sogne,
  • Sergio Pili,
  • Ilaria Pilia,
  • Daniele Fabbri and
  • Federico Meloni
  • + 8 authors

The occupational exposure to airborne fine and ultrafine particles (UFPs) and noise in aircraft personnel employed in airport taxiway was investigated. Stationary samplings and multiple personal sampling sites and job tasks were considered. Size dist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,553 Views
19 Pages

System to Evaluate Movement of Biological Contaminants in Soil

  • Matthew R. Miller,
  • Nora H. Onstad,
  • Michelle L. Green,
  • William H. Witola and
  • Paul C. Davidson

Soil columns have been utilized in hydrology to study vertical solute transfer through porous material for decades. Soil columns are typically designed as open tubes with soil held in place with meshing. While this open design is sufficient for non-h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,304 Views
13 Pages

Application of Gas-Permeable Membranes For-Semi-Continuous Ammonia Recovery from Swine Manure

  • Berta Riaño,
  • Beatriz Molinuevo-Salces,
  • Matías B. Vanotti and
  • María Cruz García-González

Gas-permeable membrane technology is a new strategy to minimize ammonia losses from manure, reducing pollution and recovering N in the form of an ammonium salt fertilizer. In this work, a new operational configuration to recover N using the gas-perme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
7,554 Views
19 Pages

Noise Assessment of Small Vessels for Action Planning in Canal Cities

  • Marco Bernardini,
  • Luca Fredianelli,
  • Francesco Fidecaro,
  • Paolo Gagliardi,
  • Marco Nastasi and
  • Gaetano Licitra

After the European Environmental Noise Directive prescribed noise maps and action plans, wide scientific literature and a consistent number of mitigation strategies emerged for road, railway, airport, and industrial noise. Unfortunately, very little...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,039 Views
22 Pages

Mapping Forest Fire Risk at a Local Scale—A Case Study in Andalusia (Spain)

  • Ismael Vallejo-Villalta,
  • Estefanía Rodríguez-Navas and
  • Joaquín Márquez-Pérez

Forest fires are a critical environmental problem facing current societies, with serious repercussions at ecological, economic and personal safety levels. Detailed maps enabling identification of areas liable to be affected is an indispensable first...

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