Environmental Sciences Proceedings, Volume 18, Issue 1

Waste from the agri-food sector has great potential for use as a building material. The paper concerns a pilot study of the use of buckwheat husk for board production. Buckwheat husk, obtained as waste during buckwheat hulling, is a material with a l...

The changes taking place in the environment, as well as the dynamic development of anthropogenic activity and uncontrolled emissions of pollutants into the air for many years, significantly contribute to the deterioration of air quality, and thus the...

This paper determined the influence of selected inorganic substances on the UV-based decomposition of organic micropollutants from a group of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, industrial additives, hormones, and food additives, depending on the number of...

This article presents a design of the prototype and experimental verification of an air quality measurement device that can be equipped with sensors such as CH4, CO₂, O₂, PM_2.5, and PM₁₀. The proposed solution allows for a long-term visual observatio...

Approximately 40% and 36% of total energy consumption and CO₂ emissions, respectively, in the EU are due to buildings. A large percentage of this energy consumption and its associated CO₂ emissions are due to conventional heating, ventilation, and ai...

Pesticides are agricultural drugs used to combat weeds, plants, and insects that are harmful to the product and affect the efficiency during the cultivation of plants. However, pesticides are highly toxic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic, even at low con...

The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) is concerned with the long-term management of water resources in Europe. The primary goal of the Water Framework Directive is to attain “good water status”. Surface, coastal, and transitional w...

Chillers can perform more efficiently in hot and dry climates if equipped with adiabatic rather than air-cooled condensers; however, the former imply water consumption. Because the power generation also requires a certain water consumption, the energ...

Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems are responsible for about 20% of energy consumption in buildings. In terms of energy saving, evaporative cooling technology presents an interesting solution to conventional vapor compression s...

Waste batteries and accumulators are a group of waste, the amount of which is constantly increasing every year. A particular weight gain of this type of waste is observed for lithium-ion batteries used in various electronic devices and modern passeng...

Impact Assessment (EIA) is an instrument of sustainable development. This paper focuses on the selection between technological variants of an investment in the Environmental Impact Assessment as a base material, using a different method than the orig...

The paper presents the estimation of sulfur dioxide emissions as an effect of coal and pellet combustion in an automatic boiler equipped with a retort burner based on the actual heat consumption required for heating a building and heating domestic ho...

Nowadays, we can find many studies about evaporative cooling pads, but a uniform methodology does not exist for experimental tests, and many factors are less studied. Our goal is to design and build a versatile experimental facility that enables the...

Cytotoxicity assays are a fundamental tool used in molecular biology, as well as in pharmacy, for drug discovery studies. Most of these assays are based on the measurement of cell viability and proliferation. The reduction of MTT is a widely used col...

In the context of sustainable cities and communities, to meet the European aim of a carbon-free economy by 2050, and to tackle the current climate change, the retrofitting of the Italian residential building stock, as well the green regeneration of u...

Activated carbon (AC) is produced by either a physical or chemical activation process. It is used in various industries such as water treatment, air purification, and in the processes of clarification, liquid deodorization, and alcohol distillation....

This paper presents research that contributed to the development of guidelines for technology related to the management of dairy industry waste for energy purposes, used as an additive in the process of pelleting with wood sawdust. During the tests,...

For years, activated carbon manufacturing has been based on coal. However, today, as coal mines in Eastern Europe are not accessible anymore, companies producing coal-based adsorptive materials need to search for new raw materials. Sugar cane fibers...

Cities are indicated as areas contributing to the smog problem. Nevertheless, they can also be viewed as a source of solutions. In modern urban agglomerations, we can observe innovative solutions such as buses filtering the air and plant installation...

The paper presents an analysis of the work comfort in a home office located in a single-family building with supply and exhaust ventilation with heat recovery. The noise level was measured, and the subjective feelings of the working person were analy...

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