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, PM2.5, 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...