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Techno-economic evaluation of electrocoagulation for cattle slaughterhouse wastewater treatment using aluminum electrodes in batch and continuous experiment

open access: yesSustainable Environment Research, 2023
This study aimed to investigate, from a techno-economic point of view, cattle slaughterhouse wastewater (CSWW) treatment via the electrocoagulation (EC) technique. A novel lab-scale EC unit with a 3 L volume was manufactured and tested.
Mohamed Saad Hellal   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022
Significance Despite growing evidence of the deleterious effects on ecological and human health, little is known regarding the global occurrence of pharmaceuticals in rivers.
J. Wilkinson   +126 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exposure to Household Air Pollution from Biomass-Burning Cookstoves and HbA1c and Diabetic Status Among Honduran Women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Household air pollution from biomass cookstoves is estimated to be responsible for more than two and a half million premature deaths annually, primarily in low and middle‐income countries where cardiometabolic disorders, such as Type II Diabetes, are ...
Africano, S.   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Research on light weight of thin-walled beam for automobile body [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The developing trend of the light-weight car is the using of new light-weight materials and the optimization of the car body structure. The beam construction is the major bearing part of the car body.
Chen Xiang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Water Pollution on Human Health and Disease Heterogeneity: A Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Background: More than 80% of sewage generated by human activities is discharged into rivers and oceans without any treatment, which results in environmental pollution and more than 50 diseases.
Li Lin, Haoran Yang, Xiaocang Xu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An overview of the environmental pollution and health effects associated with waste landfilling and open dumping

open access: yesEnvironmental science and pollution research international, 2022
Landfilling is one of the most common waste management methods employed in all countries alike, irrespective of their developmental status. The most commonly used types of landfills are (a) municipal solid waste landfill, (b) industrial waste landfill ...
A. Siddiqua   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A rigorous statistical framework for spatio-temporal pollution prediction and estimation of its long-term impact on health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the United Kingdom, air pollution is linked to around 40000 premature deaths each year, but estimating its health effects is challenging in a spatio-temporal study.
Lee, Duncan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Rapid adsorption of benzotriazole onto oxidized carbon cloth as an easily separable adsorbent

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
A commercial carbon cloth (CC) was oxidized by HNO3 acid and the features of the plain and oxidized CC were evaluated. The results of characterization illustrated that HNO3 oxidization duplicated the oxygen-containing functional groups and the surface ...
Emad K. Radwan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Historical Redlining Is Associated with Present-Day Air Pollution Disparities in U.S. Cities

open access: yesEnvironmental Science and Technology Letters, 2022
Communities of color in the United States are systematically exposed to higher levels of air pollution. We explore here how redlining, a discriminatory mortgage appraisal practice from the 1930s by the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC ...
H. Lane   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Traffic-related air pollution and obesity formation in children: a longitudinal, multilevel analysis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
BackgroundBiologically plausible mechanisms link traffic-related air pollution to metabolic disorders and potentially to obesity. Here we sought to determine whether traffic density and traffic-related air pollution were positively associated with growth
Berhane, Kiros   +9 more
core   +3 more sources

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