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The basic purpose of magnetic separation is to separate the ferromagnetic elements from the magnetically inert component. In difficult conditions of mining activity, due to high costs of repair or replacement of damaged machine elements, prevention related to the correct operation of machinery and equipment of production lines is particularly important. Safety systems of feed material (electromagnetic separators) are designed for installation on construction of a conveyor belt to clean the transported material fro...

This paper aims to highlight the production characters of two cultivars of watermelon planted in grafted and in non-grafted culture, starting from the premise that vegetable grafting represents the most common biotechnology for European and Asian countries, where crop rotation is no longer an option and available land is under intense use. The researches were conducted in 2016 at Research - Development Center For Field Crops On Sandy Soils D?buleni ? Romania, under field conditions, on two cultivars of watermelon:...

Geotechnical monitoring aspects of construction activities in congested urban environment are discussed. Successful application of express methods, enabling mobile equipment use for soil tests is described. Case histories of such applications in Moscow historical downtown are given. Data, obtained by such monitoring, is analyzed, and a conclusion is drawn on the necessity to apply sparing technologies when construction operations are carried out in the vicinity of buildings in service. Development and redevelopmen...

The result of the experimental and analytical researches for the appointment of underground excavations, considering the interdependence with the type of rocks met, the working conditions and the safety of the supports have highlighted that the rational use of the actual types of supports, the improvement of the constructive parameters and the design of new types, as a unitary system, needs to be justified taking into account the study of the mechanism of the interaction. The analyses carried out for the rock cond...

P systems are powerful computational devices, whose structure and functionality are inspired by living cells and organisms. P colonies are one of the types of P systems working with objects. They are formed from one-membrane agents placed in the shared environment and they use very simple rules. It was proved that P colonies are computationally complete devices. In the paper, we investigate the application of P colonies to simulate logical operators. It is obtained in a constructive way. In the first steps we show...

Considering that there are more and more situations where there is a need of building structures on low strength capacity grounds, we need to find efficient methods not only from the technic-economical point of view, but also from the time consuming point of view. The rapid impact compaction method is also an energy efficient method because there can be used any type of ground found in the site (gravel). The process itself it?s the usage of a device that consists in falling weight of 5 to 9 tons from a controlled ...

The geographic origin of pollution is disconnected from its scale or place of occurrence, and some environmental problems could have impact easily on the entire planet. Currently it is noticeable a continuous agravation of pollution and a change in the basics of ecological problems. Local pollution is replaced by global issues such as climate change or biodiversity loss. The paper attempted to reveal the direction of policy measures that target sustainability within a global context. The paper makes an incursion i...

Recycling vegetable and animal wastes from households, livestock farms, vegetable farms, industry and timber processing, mushroom cultivation, and so on and using them for fertilizing vegetable crops in various forms (mixtures with organic and inorganic matter, compost and green fertilizer) is a permanent concern of researchers and farmers worldwide.In the glasshouse, it was studied influence of four types of compost (composted leaves, mixture of pieces of grape woods and tree branches, waste mushroom compost and ...

The aim of the study was to determine the condition of indoor environmental quality in the selected elementary school through quantitative and qualitative determination of physical and chemical factors, and subjective assessment (questionnaires). Differences between indoor air temperatures in both seasons were small (up to 1°C). The recommended value of 1000 ppm for concentrations of CO2 by Von Pettenkofer was exceeded in all monitored classrooms. Limit value for PM10 (50 ?g/m3) was exceeded by 52.4% (winter) and ...

Digestate is a liquid residue from anaerobic digestion in biogas plant. Digestate contains a high proportion of mineral nitrogen and other macroelements and microelements necessary to plant growth. Recycling of nutrients contained in digestate back to the soil is considered as the most suitable utilization of digestate. The digestate used in experiment was taken from agriculture biogas plant which uses pig manure and corn silage as input raw materials. This paper presents the results of laboratory pot experiment i...

The paper presents the results of the study on the variability of volumetric density of individual lithological types in the Cu-Ag deposit in the Lubin-Glogow Copper District (the Polkowice-Sieroszowice mining area). In the examined deposit, the three main lithological types are made of eighteen ore types with different petrographic and mineralogical composition. Six lithological units with the largest share in the deposit resources were selected for the examination. The statistical description has shown that the ...

The paper presents the physical and mechanical behaviour of an expansive clay, coming from a site in Cluj-Napoca, Romania enhanced by a polyethylene waste material. Given the current research directions of international projects, this paper fits the less studied theme of the usage of recyclable materials for soil stabilization. According to recent studies, in EU just 40% of waste materials are recycled and this low percentage opens a wide perspective for the re-usage of these materials as fillers in stabilized soi...

Romania is an active country from a seismic point of view, every year occurring around 250 earthquakes, many of these of a medium to strong level. This is one of the reasons why the seismic design of bridges is very important in Romania. The seismic provisions applied in Romania evolved from P100 - 92 to P100 - 2013, containing major changes regarding the ground acceleration and corner period, but also regarding the structural details. The cantilever method for prestressed concrete bridges has obvious benefits for...

Purpose of the article: The present paper is part of a wider study undertaken by the author on aspects of CSR in modern companies, e.g. Hys [9], [10] reports a study of employee practices. The aim of this article is to review and analyze the activities undertaken by enterprises in Poland in the frame of corporate social responsibility (CSR), with a special focus on the environment. Research background: The CSR concept is a challenge for modern companies. Policy makers take action to identify operational factors wh...

Currently mobile mining machines, including primary ones, such as drilling and bolting rigs, or used in underground mining of metal ores, are most commonly driven by internal combustion engines. Due to the large depth of mining, this type of drive provides a number of disadvantages, including a large generation of fumes, heat and noise. The solution to this problem seems to be the use of the electrical battery drives, similarly as is the case in motor vehicles. The article presents the assumptions and boundary con...

Total (specular+diffusive) reflection of nanostructured Si layers prepared by metal assisted chemical etching (MACE) of crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafers is investigated. The thickness of nanostructured Si layers is varied from 0.3 to 100 ?m by increasing the MACE time. The time dependence of silicon nanostructured layers thickness on the etching time was found to be logarithmic. Spectra of the total reflection were measured in optical range from 0.2 to 2 ?m. Depending on the thickness of sample, it was observed a...

In this paper is developed a model for the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Arad, Romania and are presents the results of the steady-state simulation. The model of the plant was based on the state?of-the-art Activated Sludge Model No.1 (ASM1). In this paper are describes all the steps required to model a waste water treatment plant. In addition, discuss the major challenges encountered in creating a model. It includes typical model simulations for assessment analysis facility. Modeling of wastewater treatment ...

In this paper, we consider such dangerous disasters as wildfires. Wildfires are global sources of gas and aerosol emissions into the atmosphere and considered as one of the main factors of environmental risk, causing disbalance of the climate system of the Northern Eurasia and the planet as a whole. Taking into account terrain features and characteristic spatial scale of the Northern Eurasia, we suggest to use a satellite monitoring system for urgent detection of fire origins and assessment of volumes of hazardous...

The comfortable room environment and thermal comfort depends on internal factors and influences on the human organism. People are very sensitive to changes in indoor climate conditions. The body reacts feeling of thermal discomfort for some fluctuations. Thermal comfort is given by the air temperature and radiant heat, air velocity and relative humidity in the room. The main impact of these factors on the comfort level of individuals depends on the activity and type of clothing. Dantec ComfortSense system offers t...

An investigation of the effects of long-term drainage and restoration on the water table level and water chemistry was carried out within the area drained in 1975?1980 of Vasyugan Mire (Ob-Irtysh interstream area) with a pine?shrub?sphagnum community. The method of statistical analysis included estimation of time series and spectral analysis. In conditions of unsatisfactory operation of the drainage network, a comparative analysis of the data showed that average seasonal levels were close to natural conditions. An...

The article deals with the problem of debug of hardware computational units intended for stream data processing on FPGA. Modern solutions are usually oriented to debug of a hardware unit implementation in a simulator with some model input data or to observing the implemented design in the prototype with real target system environment. However effective analysis and debug of implemented computational algorithms requires combined debug with test data exchange between hardware unit model in simulator and its implemen...

The paper refers to an experimental program aimed at evaluating the characteristics of masonry, with the objective of developing an innovative system for masonry, destined to be used for facades and envelopes. The purpose was to develop new masonry elements with good performance at thermal transmittance and good behavior at noise, fire and durability. Technical and economic feasibility of the masonry prototype systems was validated by experimental tests, according to European standards. The strategy for the develo...

Mathematical modeling of river flow formation processes is the basic research and engineering tool for modern hydrology. Despite a number of undoubted successes in modeling and a fairly wide introduction of models into practice, a number of problems remain that point to the fundamental difficulties of traditional approaches to the problem. The most important among such tasks are: assessment of the regime of extreme hydrological events, primarily floods; Use of hydrological models on unexplored basins; Perspective ...

The regularities of distribution of methane and sulfide sulfur (total sulfide ? ?H2S) in the bottom sediment deposits of therapeutic sulfide mud Lake Bolshoy (Big) Tambukan, located in the region of Caucasian Mineral Waters. Determination of methane and sulfide sulfur were produced in black and dark grey therapeutic mud, as well as in the underlying steel-grey clays and coastal sediments, represented by yellow-brown clay and loam. The formation of therapeutic sulfide mud flows through the biogeochemical environmen...

Working in mining companies, which extract coal, is very difficult and dangerous. Miners carry out activities in a hostile environmental in which there are many natural and technical dangers. The accumulation of such unfavorable factors makes it necessary to take actions to appropriately prepare the workers to work in these conditions. These actions mainly include different kinds of trainings before and during the work. One of the goals of these trainings is to make the workers get to know the threats that occur i...

Development of high strength concrete has been continuous over the years, its production becoming available at competitive prices to the construction industry, thus moving away from being a novelty product. Although high-strength concrete properties have been widely studied for nearly 100 years, currently available design standards for concrete structures contain stipulations based on research conducted on concrete with lower grades than those available today. The modulus of elasticity is a very important mechanic...

In this publication were presented the methods of designing the natural cultural skeleton areal structure of a set of certain landscape elements. The methods are based on extrapolation the statements of island biogeography conception to the field of conservation planning of the territory. The sites of wetlands located on the areas of ?wild nature? were taken in the capacity of areal elements. The methods suggest the formation of an optimal protective zone around every wetland. The size of the protective zone can b...

Nanocomposites have been considered as a stimulating route for creating a new type of high performance material that combines the advantages of polymer and the nanoparticles. Polyamide is well known as an engineering thermoplastic material that is widely used in industrial applications for its good mechanical and thermal properties. The paper presents the study of the new nanostructured polymer composites from polyamide/oxidized graphite nanoparticles-PA/GO to manufacture, by injection, bearing seals, contact plat...

A very important factor, which has a great influence on the financial situation of mining enterprises extracting coal, is an effective use of machines. To determine the level of the use of the machines, it is necessary to reliably evaluate their work. The credibility of such evaluation mainly depends on the quality and the amount of obtained data about the parameters of the machines? work. To synchronize, archive and analytically process the data, it is essential to use appropriate informatics tools. The article p...

Paper deals with important aspect of organization and implementation of transport operations and transport processes between points of origin and points of consumption in order to meet requirements of GS1 standards to fulfill supply chain needs. Designed information system (hardware, software and communication features) is installed on each logistic unit (wagon, container etc.). This allows to use extended self AutoID functions for low level data preprocessing. Paper focuses on train composition of both rail and r...

Given an example watershed, calculation of the long-term average annual soil loss by the universal soil loss equation (USLE) is analyzed taking into amount the Slovak and Polish approaches. Six factors are considered the rainfall erosivity factor (R), the soil erodibility factor (K), the topographic factors (LS) and the cropping management factors (C and P). Differences in input and methodology are highlighted. The example micro-watershed (the Matny stream basin in the Beskid Wyspowy, the western Carpath, Poland) ...

The article aims at analysing the content of heavy metals in the soils of two rural administrative units of the municipality of Trzebinia namely Psary and P?oki which are located in the Silesian-Krak?w Upland, in the western part of the Malopolska province, in Poland. The analysis of soil material was based on the determination of granulometric composition of the soil with the use of the Casagrande method modified by Pr?szy?ski (according to the industry standard BN-78/9180-11)[1], soil reaction in 1M KCl and in w...

An assessment of a market property value has been a subject of a debate among appraisers for many years. Some of them believe that the ?power? of statistics is so tremendous that in each situation an appraisal should be based on statistical methods. On the other hand, the other group off appraisers with a considerable experience, strongly support an actual expert assessment. For practitioners statistics is usually only an additional tool used rather to confirm a presented thesis. The dispute lasting for years is n...

The purpose of this paper is the time tracking behaviour of hydrotechnical structures by establishing basic displacements to basic slice and previous vertical slice, processing these measurements and draw conclusions on the behaviour of the analyzed works. As a case study was elected the Vidraru dam located in Arges County, being one of the most important dams in Romania. The Vidraru dam, built on the Arges River, is an "arch" dam with double curvature, being the highest concrete dam in Romania. The storage lake f...

The present research is a part of the obtaining innovative medicine domain and is concerned with conceiving and developing new anti depressive medicines, endowed with a high therapeutically degree, low secondary effects and impact on the quality of life, through a research partnership. The impact of Borderline personality disorder (BPD) diseases, especially depression, is continuously growing and as a treatment, are used anorganic products based on lithium, such as lithium carbonate, lithium citrate or lithium oro...

In connection with the significant destruction capability of tornado, the possibility of tornado passing through the areas comprising higher criticality rating facilities, such as nuclear power plants (NPP), is considered during the design and engineering (D&E) phase for such facilities. Corresponding probabilistic safety criterion in introduced into the decision-making basis concerning the consideration of tornado's impact onto the hazardous production facilities and destruction loads computation during the D&E p...

Experience of radiological contamination of land, especially after the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters has shown the need to explore possible ways of capturing radionuclides in the area affected and adapting the landscape management to this purpose ex-ante the considered accident in terms of prevention. The project "Minimizing the impact of radiation contamination on land in the emergency zone of Temel?n NPP" (2012-2015), dealt with the possibility of utilization of wetlands as retention sites for water carrying...

The urban structure of the old town quarter in Sandomierz belongs to the oldest and most interesting Polish architectural and archaeological sites. In this part of the town there are several objects written into the register of historical monuments. The location of the town on loess grounds, of a large thickness, has caused a lot of problems for the owners of real estates and the managers of technical infrastructure. This is the result of the characteristics of loess. Loess affected by external factors (rainfall) ...

Groundwater is one of the main resources for drinking- and industrial water supply in Bulgaria. Investigations of a number of groundwater sources indicate concentrations of toxic elements or metal ions, considerably exceeding the maximum contaminant values. Pollution with arsenic has been found in the region of Dimitrovgrad, Merichleri, Haskovo, Kyustendil. Increased content of manganese, iron and sulphates is available in some districts of Sofia, Dimitrovgrad, Haskovo, Svishtov. Presence of excessive concentratio...

One of the common applications of geosynthetics is their use as reinforcement for aggregate and soil layers. Geosynthetics improve the mechanical properties of the reinforced layers, which are originally, due to various reasons, insufficiently protected. Therefore, the use of geosynthetics allows for bearing heavier loads thanks to the soil-reinforcement system and an extended material durability. This article describes the laboratory tests of mechanical properties of a hexagonal geogrid made of polypropylene used...

After assessment of supply of ecological (EKO) and Premium quality products (PQP) of bee-keeping in Lithuania in 2012-2014 it can be seen that the number of ecological bee-keeping farms sequentially decreased by 2 farms from 2012 to 2014. Amounts of honey (34.66 t), (32.14 t), (33.56 t) collected during the research period were similar; quantities of all bee-keeping products decreased, except for pollen: in 2014 their quantity increased by 1.8 times, comparing with the quantity at the beginning of the research per...

Several pots belonging to Neolithic cultures from the Romanian Plain contain crystals of brown hornblende. The brown hornblende is a calcic mineral belonging to the amphibole family, a highly complex series of inosilicates. Interestingly, the clay used as raw material for these Neolithic pots contains green, not brown, hornblende. No neighbouring sands (which could be added as a temper) contain such brown crystals. Therefore, the existence of the brown hornblende can be explained by in situ formation at the expens...

Feedbacks of soil ecosystems to climate change depend on its dynamics, thus soil ecosystems can directly and indirectly respond to climate change. Literature proved that warming directly alters microbial communities by increasing their activity. Also, climate change may also alter plant community, which consequently will impact indirectly, thus altering the soil communities that depend on their inputs. Thus, soil microbial community is responsible for a variety of soil provided ecosystem services, given their role...

In essence, the paper presents the tracking of the behavior in time of hydro-technical constructions by establishing the horizontal displacements (dx and dy) compared to the base tranche and the previous tranche, and also the processing of these measurements and establishing conclusions and recommendations regarding the behavior of the objective taken into study. As studied objective was elected C?nde?ti dam, which is located in Buz?u county, at about 19 km upstream from town Buz?u. The dam is situated on the Buz?...

The common fig tree (Ficus carica L.), is one of the oldest cultivated Mediterranean crop, is a useful genetic resource for commercial cultivation. The aim of this study was, the analysis of genetic diversity of the species Ficus carica from western Romania. Genetic diversity of fifteen fig-tree cultivars collected from three Romanian west regions were investigated using Inter Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) primers. Using a set of primers, the most informative ones were selected for their ability to generate ISSR p...

Most of the wells have an associated survey suite designed for geophysical investigations, including neutron log, density log, and sonic log. These tools are used later on for singular, dual, or complex boreholes geophysical interpretation, especially for reservoir characterization in terms of lithology and porosity. It is known that the acoustic wave?s velocity through different rock types is a function of the elastic properties and density of both the mineral skeleton of that rock, and the in situ fluids, stress...

In Poland information about landfills of power industry waste and the composition of waste deposited on them are largely dispersed. There is no data on the content of rare earth elements in ashes and slags. The article presents a developed information system allowing simultaneous access to a number of data on power industry waste landfills (location, technical and technological data) and data on the rare earth content in deposited ashes and slags. The article presents energy waste landfills (both historical and cu...

Prebiotics are one of most common components of functional food. Jerusalem artichoke tubers contain up to 20 % of inulin and oligofructose (OF) well known as probiotic substances. In agriculture Jerusalem artichoke (JA) has a number of advantages while it is used. It is zoned in temperate climates like the northern regions of China and Russia. Due to its acceptable organoleptic properties (sweetish taste without bitterness) compared with chicory (commonly used as source of probiotic), JA tubers can be used in func...

Since the dawn of time, housing has been closely linked to the characteristic natural environmental factors ? geological, hydrological and climatic conditions occurring in a given area. Lack of knowledge acquired by our ancestors about the causes of processes and phenomena existence in both ? natural and built environment, has led to the formulation of various hypotheses around this subject. One of them became the founding of the art that was focused on finding the right place to settle down permanently (mineral a...

The deposit Kokkyia is located in the exocontact zone of granodiorite intrusion, and zones of hydrothermal alteration, which enclose gold mineralization, are controlled by small intrusions of diorite and syenite of the Upper Devonian intrusive complex and are located in volcanic rocks of sour alkali and medium composition. Practically all the difference of rocks are affected by the processes of hydrothermal changes and are shown as the processes of propylitic nature: albitization, feldspathization, chloritization,...