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The aim of this project was to create a detailed 3D model of Permian clay laminations. Modern image processing methods and wavelet analysis were used for 3D visualization, identification of the nature of laminations and calculation of mean and interval sedimentation rates. The images used in this project are the photographs of a clay sample taken from an outcrop of ?linguloid? clays. First, two faces of the sample were sanded and polished to the shine. Then the polished surfaces were scanned and photographed. Imag...

The aim of this study is monitoring of quality of drinking water in Tirana city for physical and chemicals properties according the International standards that applied in Albania. In some case water don?t fulfill the permeable levels for drinking due to high levels of ammonium or nitrates. This situation may cause many human health problems. Samples were collect from tap and private wells water. The total of 90 analyzed samples during May to September 2018. All samples are collected in accordance with chemical ru...

The phytoremediation represents an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical decontamination of sites degraded by various anthropogenic activities. The dendroremediation abilities of some tree species can be combined with the production of the woody biomass for energy purposes. The aim of the paper was to determine the phytoextraction efficiency of total arsenic (As) by two varieties of short rotation coppice willows. The research was conducted in a pot experiment. Dormant cuttings of the varieties were pla...

The discharge with a liquid cathode between the electrode and the surface of the liquid is a promising object of study, both in terms of the applicability of such discharges in plasma-chemical technologies, and in terms of green synthesis and lack of knowledge of mechanisms of plasma-chemical interactions with the organic substances. The characteristic of plasma was measured with the methods of emission spectroscopy. Electrical parameters of the discharge were also measured. The plasma-chemical synthesis carried o...

The article presents the results of the studies (in 2018 and 2019) of the level of accumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) ? the most toxic compounds from the number of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the snow cover (SC) of the territory of Almaty agglomeration, area of about 940 thousand hectares. The contamination of PCB SC has been established, especially in urban areas and adjacent to large industrial hubs. In snow samples up to 29 individual PCB congeners are identified, which is an indicator...

The Upper Devonian shales are predominantly carbonate, carbonate-siliceous thin-layer rocks with a high content of organic matter. Considered formation is widespread within the Volga-Ural and Timan-Pechora basins in the European part of Russia. Various estimations show that the hydrocarbon resources of the Upper Devonian shales range between hundreds of millions to billions of tons of oil. However, recovery of such hydrocarbons is significantly constrained due to the high heterogeneity and complex structure of roc...

Nowadays a major issue in managing the industrialized/logistic zones is represented by the environment protection. Circular economy or industrial ecology can be a sustainable model. The challenge for the economic actors of the Danube is the promotion of an Eco-friendly mode of transportation. The port administration and port operators should find solutions to implement an industrial ecology regime. Adapting an Eco-innovative solution should contribute on the number of the additional partners and clients. This cont...

Due to their properties and low production costs, plastics have replaced a number of construction materials and are being used more and more. To maximize the potential of plastics at the final stage of their life, you need to choose the right way to manage the resulting waste. In accordance with Circular Economy, the first form of using this waste should be material recycling, energy recovery may be an alternative to this method of management. It is unacceptable that in the era of today's technology this type of w...

In the development of a sustainable society and an active approach to environmental protection, it is essential to focus on building energy efficiency and its increasing. Within the member states of the European Union, the process of increasing the energy performance of buildings is ensured by increasing the requirements for new buildings through legal and technical standards. This process is supported financially by various EU funding programs. One of the useful helpers in spreading awareness of the energy perfor...

The contribution focused on the investigation of the potential in making use of the mining assets that in the past have been employed in extraction and processing mineral wealth of the Spis region. One of the possibilities is in employing them as part of mining tourism, a less traditional form of experience-based tourism. The region abounds in a great number of unique old-time mining works offering a high potential for preserving objects of underground mining, establishing open-air museums, educational paths as pa...

A total of 13.2 million tons of poultry meat were produced in 2017 in the European Union, with Poland?s contribution to that production being the greatest (17.7%). The amount of poultry manure generated in Poland is estimated to be on a level of 3.2 to 3.5 million tons per year. Such a significant mass of waste constitutes a problem for the environment. Due to its properties and the scale of the problem, the management of poultry manure still constitutes a major challenge as well as a field for research. Poultry m...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the data recorded on instrumented structures in Bucharest and adjacent free-field seismic stations during the last moderate earthquake that occurred on 28th of October 2018 in the Vrancea seismic zone. The earthquake had a 5.5 moment-magnitude, a depth of 147.8 km, and it was felt on a large area of Romania, generating very little damage in Bucharest. In the last five years, the National Institute for Earth Physics has deployed permanent instrumentation (accelerometers) a...

Low velocity compressional wave (P-wave), Vp values, have been observed from the lunar geophysical measurements made during the Apollo 14, 16 and 17 missions. These low velocities are attributed to lack of water, low soil compaction as well as the non-consolidated nature of the regolith. The microgravity lunar regolith simulant velocity experiment (?-SVeLSE) aims to determine if there is any dependence of gravitational force on the seismic longitudinal velocity measurements and thus correlate with data previously ...

The preliminary palynological results of analysis a 524 cm long continuous sediments core from the Lake Big Miassovo (South Urals, Russia) are presented. The core was collected in July 2018 from central part of the lake from a depth of 24 m. Palynological stratigraphy has been divided into four pollen zones on the basis on changing pollen abundances and taxa composition. The predominance of Betula pendula, Pinus sylvestris and Artemisia pollen in sediments has been established. The prevalence of desert plants (Art...

The present Article discusses recent successive processes dynamics in naturally renovated secondary phytocenosis of landslided territories of rich and diverse mountainous Adjara region. The comparative analysis of soil cover productivity level, floristic composition and cenotic structure of secondary phytocenosis and alongside slopes are made for identification of successive serial stage. The researches show that at lifeless substrates of landslided slopes, phytocenotic structure is formed with gradual establishme...

The article will attempt to highlight the contemporary problems faced by local selfgovernment in the conduct of environmental policy in the administrative-territorial units. The role of the administrative and territorial units in the organization, management and control of the implementation of the environmental policy in the municipality will be presented in accordance with the areas of competence and the possessions. We will also try to outline the distribution of the responsibilities of the local authorities an...

The goal of this paper is to highlight problems of development modern approaches to design the ecological innovation systems on different levels of organization. There is investigation the role of environmental innovations in solving some ecological and economic problems for providing ecological safety and sustainable development. The functional model of the environmental innovation system has been developed. This model is based on system approach and analysis of innovation process. The unified structure of the gl...

An increasing proportion of waste in megapolicies belongs to food waste, including waste of food industries and catering. Currently, this type of waste is practically not processed in Russia and disposed in landfills. However, technologies for food waste processing are known and include composting, accelerated anaerobic digestion, biogas production, etc. This paper discusses the innovative technology of food waste use in the form of a substrate for growing black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens) to produce melanin...

Gelnica is a town in the Kosice Region of Eastern Slovakia. It is located in the northern part of the Slovak Ore Mountains, in the Hnilec river valley, which flows a few kilometers downstream into Hornad. The town lies at the both banks of Hnilec, has an altitude of 375 meters and is located around 38 kilometers from Kosice. Gelnica is a city with rich mining history and by precisely utilizing its history we can develop tourism in the region. Beside history there is beautiful nature around the city, which offers m...

The market for electricity production from renewable sources is characterized by very high dynamics of change. This applies not only to total output power, but also to technological changes in waste production and management. Proper planning should prove to be a key issue for implementing the circular economy. Proper environmental assessment is a very important part of the decision-making process. Usually, we used current data to assess the environmental impact. In a rapidly changing environment, this can lead to ...

This paper presents the problem of solar energy conversion into electricity using photovoltaic cells. The mathematical study of PV cells could be made by two models: single diode model and double diode model. By connecting in series several PV cells a PV module is obtained. Small PV power generators are made by connecting multiple PV modules to form a PV array. Photovoltaic panels can be arranged in various configurations. Beside the insolation level (G) and ambient temperature (T), the PV cell power output depend...

In this paper we have analysed the existing methods of pest and disease field control on the basis of solar powered equipment and apparatus. The necessity of the presented research came from the considered problem of crop losses and reduction of product quality. We have highlighted the advantages of using the electrophysical method for monitoring the number and type of insect pests. The novel construction of the light trap is a three-ring, three-slot and single-slit for monitoring the number and species of insects...

At the moment tourism industry in Europe and the whole world is undergoing significant changes: tourist travel habits are changing, the importance of environmental quality is increasing, the use of e-commerce is increasing, the variety and number of tourism products is increasing, and new tourism destinations are emerging. Considering the globalization processes and intensified competition, Latvia needs to identify its competitive advantages in developing tourism products and environment with greater sustainable d...

Factor analysis of three-hour dynamics from the winter solstice 22.12.2013 to 21.12.2014 of four meteorological parameters: atmospheric pressure; air temperature; relative humidity; dew point temperature was carried out by the method of identification of stable regularities (weather station Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, 2917WMO_ID=27485). The sample capacity was 2917 rows. The correlation coefficient increased to 0.5065, which is more than 0.4583 for a seven-year data set. The ranking of the factors changed only for depend...

Factor analysis of three-hour dynamics for the vegetation period of birch leaves from 01.05.2014 to 30.09.2014 of four meteorological parameters: atmospheric pressure; air temperature; relative humidity; dew point temperature was carried out by the method of identification of stable regularities (weather station Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, 2917WMO_ID=27485). Power sample consisted of 1222 of the row. The correlation coefficient 0.4677 is less than 0.5065 for the year between winter solstices, but slightly more than 0.458...

Factor analysis of three-hour dynamics from 01.01.2012 to 31.10.2018 of four meteorological parameters: atmospheric pressure; air temperature; relative humidity; dew point temperature was carried out by the method of identification (weather station Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, WMO_ID=27485). Power selection when accounting periods of the growing season of birch from 01.05 till 30.09 made 8558 instead 19713 lines in comparison with the continuous series, while there have been significant changes in the laws. The coefficien...

Factor analysis of three-hour dynamics from 01.01.2012 to 31.10.2018 of four meteorological parameters: atmospheric pressure; air temperature; relative humidity; dew point temperature was carried out by the method of identification of stable regularities (weather station Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, WMO_ID=27485). The sampling rate was 19713 lines. It is proved that pair connections allow to study quanta of weather behavior for different periods of time: long-term, annual, seasonal and period of plant ontogenesis. There a...

The Central Anatolia Basement Units (CABU) have several mafic and felsic characterized magmatic systems which are associated with the closure of the Neotethys during the Late Mesozoic. Gucunkaya gabbro is located to the southern part of Agacoren Intrusive to the North East of Aksaray in Central Anatolia. Field and petrographic studies show that the mafic products of the area are mainly composed of two main units as a gabro and diorite. The gabbro and the diorite cut by fine crystalline gabbro, diorite porphyry, fi...

In this paper the author answers the question about competitiveness of post-industrial areas against undeveloped land. The analysis concerns potential consequences related to the investment on former industrial areas and undeveloped areas usually located in suburbs or in city?s outskirts. In the research potential different costs were examined: social, economic, environmental and spatial costs of the investment of the two mentioned types of sites. The results shows that there is a number of negative phenomena in p...

Problems occurring in post-industrial areas constitute large issue in social, economic, spatial as well as ecological point of view. According to research of National Institute for Spatial Policy and Housing post-industrial areas occupy 4% of urbanized areas is Polish cities. Poland among European countries is one with the biggest percentage of post-industrial areas in cities. In the context of large scale of degradation of cities re-use of former industrial areas ? brownfields - is one of the challenges of ration...

The negative phenomenon of suburbanisation has been observed around the globe for many years. One of the methods of counteracting the process is directing the city?s development inward, improving the urban planning parameters, and using areas potentially attractive in terms of location but in need of new management. They are among others post-industrial areas, frequently characterised by a considerable degree of degradation (brownfields). The objective of the article is the determination of the potential of degrad...

In the context of the aggravation of global contradictions in the interaction of man and nature, environmental consciousness must respond quickly and adequately to the situation, outstrip threatening events and seek ways to overcome environmental disruptions and harmonize relations in the supersystem «nature». These challenges encourage the natural and human sciences to create for man a new knowledge, which would be based on the laws of human development, as part of nature, and the principles of value-semantic pro...

Pollution of the environment as a result of human activity has become one of the most important problems of our time. Undoubtedly, in the twenty-first century, the development of civilization will be under increasing pressure from the environmental aspect. The use of waste becomes a permanent function of social production, expands the raw material base, preserves non-renewable sources of primary raw materials, prevents environmental pollution, provides a significant economic effect by saving current costs and inve...

Natural zeolites are able to remove lower concentrations of contaminants present in groundwater and drinking water through ion-exchange process. The main objectives of this work were: (1) to determine the efficiency of different types of regenerants: NaOH 0.5 M, NaCl 0.5 M, NaClO 0.5 M and NaClO:NaCl (1:1) 0.5 M; (2) to investigate the effect of initial pH (5.7 - 11.7) and molarity (0.5 - 1 M) of the regenerants; and (3) to determine the removal capacity of natural zeolite for ammonium removal after ten (10) sorpt...

From fast-growing plants, Miscanthus is a promising alternative energy source exploitable at regional level. The climatic conditions in the region also have a significant impact on the biomass production and also on the economic efficiency. The aim of the paper was to evaluate the influence of selected climatic parameters on the total production of the above-ground biomass of two Miscanthus genotypes in the Nitra region in the Slovak republic for the years 2015-2018. The method of monitoring climatic parameters an...

The regular mode of the 3rd kind (method of periodic heating) is one of the effective ways to measure a complex of thermal characteristics (thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity and heat capacity) of gases and liquids (see, for example, the works of L.P. Filippov and S.N. Kravchun). Currently, this method has become widely used to study the thermal properties of solids. In our works, schemes of the process of heat transfer in the system of three contacting bodies ? the sample under study and two semi-limited (...

Historical province in south-eastern Romania, Dobrogea has been inhabited since ancient times as attested to identify objects belonging to Neolithic cultures Gumelnita and Hamangia. On the western coastline of the Black Sea have placed the Greek colonists from sec. VII i. Chr. In ancient times, Dobrogea was named Scythia Minor. The population has been long and constant, traditional occupation being agriculture, in the present share of arable land exceeding 2/3 of the total. The total area of the Dobrogea Plateau i...

The tremendously increased energy needs due to advancement in technology have put pressure on electric grids. The conventional grids cannot bear that extra load. Although the availability of renewable resources (solar, wind, hydro and biomass) at a large scale have great potential to offer environment friendly energy solutions, however, the compatibility of Distributed Renewable Energy Sources (DRES) with existing conventional grids in developing countries is a serious concern. Therefore, the issue of growing elec...

The rapid developments of science and technology, as well as the restructuring of the extractive mining industry, have led to massive changes in the structure and complexity of mining equipment. Mining units must provide an advanced level of mechanization and automation, thus ensuring increased productivity and safety. The use of modern information technologies for surveillance and monitoring of high complexity technological facilities is a topical issue. By monitoring the main functional parameters of excavation,...

In this work, the high-bog peat was used for the production of monosaccharide as a biofuel source. As it is known, peat is one of the renewable energy sources which is widespread in the Central Region of the Russian Federation. Paet contains over 40% of such polysaccharides like cellulose and hemicelluloses. The study of the peat pretreatment methods for further hydrolysis is the main task for chemical and biotechnology. In the current work, the effectiveness of the ultrasonic pretreatment of the high-bog peat for...

The geotechnical characteristics of rocks influence their behavior in terms of their strength and stability. Changing the geotechnical characteristics of the rocks is the direct cause of the loss of the natural balance of the slope when the resistance forces defeated by the sliding forces. Influence factors, which may be of geological, hydrogeological, hydrometeorological, climatic, seismic, biotic, anthropic, mechanical or geomechanical nature and occur in time and space on rock massifs/deposits, determines the c...

Riparian ecosystems play significant role both in the natural and man related activities. They are important part of the hydrological cycle and ecosystem services. They actively support many processes connected to the environment wellbeing, floods retention and mitigation, erosion reducing, river restoration. But under the climate and climate change specifics and anthropogenic works they are under continuous pressure, surely affecting their natural development. To safe and mitigate presented impacts various measur...

For the district governance level, taking into account the medium- and long-term changes in the model of strategic spatial planning of marine activities (marine spatial planning) natural and environmental sustainability factors are one of the most important components, which is necessary to consider. Their importance is due to the fact that the geographical environment, being complex and comprehensive formation, has a strong impact on the development and preservation of ecosystems. At the same time, for the consid...

Ensuring the continuous production of housing and communal services, forms quality indicators of the human environment. The strategic orientation of the municipal management system allows enterprises to adapt to changing market conditions. In order to ensure the successful functioning and development of the industry, the classification and assessment of the probability of occurrence of negative events is carried out., which are a manifestation of latent or real threat to the safety of the human environment. With t...

In this paper a new type of Ru-containing catalysts based hypercrosslinked polystyrene (HPS) is proposed for cellulose hydrolytic hydrogenation to increase the selectivity to sorbitol. Also, we report the development of Ru-containing magnetically recoverable catalysts for cellulose hydrogenolysis to low alcohols, EG and PG. The use of the 1.0% Ru/HPS MN-270 catalyst allows achieving the total sorbitol and mannitol yield about 50% (245 °C, 60 bar H2, 30 mL water, 600 rpm, 0.028 mmol Ru on 1 g cellulose, process dur...

At the head of all the activities of society are human resources, they are making technological breakthroughs and the development of economic growth. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the development of new technologies is carried out at the expense of organizations working to improve the economy and technological development; organizations face the difficult task of stimulating human resources for a technological breakthrough. In this article, corporate social responsibility is considered as one of the tools...

Safety planning is an important part of the mechanism that helps overcome extraordinary events or crisis situations. A safety plan is a general planning document such as a crisis plan, emergency plan, flood plan, etc. that focuses on the safety of an area. The structures of individual safety plans are defined in various legal and methodological regulations in the Czech Republic. The content may include safety plans aimed at either preventing or responding to emergencies. Some safety plans have combined content and...

The present paper aims to assess the microbiological water quality of the wetland La Tembladera?, Ecuador. The object of study is located in the southwestern Ecuador, canton Santa Rosa, in the province El Oro. Microbiological analyses included the determination of the sanitary-indicative microorganisms? number, such as total bacterial count, bacteria Escherichia coli, ?lostridium, actinomycetes and micromycetes. Water samples were collected two times per week during dry tropical season at three points with differe...

It is well known that the main purpose for all upscaling techniques related with homogenization of initial any heterogeneous property and substituting it with an effective value. Thus, the essence of upscaling is computing weighted average on the fine-grid to form coarse-grid considering representative elementary volume. The goal of this research work was experimental investigations of pore space distribution of carbonate rocks. Samples were collected from the Upper Permian ages core data. Samples bulk porosity we...

This work is about paleogeographic reconstructions on the basis of mineralogical and geochemical studies. Vanavar, Oskobinsk and Sobinsk formations of the Vendian age (Ilbokichskoe deposit in Eastern Siberia) were studied. The complex of research included data of XRD and ICP-MS. According to the obtained results, the mineralogical composition of the sediments was refined. Quartz, carbonate minerals, represented by magnesite, dolomite, calcite and siderite, and sulfates ? gypsum, barite, anhydrite are noted among t...