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The paper describes the case of excavation reclamation after exploitation of gravel, located in the Sola River valley in Rajsko, in the range of the Nature 2000 area Lower Sola Valley (PLB120004), within and the vicinity of the Nature 2000 area of Lower Sola (PLH120083), the vicinity of breeding ponds. There is a Quaternary aquifer in the excavation bottom. 540,000 tonnes of waste from a nearby hard coal mine were used for ground works, which filled the excavation after exploitation of gravel. As a part of the fie...

The purpose of the article (research) is to determine the impact of environmental policy on the possibilities and ways of implementing the socio-economic development strategy of the Leningrad Region of the Russian Federation for the period until 2030. The work used systematic and dialectical-materialist approaches, methods of forecasting, comparison, formal-logical and statistical analysis, as well as tools for scientific analysis of documents and performance results. In the course of the work, the essence and pec...

As of January 1, 2017, according to the Directive 2014/95/EU of the European Parliament and the Council of 22 October 2014 amending Directive 2013/34/EU as regards disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large undertakings and groups public-interest entities fulfilling particular requirements described in the document are obligated to disclose non-financial and diversity information. Due to this fact, the main aim of the paper was the assessment of the current state of reporting of environ...

In the design of new cars, great demands are placed on the passive safety of a vehicle. This is especially true for the front part of a car. Each item for this part of a car must absorb a part of energy which arises when a pedestrian is hit. The headlights also belong among the core elements here. The size of the energy that a headlight is capable of absorbing is first calculated by the finite element method using specialized software. It is necessary that these theoretical values are validated in practice, using ...

In the presented article the approach to establishment of complex noise exposure in conditions of urban territories of a large settlement with application of geoinformation systems is proposed and tested. The main advantages of using geoinformation systems in conjunction with specialized software products used to perform and visualize acoustic calculations are described. Approbation of the proposed approaches was carried out using the example of Perm with the identification of sources of road noise as the main con...

Nutrient pollution and harmful algal blooms cause major environmental damage as well as serious human and animal health problems. Moreover, they take a toll on the economy, hurting industries and sectors that depend on clean water. High levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in water induce algae to grow faster than the lake ecosystems can handle. The increase in algae content damages the quality of lake water, food resources, and reduces the amount of oxygen needed to survive aquatic life. So-called algal blooms can s...

The evaluation of the agro-ecological potential of Racha-Lechkhumi - Kvemo Svaneti region will allow using the weather and climatic conditions efficiently making it possible to grow and develop the crops efficiently and gain rich harvest. Consequently, the data of long-term (60-year-long) meteorological observations were treated and analyzed and used as the basis to calculate and evaluate the principal agro-climatic indices (sums of active temperatures (>10?C), atmospheric precipitations (mm), relative air humidit...

Appropriate protection of the environment, as well as of the most vulnerable environmental factor, water, is impossible without the achievement of a civilization's progress in all its aspects (economic, social, etc.). Also, the lack of adequate economic support may lead to the impossibility of carrying out actions to protect and conserve water resources. Activities from eastern part of the Jiu Valley, constituted as integrated parts of economic growth and development, invariably degrade, through the specificity of...

Two national agencies are operating in Turkey providing routine analysis of earthquakes of Turkey and surroundings, Bo?azi?i University - Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institution (BOUN?KOERI) and Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, Earthquake Department (AFAD?DDA). In the present work, we check the consistency of the focal parameters provided by these centers for a large number of recently occurred earthquakes. To perform this test, we used the solutions provided by International Seismolog...

Due to increased precision in positioning and depth determination, recent seismicity data (January 2014 - January 2018) from ROMPLUS Earthquake Catalogue of Romania[1] have been used to illustrate active faults at crustal and lithospheric depths in Vrancea, a seismogenic sector located in the East Carpathians Bend Zone (Romania). Multiple N-S, W-E, NW-SE trending seismicity sections across the Vrancea area have been built and analyzed, as well as seismicity maps at various depths, or for depth intervals. The seism...

Nowadays, new rural paradigm foresees sustainable development and the transition of agriculture and rural areas from agricultural origin goods providers to providers of various goods and services, which are based on ecosystem services, especially agroecosystem services. The one group of ecosystem services - provisioning services (biomass e.g. food and fiber) could be better provided by intensive and industrialized farms. The other group of ecosystem services could be assured by farms complying with the agro-ecolog...

Conversion of vegetable oils and fats are of the great attention in the last decades. The main processes used in the triglyceride processing are transesterification, hydrolysis, hydrodeoxygenation, and hydrogenation. The last two reactions can be concerned with hydrotreatment processes, allowing the formation of hydrocarbons, fatty alcohols, and fatty aldehydes. These compounds can be used as fuel components, intermediated for the synthesis of surfactants, fragrances, pharmaceutical etc. In the current work, the s...

The Northern Dvina River and Kyanda River of the White Sea basin are characterized by similar natural conditions ? long cold winters, short cool summers, podzolic type of soil formation, high wetlands (up to 20%) and wooded areas (about 80%). Despite a number of common features, the Northern Dvina River, unlike Kyanda River, experiences a significant anthropogenic influence from the enterprises of pulp and paper and wood chemical industry, heat power engineering, mechanical engineering and others. The Kyanda River...

Bottom sediments are a specific component of aquatic ecosystems. They are actively involved in the accumulation, redistribution and mass transfer of chemical elements, including heavy metals. They can contribute to the purification of the water column, due to its depositing properties. However, they can also serve as a source of secondary pollution, as a result of the transition of pollutants into the suspended matter. The intensity of accumulation and migration of substances is directly dependent on the lithologi...

The mining sector is currently undergoing a transformation. The reforms result from the difficult economic situation in mining companies, which is a consequence of the low price of natural gas, substantial coal supplies in ports and power plants storage sites as well as the growing energy production from renewable sources. Unfortunately, a drop in prices does not cause a decrease in the cost of raw material production. Such a situation causes that Polish coal is not competitive on international markets. The ongoin...

Salt water intrusions of marine origin are a major cause of contamination for coastal fresh water aquifers. They are generated mainly by the uncontrolled exploitation of fresh water in pumping stations from coastal areas. In Romania, such marine intrusions have occurred in the southern part of Black Sea's coastline, in the area of Vama Veche and Costine?ti resorts, contaminating the main aquifers which are hosted within Sarmatian (late Middle Miocene) lumachelic and oolitic limestones. Fresh water exploitation man...

Renewable-energy sources are considered to be the energy that is collected from sources that may be regenerated in a lifetime. The renewable-energy sources branch out in five types: wind power, hydropower, solar energy, geothermal energy and bio energy. However, in this paper, we are analyzing the water, solar and wind, since those three are the most exploited in Romania. Wind power refers to produce electric power, by mechanical powered generators when air flows through wind turbines. Alternatively, to fossil fue...

Task of advancing geonavigation becomes an actual topic when constructing a horizontal trunk of oil and gas reservoir of geophysical studies of horizontal wells. Advancing geonavigation allows to predict intersection of trunk with boundaries of oil-gas reservoir. Mathematical model of unsteady electromagnetic field of a horizontal conductive plate is approximated by the known plane ???? and excited by a horizontal magnetic dipole; Plane ???? is transformed into a vertical half-plane ???? by dynamic method of mirro...

The contribution is focused on asphalt mixtures in wearing courses of pavements from the point of view of their performance based, road user properties and traffic noise emissions. In the article there are described the options and examples of objectification of pavement surfaces influence on traffic noise. The author's inform about the condition of pavement with wearing course from SMA 11 (Stone Mastic Asphalt) asphalt mixture which was constructed on expressway R1 from grade-separated junction of Zvolen in the d...

Last century was an apogee of drilling operations in all around the world. Petroleum industry has managed to achieved large progress in technology which contribute to minimize costs and time of drilling and completion operations but above all this, to increase production of oil and gas from the reservoirs. Rapid development also bring with itself potential problems with integration of the well during production processes and workovers. Changes in temperature conditions connected with treatments of the well result ...

Environmental legislation and the one ruling the mining industry require the ecological rehabilitation of areas affected by mining activities, which are currently under way, with the cessation of productive activities. From this point of view, one of the most active areas of exploitation, especially of construction and ornamental rocks, is located in Tulcea County (more precisely, there are 50 quarries occupying a total area of approximately 792 ha). We also have to bear in mind that the largest one, Turcoaia (130...

We present the results of the use of geo-information management of geographically distributed systems for the comparative assessment of environmental criteria for alternative routes of the Russian section of the Nord Stream ? 2 marine gas pipeline. For the planned anthropogenic impact, we consider the complex of biotic and abiotic parameters of ecosystems allocated in the zones of influence (ZI), using the system analysis as a theoretical basis. In the land part of ZI, we allocate water protection zones and coasta...

The East Carpathians Bend region includes a multitude of natural discharges of saline groundwater. Some of these outflows - such as the mud volcanoes at Beciu and a couple of springs at Lep?a - have previously been shown to be sensitive to the intense seismic activity which developed in that area. Yet no attempts have so far been made for exploring relationships that possibly existed between those brines chemical characteristics, and the local geo-structural setting: the latter consists of a stack of successively ...

The data on the geological position, the features of the mineral and material granitoids composition of the Borschovochny massif, which is localized in the northeastern part of the Eastern Transbaikalia, are given. According to geotectonic zoning, granitoids of the massif are collision formations that arose as a result of the collision of the Siberian craton and the Argun microcontinent in the Late Jurassic time. The granites of the Borschovochny massif correspond to rocks of normal alkalinity with potassium (and ...

The Holy Cross Mountains are one of the oldest mountain ranges in Europe. The south-eastern part of the Holy Cross Mountains (the south-central part of Poland) is characterized by high geodiversity. Sediments from Proterozoic to Paleozoic (Cambrian, Ordovician, Devonian and Cambrian) are discovered on the surface. The younger sediments (from Permian to Cretaceous) occur in the west, north and northwest part. The whole area is covered by Quaternary sediments. Selected objects, deposits and high valuable geotouristi...

Geophysical surveys are used frequently in the early stages of the landslide study, associated with the traditional drilling. But for monitoring the slide are used only the bore holes equipped with various sensors and expensive devices for movement measuring, which cannot be recovered and are destroyed once the slippery mass moves again. To continue the monitoring of the next stage of the landslide involves new drillings and a new set of devices. Finally the cost of monitoring will be very high. Initially, the Bre...

Carbonate reservoirs are important exploration targets from the perspective of hydrocarbon and, also, groundwater reserves. In this respect, the most important aquifer system in Romania is located in South Dobrogea region, comprising two distinct aquifer complexes: a deeper one, mostly under pressure, hosted in fractured/fissured and karstified limestones and dolomites of Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous age and a shallower one, mostly unconfined, hosted in Sarmatian (late Middle Miocene) lumachellic and oolitic l...

The study area is located in the northern and western parts of Moldavian Platform, the oldest platform unit of the Romanian territory and representing the margin of the East European Platform. Two hydrocarbon systems are recognized in the Moldavian Platform: a thermogenic system of Paleozoic age and a biogenic system of Miocene age. The Miocene biogenic system comprises significant natural gas fields (including dry gas with more than 98% methane), reservoired especially in Sarmatian (late Middle Miocene) deposits,...

Land contamination generated by non-metallic mining activities through inappropriate handling and storage of industrial wastes and mine waters that pass through these sites. The contaminated land is not just the surface of the soil but also the underground and underground water. This contamination has the potential to damage the human factor and the environment. For qualitative quantification of the activity carried out in the Brad mining perimeter, we carried out an assessment of the impact of pollutant emissions...

Hungary, like other eastern European countries, has suffered from an energy deficit for the past several years. Energy consumption exceeds energy production, and the country remains dependent on mostly imported fossil fuels such as oil and gas. Renewable energy usage is mostly limited to hydro and solar power generation. Government, industry and academia have paid relatively little attention to geothermal energy as a source of heat and power generation. This study aims to identify and examine the feasibility of ha...

Pontus Euxinus, the Black Sea today, was since ancient time playground of human activities, of which the most important is the trading navigation, whose beginning coincides with the Greek colonization started in the 7th century BC. The colonies and settlements founded along the coast were connected in ancient time mainly by nautical trade routes running along the shores. The case study area is located in the shallow waters of the Black Sea, in front of the sandbank system that today separates the Razelm-Sinoie lac...

The paper deals with actual testing of available hiking and sports mobile applications for their use in the terrain. Testing was carried out in individual steps, starting with the analysis of existing hiking and sports mobile applications and the selection of suitable mobile applications for the field research.The contribution also includes the overview of the most downloaded iOS and Android free hiking and sports mobile applications in category Health and Fitness in Slovakia. Hiking and sports mobile applications...

The history of the welded steel structures in Romania and in the world is the starting point for the construction of mega-steel structures for nowadays. In order to understand the way of the welded steel structures is achieved, we need to know the history of the welded steel structures in each country and especially in our country. The paper will present the history of the welded steel structures in Romania from viaducts, steel bridges or even mega steel structures from the early 1900s. Also, the paper will presen...

At present there is an intensive growth of rivers? water use, which results in deterioration of water quality and hydrological regime. Small rivers are regulators of water regime of landscapes, maintain equilibrium and redistribution of moisture, as well as determine the hydrological and hydrochemical specificity of medium and large rivers. Drying, silting and disappearing of small rivers are the result of anthropogenic activity and climate change. Monitoring researches of surface water quality of small rivers is ...

This work is devoted to the investigation of the possibility of use of Ru-containing catalysts including bimetallic (Ru-Fe) magnetically separable one on the basis of polymeric matrix of hypercrosslinked polystyrene in hydrogenation of levulinic acid (LA) to gamma-valerolactone (GVL), which is a semi-product for obtaining of liquid fuel components. Synthesized catalysts were shown to be promising for further study in LA hydrogenation. 3%-Ru/MN270 was shown to allow achieving about 37% GVL yield for 2 h of reaction...

Ice gouging is destructive mechanical impact of ice on the underlying ground surface associated with ice cover dynamics, ice hummocking (ridging) and formation of grounded hummocks (stamukhas) under the influence of hydrometeorological factors and coastal topography. Climate change and anthropogenic influence can cause changes in conditions of ice scour formation. Shallow freezing seas and big lakes are most vulnerable to such changes. Studying of the ice scours? parameters has a great economic and fundamental imp...

Cernush? map case is located between Mitrovica and Vushtrri (Kosovo). The southwestern part belongs to the northwestern edge of the Kosovo Basin, whereas the remainder of the map-case is characterized with hill-type reliefs. Part of the mountainous relief are the peaks of Stremenica (1064m), ?uka (1036m), and Cernusha (1009m). Cernusha map-case is subject to average continental climate, hot summers and cold winters. In the Cernusha map-case, quaternary deposits hold around 15% of the surface and are made of Holoce...

Open-pit mining exploitation of useful mineral deposits involves occupancy and affectation of large areas of land, with negative effects on medium and long term. Although the impact of mining operations can not be avoided during the exploitation, it can be reduced and, after the cessation of the mining activities, it can be offset. The impact of open-pit mining exploitation occurs primarily on the land by radically changes on the morphology and geomorphology of the land, by modification of the geotechnical charact...

Bread products industry is one of the main branches of food industry. Taking into account the final products and their great diversity, they are divided from the scientific point of view in three categories such as: bread and bread products, pastry and specialty products (biscuits, donuts etc.), these constituting products categories that are consumed daily in quantities that depend on the consumption preferences of the population. In Romania, are consumed as a medium value 95 kg of bread per consumer per year, co...

Climate change is one of the most important issues of the 21st century. Climate change affects states ecological, economic and social aspects of sustainable development. Consequences of the climate change also depends on geographical location of countries. In this respect, the most characteristic feature of Kazakhstan is its intra-continental location in the western part of Central Asia. According to scenarios of climatologists, absence of tangible changes in amount of precipitation as well as increase in average ...

Pyrometallurgy being a field of metallurgy where metals are produced using high temperatures a focus on slag quality to improve the recovery of the targeted metal. Amongst different properties required of the slag is its composition. Different sources of heat and reductants are used. Coal has been used either as a source of heat or a reductant. Depending on the place of origin of coal, its composition varies thus having an impact on the quality of slag produced, therefore on the metal. In the present paper, a comp...

The purpose of the article was to draw attention to various aspects of sustainable development of the construction and durability of building materials. A special emphasis was put to concrete, which is one of the most used building materials in the present. Elaborated was not only the issue of emissions released by the production of components necessary for fabrication of concrete mixtures, but also a number of environmental, economic and social advantages the use of concrete offers. At the same time, attention wa...

The obvious solution of the problem is to provide rhenium production in Russia. Natural environment is an advantage of the Russian Federation in this field. However, metal introduction to the world market can cause losing national jurisdiction control as its main consumer is the USA industry. Therefore, formation of the Russian national reserves has to be the main objective of the rhenium production system. Considering dynamics of its consumption, demand and prices will grow eventually. Rhenium accumulation for fu...

Drilling fluid significantly affects all technological operations in the process of deposit drilling and completion. The main task done by the drilling fluid is providing proper drilling and cleaning of the hole bottom from cuttings as well equilibration of the rock mass pressure, cooling and cleaning the drill bits. Moreover the drilling fluid should minimize the damage to the permeability of productive deposits in the near-well zone and maintain stability of the wellbore walls. For providing the correct protecti...

Many European regeneration projects in large urban distressed areas arise as the result of industrial dismissal sites, ensuing unemployment, poverty, environmental damage and social exclusion. In order to contribute to the development of innovative policies for integrated regeneration and renewal of depressed urban areas, the paper addresses the experience of the London?s South Bank project. Several integrated and complex projects have converted this area (formerly home to factories and working-class houses) into ...

The article describes the results of the integration of the geochemical and seismic data on one of the oilfields of Tatarstan Republic in Russian Federation. The complex geological structure of the oil bearing formations of Carboniferous age results in misinterpretation of the geophysical data and drilling of the dry wells. Some potential structural oil traps find from the seismic data interpretation are water bearing. To avoid nonproductive drilling authors studied seismic faults and their connection with the geo...

The theory of Eco-Economy (Ecological Economy) as a concept proposed by Lester R. Brown emphasizes the importance of ecology and environmental protection in supporting the sustainable development of humanity as a warning signal for the limited earth resources. This concept refers to a long-term economy without affecting its own support system (environment). Another paradigm, Eco-Bio-Economy, appears as a scientific, economic and psychological endeavor that brings the vision of sustainable development of human welf...

Conventions, agreements and international regulations aimed at counteracting climate change impose on the signatory Governments, including Poland, the obligation to document the amount of greenhouse gases emitted to the atmosphere. Inventory is taken from various industrial sectors, including sources related to the exploitation of crude oil. In the oil production processes, greenhouse gas emissions come from three main sources categories: combustion emissions (stationary and mobile sources), released (process) emi...

There are rich heavy oil resources in Russia. The paper deals with bituminous sandstones in the southeast of the Republic of Tatarstan (central Russia). The shallow depth and high reservoir thickness of these deposits are very favorable factors for the heavy viscous oil development. Due to this, heavy viscous oil deposits of this territory are of great interest. The conventional approaches for reservoir characterization and development monitoring are complicated for such bituminous deposits. Currently, in the fram...

Asphalt concrete correspond to dispersive strengthened composition material, in which organic matrix-bitumen takes over all the load and forces. The structure and properties of asphalt concrete are determined mainly by the phase and physical state of the organic matrix-bitumen. In this paper the results of В«AdgezolinВ» additive in the composition of asphalts based on oxidized (produced by OJSC В«TAIF-NKВ») and non-oxidized (Elkhovskoe oil refinery plant) bitumen are discussed. It is revealed, that adhesive additi...