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Maritime transport plays a crucial role in the global economy, ensuring the transport of around 80% of world trade. However, shipping is responsible for a significant portion of greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for approximately 2.5% of total global emissions. In this context, the efficiency of fuel consumption in ships using the renewable energy sources can bring significant benefits for the environment and contributes to the achievement of the objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The opportunity ...

In the frame of latest requirements to improve the renewable energy harvesting, the wind turbines get more and more used. Due to the propeller sizes, the blades- materials must comply with high resistance and weight requirements. As consequence, composite materials with dedicated structures are used. These materials are designed for long life and, as consequence, are potential pollution factors for the environment, after turbine working life is ended. Beside the methods to destroy the blades and give other use to ...

Pollution and its effects on the environment have been at the centre of debates on the global stage, with growing concerns from researchers and the public. A major source of pollution is polymeric materials, which are increasingly used in various industries because of their similar properties to metal. If, in the case of polymeric thermoplastics materials we have recycling and reusing technologies when they reach the end of their lifespan or they break, not the same can be said about polymeric thermosetting materi...

Transport sector is a fundamental component of the human society. The importance for both the economic and social activities reveals from the fact that through this sector the movement of goods and people is performed in order to satisfy the material and spiritual needs of the society. However, in long term, the transport sector has a significant role in degrading the quality of the air and witch affects directly or indirectly the health of the population. In the period 2007-2018 there was a significant increase i...

The worldwide exponential increase of vehicles in operation generates, in addition to meeting transport needs, serious problems with environmental pollution. Vehicle pollution means not only pollution with exhaust emissions, but also tire pollution. Microparticles resulting from the interaction between tire and driveway or waste tires have a negative impact on the environment, regarding air, water and soil pollution. Solutions to reduce this type of pollution are not only the subsequent treatment or reuse of waste...

The current paper focuses on ways in which we can reduce pollution cause by thermosetting polymeric materials. The past years, the industry of polymeric materials has gone through a tremendous increase because of the many advantages they present. However, if these materials are not recyclable nor recycled, they can cause serious harm to our environment. Questions arise in the case of epoxy materials because currently we are not aware of any methods of recycling pieces made from epoxy or composite materials based o...

This paper addresses the problem of atmospheric pollution due to the scrapping of motor vehicles. Most of the materials used in the automotive industry are non-renewable, so the decommissioning of cars is a global problem. The environmental impact of this type of pollution is irreversible. In Romania, this problem is amplified by the purchase of second-hand cars that have a low life expectancy and are much earlier in the situation of being scrapped. Recovery of scrapped materials must be done selectively because a...

There is a fact that where surfaces are in contact with relative movement, there is also wear, with these aspects dealing the Tribology. There are other mechanical parts destroyed during functioning by the fatigue of the materials. Usually these two phenomena are studied separately. But there are mechanical systems where these two actions are joined into a single degradation event, leading to a shorter working time for the parts. The study of the tribo-wear as a simultaneous action with the material fatigue, leads...

The paper presents a neural network based methodology for prediction and optimization of internal combustion engine vehicles' fuel consumption, as a way to reduce air pollution. As it is well demonstrated lately, the engine fuel burning is one of the main factors that generate air pollution. Its impact on environment is rapidly increasing, following the increase of vehicles numbers. The best solution to reduce the air pollution is to use electric motor driven vehicles but these are still very expensive, with a low...