Upcycling shipping containers as building components: an environmental impact assessment

VeriTainer radiation detector for intermodal shipping containers

The VeriSpreader radiation detection system will monitor every container passing through a shipping terminal without impeding the flow of commerce by making the radiation measurements during normal container handling. This is accomplished by integrating neutron and spectroscopic gamma ray detectors into a container crane spreader bar, the part of the crane that directly engages the intermodal s...

Effects of environmental temperature on selected blood shipping containers. Rep No 809.

Environmental impact of exhaust emissions by Arctic shipping

Since 2005, a dramatic decline of the Arctic sea-ice extent is observed which results in an increase of shipping activities. Even though this provides commercial and social development opportunities, the resulting environmental impacts need to be investigated and monitored. In order to understand the impact of shipping in arctic areas, the method described in this paper determines the travel ti...

An Approach for Environmental Impact Assessment

In the environment impacts assessment context, several methods are proposed in literature, such as life cycle analysis, multi criteria analysis and cost benefit analysis etc. Recently, others methods combining MCDA (Multi Criteria Decision Analysis) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) have been explored to develop enhanced methodologies for knowledge based decision support. In this paper, a new ap...

An Environmental Impact Assessment Learning Apprentice System

In engineering problems with a weak domain theory, such as environmental evaluation, machine learning techniques should bring to bear any existing background knowledge so as to guide the knowledge acquisition process. This paper proposes an Interactive Inductive Learning System (IILS) which can use background knowledge provided by the experts to avoid many incorrect or incomplete induced heuris...