an investigation on the thermal performance of the soil as geothermal heat energy storage medium has been conducted. the thermal characteristics of the soil storage and the heat transfer from a heat exchanger in the soil, surrounding and bottom surface will be discussed. this investigation forms a contribution to a project to realize such storage to be charged from a solar heating system. this ...

The occurrence of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and gasoline hydrocarbons was examined in three types of studies of ground water conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey: major aquifer surveys, urban land-use studies, and agricultural land-use studies. The detection frequency of MTBE was dependent on the study type, with the highest detection frequency in urban land-use studies. Only 13 ground ...

in recent years, a potential connection between human intake of aluminum and alzheimer’s disease has drawn attention to the aluminum concentration in drinking water. it is therefore of interest to investigate the aluminum concentration m drinking water, produced under different circumstances. a random selection of 152 water samples were taken by the supply source including ground, surface and a...

Potential Application to Studies of Pesticide Transport to California Ground Water. The purpose of this memo is to briefly summarize (i) methods for distinguishing different source contributions to shallow ground water using stable isotope markers, and (ii) methods for age-dating shallow ground waters using various environmental tracers. I. INTRODUCTION The Pesticide Contamination Prevention Ac...

Clarithromycin (CLA), a broad-spectrum macrolide, is a poorly soluble drug with dissolution rate limited absorption. The aim of this investigation was to prepare CLA nanoparticles from a ternary ground mixture in the presence of sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) and polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) as co-grinding water-soluble compounds, in order to improve the drug dissolution rate. Different weight rati...

The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from satellite data has been applied to various vegetation studies. The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of using the NDVI response to plant water content to predict ground water level over a watershed located in the Edwards Aquifer of Texas, USA. Results showed that the precipitation data collected inside the waters...