Following a long-distance outbreak of Legionnaires' disease from an industrial air scrubber in Norway in 2005, a seroepidemiological study measuring levels of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM antibodies to Legionella pneumophila was performed with a polyvalent enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. One year after the outbreak, IgG levels in employees (n = 213) at the industrial plant harboring the sc...

Over the past 20 years, the new industrial cities were considered as the main solution to most of the problems facing the metropolitan industrial areas and to assist in the national industrial development. In these new communities, industrial and domestic activities result in the production of vast quantities of wastewater; the improper disposal of which may cause serious environmental hazards....

Documentation for a manufacturing system can range from a few hundred pages for a medium sized industrial machine-tool to many thousands of individual manuals together with supporting drawings for a complete manufacturing plant. With this volume of information, and the change to multi-skilling of personnel within many industrial plants, a number of problems with conventional information retriev...

Wear is the primary mechanism by which industrial plant deteriorates. By observing the amount and mechanism of wear periodically one is able to monitor the deterioration of plant. Traditionally this has been done by SOAP (spectrometric) analysis of used oil. In industrial drives this has a major deficiency, the most important size fraction, that is the particles above 10 microns are ignored. In...

This paper deals with the early detection and intelligent diagnosis of mechanical faults in industrial turning machines. We develop a new strategy hybridizing conventional signal analysis based techniques and artificial neural networks issued methods. Experimental results, obtained from a real experimental industrial plant, validating the proposed strategy and issued intelligent fault detection...

The dismantling of disused industrial facilities such as nuclear power plants or refineries is an enormous challenge for the planning and control of the logistic processes. Existing control models do not meet the requirements for a proper dismantling of industrial plants. Therefore, the paper presents an approach for the control of dismantling and post-processing processes (e.g. decontamination...

We describe our formal methods-based spatial reasoning framework BeSpaceD and its application in decision support for industrial automation. In particular we are supporting analysis and decisions based on formal models for industrial plant and mining operations. BeSpaceD is a framework for deciding geometric and topological properties of spatio-temporal models. We present an example and report ...

A pertraction membrane plant is designed for the treatment of wastewater containing hexavalent chromium and its recovery for industrial reuse. Pertraction is a new technology that combines the efficiency of emulsion liquid membranes with the advantages of using hollow fibber membrane modules. It can selectively remove low concentrated metals from process streams and reach high concentrations of...

BACKGROUND Soil contamination by copper (Cu) and lead (Pb) is a widespread environmental problem. For phytoextraction to be successful and viable in environmental remediation, strategies that can improve plant uptake must be identified. In the present study we investigated the use of nitrogen (N) fertilizer as an efficient way to enhance accumulation of Cu and Pb from contaminated industrial so...

Plant-associated microbes and plant–microbe interactions can be largely divided in two types: detrimental (pathogenic) and beneficial (symbiotic) interactions. Neutral interactions also occur; this is the case for microbes that live in the rhizosphere (on roots) or phyllosphere (on leaves) without triggering any apparent plant response. Both pathogenic and symbiotic interactions are of relevanc...