Combined heat and power systems are becoming more and more important, regarding their enhanced efficiency, energy saving, and environmental aspects. In the peresent study, three configurations of combined heat and power systems are intended as an alternative to separate production plant by considering environmental aspects. First and second laws of thermodynamics are adapted to the operatin...

Agricultural waste biomass generated from agricultural production and food processing industry are abundant, such as durian  peel, mango peel, corn straw, rice bran, corn shell, potato peel and many more. Due to low commercial value, these wastes are disposed in landfill, which if not managed properly may cause environmental problems. Currently, environmental laws and regulations pertaining to ...

Project Title: A Distributed Information Management Framework (REGNET) for Environmental Laws and Regulations Grant No.: EIA-0085998 Principal Investigators: Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold, Jim Leckie and Barton Thompson Research Assistants: Shawn Kerrigan, Gloria T. Lau, Bill Labiosa, Charles Heenan, Haoyi Wang, Liang Zhou, Pooja Trivedi, Jun Peng Institution: Stanford University Websites: http...

• The transportation and consumption of oil and natural gas in the continental United States may be directly affected by new regulations and legislation, including (1) the Clean Power Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (2) railcar rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and (3) proposed laws related to the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline e...

China’s environmental policy emphasizes the use of economic instruments. By levying a fee for discharges, the government hopes to internalize environmental costs associated with production and consumption. This policy has been working relatively well in the urban areas, but faces a grave challenge in the rural areas where there has been a development of rural industries on a massive scale since...

The “perfect storm” metaphor describes the improbable coincidence of several different forces or factors to produce an unusual outcome. The perfect landscape is conceptualized as a result of the combined, interacting effects of multiple environmental controls and forcings to produce an outcome that is highly improbable, in the sense of the likelihood of duplication at any other place or time. G...

development in this state. Q & A agrees with Mistry that two major “push” factors that are making producers in his part of Europe look elsewhere are tough environmental laws and limited agricultural land that is costly and increasingly hard to find. “There’s no doubt that the environmental laws in northern Europe are a lot tighter than they are here,” says Van der Sluis. “It’s almost impossible...

Science-based policies and regulations have resulted in tremendous gains in environmental quality and reduced the population’s exposure to harmful pollutants (Fig. 1). In the United States, the gains have been driven by major laws that were passed and amended by Republican and Democratic administrations alike (Table 1). For example, the 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA), signed by President Richard Nixo...

agricultural waste biomass generated from agricultural production and food processing industry are abundant, such as durian  peel, mango peel, corn straw, rice bran, corn shell, potato peel and many more. due to low commercial value, these wastes are disposed in landfill, which if not managed properly may cause environmental problems. currently, environmental laws and regulations pertaining to ...

The need for sustainable development has become paramount, whereby there is a need to satisfy the needs of today, without compromising the needs of tomorrow with the aim of improving the quality of life now and in future. Environmental management systems need to be integrated into the overall management systems in order for society to develop in a sustainable manner. ISO 14001 has the effective...