Food processing consumes high volumes of water, making agro-industries the third biggest industrial user water after oil refineries, primary metals and chemicals industries [...]

Processing of minerals and production of metals has increased greatly in recent years. As a result, the quantities of waste material and pollutants have also increased. In many cases technology has changed to cope with the problem. Processes have been either modified to decrease emissions, or replaced by others that are less polluting even if at a higher cost. This paper briefly reviews example...

abstract chromium is among the metals that has numerous applications in various industries due to its specifications. widespread use of this metal in different industries has unfortunately been accompanied by its increased release into environment and this entails numerous environmental hazards. in the first phase of the research that was conducted to evaluate the effect of the leather processi...

The focus of the present paper is on knowledge representation for innovative knowledge processing under especially diicult circumstances. Typical applications are diagnosis and therapy of disturbed dynamic processes like in chemical industries. The process dynamics need to be represented appropriately to support knowledge processing like therapy plan generation, e.g. The present approach has be...

The present television system was designed nearly 50 years ago. Since then, there have been significant developments in technology, which are highly relevant to the television industries. For example, advances in the very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) technology and signal processing theories make it feasible to incorporate frame-store memory and sophisticated signal processing capabilities in...

Noise presents health and social problems in industrial operations, and is mainly related to machinery used in the industries. The present study was conducted in the different utilities industries in Jeddah Industrial Estate (JIE), in order to assess the magnitude of the problem of industrial noise exposure there in an endeavor to propose remedial controls to the problem. Noise was measured in ...