As one of the countries with large amounts of dioxin releases, the control of dioxins is a major challenge for China. Municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration should be considered a high priority source of dioxin emissions because it is playing an increasingly more important role in waste management. MSW incineration in China has much higher emission rates of dioxins than in the developed count...

We study the stability of the two–neutrino MSW solution of the solar neutrino problem, corresponding to solar νe transitions into sterile neutrino, νe → νs, with respect to changes of the total fluxes of 8B and 7Be neutrinos, ΦB and ΦBe. For any value of ΦBe from the interval 0.7ΦBP Be ≤ ΦBe ≤ 1.3ΦBP Be (for ΦBe = 0.7ΦBP Be ) the νe → νs MSW transitions provide at 95% C.L. a description of the ...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) remains a major problem in modern societies, even though the significant efforts to prevent, reduce, reuse and recycle. At present, municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) in waste-to-energy (WtE) plants is one of the main management options in most of the developed countries. The technology for recovering energy from MSW has evolved over the years and now sophisti...

The MSW solution to the solar neutrino problem for non-standard solar models. Abstract The difficulties for non-standard solar models (NSSM) in resolving the solar neutrino problem are discussed stressing the incompatibility of the gallium– Kamiokande data, and of the gallium–chlorine data. We conclude that NSSM's cannot explain simultaneously the results of any two of the solar neutrino data (...

We tested the hypothesis that the bacterial load at the infection site could impact considerably on the pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) parameters of fluoroquinolones. Using a rat lung infection model, we measured the influence of different marbofloxacin dosage regimens on selection of resistant bacteria after infection with a low (10(5) CFU) or a high (10(9) CFU) inoculum of Klebsiella...

This paper is based on data compiled in the course of developing, for InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), a WTE Guidebook for managers and policymakers in the Latin America and Caribbean region. As part of this work, a list was compiled of nearly all plants in the world that thermally treat nearly 200 million tons of municipal solid wastes (MSW) and produce electricity and heat. An estimated ...

Waste management is an important issue to solve as the assimilative capacity of the biosphere becomes overloaded by human needs and activities. According to European guidelines, reduction of waste generation and recovery of energy and materials are strongly recommended for environmentally sound waste management. In order to adopt a long-term sustainable strategy, it is necessary to assess the v...

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), millions of Muslims come to perform Pilgrimage every year. Around one million ton of municipal solid waste (MSW) is generated in Makkah city annually. The collected MSW is disposed of in the landfills without any treatment or energy recovery. As a result, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and contamination of the soil and water bodies along with leachate and o...

The average amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) generated in Malaysia is 0.5–0.8 kg/person/day and has increased to 1.7 kg/person/day in major cities. As rapid development continues, so does the amount of MSW and thus a lack of space for new landfills. Thus a better way of disposing MSW would be to incinerate. The basic design requirements of high-performance incinerators are the 3Ts (time, t...