Article history: Received 16 May 2007 Received in revised form 18 July 2007 Accepted 19 July 2007 Available online 16 August 2007 As a result of India's extremely rapid economic growth, the scale and seriousness of environmental problems are no longer in doubt. Whether pollution abatement technologies are utilized more efficiently is crucial in the analysis of environmental management because i...

IncorporatingMaterial Balance Principle (MBP) in industrial and agricultural performance measurement systems with pollutant factors has been on the rise in recent years. Many conventional methods of performance measurement have proven incompatible with the material flow conditions. This study will address the issue of eco-efficiency measurement adjusted for pollution, taking into account materi...

The Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument was launched on the Terra satellite in 1999. It now provides an unprecedented decadal record of carbon monoxide (CO) from space. This important tropospheric trace gas is an excellent indicator of combustion processes, both from anthropogenic urban regions and biomass burning, and serves as a proxy for the study of pollutant tra...

Work is presently carried out in Europe to change the status of the microwave radiometer, namely, to develop it from a research instrument to an operational instrument-especially for measuring oil pollution on the sea surface. The Technical University of Denmark (TUD), with its long experience in airborne microwave radiometry, is heavily involved in this process. The TUD multichannel imaging ra...

The noise generated from the vehicular traffic flow is a major source of environmental pollution. The present paper reports the evaluation of the noise measurement due to vehicular traffic flow at interrupted flow condition in intermediate Yavatmal city, district place of Vidarbha region in Maharashtra (India). Traffic volume data and noise level data are collected at all the identified two maj...

Enzyme activities related to PAH metabolism, benzo(a)pyrene hydroxylase (B(a)PH), epoxide hydrolase (EH) and glutathione S-transferase (GST), in subcellular preparations from whole mussels Mytilus edulis, were assayed during the GEEP Workshop as possible biochemical tests for pollution monitoring. No response was observed along a field pollution gradient in Langesundfjord, owing to the variabil...

Process safety and environment pollution demands are continuously increasing in the process industry. Apart from that, requirements regarding final product quality and production efficiency are higher and higher [1]. This can be achieved by applying advanced process monitoring and control techniques. Process control is heavily dependent on the quality of the data, so it is crucial to measure as...

Indoor environment air pollution measurement has become a necessity because of global warming and climate change. All across the globe researchers are trying to monitor the pollutant gases precisely in real time. Sensing system using sensor arrays has been developed to monitor indoor environment, however, these systems are costly and have not gained wide acceptance. Precise measurement of indoo...

The present Chapter describes a methodical approach to the design of a monitoring process for environmental applications. The case study and experimental results concern the remote control of exposure levels to electromagnetic pollution. The main contribution focuses on the design of a configurable network of wireless and smart web-sensors and the development of a two-levels data fusion procedu...

This study presents indoor/outdoor PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations measured during winter and summer in 15 homes in Kocaeli, which is one of the most industrialized areas in Turkey. Indoor and outdoor PM2.5 and PM10 mass concentrations and elemental composition were determined using an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer. Quantitative information was obtained on mass concentrations and other characte...