The aim of this study was to estimate the heavy metals and their level in the solid and liquid (municipality waste and industrial effluent) waste in Uttarakhand state of India. It is the part of my research on in situ bioremediation. 62 samples from 32 cities of Uttarakhand were collected according to standard method of APHA in triplicate. The heavy metals viz. Zinc (Zn), Manganese (Mn), Nickel...

Olive mill waste water is the major byproduct of the olive oil industry containing a range of compounds related to Olea europaea and olive oil constituents. Olive mill waste water comprises an important environmental problem in olive oil producing countries, but it is also a valuable material for the isolation of high added value compounds. In this study, an attempt to investigate the secoirido...

Cleaning up and disposing of approximately 50 years of nuclear waste is the main mission at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation, located in the southeastern part of the state of Washington. A major element of the total cleanup effort involves retrieving, processing, and disposing of radioactive and hazardous waste stored in 177 underground storage tanks. referred to as t...

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a colorless gas emitted during decomposition of hog manure that produces an offensive ‘‘rotten egg’’ smell and is considered a toxic manure gas. In the southeastern United States, anaerobic waste treatment lagoons are widely used to store and treat hog excreta at commercial hog farms. Hydrogen sulfide is produced as manure decomposes anaerobically, resulting from the m...

Extraction of trace amounts of toxic heavy metals from complicated environmental matrixes is a  challenging task. The aim of this investigation is the comparison of the extraction efficiencies and other related experimental variables ( chemicals, effect of pH, potential interfering ions) on the determination of inorganic lead ( ) which is present in waste water of dye industries. Compared techn...

extraction of trace amounts of toxic heavy metals from complicated environmental matrixes is a  challenging task. the aim of this investigation is the comparison of the extraction efficiencies and other related experimental variables ( chemicals, effect of ph, potential interfering ions) on the determination of inorganic lead ( ) which is present in waste water of dye industries. compared techn...

The price of feedstock is one of the most significant factors affecting the economic viability of biodiesel manufacturer. Many approaches were investigated to reduce the biodiesel production cost. The present work gave a preliminary study of two approaches to economically produce biodiesel from waste cooking oil (WCO) and flaked cottonseed. One was the use of ultrasound-assisted synthesis of bi...

Laboratory scale biological trickling filters and three-phase airlift bioreactors have been studied for the elimination of methylene chloride (or dichloromethane) vapors from waste air, and the results used herein for the design of small industrial-scale reactors. The conditions chosen for scale-up were an air flow rate of 100 m3 h-1, a methylene chloride inlet concentration of 2 g m-3, and a t...