The cement industry is the major source of cement dust which contains heavy metals like nickel, cobalt, lead, chromium, arsenic and hazardous substances like dioxins and furans. Exposure to these substances can cause health problems to human, animals and vegetation. A continuous pilot scale quartz sand filter was constructed and uses to study the effect of important design parameters (temperatu...

A granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (Peak-1 CSF) was partially purified from the medium of a serum-free culture of Yoshida sarcoma cells (Line YSSF-212T). Its elution position in gel-filtration chromatography corresponded to a molecular weight of about 22,000. The factor had an isoelectric point at pH 4.5 and a sedimentation coefficient of 2.3 S. The major part of its activity wa...

The composition of the 1-2-mm (very coarse sand) fraction of glacial sediments provides critical information on sediment provenance and thus is useful for distinguishing among till units and for determination of ice-flow directions. Analysis of the 1-2-mm fraction has been used in Quaternary studies in Minnesota since the 1970's, and a considerable data base has been developed at the Minnesota ...

The microbial community structure in various microaggregates in a loamy sand soil was investigated. The microaggregates were separated into outer and inner aggregates using a series of soil washes. Further physical fractionation of inner aggregates was achieved by separation into coarse and fine sand as macroaggregate fractions, coarse and fine silt as microaggregate fractions, and clay. Resear...

The German Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt – UBA) operates an experimental field on the southern outskirts of Berlin for the investigation of special aspects of environmental hygiene. One part of the field consists of a storage pond with subsequent bank filtration, artificial recharge and slow sand filtration where experiments on the behavior of hazardous substances during bank fi...

The computer simulation study of Portland cement blending confirmed the major mechanism to be size segregation in the Interfacial Transition Zones around the aggregate particles. Fine particles tend to move through the skeleton of larger particles towards the surface of the aggregate grains, improving local density. But the most interesting feature is a disproportionately larger internal bond c...

This paper presents a novel velocity estimation method for all terrain ground vehicles. The technique is based on a camera that scans the ground and estimates the velocity by using an optical flow algorithm. The method is tested and validated for different types of terrains such as fine sand, coarse sand, gravel as well as a mixture of coarse sand and gravel. Measured velocities from precise en...

Mixed sediment beaches are morphologically distinct from and more complex than either sand or gravel only beaches. Three digital imaging techniques are employed to quantify surficial grain size and bedload sediment transport rates along the mixed sediment beaches of Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Applying digital imaging procedures originally developed for quickly and efficiently quantifying grain sizes...

The present investigation aims at the study of properties of concrete in which stone dust is used as a partial replacement for coarse sand and tyre-chips of size 4.7 to 10 mm as partial replacement of coarse aggregate by weight.

Introduction: Aeolian sediments commonly are well sorted, but aeolian megaripples are exceptions, having bimodal grain size-frequencies. Distinguishing aeolian megaripple deposits from mixed grain size fluvial deposits is important for martian sedimentary rocks, because indicators of flowing water in the martian past (if revealed by legitimate fluvial deposits) are mission drivers for rovers an...