We have developed a super compact optical fluorescence spectrometer. Our innovative design combines advantages of guided wave planar optics and free-space microoptics. This innovation allows for miniaturization that is not achievable with pure planar or pure free-space optics. A prototype device has volume of its optical part below 1cm. The spectrometer covers 450nm-650nm spectral range, and pr...

In order to treat and remediate ground contaminated with hazardous materials, long horizontal wells are often beneficial around the contaminated sites. While it is possible to drill and case these holes using existing technology, it is difficult and expensive to install perforated liners to give access to the formations. A procedure has been developed and is described wherein a DIAjet system is...

Many of the basic concepts of green chemistry are familiar to pollution prevention practitioners. The concepts of substituting less hazardous materials into chemical formulations and reducing wastes have been around for many years. Green chemistry has taken these concepts and expanded the scope of possibilities by fully evaluating all aspects of chemical reactions, processes and formulations. T...

In Taiwan, relevant mid-term plans and projects of mitigating occupational hazards have been launched in recent years in the hopes of lowering the incidence of occupational hazards. In light of the lack of objective methodologies for researches on issues pertaining occupational safety and health, this research aims to explore the priorities of safety and health issues through focal groups, expe...

The objective of the German government’s policy on waste is to achieve a recyclingbased economy that conserves resources and reduces adverse impacts on the environment. The aim is to increase and optimise the efficient use of raw materials, to maximise recovery quotas and to permanently remove from our environment any residual waste that can no longer be used. This will lead to a substance mana...

Environmental justice advocates in the US and internationally have argued that hazardous materials industries are a source of significant community disruption and environmental hazard. Few of these studies, however, have examined firms' accident frequencies or how accidents are distributed across metropolitan regions. This research argues that accident frequencies differ significantly among fir...

Waste minimization in the automotive repair industry is characterized by the large numbers of small quantity generators (SQG) producing solvent, alkaline and detergent hazardous wastes. On-site management of multiple processes which vary depending on the size of shop make the administration of hazardous waste policies particularly complex. This paper presents the quantities and types of hazardo...

Purpose of this paper The transportation of hazardous materials exposes to major risk aspects not only for the personnel involved in transportation but for the environment as well. In view of this, the research aimed to identify various categorical risks that are to be identified, analysed and mitigated accordingly. As for the safety of the material and the transport, such factors as the flow, ...

SUMMARY: PHMSA is amending the Hazardous Materials Regulations to maintain alignment with international standards by incorporating various amendments, including changes to proper shipping names, hazard classes, packing groups, special provisions, packaging authorizations, air transport limited quantities, and vessel stowage requirements. These revisions are necessary to harmonize the Hazardous ...

This paper investigates whether the choice experiment approach can be used to assess peoples’ preferences and the determinants of these preferences in order to estimate the costs and benefits of different configurations of transports of hazardous materials on railways. In the study, changes in the exposure to hazardous materials that affected people are subjected to are used rather than changes...