{"title":"A Backward Scenario Planning Overview of the Greenhouse Gas Emission in Iran by the End of the Sixth Progress Plan","authors":"N. Norouzi, M. Dehghani","doi":"10.2174/2212717806999200709124810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/2212717806999200709124810","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000Taking Iran as the 7th Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission source of the world, the\u0000country contains a high potential for the emission management plans and studies. As the\u0000economy is a significant factor in the greenhouse gas emission, studying the economy and\u0000GHG emission integrated relations must be taken into account of every climate change and\u0000environmental management plan. This paper investigates the relationships among the economic,\u0000demographic, foreign policies, and many other domestic and foreign parameters,\u0000which are illustrated by sixth Iranian document over development and GHG emission in\u0000three progress scenarios made for this plan. In this paper, all the significant GHG emissions\u0000such as CO2, SO2, NOx, hydrocarbons, and CO in the period of 2014-2020 are being studied.\u0000As the results show, the number of emissions is directly related to domestic and foreign\u0000parameters, which means a better economic status in Iran causes an increase in the number\u0000of emissions. The foreign policies are more effective in the Iranian economy and emissions\u0000than the domestic policies and parameters. The scenarios and the results show that the Iranian\u0000economy and energy systems have a significant potential for efficiency development\u0000plans. However, one thing is clear that Iranian emissions will be increased to 800 million\u0000tons by the end of the plan period (by 2021). This significant increase in the amount indicates\u0000the importance of optimization and efficiency development plans in Iran, which is\u0000predicted to control and fix this increment around 3-4%.\u0000","PeriodicalId":214414,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Management","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128241642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The water industry and decarbonisation of cities: A review","authors":"P. Fisher, David A Smith","doi":"10.2174/2666214007999201214151734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/2666214007999201214151734","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000The urban water industry is a very energy intensive industry. Higher water quality standards are driving a level\u0000of energy growth that is threatening to move it to the top rank. Climate change is further exacerbating this situation:\u0000Growing aridity is variously imposing an enhanced carbon burden through water recycling, trans-regional pipelines and\u0000desalination plants. Natural disasters too can often affect water quality requiring energy hungry mitigations.\u0000There’s clear evidence that a failure to appropriately weight energy considerations in water infrastructure is commonplace\u0000and that this is an unsustainable position for the industry and is prejudicial to working towards zero carbon cities. Real\u0000time tracking of CO2e emissions is an important starting point in raising operator consciousness and introducing rivalry\u0000between utilities in attaining abatement. So too is reaching out to the resource and manufacturing sectors to form strategic\u0000alliances as well as seeking to enter into closer relationships with the energy sector.\u0000","PeriodicalId":214414,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Management","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128529564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luana Araújo de Oliveira, M. Rodrigues, Antonielly dos Santos Barbosa, R. S. S. Cunha, J. D. Mota
{"title":"Composite Membrane and Evaluation on Separation Oil/Water","authors":"Luana Araújo de Oliveira, M. Rodrigues, Antonielly dos Santos Barbosa, R. S. S. Cunha, J. D. Mota","doi":"10.2174/2666214007999201214151334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/2666214007999201214151334","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000 The generation of wastewater contaminated with organic compounds, release or spill into these\u0000water bodies can lead to serious environmental problems. The removal of chemical pollutants in water presents itself as\u0000one of the central issues regarding the issue of environmental remediation. In this sense, membranes, haves gained\u0000increasing importance in the environmental area. \u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000 This present study aims to develop a composite membrane\u0000using UHMWPE/LDPE/CTAC-HGC to be used for oil/water separation of wastewater effluents. \u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000The\u0000polymeric membrane and composite membrane were prepared by uniaxial dry compaction and sintering. Both hard green\u0000clay (HGC) and hard green clay organophilized with cetyl trimethyl ammonium chloride (CTAC-HGC) were\u0000characterized by X-ray Diffraction (XRD), infrared spectroscopy (IR) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).\u0000UHMWPE, polymeric membrane and composite membrane were characterized by XRD and SEM. \u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000 The water flux\u0000through the composite membrane was evaluated using pure water as a permeate. The potential of the composite membrane\u0000to separate oil-water emulsions was tested.\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000 The composite membrane showed excellent removal of the oil,\u0000exhibiting removal of more than 99.60 %, evidencing the process of composite membrane separation as an alternative\u0000technology for the treatment of oil.\u0000","PeriodicalId":214414,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116902947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}