{"title":"Recent Development on Treatment of Crude Oil Contaminated Water Using Agricultural Waste – A Review","authors":"A. O. P.","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3631696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3631696","url":null,"abstract":"Crude oil recovery processes generate large volumes of crude oil-contaminated water. Crude oil-contaminated water was noted to contain hydrocarbons (including saturates and aromatics) as well as non-hydrocarbons. Some hydrocarbons in the contaminated water are found to be carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and genotoxic to humans and other organisms. Thus, the exposure of human being and other organism like fishes in the marine environment to these hydrocarbons through skin contact to such contaminated water or consumption of contaminated food and water may be very dangerous. The remediation of such oil contaminated water has become a crucial problem in oil producing countries and requires more drastic attention. Several technologies have been deployed at solving this problem. Utilization of agricultural wastes as adsorbents has however, been found to be more attractive to researches due to its environmental friendly tendencies and economic viability. This paper reviewed the attempt of researchers at addressing this problem by using agricultural wastes like banana peel, rice husk, etc as sorbent for removal of the oil from the crude oil-contaminated water. It was observed that agricultural wastes compete favourably with synthetic adsorbents in oil removal from crude oil contaminated water. Though many agricultural products have been investigated, there are some like plantain peel, papaya peel and water melon rind that need to be considered for this treatment.","PeriodicalId":233735,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Waste Management (Topic)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124780650","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":"Experimental Studies on Flexural Behavior of Waste Plastic Fiber Reinforced Concrete Slab","authors":"Manjunath Itagi, B. Annapurna","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3508663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3508663","url":null,"abstract":"Plastic disposal is challenging issue across the globe. The use of plastic in concrete will overcome the disposal problem. In this paper, we study the possibility of disposing waste in concrete. The effect of fiber is been studied for varying percentages of fiber 0.5% to 3.0% by weight of cement, with a variation of 0.5 % interval. The effect of fiber is been studied for two types of dispersion of fiber 1.Dispersed both in tension and compression zone 2.Dispersed only in tension zone. The flexural strength of slab with fiber reinforced concrete for nine point loading is been studied, the grade of concrete considered is M20. The results are compared with conventional concrete. It is been found that with the addition of fiber the strength of concrete considerably increases. Addition of plastic fiber of 1.5% shows the maximum increase in strength of concrete. The addition of plastic fiber increases the strength maximum at first crack level compared to ultimate load level. The number of cracks developed in fiber reinforced concrete is very less compared to conventional concrete.","PeriodicalId":233735,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Waste Management (Topic)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122089228","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":"Impacts of Waste Dumps to Surrounding Environments in Major Cities of Chhattisgarh","authors":"Dr. Bhumika Das, D. Kumar","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2609750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2609750","url":null,"abstract":"The Status of Environment Report, 2004 of Chhattisgarh is prepared by Chhattisgarh Environmental Conservation Board with the help of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. The Report also analyses the Vision 2010 document brought out by the State Government of Chhattisgarh. State of Environment - Chhattisgarh has been prepared by IIT, Bombay under the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), Government of India (GOI), New Delhi in consultation with Environmental Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI), Hyderabad, a National Host Institution, to assist the local government. Pressure, State, Impact, Response (PSIR) methodology, an internationally recognized method has been adopted to study the pressure on the state of environment by different sectors. The report contains twelve chapters which deal with various sectors including geography and demography, agriculture and allied sectors, water resources, forests and biodiversity, tribal development, energy and power, industries and growth, urban development, transportation and tourism, mining and health. Pressures caused by the sectorial development on environment, the present state of environment, impact of environment due to the altered state of environment and the responses of the society and the government in terms of its policies are discussed in detail in each of these sectors.","PeriodicalId":233735,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Waste Management (Topic)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129931590","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":"Health Insurance and Health Environment: India's Subsidized Health Insurance in a Context of Limited Water and Sanitation Services","authors":"Florence McBain","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2468059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2468059","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, many emerging countries have established subsidized health insurance schemes to provide financial protection and support access to health care to poor households. The challenge to ensure the long term sustainability of such schemes is huge. In this paper, the impact of the health environment on the long term sustainability of a health insurance is explored, focusing on water and sanitation. India offers an interesting case to explore this question. Indeed, since 2008 India launched a fully subsidized health insurance Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) in a context where 56% of its population does not have access to safe sanitation and 8% do not have access to safe water (JMP, 2012). A framework is proposed linking water supply and sanitation; health status of the insured population; health insurance and the productivity of households. Next, based on a literature review, the outcomes of investments in water and sanitation and health insurance are reviewed and the potential synergies and trade-offs of combing these investments are explored. In a last section, the case of India is analysed in detail, with international comparisons and further research lines are proposed.","PeriodicalId":233735,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Waste Management (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131375743","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":"Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Romania's Rural Population Access to Sanitation Services in the Context of EU Accession","authors":"F. Mihai, L. Apostol, A. Lamasanu, A. Ghiurca","doi":"10.5593/SGEM2012/S20.V5106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5593/SGEM2012/S20.V5106","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analysis the disparities between Romanian Counties regarding the spatio-temporal evolution of rural population acces to sanitation services for pre-accession period (2003-2006) and the first two years since Romania is part of the EU-27 (2007-2008) highlighting positive or negative changes occurred in this period.Romanian counties were mapped and divided into five typological classes,using multivariate analysis such as hierarchical cluster analysis method.Each class has different values of rural population served by waste collection services related to the Romania average (expressed in standard deviations).Limited access to sanitation services from rural areas lead to uncontrolled waste disposal.Despite improvement of public access to sanitation services in rural areas compared to 2003 most of population still lack access to waste collection services in 2008.In this context, implementation of the acquis communautaire on municipal waste management is difficult to achieve in rural territory.","PeriodicalId":233735,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Waste Management (Topic)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132916602","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}