Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

Fly ash is one of the residues generated in the combustion of coal. Fly ash is generally captured from the chimneys of coal-fired power plants, and...

Over the last three decades environmental issues have had a direct impact on technology assessment and policy decisions. One of the difficulties wi...

This outstanding monograph is an introduction to general ecology, life safety and environment protection. It reviews the current problems resulting...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), defined in the medical literature as a disruption in brain function that is caused by a head injury, has become known...

Four million tons of uranium ore were extracted from mines on the Navajo reservation primarily for developing the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. F...

Sediments are loose earth materials with variable grain size such as sand, silt and clay that accumulate on the land surface, in river and lake bed...

As the lack of fossil fuel is increasing, sludge management is not only to satisfy the disposal criteria but also to obtain energy and resources. F...

Syngas is the name given to a gas mixture that contains varying amounts of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Examples of production methods include ste...

Check dams are a potentially effective instrument for planning of hydrological risks and soil conservation. Cross structure sequences have been use...

This book attempts to undertake critical, social scientific scrutiny of contradictions between the evolving forms of agricultural production and ec...

Fatigue is progressive and localised structural damage that occurs when materials are subjected to cyclic loading. Therefore, in order to produce d...

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physi...

This series covers leading-edge research focusing on the environment, including current research data on coal fly ash as a recycling treasure and e...

In this book a brief description of monitoring systems of the most developed countries of the world (the USA, Canada, European states) and Global E...