Effects of Pesticides on the Enviroment

Introduction With the ever increasing global population projected to touch 9.7 billion by 2050, combined with the reducing arable land area, crop productivity has become an important concern. Plants are continuously under the attack of wide range of pathogens namely fungi, bacteria and viruses. These pathogens have numerous ways of adversely affecting the growth of … Read more

Effects of Vehicle Mass Reductions

Abstract Environmental impacts of battery electric vehicles (BEV) and internal combustion engine vehicles have been broadly studied and compared. However, there is no evidence of studies comparing the potential effect of key factors such as vehicle mass reduction, life cycle inventories regionalization and electricity mix evolution in a Brazilian conditions scenario. The purpose of this … Read more

Crop disease detection through Deep Convolutional Neural Network

INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW The agricultural land mass is more than just being a feeding sourcing in today’s world. Indian economy is highly dependent of agricultural productivity. Therefore in field of agriculture, detection of disease in plants plays an important role. To detect a plant disease in very initial stage, use of automatic disease detection technique … Read more

Understanding Fukushima and Preventing its Recurrence

Abstract In short, the events that culminated to result in the Fukushima Daachi disaster in 2001 were largely unavoidable, but as with most situations of this nature sometimes the event itself is not the issue, but how it is handled. A high-caliber tsunami and earthquake created the perfect storm for a nuclear accident, with widespread … Read more

Energy Consumption and Impacts

The change in our world is unavoidable. We outface with this current situation because of the fast change that have become undisciplined. Belonging to the present time of our economic and industrial evolution appear to be unsustainable. Population increase, urbanization, technological advancements, and their effect on the environment are undoubtedly in the company of the … Read more

Carbon Capture and Storage

Where countries have set very ambitious climate goals without presenting appropriate policy plans on how to achieve them (i.e. PA), CCS might prove essential. CCS refers to a collection of technologies that enables the capture and liquefaction of CO2 emissions from industrial and fuel combustion plants either before the combustion or after. The liquid CO2 … Read more

Waste management

Chapter 1 ABSTRACT Waste is a byproduct of life, due urbanization and ever increase in population solid waste management and its proper disposing is major concern in the developing countries. The general method of disposing the solid waste is by land filling in dump yard. In this method the disposing site should be far away … Read more

Long-term future of nuclear power

The previous Conservative-Liberal Democrat government stated that “We need to make our economy and businesses more sustainable… and also reduce our environmental impact” (Gov,2015) and one of the ways to achieve this would be for the UK to find a way of producing energy in a more sustainable and environmentally sound manner. For energy production … Read more

Renewable energy sources

Chapter One: Introduction ________________________________________ 1.1  General Today, most1of the1energy we1used comes1from1fossil’fuels. /Oil, natural1gas, ’and/ coal’ are/ all/ fossil ’fuels [1].’While 1fossil1fuels are still/being1created/today1by underground heat1and pressure they are1being consumed more rapidly than are created. For that reason, fossil1fuels/are/considered non/renewable; that1is, they/are1not replaced1as soon1as we use/them. So1we could run1out of them1sometime in the1future, /or we1might someday1use … Read more

Uncovering Environmental Racism: From the Streets to the Halls of Power

I am hear to discuss with you, the topic of environmental racism. Environmental Racism is a term that many have never even heard, but nonetheless it is an issue with grave and severe impacts. Environmental racism is a  social justice movement that describes the inequality of the placement of environmental hazards, and is a term … Read more

Why should we use an integrated planning approach for the management of land resources?

The FAO Guidelines defined land use planning as: “Land-use planning is the systematic assessment of land and water potential, alternatives for land use and economic and social conditions in order to select and adopt the best land-use options. Its purpose is to select and put into practice those land uses that will best meet the … Read more

Smart grids are the answer to many problems

Source:http://www.hitachi.com/environment/showcase/solution/energy/images/img_smartgrid/smartgrid_02.jpg Introduction Smart grid is used to make sure if an area is affected by a situation that makes the area loose power, the electricity will automatically be redirected via an alternate route to make sure that there the customer is not affected. So this self-healing power that the smart grid has ensures rapid fixes … Read more

The estimation of vapour pressure using a quasi-static method at high temperatures.

Abstract The vapour pressures of six different elements – indium (ln), silver (Ag), gallium (Ga), copper (Cu), tin (Sn) and gold (Au) – were compared according to a quasi-static method of measuring vapour pressures. This study was undertaken to determine if these six metals have different chemical properties, which could affect the boiling point of … Read more

Research on phenol removal by various methods

Abstract Phenol is a major pollutant in the wastewater because of its presence in the effluent of more processing and refining plants. It has severe effect on human being, both short term and long term. Various methods are used for removal of the phenol from wastewater such as adsorption, photodecomposition, volatilization and other various biological … Read more