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[en] Environmental degradation due to oil activities in the oil rich Niger Delta of Nigeria is daily approaching a non-tolerance level. Pollutants come from various aspects of operation ranging from seismic operations through drilling to the refinery stage. Gas flared daily by Oil Companies constitute a major health hazard in this country. Environmental pollution due to gas flaring at Oyigbo area of Rivers State is hereby reported. Surface temperature-distance variations were investigated for both dry (March) and rainy (June) seasons. Physical and chemical properties of the rainwater from the areas were also measured and analysed. The results show a surface temperature elevation of about 4.1 Celsius above the mean normal diurnal temperature within a 3.00 km. radius. An average pH 4.25 was recorded thus showing the acidic nature of the environmental rainwater from the area. All other measured parameters showed serious deviations from standards. This temperature elevation and increased acidity of the rainwater have enormous influence on socio-economic lives and the activities of the populace especially on their source of income which is mainly small scale farming. It is therefore necessary that Government agencies empowered to monitor environment especially FEPA should implement all the existing legislation on gas flaring and be more involved in the design and location of gas flaring stacks. These stacks should be located at least 2 km. from towns and villages
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Available from J. O. Ebeniro, (Physics Department, University of Port Harcourt, P. M. B. 5323, Port Harcourt, (NG)); Available from the Editor Nigerian Journal of Physics
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Bahlmann, E.
Co-ordinated research project on health impact of mercury cycling in contaminated environments studied by nuclear techniques. Report on the final research co-ordination meeting2004
Co-ordinated research project on health impact of mercury cycling in contaminated environments studied by nuclear techniques. Report on the final research co-ordination meeting2004
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[en] Conservative estimates of global natural mercury fluxes into the atmosphere suggest a total of 500 t/a originating from the mercuriferous belt and about 200 t/a degassing from background soils. Recent flux measurements at different terrestrial sites suggest that mercury emissions and re-emissions from terrestrial sites have been significantly underestimated. This could result in an inaccurate ratio between natural and anthropogenic sources in global emission inventories. However, all this estimates are based on a fairly raw database, and considering that, it becomes clear that an accurate assessment of air/surface exchange processes will be critical to refine the global mercury cycle. For upscaling mercury fluxes derived from field experiments to regional or global scales a detailed process understanding of the driving forces behind air/surface exchange is imperative.We studied the influence of environmental parameters on mercury fluxes for 8 different soils
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International Atomic Energy Agency, Division of Human Health, Section of Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies, Vienna (Austria); 203 p; 2004; p. 55-64; Final research co-ordination meeting on health impact of mercury cycling in contaminated environments studied by nuclear techniques; Uppsala (Sweden); 23-27 Jun 2003; Also available on-line: http://www-naweb.iaea.org/nahu/nahres/pdf_files/NAHRES86.pdf; 1 ref., figs
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[en] The article is divided in three parts; in the first one it is the problem of the identification and the control of the environmental impact and of the sources of due contamination to the industry or the family sector; in second part they are considered the methods used for the transformation of existent plants and the setting in march of new plants; and in third part they are considered the implementation difficulties and the perspectives of success of the clean technologies. The work concludes that it is necessary to study the problem in their group, it is convenient to apply the possible solutions, be not still good
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Conceptos generales y aplicaciones de nuevas tecnologias limpias
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Contaminacion Ambiental; ISSN 0120-0674;
; v. 16; p. 57-74

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[en] The first step toward finding a solution to the problems with air pollution is the realization of a land survey map of polluters and a constant acquisition of data from periodical controls of emission of harmful materials, which will be carried out with a determined dynamic. Such a land survey map is not a project which should be finished within a strict time limit, but is intended to create all conditions for a periodical monitoring of emission of harmful materials from registered polluters in order to make a periodical, exact picture of the quantity of harmful materials, which are conveyed by polluters in certain city, a part of the state or the whole country. (author). 4 ills
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Katastar na zagaduvachi na vozduhot
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Energetika; ISSN 1409-6048;
; v. 5(9); p. 31-35

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[en] An updated second edition of 'Pollution: Causes, Effects and Control' has been published in eighteen chapters. Topics covered include various aspects of water and air pollution, health effects of environmental chemicals, the legal control of pollution, the control of industrial pollution, organometallic compounds in the environment, radioactivity in the environment and quantitative systems methods in evaluation of environmental pollution problems. The chapter on various aspects of radioactivity in the environment was selected and indexed separately. (U.K.)
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1990; 393 p; Royal Society of Chemistry; Cambridge (UK); ISBN 0-85186-283-7;
; Price Pound 29.50

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Oh, Jeong-Eun; Hwang, Inseong; Barcelo, Damia, E-mail: jeoh@pusan.ac.kr2018
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S0048969718323362; Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.260; Copyright (c) 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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[en] This law project authorizes the approbation of the protocol. (A.L.B.)
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Projet de loi adopte par l'Assemblee nationale en premiere lecture, autorisant l'approbation du protocole a la convention de 1979 sur la pollution atmospherique transfrontiere a longue distance relatif a la reduction de l'acidification, de l'eutrophisation et de l'ozone tropospherique (ensemble neuf annexes)
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Jan 2007; 2 p
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[en] Pollution prevention (P2) results from the combined effect of the public opinion, a new environmental value system, government regulation, but above all, the search for an economic development within the context of environmental protection. The reasons for prevention are fundamental: profit from a new economic frontier; reduced potential for civil and criminal liability; and the effective and economic protection of the environment. This paper addresses, among other relevant issues, the following topics: justification and objective of pollution prevention; strategy and methodology for its implementation; examples of successes and tools; benefits and barriers and some recommendation
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Prevencion de la polucion y calidad del aire
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Contaminacion Ambiental; ISSN 0120-0674;
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Hasfazilah Ahmat; Ahmad Shukri Yahaya; Nor Azam Ramli; Hasfazilah Ahmat, E-mail: hasfazilah.ahmat@gmail.com2015
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[en] One of the concerns of the air pollution studies is to compute the concentrations of one or more pollutants' species in space and time in relation to the independent variables, for instance emissions into the atmosphere, meteorological factors and parameters. One of the most significant statistical disciplines developed for the applied sciences and many other disciplines for the last few decades is the extreme value theory (EVT). This study assesses the use of extreme value distributions of the two-parameter Gumbel, two and three-parameter Weibull, Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) and two and three-parameter Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD) on the maximum concentration of daily PM10 data recorded in the year 2010 - 2012 in Pasir Gudang, Johor; Bukit Rambai, Melaka; and Nilai, Negeri Sembilan. Parameters for all distributions are estimated using the Method of Moments (MOM) and Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE). Six performance indicators namely; the accuracy measures which include predictive accuracy (PA), Coefficient of Determination (R2), Index of Agreement (IA) and error measures that consist of Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Normalized Absolute Error (NAE) are used to find the goodness-of-fit of the distribution. The best distribution is selected based on the highest accuracy measures and the smallest error measures. The results showed that the GEV is the best fit for daily maximum concentration for PM10 for all monitoring stations. The analysis also demonstrates that the estimated numbers of days in which the concentration of PM10 exceeded the Malaysian Ambient Air Quality Guidelines (MAAQG) of 150 mg/ m"3 are between 1/2 and 11/2 days. (author)
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Abstract and full text available in http://www.ukm.my/jsm/index.html
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Golombek, Rolf; Greve, Arent; Harris, Ken
Oslo Univ. (Norway). Frisch Centre2000
Oslo Univ. (Norway). Frisch Centre2000
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[en] The report discusses how the Norwegian pulp and paper industry has adapted to the emission requirements given by the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT) during the last 30 years. The authors have identified process alterations and internal measures in the factories that are due to stricter emission requirements, and they have identified external cleaning measures. The report also documents the interaction between the companies and SFT and it maps out real and permitted emissions to water and air from the Norwegian pulp and paper industry
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Miljoereguleringer av norsk treforedlingsindustri
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2000; 238 p; ISBN 82-7988-021-6;
; Available http://www.frisch.uio.no/pdf/rapp00_08.pdf; 6 refs., 13 figs., 5 tabs.

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