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Politics, Development, Management (323 articles) 
Material Flow Management, IPP (336 articles)
Climate, Air, Noise (168 articles)
Technical Environmental Protection (251 articles)
Soil, Brownfields (77 articles)
 | Biodiesel Production Plant in Valdetorres This summer a new 250,000 t/year biodiesel production plant was started up in the town of Valdetorres, in the Spanish region of Extremadura. The materials employed are primarily crude and refined unused vegetable oils, such as palm and soybean, among others. |
| Cuenca Baja del Arroyo Culebro
Wastewater Treatment Plant,
in Getafe (Madrid) New facility with a treatment capacity of 172,800 m3/day of wastewater from a population of 1,350,000 in Madrid’s southern suburbs |
 | The Importance of Flexibility in EU Strategies for Organic Waste Management and the Role of MBT Since the mid eighties, composting of separately collected biowaste has undergone an impressive growth across Europe. First separate collection schemes in Germany were established in 1983, but even before then, composting had been adopted as a disposal route for municipal solid waste, through the attempt to sort the putrescible fraction mechanically. |
 | Estimation method of moisture quantity generated by the biodegradation process in a semi-aerobic landfill Little attention has been given to consider the quantity of leachate derived from MSW with high moisture content under semi-aerobic landfill conditions. As the first step in this research the authors examined a procedure to estimate the quantity of moisture generated by the biodegradation process of biodegradable waste in a large-scale lysimeter by reviewing a past experiment using a large-scale lysimeter. |
| Zaragoza Municipal Waste Treatment Plant The new Zaragoza Municipal Waste Treatment Plant, located in the city’s Technological Recycling Park (PTR), went into operation in April 2008. |
| Improvement of the upper waste layer to foster methane oxidation An inexpensive way of reducing methane emissions from landfills is to exploit the microbial methane oxidation process through improved landfill cover design. However, should suitable substrates for engineered biocover construction not be available or are too costly, or landfill site specific situations do not justify great expense, alternatives have to be found. In a practical project related to a smaller and older municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill in Austria it was investigated whether the upper 1.5 - 2 meters of waste (about 15 year old MSW mixed with demolition waste and excavated soil) could act after any kind of improvement as a “biocover” to enhance microbial methane oxidation. |
| Landfill behaviour of mineral wastes Since June 2005 in Germany all wastes with high content of organic carbon have to be pretreated, as only wastes with residual or low content of organic carbon are allowed to be deposited in landfills of non-hazardous waste. Due to this restriction a new type of landfill behaviour will be generated, with mainly mineral input, without landfill gas emissions and no discharge of DOC with the leachate. The investigations of landfills with mineral wastes show that the majority of their leachates contain a very low concentration on ecotoxicological substances and thus accomplish the guideline for effluent treatment by municipal sewage treatment plant. Furthermore they revealed that an unfavourable disposal of charged wastes within the landfill may dramatically increase the pollutant mobilization by the leachate. |
| SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE IN KHULNA CITY OF BANGLADESH In the rapidly growing cities of developing countries, urban solid waste management is currently been regarded as one of the most immediate and serious issues for city authorities. Due to inadequate and often inefficient solid waste management and visible environmental degredation, solid waste – generated at an increasing rate – has also become an important environmental issue for the residents of the major cities of Least Developed Asian Countries (LDACs) like Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, the urban population have been increasing at a very steep rate, about 6% and is concentrated mostly in six major cities, where nearly 13% of total population and 55 to 60% of total urban population are living. Management of this steeply increasing vast quantities of solid wastes is a very complex process indeed. |
| Vinaròs Wastewater
Treatment Plant The new Wastewater Treatment plant in Vinaròs (Castellón, in the Region of Valencia) has recently gone into operation. Its mission is to guarantee the complete treatment of the wastewater in this municipal area and, consequently, protect the surrounding coastal waters. |
 | Waste Management in Developing Countries: A Local or a Global Problem? Traditionally, the management of the solid wastes generated by the various activities undertaken by human beings has dealt with treatment of end-of-life materials in the waste stream. However, as population and the level of industrialization increase worldwide, it has become very clear that solid waste management must also consider the manner by which resources are used. Typically, community leaders face complicated decisions with respect to the various options available for the storage, collection, transportation, treatment and final disposition of municipal solid wastes. These decisions have important impacts on the type and quantity of emissions released to the environment, as well as on the cost of the service. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN SOUTHERN GERMANY As one of the cornerstones of sustainable materials management, integrated solid waste management strives towards the harmonization of economic, environmental and social benefits by appropriately steering post-consumer material flows. The adequate management of waste streams from society requires the integration of different technologies into a system, which minimizes the hazards on human health and the environment and maximizes the resource recovery, while being economically and socially sustainable. |
 | Castellón 4: 860-MW Combined-Cycle Plant in 2 x 2 x 1 Configuration
in El Grao, Castellón, Spain The combined-cycle power plant Castellon 4 is located in the El Serrallo Industrial Park in the town of El Grao, near the city of Castellón de la Plana. It was built in the same location as the fuel-oil-fired Plants 1 and 2 (541.7 MW, each) and Plant 3 (800 MW), started up in July 2002, the first combined-cycle plant developed by Iberdrola in Spain. |
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Augsburg Corrmoran start-up company develops corrosion monitoring system for large combustion plants (13.11.2008) |
Minorities accomplish most - watching micoorganisms at work (04.11.2008) |
In which way does climate change affect the complex interaction in ecosystems? (31.10.2008) |
Germany: Solpower AG subsidiary opens solar park Fuentesol
(29.10.2008) |
Feasibiltiy analysis of an anaerobic digestion plant for swine sector in Aragón
Aragón an important community of Spain, is the second largest swine producer with more than 4.5 million head in the last census (2005); being an important part on livestock economy. Manure produced from this industry has not been treated since decades, creating potential contaminant problems due to its high nitrogen content and pathogens. Spain policies are changing and requiring farmers to treat residues and are supporting renewable energy production from these residues. The objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility of an anaerobic digestion process, taking into account raw material, logistics, Spain policies, digester design, biogas production, cogeneration production and financial model. As a result of this study it was found biogas production from Aragón swine manure residues, have a positive result from environmental and financial (IRR=17.7%) point of view, by codigestion with poultry slurry. 
CDM potential of waste incineration in Sao Paulo
The proposed waste incineration project, located in the Sao Paulo area, involves burning waste instead of having it deposited in landfills, thereby avoiding methane emissions as well as producing electricity and thermal energy. This project contributes to sustainable development in Brazil and to mitigation of climate change.
Trendpoll 2008/2009 (13.05.2008) |
Europe decides: Nobody will be excluded any more! (22.12.2007) |
Methods and standardisation of solid recovered fuel
A brief presentation of quality aspects, different contents and composition of waste as a base material for solid recovered fuel
The introduction of the implementation EU’s emission trading scheme from the point of view of a global energy group
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group shares the widespread concern that the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities is leading to changes in the global climate.
What will the future bring?
Friends and colleagues can be invited into the ASK-Community, even if there are no publications available from these persons...