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Emerging risks from ballast water treatment: The run-up to the International Ballast Water Management Convention

Uptake and discharge of ballast water by ocean-going ships contribute to the worldwide spread of aquatic invasive species, with negative impacts on the environment, economies, and public health. The International Ballast Water Management Convention aims at ...

Elsevier2014

Part Programming to Realize Chatter Free and Efficient High Speed Milling

Saurabh Aggarwal

High speed milling (HSM) is the most known machining process due to its application in various industries. In milling, a rotating cutting tool removes a large amount of material along a predefined toolpath to manufacture the final part with a desired shape ...

EPFL2012

A multifaceted approach to hydrogen storage

Bengt Kasemo

The widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier could bring significant benefits, but only if a number of currently intractable problems can be overcome. Not the least of these is the problem of storage, particularly when aimed at use onboard ligh ...

2011

Chemical, Biological and Ecotoxicological Assessment of Pesticides and Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Bahlui River, in Romania

Kristin Becker van Slooten, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro

Background, aim, and scope Current knowledge on environmental impacts of industrial activities in Romania, particularly persistent organic pollutants (POPs), indicates that environmental standards of the European Union are not systematically met. In our st ...

2009

Failure in multiphase geomaterias

Lyesse Laloui

The contributions assembled in the present volume proceed from the lectures of the 2009 ALERT Geomaterials School devoted to the Failure in the multiphase geomaterials. The multiphase behaviour of geomaterials used to be mainly considered from the point of ...

2009

Determination of three-dimensional orientations of ferroelectric single crystals by an improved rotating orientation x-ray diffraction method

Li Jin, Zhuo Xu

X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques are widely used in determining crystallographic orientations. In this paper we describe a two-step method to determine the three-dimensional orientations of ferroelectric single crystals based on an improved rotating orie ...

2009

Temperature Effects on Volume Change and Hydraulic Properties of Geosynthetic Clay Liners

Lyesse Laloui

As geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) are becoming integral components of modern municipal solid waste landfill lining systems, increased interest is directed at investigating their behaviour under different environmental stresses such temperature, chemical c ...

Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI)2008

Mix proportioning of underground cemented tailings backfill

The usage of cemented tailings backfill (cemented paste backfill) in the underground by mining industry is becoming increasingly important. However, until now, the mix proportioning of CTB has been mainly based on the realization of extensive laboratory te ...

2008

Méthode de détection et de caractérisation de pollutions du sous-sol par les sites contaminés à l'aide des traces inorganiques

Contaminated sites form one of the major causes of environmental pollutions, in particular those of the soil and of the underground. One of the main problems presented by these sites is their location. Since water is the main contamination support in soil ...

EPFL1997

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