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Investigation of Key Parameters Affecting Ion-Capturing Abilities of Mixed-Ligand Protected Gold Nanoparticles

Over the past decades, there has been a dramatic change in the types and amounts of metal ions in the biosphere, since we have introduced huge amount of metal waste into our environment in the course of industrialization of our society. Most of the metal c ...

EPFL2017

Sustainable Food Supply

Simone Lydia Voldrich

In the context of a growing world population, the fundamental need for foodstuff makes a sustainable management of the food supply an imperative. Sustainability issues in the food supply chain range from responsible use of limited resources, safe and secur ...

EPFL2017

The guideline series VDI 4800 resource efficiency: an approach for increasing resource efficiency with the aim of conservation of natural resources in the industrial sector

In 2011, the Association of German Engineers (VDI) started working on a set of guidelines towards increased resource efficiency. These guidelines represent a framework that defines resource efficiency and outlines considerations for the producing industry. ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Pre-dismantling THM modelling of the FEBEX in situ experiment.

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Yafei Qiao

FEBEX (Full-scale Engineered Barrier Experiment in Crystalline Host Rock) is a research and demonstration project that was initiated by ENRESA (Spain). The aim of the project is to study the behaviour of near-field components in a repository for high-level ...

NAGRA2017

Energy integration on a gasoline engine for a vehicular application

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in the passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover the waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the ORC as a ...

2017

Pre-dismantling THM modelling

2017

Applying value chain analysis to informal sector recycling: A case study of the Zabaleen

Rémi Jaligot

A methodology has been developed to apply value chain analysis (VCA) to the informal recycling sector, and demonstrated using the Zabaleen in Cairo, Egypt as a case study. The VCA methodology provides a ⿿toolkit⿿ comprising four stages. The first involves ...

Elsevier2016

Waves generated by ship convoy: Comparison of physical and numerical modeling with in-situ measurements

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Michael Pfister, Robin Amacher, Théodora Cohen Liechti

A part of the domestic waste of the city of Geneva (Switzerland) is transported with ship convoys on the Rhone River to the waste incineration station. These convoys generate waves, which partially endangers the stability of the river banks and the riparia ...

2016

Integrating a heterogeneous fixed fleet and a flexible assignment of destination depots in the waste collection VRP with intermediate facilities

Michel Bierlaire, Sacha Varone, Iliya Dimitrov Markov

We consider a complex recyclable waste collection problem that extends the class of vehicle routing problems with intermediate facilities by integrating a heterogeneous fixed fleet and a flexible assignment of destination depots. Several additional side co ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

An interlaboratory study on passive sampling of emerging water pollutants

An inter-laboratory study was organised for the monitoring of emerging aquatic pollutants (pharmaceuticals, pesticides, steroids, brominated diphenyl ethers and others) using passive samplers. Thirty laboratories participated in the sampler comparison exer ...

Elsevier2016

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