American Journal of Environmental Protection

Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2013

  • Radionuclide Concentrations in Some Fruit Juices Produced and Consumed in Lagos, Nigeria

    A. E. Adeniji, O. O. Alatise, A. C. Nwanya

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2013
    Pages: 37-41
    Received: 03 April 2013
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    Published: 02 April 2013
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    Abstract: A total of seven samples of bottled fruit juice produced and consumed in Nigeria were used for the study. The average concentrations of radionuclides contained in some bottled fruit juice produced and consumed in Nigeria and also exported to neighboring countries have been estimated by means of scintillation detector which is sodium Iodide activate... Show More
  • Saline Prone Rice Ecosystem of Kerala, India

    T. Vanaja

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2013
    Pages: 42-46
    Received: 17 February 2013
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    Published: 02 April 2013
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    Abstract: A complex and ecologically responsive rice-fish farming system has evolved in the coastal wetland regions of India over centuries. Kaipad is a unique coastal wetland rice production tract which is saline prone and naturally organic production tract of North Kerala, India which was not much known to the scientific world. The rice produce from this p... Show More
  • Anaerobic Digestion: an Energy and Environemental

    Djamila Kherbouche, B. Benyoucef

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2013
    Pages: 47-52
    Received: 21 April 2013
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    Published: 02 April 2013
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    Abstract: Methanisation makes it possible to cleanse the organic load since the fermentable matters that they contain are transformed into biogas. The treatment by anaerobic digestion of an effluent of breeding makes it possible to reduce its polluting load appreciably and thus also the risks of pollution when thrown in natural environment. Moreover, the bio... Show More
  • Study of CR-39 SSNDs Irradiated with Different Types of Radiation by FTIR Spectroscopy and -Range Determination

    Kh. M. Abdel Raouf

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2013
    Pages: 53-57
    Received: 13 April 2013
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    Published: 30 May 2013
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    Abstract: Studies of CR-39 irradiated with -rays, X-rays and alpha particles by FTIR spectroscopy are presented. In this work we make a comparison between the effect of many types of radiation on the sensitivity of CR-39 detector by using the FTIR spectrometer. It was found that,investigated CR-39 is so sensitive for all types of radiation used that was use... Show More
  • Case Study on the Recent Solid Waste Management Scenario in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh

    Md. Nobinur Rahman, Mohammad Ahmeduzzaman

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2013
    Pages: 58-63
    Received: 22 April 2013
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    Published: 30 May 2013
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    Abstract: A healthy life, cleaner city and a better environment are the logical demands for the city dwellers. The Rajshahi City Corporation was considered as ‘Dustbin free city’ because of the past state of the environment of the city. But in the recent times, it has been difficult to say it because of the lack of the proper knowledge about the waste manage... Show More
  • Experimental Sorting of Municipal-Like Waste in the Hospital “Civico”, Palermo (IT)

    Salvatore Nicosia, Placido Alfredo Lanza, Salvatore Prestigiacomo, Rosa Mancuso, Gaspare Viviani

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2013
    Pages: 64-71
    Received: 23 April 2013
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    Published: 30 May 2013
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    Abstract: An experiment of source sorting - based management of Health Care Waste (HCW) was carried out in 2011 in 4 Departments of the Public Hospital “Civico” (Palermo, IT), where the basic mandatory separation between hazardous and non-hazardous waste was already going on since year 2000.The experiment consisted in weighing every day for 15 days 4 predefi... Show More
  • Modeling the Crucial Roles of Carbon Dioxide in Global Warming

    A. B. M. Shamim. Ul Hasan, M. Z. Rahman

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2013
    Pages: 72-78
    Received: 26 April 2013
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    Published: 30 May 2013
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    Abstract: The correspondence between atmospheric carbon dioxide ( ) concentrations and globally averaged surface temperatures in the recent past suggest that this coupling may be of great antiquity. Excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are a measureable and significant contributor to global warming, and their concentrations have steadily increased over ... Show More