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Selection of the Electric Drive for the Wood Waste Compacting Unit
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The Air and Sewage Pollutants from Biological Waste Treatment
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A prototype information system for managing and pricing e-waste
PublicationThere is no doubt that innovation drives development in all areas of human activity, including electrical and electronic equipment. However, the production of new equipment has a significant impact on the natural environment and a relatively high consumption of natural resources. To address these issues, the circular economy has been implemented in recent years by promoting and introducing numerous measures to facilitate the recycling...
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Recycling of waste tires in the light of binding law in Poland
PublicationA risings of large quantities of used rubber products, especially used tires has been increasing every year in Poland, in 2006 it was 160 thousand. The waste management and recycling of used tires become a major environmental problem. Well known methods of utilization of used tires are presented in this article. The main problem is ignorance of the law by tyre manufactures and users. In Poland first act on waste introduces ban...
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Occupational exposure to anaerobic bacteria in a waste sorting plant
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Conversion of Potato Industry Waste into Fodder Yeast Biomass
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Application of industrial waste as a carbon source for biosurfactants production
PublicationBiosurfactants are natural surfactants produced by variety of microorganisms. They are very prospective product due to good biodegradability, low toxicity, good physicochemical properties and high efficiency in many applications. Moreover, they are efficient in wide range of pH, temperatures and salinity. However, the production of biosurfactants is very expensive due to high purification cost. This cost can be minimized by application...
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Thermogravimetric analysis/ pyrolysis of used tyres and waste rubber
PublicationThe process of pyrolysis is investigated in this paper. The pyrolysis results of two samples: waste tyres and rubber at different heating rates (10, 20, 50 K/min), were compared. In other experiments the degradation of two pyrolysis products, char and oil was examined. The kinetic study using the thermogravimetry equipment (TG) was done, which allowed determination of the kinetic mechanism of the process. The elemental analysis...
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Pre-Treatment of Furniture Waste for Smokeless Charcoal Production
PublicationThe aim of this study was to assess the possibility of using furniture waste for smokeless fuel production using the pyrolysis process. Four types of wood-based wastes were used in the pyrolysis process: pine sawdust (PS), chipboard (CB), medium-density fiberboard (MDF), and oriented strand board (OSB). Additionally, the slow and fast types of pyrolysis were compared, where the heating rates were 15 C/min and 100 C/min, respectively....
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Waste Rubber Pyrolysis: Product Yields and Limonene Concentration
PublicationTires, conveyor belts, floor mats, and shoe soles form a main-stream of rubber waste. The amount of these used materials continuously increases due to development of the rubber market. Therefore, pro-ecological utilization (i.e., energy recycling instead of burning) and recovering valuable and recyclable materials becomes an urgent necessity. In this regard, this work was devoted to the chemical recycling of selected used rubber...
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Automatic localization and continous tracking of mobile sound source using passive acoustic radar
PublicationA concept, practical realization and applications of the passive acoustic radar for localization and continuous tracking of fixed and mobile sound sources such as: cars, trucks, aircrafts and sources of shooting, explosions were presented in the paper. The device consists of the new kind of multi-channel miniature three dimensional sound intensity sensors invented by the Microflown company and a group of digital signal processing...
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Large nonsaturating magnetoresistance, weak anti-localization, and non-trivial topological states in SrAl2Si2
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Detection and localization of selected acoustic events in 3D acoustic field for smart surveillance applications
PublicationA method for automatic determination of position of chosen sound events such as speech signals and impulse sounds in 3-dimensional space is presented. The events are localized in the presence of sound reflections employing acoustic vector sensors. Human voice and impulsive sounds are detected using adaptive detectors based on modified peak-valley difference (PVD) parameter and sound pressure level. Localization based on signals...
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Determination of dryout localization using a five-equation model of annular flow for boiling in minichannels
PublicationDetailed studies have suggested that the critical heat flux in the form of dryout in minichannels occurs when the combined effects of entrainment, deposition, and evaporation of the film make the film flow rate go gradually and smoothly to zero. Most approaches so far used the mass balance equation for the liquid film with appropriate formulations for the rate of deposition and entrainment respectively. It must be acknowledged...
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Measurements of strain localization in granular and brittle specimens using a digital image correlation technique
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki pomiarów lokalizacji odkształceń w materiałach granulowanych i kruchych przy zastosowaniu cyfrowej techniki korelacji obrazu. Doświadczenia wykonano dla przepływu silosowego (materiały granulowane) i zginanych belek betonowych (materiały kruche).
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Modelling of strain localization in quasi-brittle materials with coupled elasto-plastic-damage model
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki numerycznej dla zginania belki betonowej przy zastosowaniu połączonego modelu sprężysto-plastycznego z degradacja sztywności. Do opisu rys, model rozszerzono o nielokalność.
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Experimental investigations of strain localization in concrete using Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki pomiarów tensora odkształceń w belkach betonowych podczas zginania. Pomiary stref pękania wykonano przy zastosowaniu techniki fotooptycznej DIC.
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Effect of grain crushing on shear localization in granular bodies within micro-polar hypoplasticity
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono efekt miażdżenia ziaren na zachowanie się materiału granulowanego podczas ścinania nieskończenie długiej warstwy piasku. Obliczenia wykonano przy pomocy mikropolarnego prawa hipoplastycznego rozszerzonego o efekt miażdżenia ziaren w oparciu o teorię mechaniki zniszczenia. Zbadano wpływ wstępnego zagęszczenia i poziomu naprężeń na strefy lokalizacji.
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Experimental study on shear localization in granular materials within combined strain and stress field
PublicationLokalizacja odkształceń stycznych w materiałach granulowanych była przedmiotem badań doświadczalnych podczas przemieszczania się sztywnej ścianki. Wykonano pomiary przemieszczeń stosując metodę korelacji obrazów cyfrowych. Natomiast pomiary średnich naprężeń wykonano stosując metodę foto-sprężystości. Zastosowano jako materiał granulowany piasek oraz szklane kulki.
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Numerical Modelling of Shear Localization in Granular Bodies using MPM and Non-local Hypoplasticity
PublicationThe paper deals with modelling of shear localization in granular bodies by means of an enhanced hypoplastic constitutive model and material point method (MPM). The calculations were carried out for plane strain compression of non-cohesive sand. In order to properly capture the width and inclination of shear zones, the constitutive model was enriched by a characteristic length of micro-structure by means of a non-local theory....
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Numerical simulations of localization of deformation in quasibrittle materials within non-local softening plasticity.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono model sprężysto-plastyczny z nielokalnym osłabieniem do obliczeń lokalizacji odkształceń w materiałach kruchych. Analizę przeprowadzono dla jednoosiowego ściskania i rozciągania. Obliczenia wykonano dla różnych długości charakterystycznych.
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MultiRegional PCA for leakage detection and localisation in DWDS - Chojnice case study
PublicationThis chapter considers pipe leakage detection and localisation in Drinking Water Distribution Systems (DWDS) by using a novel approach the MultiRegional Principal Component Analysis (MR-PCA). The MR-PCA is an extension of well known PCA method. The main idea of MR-PCA consists in designing a number of regional PCA models and analysing their responses caused by the pipe faults. Moreover, DWDS is decomposed into suitable subnetworks...
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Detection and localisation of corrosion process effect by means of acoustic emission technique
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono możliwość wykorzystania techniki emisji akustycznej do detekcji i lokalizacji skutków procesu korozyjnego - wycieku. Wyniki badań wykonanych w warunkach laboratoryjnych, zbliżonych do rzeczywistych, potwierdziły akustyczne wykrycie oraz ustalenie położenia wycieku. Położenie wycieku obliczono również na podstawie techniki interkorelacji i porównano z lokalizacją uzyskaną bezpośrednio z pomiarów akustycznych....
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Estimating the Impact of Globalization on International Competitiveneess : a Multidimensional Approach
PublicationThis paper examines the effects of globalization on international competitiveness (IC). The aggregated and disaggregated indices of IC (World Economic Forum) and globalization (KOF) for 132 countries in 2008 are used for the estimation of regression functions. The results show that globalization positively influences IC at the highest aggregation levels of the indices used. Social and political globalization affect IC at intermediate...
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Upcycling Waste Polypropylene into Graphene Flakes on Organically Modified Montmorillonite
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Deep learning-based waste detection in natural and urban environments
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Generation of biodiesel and glycerol from waste of rice industries in Brazil
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Bioremediation of pharmaceutical effluent by food industry and agricultural waste biomass
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Effect of perlite waste addition on the properties of autoclaved aerated concrete
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Recent Progress in Polymer Waste-Derived Porous Carbon for Supercapacitors
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Optimization of 1,2-Diaminopropane Preparation by the Ammonolysis of Waste 1,2-Dichloropropane
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Geotechnical problems of industrial waste storage in Janikowo Soda Works
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Evaluation of Inoculated Waste Biological Stabilization Degree by Olfactometric Methods
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Pre-treatment of bio fraction waste prior to fermentation processes
PublicationCurrent efforts are taken to increase resource efficiency, close material loops, and improve sustainable waste and by-products management. Thus, networking agro-food by-products and converting them into valuable products completely exhausting the potential of the raw material becomes significant. Model lignocellulosic and starch based biomass were subjected to pre-treatment with the application of acidic compounds, i.e. sulphuric...
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Harmful biological agents in municipal waste thermal treatment plants
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CURRENT TRENDS IN RECYCLING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES WASTE
PublicationIn comparison to other energy producing techniques, photovoltaics (PV) is one of the most promising options: no emission of any matter into the environment during operation; extremely long operation period (estimated average: 25 years), minimum maintenance, robust technique, aesthetic aspects. The use of photovoltaics is rapidly increasing, and the respective market is developing accordingly. Although PV manufacturing equipment...
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Pyrolysis Process of Whole Waste Tires as a Biomass Energy Recycling
PublicationThe article is devoted to the description of material recycling of whole waste tires, including a new method of pyrolysis process, resulting in the final products: technically oil fractions (rubber plasticizer of rubber compounds) or diesel fuels (light, medium and heavy), activated carbon, gas fuel and steel scrap. Operational and performance tests of the first version of the pilot plant, consisting of three contributions cooperating...
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Chemical Composition of Industrial Wood Waste and the Possibility of its Management
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Pilot- scale plant for material recycling of whole waste tires
PublicationContinously growing demad for all kinds of vehicles and general tendency to regular exchange of tires are causing growth of scrap tires which need management. A risings of large quantities of used rubber products, especially used tires has been increasing every year in Poland, in 2006 it was 160 thousand. The waste management and recycling of used tires become a major environmental problem. It is worth noticing that tires which...
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Thermoplastic polyurethanes with glycolysate intermediates from polyurethane waste recycling
PublicationThe polyol is a major component in polyurethane formulations and therefore introducing to the formulation recycled polyol (obtained during decomposition process) allows decreasing the usage of pure petrochemical components. In this work, thermoplastic polyurethanes were prepared using various mixtures of a petrochemical macrodiol poly(ethylene-butylene adipate)diol (PEBA) and a recycled glycolysate intermediate, called glycolysate...
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Hydrogen production from wood waste by mean of dark fermentation
PublicationThe utilization of wood wastes in clean and green chemistry method like by mean of dark fermentation, is a highly desired solution of waste management. In the article model for the estimation hydrogen potential of wood waste is given. The model has been used to calculate the potential theoretical hydrogen mass that can be produced from wood wastes in Pomerania and Silesia: pine, spruce, fir, beech and oak. In the introduction,...
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A modern solid waste management strategy – the generation of new by-products
PublicationTo benefit the environment and society, EU legislation has introduced a ‘zero waste’ strategy, in which waste material should be converted to resources. Such legislation is supported by the solid waste hierarchy concept, which is a set of priorities in waste management. Under this concept, municipal solid waste plants (MSWPs) should be equipped with sorting and recycling facilities, composting/incineration units and landfill prisms...
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Exergy analysis of the Szewalski cycle with a waste heat recovery system
PublicationThe conversion of a waste heat energy to electricity is now becoming one of the key points to improve the energy efficiency in a process engineering. However, large losses of a low-temperature thermal energy are also present in power engineering. One of such sources of waste heat in power plants are exhaust gases at the outlet of boilers. Through usage of a waste heat regeneration system it is possible to attain a heat rate of approximately...
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Sustainable utilization of copper post-flotation waste in cement composites
PublicationThe current way of managing the copper ore flotation waste is by placing it in waste neutralization facilities. However, flotation waste has great potential in application in cement composites. The article presents the detailed characteristics of post-flotation waste (PFW) and three types of cements: CEM I, CEM II/B-V, and CEM III/A, 42.5 MPa class. The post-flotation waste added for 20% of the cement mass increase the water demand...
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Microwave treatment in waste rubber recycling – recent advances and limitations
PublicationEnvironmentally-friendly microwave heating is increasingly used in polymer chemistry and technology. The selectivity and highly efficiency in the heat transfer present a huge advantage in systems based on recycling, improving their productivity and economic competitiveness. In case of the industrial recycling of waste rubbers, especially end-of-life tires, microwave-induced devulcanization and pyrolysis are nowadays considered...
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Deep learning-based waste detection in natural and urban environments
PublicationWaste pollution is one of the most significant environmental issues in the modern world. The importance of recycling is well known, both for economic and ecological reasons, and the industry demands high efficiency. Current studies towards automatic waste detection are hardly comparable due to the lack of benchmarks and widely accepted standards regarding the used metrics and data. Those problems are addressed in this article by...
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Recent Advances in Development of Waste-Based Polymer Materials: A Review
PublicationLimited petroleum sources, suitable law regulations, and higher awareness within society has caused sustainable development of manufacturing and recycling of polymer blends and composites to be gaining increasing attention. This work aims to report recent advances in the manufacturing of environmentally friendly and low-cost polymer materials based on post-production and postconsumer wastes. Sustainable development of three groups...
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Sustainable Waste Management for Implementation of a Circular Economy Model in a Port
PublicationThe manuscript presents the management of waste from marine vessels and cargo handling companies in a selected European Union port. The main objective of the paper is to analyse and evaluate the existing waste management model in the port of Szczecin in the context of circular economy. The expert research carried out is aimed, inter alia, at identifying which of the solutions currently in use need to be improved from an environmental...
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Vulnerability of municipal solid waste: An emerging threat to aquatic ecosystems
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FE analysis of strain localization in concrete in elasto-plasticity and damage mechanics with non-local softening
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki symulacji numerycznych zjawiska lokalizacji odkształceń w betonie wykonanaych przy zastosowaniu metody elementów skończonych (MES). Do opisu betonu wykorzystano dwa prawa materiałowe zdefiniowane w ramach teorii plastyczności (kryterium Druckera-Pragera w ściskaniu i warunek Rankine'a w rozciąganiu) oraz mechaniki uszkodzeń w sformułowaniu odkształceniowym. Dla poprawnego opisu lokalizacji (regularyzacji...