Conveners
A12: Radiation for Environmental Protection II
- Erzsebet Takacs (Centre for Energy Research, MTA)
- TSec Sunil Sabharwal
Description
Radiation for Environmental Protection II
Ms
Sandra Cabo Verde
(Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
27/04/2017, 11:15
MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Oral
Enteric viruses are a major cause of human water and foodborne diseases. These type of viruses primarily infect the intestinal tract through ingestion of contaminated water or food. Enteric viruses, like norovirus (NoV) and adenovirus (AdV), can enter the environment through the discharge of waste materials from infected individuals and be transmitted back to susceptible individuals. The...
Mr
Stephen Mezyk
(California State University at Long Beach, United States of America)
27/04/2017, 11:35
MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Oral
Quantitatively removing all remaining traces of pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics and estrogenic steroids from effluent wastewater is essential before its further use or release into the environment. In particular, the presence of antibiotics and even their metabolites in wastewaters can enhance the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as MRSA and ND-1. Unfortunately,...
Mr
Ming-hong Wu
(Shanghai University, China)
27/04/2017, 11:55
MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Oral
Radiation technology including electron beam and γ-ray irradiation has great potential in the field of environmental protection due to its special characteristics． The investigations and applications of radiation technology in the treatment of wastewater, waste gas and solid waste are introduced in this paper, including the treatment of printing and dyeing wastewater, paper mill wastewater,...
Mr
Seungho Yu
(Atomic Energy Research Institute, Korea, Republic of)
27/04/2017, 12:15
MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE -07
Oral
Leachates of livestock burial sites have raised a concern regarding their potential impact on the environment and public health in Korea. They contain high concentrations of organic and inorganic contaminants, and pathogenic microorganisms such as Campylobacter jejuni, Salmonella spp., Clostridium perfringens, and Shigella spp. Several studies have attempted to remove contaminated groundwater...
Mr
Suresh Pillai
(National Center for Electron Beam Research, United States of America)
27/04/2017, 12:35
MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Oral
Water availability is a major problem facing many regions around the
world. To meet growing residential and agricultural needs, effective
technologies have to be adopted to address microbial and chemical
contaminants as part of water reuse programmes. The underlying
hypothesis was that electron beam (EB) technology can breakdown the emerging
contaminants of concern in water reclamation...
Mr
Gyuri Sági
(Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Energy Research, Hungary)
27/04/2017, 12:55
MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Oral
During conventional wastewater treatment, the removal of
pharmaceutical compounds is usually inadequate as most of the
xenobiotics show high resistance to biological decomposition by
activated sludge. This deficiency can be counteracted by application
of ionizing radiation treatment that leads to oxidation of organic
molecules mainly by reactions of hydroxyl radicals. Oxidation...
