Advances in Environmental Hydraulics

Environmental Hydraulics (EH) is the scientific study of environmental water flows and their related transport and transformation processes affecting the environmental quality of natural water systems, such as rivers, lakes, and aquifers, on our planet Earth [...]

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Environmental Hydraulics in the New Millennium: Historical Evolution and Recent Research Trends

Water ◽

10.3390/w13081021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (8) ◽

pp. 1021 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Xianglai Zeng ◽

Carlo Gualtieri ◽

Haifei Liu ◽

Dongdong Shao

Keyword(s):

Environmental Water ◽

Journal Articles ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Environmental Hydraulics ◽

Transport And Transformation ◽

The Public ◽

Environmental Fluid Mechanics ◽

Impact Index ◽

Transformation Processes ◽

Different Sources

Environmental Hydraulics (EH) is the scientific study of environmental water flows and their related transport and transformation processes in natural water systems. This review provides some remarks about the historical development of EH throughout three different paradigms or ages, namely, the Public Health Age, the Water Quality Age, and finally the Integrated Environmental Hydraulics Age. We further evaluate how EH research has changed in the last 20 years through a bibliometric analysis of the proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics (ISEH) and Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFMC) journal articles conducted using Citespace and Leximancer. Authors and affiliations are analyzed to identify patterns of collaboration, followed by an analysis of the temporal evolution of the EFMC impact index as well as its highly-cited articles. Finally, the major EH topics are identified with a comparison between the topics extracted from the two different sources. As the EH field is becoming rapidly global, some topics were confirmed to have attracted more interest in EH such as Flow Condition, Numerical Modelling, Experimental Measurements. It is hoped that our findings could provide a reference for students, academics, and policy-makers related to EH.

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Adsorption of phenol on polycrystalline gold from aqueous solutions

JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING & PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ◽

10.7251/jepm1901051c ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Dragica Chamovska ◽

Aleksandra Porjazoska Kujundziski

Keyword(s):

Aqueous Solutions ◽

Natural Water ◽

Water Surface ◽

Water Systems ◽

Hydroxyl Groups ◽

Fast Method ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Polycrystalline Gold

The presence of phenolic compounds as one of the most common organic pollutants in natural water (surface and ground waters) has been detected as a worldwide problem. Very small concentrations of phenols affect the quality of both environmental and household waters, and directly or indirectly impact lives in aquatic systems and humans, as well. Most of the organic compounds, containing certain functional groups, such as amino, amines, carbonyl, hydroxyl, groups containing sulfur and others, have shown ability of adsorption on metal surfaces from aqueous solutions. Cyclic voltammetry (dE/dt = 100 mV s-1) with simultaneous monitoring of the double layer (dl) capacitance (at 100 Hz and 1 mV ac signal) was used for an adsorption study of phenol on polycrystalline gold from 0.5 mol dm-3 aqueous solutions of NaHCO3. Thus, in this study an effort was made to establish a fast method, an electrochemical procedure for qualitative and quantitative determination of phenols in natural water systems.

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Macrozoobenthos as an Indicator in Monitoring of the Environmental Quality of the Black Sea

Hydrobiological Journal ◽

10.1615/hydrobj.v39.i1.20 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 15-27

Author(s):

G. V. Losovskaya

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

Environmental Quality ◽

The Black Sea

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Assessing the Quality of Management of Transformation Processes in Economic Systems

Economics and Management ◽

10.35854/1998-1627-2020-9-952-956 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (9) ◽

pp. 952-956

Author(s):

M. V. Malyshkina ◽

M. V. Miroslavskaya

Keyword(s):

Systems Approach ◽

Mutual Influence ◽

Organizational Transformation ◽

Quality Criterion ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

Economic Systems ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Management Actions ◽

Transformation Processes

Aim. The presented study aims to develop the methodology for assessing the quality of management of organizational transformation processes. Tasks. To achieve the set aim, the authors solve the following problems: determine the essence and content of socio-economic transformation, formulate quality assurance principles for the management of transformation processes, draw attention to the problem of selecting a unified quality criterion for the management of organizational transformation processes. Methods. This study uses general scientific methods of cognition, including analysis and synthesis. It also applies a systems approach to identify the major problems of assessing the quality of management of transformation processes, including the problem of selecting a unified quality criterion for the management of transformation processes and formulating the principles of ensuring the quality of management of transformation processes. Results. The global problem of managing transformation processes in the economic system consists in the complexity of the managed processes, which increases due to the multidimensionality, mutual influence, and the resulting uncertainty of interactions between the elements of the system. It is concluded that the methodology for assessing the quality of management of transformation processes is based on the principle of integrating separate measures to improve the quality of management of system elements into a single system of management actions and the principle of ensuring that management actions are primarily aimed at preventing possible negative consequences of the transformation of economic systems, i.e. reducing the potential impact of unfavorable events and their consequences. To assess the effectiveness of targeted management actions and productive actions aimed at organizing, controlling, and guiding the transformation process, the authors actualize the problem of selecting an adequate quality criterion for the management of transformation processes in economic systems and put forward a hypothesis about a possible unified criterion of management quality. Conclusions. The principle of integrating separate measures to improve the quality of management of system elements and the principle of ensuring that management actions are aimed at preventing possible negative consequences lie at the core of the methodology for assessing the quality of management of transformation processes in economic systems. The quality assessment methodology should be developed in the direction of finding a unified quality criterion for managing transformation processes in economic systems.

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Sewers and the Quality of Canals and Ditches in Amsterdam

Water Science & Technology ◽

10.2166/wst.1993.0486 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 27 (5-6) ◽

pp. 61-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

E. Jacobs ◽

J. W. van Sluis

Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Surface Water ◽

Sediment Quality ◽

Water System ◽

Water Systems ◽

Sewer System ◽

Water And Sediment ◽

Combined Sewer ◽

Water And Sediment Quality

The surface water system of Amsterdam is very complicated. Of two characteristic types of water systems the influences on water and sediment quality are investigated. The importance of the sewer output to the total loads is different for both water systems. In a polder the load from the sewers is much more important than in the canal basin. Measures to reduce the emission from the sewers are much more effective in a polder. The effect of these measures on sediment quality is more than the effect on water quality. Some differences between a combined sewer system and a separate sewer system can be found in sediment quality.

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DETERMINATION OF WATER QUALITY OF NATURAL WATER SOURCES IN STATE PARKS AROUND THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY

10.1130/abs/2016nc-275086 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Eric Thompson ◽

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Cynthia Venn ◽

Christopher P. Hallen

Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Natural Water ◽

Water Sources ◽

River Valley ◽

State Parks ◽

Susquehanna River

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Formulating biossay data of chemicals and environmental water

Water Science & Technology ◽

10.2166/wst.2000.0367 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 42 (3-4) ◽

pp. 115-123 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

R. Shoji ◽

A. Sakoda ◽

Y. Sakai ◽

M. Suzuki

Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Low Density Lipoprotein ◽

Water Environment ◽

Density Lipoprotein ◽

Environmental Water ◽

Toxicity Data ◽

Human Beings ◽

Environmental Waters ◽

Bodies Of Water

The quality of environmental waters such as rivers is often deteriorated by various kinds of trace and unidentified chemicals despite the recent development of sewage systems and wastewater treatment technologies. In addition to contamination by particular toxicants, complex toxicity due to multi-component chemicals could be much more serious. The environmental situation in bodies of water in Japan led us to apply bioassays for monitoring the water quality of environmental waters in order to express the direct and potential toxicity to human beings and ecosystems rather than determinating concentrations of particular chemicals. However, problems arose from the fact that bioassays for pharmaceutical purposes generally required complicated, time-consuming, expert procedures. Also, a methodology for feedback of the resultant toxicity data to water environment management has not been established yet. To this end, we developed a novel bioassay based on the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) uptake activity of human hepatoblastoma cells. The assay enabled us to directly detect the toxicity of environmental waters within 4 hours of exposure. This is a significantly quick and easy procedure as compared to that of conventional bioassays. The toxicity data for 255 selected chemicals and environmental waters obtained by this method were organized by a mathematical equation in order to make those data much more effectively and practically useful to the management of environmental waters. Our methodology represents a promising example of applying bioassays to monitor environmental water quality and generating potential solutions to the toxicity problems encountered.

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Making Sense of Water Quality: Multispecies Encounters on the Mystic River

Worldviews Global Religions Culture and Ecology ◽

10.1163/15685357-01702006 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 150-160 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Caterina Scaramelli

Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Laboratory Data ◽

Quality Data ◽

Human Beings ◽

Water Lily ◽

Water Quality Data ◽

Water Flows ◽

Making Sense ◽

Quality Of Water

This paper takes water quality as an ethnographic subject. It looks at how water quality monitors in Boston make sense of the quality of water through mundane engagement with three non-human beings who they encounter during their monitoring activities: herring, bacteria and water lily. Each of these organisms suggests a different understanding of water quality for the monitors and poses a dilemma. Water quality monitors who contribute to the production of water quality data come to know water quality as through direct interactions with these beings, mediated by both sensorial experience and laboratory data. These experiences, at the same time, confuse and redraw relationships between science, water flows, non-human vitality, including that of invasive species, and people.

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