Assessment of Air Pollution from Household Solid Waste Open Burning in Thailand

The purpose of this study was to assess household solid waste management in areas governed by local administrative organizations (LAOs). The obtained results would be used to assess the amount of air pollution emitted from household solid waste open burning. A survey was employed, through the use of questionnaires, to collect data from a random sample of 4300 households residing in areas governed by 96 LAOs. According to the results, it was evident that a total of 26.17 Mt of solid waste were generated per year, of which 6.39 Mt/year was not collected by the LAOs and was eliminated by households. Moreover, the percentage of waste burned on or outside the households’ property was 53.7%, or an equivalent of 3.43 Mt/year of solid waste burned in open areas. In addition, it was found that 0.66 Mt/year of solid waste collected by the LAOs was burned in open areas and was not eliminated properly. Hence, the total amount of solid waste from these two sources was 4.09 Mt/year, which resulted in the emissions of carbon dioxide equivalent, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitric oxide, and particulate matter of 1247.3 kt/year, 103.0 kt/year, 1.2 kt/year, 7.4 kt/year, and 19.6 kt/year, respectively.

The Influence of Cooling Rate and Equivalent Carbon on the Chill Tendency and Cooling Curves Parameters in Uninoculated and Inoculated Grey Cast Iron

The main objectiv of this experimental research is a comparative analysis of the changes caused by varying both of cooling rate and carbon equivalent content on depth of chill tendency and cooling curves parameters of grey cast irons.

Carbonyl Chalcogenides Clusters Existing as Disguised Forms of Hydrocarbon Isomers

<p>The 4n Series Method has been utilized to categorize, analyze and predict structures for transition metal carbonyl, borane, hydrocarbon and Zintl ion clusters. The method is being extended to study carbonyl chalcogenide clusters. Adequate examples have been given to demonstrate the application of the 4n series method to categorize clusters and where possible predict their possible skeletal structures. In this paper, the method is being applied to the study of carbonyl chalcogenide cluster complexes. What has been found is the striking structural similarity of a wide range of carbonyl chalcogenide clusters to those of corresponding hydrocarbon clusters. It was observed that when a derived hydrocarbon from a cluster, F_CH = C_nH_q, is such that n&lt;q, the cluster portrays structural similarity with an equivalent hydrocarbon. On the other hand when n&gt;q, the ‘hydrocarbon character’ becomes reduced and the typical cluster tendencies increase. When n = q, the situation becomes more or less a borderline case. When q=0, then F_CH = C_n. When the series becomes bi-capped or more, then the equivalent carbon cations are obtained.</p>

Evaluating the impact of titanium or equivalent carbon on the hot ductility of medium carbon steels

In this work were evaluated the titanium and carbon effects on the hot ductility of medium carbon steels. In order to achieve this, used were the thermomechanical simulator Gleeble® 3500, for the hot tensile tests, and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to analyze the aspect of the fracture. Microstructure analysis was done by an optical microscope. Five types of steel were studied. Two of them contained 0.02% of titanium and the others contained only residual amounts of this element. The results indicated that the Ti/N ratio between 3 and 5 regards lower loss of ductility at temperatures between 700ºC and 800ºC and at these temperatures the fractures are non-ductile. Steels containing titanium also show lower austenitic grain size at temperatures near to the austenite to ferrite transformation (Ar3). Moreover, the low ductility temperature was found to be inversely proportional to the equivalent carbon content.