Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Materials and Environmental Engineering

Session: Chapter 2: Environmental Engineering and Waste Recycling

12 articles
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Study on Low-Carbon Transport City Evaluation: Case Study of Xi’an City

Zhenhua Feng, Bin Ouyang, Jie Guo, Shuang Wang, Haiying Zhang
The paper combines with actual characteristics of Chinese city, discusses about and builds a Low-carbon transportation city evaluation index system, and puts forward a set of simple and practical evaluation methods and standards evaluation system; with case study of Xi’an City, this paper also conducts...
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Water Holding Characteristics of Litters from Different Ecological Public Welfare Forest Types

Rui Shi, Biao Li, Shaoxiong Liu, Shu Wang
Water holding characteristics, including, water holding capacity, water holding rate and absorption rate, together with the litter stock from five public welfare forests with different tree composition and identity were measured. The purpose was to understand water-conserving functions of the three plantations....
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Radon Gas-Hazardous Element for Human Life Really Found in the Environment

Carlos Rizo Maestre, Servando Chinchón Yepes
Radon is a gas that is considered as an extremely harmful element to people’s health by the World Health Organization (WHO). Radon is a type of radioactive gaseous element that is present in almost all materials with which buildings are constructed, as well as in the areas in which they are raised. For...
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The Formation Environment of K-feldspar Porphyritic Granite from E-Mount, Yunnan

Jin Hu, Shitao Zhang, Ying Zhang
E-mount granite Pluton is located at the southwest part of Yangtze plate . To understand the formation environment of K-feldspar porphyritic granite from E-Mount approaches such as major and trace element analysis and zircon LA- ICP-MS U-Pb dating are used. According to the tests and analysis results,...
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Community Structure and Quantification of Nitrifying Bacteria in Integrated Fixed Film Activated Sludge System Treating Industrial Wastewater

Chao Li, Weili Xi, Tao Bi
To reveal the community structure and abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacterial (AOB) and nitrite-oxidizing bacterial (NOB) in integrated fixed film activated sludge process (IFAS) treating industrial wastewater, the molecular biological techniques of polymerase chain reaction denaturing gradient gel...
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Research on the Removal of Total Nitrogen and Total Phosphorus by Improved Constructed Rapid Infiltration System

Aibin Kang, Lixuan Wang, Bin Zhang
Pollutant removal was researched in this paper, by using the improved constructed rapid infiltration system which was added sponge iron and special media of corn cob, and by taking wastewater of student life in campus as an object of study. Test results show that: after adding additional carbon corncob,...
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Evaluation of the Public Identity and Recreational Value of the Cultural Low Carbon Tourism-Case Studies on the Three Taiwan Cultural Industry Sites

Kuei-yang Wu, Shih-chung Lu
With the need of environmental conservation and the global climate change, the issue of low carbon tourism becomes one of the main environmental solutions. Based on the pre-studies for cultural low carbon tourism development by using the expert questionnaires, the public perception was one of the most...
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Evaluation of the Balance of Water Resources in Multiple Spatial Scale Based on Lorenz Curves and Gini Coefficients

Haizhen Liu, Xuefeng Sang, Ziqi Yan, Zuhao Zhou, Jianguang Su, Gang Chen
Influenced by special topography and three-dimensional climate, the distribution of water resources in Yunnan Province is obviously different form other regions. According to the official reports of water resources, related evaluations and planning in Yunnan Province in 2012, the interaction cutting...
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Effects Evaluation of Eco-driving Behaviors on Urban Intersection Based on Microscopic Simulation Model

Yuyan Zhou, Enjian Yao
Compared to usual driving styles, eco-driving is an ecological driving way aiming to reduce emissions and fuel consumption which has received lots of concerns since its emergence. Many studies have shown that eco-driving does bring environmental benefits for individual vehicles in varying degrees. However,...
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The Eutrophication Status Evaluation of Campus Landscape Water Body

Lin Li, Chuang Zhan, Nan Li, Haishan Shi
The eutrophication status evaluation of campus landscape water body had been studied. The results showed that the content of nitrogen and phosphorus were higher than the standard, and the pH was floated in the 7-9, although the transparency had not exceeded the standard, but the content of suspended...
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Determination of Manganese in Environmental Samples by UV-Vis after Cloud Point Extraction

Xiupei Yang, Gu Li, Xiaocui Yang, Zhihui Jia, Na Luo
Cloud point extraction was used with 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-naphthol (PAN) as a pre-concentration step prior to UV-vis spectrophotometer determination of trace amounts of manganese in water samples. The process is based upon the formation of Mn( )/PAN complexes soluble in a micellar phase composed by the...
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Analysis on Spatiotemporal Distribution Features of Heavy Metals in Soil-Rice Agricultural System in Zhangjiagang City, China

Weihong Zhou, Xiaoxiao Hu, Jianlong Li, Zhengguo Sun
To assess the impact of heavy metal contamination on the soil-rice agricultural ecosystem, the distribution of heavy metals in Zhangjiagang City was analyzed by taking samples from the paddy fields. The result show that contents of Cu, Pb in soil were increased and here are analogous pollution sources...