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Radiology exposure and control in UAE
(ABJNA, 2017)Radiation is part of the earth’s natural process. Natural radiation occurs on a daily basis in different ways and through different mediums. Artificial radiation also occurs in different ways. This study acknowledges that ... -
Recent developments in hazardous pollutants removal from wastewater and water reuse within a circular economy
(Nature Publishing Group, 2022-04)Recent advances in wastewater treatment processes have resulted in high removal efficiencies for various hazardous pollutants. Nevertheless, some technologies are more suitable for targeting specific contaminants than ... -
Reversing membrane wetting in membrane distillation: comparing dryout to backwashing with pressurized air
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017)The critical failure mode for membrane distillation (MD) desalination is wetting through the pores of the hydrophobic membrane, which allows the saline solution to leak through and contaminate the permeate. The standard ... -
Review of Environmental and Human Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013-08-30)Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) have a very long life and they persist in the environment for a very long time and have a long life in soils, sediments, air or biota. There has been a recent upsurge of interest in the ... -
A review of the accumulation and distribution of persistent organic pollutants in the environment
(IACSIT Press, 2013-11)Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) have a long life in soils, sediments, air or biota. There has been a recent upsurge of interest in the development of low cost reliable measures which are required in order to detect ... -
A review of the surface modification of cellulose and nanocellulose using aliphatic and aromatic mono-and di-isocyanates
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-01)Nanocellulose has been subjected to a wide range of chemical modifications towards increasing its potential in certain fields of interest. These modifications either modulated the chemistry of the nanocellulose itself or ... -
A review on the partial and complete dissolution and fractionation of wood and lignocelluloses using imidazolium ionic liquids
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-01)Ionic liquids have shown great potential in the last two decades as solvents, catalysts, reaction media, additives, lubricants, and in many applications such as electrochemical systems, hydrometallurgy, chromatography, CO2 ... -
Shrinkage, defect and membrane distillation performance of composite PVDF membranes
(Elsevier, 2015-11)This study addresses the importance of non-woven support (NWS) during the preparation of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes for membrane distillation (MD). Five different NWSs were investigated as substrate materials ... -
A simple method for the quantification of free isocyanates on the surface of cellulose nanocrystals upon carbamation using toluene diisocyanate
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-06)In many reports, cellulose and nanocellulose have been carbamated using 2,4-toluene diisocyanate (2,4-TDI) to allow the grafting of molecules or polymers onto their surfaces. Such a process usually involves the reaction ... -
Soil Aquifer Treatment System Design Equation for Organic Micropollutant Removal
(Springer, 2017)Rapid population growth and mass migration from rural to urban centers have contributed to a new era of water sacristy, and a significant drop in per capita freshwater availability, resulting in the reuse of wastewater ... -
SOLS: A scheme for outsourced location based service
(Academic Press, 2015-10)Due to the high demand on computation and storage, location based service (LBS) providers prefer to outsource their data and services to powerful cloud service providers (CSPs). However, this mechanism brings three challenging ... -
A structural fibrillation parameter from small angle X-ray scattering to quantify pulp refining
(Springer Netherlands, 2019-06)Pulp fibrillation results from refining and is of prime importance for papermaking. Yet a structural parameter reflecting the extent of fibrillation remains elusive. In this work, we demonstrate that in refined pulps, the ... -
A Study on the Application of Artificial Neural Networks on Green Self Consolidating Concrete (SCC) under Hot Weather
(Trans Tech Pub, 2016)Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) has recently drawn attention to the construction industry in hot weather countries, due to its high fresh and mechanical properties. The slump flow is routinely used for quality control ... -
Super-Hydrophobic Polymer/Nanoparticle Composites For The Protection Of Marble Monuments
(2008-04)Water contributes substantially to the degradation of monuments through freezing and thawing cycles and also because it is a carrier of pollutants and salt solutions. Water repellency can be promoted by the application of ... -
Sustainable business through carbon financing with a special reference to UAE banks.
(2019)Green House Gases (GHG) emission creates the global warming. To reduce the consequence of CO2 emissions, many countries contribute to carbon financing through capture and storage process. Through carbon financing, hazardous ... -
Sustainable Development through Carbon Trading Mechanism in the UAE context
(EM International, 2018-07)Sustainable development is considered as a progressive growth of a nation without disturbing the natural resources and carbon trading is defined as a trading process were two different nations exchange or borrow the carbon ... -
Sustainable environmental geotechnics practices for a green economy
(2022-04)The revitalisation of the global economy after the Covid-19 era presents environmental geotechnics with the opportunity to reinforce the need for a change in paradigm towards a green, circular economy and to promote ... -
Swelling and hydrolysis kinetics of Kraft pulp fibers in aqueous 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate solutions
(Elsevier, 2016-11)1Butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate ([Bmim]HSO4) is efficient at extracting cellulose nanocrystals from pulp fibers. To shed some light on the respective contributions of swelling and hydrolysis of pulp fibers by ... -
Swelling, viscoelastic, and anatomical studies on ionic liquid-swollen Norway spruce as a screening tool toward ionosolv pulping
(De Gruyter, 2015-11)To screen ionic liquid (IL) candidates for wood ionosolv pulping, swelling and viscoelastic studies on Norway spruce wood treated with ionic liquids have been conducted. In particular, the temperature dependency and kinetics ... -
Synergistic effect of humic acid on alkali pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse for the recovery of lignin with phenomenal properties
(Pergamon, 2020-03)Lignin forms a recalcitrant structure in lignocellulosic biomass and hence huge amount of enzymes are required for disintegrating it into their subsequent components, like glucose and other by-products. Thus, the pretreatment ...