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The relationships of environmental and economic costs during marine dredging and the volume of transported soil for water areas of Russia?s High North and the Arctic region and the other, more southern, seas of the Russian Federation are identified and analyzed. The analysis was carried out using a representative material of more than 300 dredging projects from the database of the St. Petersburg environmental and design company Eco-Express Service LLC. As a result of the work carried out, it was revealed that the ...

Soil erosion is one of the most dangerous environmental problems of rural areas, which is a major environmental threat to the sustainability and productivity of agriculture, but also one of the main threats to sustainability of economic and environmental development. Currently, erosion is understood as one of the forms of degradation and as a complex of various endogenous soil-forming processes. So the assessment of this process is necessary for better environmental policy. The environmental and economic assessmen...

The Bistrita River was the first river harnessed for hydropower purposes in Romania, starting with 1960. Currently, on this river, 29 hydropower plants with different capacities are functioning, producing about 10% of the entire Romanian electric energy from hydro. Many of them were realized in series, in cascade. In the present paper, the area of Pangarati, Vaduri, Batca Doamnei, and Reconstructia hydropower lakes was analyzed. Of these, three are Nature Reservations, Nature 2000, RAMSAR sites. The lakes being re...

The traditional ?linear? path of business doing must be changed according to the new principles of circularity, because the circular economy is considered to be a new economic system for society and economies at a macro level. At a micro level, the circular economy represents the ultimate business strategy. The circular economy eliminates the concept of waste, because waste is conceptualized as a resource. The mission of the circular economy as a new philosophy is to change the production of global economies, as w...

The last decades have shown how economic growth has put the environmental question into shadow. The analysis of the politics of different countries has shown that green indicators are not taken into consideration despite economic questions. A set of factors is the cause of global pollution. Sentences like ?global warming oceans full of plastic?, ?air pollution? are used often. Global pollution is defined as an alteration of the normal state of quality of the environment, which can often lead to the definitive chan...

The article is a summary of transforming geographic and environment research trends and shows new guidelines in the field of natural education in Ukraine in the context of the global process of sustainable development ensuring. It is argued that priority should be given to environmental studies, which will be considered exclusively in a set of three interrelated components. These are: 1) environment assessment as a natural area of society and analysis of its capacity to preserve the socio-economic and environmenta...

The goal of the research is to identify the most significant groups of environmental risks for large cities with heritage sites. Along with relatively rare events threatening heritage sites such as karst, floods and landslides, a group of risks associated with fast-paced processes has been identified, with immediate hazardous effects. These are the risk of hypothermia and frostbite, the risk of heat stress, the risk of immediate toxicological effects caused by heavy traffic, the risk of traffic noise and the risk ...

The negative impact of airports and the protection of human from it must be taken when planning the use of land plots located near these objects. Restrictions on the location of residential development and limits the possibility of area use affected by the aircraft noise, are implemented by law in many countries, such as USA, UK, Germany, France, Denmark. In accordance with the requirements of the legislation of Russian Federation civil airports have to set boundaries of the «aerodrome environs». The concept «aero...

Indoor air pollution monitoring is an important activity toward a more clean air for indoor environments as most of people spend a lot more time in such environments (as e.g. at home, at their workplace or at kindergarten/school/university). The quality of indoor air can have a strong impact on human health, due to longer exposure, especially when ventilation is poor. So far, some solutions were proposed for solving this problem, starting from simple stationary sensors, to more complicated mobile sensing networks ...

Recycling of asphalt is an important technological process applied worldwide. The strategy is to use as much milled, ripped or broke asphalt material into the new mixture. With the correct technological design, the maximum appreciation of this material is achieved. Due to the dominant use of asphalt mixtures in pavements, it is important to address the possibilities of their recycling. At present, a sufficient amount of reclaimed asphalt with good potential for further use is available in Slovakia. The problem is ...

At the present stage of development of the biotechnological industry, the most promising objects are enzymes of the oxidoreductase class, which are capable of catalyzing redox processes. One of the most studied enzymes of this class is horseradish root peroxidase. Its immobilization on various carriers allows the biocatalyst to be reused in various technological processes. In recent years, magnetic nanoparticles have been increasingly used as effective carriers of enzymes.In this work, we study the oxidation of 2,...

In the present work the researches were carried out in the Tata Valley watershed, which has an area of 17 km2 and administratively belongs to Dambovita county, Romania. The purpose of the study was to estimate the soil losses for a single storm event in the Tata Valley watershed using the MUSLE method and G.I.S. The identification of the erosion processes and the estimation of the quantity of eroded material is extremely important both for the elaboration of the risk maps, as well as for the analysis of the surfac...

The review of methods and devices for measuring of the raindrops sizes is considered in the article. A brief classification of the main groups of methods and devices for measuring of raindrop diameters is proposed. These materials could be useful in the development and selection of methods for analysis the characteristics of natural rains and artificial rains which are created by sprinkler machines. It is noted that all existing methods can be conditionally divided into the following groups: direct, indirect, opti...

Making marine renewable energy projects in the Black Sea is a subject discussed more and more lately because of the potential of this area. Various studies show that the western part of the Black Sea basin is characterized by high potential from point of view of the wave and wind energy. Because of the favorable wind conditions, offshore wind farm projects can be implemented in this area. In order to make all the maintenance activities in safe conditions, and also the shipping operability between the offshore wind...

Black Carbon (BC) is one of the most significant ingredient of atmospheric fine particle matter which is a global climate, air quality and human health concern. A precise and accurate determination of both the concentration and source contribution of BC in air particulate samples is very important and can provide key information for environmental management regulators and researchers. BC is typically formed through the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuel, and biomass, and is emitted in anthropogenic and...

The current global climate variability is leading to significant changes in meteorological and oceanographic elements. A climatic background is formed, under the direct influence of which the reservoir affects the climate. The aim of the study is to create a method that can assess the combined impact of the main climate elements for a specific time interval and region. The following parameters of hydro- and meteorological elements are selected as the characteristics of such background: arithmetic mean and correspo...

The Shchuchinsko-Borovskaya system, consisting of seven large lakes, was studied. Lakes of tectonic origin are located at different absolute levels within the granite massif. The water in the lakes is fresh, less often brackish, and previously has been widely used for agricultural and drinking purposes. Based on monitoring data and analysis of a long-term series of satellite images over the past 30 years, a significant decrease in the level of the lakes and water resources has been revealed. This has affected the ...

Discontinuity of rocks under uniaxial compression may be accompanied by a cleavage of one part relative to the other. Such a phenomenon is also observed in laboratory testing experiments. The cleavage area is geometrically an uneven rough surface. In modern practice, the level of roughness is usually characterized using the Barton-Choubey scale, where the visual profile of the discontinuity is correlated to the corresponding value of the joint roughness coefficient (JRC), varying in the range from 0 to 20. But in ...

Biomass is the world's fourth largest source of energy after oil, coal and natural gas. Biomass is the largest and currently the most important renewable energy option and can be used to produce various forms of energy. As a result, biomass, together with other renewable energy options, is able to provide all the energy services needed in today's society, both locally and globally. Among many other aspects, the renew-ability and versatility of biomass as an energy source is also an important advantage. In addition...

Currently, the urgent task associated with the development and production of new, cheaper, building materials. Rocks have a reserve of free internal energy, which is determined by the method of their formation. The use of this energy reserve can reduce the work that needs to be done during the technological transformation of raw materials in the production of building materials. In this paper, it is proposed to evaluate the efficiency of using various finely dispersed systems to use as a criterion - surface activi...

In the international context of air pollution, the issue of air emissions is treated with various measure in different geographical areas in the world. Due to this necessity, international stakeholders were taking sets of regulations to reduce the effects of air emissions resulted from shipping activities. In Black Sea, because of geopolitical context, such measures have not yet been taken into account. The Black Sea area represents an important pole in the Eastern European trade and is reflected in the transit of...

The process of increasing the capacity of the Russian Arctic harbors has been gaining momentum in recent years due to the environmental change associated with the global warming process and increasing role of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). An important component of this process is the operation of the Sabetta seaport in the Ob Bay, Kara Sea, intended for the transportation of hydrocarbons (oil and gas products) produced on the Yamal Peninsula in the NSR. The construction project of the Sabetta seaport includes the ...

One of the most important parameters of pavement serviceability in terms of view road safety is without doubt skid resistance. By now, a number of different methods and devices have been developed for both friction and texture evaluation. However, while measurements of friction coefficients tend to be subject to a large number of boundary conditions, texture measurements are affected by device limits without the possibility of detecting surface irregularities at the microtexture level, which appears to be crucial ...

The most important necessary condition for the practical implementation of the results of fundamentally new technical developments is the assessment of economic and commercial efficiency of the production of science-intensive products, which would ensure the mutually beneficial interests of both new scientific knowledge developers (i.e. applied scientific organizations) and industrial enterprises implementing these developments. The aim of the study is to develop a methodology for assessing the economic efficiency...

Investment in the insulation of houses is a topical issue nowadays, as the costs associated with heating make up a significant part of operating costs. Therefore, thermal insulation can be understood as a form of long-term investment, which main goal is to reduce energy performance and thus the operating costs required for housing. In recent years, it has been possible to observe the global effort to reduce daily energy consumption both in the construction sector and in other sectors. It should be borne in mind th...

This research describes such a problem as increasing the productivity of wells and the oil recovery coefficient by conducting various geological and technical measures, which based on correlation, regression, and statistical analyzes. These methods allow to analyse a possible interconnection of two or more numbers of indicators, also identifying the problematic well stock, and selecting a set of measures aimed at improving the efficiency of field development, including various geological and technical measures. Ex...

This paper describes the IFIM method (Instream Flow Incremental Methodology) for determining the minimum discharge, which, in addition to hydrological parameters, takes hydraulic, morphological and ichthyic parameters into account as well. The basic principle of the method is the relationship between the fish population and its habitat, i.e. that most of the fish species prefer certain combinations of depths, stream velocities and bed materials. If the values for a species living in the section of the river invest...

The article discusses the features of the natural resource potential of Zhambyl region in the context of resource-saving agricultural use. A component-based assessment of the most important natural resources and conditions for agricultural use was conducted: biological, soil, water and agroclimatic. The territory under consideration was ranked by a set of features to identify the integral indicator of natural resource potential. A map of the natural resource potential of landscapes in the Zhambyl region has been d...

The paper dwells on examining and testing a mechanism for determining exposure to transport noise followed by dividing an area of a large industrial city with population exceeding 1 million people into specific zones as per health risk criteria. Noise spread was modeled with ?Ecolog-NOISE? specialized software basing on a vector map of the city and using geoinformation systems. To create a database on transport noise sources, the authors collected and analyzed data on traffic intensity on city motorways. Basing on...

An urgent problem is climate change and marine conditions affecting the formation and evolution of the permafrost zone of the shelf and the continental border of the Russian Arctic. The results of long-term monitoring of the permafrost zone clearly demonstrate the degradation of frozen rocks in both continental and subaquatic conditions of the western sector of the Russian Arctic. Against the background of the observed climate dynamics, the study of geoecological processes becomes especially relevant when drawing ...

Based on the analysis of morphogenetic transformations of shells of the brachiopods, a scheme of phylogenetic development of the genus Jakutoproductus was developed; according to this scheme, three phylogenetic branches of Jakutoproductus, originating from one species - Jakutoproductus tatjanae Abramov et Grigorjeva, developed simultaneously at the end of the Carboniferous and in the Early Permian. In the morphogenesis of the genus, there are changes in the width of the shell, the degree of convexity of the ventra...

The present work dwells on testing methodical approaches to optimization of programs for monitoring over ambient air quality. The key issue here was to determine how many control points are required and make up a list of substances for monitoring in a large industrial center with its area exceeding 350 square kilometers and population more than 1 million people. Ambient air quality in the examined city is influenced by more than 150 industrial enterprises operating in metallurgy, civil engineering, chemical indust...

In this paper, a computational method to predict the corrosion resistance of some sintered iron alloys subjected to a thermochemical treatment is analyzed. The proposed materials are obtained by powder metallurgy (P/M) route. The raw materials are prepared from atomized pre-alloyed iron base powders. The compacted samples were obtained by cold pressing using conventional route. The powders were compacted at a pressures of 400 and 600 MPa. After pressing, the green compacts were sintered in a laboratory furnace. Th...

This article describes experimental measurement and evaluation of the thermal-technical properties of historical masonry of the perimeter wall. It focuses on the principles of the measurement process itself as well as the evaluation of the obtained data. The measurement took place on a historic building, today used as an office building, located in the city of Ostrava, in the Czech Republic. In a selected room, used as an office, the measuring equipment was applied to the perimeter wall and ensured long-term measu...

The present article deals with the issues regarding the impact process at the impact of the material onto an enclosed conveyor belt supported by an impact bed consisting of impact rods at the feeding site. The theory of the impact process is based on the following preconditions: the whole impact process and the related processes are only performed at the impact site; the rock block is of relatively small dimensions compared to the conveyor dimensions; the impact bed is absolutely rigid; the conveyor belt is absolu...

We studied a scour in a drainage canal of the Cheboksary hydrosystem tailrace on the Volga river. To protect the hydrosystem tailrace from scouring, we proposed flexible stream-guiding grids that are installed in the stream and effectively affect its kinematics in the bottom area. We calculated in MathCad a system of vortices that occur when the flow runs against adjacent plates of a grid. Due to the replacement of flexible elements of a grid with flat plates that divide the flow into separate jets, it became poss...

Because, in most cases, dust explosions cause significant damage to the environment, they can be treated as a disaster. Appropriate measures must be taken to prevent explosions. These measures are aimed at preventing the formation of explosive atmospheres, preventing the occurrence of ignition sources and limiting the effects of the explosion. Static electricity is one of the sources of ignition of the potentially explosive atmosphere of dust / air. Assessing the occurrence and the possibility of initiating discha...

Under the effect of strong heat, chemical fertilizers tend to decompose. These decompositions can be followed by burns or explosions. The tendency to suffer self-sustaining decomposition is determined by the test method described in Test S.1 of the United Nation Manual of Tests and Criteria for the classification of ammonium nitrate fertilizers. The purpose of this work is to present the tests, experiments and interpretation of the experimental data necessary for the classification of chemical fertilizers based on...

In the national policy and development documents of Latvia, forest, along with other natural resources, is defined as an important strategic resource for the sustainable overall development of the country and the development of a diverse and export-intensive economy. At the same time, the need to exploit forests sustainably, reducing the risks to the quality of the natural environment posed by human activities, is emphasized by the documents. The research question is as follows: Are forests in Latvia overexploited...

The use of geographical space is closely related to the favorability of natural factors, its productive potential and improvement work. The influence of the anthropic activity on the geographical landscape is large, complex and with various effects depending on the specific local conditions, triggering a wide range of observation for geographical research. Using the land according to his different needs, man caused, on the one hand, the reduction of the areas occupied by natural plantations (replaced by agricultur...

A large number of precious metals such as molybdenum, gold, uranium and much more are obtained from sulfide ores. Currently, a large number of hydrometallurgical methods are used to extract precious metals, which in turn are outdated in this field. In this regard, it is necessary to develop new modern methods for extracting all valuable components from sulfide ores. One of these methods is the process of bio-leaching with the use of microorganisms. The use of this method in mining companies will help reduce the ri...

Danube is part of the Rhine / Meuse - Main - Danube priority axis, being the second longest river in Europe. Danube is an important international river route, flowing through 10 countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine. Most of the Danube, 28.9%, stretches over the territory of Romania. In the rest of the countries where the Danube arrives, they have much lower percentages. It collects most of the Romanian rivers, except some from Dobrogea, that are ca...

Agricultural land is an important natural resource exploited for agricultural production to provide food for the population. The pressure on agricultural resources has increased in the world, as the population grows and non-food land uses increase. In Latvia, the utilized agricultural area (UAA) has decreased since 1991, and in 2020 it was 2.3 mln. ha or 36% of the total area of the country, while the forest area increased, and in 2020 it was 3.1 mln. ha or 48% of the total area. In 2019 in Latvia, the unfarmed an...

In Latvia, Scots pine forests stands occupy 953450 ha or 33% of the total forest area. The percentage of young stands is 18% of pine forests. The young stands under the age of 10 are most represented. Scots pine has always been important for the Latvian economy, since several high-quality assortments can only be made from a quality pine trunk. The quality of the first log shall be formed during the first decade of the tree, therefore it is important to identify, assess and reduce the risk factors for P. sylvestris...

Modern society is rapidly changing under the influence of digital technologies. Digitalization as a modern approach to the development of the Baltic States implies not so much the installation of high-tech equipment and the implementation of software systems, but fundamental changes in business processes, business models and management tools. The transformation of society affects the political, economic and social spheres. The priority task is to introduce the concept of sustainable development of the country and ...

Methanotrophic bacteria are an essential component of Arctic ecosystems in terms of methane emission regulation. They act like a natural sink of methane and are able to oxidize up to 80% of methane emitted from permafrost soils. In Arctic regions, methanotrophy is related to methane oxidizing activity of bacteria, associated with mosses or lichens [1]. This cooperation provides protection and habitat to bacteria, while mosses and lichens obtain CO2 as a carbon source, which emit during methane oxidation as by-prod...

The commercialization of innovations in the food industry faces many risks. Only one in ten products successfully reaches supermarket shelves. In particular, the Latvian fish processing industry faces significant difficulties on the path to a successful launch of innovative products still depending on the production of one type of product ? canned fish. Continuing the study on the possibilities of using the fish species available in the country, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, in 2018-2019, de...

The effective application of the evils in the construction, including road, an important area of research is to identify the characteristics of physical and chemical processes and their hydration mechanism composed gold-cement binders. By chemical, mineralogical, derivatographic, spectroscopic and X-ray analyzes established physico-chemical properties of fly ash of thermal power hydroremoval Rudnenskiy AO SSGPO (Kazakhstan). It was determined that the hydraulic ash is acidic, with a high content of SiO2 and Al2O3 ...

The eastern part of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea is the estuary of the Neva River. The study area has significant spatial variability in water salinity. The salinity regime is largely determined by the influx of fresh water from the Neva Bay and water exchange with sea waters from the western sections of the Gulf of Finland. Therefore, the eastern part of the bay is characterized by an increase in salinity from east to west. At the same time, salinity in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland is characte...

The features of the weather and climate regime of West Svalbard Island (on the example of Barenzburg village) for 2006 - 2015 were examined. Trends and characteristics of the island 's bioclimate were studied on the basis of analysis of urgent data of 8-urgent meteorological observations obtained at Barenzburg village, Russia, West Svalbard Island, for the period from 2006 to 2015 and provided by the North-West branch of «NPO Typoon». The uniqueness of the nature and climatic conditions of Svalbard Island (Barenzb...