One of the main environmental concerns is associated with the excessive amounts of municipal solid waste (MSW) and the environmental impacts caused by inappropriate disposal methods. Studies about the generation of solid ...

Taking into account the economic importance that the sugar-alcohol industry and biodiesel represent for Brazil, as well as the country's leading position in this world economic scenario, adequate management of the effluent ...

Mining activities cause significant impacts to the environment, since the development of this activity implies suppression of vegetation, soil exposure to erosive processes with changes in the quantity and quality of surface ...

The definition and implementation of an environmental strategy, that not just is consonant to the organization’s strategy planning, but also comply with necessities and aspirations of its stakeholders, had emerged as a ...

The fast urbanization and intensification of medium and large-size cities have increased the quantity of Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) in Brazilian cities. The problem is not only because the largest waste fraction ...

Aiming to understand the hydrodynamics of a Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactor, this work aimed to apply multiphase modeling through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to assess the behavior of the three phase ...

Vinasse is a residue resulting from the production of ethanol generated in large quantities in Brazil, and can be approved for biogas production. Several microorganisms act in the degradation of the vinasse to obtain biogas, ...

The use of solid waste as precursor materials for the production of activated carbon is an alternative that, in addition to providing a new destination for these materials, can be applied in the treatment of effluents ...

The understanding of water dynamics and ecological relations in limnological studies necessarily includes the morphology of the water body. The scientific knowledge of morphometric parameters is fundamental not only for ...