6th CEST · 1999
6th Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
30 August – 2 September 1999 · Pythagorion, Samos, Greece
- Session No 1: Plenary Session
- Session No 2: Environmental Policies and Sustainable Development
- Session No 3: Water Quality
- Session No 4: Air Pollution
- Session No 5: Environmental Modelling
- Session No 6: Solid Waste Management
- Session No 7: New Technologies and Trends (I)
- Session No 8: Environmental Impacts
- Session No 9: Ecosystems
- Session No 10: Wastewater Treatment
- Session No 11: New Technologies and Trends (II)
- Session No 12: Wastewater management - Marine Pollution
- Session No 13: Environmental Pollution and Human Health
- Session No 14: Ground water Pollution and Management
- Session No 15: Environmental Management
- Posters Monday 30 August 1999, morning
- Posters Monday 30 August 1999, afternoon
- Posters Tuesday 31 August 1999, morning
- Posters Tuesday 31 August 1999, afternoon
- Posters Wednesday 1 September 1999, morning
- Posters Wednesday 1 September 1999, afternoon
- Symposium on Metal Speciation in the Environment (2 Sep 1999)
- Symposium on Saltworks: Preserving Saline Coastal Ecosystems (1 Sep 1999)
Session No 1: Plenary Session
- The Scientist, the Environment and Policy making: the anatomy of the conference
- Setting up the scene
- Environmental investigation of the subsurface and soil decontamination by Bio-Venting technique in Evosmos
- Determination and assessment of risk due to to hazardous chemicals in SMEs foundries and surface treatment plants
- Balkan endemic nephropathy and its putative environmental and genetic causes: A Review
Session No 2: Environmental Policies and Sustainable Development
- Management of resources for sustainable development: Entropy "shows" the way
- Ecology as a philosophical problem: on the concept of the ecology of wholeness
- Superposition of environmental damages and effect on environmental policies
- Indicators of sustainable development in Greece
- Environmental policies and natural resource management in Southeast Asia-Contemporary issues
- Land use economics aiming to viable development
- Environmental policy under uncertainty: Case-studies of claims-making
- Perspectives of a sustainable water supply policy in Greek islands
- MEDACT-APHRODITE project. A collaboration of Cyprus and Greece for environmental policy and legislation
Session No 3: Water Quality
- The occurrence of volatile halogenated organic compounds in the surface waters of N. Greece
- Ecological quality of running waters in NE Chalkidiki: Biological indicators/diatoms
- Microbiological, toxicological and chemical study of Mornos reservoir U.V.– disinfected water
- Pollution of the water resources in Greece due to agricultural activities
- A preliminary investigation into the ordination and classification of Greek rivers
- Environmental quality assessment of a Mediterranean river system
- An integrated water quality assessment of the river Axios during the 1998 low flow season
- Evaluation of the impact of effluent discharges on a proposed water intake
- Water quality in view of the irrigation needs
Session No 4: Air Pollution
- Study of the effective temperature index in Athens
- Atmospheric aerosol evolution and transport over Athens
- Experimental study of air mass advection over the greater Thessaloniki area
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the ambient air of Greek towns in relation to other atmospheric pollutants
- Study of the gas/particle partitioning of selected PAHs in the atmosphere of Athens
- NMVOC emissions from solvent use in Greece
- Statistical analysis of flue gases measurements in central heating devices
- Exposure of city residents to Co in Athens urban area: microenvironmental studies of personal Co exposure
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and their Nitrated Derivatives (Nitro-PAH) in the urban atmosphere
Session No 5: Environmental Modelling
- Effect of rainfall on airfoil performance
- Microscale emissions modeling system
- Atmospheric dispersion through obstacle arrays
- A numerical study of the influence of building geometry on the wind and dispersion characteristics in urban areas
- Optimal air pollution control
- Data quality control and air pollution nowcasting by neural networks
- Simulation of dispersion and deposition of gaseous and particulate atmospheric pollutants
- Simulation of transboundary air pollution to and from Greece
- Simulation of circulation in aeration tanks
- Application of discriminant analysis for water quality assessment in the Aegean
- A stochastic model of landfill leachate and gas production incorporating waste heterogeneity
- The Chernobil accident as a model for radiological risk mapping of Europe
Session No 6: Solid Waste Management
- Minimizing landfill soil-to-refuse ratio through daily cell design
- Landfill response to seismic loading
- Modelling waste-tire management with emphasis on energy-recovery logistics
- Variation of landfill gas production according to the waste composition
- Estimating biogas production in MSW land disposal sites
- An overview on treatment of the wastewaters and sludges from electroplating plants-EU legislation
- Co-composting of sewage sludge and organic fraction of municipal solid waste in the greater Athens region
- A cost-benefit analysis for municipal composting plants
- Economical evaluation of domestic wastes incineration
- MSW land disposal siting methodology (The case of Lesvos Island)
- Regional solid waste management in Thrace through spreadsheet ILP modeling
- The municipal solid wastes regime in Greece and relevant European policies
Session No 7: New Technologies and Trends (I)
- Thermodynamic applications in Environmental Engineering
- Innovative pilot project for water recycling from wastewater of milk collection stations
- Polymers and environment: Trends, practices and prospects
- Athens sewer odor elimination method with nitrate solution addition
- Hydrocarbons, pesticides and PCBs in sediments from Thermaikos gulf
- Photodegradation of selected herbicides and insecticides in natural waters under sunlight irradiation
- The HPLC separation of a mixture of herbicides: Effects of temperature and gradient steepness
- Removal of asbestos fibers and pesticides during water treatment
- Particle and oil removal from oily water by induced air flotation
- Assessment of polyaromatics emited from modern power plants
Session No 8: Environmental Impacts
- Landsat TM data and information technology to potential water pollution detection in Vegoritis-Petron lakes (Greece)
- QA/QC criteria for the selection and quality classification of Euroairnet stations
- New transportation links and urban air quality: the red hill Greek expressway, Hamilton, Ontario
- Integration of a Geographic Information System in a transport externalities assessment tool
- Climate change and air quality management: emissions and consequences
- Policy measures and conditions for the diffusion of the electric vehicle in Athens
- Incorporating environmental externalities in the long-term planning of the Greek electric system
- Investigation of the environmental impact of wind turbines installations
- Energy consumption in the wastewater treatment plants in the Aegean islands and renewable energy potential
Session No 9: Ecosystems
- Human ecology on the territory with increased level of radiation
- Radiological assessment of environment by analysing cytogenetic effects in natural aquatic populations
- Heavy metals in tissues of Gammarus SPP. (Amphipoda, Crustacea), from a mining area of Chalkidiki
- Bioaccumulation of Cr, Ni, Fe from benthic organisms from N. Evoikos Gulf. Relation with ecological indices
- A survey on the occurrence and significance of fungi in potable waters
- Studies on polychaetes (annalida) from eastern coastal part of India
- Antifouling toxicity on marine microalgae
- Long-term intraspecific variations in nectar secretion in the phrygana: implications for ecological management
- Presentation of designated and proposed S.O.N.B. using the "Filotis" database
Session No 10: Wastewater Treatment
- Evaluation of kinetic parameters estimation methods in activated sludge systems
- Evaluation of the accuracy of activated sludge activity parameters
- Evaluation of characteristic parameters of the industrial wastewater to be treated at the Metamorphosis Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Nitrification-denitrification systems under transient loading conditions
- The problem of bulking sludge in Greek wastewater treatment plants
- Anaerobic sludge digestion of domestic wastewater. Digesters evacuation-maintenance and re-operation
- Full scale evaluation of the step feed BNR process at the Tallman Island WPCP
- Potential use of natural systems for treating municipal effluents in Greece
- Construction cost of municipal wastewater treatment plants with aquatic plant in a subsurface system
Session No 11: New Technologies and Trends (II)
- Potential of inorganic adsorbents for dye adsorption and chemical regeneration
- Removal and recovery of nickel from electroplating waste solution by precipitate flotation
- Biological activated carbon fluidized-bed reactor (BAC-FBR) system for treatment of contaminated groundwater
- Long-term effect of cycle time and aerobic/anoxic phase ratio on nitrogen removal in a sequencing batch reactor
- Photocatalytic oxidation of NO2 – ions and NH3 in water
- Some natural catalysts behaviour in coal treatment
- Photocatalytic oxidation of methylene blue by titanium dioxide in a photoreactor
- Novel bifunctional catalytic systems for the SCR of NOx using hydrocarbons as reductants
- Selective reduction of NO on Rh/alumina catalysts: effect of metal loading
- Electric field control of NOx formation in a flame flow
- Influence of oxygenated compounds in gasoline on exhaust emissions
Session No 12: Wastewater management - Marine Pollution
- Theory achievements of protection of environment against disperse pollutants in wastewater treatment
- Operational results of stabilization ponds in the region of river Gallikos, Thessaloniki, Greece
- The brine biological system and its management in the seasonal solar saltworks
- The treatment of wastewater from breweries
- Refinery oily sludge management
- Performance study of wastewater treatment by sand-media aerobic biological filter
- General trends in marine pollution of the central part of Euvoikos Gulf
- Biocides from antifouling paints in the aquatic environment
- Monitoring of lead, copper and zinc from land base sources in the Gulf of Elefsis
- Determination of dissolved/dispersed petroleum hydrocarbons in the coastal zone of Mytlilene
- Sea pollution by oil products. A comparative study of combating oil spills in the Aegean sea
Session No 13: Environmental Pollution and Human Health
- Quality indices in habitats of technical works and natural flows
- Human dietary intake of lead and cadmium from animal tissue consumption
- Disruption of sperm production and puberty in mice by great lakes contaminants
- Parametric dynamic modeling of the short-term effects of air pollution on children respiratory illness
- Alternative models of health risk assessment in an urban industrial neighbourhood
- Public and occupational health in Environmental Engineering curricula
Session No 14: Ground water Pollution and Management
- Hadling of electrical furnace slags and environment in Greek ferronickel metallurgy
- Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in urban and rural soils from the Chania area
- Clay liners for solid and hazardous waste landfills: How effective they really are?
- Simulation of contaminant transport. Application of principal direction technique in a shallow aquifer
- Applications of operations research theory to groundwater management problems
- Surfactant selection for enhanced soil remediation
- Use of water covers for the prevention of acid mine drainage generation
- A method for assessing soil vapor intrusion from petroleum release sites: multi-phase/fraction partitioning
Session No 15: Environmental Management
- Environmental management systems: when and to what degree are they suitable for companies
- Environmental management systems standards-achieving greater credibility through greater visibility of their outputs
- Greek manufacturing facing packaging and packaging waste management legislation-trends and attitudes
- Application trends of life cycle assessment (LCA) in business in European Countries
- Life cycle analysis: traditional and reverse approach-Its application to the washing machines
- Towards sustainable construction in the UK
- Environmental quality standards in tourism
- Incorporation of environmental damage valuation in siting procedures
- Current research on the greening of technology and public policy in Oklahoma
Posters Monday 30 August 1999, morning
- Winter air pollution episodes in Athens. The 13-14/12/1989 Case Study
- Air quality, urban transport evolution and application of gross-sector telematics in Thessaloniki
- Comparative measurements of the radiocardon concentration in the center of Athens and in the countryside
- Concentration levels of volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere of urban and suburban areas in Greece
- Determination of sulfur air pollutants in a volcanic area by ga-chromatography
- Air electrical conductivity variations during maximum and minimum air pollution levels in Athens
- Environment-friendly Management of Ecosystems through Technological Developments: The Case of Coastal and Island Bioresources
- Natural-restoration of radiopolluted territories and "dose equivalent rate" reduction
- Respirable particulate matter in the matter in the air of Piraeus, Greece
Posters Monday 30 August 1999, afternoon
- Perspectives for the exploitation and development of abandoned mining areas
- Determination of organophosphorus insecticides in environmental waters by using SPE and SPME techniques with gas chromatography
- A quality study of surface waters of Macedonia, Greece: Speciation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus
- Qualitative determination of hazardous polycyclic aromatic compounds in aquatic environment with the use of laser
- Environmental effects of a proposed groundwater artificial rechagre project in Orfanon region of Kavala
- Study of the ground water quality in the area of Inofyta, Greece
- Influence of phrygana cover on the ecology of cypress establishment in the White mountains of Crete
- The effect of dye Orange II on the physiological parameters and growth of plant Coleus blumei L
- A morphometric analysis in gis environment to deduce geomorphological processes and the related natural hazards, at the island of Zakynthos
Posters Tuesday 31 August 1999, morning
- Determination of CrIII, GrVI and total Cr in drinking water-method’s evaluation
- Reaction kinetics of the catalytic combustion of light hydrocarbons (ethylene) in fixed bed reactor
- Photocatalytic destruction of atrazine
- Water quality improvement using ionexchange process
- Removal of pesticide residues from water solutions by adsorption of pillared montmorillonites and mesoporous aluminum phosphates
- Influence of dust on the physicochemical and ion-exchange properties of natural clinoptilolite
- Determination of heavy metals in wet deposition of Athens
- Determination of heavy metals and organotin compounds in the aquatic environment of Greece
- Corrosive of calcareous stones, with historical value, from nitrogen oxide and nitrogen dioxide
Posters Tuesday 31 August 1999, afternoon
- Detection of TNT-contamination in soil samples using SPME and GC/MS
- Air-vegetation-soil partitioning of toxic chemicals in environmental simulation modeling
- The use of circulation patterns to estimate local precipitation under climate change
- Environmental management with the use of remote sensing
- Man-made impact monitoring in Messolonghi lagoon system using multitemporal ers.sar data
- Prediction of octanol-water partition coefficients
- Physical and chemical parameters of a characteristic nearshore microenvironment in the island of Crete
Posters Wednesday 1 September 1999, morning
- Determination of dissolved and particulate Mercury at the activated sludge process
- Comparative use of biondicators for the study of temporal trends in metal marine pollution
- Seasonal variation of hydrobiochemical parameters in a coastal area of an ichthyoculture
- Toxicity assessment of the wastewater from the Thessaloniki industrial area
- Investigation of selected water quality parameters affecting reuse of water
- Toxic metals in the urban effluents of Mytilene: results of a monitoring program (1996-1997)
- Photocatalitical degradation of dye pollutants under visible irradiation
Posters Wednesday 1 September 1999, afternoon
- Estimated air pollution from maritime traffic in the port of Piraeus
- Chemical components in mainstream smoke of cigarettes produced in Greece: a comparative study
- Comparative analysis of Greek and UK environmental legislation and planning in S.E.A. context
- Principles of environmental science: a new cognitive field in the programme of upper secondary school
- The ecological ash treatment and the liquidation of the brown coal burning in the Czech republic
- Identification and management of hazardous materials and conditions during bridge reconstruction
- Natural attenuation: effects of heterogeneous soil organic matter
- Pollution by sanitary landfilling, waste to energy and mechanical recycling and composting of MSW
- Using environmental economics to evaluate quarry rehabilitation alternatives
Symposium on Metal Speciation in the Environment (2 Sep 1999)
- Message from the Rector of the University of the Aegean
- Species dependent toxicity of arsenic in animals
- How to improve the reliability of speciation analysis of organometal compounds?
- Sources of error in organotin speciation analysis
- Elemental and molecular mass spectrometry in environmental speciation analysis
- Element speciation in waters - Analytical Strategy
- Methods of analysis of methylmercury species in environmental samples
- New Trends in the Speciation Analysis of the Organometallic Compounds
- Speciation of trace metals in coastal micro-environments of Saronikos gulf
- Single and sequential extraction methods for the geochemical analysis of sediments
Symposium on Saltworks: Preserving Saline Coastal Ecosystems (1 Sep 1999)
- Solar Saltworks production process evolution - Wetland function
- Solar Saltworks - An environmentall friendly industry
- Conservation of Mediterranean coastal saline ecosystms: the private sector role in maintaining ecological function
- The appropriate size of saltworks to meet environmental and production requirements
- The postmodern saline landscape in Greece and the European: salinas for salt or what?
- The ecological importance of Mediterranean Salinas