Ten years of application of sewage sludge on tropical soil. A balance sheet on agricultural crops and environmental quality

W Melo, D Delarica, A Guedes, L Lavezzo… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Sewage sludge (SS) has been used in agriculture on a large scale in Europe. In tropical
climate conditions, due to rapid organic matter degradation, SS can provide toxic elements …

Road dust–driven elemental distribution in megacity Dhaka, Bangladesh: environmental, ecological, and human health risks assessment

T Kormoker, MH Kabir, R Khan, MS Islam… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Road dust, which reflects ambient air quality, receives various pollutants including toxic
metal (oid) s from several natural and/or anthropogenic sources. This manuscript reports a …

Chemical attributes of sewage sludges: Relationships to sources and treatments, and implications for sludge usage in agriculture

AL Nascimento, AJ de Souza, FC Oliveira… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
São Paulo is the most populous and industrialized state of Brazil, which strongly affect
amounts and composition of the generated sewage sludges. Their use on agriculture …

Utilization of municipal sewage sludge as additives for the production of eco-cement

Y Lin, S Zhou, F Li, Y Lin - Journal of hazardous materials, 2012 - Elsevier
The effects of using dried sewage sludge as additive on cement property in the process of
clinker burning were investigated in this paper. The eco-cement samples were prepared by …

Short-term usage of sewage sludge as organic fertilizer to sugarcane in a tropical soil bears little threat of heavy metal contamination

TAR Nogueira, A Franco, Z He, VS Braga… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
A field experiment was carried out to study the effect of application rates of sewage sludge
and mineral nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers on As, Ba, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Se, and Zn …

High-carbon wood ash biochar for mine tailings restoration: A field assessment of planted tree performance and metals uptake

JM Williams, SC Thomas - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Unique properties of biochar render it appealing for revegetating and decontaminating
historic, barren, and chemically complex mine tailings. Bottom ash from bioenergy facilities …

Eco-efficiency analysis of desalination by precipitation integrated with reverse osmosis for zero liquid discharge in oil refineries

FM Ronquim, HM Sakamoto, JC Mierzwa… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
In a process for industrial water reuse with zero liquid discharge (ZLD), a membrane
separation step followed by an evaporative process is usually required. It is proposed here …

Thallium uptake and risk in vegetables grown in pyrite past-mining contaminated soil amended with organic fertilizer (compost): A potential method for Tl …

X Wei, C Nicoletto, P Sambo, J Liu, J Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Thallium (Tl) is a highly toxic trace metal that can cause severe pollution and damage to the
ecological system. In this study, a field trial was conducted in a Tl-rich pyrite-barite past …

Heavy metal pollution and physiological changes in the leaves of some shrub, palm and tree species in urban areas of Adana, Turkey

Z Banu Doganlar, O Doganlar… - Chemical speciation & …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The effects of anthropogenic pollution on metal accumulation and some physiological
parameters were investigated in plant leaves in the Adana, located in the Mediterranean …

A suggestion to radiological hazards characterization of 226Ra, 232Th, 40K and 137Cs: spatial distribution modelling

S Aközcan, F Külahcı, Y Mercan - Journal of hazardous materials, 2018 - Elsevier
Spatial distribution modelling has been proposed to characterize the radiological hazards
associated with concentration of natural 226 Ra, 232 Th, 40 K and artificial 137 Cs …