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2024-03-29T15:57:02ZAdvanced methods and techniques for water quality assessment (ECOSENZ)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1577
Title: Advanced methods and techniques for water quality assessment (ECOSENZ)
Authors: Nicorescu, Valeria
Abstract: In 2019, two phases of the project were carried out. In one of the phases, the aim was to identify the anthropogenic factors and characterize the wastewater discharged into the Bega and Timis rivers. To highlight the impact generated by the potential sources of pollution on the watercourses, the quality of the two bodies of water upstream and downstream of each potential source of pollution was evaluated. The evaluation of their quality was carried out in accordance with the Order MMGA no.161 / 2006 - regarding the classification of the quality of surface waters in order to establish the ecological status of the water bodies. In order to reduce phosphorus from polluted waters, experimental phytoremediation studies were performed using the Lemna minor L. aquatic plant. The second phase of the project aimed to modify the conventional surfaces of the commercial electrodes with nanomaterials (carbongraphene, Au, Pt, Ag, Cu nanoparticles, and materials with perovskite structure) to improve the electrode performance - sensitivity, limit of detection, limit of quantification. The modification of the commercial electrodes was performed electrochemically by applying the technique of chronoamperometry with graphene and nanoparticles of metals and chemically with materials that have a perovskite structure. The electrodes obtained were characterized by determining the specific surface and tested in the detection of pharmaceutical products of the following classes: antibiotics (tetracycline), cytostatic (docetaxel, paclitaxel and capecitabine) and anti-inflammatory (diclofenac).
Description: Program Nucleu, contract 20N/2019, project code: PN 19 04 01 022019-01-01T00:00:00ZAlignment of methods/methodologies for assessing air quality with the requirements of regulations on reducing emissions and improving the quality of life in the current context of climate change (QALAIR)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1576
Title: Alignment of methods/methodologies for assessing air quality with the requirements of regulations on reducing emissions and improving the quality of life in the current context of climate change (QALAIR)
Authors: Bucur, Elena
Abstract: The overall objective of the project was to initiate new areas of research and/or deepening of those already developed and to enrich the portfolio of works that come to meet the economic environment faced with the implementation of new international environmental regulations. One of the specific objectives of the project aims to address and identify solutions to the problems faced by the economic environment in implementing the requirements of the provisions of the BAT Conclusions (BATC) adopted by the European Commission Decisions, in order to facilitate the implementation of Directive 2010/75/EU, aimed to control the main industrial activities. Another specific objective concerned was a domain of stringent actuality, with direct effect on the health and comfort of the population, namely the assessment of the level of air pollution related with smell, focusing on the activity of storing urban waste. We aim in this aspect to address on national level a program to assess the level of smell in the most problematic areas and to take a real, quantifiable image on the level of odour present pollution. New methods/methodologies for assessing the quality of air inside buildings will be addressed and developed, with a focus on classes of compounds introduced in this environment through intensive use of cleaning, maintenance, ambience and/or safety products, as well as the development of new methods of monitoring air quality using plants (biomonitoring). Finally yet importantly, a series of research will be started in the field of submicronic particle pollution and with potential effect on the health of the population.
Description: Program Nucleu, contract 20N/2019, project code: PN 19 04 02 022019-01-01T00:00:00ZBiological models and molecular biomarkers for assessing the toxic potential of water resources affected by anthropogenic pollution (SMARTWAY)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1574
Title: Biological models and molecular biomarkers for assessing the toxic potential of water resources affected by anthropogenic pollution (SMARTWAY)
Authors: Banciu, Alina
Abstract: The project addresses a topical issue at national and European level regarding the uncontrolled use of antibiotics and biocides and the toxic effects generated by them on the aquatic environment. The main goal is the development of experimental models using aquatic organisms and molecular biomarkers to evaluate the quality conditions of the aquatic environment and to predict the toxic potential. The realization of this project between 2019-2022 and the development / implementation of a molecular microchip is a national premiere. In addition, the implementation in the laboratory practice supports environmental protection agencies by monitoring and predicting the pollution generated by anthropogenic factors and at the same time favours the establishment of a national and international scientific networking specific to the field addressed. In 2019, starting from the objective of deepening the evidence of genetic determinism of the mechanisms of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, quantitative and qualitative studies were carried out on wastewater samples from two connections of an emergency medical unit in Bucharest and on samples from surface water and sediment taken from the natural settlements initially established, the Teleajen River and the Danube River. Alternative testing methods for assessing the toxic potential of aquatic ecosystems were also addressed. Alternative methods have been tested in parallel with conventional methods, which are based on morphological identification of organisms, using benthic macroinvertebrates.
Description: Program Nucleu, contract 20N/2019, project code: PN 19-04 02 012019-01-01T00:00:00ZResearch regarding new methods, techniques and procedures for waste assessment and management, acronym DESEVAL
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1547
Title: Research regarding new methods, techniques and procedures for waste assessment and management, acronym DESEVAL
Authors: Kim, Lidia
Abstract: The general objective of the project is to make waste management more efficient by applying new methods, techniques and procedures for evaluating and managing waste in the context of applying the waste hierarchy for sustainable management of resources and the environment.
The general objective of the project will be achieved through three specific objectives (targets), as presented below:
- complete the harmonized list of waste with new types of waste from the category of unspecified encountered in current practices;
- developing a conceptual model of adequate management and characterization of large categories of liquid, solid and mixed waste streams in the Romanian economy in relation to the useful components of the waste, exemplified by relevant case studies;
- making new secondary raw materials resulting from the processing of waste that can be used in various industrial activities replacing natural raw materials.
Description: Program NUCLEU, contract no. 20N/2019, project code PN 19 04 04 02019-01-01T00:00:00Z