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Underground coal extraction at Coal Mine Velenje occasionally gives rise to odour complaints from local residents and irritates and disturbs the miners at work in the mine. This work describes a robust quantification of odorous emissions of mine sources and a model-based analysis aimed to establish a better understanding of …

Cement production is one of the main contributors to mercury emissions in to the atmosphere. Many national and international legal i nstruments aim to control and reduce Hg emissions. Hg enters the cement production process as an impurity in fuels and raw materials, with the latter being the main source …

In the view of designing new nanostructured materials and tailoring their functional properties, understanding the nucleation and crystal growth mechanisms is becoming increasingly important. Nowadays, one of the most addressed scientific and social problems are those facing energy shortage and global warming. People started to realize the value and importance …

Current and especially past industrial and mining activities, including underground and open pit mining, have often resulted in soil pollution that has become a global and alarming environmental problem. Among contaminants, heavy metals and metalloids are under environmental scrutiny due to their potential toxicity, persistence, and because they can be …

Air pollution is an inevitable problem that modern society has to face today, with particulate matter (PM) being the most dangerous part of it, threatening human health and the environment. Not all PM particles, however, are equally harmful, since the dangerous potential depends on their size and chemical composition, which …

The identification and quantification of organic compounds present in the environment is a major area of application in modern analytical chemistry. However, it is still scarcely recognized that, in addition to the chemical identity and concentration of organic compounds, there is more information to be found about their source and …

Mercury is a very toxic element. Due to its volubility it is present everywhere in the environment at ambient temperature. High temperature processes increased levels of mercury on the global scale. Global and European action plans were established to reduce mercury emissions and remove mercury from the environment. Cement plants …

Atmospheric concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHG) is higher than any time in the last 400000 years and growing faster than at any time in the past 18000 years. The high concentration of GHG generates radiative forcing that contributes to climate change. Energy production from fossil fuels has …

It is evident that the worldwide average temperature is rising and climate is changing (WMO, 2003) and it is believed that there is sufficient evidence that this is due to human activities (IPCC 2001). Human activities are primarily responsible for the release of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants …

Mercury (Hg) pollution has been investigated in the area of the Idrija mercury mine, Slovenia, where the second largest mercury mine in the world operated for more then 500 years. Although the production of mercury at the Idrija mercury mine stopped in 1994, centuries of mining and ore processing operations …