the assessment of the environmental performance of metal sheet forming processes

... Glossary of Terms Foreword Foreword Foreword by the President of The Brewers of Europe I am delighted to welcome The Brewers of Europe’s first ever report on The Environmental Performance of the ... expectations Therefore, The Brewers of Europe commissioned a study to describe the environmental performance of the brewing sector in Europe This report presents the changes and trends in the environmental ... capturing the heat from the steam produced by boiling operations; the heat can then be reused for other processes Another example is the use of “wort-stripping” technology which increases the speed of...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20

... spoke to the EIU about the results of the Index, the difficulty of measuring the environmental impact of informal settlements and the necessity to administer cities as “living organisms” The Index ... some of the roughly 120,000 diesel vehicles in the city Officials fine vehicle owners who fail the tests, and they have the power to remove the vehicle from the road Porto Alegre, on the other ... Horizonte is the capital of the mineralrich state of Minas Gerais Located in the interior of southeastern Brazil, Belo Horizonte sits at the heart of the country’s steel and mining region The city’s...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:04

... island of Yumeshima in the city’s harbour Bangkok is promoting the use of biofuels The authorities aim to increase the proportion of gasohol — a mixture of gasoline and ethanol — in the fuel mix (the ... olkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, is located in the eastern part of the country, alongside the Hooghly River With a population of 15.6 million in the metropolitan area, it is the ... in-depth profile for each city outlines its particular strengths, weaknesses, and ongoing environmental initiatives These profiles rightly constitute the bulk of the report because the aim of the study...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:07

... similar measures of environmental performance, they were bundled together and assigned the weight of a single indicator before the category score was calculated The category scores were then rebased ... City, 2) MSA 32 tlanta, the capital of the southeastern state of Georgia, is a regional economic hub, with one of the highest concentrations of Fortune 500 companies in the US The city has in particular ... strongest in the Index Across the other categories in the Index Charlotte places in the bottom half of cities However, since the award of the federal energy grant in 2009 Charlotte has stepped up environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:11

... go from one end of the country to the other, taking real advantage of the high speed (they tend to use the air services instead) A study commissioned by the Mountain Community of the Susa Valley ... analysis One of the main ecological justifications of the HSR projects would be the energy savings and the expected decrease of pollutant emissions, associated to the shift of a fraction of freight ... construction of the HSR Turin-Lyon and other ones on the French side [report for instance] Beyond the technical problems related to the HSR, the Susa Valley has become in the recent years the most...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... documents due to the difficulty in understanding the complexities of these impacts, a lack of available information on their consequences, and the desire to limit the scope of environmental analysis.” ... petitioned the court to rehear the case and the final outcome of these and had yet to be determined at the time of this report’s publication In 2007, EPA’s Office of Water (OW) initiated the aforementioned ... production within the Rocky Mountain region is experiencing rapid growth The environmental implications of these and other energy production activities are a major area of focus for the U.S Environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... evaluation of the environmental consequences of the attacks of September 11th The purpose of the report is to lay out the facts, as best as we know them at this point, regarding both the environmental ... agencies involved in aspects of the environmental health response to the September 11th attacks, the performance of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the federal Occupational ... Government officials have conducted some limited testing of the runoff and harbor waters For example, the EPA collected runoff samples at the foot of Rector Street — the only visible runoff found by the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... go from one end of the country to the other, taking real advantage of the high speed (they tend to use the air services instead) A study commissioned by the Mountain Community of the Susa Valley ... analysis One of the main ecological justifications of the HSR projects would be the energy savings and the expected decrease of pollutant emissions, associated to the shift of a fraction of freight ... construction of the HSR Turin-Lyon and other ones on the French side [report for instance] Beyond the technical problems related to the HSR, the Susa Valley has become in the recent years the most...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... to the quantiles of the standard normal distribution The quality of the approximation depends on the values of the parameters N Y,, the number of rated entities with the same rating grade at the ... context the paper proposes a simple mechanism for the comparison of the performance of major rating agencies and that of other credit assessment systems, such as the internal ratings-based systems of ... distribution The mean of this distribution, the probability of default of the benchmark, is estimated at ˆ ෈[0.0%, 0.1%] p (with an average of 0.04%) The other binomial parameter is the number of trials...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... environment The object of the analysis is displayed in figure The paper starts with a description of the water pollution problem in Kaunas city which is in the centre of the object of the analysis The ... Neris is the biggest tributary of the Nemunas The basin area of the Neris is 24 492km2 The source of the Neris river is in the territory of Byelorussia More than 140km upstream Kaunas, the Neris ... the Nemunas river below the inflow of the Nevezis, i.e downstream of the new wastewater outlet which will discharge the treated wastewater of Kaunas The results of the model shows that when the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... for the development of a rubber plantation Following the approval by the People Committee of the Province of Champasack, on the 27th of October 2004, the note 120 of the People Committee of the ... (2 weeks) of the salaries; Transportation of workers to site at the charge of the workers for some villages; The use of brokers for the recruitment of workers, and associated cost of these practices ... survey of the land involving Lao authorities (district, village, and sometime province), the owner of the land and the company, the company offered an amount of money for the compensation of the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:21

... half of the time of the minimal duration of a joystick movement (200 ms) The mean direction was calculated within each of these time bins We then computed the intra-trial mean and variability of ... single standard deviation of the vector scatter plotted on the joystick, while the v marks the value of the mean well to the mid-wheelchair All of the novice participants used the lowest speed, yet ... one side of the PW placed adjacent to a wall They then executed a series of maneuvers in an attempt to place the opposite side of the PW to the opposite wall (see Figure 1D-E) As in the 180°...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... The performance metrics considered in this study are the bundle delivery probability (measured as the relation of the number of unique delivered bundles to the number of bundles generated), the ... presents an illustration of the software modules for terminal and mobile nodes, respectively The class diagram shown in Figure details the main classes of the software developed for the testbed This ... evaluate how the raw connectivity varies as the vehicle moves and whether it is stable across traversals of the same location In [31], the authors were interested in assessing the possibility of exploring...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... impact of a project or of its modification, only of the direct effects of the works envisaged themselves, and not of the environmental impact liable to result from the use and exploitation of the ... the operation of the single market (e.g product safety standards) or the protection of the environment According to the case-law of the Court: Transposition of a directive The transposition of ... account the context of the provision and the purpose of the legislation in question Thus the classification of a decision as a ‘development consent’ within the meaning of Article 1(2) of the EIA...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

... the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” as originally defined in the Brundtland Commission report of 1986 How you assess the environmental ... emerging method for evaluating environmental sustainability is called “life cycle inventory assessment. ” These assessments quantify all of the resources consumed and all of the emissions to our natural ... market prices fluctuate, the recovery of metals typically represent the largest source of revenue for material recovery facilities (Further enhancing the economics of recycling through advances...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... Labem city and the edge of the SPA Meanwhile, development consent for another section was issued which led the highway to the borders of the SPA from the other side Necessary changes: The Directive ... with the basic goals of the Directive (see above), with Article and Annex II of the Espoo Convention or with the special requirements of other EU environmental norms (see namely Article 6.4 of the ... a) EIA and other environmental assessments Part III of the questionnaire includes questions concerning the possible improvement of the synergy of EIA with other environmental assessment procedures...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... Scotland [43] Assessment of the impact and performance of the trauma team as an isolated component of the trauma pathway is complex Separation of the impact of multiple members of staff in a ... which together may manifest as an increase in patient survival [50] There are potential disadvantages to the use of video in the assessment of trauma Assessment of the vital signs from the video ... according to the severity of injury of the trauma patient The application of triggering systems attempts to ensure that the appropriate tier of trauma team response is activated The triggering...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... gram-negative therapy for VAP only, on the basis of their local microbiology and the low risk of resistant gram-negative pathogens in patients not requiring mechanical ventilation Although not in the ATS/IDSA ... quality performance indicators We tested the data collection form and data repository in the first 30 patients, adjusted the form, and then used the revised form for subsequent patients Quality performance ... center adapted the empiric therapy recommendations based on their local epidemiology and hospital formulary, another feature of other successful projects [11-14] Implementation at the local level...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... of the function (more flat topped as b approaches 0), u is the length (mm) corresponding to the peak in the selectivity function, and l is the midpoint of the size interval l If the value of the ... proportion of the catch than of the ROV video samples The observed increase in the proportion of Red Snapper caught with larger hooks resulted from the declining catch rates of other reef fishes rather ... hooks Therefore, it seems unlikely that the slight offset of the 2/0 and 4/0 hooks examined in the current study had much impact on the incidence of deep hooking, but the effect of hook offset...

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 12:45

... safety of occupants of other flats, safety of the buildings, or for the preservation of the peaceable enjoyment by the other occupants of their own flats and the common property (Tan, 1998) 122 These ... elaborate the assessment methods of each environmental performance category and criterion, as well as to report the assessment outcomes of the case studies The elaboration of the assessment methods (environmental ... assess environmental performance of highrise high-density housing in the tropical region and other requirements of primary data The first main requirement is the environmental performance of housing...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29