Current Environmental Engineering - Volume 4, Issue 2, 2017

Background: Arsenic is a ubiquitous element which exists in combined form and gets dissolved in water, transferred to human body on exposure through drinking water. It adversely affects human health resulting from stimulating formation of reactive oxygen species, binding to sulfhydryl sites of enzyme, re-placement of phosphate group and altering gene expression. Arsenic poisoning is threatening human be-ing globally Read More

Background: The worldwide demand for natural dyes is nowadays of great interest due to the increased awareness on therapeutic potential and wide range of industrial applications such as in engineering, food, textile, medical and agricultural industries. These environment friendly bioresourse materials pro-duced from non-food crops have revolutionized all industrial sectors especially pharmaceutical and tex-tile ind Read More

Objective: Water quality monitoring has been high priority to determine the current conditions of the water system. The present study evaluates the surface water quality in terms of the physicochemical parameters of the Brari-Nambal lagoon of Dal Lake, Kashmir. Method: Various physico-chemical parameters of water samples for the Brari-Nambal lagoon of the Dal Lake were determined post September 2014 floods in Ka Read More

Background: Accumulation of different metals and metalloids was assessed in two commonly used vegetable radish (Raphanus sativus L.) and Carrot (Daucus carota L.) irrigated with Fly ash wastewater in the peri-urban area of Badarpur Delhi, India. Method: In general, the metal and metalloid concentrations in radish and Carrot were higher at site-II irrigated with fly ash waste water than those found at Site-I irrigated Read More

Objective: The present study address an environment friendly solution for leather dyeing by using at-mospheric pressure non-thermal plasma to improve natural dyeing. Method: In this study, changes in the surface properties of goat hide is studied after exposing grain surface of goat hide to atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge generated in ammonia as discharge producing gas. Resulting changes in the surface Read More