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The environmental contamination due to mining activities in the Andean region of Bolivia is a serious concern, as it leads to highly acidic (pH 2.4) acid mine drainage (AMD), severely polluted by sulfate (>12,000 mg L-1). Passive bioreactors entailing biological sulfate reduction and removal of metals through sulfide precipitation have been recognized as a promising biotechnology. The reactivity of mixtures containing locally available ...

Improving and managing the electricity efficiency in hotel facilities is essential to reduce the hotel operation costs and its environmental impacts. The data presented shows the evolution of the electricity consumption and management between 2013 and 2015 in two hotel facilities in Cuba (one beach hotel and one city hotel). The data additionally includes the daily measures used to develop control tools for an energy management system. The data ...

© 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. Abstract: This paper reviews the role of conventional waste-to-energy, i.e. incineration of (mainly) municipal solid waste with energy recovery, in the circular economy. It shows that, although waste-to-energy figures on a lower level in the European waste hierarchy than recycling, it plays, from an overall sustainability point of view, an essential, complementary and facilitating ...

© 2018, Springer Nature B.V. This paper discusses energy management in the formation process of lead-acid batteries. Battery production and electricity consumption in during battery formation in a battery plant were analyzed over a 4-year period. The main parameters affecting the energy performance of battery production were identified and different actions to improve it were proposed. Furthermore, an Energy Performance Indicator (EnPI), based ...

© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature. Over the past few decades, the sharp rise in post-consumer plastic and biomass waste has resulted in an ever growing challenge to treat such waste sustainably. Co-pyrogasification of plastics and biomass mixtures, as opposed to separately converting these waste streams, offers several advantages including an improvement in syngas quality and composition (H 2 /CO ratio) in ...