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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EME 2011
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ON SOIL
736-047: Electrochemical Oxidation of Crystal Violet
736-010: Seed Germination and
Dye (Basic Violet 3) using Lead Oxide Electrodes
Indu M. Sasidharan Pillai, Ashok K. Gupta, and
of Safflower as Affected
Early Seedling Growth
by Heavy Metal Mixture
Chittaranjan Sahoo
Alireza Houshmandfar
736-050:
736-011: Assessment of Soil Erosion and Conservation:
Application
of USLE Model in Southern
T. Meshesha, Atsushi
Derege
Mitsaru Tsubo, and Nigussie
736-014:
Heavy
Spatial
Ethiopia
Oasis, Saudi
Mohammed S. Jami, Nassereldeen A. Kabashi,
5
Haregeweyn
Iman A.F. Husain,
andNorhajiza Abdullah
67
Properties and
Factory in
736-051: Dispersion of Heavy Metals at Klein
Letaba Gold Tailings Dam, Limpopo Province,
El-Maghraby,
Jason S. Ogola, Klaus Maas, and
Arabia
South Africa
Abdulrasoul M. Al-Omran, Salem E.
MahmoudE.A. Nadeem, Ali M. El-Eter, and
Salem M.I. Al
of Artificial Neural Network
Plant Performance
Tsunekawa,
Distribution of Soil
Improvement
Model for the Prediction of Wastewater Treatment
Metals Content around a Cement
Al-Hassa
60
1
Khodani Malshusa
75
13
Qahtani
736-030: Stream Dynamics in Semi-Arid Regions:
736-034: Effect of Voltage Gradient on Electrokinetic
An Assessment of Sokoto-Rima
Remediation of Cr
1965 -2005
using
(VI) and Phenol Contaminated Soil
EDTA
AlabiS.O.
Mohsen Saeedi and Behnoosh Khataei
736-061:
Impact
84
Soneye
20
of Environmental Factors on Bio-
Surfactant Surface
Wen
River, Nigeria,
Property and its Sorption onto
Zhang, Jianbing Li, Guohe Huang, Wei Li,
AIR QUALITY, WASTE MANAGEMENT, AND
Soils
Ling Wang, and Shanshan Li
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
25
736-006:
Design
and
Implementation
of Air
Quality
Data Mart for Ontario Canada
Samira Muhammad
90
WATER MANAGEMENT
736-012: The Effect
736-016:
Multistep
Ahead Water Level
using Different Artificial Neural
Algorithms
Jianjun Yu, Xiaosheng Qin, and Ole
736-033:
32
Stephen
Optimal Groundwater Quantity Management
Boulatoff,
Carol
Boyer, and
J. Ciccone
95
736-017:
Solving Fuzzy Waste Management
through
Searching
Xiaosheng Qin, Ye Xu, and Tianyi Xu
for Land Subsidence Control
Models
Heuristic
Yin-Lung Chang, Chuan-Yi Huang, Tung-Lin Tsai,
Hung-En Chen, and Jinn-Chuang Yang
736-029: Bricks: An Excellent
Over-Dependence on Tubewell Irrigation
Draining Out Groundwater Aquifers in the Food Bowl
Recycling
Wastes
-
Aeslina Abdul Kadir and Abbas
and
736-045: Elastic Consolidation Settlement due
Building
736-044: Research
Material for
A Review
of India
Salmnder S. Dhaliwal
102
38
736-035:
Harmanjit S. Dhadli, Sukhpreet Singh,
Price
Environmental Programs
Catherine
Larsen
on Profitability and Stock
Corporate Participation in
Performance from
Forecasting
Network Training
Mohajerani
Development of Printing
Remanufacturing in Shanghai
Yuan Zhou, Shengli Qiu, Wenjie Wu, Jingwei Wang,
Chenglong Zhang, and Jianfeng Bai
46
on
108
the
Consumables
to
116
Periodic Pumping
John C.-C. Lu
andFeng-Tsai Lin
53
736-053: Effects of Fuel Tanks
Atmospheric
Explosion
on
Concentrations of PAHs in Catano,
Puerto Rico
Jeannette Gonzalez-Soto and Nedim Vardar
i
122
736-062: Effect of Waste Household Appliances
Trade-in Program in China
Wenjie Wu, Jingwei Wang, Yuan Zhou, and
128
Chenglong Zhang
736-064: Retrofit
Design
Method for C02 Emission
Reduction
Mona Gharaie, Jin-Kuk Kim, M. Hassan
Panjeshahi,
and Robin Smith
133
Attempt to Develop Sustainable Land
Management using Geoinformatics: A Case Study
of Wurayah Biosphere Reserve, UAE
Eslam A. Al-Hogaraty, Farouk El-Baz,
736-065: An
Use
Reinhard ZoUtz-Moller, Zeinelabidin A. Rizk,
Mohamed A. Abdel Moati, and
Hassan K. Garamoon
139
AUTHOR INDEX
225
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ENV 2011
OIL SANDS TAILINGS AND TAILINGS WATER
OIL SANDS TAILINGS WATER TREATMENT
TREATMENT/MANAGEMENT
731-011: The Use of the Exfoliated
731-014: Oil-Contaminated Soil Characterization
Removal of the Aqueous
and Remediation, Kuwait: Review
Ahmed
Ahmad A. Al-Naseem and Dana B. Al-Duwaisan
731-006: Extraction of
Oxalate from
a
Heavy
Metals by
Phosphate
153
Moustafa,
Graphite
Naphthenic Acids
for the
Seoktae Kang, and
Mohamed Gamal El-Din
and
731-020:
Contaminated Soil
209
Decomposition of a Model Naphthenic Acid,
Acid by Advanced Oxidation Processes
Cyclohexanoic
SaudS. AL-Oud
J 58
Ate/eh Afzal, Przemyslaw Drzewicz,
Mohamed Gamal El-Din, and Jonathan W. Martin
731-015: Long-Term
of Criteria Pollutants
McKay,
Temporal Trends and Influence
on
Regional Air Quality in Fort
731-025:
Degradation
of Naphthenic Acids
Ozonation in Various Conditions:
Alberta
Warren B. Kindzierski and Md. Aymd Bari
162
211
by
Uncovering the
OSPW Ozonation
Leonidas A. Perez-Estrada, Mohamed Gamal El-Din,
731-017: Information Sources for Developing Oil
and Jonathan W. Martin
214
Sands Plans, Policies and Research
Chris Powter
731-019: The Assessment of the Solar Driven
169
UV/Chlorine Advanced Oxidation Process
731-027: Methane Emissions from Oil Sand
Tailings
Po Yee Chan,
by
Tariq Siddique
and Julia
Mohamed Gamal El-Din, and
James R, Bolton
Microbial Metabolism of
Hydrocarbons
Foght
217
174
731-023: Dissolved Organic Compounds Removal
from Oil'Sands Process Affected Water by
UNCONVENTIONAL OIL AND THE
Coagulation/Flocculation
ENVIRONMENT
Parastoo Pourrezaei, Przemyslaw Drzewicz,
Yingnan Wang, Mohamed Gamal El-Din,
731-016: Evaluation of Renewable
Energy
Leonidas A. Perez-Estrada, Jonathan W. Martin,
Sources
Anderson, Steve
P. Giesy
for Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD)
Julie
Operation
Sepideh Kasiri,
and John
Ania
Wiseman, Karsten Liber,
220
Ulrich, Vinay Prasad, and
Amos Ben-Zvi
731-018: The Coagulation-Flocculation-Sedimentation
175
Treatment of Oil Sands Process-Affected Water for
731-010: Reducing Water
High Pressurized Membrane Filtrations
Vapour Emissions and Fog
Formation at SAGD Facilities
Randy Rudolph, Steven Young, Claes Palmgren,
Elizabeth Logan, and Piotr Staniaszek
Solubility on Supercritical
C02 Injection into Low Permeable Rocks
Ardy Arsyad, Yasuhiro Mitani, Hiro Ikemi, and
189
733-002: Combined In Situ C02 Generation and Chemical
Flooding for Viscous Oil Recovery
B.J. Ben Shiau, Tzu-Ping Hsu, Sang-Ho Bang,
Bruce L. Roberts, and Jeffrey H. Harwell
733-007:
Nanoparticles Its Significance in Drilling
Development for Enhance Oil Recovery
Jamil A. Abdo, Mohammed D. Haneef, and
.'
HomedH. Al-Sharji
222
AUTHOR INDEX
225
183
731-022: The Effect of C02
Shiro Oura
Eun-SikKim, Yang Liu, and
Mohamed Gamal El-Din
197
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