WASTE TREATMENT BUILDING SYSTEM DESCRIPTION DOCUMENT

SummaryThis paper describes a “system-building system”, ESSENTIAL-ATTENDING (E-ATTEND-ING), designed to assist in the implementation of expert systems which critique a physician’s plan for patient care. E-ATTENDING has been refined during the implementation of several developmental critiquing systems and may be applied in areas of medical management, patient workup, and differential diagnosis. E-ATTENDING is currently designed to help implement a class of critiquing systems in a subset of possible critiquing domains. It can also be augmented in various ways by interested users to accommodate critiquing domains with more complexity.

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Polarity and Variable Selection Heuristics for SAT-Based Anytime MaxSAT

Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation ◽

10.3233/sat-200126 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 17-22

Author(s):

Alexander Nadel

Keyword(s):

Variable Selection ◽

Open Source ◽

System Description

This paper is a system description of the anytime MaxSAT solver TT-Open-WBO-Inc, which won both of the weighted incomplete tracks of MaxSAT Evaluation 2019. We implemented the recently introduced polarity and variable selection heuristics, TORC and TSB, respectively, in the Open-WBO-Inc-BMO algorithm within the open-source anytime MaxSAT solver Open-WBO-Inc. As a result, the solver is substantially more efficient.

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222. Medical Waste Treatment Worker Health and Safety: A Recommended Approach to Risk Assessment

10.3320/1.2764888 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

E. Cole

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Waste Treatment ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Medical Waste ◽

Worker Health ◽

Worker Health And Safety

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Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Using Plasma Gasification with the Potential Production of Synthesis Gas (Syngas)

ICONIET PROCEEDING ◽

10.33555/iconiet.v2i1.4 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 8-12

Author(s):

Angela Hartati ◽

Diah Indriani Widiputri ◽

Arbi Dimyati

Keyword(s):

Waste Treatment ◽

Composition Analysis ◽

Energy Agency ◽

Plasma Gasification ◽

Gasification Process ◽

Solid Waste Treatment ◽

Pre Treatment ◽

Waste Separation ◽

Gasification Efficiency ◽

Arc Plasma Torch

This research was conducted for the purpose to overcome Indonesia waste problem. The samples are classified into garden waste, paper waste, wood, food waste, and MSW with objective to identify which type of waste give out more syngas since there is waste separation in Indonesia. All samples were treated by plasma gasification without pre-treatment (drying). Arc plasma torch used in this experiment was made by National Nuclear Energy Agency (BATAN) and used Argon as the gas source. Then the torch was connected to self-designed gasification chamber and gas washing system before injected into a gas bas for composition analysis. Another objective is to identify factors that may affect the gasification efficiency and the experiment shows that moisture content is not really affecting the efficiency but the duration of the process. The mass reduction of each samples were recorded, then the gas produced from the gasification process were analyzed. The result shows that food has the highest mass percentage reduced and producing the highest amount of hydrogen amongst other samples. However, treating MSW also produce considerably high amount of hydrogen. In conclusion, MSW direct treatment (without separation) using plasma gasification is feasible since it still produces desirable quality of syngas.

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Evaluating Risk After a Hazardous Waste Treatment Plant Released Persistent Organic Pollutants: Part 3, Aboriginal Health Risk and Impact

Case Studies in the Environment ◽

10.1525/cse.2018.001099 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tee L. Guidotti

Keyword(s):

Health Risk ◽

Organic Pollutants ◽

Persistent Organic Pollutants ◽

Waste Treatment ◽

Treatment Plant ◽

Aboriginal Health ◽

Treatment Center ◽

Hazardous Waste Treatment ◽

Waste Treatment Plant ◽

Health Canada

On 16 October 1996, a malfunction at the Swan Hills Special Waste Treatment Center (SHSWTC) in Alberta, Canada, released an undetermined quantity of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) into the atmosphere, including polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, and furans. The circumstances of exposure are detailed in Part 1, Background and Policy Issues. An ecologically based, staged health risk assessment was conducted in two parts with two levels of government as sponsors. The first, called the Swan Hills Study, is described in Part 2. A subsequent evaluation, described here in Part 3, was undertaken by Health Canada and focused exclusively on Aboriginal residents in three communities living near the lake, downwind, and downstream of the SHSWTC of the area. It was designed to isolate effects on members living a more traditional Aboriginal lifestyle. Aboriginal communities place great cultural emphasis on access to traditional lands and derive both cultural and health benefits from “country foods” such as venison (deer meat) and local fish. The suspicion of contamination of traditional lands and the food supply made risk management exceptionally difficult in this situation. The conclusion of both the Swan Hills and Lesser Slave Lake studies was that although POPs had entered the ecosystem, no effect could be demonstrated on human exposure or health outcome attributable to the incident. However, the value of this case study is in the detail of the process, not the ultimate dimensions of risk. The findings of the Lesser Slave Lake Study have not been published previously and are incomplete.

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