A short-term ecological study was conducted on the use of Agro-Forestry Species ( Leucaena leucocephala , Lam de. Wit and Bauhinia monandra ,Kurz) in enhancing water infiltration of a crude oil polluted terrestrial habitat. B. monandra treated soil had no significant effect on water infiltration. Water infiltration was retarded, with the time ranging between 3-43 minutes. While L. leucocephala treated soil had a significant infiltration rate ranging between 4-12 minutes. The implication of these for the environmental quality enhancement has also been buttressed by the ANOVA with B.monandra infiltration time significantly higher (3.85) than L. leucocephala (1.50) at P≤0.05 (3.49) level of significance. Keywords : Leucaena leucocephala, Bauhinia monandra , phytoremediation, crude oil, water infiltration Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 135-138
{"title":"Phytoremediation innovative technology (series 1): a short-term comparative analysis of remediation potential of macrophytic agro-forestry species in a water-habitat relationship of a crude oil polluted terrestrial habitat","authors":"N. Edwin-Wosu","doi":"10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2454","url":null,"abstract":"A short-term ecological study was conducted on the use of Agro-Forestry Species ( Leucaena leucocephala , Lam de. Wit and Bauhinia monandra ,Kurz) in enhancing water infiltration of a crude oil polluted terrestrial habitat. B. monandra treated soil had no significant effect on water infiltration. Water infiltration was retarded, with the time ranging between 3-43 minutes. While L. leucocephala treated soil had a significant infiltration rate ranging between 4-12 minutes. The implication of these for the environmental quality enhancement has also been buttressed by the ANOVA with B.monandra infiltration time significantly higher (3.85) than L. leucocephala (1.50) at P≤0.05 (3.49) level of significance. Keywords : Leucaena leucocephala, Bauhinia monandra , phytoremediation, crude oil, water infiltration Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 135-138","PeriodicalId":12569,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Environmental Sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":"135-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78925753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The study examined the socio-economic and environmental impact of oil exploration on agriculture with particular reference to Edjeba and Kokori communities of Delta State, Nigeria. Both communities are oil-producing communities and agriculture constitutes the primary income generating activities of the indigenes. A 15 item close-ended questionnaires was used to elicit responses from 100 animal, crop and fish farmers. This sample was made up of 55 and 45 farmers randomly drawn from Edjeba and Kokori communities respectively. The results showed that oil exploration and production activities have caused damage to farmlands and water bodies as a result of oil spillage leading to a decrease in agricultural output and hence the income earning capacity of the people has declined appreciably. The results also showed an increase in the occurrence of health hazard, air/noise pollution and heightened deforestation in these communities. It is recommended that regular inspection of oil pipelines, monitoring of oil fields, adequate and timely compensation payments, provision of farm inputs including agricultural extension services and improved seeds be made available to host communities for improved agricultural production. Keywords : socio-economic effects, environment impact, oil production, agriculture, Delta State Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 171-176
{"title":"Socio–economic and environmental impact of crude oil exploration and production on agricultural production: a case study of Edjeba and Kokori communities in Delta State of Nigeria","authors":"O. Agbogidi, B. Okonta, D. Dolor","doi":"10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2461","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined the socio-economic and environmental impact of oil exploration on agriculture with particular reference to Edjeba and Kokori communities of Delta State, Nigeria. Both communities are oil-producing communities and agriculture constitutes the primary income generating activities of the indigenes. A 15 item close-ended questionnaires was used to elicit responses from 100 animal, crop and fish farmers. This sample was made up of 55 and 45 farmers randomly drawn from Edjeba and Kokori communities respectively. The results showed that oil exploration and production activities have caused damage to farmlands and water bodies as a result of oil spillage leading to a decrease in agricultural output and hence the income earning capacity of the people has declined appreciably. The results also showed an increase in the occurrence of health hazard, air/noise pollution and heightened deforestation in these communities. It is recommended that regular inspection of oil pipelines, monitoring of oil fields, adequate and timely compensation payments, provision of farm inputs including agricultural extension services and improved seeds be made available to host communities for improved agricultural production. Keywords : socio-economic effects, environment impact, oil production, agriculture, Delta State Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 171-176","PeriodicalId":12569,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Environmental Sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":"171-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76231558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The present work involves the study of heavy metals concentrations in the biophysical environment of a Ni-Cu mining and smelting area in Botswana, Africa. Samples of tailings dump, soils, particulate air matter (PAM), Imbrasia belina , and Colophospermum mopane were analysed for concentrations of heavy metals. Elements analysed were those associated with Ni-Cu mining and smelting included Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Fe, Ni, Se and Zn, which were likely to be found in Ni-Cu orebodies and released into the biophysical environment through mining and smelting activities. Results depicted higher concentration levels of heavy metals in samples obtained close to the mine and the concentrator/smelter plant compared to samples obtained further away from where mining and smelting activities are being carried out. It is anticipated that these findings may be useful in interpreting biophysical environments where Ni-Cu mining and smelting activities are being conducted. Keywords : Selebi Phikwe, biophysical, heavy metals, environment Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 97–110
{"title":"Heavy metals concentrations in the biophysical environment around the Ni-Cu mine and the smelter/concentrator plant, Selebi Phikwe, Botswana","authors":"G. Ekosse","doi":"10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2448","url":null,"abstract":"The present work involves the study of heavy metals concentrations in the biophysical environment of a Ni-Cu mining and smelting area in Botswana, Africa. Samples of tailings dump, soils, particulate air matter (PAM), Imbrasia belina , and Colophospermum mopane were analysed for concentrations of heavy metals. Elements analysed were those associated with Ni-Cu mining and smelting included Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Fe, Ni, Se and Zn, which were likely to be found in Ni-Cu orebodies and released into the biophysical environment through mining and smelting activities. Results depicted higher concentration levels of heavy metals in samples obtained close to the mine and the concentrator/smelter plant compared to samples obtained further away from where mining and smelting activities are being carried out. It is anticipated that these findings may be useful in interpreting biophysical environments where Ni-Cu mining and smelting activities are being conducted. Keywords : Selebi Phikwe, biophysical, heavy metals, environment Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 97–110","PeriodicalId":12569,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Environmental Sciences","volume":"4 1","pages":"97-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89185653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eight insects were identified as pests of the refuse in the five major towns in Ondo State, Nigeria. The insects are: ant ( Psilocephala aldrichi conquillet ), lady bird beetle ( Hyppodamia convergen ), honey bee ( Apis mellifera ), woodroach ( Parcoblatasp ), cockroach ( Blatta orientallis ), housefly ( Musca domestica ), dung beetle ( Canthon pilularis ) and wood cricket ( Nemobius sylverstris ). From these Insects, fourteen bacteria and thirteen fungi species were recovered and identified. The internal part (gut) of the insect-pests were found to contain more bacterial load than the external part while fungal load was more on the external parts than the internal. Among the identified insect-pests, Canthon Pilularis was found to be more implicated of harbouring bacteria while Nemobius sythestris harbored more fungal load than other. Musca domestica had the highest population of 61.5% while Hypodamia convergen had the least of 0.6%. However, the recovery of microorganisms from the insects in the surveyed refuse, highlights microbial presence and species in the environment where they were collected. There is of course the tendency of these insects contaminating foods and other materials to effect transmission of disease(s) to man, animal and plants. Keywords : microbial, insect-pests, refuse, towns, survey Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 131-134
{"title":"Microbial survey of insect-pests on refuse in five major towns of Ondo State, Nigeria","authors":"F. C. Akharaiyi, O. F. Omoya","doi":"10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2453","url":null,"abstract":"Eight insects were identified as pests of the refuse in the five major towns in Ondo State, Nigeria. The insects are: ant ( Psilocephala aldrichi conquillet ), lady bird beetle ( Hyppodamia convergen ), honey bee ( Apis mellifera ), woodroach ( Parcoblatasp ), cockroach ( Blatta orientallis ), housefly ( Musca domestica ), dung beetle ( Canthon pilularis ) and wood cricket ( Nemobius sylverstris ). From these Insects, fourteen bacteria and thirteen fungi species were recovered and identified. The internal part (gut) of the insect-pests were found to contain more bacterial load than the external part while fungal load was more on the external parts than the internal. Among the identified insect-pests, Canthon Pilularis was found to be more implicated of harbouring bacteria while Nemobius sythestris harbored more fungal load than other. Musca domestica had the highest population of 61.5% while Hypodamia convergen had the least of 0.6%. However, the recovery of microorganisms from the insects in the surveyed refuse, highlights microbial presence and species in the environment where they were collected. There is of course the tendency of these insects contaminating foods and other materials to effect transmission of disease(s) to man, animal and plants. Keywords : microbial, insect-pests, refuse, towns, survey Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 131-134","PeriodicalId":12569,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Environmental Sciences","volume":"16 2 1","pages":"131-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85441471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Increase in demand for cement has been created as a result of rapid industrialization. Cement production is not without its environmental pollution problems. The pollutants released in a cement industry include oxides of nitrogen, and sulphur, and particulates and volatile organic compounds. Elevated particulate concentrations in conjunction with oxides of sulphur is responsible for rises in respiratory tract diseases. To easily predict maximum ground level particulate concentrations in the atmosphere,models have been generated in this work. Six models having coefficient of determination (r 2 ) values ranging between 0.9735 to 0.9976 have been developed for a range of weather conditions for predicting maximum ground level particulate concentrations as a function pf chimney height. Keywords : particulates, cement industry, maximum ground level concentration, gaussian plume model Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 147-149
{"title":"Modelling of groundlevel particulate concentration from an industrial chimney","authors":"N. E. Nwaiwu, S. Kwaghe","doi":"10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2456","url":null,"abstract":"Increase in demand for cement has been created as a result of rapid industrialization. Cement production is not without its environmental pollution problems. The pollutants released in a cement industry include oxides of nitrogen, and sulphur, and particulates and volatile organic compounds. Elevated particulate concentrations in conjunction with oxides of sulphur is responsible for rises in respiratory tract diseases. To easily predict maximum ground level particulate concentrations in the atmosphere,models have been generated in this work. Six models having coefficient of determination (r 2 ) values ranging between 0.9735 to 0.9976 have been developed for a range of weather conditions for predicting maximum ground level particulate concentrations as a function pf chimney height. Keywords : particulates, cement industry, maximum ground level concentration, gaussian plume model Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 147-149","PeriodicalId":12569,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Environmental Sciences","volume":"17 1","pages":"147-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87297068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper assessed major air pollutants resulting from gas flaring using rainwater. Rainwater samples were collected during the dry and wet seasons (2002/2003) and analyzed for physico-chemical characteristics such as, pH, TDS, conductivity, NO 3- , CO 3 2- and SO 4 2- . The mean values for the studied parameters during the dry season were pH (5.3) conductivity (20.50 µs/cm), TDS (17.13 mg/L), NO 3- (23 mg/L), S0 4 2- (1.41/ mg/L) and CO 3 2- (16.97 mg/L) and that for wet season were; pH (6.1), conductivity (19.60µs/cm), TDS (16.56mg/L), NO 3- (24mg/L), CO 3 2- (16.13mg/L) SO 4 2- (1.29mg/L). The mean levels of conductivity, TDS, and SO 4 2- were within statutory safe limits, while that of pH, CO 3 2- and NO 3- were above the safe limits specified by the Federal Ministry of Environment guidelines and standards for drinking water quality. Keywords : rainwater, gas flare, pollutants, monitoring, water quality Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 123–126
{"title":"Monitoring air pollutants due to gas flaring using rain water","authors":"A. Rim-Rukeh, Go Ikiafa, Pa Okokoyo","doi":"10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2451","url":null,"abstract":"The paper assessed major air pollutants resulting from gas flaring using rainwater. Rainwater samples were collected during the dry and wet seasons (2002/2003) and analyzed for physico-chemical characteristics such as, pH, TDS, conductivity, NO 3- , CO 3 2- and SO 4 2- . The mean values for the studied parameters during the dry season were pH (5.3) conductivity (20.50 µs/cm), TDS (17.13 mg/L), NO 3- (23 mg/L), S0 4 2- (1.41/ mg/L) and CO 3 2- (16.97 mg/L) and that for wet season were; pH (6.1), conductivity (19.60µs/cm), TDS (16.56mg/L), NO 3- (24mg/L), CO 3 2- (16.13mg/L) SO 4 2- (1.29mg/L). The mean levels of conductivity, TDS, and SO 4 2- were within statutory safe limits, while that of pH, CO 3 2- and NO 3- were above the safe limits specified by the Federal Ministry of Environment guidelines and standards for drinking water quality. Keywords : rainwater, gas flare, pollutants, monitoring, water quality Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 123–126","PeriodicalId":12569,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Environmental Sciences","volume":"20 1","pages":"123-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73780241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The treatment of water is carried out to make the available water meet the standards for its intended use. Such use may be for drinking and other household needs, industries,livestock rearing or fisheries etc. poor quality water is commonly treated to ensure potability. Potable water should be free from unpleasant tastes and odour, have a good appearance and be suitable for domestic as well as a wide range of industrial purposes. Continuous statistical distributions are usually applied to engineering situations. A goodness-of-fit test is usually necessary to determine the fitness of a distribution to specific data. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test which is a widely used goodness-of-fit measure was used in the work. A total of four continuous distributions namely normal, log normal, gamma and weibuill were employed for data obtained from effluents of coagulation/clarifying process, (settled water), filtration (filtered water) as well as chlorination process (final water). For the settled water, colour and turbidity are lognormally distributed while pH is normally distributed; filtered water has colour, turbidity, free chlorine and total chlorine log normally distributed while pH has gamma distribution for best fit. The log normal distribution fitted all the parameters undertaken for the final water. Keywords : water, treatment plant, clarifier, filter, distributions Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 151-154
{"title":"Fitting probability distributions to component water quality data from a treatment plant","authors":"E. Nwaiwu, A. Bitrus","doi":"10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2457","url":null,"abstract":"The treatment of water is carried out to make the available water meet the standards for its intended use. Such use may be for drinking and other household needs, industries,livestock rearing or fisheries etc. poor quality water is commonly treated to ensure potability. Potable water should be free from unpleasant tastes and odour, have a good appearance and be suitable for domestic as well as a wide range of industrial purposes. Continuous statistical distributions are usually applied to engineering situations. A goodness-of-fit test is usually necessary to determine the fitness of a distribution to specific data. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test which is a widely used goodness-of-fit measure was used in the work. A total of four continuous distributions namely normal, log normal, gamma and weibuill were employed for data obtained from effluents of coagulation/clarifying process, (settled water), filtration (filtered water) as well as chlorination process (final water). For the settled water, colour and turbidity are lognormally distributed while pH is normally distributed; filtered water has colour, turbidity, free chlorine and total chlorine log normally distributed while pH has gamma distribution for best fit. The log normal distribution fitted all the parameters undertaken for the final water. Keywords : water, treatment plant, clarifier, filter, distributions Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 151-154","PeriodicalId":12569,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Environmental Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"151-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79794483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This research attempts to investigate and examine the influence of poverty on forest/forest management in the rural areas of Mbarakpa, Igbofia, Uyanga, Oban, Nsan and Obutong in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State. The population of this study comprised the total number of 620 household heads in the six communities. The primary objective of this study was to investigate factors responsible for high poverty rate in the rural areas that has made the application of forest management policies unworkable. Analysis of data from the 150 sampled household heads in the study area revealed that the level of poverty and general standard of living in the study area are highly deplorable, leading to high rate of forest exploitative drive. The study further indicated that majority (68.67 percent) of the sampled respondents had no gainful employment, hence the propensity for forest resource exploitation. It showed further that about 77.33 percent of the sampled respondents were ignorant of the forest bye-laws. Based on these findings, it was recommended that the rural people in the study area should be empowered to take active part in sustainable management of the forest as this would help to reduce the level of poverty. Also other sources of income and nutrition (example, fish and snail farming) apart from forest resources should be developed and encouraged. Keywords : rural poverty, forest management policies Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 177-180
{"title":"Influence of poverty on forest / forest management policies of Cross River National Park, Akamkpa","authors":"E. M. Ushie","doi":"10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2462","url":null,"abstract":"This research attempts to investigate and examine the influence of poverty on forest/forest management in the rural areas of Mbarakpa, Igbofia, Uyanga, Oban, Nsan and Obutong in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State. The population of this study comprised the total number of 620 household heads in the six communities. The primary objective of this study was to investigate factors responsible for high poverty rate in the rural areas that has made the application of forest management policies unworkable. Analysis of data from the 150 sampled household heads in the study area revealed that the level of poverty and general standard of living in the study area are highly deplorable, leading to high rate of forest exploitative drive. The study further indicated that majority (68.67 percent) of the sampled respondents had no gainful employment, hence the propensity for forest resource exploitation. It showed further that about 77.33 percent of the sampled respondents were ignorant of the forest bye-laws. Based on these findings, it was recommended that the rural people in the study area should be empowered to take active part in sustainable management of the forest as this would help to reduce the level of poverty. Also other sources of income and nutrition (example, fish and snail farming) apart from forest resources should be developed and encouraged. Keywords : rural poverty, forest management policies Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 177-180","PeriodicalId":12569,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Environmental Sciences","volume":"102 1","pages":"177-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75733057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper presents practical ways of generating energy from solid waste as a means of solving the problem of solid waste disposal which is confronting the major cities in Nigeria and also providing alternative energy source to supplement the high cost and fast depleting conventional sources of energy. It also discussed the conventional incineration, gasification and pyrolysis processes in which energy may be recovered from solid wastes and put to useful purposes. Keywords : solid waste, energy, waste disposal, incineration Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 111–114
{"title":"Solid waste as an alternative energy source and a means of solving waste disposal problem in Nigeria","authors":"Bukola Olalekan Bolaji","doi":"10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJES.V4I2.2449","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents practical ways of generating energy from solid waste as a means of solving the problem of solid waste disposal which is confronting the major cities in Nigeria and also providing alternative energy source to supplement the high cost and fast depleting conventional sources of energy. It also discussed the conventional incineration, gasification and pyrolysis processes in which energy may be recovered from solid wastes and put to useful purposes. Keywords : solid waste, energy, waste disposal, incineration Global Journal of Environmental Sciences Vol. 4(2) 2005: 111–114","PeriodicalId":12569,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Environmental Sciences","volume":"24 1","pages":"111-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74785751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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