Proceedings of the

2010 International Conference on

Environmental Science and Technology

23-25 April 2010

Bangkok, Thailand

PROCEEDINGS

Editors:

Saji Baby and Parvinder Singh Sandhu

JLRESEARCH PUBLISHING

Contents

Preface v

Organizing Committees vii

Insect Diversity in Cotton Agro-ecosystem 1

/. M. Mari, M. A. Rustamani and M. K. Lohar

An Innovative Approach to Sanitary Landfill Site Selection by 5

GIS — Case Study

Arash Rezaee, Homayoon Fakhim Ahmadi and Qolamreza Miraki

Modeling of Carbon Monoxide at an Intersection using HYROAD—A Case 9

Example from Tehran

Mohsen Saeedi and Saba Oladnia

Treatment of Spent Regenerant from Miex® Doc Process with the Use of 14

Pressure Driven Processes

Malgorzata Kabsch-Korbutoivicz

Removal of Hexavalent Chromium from Wastewater by Reduction with Steel 19

Wool and Subsequent Precipitation

Sampa Chakrabarti, Pallavi Mitra, Debasish Sarkar and Sekhar Bhattacherjee

A Study on the Role of Ornamental and Greenhouse Plants on Reducing Air 24

Pollution in Closed Environment

Siamak Boudaghpaur and Shervin Hashemi

Sensitivity Analysis of River Flood Routing Model to Input Data 29

Ehsan Ranaee, Mohammad Mahmoodian and Saeed Rahati

Esterification of acids from Crude Jatropha Curcas Seed Oil using Clamp-On 34

Tubular Reactor

Darwin Sebayang, Pudji Untoro, Achmad Praptijanto and Kamarul Azhar Kamarudin

Transesterification Process from Jatropha Curcas using Ultrasound Clamp 40

Reactor

Darwin Sebayang, Pudji Untoro, Achmad Praptijanto and Abdul Azis

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Development of Protected Areas because of Biodiversity with Ecoremediations 46

Mojca Kokot, Ana Vovk Korze and Nina Globovnik

An Electrochemical Degradation of Phenol using Rotating Ti/Sn02-Sb Anode 51

R. Rajasekaran and Rm. Meyyappan

Biodiversity of Medically Important Mosquitoes Obtained from Urban, 56

Sub-urban and Forested Areas in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, MalaysiaI. M. Nurin-Zulkifli, C. D. Chen, H. L. Lee, K. Faezah, M. R. Saiful,

A. A. Izzul, A. G. Abdullah and M. Sofian-Azirun

Estimation of Kinetic Rates in a Wastewater Treatment Bioprocess 60

Dan Seliqteanu, Monica Roman, Emil Petre and Eugen Bobaqu

Modelling of Combustion Processes using Bond Graphs 65

Monica Roman, Eugen Boba$u, Dan Seliqtean and Dorin §endrescu

Sustainable Development: A Case Study of an Envisioned University Town of 70

Kampar, Malaysia

Siew-Mun Ang

Donnan Dialysis with Anion-Exchange Membrane for Removal of Bromate 75

Ions from Water

]acekA. Wisniewski and Sylwia Kliber

Application of Headspace-solid Phase Microextraction followed by Gas 80

Chromatography-mass Spectrometry to Determine Short-chain

Monocarboxylic Acids in Cattle farm Wastewater and Waste Landfill Leachates

Anna Band, Marta Wasieleivska and Bogdan Zygmunt

Determination of Volatile Fatty Acids in Municipal Wastewater and Leachates 85

from Sewage Sludge Allotments and Compost Piles using Direct AqueousInjection Gas Chromatography Preceded by Distillation Based Sample Cleanup

Bogdan Zygmunt and Anna Banel

Concentration of Organic Dye Solutions with the Use of Ceramic Membranes 90

Katarzyna Majewska-Nowak, Joanna Kawiecka-Skoioron and

Malgorzata Motyka

The Query of Plant Four Species on the Verge of Extinction in Southern Forest 95

of Caspian Sea

Alireza Eslami and Mahmvud Roshani

Effects of Acoustics on Desorption of Zinc from Illite and Silica 99

Aneel Kumar and Jiro Takemura

Single and Multi-Component Biosorption of Copper and Zinc Ions usingMicroalgal Resin

R. Ramsenthil and Rm. Meyyappan

ORP and pH Relationships of Sediments and Water in Sri Lankan Lagoonsafter 2004 December Tsunami and their Effects on Groundwater

Daham Jayawardana, Amamsooriya Pitawala and Hiroaki Ishiga

Environmental Sustainability In Cities of Under-Developed Economies In The

Tropics Case Study of Mbale in Uganda

Barnabas Nawangwe and Catherine Kimani

Bone Char and Ozone In A Heterogeneous Catalytic Ozonation Process to

Degrade Humic Acids in Aqueous Solutions

Ghorban Asgari, Sayed Bagher Mortazavi, Sayed Jamaleddin Hashemian and

Gholamreza Moussavi

Photocatalytic Removal of Rhodamine B from Aqueous Solution over

Fe203/MCM-41 Composites under UV Light Irradiation

Liping Zhang, Shi Yuan, Feng Hu, Haifu Deng, Weidong Fang, Runsheng Zhang,Xiaofeng Chang and Lek Sikong

Environmental Impact of Landfilling Verses Composting in Tehran: A Life

Cycle Assessment

M. A. Abduli, A. Naghib, Mansoor Yonesi and AH Akbari

Wind Mapping in Wind Energy DevelopmentEva Vejvodova, Michal Navorka and Olga Tumova

Adsorption of Iron(II) from Aqueous Solution by Sodium Hydroxide Rice

Husk: Response Surface Methodology and Isotherm Study

Monik Kasman and Shaliza Ibrahim

Decolourization and COD Removal of Azo Dye Solution by RepeatedOzonation and Biodegradation

Fahmi, Apipah Ariffin, Suhaida Mohamed Arshad, Che Zulzikrami Azner Abidin and

Nazerry Rosmady Rahmat

The Accountancy of Expenses of Production and the Calculus of Costs in the

Main Activity of Construction and AssemblingCucui Ion, Cucui Gabriel, Hurjui loan and Obreja Camelia

Plant Uptake of some Pharmaceuticals from Fertilized Soils

Merike Lillenberg, Karin Kipper, Koit Herodes and Lembit Nei

A Comparative Study of Heavy Metals and Sulfate of the Mining Wastewater

Islam-Ud-Din, Sardar Khan and Cong Daqiang

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The Distribution and Source Identification of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the 173

Sediment in Korea

Jung Keun Oh and Jong Guk Kim

Response Surface Methodological Approach for Optimizing Removal of 178

Ni (II) from Aqueous Solution using Palm Shell Activated Carbon

Inas F. Baker, Shaliza Ibrahim and W. M. A. W. Daud

Estimation of Total Convertible Energy from Combustible Waste and Status of 183

Waste-to-Energy Technologies in Korea

Yong-Chil Seo, Sung-Jin Cho, Hae-Young Jung, Young-Tai Choi,

Jong-In Dong and Yong Seung Yoon

Transesterification Of Jatropha Oil using Heterogenous Solid Catalyts Base 188

Bentonite

Egi Agustian, Wuryaningsih S. R., Darwin Sebayang and

Achmad Praptijanto

Removal of Chromium and Organic Matters from Industrial Wastewater using 193

the ChromeBac SystemRaihan Musa, Zainul Akmar Zakaria, Wan Azlina Ahmad Mohd Saufi Mohd Sidek,

AH Reza Khasim and Shaik Muhammad Hasbullah Shaik Ismail

Study Regarding Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystem at an Mountain Areas in 198

Romania

Daniela Cristiana Akxandrescu

Dewatering Waste Activated Sludge using Dissolved-Gas Flotation Followed 203

by CentrifugationMedhat El-Zahar

Effect of Hydrophilic Polymer in Physicochemical Properties of Biodiesel so 210that it Becomes Friendlier to the Environment with its Use

Constantinos G. Tsanaktsidis, Stavros G. Christidis and George T. Tzilantoni

The Use of Fuzzy Logic to Determine the Sustainability in the Wood Industry 215

in the Amazon RegionCarlos Maneschy, Andre Montenegro and Fatima Leal

Potential Application of the ChromeBac Sludge as Supplement for Balsam 220

Growth

Norsuhada Abdul Karim, Shaik Muhammad Hasbullah Shaik Ismail,Zainul Akmar Zakaria and Wan Azlina Ahmad

Ethical Technologies of the Environmental Management 225

Zoya Apevalova

Waste Water Impact Assessment of Shaida Tourist Complex

Sam Hayeripour

Heavy Metal from Contaminated Sediments of the Nhue River and Soil in the

Farm Land Area

Nguyen Thi Lan Huong and Masami Ohtsubo

Spatial Mapping Of The Dengue Risk Areas To Improved Environmental

Health Risk Identification in Penang, Malaysia through the GeographicInformation System (GIS) Application

Aziz Shafie

Potential Impact of Pollution by Oil Spills On Coastal Fades In Pulau Pangkor,Malaysia

Jasmin Saw, Chow Weng Sum, Bernard J. Pierson, Ani Aiza Asha'ari and

A. Aziz Omar

The Heavy Metals Absorption of Some Wild Growing Mushrooms from

Carpathian Mountain

Carmen Cristina Elekes, Gheorghe Ionita and Mihail Dumitru

A Database Management System (DBMS) for Monogenean TaxonomyA. Arpah, Sarinder K. K. S. and L. H. S. Lim

Effect of HZSM-5 Zeolite on Tar Reduction for Biomass Palm Shell Gasification

in Fixed Bed Reactor

L. F. B. Chin, A. Gorin, F. Twaiq and H. B Chua

Growth Kinetics of Polyhydroxyalkanoates Production by Ralstonia Eutrophawith Crude Glycerol from Biodiesel By-Product

Sasithorn Kongruang

Scanning Antimicrobial Activity of Seed Proteins from Local Thai Plants in

Leguminosae and Solanaceae

Tanawat Chanmapunrungsi, Sudarat Phungphay and Benjamaporn Wonganu

Oil Palm Bio-fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites-Effect Alkaline

Peroxide on Mechanical and Thermal Properties

S. S. Suradi, R. M. Yunus, M. D. H. Beg, Z. A. M. Yusofand A. K. Lovely

Effect of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant on Greenhouse Gas Emission of Power

Plants Sector in Islamic Republic of Iran

M. Abbaspour, M. Monavari, A. R. Karbassi, N. Kargari

Renewable Hydrogen Energy Option for Pakistan

Irfan Ahmad Gondal

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Climate Change & Risk Assessment: The Oral Health Perspective 299

Sunali Khanna

Simulating of River sedimentation 303

Mehdi Delphi and Seyed Majid Mosaddad

The Effects of Variable Inflow Hydrographs on Water Saving in Furrow 307

Irrigation using Zero-inertia Model

Bita Moravejalahkami, Behrouz Mostafazadeh-Fard, Manouchehr Haidarpour,Fariborz Abbasi, S. Saeid Eslamian and Ernesto Vazquez- Fernandez

An Overview on the Best Clean Energy Source — Subtle Energy 313

Subramanya Krishna Bhat

Analysis of Energy Efficiency Towards Building Envelope between Main 315

Library of University Malaya Building and Library of Uitm Perak BuildingA. H. Anas Zafirol, A. H. Al-Hafzan and W. M. Wan Nur Syazwani

Effect of Effluent Flow Rate on Nickel Removal Efficiency from Plating 321

Industry Effluent using Bagasse in column studies

B. L. Chavan

Effect of PH on Nickel Removal Efficiency from Plating Industry Effluent using 324

BagasseB. L. Chavan and S. S. Lomate

Photo-catalytic Treatment of Spent Wash with CaO 328

B.L.Chavan, S. H. Pawar S. S.Lomate and V, P. Dhulap

Poor Indoor Air Quality in a Factory Building with a Separate Ventilation 332

System

Hsiu-Ling Chen, Mu-Chen Lu and Chia-I Chan

Kinetic Evaluation of Palm Oil Mill Effluent POME with Membrane 336

An Aerobic System (MAS)

Abdurahman H. Nour, Rosli M. Yunus, Azhary H. Nour, S. Vissaliny andV. Rajaletchumy

A Novel and Economical Kite Anemometric Analysis for Velocity 342

Measurements in a Convective Boundary Layer along a Reinforced Coastline

in PondicherryR. Jha, R. Raj, J. Ekhlas, A. Siravuru, S. Sarkar, R. Bardhan and S. Ghosh

Lipid Peroxidation and Enzymatic Activity Levels in Shrimp Macrobrachium 347

Nipponense (De Hann, 1849) from Al-Qurna and Garmat Ali River.

Rafid M. Karim

Factors Influencing the Heavy Metal Concentration in Human Temporary-Teeth

Daniela Ionita, Mariana Prodana, Andrei Stoian, Mirela Dilea and Ioana Demetrescu

Monitoring Efficiency of Hydroxyapatite Formation on Ti Alloys as a Function

of Elaboration Conditions

Daniela Ionita, Mariana Prodana and Ioana Demetrescu

Phytoplankton Bloom Modeling with System Dynamics Approach— A Case

Study: Karkheh Reservoir in Iran

Mohammad Reza Samaei, Seyed Bagher Mortazavi and Mojtaba Gharavi

Remediation of Cyanide Contaminated Soil using Soil Washing, Chemical

Oxidation and Precipitation

Jae Gon Kim, Jung Hwa Lee and Young Woo Choi

Biosorption of Copper(II) by Pleurotus Ostreatus Fungal Biosorbent

Chia-Chay Toy, Hong-Hooi Lievo, Soon-Kong Yong, Salmijah SurifandSuhaimi Abdul-Talib

Investigation on Qualitative Characteristics of Compost and BiocompostFertilizers, the Effective Means for Development of Wastes Management, Iran

Iman Homayoonnezhad, Paria Amirian and Issa Piri

The Potential of Waste Water Sludge to Stabilize the Soil in Uitm, Shah Alam,

MalaysiaW. M. Wan Nur Syazwani, A. H. Anas Zafirol and A. H. Al-Hafzan

To Assess Factors Influencing the Application of Information and

Communication Technologies in Agricultural Higher Education System of Iran

Seyed famal F.Hosseini, Mohammad Reza Soleimanpour andMaryam Omidi Najafabadi

The Use of Oxidizing Agents for Treating Antisense-based Pharmaceutical

Products.

Carol Robinson, Gary Walsh and Thomas. F O'Dwyer

The Development of Drying Technology for Collapse-prone Eucalyptus Woodas Eco-material

Lin Yang, Honghai Liu, Kazuo Hayashi and Masatoshi Sugimori

A Comparison of ANN Architecture Towards Predicting CyanobacteriaAbundance at Tropical Lake and Wetlands

Jin Heng Oh, Sorayya Malek, Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahmad and Aishah Salleh

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Survey of Health and Safety Risk in Reduction and Production Unit of Bandar 407

Abbas Al-Mahdi Aluminum Factory using Process Failure Mode & Effect

Analysis Method (PFMEA)

Seyed AH }ozi and Sahar Rezaian

Implementation of Health, Safety & Environment System in Procurement — 413

Case study: Procurement of Goods and Drilling Equipment in Tehran

Manufacturing Support and Procurement Co.

Sahar Rezaian and Seyed AH Jozi

Influence of Oxygen, pH, and Temperature on E. coli Lethality in Ultrasound 417

Teerada Bubphamala, Kanuengnit Chuienkha and Lukkhana Benjawan

Variability in Puntius Binotatus Valenciennes Collected from Three 421

Geographically Isolated Rivers

Mark Anthony ]. Torres, Cesar G. Demayo and Joey Rey B. Cartajenas

Geometric Morphometric Analysis in Determining Left-Right Asymmetry in 426

the Shape of the First Closed Marginal Cell of the Rice Black Bug, ScotinophaCoarctata Collected from Different Geographical Locations in the Philippines

Mark Anthony J. Torres, Alberto T. Barrion, Ravindra Joshi, Leocadio Sebastian and

Cesar G. Demayo

Species Diversity of Dragonflies in Different Environmental Landscapes 432

Cesar G. Demayo and Mark Anthony J. Torres

Community Structures of Dragonflies in Different Environmental Landscapes 437

Cesar G. Demayo and Mark Anthony J. Torres

The Use of Gis In Mapping and Analysis of Dengue Fever and Dengue 443

Hemorrhagic Fever In Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaSholehah Ismail, Azizan Abu Samah, Wan Yusoff Wan Sulaiman and Aziz Shafie

"Visnu" — Vital Initiatives for Sustainable Natural Units, A Model for 448

Environment SustainabilityP. Asha Parekh, T. K. Parimala Vaishnavi and B. K. Acharya P.

Effect of Pollutant Loading Changes on Water Quality in Lam Takhong River, 453

Thailand

Nares Chuersuwan, Siraporn Potivichayanont, Subuntith Nimrat and

Tanunchai Wannasook

Simultaneous Removal of Hexavalent Chromium and Sulfate from Water 458

using Nanofiltration

Behnam Barikbin, Seyed Bagher Mortazavi and Seyed Gholamreza Moussavi

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Establishing Relation between Plastics Dependence and Gender Bending 462

Behavior among Pre-school Boys along a Philippine Shoreline CommunityBrenda B. Tumala and Joemil G. Galve

Multi-Criteria Decision Modelling for Watershed Management— A Case 465

Study in The Aek Silang Sub Watershed

Hotmauli Sianturi and Zulkifli Nasution

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Waste Management in City of Karaj, Iran 471

Leila Amiri, Mohammad Ramezanianpour and Mohammadreza Farahani

The Potentiometry of the Biogas Recovery from Rural Waste in Yazd County in 478

Iran

Leila Amiri, Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Mohammad AH Abdoli and

Mansoor Yonesi

Transesterification of Croton Megalocarpus Fatty Acids using Sulfated tin 483

Oxide as Solid CatalystGerald Kafuku, Man Kee Lam, Jibrail Kansedo, Keat Teong Lee and Makame Mbarawa

Diversity and Social Interaction of Birds While Foraging in Mudflat Areas of 488

Kuala Gula, Perak, Malaysia

Nura Muna Abdul Halim, Nurdiyana Sumri and Rosli Ramli

Effect of H3PO4 to Et3P04 Ratio on Synthesis of Cellulose Phosphate from Oil 493

Palm Biomass

R. Rohaizu, W. D Wanrosli and G. Arniza

Cellulose Phosphate as Biomaterial: Preliminary Study 498

M. K. Mohamad Haafiz, W. D. Wan Rosli, S. M. Azman and R. Rohaizu

Indigenous Distributed Relational Biodiversity Databases 503

K. K, S. Sarinder, M. A. Majid ,T. H. Chua, A. F. Merican, Dimyati K. Ibrahim H.,

K. K. S. Baljit and L. H. S. Lim

Detecting and Environmental Assessment of Spatial Changes of 509

"Hamun-E-Saberi" Lagoon using Satellite Imagery and GIS

Mohsen Ahadnejad Reveshty, Yoshihisa Maruyama and Alireza Rabet

Sewage sludge: An Important Resource for Sustainable Agriculture and its 514

Environmental ImplicationsM. Jamil, M. Sharif Zia and M. Qasim Khan

Study of Exchange Nitroxin Biofertilizer (Azospirillum and Azotobacter) in 519

Rice Cultivars, A Step Toward Sustainable AgricultureNaser Mohammadian Roshan, Hamidreza Bozorgi, Moral Moradi and

Ebrahim Azarpour

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Vertical Structure of PH in Coastal Waters of Kiyashahr, North of Iran 524

Siamak Jamshidi, M. D. Noordin Bin Abu Bakar and MarziehYousefi

Addressing the Challenges of Carbonaceous Waste Disposal and Poultry 529

'In-House Ammonia Volatilization

Prasanthmjan Mohan and Doraisamy Ponnusamy

Effects of Mining Activities on Drinking Water Quality, Case Study of Sungun 534

Mine, Iran

Touraj Nasrabadi, Gholamreza Nabi Bidhendi and Abdolreza Karbassi

Analysis of Farmers' Behaviors and the Risk of Exposure to the Vector of 539Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Tunisia

Issam Nouiri, Jamila Ghrab, ]aber Daaboub and Mohamed Kouni Chahed

Toxin Production of Toxic Strain Microcystis Aeruginosa in the Presence of 544

Non-Toxic Strain

Hul Seingheng, Analiza Rollon, Davin Uy and Kiohiko Nakasaki

Characterization of Biochar for Soil Carbon Pool Enrichment: Review on a Way 550

to Carbon Sequestration

Parul Sundha and lima Melkania

Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Metal Contaminants in Pisum Sativum 555

L. Grown in Tannery Effluent

Nandkishor More, Renu Bala, Namita Dhusia, Dhiraj Kumar and

R. Venkatesh Kumar

Revegetation of Fly Ash Landfills using Sesbania Cannabina Ritz as Green 561

Manure: Selection of Organic Amendments

A.K. Gupta, R. Gupta, S. Sinha and B-K.Lee

A Method for Determining Landscape Changes on the Example of Georgia's 565

LandscapesDali Nikolaishvili, Lia Matchavariani and Roman Maisuradze

Seasonal Changes in Some Qualitative Parameters of Groundwater in Farouj 570Plain North East of Iran

Hadi Ghorbani and Samira Mohammadi Sadabad

Studies on Degradation of Syntan used in Leather Tanning Process using 574

Ozone

T. B. Rema, Parivalla and R. Alwar Ramanujam

Assessment of Mangrove Forest Degradation Through Remote Sensing: 579

A Case Study of Karachi and Its Environse

A. Hameed and S. Baby

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Suitability of Sand from Coastal Burrow Pit for Road Construction and Impact 586

on Landscape Geomorphology of Kuwait Bay

S. Baby, M. A. Al-Sarazvi., S. A. Abraham and R. Rasheed

Effective Environmental Factors on Distribution of Grass Species in Taleghan 593

Rangelands of Tehran Province (Iran)

M. A. Zare Chahouki, A. Tavili, H. Azarnivand and A. Zare Chahouki

Comparison of Univariate & Multivariate Geostatistical Approach to Map 598

Precipitation in Arid Region of Iran — Case study: Central Kavir Basin

M. A. Zare Chahouki and A. Zare Chahouki

Range Suitability Assessment for Sheep Grazing using GIS 605

H. Arzani, R. Refaei and M. Farahpoor

Application of Remote Sensing Data for Vegetation Cover Assessment in 615

Summer Rangeland of Mazandaran Province of Iran

H. Arzani, S. Noori, S. H. Kaboli, M. Farahpour and M. S. Ghelichnia

Groundwater Draft in Bastam Plain, Shahrood, Iran 621

Gholam Hossein Karami

Author Index 625