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Urban greening as a cooling tool towards the heat island effect
Anja Bubik, Lucija Kolar, 2019, original scientific article

Abstract: Roofs, as the top layer of the urban environment, significantly contribute to overheating and creating a heat island, which is known as one of the most critical global warming effects. There are several ways to mitigate the effects of such heat islands, among which greening is the most natural, sustainable solution, and also economically acceptable and socially valued principle. Vegetation is known to significantly improve the urban microclimate and directly reduce the effect of the urban thermal core. At the Environmental Protection College in collaboration with the Institute Complementarium, both based in Slovenia, we conducted a pilot experiment to evaluate greening, in our case the principle of a flat green roof, as an effective and promising approach for reducing an urban heat island and its effects. Temperature measurements have shown that the green surface can lower both the surface temperature itself (e.g., the roof) and the air surrounding the green surface. We have presented an initial pilot case, which is planned to be upgraded in the future to confirm our current results and assumptions. In addition, we summarized data showing that Velenje is, in view of annual higher average temperatures, a highly suitable urban environment for the introduction of greening principles on the top urban layers.
Keywords: air temperature, greening principle, heat island effect, pilot study, urban environment
Published in DKUM: 05.12.2023; Views: 435; Downloads: 5
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Optimization of conditions for enzymatic decomposition of fibrous cotton textile waste : diplomsko delo univerzitetnega študijskega programa I. stopnje
Stela Tashkova, 2023, undergraduate thesis

Abstract: The main goal of this thesis was to optimize the conditions under which a 100 % cellulose material enzymatically decomposes. Waste textile and waste cellulose represent a large source of carbon that can be used in the production of value–added chemicals. The main goal of this diploma thesis was to test different conditions for the enzymatic decomposition of cellulose waste such as temperature range, enzymes concentration and different buffer composition. We started with the optimization of the temperature and tested how the reaction proceeds at three different temperatures (50, 55 and 60 °C). Here, the main goal was to check how the enzymatic mixture we used acts at these three different environments, thus how much will the material decompose. The results showed that the optimal temperature for the decomposition of cellulose is 50 °C. The second part of the diploma thesis evaluates if a higher concentration of enzymes would get better results regarding cellulose waste decomposition. The results here showed that an increased enzyme concentration does not improve the efficiency of the reaction under the tested conditions. Additionally, two different buffers 0.1 M NH4Cl and 0.1 M (NH4)2SO4 were tested as environments for the enzymatic degradation of cellulose waste. We got a higher glucose concentration in the reaction with (NH4)2SO4, as well as less variability of the pH, which led to a lower NaOH consumtion.
Keywords: enzymatic cellulose decomposition, optimization, temperature effect, NH4Cl, (NH4)2SO4, Cellic® CTec2
Published in DKUM: 13.09.2023; Views: 373; Downloads: 20
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Optimal proportion of refrigerants in single- stage high-temperature heat pump
Milovan Jotanović, Mirko Miščević, Bojan Kulčar, Darko Goričanec, 2012, original scientific article

Abstract: The paper presents types of refrigerants with their characteristics for use insingle-stage high-temperature heat pump. A mathematical model is designed; based on the use of the modeling language GAMS a simulation of optimum mixtureproportions of two refrigerants was made, which allows for the heat pump to operate the most efficient. Software package Math Cad Professional wasused to make calculations of the characteristic properties of the heat pump.
Keywords: heat transfer, single-stage high temperature pump, refrigerant, simulation of effect
Published in DKUM: 10.07.2015; Views: 1306; Downloads: 43
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