The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which occurred on March 11, 2011, has caused us to focus our attention on a large amount of spent nuclear fuels stored in NPPs. In addition, public anxiety regarding the treatment and disposal of high-level radioactive wastes that require long-term control is growing. The Japanese policy on the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle is still unpredictable in the aftermath of the accident;...

This chapter briefly reviews the characteristics of textile wastewater and available technologies. This is followed by an in-depth discussion on biogranulation technology and the application of a hybrid biogranular system in treating the textile wastewater.

Over the past decade, Malaysia has enjoyed tremendous growth in its economy and population, this resulted in an increase in the amount of waste scheduled generated. Furthermore, scheduled waste management has long been a problem area for local authorities in Kuala Lumpur. Continued illegal dumping by waste generators is being practiced at large scale due to lack of proper guidance and awareness. This paper reviewed discussed and suggested about service...

Three important aspects of WO and CWO process have been thoroughly reviewed: (i) the fundamentals of WO; (ii) the degradation of organic pollutants using WO process; and (iii) the mechanism of degradation reactions. WO and CWO studies on the wide range of industrial process waters and wastewaters illustrate the potential of these technologies. The potential benefits of the CWO process over other conventional water treatment processes, such as low...

Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation to large corporations developing social innovation strategies. Yet theory lags behind practice, and this hampers our ability to understand social innovation and make the most of its potential. This collection brings together work by leading social innovation researchers globally, exploring the practice and process of researching social innovation, its nature...

In this chapter, we focus on the development on tunable terahertz/infrared metamaterials enabled with plasmonic excitations in graphene micro-/nanostructures. We aimed the issue that high loss in the plasmonic excitations of graphene limits the performance of graphene’s ability in manipulating light. We show the enhancement of light-graphene interactions by employing plasmonic metamaterial design for proper plasmonic excitations, and coherent modulation...

Radioactive waste is the ethical issue facing the development of peaceful applications of nuclear technology all over the world. It poses a serious threat to human health and dangerous impact to his environment. Hence, the problem needs early global cooperative solutions. Almost all the International Atomic Energy Agency’s member states produce some types of radioactive wastes from their applications e.g. industrial, agricultural, medical, educational,...

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Monitoring of effluent quality remains a challenge to the wastewater treatment process (WWTP). In order to provide a reliable tool for the online monitoring of effluent quality, an intelligent modeling approach, which consists of online sensors and an effluent quality predicting plant, is developed to predict effluent quality in this chapter. The intelligent modeling approach, based on a self-organizing fuzzy neural network (SOFNN), is able to enhance...

This chapter deals with the position control of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) when quadrotor’s linear velocity is unavailable. We propose a hierarchical tracking controller for quadrotor UAV. The proposed controller does not require measurements of linear velocity of quadrotor. A nonlinear filter that avoids the need for measurements of linear velocity has proposed such that a global stability result is obtained for the position tracking...