ADVANCES in ENVIRONMENTAL and AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Energy Systems, Environment, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ICESEEI '15) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agricultural Science,
Biotechnology, Food and Animal Science (ABIFA '15)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates February 22-24, 2015
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ISBN: 978-1-61804-270-5
ADVANCES in ENVIRONMENTAL and AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Energy Systems, Environment, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ICESEEI '15)
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agricultural Science, Biotechnology, Food and Animal Science (ABIFA '15)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates February 22-24, 2015
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ISSN: 2227-4359
ISBN: 978-1-61804-270-5
ADVANCES in ENVIRONMENTAL and AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Energy Systems, Environment, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ICESEEI '15) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agricultural Science,
Biotechnology, Food and Animal Science (ABIFA '15)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
February 22-24, 2015
Editors:
Prof. Nikos E. Mastorakis, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria Committee Members-Reviewers:
Vitale Cardone Leonardo Cascini Domenico Guida Joseph Quartieri Stefano Riemma Gianfranco Rizzo Mario Vento P. Pardalos
Eduardo Mario Dias Germano Lambert-Torres Zhuo Li
Pradip Majumdar Shuliang Li
Frangiskos V. Topalis Jan Awrejcewicz Vincenzo Niola Fotios Rigas Myriam Lazard Jiri Klima S. Sohrab Goricanec Darko Ze Santos Ehab Bayoumi Luis Tavares Rua Igor Kuzle Nikolay Djagarov Darko Goricanec
Maria do Rosario Alves Calado Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu Patricia Jota
Bharat Doshi Gang Yao Lu Peng Pavel Loskot Aida Bulucea F. Akgun Y. Baudoin M. Dasenakis G. E. Froudakis R. S. R. Gorla M. Heiermann C. Helmis I. Kazachkov A. M. A. Kazim G. Kiriakidis D. Kotzias A. Kurbatskiy S. Linderoth P. Lunghi J. Van Mierlo S. Ozdogan I. Poulios
F. Rigas A. Stamou A. I. Zouboulis Z. A. Vale
Claudio Guarnaccia Charles A. Long Tuan Pham Peter Dieter
Andrei Korobeinikov Wolfgang Wenzel Seiji Shibasaki Gary A. Lorigan Ziad Fajloun
Nikolai N. Modyanov Dhavendra Kumar Geoffrey Arden Photios Anninos W. Lakin
Lucio Tommaso De Paolis Jean-Michel Jault
Hassane Oudadesse Anita H. Corbett Toshiharu Horie Vadim V. Sumbayev Andre Surguchov Rona R. Ramsay
Daniel Martins-de-Souza Roberta Chiaraluce George Perry
Gertz I. Likhtenshtein Vivo Turk
Makoto Komiyama Shunsuke Meshitsuka Bahar Razavi
Carlos E. Formigoni Corina Carranca Dragoi Andreea Lucija Foglar
Maria Leonor Da Silva Carvalho Rusu Teodor
Saber Abd-Allah Sadia Iqbal Ana Pilipovic
Anna Maria Pellegrino Arvind Dhingra Ayca Tokuc
Chi,Chieh-Tsung Bruce
Denizar Cruz Martins Denizar Martins Fahmy Bendary
Farhan Abdul Rauf George Culea Grabara Janusz
Heimo Walter Ioana Adrian
Jose Manuel Mesa Fernández Marta Starostka-Patyk Mojtaba Ashouri Muslum Arici Nelson Duarte Oguz Arslan Paula Bajdor Rishabh Raj
Thomas Panagopoulos Zeljko Tomsic
Table of Contents
Comparison between Qualitative and Quantitative Rockfall Risk Methods for a Hazardous
Road Stretch 13
Paolo Budetta, Michele Nappi
Methodological Approach to the Formation of Action Variants and Solutions Implementing
them for Renovation of Compact Built-Up Development Areas 18
Sergei I. Matreninskiy, Valeriy Y. Mischenko
Towards the Development and Management of Sustainable Urban and Rural Environmental
Infrastructures in Osun State, Nigeria: Roads, Drainage, Water, etc. 24 Oludare A. Owolabi
Penetration of Photovoltaics in Greece 33
E. N. Giannini, A. Moropoulou, Z. Maroulis, G. Siouti
Innovation Pathways to Deliver Affordable Energy for Humanity 36 Jatin Nathwani, Joachim Knebel
Simulated Thermal Response of the Bedrock Heat Battery System 45 Hafiz M. K. U. Haq, Birgitta Martinkauppi, Erkki Hiltunen
Assessment of Geothermal Potential of Campanian Volcanoes (Southern Italy): from Drilling
Exploration to Numerical Simulation 54
Stefano Carlino, Renato Somma, Antonio Troiano, Maria Giulia, Di Giuseppe, Claudia Troise, Giuseppe De Natale
Silicon Electrochemistry for Energy Applications 60
Eimutis Juzeliunas, Paul R. Coxon, Derek J. Fray, Konstantinas Leinartas, Povilas Miečinskas
Environmental Protection Solutions by Multicriteria Decision Making 64 Serafim Opricovic, Milorad Miloradov, Mirjana Vojinovic-Miloradov
Analysis of the Criterion for Connecting New Source to the Distribution Grid 73 Martin Liska, Zaneta Eleschova, Peter Janiga, Marian Ivanic
A HPA Application for Greenhouse Temperature Control System 77 M. Dursun, A. Aksöz, A. Saygin
Ecological and Economic Principles of Environmental Certification 81 Peter Skrypchuk
The Effectiveness of Sauna Technique on the Drying Period and Kinetics of Seaweed
Kappaphycus Alvarezii Using Solar Drier 86
Majid Khan Majahar Ali, Jumat Sulaiman, Suhaimi Md Yasir, Mohd Hafidz Ruslan
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How Social Actors Perceive Renewable Energy and Nature Conservation Synergies: Social Perceptions and Values for Offshore Wind Farms and Marine Protected Areas in Adriatic EU Macroregion
96
Areti Kontogianni, Michail Skourtos, Christos Tourkolias
Evaluation and Characterization of Some Egyptian Fusarium Oxysporum Isolates for their
Virulence on Tomato and PCR Detection of (SIX) Effector Genes 101 Mohamed E. Selim, E. Z. Khalifa, G. A. Amer, A. A. Ely-Kafrawy, Nehad A. El-Gammal
Methodology and Applications for Rurban Sustainable Development 111 Roberto De Lotto, Tiziano Cattaneo, Elisabetta Maria Venco
Agricultural Resources Use for Sustainable Perennial Farms in North Region Sudan 121 Elgilany A. Ahmed
Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Methane over Nickel Base Catalyst 127 Adriana Marinoiu, Elena Carcadea, Mircea Raceanu, Claudia Cobzaru, Mihai Varlam
A Phenomenological Model of Experimental and Computational Magnetic Control of Ferrous
Impurities in Foodstuffs 135
Anna Sandulyak, Darya Sandulyak, Anna Ablaeva, Alexander Sandulyak
Excellence Laboratory of Smart Grids 139
Martin Liska, Dominik Viglas, Frantisek Janicek, Anton Belan
Assessment of Biofuel Potential from Agave spp. and Salicornia in the Arid Emirate of Abu
Dhabi 144
Djawed Belasri, Sharifa Alboainain, Juan-Rodrigo Bastidas-Oyanedel, Jens Ejbye Schmidt
Determination of Proper Gamma Radiation Dose in Mutation Breeding in Eggplant (Solanum
melongena L.) 149
Kamile Ulukapi, Buse Özdemir, A. Naci Onus
Removal of Acid Orange Dyes from Aqueous Solution by an Activated Carbon Prepared from
Wheat Husk 154
Hassan Hammud, Elias Nsair
Recycling Spent Nuclear Fuel Option for Nuclear Sustainability and more Proliferation
Resistance In FBR 162
Sidik Permana, Dwi Irwanto, Mitsutoshi Suzuki, Masaki Saito, Zaki Suud
Effects of Feeding Composite Leaf Meal (CLM) on the Body Temperature of Growing Pigs 169 Samuel Olanrewaju Aro, Abdulafeez Ajiboye
Episodic Alcohol Consumption as a Possible Risk Factor for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 179 Menizibeya O. Welcome, Nikos E. Mastorakis, Yury E. Razvodovsky, Elena V. Pereverzeva, Vladimir A. Pereverzev
Possibility of Sodium Cyanide Elimination from a Flotation Process 189 Ahmad K. Darban, Hossna Darabi, M. R. Shaverdi, Amin Khodadadi
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Hybrid System for Wastewater Treatment and Simultaneous Production of Electricity and
Hydrogen: Modeling Aproach 194
M. A. López Zavala, P. R. Torres Delenne, L. Reynoso Cuevas
Spatial Distributions of Aerosol Concentrations and Depositions in Asia during the Year 2010 204 Soon-Ung Park
Sustainability of Railway Transport System – An Overview 214
Cătălin Cruceanu
Power Quality Measurement in Low Power Solar Off-Grid System with Load Control Simulator 224 Peter Janiga, Martin Liška, Anton Beláň, Vladimír Volčko, Marian Ivanič
Adsorption, Kinetic and Thermodynamic Study of Al, Mn and Fe Adsorption with Natural
Attapulgite 229
Freeman Ntuli, Thabo Falayi, Cyril Mabasa
The New "Underground" Culture - A Design Proposal for our Cities' Infrastructure 236 P. Fernández Carrasco, V. Morales Giralda, E. Pozo Menéndez
Kinetic and Thermodynamic Parameters of Silica Leaching from Camden Power Station Fly
Ash 241
Thabo Falayi, Freeman Ntuli, Felix Ndubisi Okonta
Automatic Detection of Capillary Non-Perfusion Regions in Retinal Angiograms 249 N. S. Labeeb, A. Hamdy, Iman A. Badr, Z. El Sanabary, A. M. Mossa
Hypoglycemic and Epigenetic Effects of Alcohol in the Regulation of Cognitive Functions:
Experimental Data and Literature Review 255
Menizibeya O. Welcome, Nikos E. Mastorakis, Yury E. Razvodovsky, Elena V. Pereverzeva, Vladimir A. Pereverzev
Root-Cause Analysis of Transformer Failure Scenario at Power Sub-Station 265 Ambuj Kumar, Sunil Kumar Singh, Zakir Husain
Arctic Sea Ice Extent in Changing Climate 271
Genrikh Alekseev, Natalia Glok, Alexander Smirnov
Relationship between Technological and Material Parameters during Densification of Beech
Sawdust 278
Peter Križan, Miloš Matúš, Ľubomír Šooš, Juraj Beniak
Electric Vehicle Speed Control using Three Phase Inverter operated by DSP-based Space Vector
Pulse Width Modulation Technique 286
Saidi Hamza, Noureddine Mansour, Midoun Abdelhamid
Erectile Dysfunction Drugs and Protein Expression of Glutathione S-transferase and
Glutathione Peroxidase in the Liver of Male Rats 294
Salah A. Sheweita, Basant Salama, Mostafa Hassan Mostafa
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Evaluation of Fatigue Development and Mental Performance among Young Adults who are
Low-to-Moderate Alcohol Users and Lifetime Abstainers 304
Menizibeya O. Welcome, Nikos E. Mastorakis, Yury E. Razvodovsky, Elena V. Pereverzeva, Vladimir A. Pereverzev
Economic and Technical Determinants of Surface Irrigation Water Use in Wheat Tenancies in
North Sudan 313
Elgilany A. Ahmed
Home Appliances Simulator for Smart Home Systems Testing 322
Peter Janiga, Martin Liška, Anton Beláň, Vladimír Volčko, Marian Ivanič
Introducing Passive House Concept to Industries 327
Aida Sa, Patrik Thollander, Enrico Cagno
Economics of Aren Brown Sugar Production in Indonesia: Supply Analysis at Farm Level 332 Weka Gusmiarty Abdullah, Usman Rianse, Raden Marsuki Iswandi, Sitti Aida Adha Taridala, Ilma
Sarimustaqiyma Rianse, Zulfikar La Zulfikar, Abdi La Abdi, Weka Widayati, Wa Kuasa Baka, Edi Cahyono
Agricultural Productivity in Libya 340
Ali Jarad
Role of Energy in Sustainable Urban Development Planning 346
Sandip Deshmukh
Natural Radioactivity and Radon Activity Concentrations in Canned Milk Samples in Iraq 354 Ali A. Abojassim, Hussain H. Al-Gazaly, Suha H. Kadhim, Michele Guida
Features and Emerging Challenges in Assessing and Predicting the Energy Efficiency of Urban
Distributive Power Grids 363
V. Frolov, A. Korotkov
Soil Salinity Mapping and Monitoring using Remote Sensing GIS 368 Sadia Iqbal, Nikos Mastorakis
Evaluation of Alternative Design of Hollow Brick with Sawdust as Filler for Home-Made
Industry 373
Kurniati Ornam, Masykur Kimsan, Edi Cahyono
Additional Monacolins in Red Yeast Rice Prepared from Thai Glutinous Rice (Oryza Sativa L.)
cv. Sanpatong1(SPT1) using Monascus Purpureus CMU 001 377
Em On Chairote, Samuch Taweekasemsombat, Griangsak Chairote
Resource Utilization of Biogas Slurry for Better Yield and Nutritional Quality of Baby Corn 382 Shakeel Ahmad Khan, Lal Chand Malav, Sandeep Kumar, Mahesh Kumar Malav, Navindu Gupta
Pollution Reduction and Reuse of Sludge Waste in Asphalt Paving Mixtures 395 Ziad Ghazawi, Taisir Khedaywi, Alaa Gouneem
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Ecological Perspective of Creative Adaptation of Cacao Farmers in Sustainable Livelihood 400 Weka Widayati, Muh Arief Dirgantoro, La Nalefo, Muhidin, Usman Rianse, Weka Gusmiarty
Abdullah, Wa Kuasa, Edy Cahyono
Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants against Natural Disasters 408 Defu Liu, Guilin Liu, Fengqing Wang, Ziyu Chen
Authors Index 424
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Authors Index
Abdelhamid, M. 286 Deshmukh, S. 346 Khalifa, E. Z. 101
Abdi, A. L. 332 Di, G. 54 Khan, S. A. 382
Abdullah, W. G. 332, 400 Dirgantoro, M. A. 400 Khedaywi, T. 395
Ablaeva, A. 135 Dursun, M. 77 Khodadadi, A. 189
Abojassim, A. A. 354 El Sanabary, Z. 249 Kimsan, M. 373
Ahmed, E. A. 121, 313 Eleschova, Z. 73 Knebel, J. 36
Ajiboye, A. 169 El-Gammal, N. A. 101 Kontogianni, A. 96
Aksöz, A. 77 Ely-Kafrawy, A. A. 101 Korotkov, A. 363
Alboainain, S. 144 Falayi, T. 229, 241 Križan, P. 278
Alekseev, G. 271 Fernández Carrasco, P. 236 Kuasa, W. 400
Al-Gazaly, H. H. 354 Fray, D. J. 60 Kumar, A. 265
Amer, G. A. 101 Frolov, V. 363 Kumar, S. 382
Aro, S. O. 169 Ghazawi, Z. 395 La Zulfikar, Z. 332
Badr, I. A. 249 Giannini, E. N. 33 Labeeb, N. S. 249
Baka, W. K. 332 Giralda, V. M. 236 Leinartas, K. 60
Bastidas-Oyanedel, J.-R. 144 Giulia, M. 54 Liska, M. 73, 139
Beláň, A. 139, 224, 322 Glok, N. 271 Liska, M. 224, 322
Belasri, D. 144 Gouneem, A. 395 Liu, D. 408
Beniak, J. 278 Guida, M. 354 Liu, G. 408
Budetta, P. 13 Gupta, N. 382 Mabasa, C. 229
Cagno, E. 327 Hamdy, A. 249 Majahar Ali, M. K. 86
Cahyono, E. 332, 373, 400 Hammud, H. 154 Malav, L. C. 382
Carcadea, E. 127 Hamza, S. 286 Malav, M. K. 382
Carlino, S. 54 Haq, H. M. K. U. 45 Mansour, N. 286
Cattaneo, T. 111 Hiltunen, E. 45 Marinoiu, A. 127
Chairote, E. O. 377 Husain, Z. 265 Maroulis, Z. 33
Chairote, G. 377 Iqbal, S. 368 Martinkauppi, B. 45
Chen, Z. 408 Irwanto, D. 162 Mastorakis, N. E. 179, 255
Cobzaru, C. 127 Iswandi, R. M. 332 Mastorakis, N. E. 304, 368
Coxon, P. R. 60 Ivanic, M. 73, 224, 322 Matreninskiy, S. I. 18
Cruceanu, C. 214 Janicek, F. 139 Matúš, M. 278
Darabi, H. 189 Janiga, P. 73, 224, 322 Menéndez, E. P. 236
Darban, A. K. 189 Jarad, A. 340 Miečinskas, P. 60
De Lotto, R. 111 Juzeliunas, E. 60 Miloradov, M. 64
De Natale, G. 54 Kadhim, S. H. 354 Mischenko, V. Y. 18
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Moropoulou, A. 33 Rianse, I. S. 332 Suud, Z. 162
Mossa, A. M. 249 Rianse, U. 332, 400 Suzuki, M. 162
Mostafa, M. H. 294 Ruslan, M. H. 86 Taridala, S. A. A. 332
Muhidin 400 Sa, A. 327 Taweekasemsombat, S. 377
Naci Onus, A. 149 Saito, M. 162 Thollander, P. 327
Nalefo, L. 400 Salama, B. 294 Torres Delenne, P. R. 194
Nappi, M. 13 Sandulyak, Al. 135 Tourkolias, C. 96
Nathwani, J. 36 Sandulyak, An. 135 Troiano, A. 54
Nsair, E. 154 Sandulyak, D. 135 Troise, C. 54
Ntuli, F. 229, 241 Saygin, A. 77 Ulukapi, K. 149
Okonta, F. N. 241 Schmidt, J. E. 144 Varlam, M. 127
Opricovic, S. 64 Selim, M. E. 101 Venco, E. M. 111
Ornam, K. 373 Shaverdi, M. R. 189 Viglas, D. 139
Owolabi, O. A. 24 Sheweita, S. A. 294 Vojinovic-Miloradov, M. 64
Özdemir, B. 149 Singh, S. K. 265 Volčko, V. 224, 322
Park, S.-U. 204 Siouti, G. 33 Wang, F. 408
Pereverzev, V. A. 179, 255, 304 Skourtos, M. 96 Welcome, M. O. 179, 255, 304 Pereverzeva, E. V. 179, 255, 304 Skrypchuk, P. 81 Widayati, W. 332, 400
Permana, S. 162 Smirnov, A. 271 Yasir, S. M. 86
Raceanu, M. 127 Somma, R. 54 Zavala, M. A. 194
Razvodovsky, Y. E. 179, 255, 304 Šooš, L. 278
Reynoso Cuevas, L. 194 Sulaiman, J. 86
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