Ecological potential

Kralisch, D. Kreisel, G. (2007) Assessment of the Ecological Potential of Microreaction Technology. Chemical Engineering Science, 62(4), 1094-1100. 

The evaluation of risk has underlined the possible adverse effects both on human health after the exposure to drinking water contaminated by landfill leachate and on small rodents and aquatic species at the hypothesized condition for humans, the estimated toxic effects of the raw leachate are mainly due to the levels of ammonia and cadmium and carcinogenic effects are induced by arsenic first and then by PCBs and PCDD/Fs while ecological potential risk is mainly attributable to the concentration of inorganic compounds, in particular ammonia for small rodents, cadmium, ammonia, and heavy metals for fishes. 

The WFD has established a framework for the protection of inland surface water, transitional waters and groundwater which aims at achieving good ecological potential and good surface water chemical status within 15 years from the date of commencement of the Directive, i.e. 22 December, 2000 (Directive 2000/60/EC, L327/1, Official Journal of the EU). 

Kudryavtseva, G.V. (1991). Prostaglandins ecological potential of the effect (In Russian). Uspehki Sovremennoy Biologii 111, 698-706. 

Requirements for the comparability of biological monitoring results, presentation and classification of ecological status and ecological potential, and presentation of monitoring results and classification of chemical status. 

Anonymous (2005) Overall approach to the classihcation of ecological status and ecological potential. Common Implementation Strategy for the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), Guidance Document No. 13, available at http //forum.europa.eu.int/Pubhc/uc/env/wfd/hbrary. 

This chapter will remind the reader that for all these new developments there are aheady examples of established production processes where plants, plant cell cultures, plant enzymes, or plant (secondary) metabolites play a major role. It will give examples where genetic modification of plants and the use of plant enzymes and ingredients have increased the economical and ecological potential of plants as renewable resources for a sustainable chemistry. 

Table 9.2 Continental discharge data, theoretical potential of salinity gradient energy (index C abbs energy), technical and ecological potential for PRO plants [33]...

Continent Annual discharge (kmVy) Mean discharge (m /s) Share (%) Theoretical potential Technical potential Ecological potential ... 

Table 9.3 Ecological potential for selected CIWA regions [33]...

In the special case of chemical processes, some LCA studies have already been carried out Examples are the work of Burgess and Brennan (2], Azapagic and Clift [3] and Jodicke et al. [4], In the following, a case study is presented which evaluates the ecological potential of microreaction technology using this LCA methodology. 

Hoffer, R. M. and Johannsen, C. J. 1969, Ecological Potentials in Spectral Signature Analysis , in Remote Sensing in Ecology (see Johnson, P. L.). 

H. T. Odum, Ecological Potential Taylor, Technocratic Optimism. ... 

Odum, H. T. Ecological Potential and Analogue Circuits for the Ecosystem. American Scientist 4 (i960) 1-8. 

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