Vladimir Strezov

Vladimir Strezov
Macquarie University · Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

BEng, PhD

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Ammonia is a promising hydrogen carrier for enabling the efficient transport of hydrogen, as observed by the many hydrogen transport projects using ammonia. For the clean energy future, understanding environmental impacts of the transport system is important. This study conducts life cycle assessment (LCA) for the marine transport of renewable hydr...
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Green construction practices (GCPs) are essential for the construction industry to achieve carbon neutral and sustainable development. However, the promotion of GCPs faces multifaceted challenges, particularly within the context of recent global uncertainties. The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought substantial disruption upon the construction sector, wh...
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The role of renewable energy, such as biogas or renewable methane is important for decarbonisation of the energy sector. This study analyses environmental impacts of renewable methane production from seven different technologies including wind- and solar-powered electrolysis and methanation with direct air-captured CO2, anaerobic digestion of sewag...
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Industrialization has led to a surge in air pollution-related problems, as particulate matter (PM) containing heavy metals poses significant health risks. Understanding airborne particle chemistry, particularly the presence of heavy metals, is vital for effective air quality management and health interventions. This study analysed heavy metal level...
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Solar energy holds significant potential for alleviating poverty, tackling climate change and providing affordable clean energy, contributing to multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, limited research has systematically reviewed the progress in the field of solar photovoltaics and poverty (PV–PO). To address this gap, this...
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Indoor exposure to outdoor pollutants adversely affects health, varying with building dimensions and particularly ventilation that have critical role on their indoor dispersion. This study assesses the impact of outdoor air on indoor air quality in a child care center. Computational fluid dynamics was utilized to analyze the dispersion of particula...
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Atmospheric particles have been significantly affecting urban air quality and urban-oriented living in an increasing share of the population in Bangladesh. This study assessed the concentration of PM1.0, PM2.5, and PM10 in Khulna, one of the largest cities in Bangladesh located near the Bay of Bengal. The maximum average concentrations were recorde...
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The paper investigates the potential of biomass pyrolysis as a sustainable and renewable energy solution. The study focuses on three biomass types: corn cob, vine rod, and sunflower, which are abundant agricultural residues with potential for biofuel production. The pyrolytic gas, oil, and char produced during pyrolysis at a heating rate of 10 °C/m...
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The photovoltaic poverty alleviation (PV-PA) policy is a promising policy innovation to achieve sustainable development in China. Based on first-hand field investigation data of 18 prefecture-level cities and 110 counties in China's Henan Province, this paper first evaluated the efficiency of PV-PA policy and analyzed its spatial correlation charac...
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Due to the high oil content, rubber seed oil (RSO) has the potential to be used as a raw material in biodiesel manufacturing. The present study was aimed at oil extraction on rubber seed composed of 47–51% kernel by seed weight. The effects of extraction time (0.75–120 h), particle size (0.14 ± 0.047 µm, 0.35 ± 0.003 µm, and 0.68 ± 0.1 µm), dryness...
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The Jazmurian basin in Iran is an area affected by climate change and desertification where aerosols and dust storms are common. The aim of this work was to determine the human and ecological risks from atmospheric particles during dust storms in different cities in the Jazmurian basin. For this purpose, the dust samples were collected from Jiroft,...
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The Jazmurian basin in Iran is an area affected by climate change and desertification where aerosols and dust storms are common. The aim of this work was to determine the human and ecological risks from atmospheric particles during dust storms in different cities in the Jazmurian basin. For this purpose, the dust samples were collected from Jiroft,...
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Iron ores are principal input materials for iron and steel-making industries. Quality of iron ores is one of the critical parameters for formation of environmental pollutants related to the steel-making process. Dioxins are identified as one of the most toxic pollutants emitted during ironmaking, specifically during the sintering process. This stud...
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Adsorptive bubble separation techniques such as foam fractionation have recently been applied for the extraction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from waters at both laboratory and operational scales. However, few authors have developed mathematical models of their removal of PFAS. This study presents a theoretical framework for the ki...
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The study assessed the environmental impacts of landfilling, anaerobic digestion and incineration technologies and investigated the effect of the replaced source of electricity on the environmental impacts of these waste to energy (WtE) technologies. Data published in the national pollutant inventories and ReCiPe impact assessment method were emplo...
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Steam methane reforming (SMR) using natural gas is the most commonly used technology for hydrogen production. Industrial hydrogen production contributes to pollutant emissions, which may differ from the theoretical estimates due to process conditions, type and state of installed pollution control equipment. The aim of this study was to estimate the...
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Benthic organisms, including freshwater oligochaetes Tubificidae, contribute to redistribution of microplastics (MPs) in aquatic bottom sediments. In this work quantitative data was obtained in the model experiment characterizing the rate of polypropylene (PP) microparticle burial under the action of Tubifex tubifex worms in silty freshwater bottom...
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Vegetation has successfully been used for cleaning up metal(loid) polluted water bodies and lands through extracting and accumulating of contaminants in their aboveground biomass (phytoextraction). As this remediation technique is approaching extensive demonstration scale application and potential commercialisation, research efforts have been inves...
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Waste treatment using thermal technologies, such as incineration, leads to the production of pollutants and wastes, including fly ash (FA). Fly ash contains heavy metals (HMs) and other contaminants and can potentially pose high risks to the environment and negatively impact health and safety. Consequently, stabilizing fly ash prior to either use o...
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Increased interest in backyard food production has drawn attention to the risks associated with urban trace element contamination, in particular that of lead (Pb) that was used in abundance in Pb-based paints and gasoline. Here we examine the sources, pathways and risks associated with environmental Pb in urban gardens, domestic chickens and their...
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In this work, an Aspen Plus model was developed to study the plastic/biomass co-gasification thermodynamically. Tar inclusion and temperature restricted equilibrium approach were applied for model modification. Using different gasifying agents, it was found that steam co-gasification is superior to air and oxygen-gasified processes in terms of gas...
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Over 100 million tonnes of waste plastics is projected to enter our environment by 2030 [...]
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Due to environmental and economic advantages, the production and utilization of renewable and eco-friendly fuels derived from residues have received attention globally. Gasification, a thermo-chemical waste valorisation method, is considered a flexible recycling method in terms of the employed feedstock, gasifier type, and the applications of the p...
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The production of tunable syngas from biomass will further establish the role of biomass-derived syngas as a versatile platform for liquid fuels and value-added chemical synthesis. This study introduced steam, Ni–CaO catalyst, and biochar into a proposed two-stage sorption-enhanced catalytical thermochemical conversion process, aiming to obtain the...
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Industrial products Vehicle numbers a b s t r a c t This study investigated concentrations of PM 2.5 , PM 10 , SO 2 , NO 2 , CO and O 3 , and air quality index (AQI) values across 368 cities in mainland China during 2015-2018. The study further examined relationships of air pollution status with local industrial capacities and vehicle possessions....
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Sustainability of electricity generation from all known energy sources: biomass dedicated energy crops, biomass waste residues, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, hydropower, coal, gas and nuclear are compared and discussed in this article. The assessment was conducted using sustainability indicators across the life cycle of each technology. The susta...
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Renewable energy technologies have a leading role to play in the future of a sustainable energy generation portfolio. The major constraints for increasing the penetration of renewable energy sources are their availability and intermittency, which can be addressed through a combination of energy storage when available, and energy use when needed. Th...
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Selection and implementation of effective and efficient waste management strategies have been widely considered as a matter of concern for sustainable development. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the most common approach to evaluate the environmental impacts of different waste management strategies. This article presents a systematic review of scien...
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To date, the largest Russian rivers discharging to the Arctic Ocean remain a "blank spot" on the world map of data on the distribution of microplastics in freshwater systems. This study characterizes the abundance and morphology of microplastics in surface water of the Ob River and its large tributary, the Tom River, in western Siberia. The average...
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Iron ore sintering is the main process of fines agglomeration for ironmaking with relevant particulate matter and trace element emissions of integrated steel plants. Due to the high environmental and human health impacts caused by trace elements, legislations are becoming more stringent for regulating emissions of the trace elements. This review co...
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Energy shortage and environmental pollution are global concerns for sustainable development, which can be improved by high value-added reuse of solid wastes. In this study, a novel strategy was proposed for reusing steelmaking slag to treat biomass and produce valuable products. The study consisted of: i) useful elements (mainly Ca and Fe) were ext...
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This study evaluates the economic cost and sustainability of treating residual municipal solid waste (MSW) through five waste management scenarios. In the baseline scenario (Bsc), all waste was managed through landfilling, while in scenario 1 (Sc1) all waste was treated by incineration. Sc2 employed anaerobic digestion (AD) for food waste and landf...
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Vegetation has successfully been used for phytoremediation of heavy metal(loid) contaminated soils. Previous works found that the metal(loid)-enriched biomass can be converted into biofuels through pyrolysis. However, the potential emission of metal(loid)s at higher pyrolysis temperatures, the leaching potential of minerals in chars, and the qualit...
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Metal production industries are associated with positive economic benefits, however their activities are significantly resource and energy intensive, contributing to emission of pollutants and greenhouse gases to the environment. The balance between the economic inputs and environmental footprint of the metal production industries determines their...
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This study integrates National Pollutant Inventory emission data and geographical information system (GIS) to analyse the environmental impacts of 197 Australian thermal power stations. ReCiPe 2016 hierarchist method was used to investigate mid and endpoint impacts and found that 93.3% of the total midpoint impacts of fossil fuel sources were attri...
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Blast Furnace Slag (BFS) is a by-product of the iron ore processing industry with potential to be used in different industrial applications. In this research, BFS was used to examine its ability for dye removal from wastewater. The efficiency of two types of BFS samples for removal of cationic methylene blue (MB) and acidic methyl orange (MO) dyes...
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The use of biomass in different routes of ironmaking has been recently investigated. Although the volatile matter is the major constituent of the biomass, its contribution as reducing agent has not been explored in detail. This work aimed to investigate the reduction of iron ore by biomass volatiles and elucidate the steps involved, searching for o...
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This study represents the first empirical estimation of threshold values between nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations and COVID-19-related deaths in France. The concentration of NO2 linked to COVID-19-related deaths in three major French cities were determined using Artificial Neural Networks experiments and a Causal Direction from Dependency (D2C...
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Bio-oil produced from biomass pyrolysis and hydrothermal liquefaction is considered as the most sustainable alternative for depleting fossil fuels. However, the poor bio-oil properties, such as high viscosity, presence of solid particles, low calorific value and high instability are restricting its use as a drop-in fuel. The bio-oil properties can...
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The sintering process is estimated to contribute more than 50% of dioxin emissions in the iron and steelmaking industry. Hence, understanding the formation of dioxins and their distribution between sintered products and emitted dust is crucial to reduce and control dioxin emissions. This study tested four types of iron ores, with each mixed with li...
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Increasing global energy demand and concerns of carbon emissions have driven the utilisation of renewable sources such as biomass. Biomass pyrolysis in the presence of catalyst, i.e., biomass catalytic pyrolysis (CP), is one of the most efficient routes for generating renewable hydrocarbon fuels or commodity chemicals. Most previous review papers o...
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Selection and implementation of effective and efficient waste management strategies have been widely considered as a matter of concern for sustainable development. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the most common approach to evaluate the environmental impacts of different waste management strategies. This paper presents a systematic review of scienti...
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a promising tool to evaluate the environmental impacts of different technologies for sustainable waste management. This study employs LCA to assess environmental impacts of alternative scenarios for residual municipal solid waste (MSW) management in New South Wales (NSW) based on current conditions and policies. Six d...
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The municipal wastewater treatment sector requires sustainable management of sewage sludge to fundamentally contribute to building zero-waste cities. Herein, we propose an integrated material-flow strategy to make full use of sewage sludge by combining its clean transformation with cement manufacture and petrochemical synthesis. Based on the multi-...
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Vegetation has successfully been used for remediation of heavy-metal-contaminated soils (phytoremediation). The heavy-metal-rich biomass after phytoremediation can be processed by pyrolysis, achieving bioenergy production and pollutant control. The pretreatment of the heavy-metal-rich biomass prior to pyrolysis, as an emerging factor, needs to be i...
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This review provides an overview of the environmental impacts of combustion-based electricity generation technologies from six different energy sources, hard coal, brown coal, natural gas, diesel, landfill gas and wood biomass using the compiled information from life cycle assessment (LCA) studies. Hard coal has the highest global warming and ecoto...
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The metal(loid)-enriched Avicennia marina biomass obtained from phytoremediation was impregnated with two ferric salts (FeCl3 and Fe(NO3)3) prior to pyrolysis at 300-700 °C, aiming to study the influence on pyrolytic product properties and heavy metal(loid) deportment. Results showed that the impregnated ferric salts increased the fixed carbon cont...
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the suitability of pollutant emission data published in the national pollutant inventories for impact assessment of thermal power generation using Australian technologies as case studies. ReCiPe midpoint and endpoint hierarchist methods were used to investigate the environmental impacts of power stations fuelled...
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Reduction of iron ore directly by H2 has been developed as an alternative technology for iron production, which can alleviate pollutant emissions by eliminating the needs of cokemaking and sintering processes. However, the behavior of trace elements (especially the volatilisation of heavy metal(loid)s) in iron ore during reduction by H2 is still un...
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Syngas, a mixture of hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO), has attracted increasing attention since it is a versatile and flexible platform feedstock for the production of value-added chemicals and fuels via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Syngas production from biomass gasification has been widely investigated, while the lack of tunable H2/CO ratio i...
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CaO-based calcium looping materials have received great interest for their use in thermochemical CO2 capture and energy storage, as well as CO2-related energy conversion processes. In this paper, the development of robust CaO-based CO2 sorbents using waste blast furnace slag (BFS) as a sustainable and environmentally benign feedstock is reported. C...
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In this work, an auger pilot-scale fast pyrolysis process computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model was developed for use as a design tool for scale-up. Multiphase flow dynamics and chemical kinetics were included in the multi-fluid model (MFM). Rotating reference frame (RRF) was adopted to simulate the effect of rotation of the auger in the reactor....