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Luminescent Materials towards new Frontiers, University of Townsville, Australia, 27. Juni 2001
(2001)
Luminescent Materials, A Challenge for Solid State Chemistry, Universität Köln, 18. Dezember 2001
(2001)
Control strategies for optimisation of urban wastewater system based on precipitation forecast
(2001)
Investigations on the dynamics of the compositions of combined wastewater using on-line analyzers
(2001)
The objective of this paper is to identify those areas of consumption, in which private households can make significant contributions to environmental sustainability, and to present a transparent and comprehensive set of indicators for them. The analysis of the environmental impacts of households focuses on consumption clusters that permit to depict different life spheres of private households. Two criteria guided the investigation of the relevance of these clusters: · The significance of the consumption cluster, and · The potential influence of households. Resource consumption was chosen as simplified, but reliable representation of environmental pressure dynamics. Growing resource consumption goes together with growing environmental pressures and vice versa, although not necessarily proportionally. The key resources analysed are energy and material consumption, and land use. Based on this analysis, three priority fields for action by households were identified: construction and housing, food/nutrition and transport (in this order). All other consumption clusters can be considered environmentally marginal, providing combined saving potentials of less than 10% of the total resource consumption. Finally, from description of the respective roles of actors based on anecdotal evidence a semi-quantitative "actor matrix" is presented indicating the relative influence of different actors per consumption cluster.
Struktural design of linings
(2001)
The German Worksheet ATV-M 127-2 published in January 2000 after a seven years period of preparation and discussion is now well accepted in design practice for lining systems made of different materials and installed in various methods. The concept based on stress, deformation and stability analyses supports simple formula and diagram usage in standard cases like circular pipes up to ND 600 and more elaborate analyses for non-circular cross sections. Beside a short description of the design code the theoretical background is presented. Experimental test configurations are discussed regarding restrictions such as test specimen length, friction and load distribution. There is need of further research projects in co-operation with other universities to solve the problems left in theory and in practical use.