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Natural and Artificial Radioactivity in the Rhine and Its Tributaries
Presently, natural and artificial radioactivity in the Rhine River does not present a radiological hazard to the population. On the contrary, the...
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Early Warning Strategies and Practices Along the River Rhine
In 1986, the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) installed a Warning and Alarm Plan (WAP) in order to avert the dangers...
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Pharmaceuticals in the River Rhine
Pharmaceuticals are introduced into the River Rhine mainly via wastewater and can be detected almost permanently in mixed samples taken over the...
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Pollutants as Byproducts and Degradation Products of Chemical Syntheses
Byproducts of industrial organic syntheses are emitted with the wastewater into the River Rhine; in many cases they are polar and poorly...
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Water Quality of Lake Constance
Lake Constance is used as a drinking water reservoir for about 5 million people. Because of its glacial origin from the Alps, the amount of...
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Hydrology
The River Rhine is one of the major rivers of Europe -#8211; the only river that connects the Alps with the North Sea. It flows 1320 km from two...
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Assessment of Organic Compounds in the Rhine Estuary
Over the past centuries the Rhine estuary has changed from a natural, hardly disturbed estuary into an anthropogenetically influenced area that...
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Occurrence, Fate and Relevance of Aminopolycarboxylate Chelating Agents in the Rhine Basin, Germany
Aminopolycarboxylates are used in many products and industrial applications because of their ability to form stable complexes with metal ions. The...
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Analysis, Occurrence, and Fate of Aromatic Sulfonates in the Rhine and Its Tributaries
An overview is given of the occurrence of aromatic sulfonates in the Rhine river and its tributaries. Since 1990, 25 different monomeric sulfonates...
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The Development of Water Protection Requirements from the Point of View of Waterworks, with Emphasis on 30 Years of the Memorandum of the International Association of Waterworks in the River Rhine Catchment Area (IAWR)
The International Association of Waterworks in the River Rhine Catchment Area (IAWR) defined water protection requirements for surface water that...
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Trends in Pesticide Transport into the River Rhine
The occurrence of relevant pesticides in the River Rhine and two of its tributaries is presented over a period of ten years. Trace determinations...
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The Recovered Rhine and Its History
The Rhine has suffered tremendous changes: from a natural river to a heavily contaminated one, then through a purification process to a rather...
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MTBE in Lake Zurich
Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is found in Lake Zurich at quite low concentrations between 40 ng L−1 in deep water or during the winter season,...
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Analysis of rock microstructure after CO2 breakthrough based on CT scanning
The alteration of mudstone’s microscopic properties within the caprock in CO 2 geological storage determines the effect of storage. One of the crucial...
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Seepage-related characteristics of weak interlayer suffering from a physically-chemically mediated erosion in grotto relics
The coexistence of the weak interlayer and groundwater could give rise to an undesirable geological condition, resulting in seepage-induced hazards,...
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Performance of coupling agent-amended clay/sand mixture under vacuum suction
This paper presents a comprehensive investigation on anti-seepage/erosion performance of a hydroxypropyl starch (HPS)-based coupling agent (CA)...
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Influence of Thickness of the Partition Wall on the Bearing Capacity of Double-Arch Tunnel Under Different Buried Depth
The double-arch tunnel has been widely used in traffic engineering. As a key parameter of the partition wall, its thickness is closely related to the...
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Artificial Intelligence for Bearing Capacity Evaluation of Shallow Foundation: an Overview
The investigation of the ultimate bearing capacity (UBC) of shallow foundations has consistently been a significant area of study within the realm of...
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Evaluating the Direct CPT-Based Design Methods for Estimating the End Bearing and Side Resistance of Instrumented Test Piles
The in-situ cone penetration test (CPT) has been widely used for site characterization, evaluation of soil properties, and other geotechnical...
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Compilation of Consolidation Properties Data of Champlain Sea Clay from Ottawa Region
Estimation of consolidation settlements in fine-grained soils due to various civil infrastructure loads is traditionally based on results derived...
