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  • Environmental Noise Impact Assessment for Large-Scale Surface Mining Operations in Serbia

    Uros Pantelic, Petar Lilic, Aleksandar Cvjetic, Nikola Lilic (2023)
    Noise emissions are a significant environmental impact caused by the mining industry in all technological phases of surface mining, mineral processing, and waste disposal. This paper presents the role of noise impact assessment and control in large-scale surface mining operations. Mine planning develops the model of mining operations, ore excavation, and waste dumping scheduling and processing rates, including spatial distribution of mining activities. Such a level of mine planning requires an environmental impact assessment study. This can be achieved ...
    mine planning, noise impact assessment, mining, noise mapping, environmental impact assessment

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment in the Application of Preventive Protection for Wind Farm Noise—Case Study: Maestrale Ring Wind Farm

    Boško D. Josimović, Aleksandar Cvjetić, Božidar Manić (2021)
    Determining the spatial position of wind turbines is the initial and most important phase in the development of a wind farm project. In this sensitive phase, all potential problems that may arise in the later stages of project development should be prevented by means of spatial and urban planning instruments. This makes it possible to achieve maximum use of the potential of wind in a particular space and, thus, fulfil the technical and economic requirements of the project while ...
    Energija,energetski inženjering i elektroenergetska tehnologija,obnovljivi izvori energije, održivost i životna sredina,električni i elektronski inženjering,kontrola i optimizacija,inženjering
    ... the case of noise impact assessment from the planned Maestrale Ring wind farm, the criteria for evaluating the impact of wind power on noise (Table 2) were based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative criteria (semi-quantitative method) and a partial noise impact assessment was carried ...
    ... Table 2. For the expert assessment of the noise impact from the planned Maestrale Ring wind farm, the results were used from a partial assessment based on modeling the spatial dis- persion of the noise. Noise modeling was based on the following: 1. The permitted noise level values were, in the ...
    ... literature about partial assessment of the impact of wind farms on individual envi- ronmental elements [19–29], which is not unusual given the dynamic development of wind energy at the global level. This paper focuses on a partial noise analysis as part of a unique impact assessment carried out within ...

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment and the precautionary principle in the spatial planning of wind farms – European experience in Serbia

    Boško Josimović, Aleksandar Cvjetić, Danilo Furundžić (2021)
    Spatial determination planning is at an initial and very sensitive step in the development of wind farms. On one hand, it is important to maximize the potential of wind in a particular area, and on the other hand, it is important to achieve environmental protection (including the human population and natural heritage) in the same space at the same time. With this in mind, it is important to balance all the requirements that are relevant for reaching the optimal ...
    Obnovljiva energija, Održivost, Životna sredina

  • Fuzzy Model for Risk Assessment of Machinery Failures

    Dejan V. Petrović, Miloš Tanasijević, Saša Stojadinović, Jelena Ivaz, Pavle Stojković (2020)
    The main goal of this research was the development of an algorithm for the implementation of negative risk parameters in a synthesis model for a risk level assessment for a specific machine used in the mining industry. Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic theory, in combination with statistical methods, were applied to analyze the time picture state of the observed machine. Fuzzy logic is presented through fuzzy proposition and a fuzzy composition module. Using these tools, the symmetric position of the ...
    fazi teorija, rizik, otkaz rudarskih mašina
    ... indicators for the occurrence of failure into a risk assessment. The risk assessment algorithm is an upgraded standard risk assessment model (RPN) that provides more Symmetry 2020, 12, 525 25 of 26 information on the parameters that have an impact on risk. For instance, it allows for the introduction ...
    ... indicators equally impact the risk assessment. In the case of a level three min–max composition, the outcome can be defined using a priori knowledge about the existence of a direct correlation between hierarchically lower structures in terms of reliability (that is, that they equally impact the reliability ...
    ... combinations whose value was not zero were taken for the assessment. Symmetry 2020, 12, 525 22 of 26 The order in which fuzzy sets of indicators will appear during an assessment is not important when the risk indicators have the same impact on the risk level. Using a min–max composition, the fuzzy ...

  • Preliminary impact assessment of No2 emission from a heating plant on air pollution: case of Zemun, Serbia

    Boban Pavlović, Uroš Pantelić, Marija Živković, Dejan Ivezić (2023)
    The aim of this paper is to provide a preliminary evaluation of the impact caused by NO2 emissions from a heating plant on the local air quality. To model the spatial distribution of NO2 emissions from the heating plant, the AERMOD model was employed. The evaluation was conducted by analyzing and contrasting the simulated NO2 concentration from the heating plant with the overall NO2 concentration recorded at the nearest monitoring station over the entire heating season. The study focused ...
    AERMOD, квалитет ваздуха, моделирање дисперзије загађења, топлана, NO2 загађење

  • Fuzzy expert analysis of the severity of mining machinery failure

    Dejan V. Petrović, Miloš Tanasijević, Saša Stojadinović, Jelena Ivaz, Pavle Stojković (2020)
    Mining machinery failure is almost an everyday occurrence. Usually the failures bare certain consequences, which require additional financial costs to repair and restore the system to its operational state. The consequences are viewed through negative and damaging effects a failure has on the machine, health and safety of the employees, work environment, and on the environment. The removal of the consequences of the failure requires additional financial investment, which has a negative impact on the company’s business. In order ...
    Severity of failure, Severity of failure assessment, Mining machinery, Fuzzy sets, Fuzzy logic

  • Life Cycle Assessment of Individual Wood Biomass Heating Systems in Households

    Boban Pavlović, Dejan Ivezić, Marija Živković (2020)
    The use of solid fuels (wood biomass and coal) for heating of households continues to be common practice within European countries. Solid fuel combustion in households contributes more than 46% to total emissions of fine particulate matter. In this study, a life-cycle assessment (LCA) of firewood-based and pellet-based heating systems is performed. These two systems represent two different types of individual wood biomass heating systems. In the case of the firewood-based heating systems, it is analyzed a typical stove ...
    Grejanje, Analiza životnog ciklusa, Drvna biomasa, Individualni sistemi grejanja
    ... analysis, Impact assessment, and Interpretation [13] (Figure 1). Figure 1. LCA phases according to ISO 14040:2006 [14] These four steps are covered in four ISO standards on Life Cycle Assessment: ISO 14040 (General principles), ISO 14041 (Inventory and Goal and Scope), ISO 14042 (Impact assessment) ...
    ... obtain a comprehensive analysis of the environmental impact of heating systems (HSs) based on wood biomass, a complete lifecycle process that involves a holistic cradle-to-grave assessment approach is recommended [8]. The life cycle assessment (LCA) is useful for decomposing and analyzing the e ...
    ... (Interpretation) [15]. Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is considered as an effective method to evaluate the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a particular HS throughout its lifetime [9]. In this paper, it is implemented the Global Warming Potential (GWP) as an impact assessment method. All aggregated GHG emissions ...

  • A hydraulic–hydrochemical approach to impact assessment of a grout curtain on karst aquifer behavior

    Igor Jemcov, Marina Ćuk Đurović (2020)
    Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Water Science and Technology

  • The impact of temporal variability of groundwater levels on groundwater vulnerability maps in karst terrains – a case example of the Perućac spring catchment area

    Vladimir Živanović, Igor Jemcov, Nebojša Atanacković (2022)
    Groundwater vulnerability maps represent an essential tool for protecting karst groundwater resources. Vulnerability assessment is usually based on spatial evaluation of various parameters that affect the vulnerability degree and regulate the protection role of the unsaturated zone. Most of these parameters, like soil and geology conditions, are constant and do not change during the year or over several years. In contrast, some parameters, such as the groundwater level, depend on the variability of recharge conditions. By considering the variability ...
    karst groundwater vulnerability maps, parameter changes, Perućac spring, Serbia

  • The Impact Assessment of NO2 Emission from District Heating Plant on Local Air Quality, the Case of Zemun, Belgrade

    Boban Pavlović, Uroš Pantelić, Marija Živković, Dejan Ivezić (2021)
    The Belgrade district heating system relies on fossil fuels in heat production, where natural gas has the largest share of around 95% and fuel oil with around 4.4%. The Zemun heating plant is completely fueled with fuel oil. Currently, it is the largest plant that is not fueled with natural gas. The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of NO2 from the Zemun heating plant on local air quality by analyzing and comparing the concentration of ...
    NO2, Zagađenje vazduha, Kvalitet vazduh na lokalnom nivou, Model disperzije, AERMOD, Daljinsko grejanje, Beograd

  • Application of Project Management Process on Environmental Management System Improvement in Mining-Energy Complexes

    Jelena Malenović Nikolić, Dejan Vasović , Ivana Filipović , Stevan Mušicki, Ivica Ristović (2016)
    menadžment, rudrastvo i energetski kompleksi, okruženje, održivi razvoj, mrežno planiranje
    ... The product of these two parameters is the impact scale, which is then multiplied by the sum of positive answers to six questions, which are specific to the defined environmental aspects and also relevant for risk assessment. The seriousness of the impact of environmental aspects and risks from the ...
    ... The product of these two parameters is the impact scale, which is then multiplied by the sum of positive answers to six questions, which are specific to the defined environmental aspects and also relevant for risk assessment. The seriousness of the impact of environmental aspects and risks from the ...
    ... ISO/IEC 31010:2009—Risk Management—Risk Assessment Techniques; International Organization for Standardization: Geneva, Switzerland, 2009. 33. Lerche, I.; Glaesser, W. Environmental Risk Assessment—Quantitative Measures, Anthropogenic Influences, Human Impact; Springer: Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany, 2006 ...

  • Legal framework for recultivation of degraded areas caused by mining exploitation

    Radmila Gaćina (2023)
    Prilikom površinske i podzemne eksploatacije uglja eksploatacioni sistemi oštećuju veće ili manje površine zemljišta. Iskustva pokazuju da su oštećenja zemljišta znatno veća kod površinske eksploatacije, gde je prostora degradiran ne samo u konturi rudnika i okoline, već se promene takođe dešavaju u prirodnom okruženju. U članku su predstavljeni rezultati studije zakonskih okvira rekultivacije u nekim zemljama sveta i u Srbiji. Praktično iskustvo rekultivacije pokazalo je da iskorišćenje i devastacija tokom rudarske aktivnosti predstavljaju opasnost ne samo za pogođena ...
    rekultivacija, melioracija, otkopavanje uglja, zakonska regulativa
    ... Agricultural Land, - Waterlaw, - _ Law -on Forests, - . Law on Waste Management, - _ Lawon Environmental Impact Assessment, - _ Lawon Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment, - _ Lawon Integrated Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution. Legal and physical entity who use natural ...
    ... environment in another way. The assessment of the impact of the project on the environment is an integral part of the documentation without which the execution of the project cannot be started, and it is based on the preparation of the Study on the assessment of the impact on the environment (scope ...
    ... GOREY P., MTEGHA H., DOEPEL D. (2016) Integrating: mine closure planning with environmental impact assessment: challenges and opportunities drawn from African and Australian practice. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 34(2):117—128 National Report Available online · https://sustainabled ...

  • Assessment of spa mineral water quality from Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia: geochemical, bacteriological, and health risk aspects

    Nebojša Đ. Pantelić, Simona Jaćimović, Jana Štrbački, Danijela B. Milovanović, Biljana P. Dojčinović, Aleksandar Ž. Kostić (2019)
    The goal of this study is to evaluate the quality of seven natural mineral water sources in the Vrnjačka Banja area used in the treatment of various diseases. The 24 macro- and microelements were determined by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). The results show that element content was within allowed limits of concentration, except for B, As, and Se. The evaluated content of these elements can be associated with geological and anthropogenic factors. The sample S6 contains ...
    Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pollution, General Environmental Science, General Medicine

  • Vulnerability methods in hard rock formation as a basis for groundwater risk assessment – from resource to source

    Vladimir Živanović, Igor Jemcov, Veselin Dragišić (2022)
    Groundwater in a hard rock formation is most endangered at places where a potential source can discharge contaminants that can reach the saturated zone of an aquifer. In these circumstances, an essential tool for groundwater protection is the contamination risk map. This map is based on the integration of two maps: a hazards map, i.e., map of potential sources of contamination and a vulnerability map. The selection of a proper vulnerability method is an important task since the resulting ...
    karta rizika od kontaminacije, ranjivosti podzemnih voda, DRASTIC, EPIK, PI, COP, Nacionalni park Tara

  • Application of a Method for Intelligent Multi-Criteria Analysis of the Environmental Impact of Tailing Ponds in Northern Kosovo and Metohija

    Gordana Milentijević, Blagoje Nedeljković, Milena Lekić, Zoran Nikić, Ivica Ristović, Jelena Đokić (2016)
    flotacijska jalovišta, životna sredina, višekriterijumska analiza, ekologija, Trepča
    ... The research presented in this paper was conducted as a part of the Project III 43007: Climate Change Impact to the Environment-Assessment, Adaptation and Mitigation, Sub-Project 15: Climate Change Impact to the Environment and Natural Resources of the North of Kosovo and Metohija and Project OI 176018: ...
    ... crushed, then milled to the average size of 0.1 mm in grain diameter. The grain-size distribution is of vital interest for the environmental impact assessment of the tailings. Based on the grain-size distribution investigation, done for the tailing waste Bostanište, the particles are sized between 0 ...
    ... besides problematic ownership, lack of data about the current conditions of the landfill, characteristics of the deposed material and environmental impact assessment analyses is also a concern. Important environmental aspects (air, water, soil), character of deposed material (chemical, quantities and other) ...

  • A proposal for the landslide damage questionnaire in suburban areas

    Uroš Đurić, Biljana Abolmasov, Miloš S. Marjanović, Sanja Jocković, Miloš D. Marjanović (2022)
    Landslides are one of the most often natural disasters that have an extensive impact on society including loss of life, destruction of infrastructure and properties, damage to land and loss of natural resources. Landslide losses can significantly vary and they depend on a variety of different criteria such as the size and type of landslide, lithological setting of terrain, the terrain slope gradient, the quality of materials used for construction, and the construction typology. Damage from landslides is usually ...
    istraživanja, objekti, klizišta, rizik, procena

  • A multi-criteria approach for assessing the potential of renewable energy sources for electricity generation: Case Serbia

    Boban Pavlović, Dejan Ivezić, Marija Živković (2021)
    When assessing the potential of renewable energy alternatives for electricity generation, it is necessary to implement a multi-perspective approach that includes economic, technical, environmental, and socio-political criteria. For the evaluation of criteria and alternatives, the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) method is applied. The obtained weights are formed according to the values of energy indicators and expert judgments. The use of a fuzzy numerical value scale for the assessment of expert judgments and energy indicators provides a more sensitive ...
    Proizvodnja električne energije, Obnovljivi izvori energije, Višekriterijumsko odlučivanje, Srbija
    ... dioxide (CO2) - equivalents (CO2eq/MWh), is introduced as a measure of RESs’ negative impact on the environment. As a literature source for values of lifecycle emissions indica- tor, data from the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovern- mental Panel on Climate Change are used (IPC, 2014) (Table ...
    ... generation from RESs can bring more sig- nificant reductions in greenhouse gasses (GHG) emissions, there is still a negative impact on the environment. When assessing this negative impact on the environment, it is important to evaluate RESs from a lifecycle perspective and to consider emissions in the fuel ...
    ... fuzzy numerical value scale for the assessment of expert judgments and energy indicators provides a more sensitive scoring system for differences between values than the typical rank of absolute energy indicator values. This approach is implemented for assessment of the potential of renewable energy ...

  • The ‘Umka’ landslide

    Uroš Đurić, Dragana Đurić, Miloš Marjanović, Biljana Abolmasov, Ivana Vasiljević (2024)
    We present an in-depth landslide map of the ‘Umka’ landslide near Belgrade, Serbia, at a scale of 1:5000. The map delineates elements at risk, primarily buildings and road infrastructure impacted by the landslide displacements of several cm per year, introduced during frequent reactivation stages. The Main map results from a survey of over 350 buildings and more than 7 km of state and local roads. The acquisition techniques included engineering geological field mapping, building survey, and visual interpretation of ...
    rizik od klizišta, elementi rizika, kartiranje pomoću drona, ispitivanje objekata, geotehnički monitoring

  • Development of the Availability Concept by Using Fuzzy Theory with AHP Correction, a Case Study: Bulldozers in the Open-Pit Lignite Mine

    Stevan Đenadić, Dragan Ignjatović, Miloš Tanasijević, Uglješa Bugarić, Ivan Janković, Tomislav Šubaranović (2019)
    Availability is one of the most used terms in maintainability engineering. This concept is used to denote: The quality of service of an engineering system, i.e., machines, weak points’ analysis, asset management, as well as making decisions in the process of life cycle management. Availability is an overall indicator and contains partial indicators that are oriented towards reliability, maintenance, and logistical support. Availability presents a variable value and changes in time and space. Usually, availability is shown as the ...
    raspoloživost, fazi teorija, AHP višekriterijumska analiza, eksperska ocena, buldozer
    ... severity of the impact factors in decision making. The subject of interest is not the accurate measurements of individual quantities, but the accent is placed on a proportional relationship between them [22]. It is based on the measurement comparing pairs, depending on the expert assessment in defining ...
    ... under consideration, the indicator S has the greatest impact on the Energies 2019, 12, 4044 12 of 18 availability, as well as on the “return” of the machine from the failure state to operation followed by M while indicator R has the least impact. Through their mutual comparison in pairs, a matrix ...
    ... Max–min composition, also called a pessimistic composition due to the process by which it is performed. A synthesis assessment is obtained by using a representative partial assessment that is defined as the best possible among the worst expected individual assessments. This composition is used to represent ...

  • Risk Evaluation: Brief Review and Innovation Model Based on Fuzzy Logic and MCDM

    Stevan Djenadic, Milos Tanasijevic, Predrag Jovancic, Dragan Ignjatovic, Dejan Petrovic, Ugljesa Bugaric (2022)
    The risk assessment of engineering systems represents an important part of the quality of service and dependability. The existing methods for risk evaluation use crisp sets for rating partial indicators’ proposition and their cumulative products as an overall indicator. In this paper, existing FMEA and FMECA methods have been improved using the fuzzy expert system for calculating the risk priority number. The application of fuzzy logic allows the use of linguistic descriptions for risk analysis. In this way, the ...
    rizik, inženjerski sistemi, fazi logika, višekriterijumske metode