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FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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FINAL

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Sunday, July 2nd 2006

19:30 Welcome drink – Registration (Swimming Pool Bar – MINOA PALACE HOTEL)

Monday, July 3rd 2006

8:00 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:30

OPENING CEREMONY

CONFERENCE CHAIRS – E. Gidarakos, N. Nikolaidis, C. Christodoulatos PRESIDENT OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE – I. Gryspolakis HELLENIC PARLIAMENT REPRESENTATIVE - A. Kastiyiannis

9:30 – 10:00

GEORGE KREMLES EUROPEAN UNION REPRESENTATIVE – DG ENVIRONMENT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

10:00 – 10:30

GEORGE F. PINDER DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, U.S.A. AN OVERVIEW OF THE USE OF MATHEMATICAL SIMULATION AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH METHODS IN GROUNDWATER CONTAMINANT HYDROLOGY

10:30 – 11:00

RAINER STEGMANN INSTITUTE FOR WASTE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY TUHH, GERMANY FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN WASTE MANAGEMENT

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

Session 1: Management and Treatment of Solid Waste I

Session 2: Groundwater and Soil Remediation I

Session 3: Mathematical Modeling and System Analysis

11:30 – 13:30

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: E. Koelsch and E.

Voudrias,

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: W. Braida and M. Pantazidou

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: K. Katsifarakis and G.M. Horsch

COMPOSITION AND PRODUCTION RATE OF SOLID WASTE FROM THE MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY LABO-RATORY OF SOCIAL SECURITY FOUNDATION (IKA) IN XANTHI, GREECE, A. Graikos, N. Iosifidis, M. Kalpakidou, E. Voudrias (Greece)

BIOREMEDIATION AND BIOAUGMENTA-TION OF CHLOROETHENE SOURCE AREAS: A FIELD-SCALE TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION AT LAUCH COMPLEX 34, KENNEDY SPACE STATION, FL, D. Major, E. Hood, E. Edwards (Canada)

DETECTABILITY OF CHEMICALS IN 3D FLOW BY MICROSENSOR ARRAYS, R. Wu, N. D. Katopodes (U.S.A.)

Monday, July 3rd 2006

Session 1: Management and Treatment of Solid Waste I

Session 2: Groundwater and Soil Remediation I

Session 3: Mathematical Modeling and System Analysis

11:30 – 13:30 (continue)

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: E. Koelsch and E.

Voudrias,

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: W. Braida and M. Pantazidou

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: K. Katsifarakis and G.M. Horsch

IN-VESSEL COMPOSTING OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE – EF-FECT OF FEEDSTOCK PROPER-TIES ON FINAL PRODUCT QUALI-TY, G. Pashalis, P. Kalogerolopoulos, D. Sakelariadis, A. Katsiri (Greece) MEDICAL IMAGING WASTES FROM HEALTH UNITS: FIELD SURVEY AND TREATMENT OPTIONS-A CASE STUDY, G. Sanida, A. Karagiannidis, N. Moussiopoulos, D. Vartzopoulos (Greece) DESIGN CONFIGURATION AND COST ANALYSIS OF MBT PLANTS WITH MRF AND AEROBIC COMPOSTING FOR MSW, J. Armeftis, G. Naxakis, A. P. Economopoulos (Greece) AN INTEGRATED LCA SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT TOOL: A CASE STUDY FOR XANTHI, GREECE, K. Tsilemou, D. Panagiotakopoulos (Greece) CHEMICAL RECYCLING OF POLYSTYRENE, D.S. Achilias, I. Kanellopoulou, P. Megalokonomos, A. Lappas, E. Antonakou (Greece)

IN SITU REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION OF CHLORINATED ETHENES IN HIGH NITRATE GROUNDWATER, P. Bennett, D. Gandhi, S. Warner1, J. Bussey (U.S.A.) USE OF HUMIC ACIDS FOR BIOREMEDIATION OF SOIL CONTAMINATED WITH PENTACHLOROPHENOL (PCP), K. Dercová, Z. Sejáková, M. Skokanová, J. Růžička, J. Čičmanová (Slovak Republic) THE AQUIFER ASSESSMENT TOOL: MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND FIELD TRIALS, D. Nayagum, C. Berryman, D. Mc Knight, M. Mohamed, S. Banwart, N. Thomson (U.K.) REHABILITATION OF SEVEN (7) HYDROCARBON CONTAMINATED SITES IN A BRACKISH WATER/LAGOON ENVIRONMENT IN SOUTH TRINIDAD, A. Mohammed, K. Ramnath, S. Dyal, F. Lalla, J. Roopchand (West Indies) BIOAVAILABILITY ENHANCEMENT WITH VEGETABLE OIL DURING COMPOSTING OF PAH CONTAMINATED SOIL: A CASE STUDY, T. Cajthaml (Czech Republic)

FLOOD WAVE PROPAGATION MODELING FOR PINIOS RIVER, I. Chatzispiroglou, D. Pantelakis, E. Anastasiadou-Partheniou, T. Zissis (Greece) GEOSTATICAL ANALYSIS OF HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND PARAMETER VALUES AT THE SCALE OF NUMERICAL ELEMENTS, E. K. Paleologos, T. Sarris (U.S.A.) 3-D OIL SPILL MODELLING. DISPERSION AND SPREADING OF OIL-WATER EMULSIONS IN THE WATER COLUMN, I. Papadimitrakis, M. Psaltaki, N. Markatos (Greece) APPLICATION OF THE MEMO AND MM5 MODELS IN THE CONTEXT OF URBAN ENERGY BUDGET STUDIES FOR THE GREATER ATHENS AREA, N. Moussiopoulos, J. Douros, G. Tsegas, E. Fragkou, A. Carvalho, N. Aquilina, C. Borrego (Greece) MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF BIOFILM STRUCTURES WITH CELLULAR - AUTOMATA AND INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELING APPROACHES, C S. Laspidou, A. Kungolos, P. Samaras (Greece)

Monday, July 3rd 2006

Session 1: Management and Treatment of Solid Waste I

Session 2: Groundwater and Soil Remediation I

Session 3: Mathematical Modeling and System Analysis

11:30 – 13:30 (continue)

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: E. Koelsch and E.

Voudrias,

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: W. Braida and M. Pantazidou

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: K. Katsifarakis and G.M. Horsch

CHEMICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL POLLUTION AT A FERTILIZER PLANT AT VASILIKO, CYPRUS-CASE STUDY FOR SITE-SPECIFIC RISK ASSESSMENT, A. Charalambides, M. Lysandrou (Cyprus) A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE REGIONAL MSW MANAGEMENT PLANS IN GREECE, A. P. Economopoulos (Greece)

TPH, BTEX AND MTBE REMOVAL FROM GROUNDWATER USING THE AIR SPARGING TECHNOLOGY, M. Aivalioti, E. Gidarakos (Greece) USING PLANTS FOR RECULTIVATION OF OIL POLLUTED SOILS, N.М. Dzhura, О.I. Romanyuk, I. V. Oshchapovsky, Jan Gąsior, O.M. Tsvilynyuk, O.I. Terek (Ukraine)

DETERMINATION OF THE MULTIPHASE TRANSPORT COEFFICIENTS OF HETEROGENEOUS SOILS, C. A. Aggelopoulos, C. D. Tsakiroglou (Greece) THERMAL COMFORT STUDY IN AN AIR-CONDITIONED AMPHITHEATER USED IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES “ATHENS 2004”, A. I. Stamou, M. Politis, A. Schaelin (Greece)

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break

17:30 – 18:30 Poster Session I

18:30 – 19:00

LUIS F. DIAZ CALRECOVERY, INC., CALIFORNIA, USA SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ISLANDS

Session 4: Management and Treatment of Solid Waste II

Session 5: Groundwater and Soil Remediation II

Session 6: Groundwater Modeling 19:00 – 20:30

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: N. Moussiopoulos and M.

Loizidou

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: S. Banwart and D. Dermatas

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: N. Katopodis and E. Paleologos

OLD LANDFILL SITE REVITA-LIZATION IN THE FOCUS OF REGIONAL PLANNING, G. Allgaier, R. Stegmann (Germany)

BIOREMEDIATION OF PHENANTHRENE POLLUTED SOILS BY SELECTED MICROBIAL CONSORTIA AND PURE STRAINS, L. Bardi, E. Molino, R. Fabbian, E. Bertolone, S. Belviso, R. Ambrosoli (Italy)

OPTIMAL ESTIMATION OF AQUIFER BOTTOM ELEVATION BY MEANS OF A GENETIC ALGORITHM CODE, M. Tolika, A. Zorba, K.L. Katsifarakis (Greece)

Monday, July 3rd 2006

Session 4: Management and Treatment of Solid Waste II

Session 5: Groundwater and Soil Remediation II

Session 6: Groundwater Modeling 19:00 – 20:30 (continue)

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: N. Moussiopoulos and M.

Loizidou

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: S. Banwart and D. Dermatas

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: N. Katopodis and E. Paleologos

COMMUNITY BASED LANDFILL MONITORING, F. Kölsch, K. Fricke (Germany) STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND RISK ASSESSMENT OF OPEN DUMPS IN THE HELLENIC PREFECTURE OF LACONIA, Th. Kouimtzis, A. Karagiannidis, I. Antonopoulos, Th. Tsatsarelis, G. Perkoulidis (Greece) SITING A MSW LANDFILL USING GIS, MULTICRITERIA EVALUA-TION AND FUZZY LOGIC TECHNI-QUES, A. Gemitzi, G. Stravodimos, V. A. Tsihrintzis, E. Voudrias, C. Petalas (Greece) DESIGN AND SET UP OF A LABORATORY SCALE AEROBIC LANDFILL BIOREACTOR, G. Makripodis, F. Simantiraki, M. Somara, E. Gidarakos (Greece) OPTIMIZING THE HAUL AND DISPOSAL OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE PRODUCED BY THE MUNICIPALITY OF ATHENS USING MIXED LINEAR AND INTEGER PROGRAMMING, D.P. Komillis, K. Lazaridi, T. Haritopoulou, A. Togia (Greece)

APPLICATION OF THE OIL-DEGRADING PREPARATION “RHODER” FOR BIOREMEDIATION OF OILY SLUDGE: A FIELD-SCALE STUDY IN CHINA, V. Murygina, Liu-Hong, Ouyang-Wei, Yu-Yongyong, Xiu-Zengde, S. Kalyuzhnyi (Russia) ELECTROKINETIC TREATMENT OF FIRING RANGES CONTAINING TUNGSTEN-CONTAMINATED SOILS, W. Braida, C. Christodoulatos, A. Ogundipe, D. Dermatas.1, G. O’Connor (U.S.A.) IN SITU BIOREMEDIATION OF PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS AT THE FORMER SOVIET AFB HRADCANY, J. Machackova, K. Vlk, F. Hercik, S. Proksova (Czech Republic) BIOAUGMENTATION – IS IT REALLY NEEDED FOR THE BIOREMEDIATION OF CONTAMINATED SITES?, N. Kalogerakis (Greece) CAN BIOAUGMENTATION ENHANCE BENZENE BIOREMEDIATION? P. Pothiruckit-Prachyanusorn, T. Nazir Mahamooth, J. R. Mason (Thailand)

DELINEATION OF CAPTURE ZONES IN GROUNDWATER AQUIFERS AS A TOOL FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE “POLLUTER-PAYS” PRINCIPLE, N. Theodossiou, P. Latinopoulos, G.P. Karatzas, E.A Maria (Greece) HYDROGEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PARADISOS KARST AQUIFER SYSTEM, NORTH EAST GREECE, C.P. Petalas, A. Gemitzi1, V. Pisinaras, G. Charambidis, V.A. Tsihrintzis (Greece) USE OF APPROXIMATE FORMS OF THE METHOD OF IMAGES IN GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS, I.-G. Koutsourelakis, V. Gardikou, K. L. Katsifarakis (Greece) OPTIMAL FRESH WATER MANAGEMENT WITH EMPHASIS IN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY CRITERIA IN THE NORTHERN PART OF RHODES ISLAND, GREECE, M.P. Papadopoulou, E. Vondikaki, M. Stergiadi, G.P. Karatzas (Greece) THE APPLICATION OF THE PTC MODEL IN THE MAVROSOUVALA AREA, I. Trichakis, E. Baltas (Greece)

Tuesday, July 4th 2006

8:30 – 9:00

EDWARD T. FURLONG U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, NATIONAL WATER QUALITY LABORATORY, DENVER, COLORADO, U.S.A PHARMACEUTICALS AND OTHER EMERGING CONTAMINANTS IN WATER RESOURCES: METHODS, RESULTS, AND A DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

9:00 – 9:30

GEORGE KORFIATIS STEVEN’S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, U.S.A. NANOTECHNOLOGY: ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

Session 7: Management and Treatment of Liquid Waste I

Session 8: Groundwater and Soil Remediation III

Session 9: Water Resources Engineering and Management I

9:30 – 11:30

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: A. Andreadakis and F.

Federici

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: D. Major and P. Bennett

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: T. Herrigton and M. Mimikou

RELIABILITY OF SMALL COM-MERCIAL GREYWATER TREAT-MENT SYSTEMS-A CASE STUDY, A. Gross, A. Wiel-Shafran, N. Bondarenko, Z. Ronen (Israel) IMMERSED MEMBRANE ULTRA-FILTRATION OF MUNICIPAL WA-STEWATER TREATMENT EFFLU-ENT, E.Dialynas, E.Diamantopoulos (Greece) PANUS TIGRINUS: A VALUABLE FUNGUS FOR DECONTAMINATION PURPOSES OF BOTH WASTE-WATERS AND SOLID WASTES, D. Quaratino, M. Petruccioli, F. Federici, A. D’Annibale (Italy)

DECHLORINATING ABILITY OF TCE-FED MICROCOSMS WITH DIFFERENT ELECTRON DONORS, I. Panagiotakis, D. Mamais, M. Pantazidou, M. Marneri, M. Parapouli, E. Hatziloukas, V. Tandoi (Greece) OXIDATIVE MACROMOLECULE DAMA-GE IN GILL OF MYTILUS EDULIS FROM A POLLUTED SITE AND REVERSIBILITY AFTER DEPURATION, C. Emmanouil, R. M. Green, D. J. Smart, F. R. Willey, N. J. Hodges, J. K. Chipman (U.K.) APPLICATION OF PROJECT MANAGE-MENT PRINCIPLES FOR THE RECLAMA-TION OF OLD MINE SITES. THE CASE OF THORICOS BAY IN LAVRION, GREECE, K. Adam, C. Drettas, I. Panagopoulos, N. Voudouris, A. Kourtis, A. Tsakarisianos, C. Chatzigianneli (Greece)

CATCHMENT MODELING FOR THE ESTIMATION OF NUTRIENT LOSSES IN SURFACE WATERS, I. Panagopoulos, M. Mimikou, I. Bekiaris (Greece) MODELLING NUTRIENT FATE FROM AGRICULTURE: AN INTEGRATED FRA-MEWORK, F. Bouraoui, B. Grizzetti (Italy) DEVELOPING TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MONITORING SYSTEMS IN THE BALKANS, THE CASE OF THE PRESPA LAKE, Y.A Mylopoulos, P.J.Ganoulis, D.G.Vagiona (Greece)

Tuesday, July 4th 2006

9:30 – 11:30 (continue)

Session 7: Management and Treatment of Liquid Waste I

Session 8: Groundwater and Soil Remediation III

Session 9: Water Resources Engineering and Management I

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: A. Andreadakis and F.

Federici

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: D. Major and P. Bennett

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: T. Herrigton and M. Mimikou

ORIENTATION OF URBAN COASTAL AGGLOMERATES IN MEDITERRANEAN TOWARDS AN APPROPRIATE DISCHARGE, E. Görgün, A. Erenguc, K. Unal, G. Insel (Turkey) WATER DECOLORATION BY EMPLOYING DISPERSED-AIR FLOTATION, N.K. Lazaridis, E.K. Dafnopatidou, K.A. Matis (Greece) COMPLEX TOXICITY AND BIODEGRADABILITY ASSESSMENT OF TANNERY LANDFILL LEACHATE, A. Žgajnar Gotvajn, J. Zagorc-Končan (Slovenia) PILOT STUDY OF THE REMOVAL OF CHLORINATED, BROMO-CHLORINATED AND BROMINATED SPECIES OF THMS AND HAAS FROM DRINKING WATER BY GAC ADSORPTION, K.G. Babi, K.M. Koumenides, A.D. Nikolaou, C.A. Makri, F.K. Tzoumerkas, T.D. Lekkas (Greece) ADSORPTION OF REACTIVE RED 239 FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION ONTO HMS TYPE MESOPOROUS SILICA, N.K Lazaridis, Asouhidou D.D., Triantafyllidis K.S,. K.A. Matis (Greece)

ANAEROBIC METHANE OXIDATION AS A BARRIER TO METHANE EMISSIONS FROM MARINE SEDIMENTS WITH GAS HYDRATES, A. Kallionaki, N. Kalogerakis (Greece) USE OF SDS AS SURFACTANT ON ELECTROKINETIC REMEDIATION OF CADMIUM CONTAMINATED SOIL, A. Giannis, E. Gidarakos, A. Skouta (Greece) EFFECT OF HIGH SOIL HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATION ON GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION, K. G. Serelis, E. G. Papazoglou (Greece) HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS FROM SURFACE GEOPHYSICAL METHODS : KERITIS BASIN IN CHANIA-CRETE, P.M. Soupios, M. Kouli, F. Vallianatos, A. Vafidis, G. Stavroulakis (Greece) PHYTOEXTRACTION AND RELEASE OF Cd BY THE LEAVES OF TAMARIX SMYRNENSIS GROWING ON CONTAMINATED NON SALINE AND SALINE ENVIRONMENT, E. Manousaki, N. Papadantonakis, N. Kalogerakis (Greece)

HYDROLOGIC AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING OF A TYPICAL TEMPORARY MEDITERRANEAN RIVER BASIN, Ο. Τzoraki, Ν. Νikolaidis (Greece) THE COMBINED USE OF HEDONIC PRICING AND SPATIAL REGRESSION MODELS IN AGRICULTURAL WATER VALUATION, Z. Mallios, A. Papageorgiou, P. Latinopoulos (Greece) WATER PRICING AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: TOWARDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EU WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE, C. Fafoutis, N. Mylopoulos, D. Vagiona, A. Liakopoulos (Greece) RIVER TYPOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN GREECE IN SIGHT OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE (2000/60/EC), N. Th. Skoulikidis, K. C. Gritzalis, I. Karaouzas (Greece) ON THE HYDROLOGIC ANALYSIS FOR WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN AEGEAN ISLANDS, S.N. Michas, M. Pikounis, I. Nalbantis, P.L. Lazaridou, E.I. Daniil (Greece)

Tuesday, July 4th 2006

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

Session 10: Management and Treatment of Liquid Waste II

Session 11: Protection and Restoration of Coastal Zone I

Session 12: Water Resources Engineering and Management II

12:00 – 14:00

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: T.D. Lekkas and A.

Katsiri

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: A. Blumberg and Y. Krestenitis

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: F. Bouraoui and Y. Mylopoulos

THE EFFICIENCY OF HALOTO-LERANT PHENOL-DEGRADING MICROORGANISM IN DETOXIFI-CATION OF PHENOL AND RE-SORCINOL COMPOUNDS, A.L. Leitão (Portugal) A KINETIC STUDY OF BIOLO-GICAL Cr(VI) REDUCTION USING A TRICKLING FILTER, E. Dermou, K.H. Antoniou, Ch.A. Mauronicola, D.V. Vayenas (Greece) ANAEROBIC-AEROBIC BIOMINE-RALISATION OF DETOXIFIED CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS, S. Kalyuzhnyi, N. Yemashova, D. Kovalyev, S. Varfolomeyev (Russia) PERCHLORATE DEGRADATION IN A PACKED BED BIOREACTOR UNDER ACETIC ACID OXIDIZING CONDITIONS, S. W.K. Nah, C. Christodoulatos, T.L. Su, M. Sidhoum (U.S.A.) INVESTIGATION OF BIOFILM GROWTH AND ATTRITION IN AN AIR LIFT BIOREACTOR DEGRADING ORGANIC POLLUTANTS, BY THE USE OF RADIOLABELLED TRACERS, P. Gikas, A.G. Livingston (U.K.)

FLOW ESTIMATION THROUGH COASTAL SPILLWAYS, P. D. Scarlatos (U.S.A.) TRANSECTING THE SHORELINES VERSUS SEGMENTATION TO ASSESS COASTAL EVOLUTION, E. Doukakis (Greece) MODELLING OF INTERMITTENT DISCHARGES TO COASTAL WATERS, R. J. Miskewitz, T.O. Herrington, C. Obropta, S. Thomas, R.I. Hires (U.S.A.) COMPARISON OF THE INTERTIDAL FLUSHING CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO ADJACENT COASTAL LAGOONS, G.K. Sylaios, C.S. Akratos, V.A. Tsihrintzis, K.I. Haralampidou (Greece) EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF THE USE OF THE WATER INJECTION DREDGING SYSTEM IN THE HUDSON RIVER ESTUARY, K. N. Dimou, A. F. Blumberg (U.S.A.)

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SYNTHETIC UNIT HYDROGRAPH METHODS USING WMS RAINFALL – RUNOFF PROCESS SIMULATION, S. Yannopoulos, A. Katsi, D. Papamichail (Greece) A MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT: APPLICATION IN LOUDIAS RIVER BASIN, D. Latinopoulos, Y. Mylopoulos (Greece) EVALUATION OF POLLUTANT LOADING IN THE RUNOFF WATERS FROM A MAJOR URBAN HIGHWAY (GDANSK BELTWAY, POLAND) , Ż. Polkowska, K. Skarżyńska, A. Dubiella-Jackowska, W. Staszek, J. Namieśnik (Poland) MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND SIMULATION OF PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN THE CONSTRUCTED WETLAND OF CARLA, GREECE, C S. Laspidou, A. Liakopoulos, V. Vaina (Greece) POLICY OPTIONS THROUGH WATER CONSERVATION IN AGRICULTURE IN THESSALY AREA, A. Loukas ,E. Kolokytha, N. Mylopoulos, L. Vasiliades, A. Mentes, Y. Mylopoulos (Greece)

Tuesday, July 4th 2006

Session 10: Management and Treatment of Liquid Waste II

Session 11: Protection and Restoration of Coastal Zone I

Session 12: Water Resources Engineering and Management II

12:00 – 14:00 (continue)

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: T.D. Lekkas and A.

Katsiri

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: A. Blumberg and Y. Krestenitis

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: F. Bouraoui and Y. Mylopoulos

ADVANCED OXIDATION OF 4-CHLORO-2-NITROPHENOL (4C-2-NP) – A COMPARATIVE STUDY, P. Saritha, C. Aparna, V.Himabindu, Y. Anjaneyulu (India) STEAM REFORMING OF BIO-OIL COMPONENTS FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION - EFFECT OF ACTIVE METAL AND SUPPORT MATERIALS, E. Vagia, A. Lemonidou (Greece) EFFECT OF COPPER (II) ON A BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENT REMO-VAL PERFORMANCE REACTOR, Z. Salem, K. Allia (Alger)

GROUNDWATER DISCHARGES INTO SOUTH EVVOIKOS GULF, GREECE: THEIR EFFECT ON TEMPERATURE, SALINITY AND SUSPENDED PARTI-CULATE MATTER CONCENTRATION, A. P. Karageorgis, D. Georgopoulos, V. Papadopoulos (Greece) CHARACTERISTICS OF PHOSPHO-GYPSUM DISPOSED ON A COASTAL AREA IN CYPRUS, M. Lyssandrou, c, A. Charalambides, K. Kehagia, V. Koukouliou, K. Poteriades, M. Konstantinou, K. Kolokassidou, I. Pashalidis (Cyprus) PCP TREATED TIMBERS IN A COASTAL AREA OF GREECE: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT & BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS, E. Cotou, P. Anastassiadou, K. Machera (Greece)

ASSESSMENT OF THE CHANGES IN THE ARACHTOS RIVER FLOW AND SEDIMENT DISCHARGES DUE TO ANTHROPOGENIC INTERVENTIONS, I. Panagopoulos, M. Mimikou (Greece) INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN HAVRIAS WATERSHED OF THE PREFECTURE OF CHALKIDIKI, GREECE, I. S. Giannopoulou, Y. A. Mylopoulos (Greece) OPTIMIZATION MODEL OF AN IRRIGATION RESERVOIR FOR WATER ALLOCATION AND CROP PLANNING, P. E. Georgiou, D. M. Papamichail (Greece)

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break

17:00 – 18:00 SPECIAL SESSION

17:00 – 18:00 ALAN F. BLUMBERG DEPT OF CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCEAN ENGINEERING, STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, USA THE PRINCETON OCEAN MODEL AT TWENTY FIVE: A VISION OF THE NEXT TWENTY FIVE

17:30 – 18:30 Poster Session II

18:30 – 19:00

BERND BILITEWSKI INSTITUTE OF WASTE MANAGEMENT & CONTAMINATED SITE TREATMENT, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DRESDEN, GERMANY WASTE TO ENERGY

Tuesday, July 4th 2006

Session 13: Management and Treatment of Gaseous Waste

Session 14: Protection and Restoration of Coastal Zone II

Session 15: Fluid Mechanics 19:00 – 20:30

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: A. Aivasidis and S.

Kalyuzhnyi

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: R. Hires and P. Scarlatos

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: P. Latinopoulos and S.

Yiannopoulos APPLICATION OF NITRATE

ADDITION IN MUNICIPAL PRES-SURE SEWER SYSTEMS FOR ODOR CONTROL, V. L. Mathioudakis and A. Aivasidis (Greece) TECHNOLOGIES OF LANDFILL GAS MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION, T. Tsatsarelis , A. Karagiannidis, N. Moussiopoulos, G. Perkoulidis (Greece) LEAN NOX REDUCTION WITH CO+ H2 OVER K-MODIFIED Pd/AL2O3-TiO2 CATALYSTS, M. Konsolakis, M. Vrondaki, I.V. Yentekakis (Greece) DETERMINATION OF ADSORPTION ENTROPIES ON SOLID SURFACES BY REVERSED - FLOW GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY, A. V. Dremetsika, P. A. Siskos, N. A. Katsanos (Greece) NOVEL ELECTROPOSITIVELY PROMOTED MONOMETALLIC (Pt-ONLY) CATALYTIC CONVERTERS FOR AUTOMOTIVE POLLUTION CONTROL, I.V. Yentekakis, M. Konsolakis, I.A. Rapakousios, V. Matsuka (Greece)

SENSORS AND MODELS: THE CORE OF AN URBAN OCEAN OBSERVATORY, A. F. Blumberg, M. S. Bruno, T. O. Herrington, B. J. Fullerton (U.S.A.) IMPACTS OF COASTAL PROTECTION STRATEGIES ON THE COASTS OF CRETE: NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS, I.K. Tsanis, U.M. Saied, V. Valavanis (Greece) MODELLING FAILURE MECHANISMS OF SOFT CLIFF PROFILES, T. Newson, P. Sentenac, P. Dong, X. Wu, M. Davies (Canada) FINE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODEL FOR THE SIMULATION OF POLLUTANTS IN THE COASTAL ENVIRONMENT, K. Kombiadou, Y. N. Krestenitis (Greece) PROTECTION OF COASTAL AND INLAND WATER AREAS USING FLOATING STRUCTURES: APPLICATIONS IN NORTHERN GREECE, E. Loukogeorgaki, T. Koftis, P. Barbaressos (Greece)

EXPERIMENTS ON MIXING IN ENCLOSED SPACES BY VERTICAL BUOYANT JETS, M. N. Fragkos, P. N. Papanicolaou (Greece) ATTENUATION AND FLUSHING CHARACTERISTICS OF LOW POROSITY WAKE SCREENS, T.O. Herrington, R.I. Hires, R. J. Miskewitz, J. Turner, M.S. Bruno, G.A. Boehm (U.S.A.) SCALING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL, MISCIBLE, LAMINAR DENSITY CURRENTS FLOWING DOWN AN INCLINE, G.M. Horsch (Greece) AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE OPEN CHANNEL FLOW IN THE VICINITY OF A PERMEABLE RUBBLE MOUND WEIR, E.V. Koutandos, P.E. Prinos (Greece)

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SCOURING AROUND BRIDGE PIERS, E. D. Farsirotou, J. V. Soulis, V. D. Dermissis (Greece)

Tuesday, July 4th 2006

Session 13: Management and Treatment of Gaseous Waste

Session 14: Protection and Restoration of Coastal Zone II

Session 15: Fluid Mechanics 19:00 – 20:30 (continue)

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: A. Aivasidis and S.

Kalyuzhnyi

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: R. Hires and P. Scarlatos

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: P. Latinopoulos and S.

Yiannopoulos EVALUATING THE USE OF

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY IMAGING TECHNIQUE FOR IMPROVING CH4 AND CO2 EMISSION RATE ESTIMATIONS IN LANDFILLS, I. Georgaki, P. Soupios, N. Sakkas, F. Ververidis, E. Trantas, F. Vallianatos, T. Manios (Greece)

MODELLING OF MARINE STRUCTURES’ CONTRIBUTION IN COASTAL SEDIMENT TRANSPORT – CASE OF OURANOPOLI BAY, I. S. Androulidakis, K. Kombiadou, Y. N. Krestenitis (Greece)

ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF SEDIMENT YIELD ON THE SUSTAI-NABILITY OF MAJOR HYDRAULIC SYSTEM, D. Zarris, E. Lykoudi, D. Panagoulia (Greece) 2DV WAVE INTERACTION WITH SUBMERGED IMPERMEABLE ORTHO-GONAL BREAKWATERS, E.V. Koutandos, P.E. Prinos, C.G. Koutitas (Greece)

Wednesday, July 5th 2006

8:30 – 9:00

PANOS G. GEORGOPOULOS COMPUTATIONAL CHEMODYNAMICS LABORATORY, ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL AND RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, U.S.A. A HOLISTIC MULTISCALE APPROACH FOR ASSESSING THE INTERACTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

9:00 – 9:30

STEVEN EISENREICH EUROPEAN CHEMICALS BUREAU, TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES UNIT, INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CONSUMER PROTECTION, JOINT RESEARCH CENTER, EUROPEAN COMMISSION, ITALY THE NEW EUROPEAN CHEMICAL POLICY – REACH – AND THE IMPLICATIONS TO CHEMICAL RISK ASSESSMENT

Session 16: Management and Treatment of Liquid Waste III

Session 17: Fate and Transport of Pollutants in the Environment I

Session 18: Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Analysis I

9:30 – 11:30

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: A. Zoumboulis and K.

Svobodová

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: K. Schramm and C

Chrysikopoulos

Room : ARIADNI Session Chairs: O. Blum and A. Liakopoulos

ADSORPTION OF OLIVE MILL WASTEWATER ON RAW AND ACTIVATED GREEK LIGNITES, C. Galanakis, D. Dimou, N. Pasadakis, K. Papanicolaou, V. Gekas (Greece) THE EFFECT OF SOLIDS ON THE ELECTROCHEMICAL TREATMENT OF OLIVE MILL EFFLUENTS, E. Kotta, N. Kalogerakis, D. Mantzavinos (Greece) AEROBIC BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF OLIVE MILL WASTEWATER, G. Tziotzios, D. V. Vayenas (Greece)

TRANSPORT OF NANOSIZED ALUMINUM PARTICLES THROUGH SAND COLUMNS AND RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, R. Doshi, W. Braida, C. Christodoulatos, M. Wazne, G. O’Connor (U.S.A.) PATHOGEN FATE AND TRANSPORT IN A FRACTURED AQUIFER AT SALENTO, ITALY: FIELD DESCRIPTION AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS, C. Masciopinto, R. La Mantia, C. V. Chrysikopoulos (Italy) PERFORMANCE MONITORING OF A VERTICAL FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLAND TREATING MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER, C.S. Akratos, G.D. Gikas, V.A. Tsihrintzis (Greece)

COMPUTER AIDED EVALUATION OF LYSIMETER TESTS FOR THE RISK ASSESSMENT OF TREATED MATERIALS, O. Kemmesies, S. Krug, P. Gräber (Germany) RADON EMANATION FROM PHOSPHO-GYPSUM AND RELATED MINERAL SAMPLES, M. Lyssandrou, A. Charalambides, I. Pashalidis (Cyprus) DEVELOPMENT OF PCB CLEAN-UP LEVELS TO PROTECT ECOLOGICAL RECEPTORS ALONG THE KALAMAZOO RIVER, MICHIGAN, USA, R. French, T. King (U.S.A.)

Wednesday, July 5th 2006

Session 16: Management and Treatment of Liquid Waste III

Session 17: Fate and Transport of Pollutants in the Environment I

Session 18: Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Analysis I

9:30 – 11:30 (continue)

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: A. Zoumboulis and K.

Svobodová

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: K. Schramm and C

Chrysikopoulos

Room : ARIADNI Session Chairs: O. Blum and A. Liakopoulos

FLOW PATTERN COMPARISON IN A BNR PLANT, E. Vaiopoulou, E. Athanasoulia, A. Aivasidis (Greece) AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PHASE TRANSFORMATION OF BROWNMILLERITE IN CHROMITE ORE PROCESSING RESIDUE, D. Hyun Moon, D. Dermatas, M. Chrysochoou, D. Grubb (U.S.A.) BROWNMILLERITE HYDRATION IN CHROMITE ORE PROCESSING RESIDUE (COPR) AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES, D. Dermatas, A. Sanchez, D. Hyun Moon, M. Chrysochoou, C. Christodolatos, D. Grubb (U.S.A.) EFFECT OF MINERALOGY ON THE LEACHING CHARACTERI-STICS OF SOLID WASTE, M. Chrysochoou, D. Dermatas, S. Pardali (U.S.A.)

LIGNINOLYTIC CAPACITY OF TWO FUNGI, IRPEX LACTEUS AND DICHOMITUS SQUALENS, IMMO-BILIZED ON SOLID SUPPORT, K. Svobodová, M. Šušla, M. Vandrovcová, E. Pojerová (Czech Republic)

ATTENUATION OF ATRAZINE AND ITS MAJOR DEGRADATION PRODUCTS IN A RIPARIAN BUFFER SYSTEM, P. Gay, G. Vellidis, J. Delfino (U.S.A.) THE SPECIFIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MODIFIED SOIL ORGANIC MATTER AND VAPOR-PHASE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, H.-C. Huang, J.-F. Lee, H.-S. Hsu (Taiwan) ASSESSMENT OF MINING SOIL IMPROVEMENT AFTER ORGANIC AND INORGANIC AMENDMENT ADDITIONS EVALUATED BY MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, F.J. Murcia, M.J. Gomez, A. Palop, G. Garcia (Spain) EVALUATION OF WATER QUALITY AND MERCURY TRANSFORMATION IN A CONSTRUCTED WETLAND, P. V. Chavan, K. E. Dennett, E. A. Marchand, M. S. Gustin, J. Stamenkovic (U.S.A.) A GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF Zn MOBILITY IN SULFIDE MINING SOILS FROM ARTAGENA-LA UNIÓN MINING DISTRICT, J.M. Peñas, G. Garcia, J.I. Manteca (Spain)

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ASSES-SMENT BY THE USE OF NATURAL POPULATIONS OF MUSSELS AS BIOINDICATORS, C.A. Papadimitriou, A. Moriki, S. Galinou – Mitsoudi, D. Gavrili (Greece) EFFECTS OF THE HUMAN INDUCED LAND COVER/USE CHANGES IN URBAN, AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (NE PELOPONNESE, S. GREECE), I. Gatsis, Is. Parcharidis, A. Pavlopoulos (Greece) THE CONTRIBUTION OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN AN EIA PROCESS: THE CASE OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF AMFIPOLIS OF SERRES PREFECTURE, S. Economou, A. Guitonas (Greece) ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE PSILORITIS AREA THROUGH THE EUROPEAN GEOPARKS NETWORK INITIATIVE, Ch. Fassoulas, Z.D. Skoula (Greece) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR MUNICIPAL UTILITIES BY MEASUREMENT AND MODELING BASED METHODS, A. Kulig (Poland)

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

Wednesday, July 5th 2006

Session 19: Management and Treatment of Liquid Waste IV

Session 20: Fate and Transport of Pollutants in the Environment II

Session 21: Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Analysis II

12:00 – 14:00

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: G. Lyberatos and D.

Wolicka

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: V. Tsihrintzis and G. Garcia

Room : ARIADNI Session Chairs: E. Anastasiadou-Partheniou, and

R. French

EFFECT OF MLSS CONCENTRA-TION ON THE START-UP OF A SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIO-REACTOR, C. A. Prochaska, A. I. Zouboulis, P. Samaras, D. Zamboulis (Greece) BIOLOGICAL P REMOVAL IN A TWO SLUDGE SYSTEM TREATING MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER: PRE-LIMINARY TEST RESULTS, A.G. Kapagiannidis, A. Aivasidis (Greece) NATURAL SYSTEMS FOR WASTE-WATER TREATMENT SITE SE-LECTION USING GIS AND FUZZY AHP, K. P. Anagnostopoulos, M. Gratziou, A. P. Vavatsikos (Greece) DEVELOPMENT OF A HOLLOW-FIBRE LIQUID-PHASE MICRO-EXTRACTION METHOD USED FOR MONITORING THE SONOCHE-MICAL DEGRADATION OF TRICLOSAN IN WATER, R. Barro, C. Garcia-Jares, M. Llompart, N. Kalogerakis, D. Mantzavinos, E. Psillakis (Greece)

LEACHING OF LEAD FROM CLINOPTILO-LITE AT ACIDIC CONDITIONS, Y. Petrakakis, E. Mylona, D. Georgantas, H. Grigoropoulou (Greece) MONITORING OF PCDD/FS IN A MOUNTAIN FOREST BY MEANS OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SAMPLING, W. Levy, B. Henkelmann, G. Pfister, M. Kirchner, G. Jakobi, A. Niklaus, J. Kotalik, S. Bernhöft. N. Fischer, K.-W. Schramm (Germany) DETERMINATION OF KD AND KOC FOR OESTROGENS IN SEWAGE TREATMENT AND THE IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENTAL FATE, H.E.Keenan (U.K.) AERATION OF CROP ROOT-ZONE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH SUBSURFACE DRIP IRRIGATION, M. Sakellariou-Makrantonaki, P. Vyrlas (Greece)

A RANKING INDEX FOR THE RELATIVE ASSESSMENT OF HAZARDOUS CHEMI-CALS, BASED ON THE MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH, A. N. Paralikas (Greece) PIPE RELIABILITY ASSESMENT USING DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION: A CASE STUDY FROM MEXICO, S. Tsitsifli, V. Kanakoudis, Y. Bakouros (Greece) A NUMERICAL TOOL FOR THE PREDICTION OF TOXIC FUGITIVE DUST DISPERSION DURING SOIL REME-DIATION CONSTRUCTION WORKS, I. Panagopoulos, A. Karayannis, G. Gouvalias, E. Gaki, K. Adam (Greece) NUMERICAL MODELING FOR ASSESSMENT OF ECOLOGICAL STREAM FLOWS, Y. Shen, P. Diplas (U.S.A.)

Wednesday, July 5th 2006

Session 19: Management and Treatment of Liquid Waste IV

Session 20: Fate and Transport of Pollutants in the Environment II

Session 21: Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Analysis II

12:00 – 14:00

(continue) Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: G. Lyberatos and D.

Wolicka

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: V. Tsihrintzis and G. Garcia

Room : ARIADNI Session Chairs: E. Anastasiadou-Partheniou, and

R. French ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF

ALTERNATIVE TERTIARY TREAT-MENT SCHEMES PRODUCING EFFLUENTS SUITABLE FOR REUSE, A. Tzimas, A. Andreadakis, M. Peskosta, M. Aghelopoulos, N. Kalogerakis, G. Karatzas (Greece) BIOTRANSFORMATION OF PHOSPHOGYPSUM IN CULTURES OF BACTERIA SELECTED FROM PETROLEUM, D. Wolicka (Poland) REDUCTION OF NITROARO-MATIC ENERGETIC COMPOUNDS BY ZERO VALENT IRON, P. Wanaratna, C. Christodoulatos, Tsan-Liang Su, M. Sidhoum (U.S.A.) EVALUATION OF ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS BIODEGRABILITY USING RESPIROMETRIC TESTS, A.S. Stasinakis, D. Mamais, N.S. Thomaidis, A. Petalas, T.D. Lekkas (Greece)

MODELING SOIL WATER DYNAMICS IN A SUNFLOWER FIELD IRRIGATED WITH TREATED WASTEWATER THROUGH DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM, M. Rahil, V. Antonopoulos, D. Karamouzis, D. Papamichail (Greece) THE DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN METALS IN SEDIMENTS COVERED WITH ALGAL MAT, M. Ladakis, M. Dassenakis, M. Scoullos, C. Belias (Greece) SORPTION BEHAVIOR OF CESIUM ON VARIOUS SOILS UNDER DIFFERENT PH LEVELS, F. Giannakopoulou, C. Haidouti, A. Chronopoulou, D. Gasparatos (Greece) CADMIUM LEVELS IN SOILS OF HALASTRA−KALOHORI AREA, Th. Matsi, E.G. Hatzigiannakis, G.K. Arampatzis, A.G. Panoras (Greece)

CLIMATE CHANGE INDUCED CHANGES IN FLOOD FREQUENCY AND MAGNITUDE IN COASTAL BRITISH COLUMBIA, A. Loukas (Greece) EVALUATION OF SELECTED WASTE-WATER TREATMENT PLANTS IN GREECE IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS, A. Andreadakis, E. Gavalakis, S. Fraggouli,E. Karakatsani (Greece) POLLUTION RISK ASSESSMENT FROM EUROPEAN MINING SITES AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM TAILINGS DAMS IN GREECE, K. Hadjibiros, I.D. Mantziaras, D.G. Sakellariadis, C. Giannakidou, A. Katsiri (Greece) SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE SIGNATURES OF INLAND WATER BODIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR REMOTE SENSING USE IN THE RETRIEVAL AND MONITORING OF WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS, D.G. Hadjimitsis, C.R.I Clayton, G.Michaelides (Cyprus)

14:00 – 15:00 Poster Session III

20:00 - ….. Conference Dinner

Thursday, July 6th 2006

8:30 – 9:00

CONSTANTINOS SIOUTAS DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AMBIENT ULTRAFINE PARTICULATE MATTER (PM); SUMMARY OF 5 YEARS RESEARCH BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PARTICLE CENTER AND SUPERSITE

Session 22: Management and Treatment of Liquid Waste V

Session 23: Atmospheric Pollution and Control Technology I

Session 24: Renewable Energy Resources 9:00 – 11:00

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: H. Liua and K.A. Matis

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: S. Rapsomanikis and J. Smolík

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: J. Martens and B. Pelikan

NEW PROCESS OF NITROGEN REMOVAL FROM INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER, M. Gladchenko, S. Kalyuzhnyi, A. Mulder, Bram Versprille (Russia) DEVELOPMENT OF A TOOL FOR ESTIMATING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE CHARACTERI-STICS OF SLUDGES ORIGINATING FROM INDUSTRIAL ESTATES, A. Andreadakis, L.Kaliakatsos, I. Anagnostou, A. Tzimas (Greece) FUNGAL AND CHEMICAL DECOLORIZATION OF SYNTHETIC DYES, F. Nerud, P. Baldrian, I. Eichlerová, V. Merhautová, L. Homolka , J. Gabriel, M.J. Beneš, M. Hrubý (Czech Republic) PRETREATMENT OF LEACHATES FROM MSW LANDFILL BY COAGULATION AND EVALUA-TION OF THEIR TOXICITY TO THE ENVIRONMENT, J. Wasowski, B. Slomczynska, T. Slomczynski (Poland)

SPECIFIC POLLUTANTS CONCENTRA-TIONS AND ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS OF AIRBORNE PARTICLES IN A SCHOOL BUILDING, A.G. Triantafyllou, S. Garas, V. Evagelopoulos, S. Zoras, C. Diamandopoulos (Greece) INDOOR AIR QUALITY AT RURAL AND URBAN SITES IN PAKISTAN, I. Colbeck, Z. A. Nasir (U.K.) CONTRIBUTION OF INDOOR SOURCES TO PARTICULATE MATTER LEVELS IN A NATURALLY VENTILATED OFFICE, G. Loupa (Greece) INVESTIGATING NATURAL VENTILA-TION IN A ROOM USING COMPU-TATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS, A. Stavridou, P. Prinos (Greece)

ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRATION OF SMALL HYDROPOWER PLANTS – THE STATE OF THE ART, B. Pelikan (Austria) EFFECT OF HYDROGEN PARTIAL PRESSURE ON THE FORMIC ACID YIELD AND DEGRADATION RATE DURING GROWTH OF THE HYDROGEN-PRODUCING BACTERIUM RUMINOCOCCUS ALBUS, I. Ntaikou1, H.N. Gavala, G. Lyberatos (Greece) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF DIFFERENT MATERIAL USE IN FLAT PLATE SOLAR COLLECTORS – A PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS, G. Martinopoulos, G. Tsilingiridis, N. Kyriaki, (Greece)

E-LEARNING DISTANCE EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING IN SOUTHERN COUNTRIES, J. Martens (Germany)

Thursday, July 6th 2006

Session 22: Management and Treatment of Liquid Waste V

Session 23: Atmospheric Pollution and Control Technology I

Session 24: Renewable Energy Resources 9:00 – 11:00 (continue)

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: H. Liua and K.A. Matis

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: S. Rapsomanikis and J. Smolík

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: J. Martens and B. Pelikan

PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL FROM SYNTHETIC WASTEWATER USING ALUM AND ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE, D.A. Georgantas, H. P. Grigoropoulou (Greece) ENHANCEMENT MECHANISM OF BIOLOGICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT BY LOW INTENSITY ULTRASOUND, H. Liua, Y. Yanb (China) LIMING OF INDUSTRIAL SLUDGES FOR SUBSEQUENT REUSE, A. Andreadakis,A. Tzimas, I. Anagnostou, M. Aghelopoulos, E.Gavalakis, E. Papavassilopoulos, C.Noutsopoulos (Greece) PREDICTION OF PARTICLE ENTRAINMENT USING NEURAL NETWORKS, M. Valyrakis, P. Diplas, C. L. Dancey (U.S.A.)

CHARACTERIZATION OF INDOOR /OUTDOOR AEROSOLS IN SUBURBAN AREA OF PRAGUE, J. Smolík, V. Ždímal, J. Schwarz, M. Lazaridis, P. Dohányosová (Czech Republic) SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS OF INORGANIC SPECIES AND THEIR INHALED DOSE IN THE INDUSTRIAL WORKPLACE AEROSOL, A. Karanasiou, K. Eleftheriadis, S. Vratolis, P. Zarbas, N. Mihalopoulos, C. Mitsakou, C. Housiadas, M. Lazaridis, J. Ondracek, L. Dzumbova (Greece) BIOAEROSOL EMISSIONS FROM WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS, S. Karra, E. Katsivela (Greece) FUTURE CHANGES OF THE IMPACT OF AN UPPER TROPOSPHERE TELECONNECTION PATTERN ON THE MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE, M. Hatzaki, H. Flocas, P. Maheras (Greece)

ELECTRICITY GENERATION FROM ORGANIC WASTEWATER USING A BAFFLED MICROBIAL FUEL CELL, Zhenglong Li, Hong Liu, Lu Yao, Lingcai Kong, Mei Han (China) A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PERFORMAN-CES OF HIGH AND INTERMEDIATE TEMPERA-TURE SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS DEVELOPED FOR THE ADVANCED EXPLOITATION OF BIOGASES, G. Goula, I. V. Yentekakis (Greece) INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES IN RURAL INSULAR AREAS: THE EUROPEAN PROJECT RE-RINA, I. Giannouli, T. Tsoutsos (Greece) SOLAR REACTOR FOR ENVIRON-MENTAL APPLICATIONS: PRELIMI-NARY DESIGN, A. Ch. Yiannopoulos, V. I. Syngouna, A. A. Bloutsos, I. D. Manariotis, P. C. Yannopoulos, C. V. Chrysikopoulos (Greece)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

Session 25: Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention / Ecotoxicology

Session 26: Atmospheric Pollution and Control Technology II

Session 27: Environmental Legislation, Policy and Education

11:30 – 13:30

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: M. Gladchenko and A.

Kungolos

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: I. Colbeck and E. Katsivela

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: E. Maria and C. Skanavis

THE CLATHRATE HYDRATE PROCESS FOR POST AND PRE COMBUSTION CAPTURE OF CARBON DIOXIDE, P. Linga, R. Kumar, P. Englezos (Canada) INHIBITION OF PCDD/F AND PCB FORMATION IN CO-COMBUSTION, M. Pandelova, D. Lenoir, K.-W. Schramm (Germany) ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY REPLACEMENT TEST FOR THE MERCUROUS NITRATE TEST FOR COPPER AND COPPER ALLOYS, M. Wazne, S. Sri Billapati, C. Christodoulatos, K. L. Jasinkiewicz, K. E. Hogrelius, M. Hespos, C. Haines (U.S.A.) STABILISATION AND SANITIZA-TION OF WASTEWATER BIOSO-LIDS DURING COMPOSTING, Κ. Lasaridi, S. Stamatiadis, M. Kotsou, S. Lemonia, M. Balaska, A. Kyriacou (Greece) COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF TAILOR-MADE BIOSENSORS FOR FOLLOWING THE FATE OF ARSENIC IN NATURE, F. Batzias (Greece)

MASS AND NUMBER PM CONCENTRATIONS IN-VEHICLE AND NEAR MAJOR ROADS IN THE ATHENS AREA, E. Diapouli, D. Alamanou, G. Grivas, V. Kanouta, A. Chaloulakou, N. Spyrellis (Greece) AMBIENT PARTICLE MEASUREMENTS AT A FIXED MONITORING SITE AND OUTSIDE RESIDENCES IN THE ATHENS AREA, Μ. Lianou, I. G. Kavouras, Α. Κotronarou, Μ. Lazaridis (Greece) SOURCE APPORTIONMENT OF INORGANIC PARTICULATE MATTER IN AN INDUSTRIAL ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT NEAR KAVALA, GREECE, S. D. Alexiou, K. Vasiliadis, A. Christoforidis, E. Karageorgos, S. Rapsomanikis (Greece) STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND MODELING OF AIR QUALITY IN URBAN REGION OF PATRAS, GREECE, E.A. Maraziotis, L.L. Sarotis, C.E.Marazioti (Greece) RELATIONSHIP IN MAJOR IONS IN RIME AND HOARFROST SAMPLES FROM HIGHLY URBANIZED REGIONS, K. Skarżyńska, Ż. Polkowska, J. Namieśnik (Poland)

OPTIMIZING THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFOR-MANCE OF THE GREEK ELECTRICITY SECTOR CONCERNING THE NOX EMISSIONS, G.C. Spyropoulos, K.J. Chalvatzis, J.K. Kaldellis (Greece) CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS BASED ON AN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SCHEME, M. Nieto, R. Irusta, D. Hidalgo, M. Gómez1, L. Martínez, C. Casado, Y. Núñez (Spain) TOWARD IMPROVING THE STATUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY AMONG FORMAL AND NON FORMAL EDUCATION IN PALESTINE, M. Awadallah, S. Paraskevopoulos, A. Georgopoulos (Palestine) A COMPARATIVE APPROACH OF THE MEANING OF LANDSCAPE AND ITS LEGAL ASPECTS IN THE EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE CONVENTION, E.A. Maria, A. Barnias (Greece) DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODOLOGY FOR THE OPTIMISATION OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS’ END OF LIFE MANAGEMENT, N. Moussiopoulos, H. Achillas, C. Koroneos, V. Kikis (Greece)

Thursday, July 6th 2006

Session 25: Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention / Ecotoxicology

Session 26: Atmospheric Pollution and Control Technology II

Session 27: Environmental Legislation, Policy and Education

11:30 – 13:30 (continue)

Room : ATHINA 1 Session Chairs: M. Gladchenko and A.

Kungolos

Room : ATHINA 3 Session Chairs: I. Colbeck and E. Katsivela

Room : ATHINA 2 Session Chairs: E. Maria and C. Skanavis

STUDY OF AMBIENT OZONE PHYTOTOXICITY IN UKRAINE AND OZONE PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF SOME ANTI-OXIDANTS, O. Blum, N. Didyk (Ukraine) PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL CHARACTE-RISTICS OF PARTICULATE MAT-TER ASSOCIATED WITH VEHI-CULAR EMISSIONS, M. D. Geller, L. Ntziachristos, A. Mamakos, Z. Samaras, J. R. Froines, A. K. Cho, C. Sioutas (U.S.A.) ECOTOXICITY – A TOOL FOR ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF A LAKE POLLUTED BY THE METALLURGICAL INDUSTRY AND INDICATION OF A WAY TOWARDS REMEDIATION, L. Wolska, A. Kuczyńska, J.Gurwin, M. Protasowicki, J. Namieśnik (Poland)

ON THE STUDY OF TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION BY PARTICULATE MATTER IN THE GREEK TERRITORY, P. Kassomenos, A. Chaloulakou, Α. D. Adamopoulos (Greece) RISK ASSESSMENT OF AIRBORNE PARTICLES, A. Muller, L. Massolo, M. Rehwagen, O. Herbarth, A. Ronco (Germany) EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF WIND FIELD PATTERNS IN THE GREATER AREA OF CHANIA, CRETE, D. Deligiorgi, G. Karvounis, M. Tzanakou (Greece)

EVALUATION OF THE CURRENT SITUATION ON THE MANAGEMENT OF END-OF-LIFE VEHICLES (ELV) IN CYPRUS, F. Kourmousis, K. Moustakas, A. Mentzis, A. Papadopoulos, M. Stylianou, M. Loizidou (Greece) MULTIPLE LEGAL TOOLS FOR CONSERVATION OF PROTECTED AREAS: THE CASE STUDY OF SAMARIA GORGE, H. Kargiolaki, E.A. Maria (Greece) SUSTAINABILITY COMMUNICATION AS A TOOL FOR PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR, C. Skanavis, Ch. Giannoulis (Greece)

13:00 – 14:00 Poster Session IV

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break

Friday, July 7th 2006

6:00

EXCURSION : Elafonisos OR Samaria Gorge

Wednesday, July 5th 2006

9:00 – 13:00 SPECIAL WORKSHOP: Efficient E-Waste Management

Room : ATHINA 2

Chairs: B. Bilitewski and J. Eisenriegler

ELECTRONIC WASTE IN INDIA WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON RECYCLING IN DELHI CAPITAL REGION, R. Johri, K. V. Rajeshwari, R. Karan, S. Basu (India) CRITICAL PARAMETERS FOR THE DESIGN OF AN E-WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN GREECE, M.E. Menegaki, T.I. Karachaliou, D.C. Kaliampakos (Greece) ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SITUATION CONCERNING WASTE FROM ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT (WEEE) IN CYPRUS, E. Avramikos, F. Kourmousis, K. Moustakas, K. Hapeshis, S. Malamis, A. Papadopoulos, M. Loizidou (Greece) WEEE PROCESSING: PERSPECTIVES OF MATERIAL RECOVERY THROUGH DISASSEMBLY IN GREECE, K. Poulios, G. Perkoulidis, E. Papachristou, A. Karagiannidis (Greece) MATERIAL FLOWS AND TAKE BACK SYSTEMS, B. Bilitewski (Germany) MANUAL TREATMENT OF WEEE – AN AUSTRIAN BEST PRACTICE, J. Eisenriegler (Austria) STATE-OF-THE-ART RECYCLING OF (PRECIOUS) METALS FROM ELECTRONIC SCRAP, C. Hagelueken, S. Art (Belgium) CRT GLASS RECYCLING WITH EMPHASIS ON CLOSED LOOP ALTERNATIVES, M. Dimitrakakis, E. Gidarakos (Greece) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PANEL DISCUSSION : R. Johri, J. Eisenriegler, C. Hagelueken, M. Fahrer