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It is observed that many of the highways across India has heavy heterogeneous traffic and because of that traffic volume, the traffic noise pollution induces auditory and non-auditory effects. Noise from transportation is one of the most challenging noise sources to prevent, if not impossible. This pollution is not visible to people but it affects people based on their sound level acceptance. Human being facing auditory noise effect problems in hearing. Traffic noise exposure in residential areas induces hearing problem at the same time non-auditory effects of noise brings in chronic disorder on humans i.e. long-term syndrome likewise annoyance, sleep disturbance, cardiovascular diseases. Traffic noise pollution from roads has shown bad effect on individual's health and life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's world of strong competition and environmental consciousness, finding alternative materials that can be extensively used has become vital. As we all know the aluminum industry in India procreate a large amount of solid waste, like as red mud. During Bayer's alumina refining technique, Red-mud is created. Dumping Red-mud contaminates the soil and water, as well as covering valuable property, because it contains some harmful substances. Red mud can be used in mortar and concrete technologies to partially substitute cement in construction activities by studying the cementation behavior of the material. Because Red-mud, a waste product from the alumina industry, is free, using it to partially substitute cement is cost-effective. Because wastes no longer have any industrial applications, they can be used as a raw material in civil engineering area in a novel way. An experiment was carried out to partially substitute cement in concrete with red mud for different percentages (0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 percent) by taking into consideration the cementitious behavior of the red mud. The compression, tensile, & flexural behavior of cement mortar specimens are researched and given within the scope of the cement's mechanical strength. The current article summaries research on the use of red mud as a partial replacement for cement in mortar & concrete, as well as its impact on mechanical and durability aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental concern has primarily focused on manufacturing setups. Overall, countries work towards a sustainable lifestyle and development to reduce their carbon footprint. The world is now witnessing sustainability trends in the health Sector as well. The Healthcare sector worldwide is characterized by the consumption of a significant number of resources. It should be the health care organisation (HCO)'s primary responsibility to keep a check on carbon footprint and assess environmental sustainability. Worldwide there exists a standard rating system that provides green certifications. A major Indian population is below the poverty line, illiteracy contributes to unawareness in people as consequence healthcare organizations suffer in India. The present study aims to examine and understand the basics of green hospitals, various dimensions responsible to achieve green status, importance and correlation of these dimensions. It aims to examine the fundamentals of Green HCO, the various dimensions, barriers and a way forward to benign HC establishments in India. This work emphasizes the environmental, economic, health and community benefits of sustainability for the health care sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ecosystem has been affected adversely in the 20thcentury. Global warming is a threat to mankind. To meet patients' needs healthcare facilities consume resources intensively and contribute to the carbon footprint. Adoption of sustainable measures will reduce their carbon footprint and aid to reduce the negative impact on the environment. HCO employing sustainable measures can gradually reduce its negative impacts. This paper discusses how the current HCO shifted from being resource-intensive to an environmentally friendly setup. The transition from conventional healthcare setups to green healthcare will benefit in multiple areas. Overall, such green healthcare setups will have multiple benefits. Such initiatives will increase overall efficiency, significant financial benefits, and a healthy environment for the staff, patients, and society. This study can assist hospital and care system leaders in determining their organization's route to sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of 2019, the world saw a storm of a fatal virus that spread across the globe infecting people, blocking their progress as well as lives. Covid-19, coronavirus, had knocked out as the world's strongest pandemic that snuffed everything and everyone. With due research done on this infection, we came up with some cautions to be adopted, like social distancing, going out lesser or whenever needed, and the usage of masks which sounded to be a highly efficient way to secure oneself from inhaling this virus. Thus, with this production of masks reached its peaks, but the key challenge that persists is choosing the best one. Finding the right mask causing least problems today and tomorrow meanwhile protecting one's health could be termed as the best here. We surveyed around 5000+ mask users of different age groups in northwestern part of an Asian country i.e. India, marking different parameters of their masks usage like its type, period of use, and general problems while or after using the mask, etc. Upon analysis, we found the most prominent masks used are cotton masks and surgical masks irrespective of the age group. Our findings showcased that with cotton mask one may leads to lesser after hassles of masks. Each mask types carries some after effect of its usage, wherein the most common disease found acne followed with breathlessness keeping these two-mask type as parameter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an approach to analyze the performance of a liquid flat plate collector which is used to raise the temperature of water by utilizing solar radiation. With the help of some basic equation of heat transfer and equations related to calculation of the intensity of solar radiations, the study has been done to determine the rise in temperature of water for domestic and commercial purposes for the Indore region with longitude 77°50' east and latitude 22°44' north of Madhya Pradesh, India. For analysis liquid flat plate collector with 100-litre capacity has been considered and results have been used for further calculation in saving electricity for various months of the year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study is focused on losses analysis of CdTe and micromorph PV modules installed in composite climate of India. A comprehensive module characterization with the related uncertainty analysis has been carried out by using the real electrical parameters measured at the operating field conditions. The impact of cracks in the PV module on the I-V curve has also been evaluated. A power drop of 49% has been recorded in micromorph PV modules as a result of 24% reduction in the panel area due to crack defects. The performance assessment of both the technology PV modules (CdTe and micromorph) has been initially carried out over a period of one year field exposure. Irradiance, temperature and spectral effects have been identified to quantify the corresponding losses/gain in power generation. The performance ratios of CdTe and micromorph PV modules have been found to be 80% and 65%, respectively. Spectral and temperature losses up to −29.2% and −10.1%, respectively have been recorded in the micromorph PV module. However, both PV module technologies' results are found insensitive to the irradiance effects with negligible losses of approximately -1%. Overall, the CdTe module technology is found to be more efficient than the micromorph PV modules in composite climate of India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]