by Isadora Muller de Oliveira  , Letícia Caroline de Oliveira Vital  , Izabela de Siqueira Reis Regueira  and Marcos Paulo Gomes Mol

Received: 02 July 2025;  Published: 11 November 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2504031

The management of healthcare waste (HCW) presents a significant environmental and public health challenge, aggravated by gaps in current Brazilian federal regulations. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of specific state and municipal legislation on HCW, comparing it with ANVISA Resolution No. 222/2018 and CONAMA Resolution No. 358/2005 to ascertain whether local regulations enhance management practices and can act as supplementary instruments to federal guidelines. The methodology was structured into thr [...]

by Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research Editorial Office

Received: 26 October 2025;  Published: 27 October 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2504030

by Marta I. Litter

Received: 15 September 2025;  Published: 22 September 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2503029

by Masoume M. Raeissi  and Rob Knapen

Received: 07 April 2025;  Published: 12 August 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2503028

Environmental science addresses critical global challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and sustainability. These complex topics generate a vast amount of both structured and unstructured data, from remote sensing output to policy documents, guidelines, and scientific literature. Effectively processing and utilizing this information is essential for advancing research and supporting decision-making. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding an [...]

by Deborah Ayodele-Olajire  , Temilade Sesan  and Mike Clifford

Received: 08 December 2024;  Published: 25 July 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2503027

Biomass-fuel use by over 2 billion of the world’s population contributes to their poor respiratory health and climate change. This paper traces the history of clean cooking and explores strategies for its sustained adoption in developing countries, such as Nigeria, drawing on global lessons from past successes and failures. This study employed a rapid review methodology to synthesize evidence and inform decision-making on the adoption of clean cooking. The research was guided by a central question on how to p [...]

by Paul Ocheje Ameh  , Joseph Ameh  , Amina Bello Mahmoud  , Adabiyya Rabiu Shuaib  , Aroh Augustina Oyibo  , Fadeyi Sulayman Olusola  , Isaiah Blessing Imeh  , Egbe Hope Thankgod  , Ajagbonna Damilola Lilian  and Bitrus Nehemiah

Received: 31 March 2025;  Published: 15 July 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2503026

The high cost of chemical coagulants for water treatment leads most people in rural communities to resort to readily available surface water, which is usually of low quality, exposing them to various waterborne diseases. It is in this light, that research was conducted to assess the effectiveness of a cheap enhanced natural coagulant prepared from Chrysophyllum albidium seeds for the treatment of contaminated water sampled from River Getsi, which serves as a source of potable water for the society. The coagulants s [...]

by Carlos Armenta-Déu

Received: 04 February 2025;  Published: 11 July 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2503025

The study aims to evaluate the progressive increase in energy systems pollutant emissions due to the efficiency loss and continuous deterioration in the energy conversion process. The paper analyzes the GHG, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, and fine particle emissions from vehicles, residential and commercial heating systems, public buildings, health centers, and industrial conglomerates, with the servicing time and degradation level. The analysis applies to various emitting gases or small particle systems, which gen [...]

by Miles Nevills  , Spencer Jones  and Ethan Languri

Received: 31 October 2024;  Published: 24 June 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2502024

Across the industrial sector, compressed air is utilized as an easy-to-use and readily accessible tool in a variety of applications. This tool is commonly misunderstood as being more efficient than it is in reality. Air compression is energy intensive and thus both economically and environmentally costly. Compressed air typically only achieves around ~15% efficiency if judged by the energy delivered from the air, meaning approximately 5-6 kWh are wasted for every 1 kWh of useful work performed by compressed air. Du [...]

by Carolina Ramírez  , Elizabeth González  and Fernando Tomasina

Received: 23 September 2024;  Published: 20 May 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2502023

Healthcare Waste (HCW) management is a pressing challenge in Latin America, where insufficient regulatory enforcement, poor segregation practices, and the lack of accurate generation data hinder sustainable waste management. This study presents a methodological proposal for the internal management of HCWs in Healthcare Centers (HCCs) in Uruguay, based on Decree 586/009 and developed through a situational diagnosis conducted at the Hospital de Clínicas "Dr. Manuel Quintela." The diagnosis involved the qualitative an [...]

by Vipin Kumar Sharma  , Sunil Kumar Thamida  , B. Naveen Kumar Reddy  and Raja Sinha

Received: 28 November 2024;  Published: 07 May 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2502022

The hydrocarbon sector in India plays a pivotal role in the country's energy landscape, encompassing exploration, production, refining, and distribution activities. This abstract provides a concise overview of the sector's current status, challenges, and prospects. India's hydrocarbon reserves range from conventional to unconventional sources, with significant potential yet to be tapped. However, the sector faces challenges such as declining production from mature fields, technological limitations in ex [...]