Effect of Industrial Development on Global Environment

Research Project

Project/Area Number	11691146
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	海外学術
Research Field	資源開発工学
Research Institution	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator	MOCHIMARU Yoshihiro Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Professor, 大学院・理工学研究科, 教授 (90092577)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	OHTA Hideki Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Professor, 大学院・理工学研究科, 教授 (80026187) OTSUKI Nobuaki Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Professor, 大学院・理工学研究科, 教授 (40211106) UEDA Mitsuhiro Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Professor, 大学院・理工学研究科, 教授 (50016789) TAKAHASHI Kunio Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Assoc. Professor, 大学院・理工学研究科, 助教授 (70226827) HINODE Hirofumi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Professor, 大学院・理工学研究科, 教授 (50165130)
Project Period (FY)	1999 – 2001
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
Budget Amount *help	¥8,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,000,000) Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000) Fiscal Year 2000: ¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000) Fiscal Year 1999: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000)
Keywords	the globe / environment / preservation / Asia / industry / activity
Research Abstract	On-site investigations on environment, collection of data on environment were conducted at various Asian areas to clarify the impact of industrialization on environment. Recent environmental status in Malaysia can be found through Air Pollutant Index in Malaysian Environmental Quality Report, including the haze problem. Past air quality in Thailand was reported in Pollution Control Department Annual Report to show worse levels especially in suspended particles in Bangkok. Air pollutant emission levels from Samchonpo thermal power plant, Kwangyang works ( Pohang Steel Co. ) in Korea, as well as from Japanese thermal power plants are very low in excellent status internationally. Generally TSP ( totally suspended particles ) contents in China nationwidely were and are found to be severely high. Since noise or vibration levels produced by an industrial product are regarded recently as an important measure to maintain a life of good quality, efforts toward reducing noise and vibration in environment in Thai and Indonesia are described in detail. The state on treatment on disposal of waste in Laos is discussed. Some aspects from geotechnical and geological engineering in Asia are discussed. Serious problems in disposal of municipal waste in Thailand and Nepal are discussed. By-product mineral admixtures from Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Japan are compared in detail.