DesignNet: a online knowledge gateway for industrial design education and research activities

This paper presents DesignNet, a knowledge-based system to the online digital display, retrieval and archiving of rich media resources for industrial design education and research. It addresses the needs of end-users (teachers, researchers and students) and content providers interacting with the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano. The project moves from the assumption that traditional modalities of archiving and presentation currently adopted by the Politecnico and other academic institutions are not coherent with industrial design process and its need of project-support materials. The typical outputs of industrial design process are 3D models or 2D graphics, not just texts or simple images, the materials for which the usual method and technique of archiving and retrieval are conceived and developed. The challenges, philosophy and methodology in creating this evolving Web-based, cataloguing, multimedia knowledge-base to VR design resources are discussed. Finally, the related system and prototype are described

Design_net: an online knowledge gateway for industrial design education and research activities

This paper presents Design_net, a knowledge-based system to the online digital display, retrieval and archiving of rich media resources for industrial design education and research. It addresses the needs of end-users (teachers, researchers and students) and content providers interacting with the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano. The project moves from the assumption that traditional modalities of archiving and presentation currently adopted by the Politecnico and other academic institutions are not coherent with industrial design process and its need of project-support materials. The typical outputs of industrial design process are 3D models or 2D graphics, not just texts or simple images, the materials for which the usual method and technique of archiving and retrieval are conceived and developed. The challenges, philosophy and methodology in creating this evolving Web-based, cataloguing, multimedia knowledge-base to VR design resources are discussed. Finally, the related system and prototype are described

An online knowledge gateway for industrial design education and research activities

This poster presents the development of DesignNet, a knowledge-based project to the online digital display, retrieval and archiving of rich media resources for industrial design education and research. The project addresses the needs of end-users (teachers and students) and content providers interacting with the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano

Heavy Metals Retention On Recycled Waste Glass. A Comparative Study Among Different Species

Heavy metals retention [Pb2+, Cd2+, Ni2+, and Cr(VI)] on recycled waste porous glass (RWPG) from solid wastes sorting operations was carried out. To the purpose metals containing solutions in the concentration range 24 mg/L, reproducing the average concentration present in, e.g., solid waste leachate from landfills or industrial effluents, were percolated onto columns loaded with RWPG beads with particle size in the range 0.351.0 mm and flow-rates between 0.23 and 0.75 L/h. Metals retention mechanism was associated with ion exchange with overall capacities in the following order: Pb2+ > Cd2+ > Ni2+ > Cr(VI) in consideration of the hydrated ion radius and free energy of hydration of the metal ions. The rate controlling step was identified with the ions interdiffusion in the Nernst liquid film around particles. The metals exhausted beads were embedded into cement conglomerates as inert materials thus minimizing metals release in the environment. The prepared mortar specimen showed improved thermal properties as compared to conventional (sand based) composites

Recycled porous glass from municipal/industrial solid waste sorting operations as a lead ion sorbent from wastewaters

Recycled waste porous glass (RWPG), from municipal solid wastes (MSW) sorting operations, may be used as a sorbent for lead ion removal from industrial wastewaters. To the purpose, dynamic (laboratory columns) operations were carried-out by the use of differently sized glass beads in the range 0.35\u2013 1.25 mm which were eluted with lead ion containing synthetic solutions (2\u20139.5 mg/L). Temperature was kept constant (298 K), whereas column flow-rates varied in the range 0.20\u20130.75 L/h. Lead ion retention mechanism was associated to the adsorption/ion exchange phenomena. Best column performance was obtained at 0.5\u20131 mm bead size range, influent concentration 2 mgPb2+/L and column flow-rate 0.20 L/h. In the reference conditions lead ion retention capacity exceeded 1.10 mg/g. Kinetic analysis of the experimental data was also carried-out and film interdiffusion of the involved ions in the Nernst stationary liquid around the particle was identified as the rate controlling step