Pollution of the environment with heavy metals is one of the greatest contemporary problems. Pyrophyllite is a hydrous aluminum silicate, with a wide variety of applications due to its high melting point and stable chemical properties. This study aims to examine the sorption properties of the mechanochemically activated pyrophyllite for the removal...

By Tatjana M. Trtić-Petrović, Dajana Lazarević, Irena Pušica, Jasmina Kustura, Belma Halilhodžić, Enita Kurtanović, Adnan Teletović, Atif Hodzić, Muhamed Harbinja

Occupational safety is a very important factor in the process of creating a safe work environment.The benefits employers, employees and even the state as a whole can reap greatly depend on theway occupational safety is organized and implemented. This paper aims to make a general analysisof the condition of safety at work in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...

By Miliša Todorović, Asmir Helvida, Snežana Živković

The mechanical properties and microstructure of copper base shape memory alloys are relatively well known, while data on thermal properties (thermal conductivity, specific heat, and temperature conductivity) are not available. In the frame of our investigation work thermal properties of rapidly solidified Cu-Al-Ni-Mn alloy were deter...

By Borut Kosec, Blaž Karpe, Milan Bizjak, Ladislav Vrsalović, Diana Ćubela, Mirko Gojić, Ivana Ivanić, Stjepan Kožuh

Long-term exposure of superheater and steam intermediate superheater pipe materials to high temperatures in the operating conditions that prevail in thermal power plants leads to the appearance of the oxide layer.Oxide layer forms on the inner wall of the pipe, which acts as a heat insulator and reduces heat transfer through the pipe...

By Belma Fakić, Adisa Burić, Edib Horoz

Pyrophyllite (Al2Si4O10(OH)2) is a layered phyllosilicate mineral with a basic 2:1 crystal structure,consisting of an aluminum octahedral layer placed between two silicon tetrahedral layers (T-O-T),connected by weak Van der Waals forces, which results in easy structural disruption. Naturalpyrophyllite has an electroneutral surface, which causes a h...

By Jasmina Kustura, Belma Halilhodžić, Enita Kurtanović, Kenan Kozlo, Amra Čizmić, Adnan Teletović, Atif Hodžić, Muhamed Harbinja

Leachate water from sanitary landfills represents one of the most complex global environmentalproblems. This paper examines the possibility of using aluminosilicate material, pyrophyllite, fromthe Parsovići deposit, as an adsorbent. It was researched the influence of two granulations ofpyrophyllite (0-53 μm and 0-100 μm) on the degree of adso...

By Jasmina Kustura, Belma Halilhodžić, Enita Kurtanović, Amra Čizmić, Kenan Kozlo, Adnan Teletović, Atif Hodzić, Muhamed Harbinja

In this paper, an analysis of the surface water and sediment of the Drina River was carried out.Samples were taken from different six locations along the course of the Drina River in Bosnia andHerzegovina. Selected heavy metals were determined in the sediment after acid digestion usingatomic absorption spectrometry - flame technique. The same metho...

By Aida Bilajac, Sabina Žero, Amar Karadža

The ore consolidation process is a thermal process and it happens at the temperatures of the ore melting beginning, allowing the ore grains, additives and fluxes to be connected into a solid piece of sinter. The amount of carbon in the sinter mixture and the FeO content of the produced sinter affect the mechanical resistance of the sinter. Indicato...

By Sulejman Muhamedagić, Mirsada Oruč, Amna Karić

Metallic materials thanks to the excellent combination of data on material properties are obtained by standardized and agreed testing of samples made from semi-finished or finished products. Metallic materials can be tested by different testing techniques. One of them is metallographic testing, for which a light microscope is used as a basic device...

By Adisa Burić, Belma Fakić, Edib Horoz, Mirsada Oruč

Some specific aspects in the improvement processes related to I-beams production, especially related to the conversion of classical to the universal rolling mills stands are presented in this paper. One of practical solutions in the a.m. conversion is described in some more details, as well as some of better designs in the variety of I-beams, conce...

By Faik Uzunović, Omer Beganović, Lamija Sušić