The paper presents a new approach to assessing the level of contamination with heavy metals of the soil-like fraction from landfills using Monte Carlo simulation using the example of landfills located within the borders of Volgograd.It was found that with a probability of 36.2%, the contamination level of a soil-like fraction from the landfill located in the Voroshilovsky district will correspond to moderately hazardous, and with a probability of 63.8%, hazardous. It is economically justified to isolate a soil-like fraction with a low level of pollution to detoxify it and further use it in the territory reclamation. For a soil-like fraction from landfill located in the Traktorozavodsky district, the pollution level was determined as extremely hazardous and hazardous with a probability of 87.1% and 3.1%, respectively. It is shown that a useful and usable part cannot be isolated from a soil-like fraction. A soil-like fraction must be neutralized and placed at waste disposal facilities.The presented approach is a useful instrument for pollution level assessment of a soil-like fraction, which can increase the accuracy of an estimate and the management effectiveness of a soil-like fraction during landfill development.

Keywords: landfill, soil-like fraction, heavy metals, pollution level, Monte Carlo method, modeling

Currently, crop production faces such problems as a decrease in soil quality, untimely detection of weeds, pests and diseases of cultivated crops, irrational use of fertilizers, pesticides, and water resources. This leads to an increase in production costs due to overspending of resources (fertilizers, pesticides, and water) and a shortage of crops due to inefficient decision-making in conditions of limited information, which causes the need for the introduction of innovative intellectual solutions in the cultivation of crops. Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have significant potential for a solution to the above problem. However, to date, these technologies have not been widely used, even in countries with a high level of information and communication technology development. The purpose is to identify the factors limiting the development of the Internet of Things in crop production and to determine ways to solve the identified problems. It is shown that the limiting factor in the development of the Internet of Things in crop production is the need to install a significant number of heterogeneous sensors, the lack of Internet and mobile communications in remote areas, as well as, in some cases, the problem of organizing effective data transfer from sensors to platforms for storage, processing, and analysis, or commands in the opposite direction to actuators. In crop production, an Internet of Things technology can be realized through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles as an IoT device and as communication technologies.

Keywords: Internet of Things, structure, informational management system, unmanned aerial vehicle, crop production

The paper presents the results of experimental studies on the effectiveness of complex electrochemical treatment using hydrogen peroxide for water disinfection. The effectiveness of the method for sanitary-indicative microorganisms has been confirmed. The most significant parameters for the disinfection process have been identified and a mathematical model has been developed based on them, which makes it possible to design industrial disinfection devices that are separate modules.

Keywords: disinfection of water, electrochemical methods, hydrogen peroxide, bactericidal effect, disinfection

The article presents the study results of a soil-like fraction contamination at a landfill located on the territory of the Traktorozavodsky district of Volgograd with heavy metals. The soil-like fraction's pollution level was assessed using a cumulative chemical pollution index (Zc) and its modifications. It was determined that the contamination levels with heavy metals are dependent on a used cumulative chemical pollution index modification. The use of the average geometric values of a cumulative chemical pollution index (Zc) is preferred for a pollution assessment of a soil-like fraction. Because the pollution level of a studied soil-like fraction was assessed as hazardous, its use as a recultivation material can only be permitted after a detoxification.The main pollutants in the soil-like fraction are cadmium, copper, and nickel.

Keywords: landfills, soil-like fraction, heavy metals, pollution level

The researches results of the fuel ash waste’s and grain crops straw’s influence on the properties of the producing expanded clay gravel are presented in the paper. These wastes were used as auxiliary additives in the raw combination. The optimal composition of the raw combination has been established in the laboratory, for which physical and mechanical characteristics of the samples, including water absorption, compressive strength, bulk density, were analyzed. Characteristics of the expanded clay gravel samples are compared with the state standards requirements. It was found, that the addition 5% fuel ash and 1.5% crop waste (grain straw) ensures optimal swelling of the combination and high strength characteristics of the finished product.

Keywords: expanded clay, fuel ash, waste of crop production, swelling, construction materials, porosity.

The purpose of this work is to determine the possibility of using a fine fraction (screening) of landfill waste located on the western outskirts of Volgograd as recultivating soil. The following priority indicators were determined in the selected samples: hydrogen index (pH), the content of benz(a)pyrene, petroleum products and groups of elements related to heavy metals: mercury, cadmium, arsenic, lead, zinc, nickel and copper, namely forms extracted with acid and buffer solution and ammonium acetate with a pH of 4.5. Excess of normative values in the samples was noted for such toxicants as cadmium, nickel and copper. The value of the total indicator of chemical pollution Zc without taking into account the toxicity coefficient was 30.03, and taking into account - 46.34, which corresponds to the categories ""moderately dangerous"" and ""dangerous"". It is determined that the small fraction of landfill masses belongs to the 4th class of waste hazard - low-hazard. Direct use of sieving as a soil recultivant is not possible. It is necessary to carry out measures to detoxify it. Due to the presence of components with carcinogenic properties, acceptable detoxification directions are extraction or encapsulation of heavy metals.

Keywords: landfill masses, fine fraction, chemical pollution, hazard class

This paper discusses the results of engineering and environmental surveys on the territory of an unauthorized landfill near the working village of Erzovka, Gorodishchensky district, Volgograd region. In the course of the work, a comprehensive study of the state of atmospheric air, soil and radiation background was carried out. In accordance with the order of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation dated August 4, 2017 No. 435 "On the approval of the criteria and term for categorizing objects, the accumulated damage to the environment on which is subject to liquidation as a matter of priority", the study area was categorized. The data on the mass, morphological composition and hazard class of wastes located in the study area are presented. The results of a laboratory study of environmental pollution by production and consumption wastes are presented, and the accumulated environmental harm is assessed.

Keywords: unauthorized landfill, accumulated environmental damage, production and consumption waste, pollutants, heavy metal pollution, level of negative impact

This article presents the results of the study of pollution of components of the natural environment (air, soil, water) and wastes located in the territory of the landfill near the village of Samofalovka, Volgograd region, and carried out an assessment of the accumulated environmental damage.

Keywords: Landfill, accumulated environmental damage, pollutants, exposure level

This article discusses the use of waste disposal technologies, their technological and environmental-economic assessment. The relevance of this work is determined by the current trend on finding affordable and effective technologies for waste disposal, taking into account their energy potential. A comparative analysis of existing technologies for waste treatment and a feasibility study on the utilization of organic and inorganic carbon-containing waste by the pyrolysis method have been carried out. The authors analyzed the Russian and foreign experience of using waste technologies as alternative energy sources. The energy component of production and consumption wastes is considered. The scheme of the production complex using the pyrolysis technology, focused not only on the processing of waste, but also obtaining the sought-after useful competitive product.

Keywords: ecology, pyrolysis technology, waste recycling, municipal solid waste, MSW, biofuel

This paper discusses the current problems of waste management: sorting and their further processing. The average morphological composition of waste in Russia and in the world is presented. Possible methods of recycling waste components on different morphological composition are considered. A comparative analysis of the existing promising technologies for processing waste used in the Russian Federation, including municipal solid waste by burning, pyrolysis and plasma gasification, from the point of view on economic and environmental efficiency of the process. The technical and economic features of the low- and high-temperature pyrolysis process are given. As economic indicators used are specific capital investments, the cost of utilization, energy consumption and production recoupment. The assessment of environmental efficiency is determined by indicators such as the degree and duration of waste disposal, the generation of waste in the recycling process, and the pollution in the soil, groundwater, and the atmosphere.

Keywords: ecology, pyrolysis, waste treatment, municipal solid waste, solid waste, recycling, waste management

The article describes the study of fine dust at the stage of packing and packaging of particulate material. Attention is given to fine particles, which is PM10 and PM 2.5, that have a negative impact on human health in the process of packaging chemicals.The object of the study is the sodium salt of naphthalene-2-sulfonic acid, which is the starting crude in the chemical industry and organic synthesis.As a result of the sedimentation analysis, the sizes of the particles deposited in the experimental setup were determined and, based on the data obtained, the particle size of dust was formulated depending on the settling time.The results obtained are used in the engineering of aspiration systems in industrial plants.

Keywords: fine particles, chemical dust, sedimentometry, PM10, PM2.5, particle size distribution, naphthalene-2-sulfonic acid sodium salt

The use of sunflower husk waste allows to solve the problem of utilization of agricultural waste and obtaining adsorbents for wastewater treatment of industrial production from ions of heavy metals, in particular copper. Studies on the evaluation of the adsorption capacity of materials have been carried out and choose the optimal method of manufacturing the sorbent.

Keywords: husks of sunflower, vegetable adsorbents, waste water, heavy metal ions, melanin