The sustainable development of humanity imposes precise norms regarding the management of natural resources, their extraction, use, and the introduction in a complex, innovative circuit of the waste resulting from exploitation. The paper deals with some aspects related to the sustainable management of general medical waste on the one hand and the medical waste specific to the COVID-19 pandemic, on the other hand. Medical waste requires special treatment given its impact on the environment and on humanity. The management of activities related to its storage, transport, destruction is an important point in the sustainable development of mankind, especially in the current context of the pandemic. Medical waste is in a continuous increase in quantity and involves many effects in various activity fields. Through a scientometric study in the Web of Science—WOS database, the authors identify clusters of keywords, analyze the articles identified in the WOS and identify the main research directions and existing concepts. Corroborating and interpreting the results obtained, three significant trends of approach to medical waste are identified: M—management (1); E—exposure (2); and D—distribution (3). An extensive map of the concepts is made, a narrow map of the concepts used, and a theoretical map of the concepts. The link between medical waste and the development of a sustainable society is demonstrated, and it is possible to open new research directions. The scientometric research undertaken on 1192 WOS articles that were published in 2020 led to the selection of 32, focused on issues related to hazardous medical waste, especially of COVID-19 patients. Following this approach, the authors were able to see, by comparison, the different forms of management of this waste in different countries, thus being able to contribute to the creation of procedures for the collection, storage, and destruction of this hazardous waste, with direct influence on the environment.
Paper presents some aspects regarding the scientific research in universities or research institutes oriented to fundamental or practical aspects. It is known that a researcher must publish his work, but the problems are: publish as single or multiauthors, in ISI or domestic journals, in international proceedings conference having ISBN, to protect the new information as IP national or international organization. The permanent process of research for business, its compulsory steps, the role of innovation and business incubators, are as supporting elements for SME's growth. Beside the facilities offered to SMEs, other benefits come from creating a business incubator, such as: developing innovative products, product design, prototyping, technological transfer and nevertheless, registration and exploitation of intellectual property rights, coming from the obtained products of research. In order to be even more practical, we chose an example of a functional business incubator, ITA Pro-Energ, and showed the facilities that it offers to its incubated SMEs, as well as their improvement on market position.
The following paper refers to some general aspects regarding the measurement of natural gas. There are also presented the unauthorized intervention methods in natural gas distribution system and implicitly the fraudulent consumption of natural gas. It has been proposed to identify, analyze and respond to the risks involved in the measurement process, and to create a new natural gas meter by proposing an internal procedure set to prevent and reduce as much as possible unauthorized distribution. The measuring device is capable of preventing and detecting in real time unauthorized use of the distribution system.All these actions lead to changes in the competitive management process of the trading company involved in the distribution of natural gas
Design stages have been widely recognized as a milestone in the life cycle of a product in sustainability implementation, and this is of major importance for leading organizations that produce cost-effective and environmentally friendly products. This paper focuses on analyzing some aspects of environmental impact and ecological sustainability of design models using SolidWorks CAD design software. The material from which the piece was made was evaluated, with emphasis on its strength, durability and environmental pollution in terms of carbon footprint, energy consumption, air acidification, and eutrophication. Consideration was given to the whole life cycle of the product under consideration, from raw material extraction, processing, product production, assembling and use to the end of life, taking into account the mode of transport and the distance between these stages. In the case study is presented the virtual model of the analyzed product and the sustainability report that the SolidWorks software provides us and which can be analyzed later by the whole organization for the adoption of the right decision.
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