Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Minister Essam bin Abdulla Khalaf stressed the role of researchers specialized in solid waste management.
He underlined the ministry’s keenness on cooperation with universities and scientific centres to implement its waste management and recycling strategy.
Receiving two University of Bahrain (UoB) researchers who published their scientific studies, he said that the ministry’s interest in the concept of circular economy of carbon and the fourth industrial revolution comes in parallel with the COP26 climate summit.
He pointed out that the implementation of the circular economy requires a sustainable reduction of the environmental impact by reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere, and transforming waste into resources.
UoB Associate Professor in Sustainable Process Technology, Head of the Chemical Engineering Department Dr. Majeed Safr Jassim and Associate Professor in Environment Engineer Dr. Gulnur Coskuner presented an overview about three scientific studies, recently published in the Waste Management and Research magazine.
The published studies received many citations in a short period due to the use of computational models in the field of artificial intelligence, such as the Support Vector Machine algorithm and Artificial Neural Networks, to predict with a high degree of accuracy the quantities of household, commercial and construction waste in the Kingdom of Bahrain
Source: Bahrain News Agency