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Paul H. Brunner

Paul H. Brunner

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
39
Citations
12334
World Ranking
8223
National Ranking
73

Overview

Paul H. Brunner is affiliated with TU Wien in Austria, focusing their research on environmental science, particularly in the areas of municipal solid waste management and recycling technologies. Their scholarly output spans multiple subfields including industrial and manufacturing engineering, building and construction, public health, environmental and occupational health, pollution, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics covered by Brunner's research include:

  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
  • Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Cardiovascular and exercise physiology

Frequent collaborators in Brunner's work are Nemanja Stanisavljević, Johann Fellner, Leo S. Morf, Mansour Taleshi, and Franziska Bubeck.

Brunner's research has been published primarily in Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, while also contributing to the Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, Journal of Applied Physiology, and Jurnal Rekayasa Kimia & Lingkungan.

Key recent publications by Paul H. Brunner include:

  • Waste to energy, indispensable cornerstone for circular economy: A mini-review (2024), Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy
  • Improving waste management by focussing on goals: A mini review of the publication sector (2023), Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy

Other relevant publications in related fields where Brunner is not the primary author but connected by collaboration include:

  • Plastic waste management: is circular economy really the best solution? (2021), Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management
  • Observing changes in motoneuron characteristics following distorted sensorimotor input via blood flow restriction (2025), Journal of Applied Physiology
  • Megacities need both: Circular economy and final sinks! (2021), Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy

Best Publications

  • Handbook of Material Flow Analysis: For Environmental, Resource, and Waste Engineers

    Paul H. Brunner;Helmut Rechberger

  • Practical Handbook of Material Flow Analysis

    Paul H. Brunner;Helmut Rechberger

  • 4-Nonylphenol in sewage sludge: accumulation of toxic metabolites from nonionic surfactants.

    Walter Giger;Paul H. Brunner;Christian Schaffner

  • Waste to energy--key element for sustainable waste management.

    Paul H. Brunner;Helmut Rechberger

  • Metabolism of the Anthroposphere

    Peter Baccini;Paul H. Brunner

  • Occurrence and behaviour of linear alkylbenzenesulphonates, nonylphenol, nonylphenol mono- and nonylphenol diethoxylates in sewage and sewage sludge treatment

    Paul H. Brunner;Silvio Capri;Antonio Marcomini;Walter Giger

  • Assessment methods for solid waste management: A literature review.

    Astrid Allesch;Paul H Brunner

  • Material Flow Analysis: A tool to support environmental policy decision making. Case-studies on the city of Vienna and the Swiss lowlands

    Carolyn Hendriks;Richard Obernosterer;Daniel Müller;Susanne Kytzia

  • Setting priorities for waste management strategies in developing countries

    Paul H. Brunner;Johann Fellner

  • Urban Mining A Contribution to Reindustrializing the City

    Paul H. Brunner

  • Behavior of chromium, nickel, copper, zinc, cadmium, mercury, and lead during the pyrolysis of sewage sludge.

    Rainer C. Kistler;Fritz. Widmer;Paul H. Brunner

  • The flux of metals through municipal solid waste incinerators

    Paul H. Brunner;Hermann Mönch

  • Reshaping Urban Metabolism

    Paul H. Brunner

  • Metabolism of the Anthroposphere : Analysis, Evaluation, Design

    Peter Baccini;Paul H. Brunner

  • Exploring urban metabolism—Towards an interdisciplinary perspective

    Martin Dijst;Ernst Worrell;Lars Böcker;Paul Brunner

  • The significance of heating rate on char yield and char properties in the pyrolysis of cellulose

    Paul H. Brunner;Paul V. Roberts

  • Material flow analysis as a decision support tool for waste management: : A literature review

    Astrid Allesch;Paul H. Brunner

  • Behavior of aromatic surfactants and PCBs in sludge-treated soil and landfills

    A. Marcomini;P. D. Capel;Th. Lichtensteiger;P. H. Brunner

  • A New, Entropy Based Method To Support Waste and Resource Management Decisions

    Helmut Rechberger;Paul H Brunner

  • Effect of operating conditions and input variations on the partitioning of metals in a municipal solid waste incinerator

    Leo S. Morf;Paul H. Brunner;Sebastian Spaun

  • Alternative Methods for the Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste

    Paul H. Brunner;Walter R. Ernst

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Giger
Walter Giger Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Antonio Marcomini
Antonio Marcomini Ca Foscari University of Venice
Hwong-Wen Ma
Hwong-Wen Ma National Taiwan University
Alfredo C. Alder
Alfredo C. Alder Nankai University
Albert A. M. Holtslag
Albert A. M. Holtslag Wageningen University & Research
Umberto Arena
Umberto Arena University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Raffaello Cossu
Raffaello Cossu University of Padua
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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