Visibility of the Project

 

In the first project year, the Hungarian project management ensured reasonably high visibility to the project. As a consequence of TV presentations and articles published in daily journals, 75 - 85 % of the Hungarian population has received information about the project. The Hungarian media, however over-emphasized the expected effects of the project on the development of the Hungarian zeolite industry Consequently, zeolite prices increased by 250 - 300 % in a year. All of the Hungarian zeolite mines belong to two small companies, the joint production of which is about 35 thousand tons/year.

Analyzing all the effects of project visibility we have realized that the type and the level of visibility should seriously be controlled in the future. We have decided that project presentations through the media will be postponed until the successful completion of the first industrial-scale experiment.

Presentations on television

Name of TV channel and programme
Date of Broadcasting
  • Hungarian TV 2: Good evening, Hungary: Facts
 1 February 2000
  • Hungarian TV 2: Good evening, Hungary: Facts
 1 February 2000
  • DunaTelevision. Daybreak
 16 March 2000

Articles in newspapers and journals

Name and type of journal
Date of publication
  • Népszabadság (People’ Liberty), Leading Hungarian daily paper
 12 May 1999
  • Magyar Nemzet (Hungarian Nation), Daily paper
 March 2000
  • Figyelő (Observer), The 2nd most popular economic weekly paper in Hungary
 22-28 June 2000
  • Népszabadság (People’ Liberty), Leading Hungarian daily paper
 15 July 2000
  • SZIKOMAT News, Newsletter of an international exhibition held in Hungary, between 28-30 September 2000
 April 2000
  • Önkormányzat (Self-government) Monthly journal of the Hungarian self-governments
 Jun 2002 (Vol. 11, No. 6, p. 21-22
  • Panorama, Economic Magazine
 October 2002, Vol. 6, p. 24-25

Presentations in conferences and exhibition

1 Title of event: National Conference on Environmental Measurements
Organizer: Hungarian Chemical Society
Date and place: 27 October 1999, Hotel Sauna, Kecskemét, Hungary
Paper presented:
P. Princz and S. Smith:” Improvement of the Biological Degradability of Wastewaters Using Activated Zeolites, Analytical aspects of the NATO-Zeolites Project”
 
2 Title of event: Environmental and Agricultural Application of Zeolites
Organizer: Hungarian Chemical Society, Hungarian Agricultural Society, Hungarian Hydraulic Society
Date and place: 11 October 2000, MTESZ Headquarters, Fő u. 68., Budapest, Hungary
Paper presented: P. Princz, J. Oláh and D. Kalló: “Application of Modified Zeolites in Wastewater Treatment”
 
3 Title of event: SZIKOMAT International Exhibition on Automation
Organizer: Open Gates Hungary, Ltd.
Date and place: 27-29 September 2000, SAP Building, Budapest
Paper presented: J. Oláh: “Application of Natural and Modified Zeolites in Wastewater Treatment”
 
4 Title of event: IMEKO Millennium Sessions” Congress
Organizer: International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO), Instrument Society of America (ISA)
Date and place: 11 September 2001, Houston, USA
Paper presented: P. Princz, J. Oláh, S. E. Smith, I. Horvath: “Complex Biological Degradability Test of Pharmaceutical Waste”
 
5 Title of event: National Conference on Environmental Measurements
Organizer: Hungarian Chemical Society
Date and place: 11 October 1999, Hotel Sauna, Kecskemét, Hungary
Paper presented:
P. Princz, J. Oláh, S. E. Smith, K. Hatfield: “Application of Modified Zeolite Developed in the Frame of the NATO SfP-972494Project in Wastewater Treatment”
 
6 Title of event: Bi-annual conference of the Hungarian Professional Association of Water and Sewage Companies
Organizer: Hungarian Professional Association of Water and Sewage Companies
Date and place: 26-27 March 2002, Thermal bath, Bűkfürdő, Hungary
Paper presented: P. Princz, J. Oláh: “Introduction of the NATO SfPZeolites project and the industrial-scale experiments accomplished at Hungarian WTPs under this project”
 
7 Title of event: Zeolite 02, 6th International Conference on the Occurrence Properties and Utilization of Natural Zeolites
Organizer: Aristotle University
Date and place: 2-7 June 2002, Thessaloniki, Greece
Paper presented: P. Princz, J. Oláh, S. E. Smith, D. Kalló, K. Hatfield, M. Kucsák: “Improvement of the Biological Degradability of Wastewaters Using Modified Zeolites”

The paper (P. Princz, J. Oláh, S. E. Smith, D. Kalló, K. Hatfield, M. Kucsák: Improvement of the Biological Degradability of Wastewaters Using Modified Zeolites) presented in the Zeolite 02 Conference, in Thessaloniki on July 4, 2002 will be published in peer-reviewed journal in 2003.