Sentences with phrase «by plant waste»

Since picking up Gordon Brown or Barack Obama on a two - seated bicycle probably isn't the most logical (or safe) route to go, Denmark has developed a more reasonable solution: limos powered by plant waste.

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Monadelphous Group and AnaeCo's long - delayed waste treatment plant in Shenton Park has finally been given a completion date, with a short list of tasks to be finished by mid-April.
The plant owned by Quebec company Enerkem is believed to be the world's first full - scale waste - to - biofuels facility.
From the collection and packaging of waste materials and management of satellite accumulation areas, to complete in - plant cleaning or running your RCRA treatment processes — Clean Harbors on - site staffs are solely dedicated to servicing your site by leveraging all of our capabilities and developing the safest and most cost - effective solutions for our customers.
This means that less than 1 % of the total waste generated by the plant is used in landfill.
Sustainable Solutions for Wine Waste Ways to recycle the vast amount of plant waste produced by the wine industry are under investigation by chemistry and biotechnology researchers at Swinburne...
The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and waste that has to be handled by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.
Results achieved over hundreds of plants globally have achieved removal of organic waste from discharge water of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the plants installed by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generators.
The waste water treatment and green energy plant at the $ 120 million Pacific Beverages» Bluetongue Brewery in NSW also provides valuable renewable energy for the brewery, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels and ultimately cutting overall energy needs by 15 per cent.
Biogas produced from Remo - Frit's waste streams undergoes sweetening (sulphur removal) for environmental and plant reliability purposes, using GWE's BIO-SULFURIX ™ process, followed by drying in GWE's GASODRIX ™ system.
A: Achieving our waste goals is through a variety of efforts at all our plants, many driven by our employee GoGreen Teams.
In late 2016, we set a new 2020 goal to reduce total waste generated by our plants.
Following the unveiling of its # 5.4 million anaerobic digestion plant in 2015, Stowmarket - based Muntons has further improved its environmental credentials by achieving zero waste to landfill.
The Anaerobic Digestion Plant uses natural biological processes to both reduce output in distillery waste water by -LSB-...]
Alternative protein sources may include the use of by - products currently viewed as waste or the development of new protein sources from plants, lower order animals, or single - cell organisms with a lower environmental impact compared with typical animal - based protein sources.
In 2009, Casa Herradura installed a waste - to - energy process that fuels a steam boiler with biogas generated by a biological anaerobic reactor, as part of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).
Callum Hudson - Odoi planted a shot onto the post, via the hand of goalkeeper Justin Bijlow, after Castillo had lost possession, and the Dutchman then himself wasted a fine counter-attack with an indecisive pass when flanked by Hudson - Odoi and Redan.
Get dirty by collecting weeds, leaves, dying plants and some kitchen waste like veggies, fruits and coffee grinds.
«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;
The hearing came the same day as the E.P.A. proposed adding the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant — identified by the state as the source of the PFOA — to the federal Superfund list, reserved for the nation's worst hazardous waste sites.
It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.
ALLEGANY TERRITORY, Salamanca, NY July 5, 2013 - SCMC, LLC, a construction management firm wholly - owned by the Seneca Nation of Indians, was recently awarded a $ 2.7 million contract with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to upgrade a waste water treatment plant on its premises.
This was further worsened by the direct discharge of liquid waste from Accra's sewerage system into the Korle lagoon after the Mudor treatment plant broke down.
He robs half a billion dollars from an environmental fund that is used to clean up water, to safeguard and strengthen our waste water treatment plants, and he was rebuked by the federal government, who said it was the first time that's ever been requested and it was disallowed.»
SCMC, LLC, a construction management firm wholly - owned by the Seneca Nation of Indians, was recently awarded a $ 2.7 million contract with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to upgrade a waste water treatment plant on its premises.
The company built a new 5 - bay kiln at the Madison County landfill to take advantage of waste heat produced by a nearby landfill gas power plant.
The land was polluted in the early 1900s by waste from the Solvay Process Co.'s soda ash production and later by a concrete batch plant and a metals scrap yard, as well as leaks from large oil storage tanks.
The new technique should help pesticides adhere to the leaves of plants and reduce pesticide waste and pollution by almost half.
One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the waste gas of power plants, typically by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.
Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts.
The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»
By 1999 he had lined up investors, hired an engineering staff, and had a pilot plant chewing through seven tons of waste daily in a Philadelphia industrial yard.
The extra electricity, which can increase by as much as a gigawatt — or the output of a large nuclear power plant — in under an hour, must be quickly sold to other utilities or in many cases it is wasted.
Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.
So confident were we in the seas» seemingly limitless capacity to absorb our gaseous waste that, by the turn of the millennium, the United States, Germany, and Japan were actually proposing to compress CO2 from power plants into a gooey liquid and pipe it directly into the abyss.
The scientists, led by agronomist Kenneth Cassman of the University of Nebraska and Shaobing Peng of the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, believe hotter nights may speed up respiration, causing the plant to work harder and waste energy.
The researchers propose recycling the waste by - products from seafood processing plants as feed for farm - raised fish.
One promising solution is to recycle the waste by - products (such as heads and innards) made by Chinese seafood processing plants.
So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).
In a new article, researchers from Aarhus University describe how the waste left by ants on plant leaves serves as a valuable fertiliser for the plants — handed on a silver platter.
The coal waste contains chemical elements that can be ionised by the biofertiliser, making nutrients which are essential to growth available for uptake by the plants.
At an industrial scale, compost, such as manure, is produced by mixing plant and animal waste.
Then, the volume flow in the plant can be doubled, utilization of carbon from biomass will increase to nearly 100 %, and a large amount of usable waste heat will be produced by the catalyst (PtG operation).
The Electric Power Development company says its experimental power plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired plant.
That is because more than 80 percent of their industrial waste is carbon dioxide; by contrast, the figure is less than 20 percent in the power plants, said Wang Yongsheng, engineer of Shenhua's carbon capture and storage project.
Norway and Sweden are worried about the threat posed by radioactive leaks from sunken nuclear - powered submarines and nuclear waste off the Kola Peninsula, as well as the safety of the nuclear plants there.
The plant, which will be working by 1994, is designed to handle 20 000 tonnes of waste per year.
A new study shows that human waste accounts for a high percentage of nutrients consumed by some animals and plants in suburban ponds.
Unlike the waste from conventional nuclear power plants, which remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, the by - products of fusion decay within decades.
It centres on a computer model they developed to compare the carbon emissions that would be saved by converting the world's available supplies of plant waste into either biofuel or biochar.
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