Effluent means a liquid or gas that is released or flows out from a source, like a factory or sewage treatment plant, into the environment. It often contains waste or pollutants, making it important to treat properly to prevent harm to our surroundings.
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The average was skewed by one fine of $ 200,000 against Suncor Energy Inc. for a release of
effluent from sedimentation ponds during a road construction in northern Alberta.
Supervised sampling
of effluent water from the treatment process and submission to a local laboratory for analysis.
Here, we report surface water dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and sedimentary organic carbon concentrations and their isotopic compositions in the rapidly urbanized Jiaozhou Bay in northeast China as well as carbonate parameters
in effluents of three large WWTPs around the bay.
More than 1,400 wastewater treatment plants in the United States and Canada discharge 4.8 billion gallons of
treated effluent into the Great Lakes basin every day, according to the study.
The new plant will use Aquabio's AMBR LE ™ Low Energy Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) technology which has been successfully utilised for industrial
effluent treatment and water reuse in numerous applications in the UK and US since 2001.
It releases its treated wastewater
effluent into Reynolds Channel off Long Beach Island.
The following year, Mehta learned that the Ganges River, considered to be the holiest river in India and used by millions of people every day for bathing and drinking water, caught fire due to
industrial effluents in the river.
WHEATON — The park district has abandoned plans to use
effluent water from the village sanitary district to irrigate Arrowhead Golf Course.
Impact of
wastewater effluent containing aged nanoparticles and other components on biological activities of the soil microbiome, Arabidopsis plants, and earthworms — Jia Liu — Environmental Research
«Not only on the Great Lakes and what's in the Great Lakes, we've done studies on wastewater treatment
plant effluent, establishing the fact that these microbeads are making their way into and out of wastewater treatment plants,» said Mason.
In the US, CMI selected Global Water & Energy (GW&E) as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor to design, build and start up their new wastewater treatment facility, specified to achieve outstanding
effluent discharge qualities while producing valuable biogas (methane) initially for future utilization and electricity production.
High - temperature thermophilic anaerobic digestion technologies, typically operating at 55 deg C, are part of a combination of processes that digest waste water's organic content to produce green energy (methane) while achieving outstanding waste water
effluent qualities.
«The industrial pipeline's backdrop of swampland and twisted trees is a cameo of subtropical ecology that functions like a sponge
for effluents from petrochemical waste.
Metals have long been known to concentrate in sewage, which mixes toilet water
with effluent from industrial manufacturing, storm runoff, and anything else flushed down the drain.
COHRAL (TM) technology — which is applicable to both livestock and cropping operations — uses concentrated anaerobic bacteria to digest 70 per cent of the organic matter (COD, or Chemical Oxygen demand) in Oakey Abattoir's waste water to
produce effluent of far high quality than typical open lagoons.
CCN is embarking on an environmental initiative that will see it use technology from international green energy leader Global Water Engineering to harvest biogas (methane) energy from waste water to replace fossil fuels and provide reliable base load energy while simultaneously achieving much
cleaner effluent.
Elsewhere in the city, a chemicals company pumps
effluent containing growth hormone into the sewer.
The cost of putting activated carbon filters, for instance,
on effluent streams to clean them would be extraordinarily high, he says, and targeting a few drugs with these specific methods can't solve all the problems.
They also collected and analyzed oil and
gas effluents that were being directly discharged into streams, rivers and surface waters at three disposal sites in Pennsylvania and a spill site in West Virginia.
The 1.4 - million - euro project, which will run for two to three years, will identify which
effluent streams could be better treated.
In the Great Lakes basin, which receives much of the
waste effluent of 40 million surrounding residents, triclosan has been detected in 90 percent of surface water samples and found in many fish.
Bay Park currently discharges its nitrogen -
rich effluent into Reynolds Channel, degrading the water quality.
The aerobic polishing of the
anaerobic effluent ensures that the discharge from the plant to the local sewer will meet the strict discharge limits applying.
One collaborative venture between the CSIRO, the Murray - Darling Commission and the Wagga City Council is testing the usefulness of treated
effluent as a source of nutrients for growing trees.
Golden Circle's wastewater plant — including a third digester utilising CST Wastewater Solutions» and GWE's high efficiency anaerobic technology to produce biogas — has already saved Golden Circle more than $ 2 million a year in
effluent disposal since the plant was upgraded to cope with increasing production volumes.
Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to
cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.
Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut
effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its -LSB-...]
To help achieve its sustainability goals, Bakkavor has appointed waste water treatment specialist Aquabio to design and construct a state - of - the -
art effluent treatment and water recycling facility, at its Cucina Sano business based in Boston, Lincolnshire.
Lanes Group plc has won a three - year contract with fast - expanding beverage manufacturer Bevisol to take away drinks
production effluent for anaerobic digestion.
The study evaluated different types of wetland restoration, including mangrove planting, wetland assimilation — the introduction of treated
municipal effluent into impounded and degraded wetlands to provide freshwater and nutrients for restoration purposes, and river diversion — use of new channels and / or structures to divert sediment and freshwater from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers into adjacent basins.
These include using natural pests and composting in place of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers whenever possible, implementing no burn policies, sparing high conservation value forests from development, taking measures to reduce air pollution, and creating catchment ponds to prevent palm oil
mill effluent from entering waterways where it would damage aquatic habitats.
The Environmental Health Needs of Aboriginal Communities in WA report released in 2008, identified that 76 % of people living in Western Australian Aboriginal communities relied on a bore for the provision of their water, 89 % of the population of Aboriginal communities relied on a community
effluent system for the disposal of sewerage and 70 % did not have their rubbish collected by the governing Shire.
Blondeau said
mining effluent will be tested every day and results will be sent to the state monthly.
Responsible for waste water documentation, weekly
effluent samples, chemical refills, maintaining waste water process, back - washing sand filters, flow readings, pH probe calibrations, maintaining polymer mix and adjustments to for solids.
At that time, Earth Day organizers had an advantage: The environmental problems were highly visible, tangible problems that people came up against in their daily lives, such as
toxic effluent from factories spilled into streams and rivers.
We were loggers dancing lightly atop felled trees on the river, just like in the National Film Board cartoon, not pulp mill operators
dumping effluent into it.
Complex pipe and valve arrangements generate waste and require
further effluent to clean.
Environmentally advanced technologies available in Australasia are helping
transform effluent from crops from an environmental liability into a profit centre.
A waste - to - energy project undertaken by the world's largest integrated pineapple operation, Del Monte Philippines Inc. (DMPI), has exceeded even the
high effluent quality targets originally set for the job.
The
remaining effluent of the lagoon flows by gravity towards complementary technology such as the GWE proprietary SuperSep - CFS separation technology being used in the first Australian installation.
And he says Nassau County should seize the potential opportunity to divert the Bay Park sewage plant's treated
effluent through an aqueduct under Sunrise Highway to the Cedar Creek sewage plant, where it would be dumped into the ocean through that plant's outfall pipe, instead of into polluted Reynolds Channel.
She said that this apparent piecing back together of metabolites into pharmaceuticals could, in principle, also happen in the environment
after effluent discharge.
Dana Kolpin of the US Geological Survey in Iowa City says that the findings highlight the complex issue of antibiotic - resistance genes, which will continue to be of concern as treated
effluent becomes more widely used in regions that have scarce water resources.
This month France - based WatchFrog begins its first high - profile trial to
test effluent from a hospital near Paris under the auspices of the ministries of environment and industry.