Sentences with phrase «filter out contaminants»

The UBE works by using a wastewater treatment process called forward osmosis to filter out contaminants from urine and shower wastewater, leaving clean water and urea separately.

It can also prevent erosion and filter out contaminants, protecting clean water.

The womb is no longer a safe place for babies, as the placenta, amniotic fluid, and umbilical cord are unable to filter out contaminants.

In other experiments with dried sapwood, Karnik found that water either did not flow through well, or flowed through cracks, but did not filter out contaminants.

Together, they have developed a water transport pouch that's both portable and able to filter out contaminants from otherwise unsanitary water.

The results indicated that LifeStraw filtered out all contaminants to levels where they don't pose a health risk to someone drinking the water.

The team also used a technique called in - solution hybridization to enrich for human DNA and filter out contaminant DNA from microbes.

For faster, longer - lasting water filters, some scientists are looking to graphene — thin, strong sheets of carbon — to serve as ultrathin membranes, filtering out contaminants to quickly purify high volumes of water.

Not exact matches

At a time when the U.S. Navy was claiming the contaminants were being filtered out naturally as they flowed towards the Peconic River, county - drilled wells revealed the plume was much wider and ran much deeper than the Navy had asserted.

This filter has a long life silicone anti-drainback valve, which means it keeps more of the contaminants out of your engine.

Some radioactive contaminants could be filtered out or allowed to decay, whereas others would pose more serious long - term problems

The swirling dislodged particles travel upward with the human convection plume, or currents of warmed air that rise around any human body, then get swept into a filter that takes out contaminants like dust, lint, and skin cells.

«Soil filters out some emerging contaminants before reaching groundwater.»

Higher pH, between eight and 10, triggers the membrane's filtration material, 200 nanometers thick (one nanometer equals 40 millionths of an inch), to become more porous, allowing water to pass through at a much faster rate while trapping salt (for desalinization) and contaminants such as arsenic (which becomes ionic at such a high pH and thereby easier for the filter to separate out).

«If you can make this in large scales and it's cheap, you could make huge bulk samples of filters and throw them out in the water to remove all sorts of contaminants,» Stein says.

They do a lot of good for the environment — from filtering contaminants out of the water to providing a critical animal habitat — and they store much more greenhouse gas than they emit.

The graphene was able to filter out most large - molecule contaminants, such as magnesium sulfate and dextran.

This type of filter installs at the water main where water enters the house (ours is in the garage) and filters out chlorine, fluoride and dozens of other contaminants.

Once you've identified the contaminants of concern in your drinking water, make sure you check out EWG's Filter Guide to find a filter that works for you and is certified to remove the specific contaminants in your tap Filter Guide to find a filter that works for you and is certified to remove the specific contaminants in your tap filter that works for you and is certified to remove the specific contaminants in your tap water.

P - gp or glycoprotein is a found in the cells membrane, and it makes sure that any potential contaminants are filtered out of the body.

Each system comes with our ProOne G2.0 filter which not only filter out pathogens and contaminants, but also filter out fluoride.

This filter, in theory, will keep contaminants in the fuel out of the engine.

And some high end products enable grease to filter the contaminants and flush them out.

Oil and filter changes are a vital component of a vehicle maintenance plan, as these changes help keep harmful contaminants such as dirt and debris out of your engine's interior components.

The fuel filter screens out contaminants in the fuel, and over time it will become clogged.

Though there is a filter to keep bugs out of the condensed water, there isn't one for contaminants, yet.

Heat recovery ventilation reduces carbon dioxide levels and filters out many contaminants, helping promote greater classroom learning.