Shell was the first of the big oil companies to venture significantly into the new biofuels, getting its toes wet in 2002 by providing money to a Canadian company called Iogen Corporation to research making ethanol
from plant waste.
The Q Microbe ™ is used to make cellulosic ethanol
from plant waste and could transform the energy industry by making ethanol more quickly and cost effectively than conventional technologies.
KiOR's biorefinery in Columbus, Mississippi started commercial production in March using wood chips to produce cellulosic fuels, and Ineos just announced on July 31 that their Indian River BioEnergy plant in Florida has begun operations to make biofuels
from plant waste.
So would something like a cell phone made
from plant waste be practical?
February 3, 2014 - New technique makes «biogasoline»
from plant waste.
«Longer term, our goal is to make [the plastic]
from plant waste,» such as the lignin or cellulose in the sugarcane's leaves and stems.
The team achieved better hydrogen yields using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived
from plant waste such as wood pulp, straw and leftovers from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.
It's actually made
from plant waste material.
Bio-Lutions produces biodegradable packaging and disposable tableware
from plant waste, for instance bananas, pineapples or tomatoes.
Extraction of nutraceutical ingredients
from plant waste, including carotenoids, vitamin D from plant stalks, and functional oils from plant leaves.
INEOS Bio (which is the biofuel arm of petrochemical giant INEOS) and developer New Planet Energy say they will use the loan guarantee to build the «INEOS BioEnergy Center,» near Vero Beach, Florida, that will produce 8 million gallons of advanced biofuels and 6 MW of biomass power
from plant waste and trash per year.
Case Study 2:
From Plant Wastes to Sustainable Aquafeeds — The NovacqTM Case History Dr Cedric J. Simon, Senior Research Scientist in Aquaculture Nutrition, Integrated Sustainable Aquaculture Production, Agriculture and Food Business Unit, CSIRO
Not exact matches
Unlike traditional drywall, which is made of gypsum, EcoRock is produced
from the recycled
waste of steel and cement
plants.
Western Australians could be using energy converted
from municipal solid
waste in less than two years if companies proposing
waste - to - energy
plants achieve their timeframes.
From specific tasks such as hazardous
waste disposal and vault and manhole cleaning, to emergency response, equipment failures,
plant fires, product releases and disaster recovery, our goal is to eliminate your liability, reduce costs and help you maintain your competitive edge.
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.
Our expert
waste management staff utilize Company - owned vehicles to pick up material
from your generation sites and transport it to one of our recycling
plants.
Through the partnership with FullCycle Energy Fund, this technology will be employed in converted energy
plants and help fight both environmental and
waste problems so that we can transition
from our outdated, harmful modes of energy production and embrace these new methods that will better our earth for generations to come.
Refining and production are, for the most part, separate activities — they don't benefit much
from integration in the physical sense (oil sands upgrading
from mines is a bit of an exception, since the
waste heat
from the upgrader can feed the extraction
plant).
These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and
waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects
from normal
plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive
waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear
plants for thousands of years.
We're proud that our coconut oil is part of this sustainable process that ensures no part of the
plant is
wasted, which is just one great reason to buy coconut oil
from Nuts.com.
Prior to the construction of new centre, Ornua Nutrition Ingredients used to send offcuts and
waste cheese
from the Leek
plant to its other site in south England to be converted into other products.
«We're increasing water efficiency at bottling
plants, we're reducing emissions
from our truck fleets and we are recycling more and
wasting less.»
From plant - based menu offerings to
waste minimization, our commitment to environmental sustainability is woven into everything we do.
The RAPTOR ® portion of the
plant involves an innovative twist on traditional anaerobic digestion, designed to maximize the energy generation
from specific
wastes.
Each company is working to eliminate
waste to landfills; 94 % of
waste from our manufacturing
plants is being recycled and diverted
from landfills.
Nicholas Meat's new facilities will be designed to recover both energy and water
from waste products generated on site and significantly reduce the impact of the beef and veal processing
plant on the local community.
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.
One of the United State's newest dairy processing
plants features advanced
waste water treatment technology that not only radically improves biomass recovery and effluent quality, but also harnesses green energy
from waste streams to drive -LSB-...]
The liquid concentrate
from the digester is added to the fresh solid
waste in the slurry - making stage, or recycled to a TAR treatment, or ultimately disposed of in a conventional wastewater treatment
plant.
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.
«In addition to the obvious
waste - to - energy benefits, the process also helps curb odours that emanate
from open lagoons in processing
plants.
One of the United State's newest dairy processing
plants features advanced
waste water treatment technology that not only radically improves biomass recovery and effluent quality, but also harnesses green energy
from waste streams to drive production processes and reduce its carbon footprint.
Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons with efficient green energy storage is that the methane biogas produced is not only prevented
from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than
waste water
plants being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.
The Global Water Engineering (GWE) anaerobic digestion technologies — to be featured on Stand S9 — extract biogas
from virtually any biological
waste stream, including municipal food
wastes from restaurants, food service facilities, grocery stores, and municipal solid
waste, as well as organic
wastes from industrial processing facilities, food and beverage
plants and agribusinesses.
In 1981 SATTLER invented the double membrane gas holder for storing digester gas
from waste water treatment
plants.
«In addition to the obvious
waste - to - energy benefits, the process also helps curb odours that emanate
from open lagoons in processing
plants,» says Mr Bambridge.
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.
Plants are grown in organic soil with compost
from the hotel's food
waste composting program.
We are comparing apples and oranges here — and cotton pesticides, eroded soil
from cotton fields, emissions
from logging trucks, oil spills, hazardous
wastes from refineries and petrochemical and plastics
plants.
The diapers will be taken to a
plant that will separate the
waste from the plastic and pulp in the diapers.
She says she's also against a proposed garbage burning
waste to energy
plant in Romulus, just a few miles
from the Lake.
Overflowing sewers, runoff
from chemical
plants and seepage
from toxic
waste sites have created a hazardous stew in the waters covering much of the nation's fourth largest city, and officials are just beginning to grapple with the health problems looming.
Some state legislators and environmental advocates see it as a chance to make sure oil and gas
wastes from hydraulic fracturing in neighboring states like Pennsylvania stay out of wastewater
plants and landfills.
From the # 90,000
wasted on pot
plants in the Department of Transport to over twelve billion
wasted on the NHS computer they don't think twice about splashing your cash.
Unless your definition of «fracking» only includes the instant when holes are blown in the pipe, every state has had water and ground pollution
from spills, traffic accidents, poor casing jobs, attempts to process frack
waste through biological
waste treatment
plants not designed for that, etc..
But Sustainable, which is working on a system that turns animal or
plant waste into fuel to power equipment, is doing all its construction and testing at space its leasing
from a power tool company in Saugerties.
The treatment
plant has the capacity to treat 2000 cubic meters of liquid
waste from 200 cesspit emptiers, daily.
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.
State Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, in an email to news media, said Friday that «we must be vigilant to assure that the facility does not transition
from an operating power
plant to a dormant nuclear
waste dump.»