Sentences with phrase «high oxygen demands»

Increased inputs of nutrients from land are enhancing algal blooms, and the sinking of this organic matter to the seafloor and subsequent decay leads to a high oxygen demand in bottom waters.

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«Any factory with a biological waste stream or wastewater with high COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) can easily use this technology to generate energy.

The technology can be used wherever industry has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

The industry faces particular challenges — and opportunities — because of the nature of its process wastewater, which typically has a high content of organic material and consequently a high biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) due to the presence of blood, tallow, and mucosa.

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

DAF treatment reduces the high levels of Suspended Solids (SS) and Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) in the wastewater sufficiently to allow discharge into the local authority's sewerage system.

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.

«Any factory with a biological waste stream or wastewater with high COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) can easily use this model to generate energy,» said Michael Bambridge, Managing Director of CST Wastewater Solutions.

The treatment plant reduces the high levels of Suspended Solids (SS) and Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) in the wastewater sufficiently to allow discharge into the local authority's sewerage system without the requirement for costly microbial after - treatment.

However, the experiment showed that plants can be «throttled up» to produce more oxygen during periods of high demand, when Packham was exercising, for instance.

«Significant impacts to the lake could result from incidental or accidental spills from 5,100 ships passing through every year; invasive species brought by transoceanic ships, which could threaten the extinction of aquatic plants and fish, such as the cichlids that have been evolving since the lake's formation; and frequent dredging, impacting aquatic life through alterations in turbidity and hypoxia, triggered by resuspension of nutrients and organic matter that exert a relatively high biochemical oxygen demand.»

This spike in popularity can be attributed to its high ranking on the now - withdrawn ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) list, which formally stated its antioxidant saturation level and influenced public demand.

Organs (heart is # 1, and kidney is # 2 in terms of ATP usage) that use a lot of oxygen, or have high energy demands are particularly rich in mitochondria.

The finding helps explain why the brain is able to work properly when the body's demands for fuel and oxygen are highest, and it shows that the brain actually shifts into a higher gear in terms of activity.

In acute stress and high - intensity exercise our demand for energy temporarily exceeds the oxygen supply, and the deficit is made up with anaerobic glycolysis.

Your muscles demand higher amounts of oxygen while exercising, so it's important to make this oxygen more available through a warm - up activity.

This stabilized soil or mud frequently is high in decaying organic matter and therefore deficient in oxygen, and the water can not supply sufficient quantities of oxygen to meet the roots» demands.

Is the effect caused by high biological oxygen demand due to warmer waters?