Sentences with phrase «higher organic carbon»

Higher temperature alone led to increased losses of pollutants, whereas higher organic carbon content retained more pollutants in the model ecosystems.

A higher organic carbon load might lead to the development of ecosystems where microorganisms mainly feed on dissolved organic carbon, thus opening a way for the pollutants to enter the food web and cause more problems in higher level organisms, like fish,» says Matyas Ripszam.

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 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.

Not exact matches

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

For specific industry applications with high organic loads, enough biogas can be generated to fully cover a production plant's energy needs and still have a biogas surplus to feed it into power generators and sell electricity to the national grid, often generating carbon credits, where these apply, as well as profit.

The review of relevant research conducted by Stolze et al. (2000) concludes that under European conditions organic agriculture has beneficial effects on the characteristics of soil organic matter because the soil organic carbon content is higher on organically farmed soils than on conventional ones.

On the other hand, organic crop yields in developing countries may be considerably higher than the national average, which has implications on organic matter return and carbon sinks102.

«Garden equipment engines emit high levels of carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, producing up to 5 % of the nation's air pollution and a good deal more in many metropolitan areas like Los Angeles.

As the price of food goes higher and higher and we worry more and more about where our food comes from, organic vs. conventional (pesticide - laden), genetically - modified organisms, carbon emissions and climate change, it makes sense to me to try to grow some of our own food.

In fact, the researchers showed a very high export ratio toward the aquatic environment of the gross primary production of the Amazon wetlands: half of this carbon, in the form of dissolved CO2 and biodegradable organic matter, is transferred directly to the river.

Investigators in Shandong, China, recently discovered a new method to convert this organic waste matter into a porous carbon material that can be used to produce high - tech electronics.

Matyas Ripszam has also examined the effects of higher temperature and different concentration of organic carbon content on the distribution of pollutants in modelled real - life marine ecosystems, so called mesocosms.

According to Matyas Ripszam, Umeå University, this change will have high impact on the organic pollutants on the organic pollutants in the northern Baltic Sea, since this carbon can interact with the pollutants and decrease their concentration in the water.

«The deposition of compounds such as sugars and organic acids from living roots can increase the activity of bacteria and fungi, and it's this increase in activity that accelerates the decomposition of carbon in the soil, leading to higher CO2 emissions,» Sulman said.

Minzae Lee and team subjected the filters to a high - temperature process called pyrolysis, transforming the organic materials inside them into a porous carbon substance.

Higher lake temperatures may speed the conversion of carbon - rich organic matter in lake sediments into methane and carbon dioxide, gases that once released into the atmosphere could exacerbate global warming.

That could explain two other anomalies from the era's geologic record, Lenton says: the large amounts of organic - rich shale that were deposited as nearshore sediments and the unusually high proportion of carbon - 13 isotopes in the rocks.

Stubbins and his colleagues were most interested in the way the vents» extremely high temperatures and pressure affect dissolved organic carbon.

That significant amounts come from respiratory processes means that the decomposition of terrestrial organic carbon in running waters may be higher than previously thought.

Attendees at the astrobiology meeting in Arizona showcased an assortment of high - tech devices for next - generation exploration, ranging from microfluidic «life analyzers» and integrated nucleic acid extractors for studying «Martian metagenomics» to exquisitely sensitive, miniaturized organic chemistry labs for spotting tantalizing carbon compounds and minerals at microscopic scales.

They found that high rates of carbon accumulation in lake sediments were stimulated by several factors, including «thermokarst erosion and deposition of terrestrial organic matter, -LSB-...] nutrient release from thawing permafrost that stimulated lake productivity, and by slow decomposition in cold, anoxic lake bottoms.»

Production of organic corn resulted in the greatest nitrous oxide emissions and represented about 8 % of total GHG emission; corn also had the highest carbon dioxide emissions per hectare.

OLEDs (where the O denotes they are organic, or carbon - based) are among the most energy efficient of these devices, but they generally have higher production costs due to the laborious fabrication processes needed to arrange them properly.

That deep water is not only rich in nutrients, it also has relatively high concentrations of carbon dioxide, both because it is cold (cold water can absorb and hold more carbon dioxide than warm water) and because the decomposition of organic matter that sinks into the depths releases carbon dioxide.

Two of these graphite flecks had a high carbon - 12 to carbon - 13 isotope ratio, a characteristic feature of organic origins as life preferentially absorbs carbon - 12 (PNAS, doi.org/8jk).

In the first stage, the high temperature bacteria which Pirt has dubbed London caldoactive bacteria — consume 55 per cent of the organic material in the sludge, converting it to carbon dioxide and vegetable matter (biomass).

«This places the new material in the exclusive class of porous, high surface area materials including mesoporous silica, zeolites, metal organic frameworks, and carbon nanotubes,» says Strømme.

Their research further reveals that another organic abiotic compound is formed during the vent circulation process at adjacent lower temperature, higher pH vents, but reaction rates are too slow to completely reduce the carbon all the way to methane.

For example, they have very high tensile strength and exceptional electron mobility, which make them very attractive for the next generation of organic and carbon - based electronic devices.

«And, what puzzles researchers working on the biological carbon pump: it is higher than that of non-calcifying phytoplankton and marine snow, the main sinking particles and organic carbon sources to the ocean interior».

«Microbial cell and organic carbon concentrations in this accreted ice are significantly higher than those in the overlying ice, which implies that the subglacial environment is the source,» says Christner.

Based on accumulating measurements of microbes in the subglacial environment, he calculates that the concentration of cell and organic carbon in the Earth's ice sheets, or «cryosphere», may be hundreds of times higher than what is found in all the planet's freshwater systems.

Past and ongoing research has demonstrated that bioreduced sediment has higher amounts of uranium, Fe (II), organic carbon and sulfides.

Possible mechanisms include (iv) fertilization of phytoplankton growth in the Southern Ocean by increased deposition of iron - containing dust from the atmosphere after being carried by winds from colder, drier continental areas, and a subsequent redistribution of limiting nutrients; (v) an increase in the whole ocean nutrient content (e.g., through input of material exposed on shelves or nitrogen fixation); and (vi) an increase in the ratio between carbon and other nutrients assimilated in organic material, resulting in a higher carbon export per unit of limiting nutrient exported.

Soils high in organic matter also store more carbon.

1.4 times higher output enabled through new composite cathodes A highly conductive nano - composite cathode was developed by converting solid organic radical material into a gel and uniformly compounding it with carbon materials.

They reduce organic compounds, odors, phenols, toxins, medications, dissolved metals, phosphates and silicates, and their high - capacity pelletized activated carbon has a very low ash content and rinses clean quickly.

A brief and incomplete list of their positive roles would include the pollination of many, perhaps most higher plants; the decomposition of organic materials, facilitating the recycling of carbon, nitrogen, and other essential nutrients; the control of populations of harmful invertebrate species (including other insects); the direct production of certain foods (honey, for example); and the manufacture of useful products such as silk and shellac.

The higher the total organic carbon content (TOC), the greater the sorption capacity.

(2) Long - term anoxic permafrost organic matter decomposition releases less carbon but more CO2 — Ce than oxic organic matter decomposition when considering the higher GWP of CH4.

The Uniti vehicle, which features a lightweight carbon fiber body and «organic composite» interior, is said to be «optimised for high performance and agility in urban environments,» and to emit «75 % less carbon than mainstream electric cars» over its entire lifecycle.

2014 — The conversion into grassland showed the highest soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration rates, ranging between 0.4 and 0.8 t C ha − 1 yr − 1, while the opposite extreme scenario (100 % of grassland conversion into arable) gave cumulated losses of up to 2 Gt of C by 2100.

David, I havent been keeping up with all the PETM research, but I do recall that individual plankton recovered from Bass River, New Jersey show a single step CIE. Due to the high sedimentation rate of coastal fluvial systems, Bass River sediments are consistent with a much shorter duration of organic carbon release during the PETM (estimated as less than 500 years).

But apparently not; in a new study by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB), investigators found that water from green roofs had high levels of dissolved organic carbon.

Garden equipment engines, which have had unregulated emissions untill very recently, emit high levels of carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, producing up to 5 % of the nation's air pollution and a good deal more in metropolitan areas.

7: Forests).18, 31,32,33,34,35 Long periods of record high temperatures are associated with droughts that contribute to dry conditions and drive wildfires in some areas.159 Wildfire smoke contains particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and various volatile organic compounds (which are ozone precursors) 37and can significantly reduce air quality, both locally and in areas downwind of fires.38, 39,40,41,42

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vCARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vcarbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vcarbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

«When open burning emissions, which emit high levels of organic matter, are included in the total, the best estimate of net industrial - era climate forcing by all short - lived species from black - carbon - rich sources becomes slightly negative -LRB--0.06 W / m2 with 90 % uncertainty bounds of -1.45 to +1.29 W / m2).