Sentences with phrase «improved plant efficiency»

Refinery manager Simon Butterworth said in a statement that the decision to shut down the burner, which improves plant efficiency, was made despite independent analysis of air quality indicating that workplace emissions from the facility were at least 100 times better than standards required for occupational health.
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The researchers suspected different, more targeted, irrigation methods would help reduce nitrate runoff and improve plant efficiency.
New work from the lab of Dominique Bergmann, honorary adjunct staff member at Carnegie's Department of Plant Biology and professor at Stanford University, reveals ways that the systems regulating the development of stomata in grasses could be harnessed to improve plant efficiency and agricultural yield.
(See «Improve Plant Efficiency and Reduce CO2 Emissions When Firing High - Moisture Coals» in the November 2014 issue.)

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Government documents posted online today outline the new measures aimed at reducing Canada's dependence on the pollution - producing plants, and improving their efficiency.
The EPA is reportedly drafting a far less ambitious rule that would focus on improving efficiency at coal plants.
Ukwazi is working on a project feasibility study for a local iron - ore project, where, for example, the company recommended that the client change the location of the processing plant to save significant capital and operational costs while greatly improving efficiency.
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Even as we've begun to improve efficiency in factories and power plants, our cars and trucks have grown bigger and more wasteful: average fuel efficiency actually declined in the 1990s, even as engineers came up with one technology after another that could have saved gas.
Additionally, Eagle machines can help improve operational efficiencies at food processing plants by incorporating enhanced features that allow for quick changeovers in production lines.
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A plan was also in place to automate a number of processes at the plant to improve efficiency.
In the food and beverage industry, in such key market areas as plant - based sweeteners, dairy products, and refined sugar, Dow helps manufacturers develop better - tasting and more nutritious products, improve the efficiency of their operations, and address increasingly strict regulatory requirements.
A complete, fully connected end - of - line solution Featuring several different technologies and components, the solution installed at the Moulin de la Chaume plant by Gebo Cermex is characterised by high operational intelligence and smooth integration into the production flow, contributing to the efficiency of the four lines, as well as improving operator safety and batch traceability.
Automate hand packing lines and reduce plant downtime on short run SKUs to improve throughput and efficiencies
As part of the expansion, the food company will be investing # 1.4 m in the beef and sheep plant in order to upgrade the beef boning hall and improve efficiency, quality and process control.
«The compact new high efficiency system also allowed the removal of a tall existing structure and hoppers, making solids handling more accessible for the plant operator, improving operational efficiency and enhancing OH&S benefits by reducing solids handling.
During my time, more tools became available for plant breeders to transfer genes of interest and improve selection efficiency.
An upgrade featuring CST Wastewater Solutions» high efficiency rotary drum screening at Golden Circle's plant in Brisbane has sharply improved solids capture and reduced solids waste disposal volumes.
As part of Nestlé Waters» ongoing efforts to improve the water efficiency of their operations, the company has implemented a number of conservation techniques and initiatives in their factories over the years, including reverse osmosis to better filter and reuse wastewater, advanced water mapping to more carefully manage the flow of water in and out of the plants, and xeriscaping to reduce supplemental irrigation on the grounds of each factory.
By implementing Veolia's technologies at its plant in Wuxi, Danone Nutricia will be able to save on water consumption and improve water usage efficiency.
20 Apr 2018 — The food and beverage industry is embarking on its biggest transformation in decades, leveraging new technology to improve food quality, increase plant efficiency and boost productivity.
«Meanwhile, there are some things we must do to improve the reliability and efficiency of our effluent processing, and there are other things we can do to allow the plant to be more harmoniously integrated into our waterfront.»
Editor's note (01/05/18): This article has been updated to clarify that the study by Stephen Long and others published in Science in 2016 involved improving the efficiency of photosynthesis in tobacco plants.
«I'm a plant scientist in Dr. Patel's lab at Big State University, with significant research experience in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as working with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.
One improved the efficiency of individual power plants.
Specially trained malting scientists work in conjunction with chemists to determine the efficiency of their malting process, while plant scientists work towards improving the barley varieties to yield more sugars, faster.
But the reactors are designed to be integrated into manufacturing plants to improve their efficiency and safety, says Christian Hornung, a chemical engineer and 3D printing expert at CSIRO Manufacturing in Melbourne, Australia.
The electric power industry can achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by building new nuclear plants, sequestering coal - plant emissions, boosting wind energy and improving efficiency, the industry's top research group said yesterday.
And the improved designs could reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants by 4.5 million tonnes over the same period, says the government's Energy Efficiency Office (EEO).
«The temperature and pressure requirements for the air cooled condensers on power plants are modest,» Pearce says, explaining that allows the team to use polymer heat exchangers to improve efficiency and cut costs.
The team improved the plant's water - use - efficiency — the ratio of carbon dioxide entering the plant to water escaping — by 25 percent without significantly sacrificing photosynthesis or yield in real - world field trials.
«By manipulating photoprotection in plants, it may be possible to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, and one potential outgrowth of that is higher crop productivity,» said Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging and a UC Berkeley professor of plant and microbial biology.
The question of how photosynthetic efficiency is maintained affects plants on which humans depend, including crops and even forests, so answering this question has practical implications for improving agricultural productivity.
As supercritical technology becomes more mainstream and power generators normally improve on the efficiency of even their oldest plants over the course of operations, the loophole allows plants requesting CDM credits to exaggerate the calculated emissions avoided by millions of tons of CO2 - equivalent gases, the panel warns.
The NiTrac sensor developed by Cheng Hsun Ho and Wolf Frommer of the Carnegie Institution for Science will enable non-invasive real - time monitoring of nitrogen acquisition in action in plant roots, providing a new tool set that can be used to improve nitrogen efficiency.
The system is intended to improve time, safety and efficiency in manufacturing plants.
But he thinks his members could stomach a rule that solely requires power plants to improve efficiency, saying the increase in power prices would be small.
How this gets implemented will depend on how the regulations are written but may include improving the efficiency of existing plants or increasing the output of nuclear plants.
Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.
«This could lead to the development of new methods to improve the plant fertilization efficiency and open a new avenue for carbohydrate research in plant biology using synthetic chemistry approaches.»
This discovery is expected to lead to advances in research to improve plant fertilization efficiency as well as carbohydrate chemistry for plants.
Energy analyses in Eastern Europe have repeatedly found that improved energy efficiency would be more cost - effective than new power plants.
Now, engineers from Sandia National Laboratories are improving the efficiency of smaller plants, designing a new receiver that can absorb much more sunlight.
By studying the carbon isotope compositions of barley plants and their relationship with water - use efficiency, the researchers developed tools that plant breeders can use to improve selection efficiency for more water - efficient varieties.
The company will make a series of changes to improve efficiency and speed at the assembly plant, and also will move assembly of the Japanese - market Toyota Ractis from Iwante to a different plant in Japan.
Mobility may be enhanced in future tanks by the use of diesel - electric or turbine - electric series hybrid drives — first used in a primitive, gasoline - engined form with Porsche's Elefant German tank destroyer of 1943 — improving fuel efficiency while reducing the size and weight of the power plant.
Buyers will choose from three new power plants, including a 2.5 - liter 4 - cylinder, a 3.5 - liter V6, and a dramatically improved gas - electric hybrid system promising efficiency that approaches the vaunted Toyota Prius.
The result is improved quality and efficiency — both at the highly automated assembly plants in Japan, the U.S., and Europe, and at smaller, less automated plants in developing nations.
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