The most egregious space likely arises when it comes to «externalities» of pollution and environmental impacts: such as diseases from chemical
industrial plant waste, damaged ecosystems from agricultural runoff, and leeching chemicals from trash threatening drinking water.
Not exact matches
The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and
industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and
waste that has to be handled by
plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.
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.
Currently, BPA - contaminated water such as
industrial waste or landfill runoff may or may not be treated before it's released into the environment or to wastewater treatment
plants.
The
plant will process
industrial wastes that would...
The findings reflect the major potential sources of environmental pollution along the Rhine, such as metropolitan areas and
industrial plants,
waste water treatment
plants and weirs, as well as the particular current conditions.
But the folks at Changing World Technologies, the company behind the process of changing
waste into oil, must first prove they can successfully scale up from a 7 - ton - per - day pilot
plant in Philadelphia to a 200 - ton - per - day
industrial plant in Carthage, Missouri.
By 1999 he had lined up investors, hired an engineering staff, and had a pilot
plant chewing through seven tons of
waste daily in a Philadelphia
industrial yard.
WITH its two
waste water treatment
plants, a chemical company and a garbage truck depot, Chicago's West Side
industrial district is one of the worst smelling places in the city.
After working the land locally for a quarter of a century, he watched in despair as Fukushima Prefecture, where Minamisoma is located, licensed an
industrial -
waste processing
plant close to his five - acre farm.
Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power
plants and other
industrial facilities where, along with
waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.
The duo analyzed 370 communities throughout Massachusetts and found that hazardous
industrial facilities, power
plants, municipal solid
waste combustors, toxic
waste sites, landfills and trash transfer stations were unequally distributed with respect to income and / or racial composition.
They also must control mercury air emissions from coal - fired power
plants,
waste incineration and related
industrial processes, and reduce or eliminate mercury use in small - scale gold mining and chemical manufacturing.
At an
industrial scale, compost, such as manure, is produced by mixing
plant and animal
waste.
Thermal salt - removing processes require high temperatures so they tend to be expensive (more than $ 1 per cubic meter of freshwater), but the use of rejected «
waste» heat from other
industrial or power
plant operations for co-generation can cut energy expenditure.
Compared with coal - fired power
plants, coal - to - chemicals factories capture CO2 from
industrial waste more easily.
That is because more than 80 percent of their
industrial waste is carbon dioxide; by contrast, the figure is less than 20 percent in the power
plants, said Wang Yongsheng, engineer of Shenhua's carbon capture and storage project.
«The goal is to install
industrial waste treatment
plants that collect the
waste, as opposed to just discharging it.
They are generated by incomplete combustion of materials in forest fires,
industrial plants and
waste incinerators.
Many
industrial sites, geothermal sources or solar generating
plants also create low - grade heat that is
wasted.
The potential for capturing heat — from power
plants,
industrial smokestacks and even vehicle tailpipes — and converting it into electricity is huge, allowing heat that is currently
wasted to be used to generate power.
They can convert CO2, an
industrial waste product, into methane, a versatile fuel that can be readily integrated into efforts to fuel vehicles and power
plants.
There are also potential
industrial and environmental uses: Cellulose and woody stems from
plants — in the form of paper, wood, and related materials — account for more than half of the biomass in
waste dumps worldwide.
So the whole idea behind this is that in our
industrial society, we've got coal burning
plants, we've got municipal
waste combustors.
There are also no laws enacted to keep bottled water facilities away from
industrial plants or
waste dumps.
Italy About Youtuber FORREC designs and constructs
industrial plants to meet the many different requests from the world of solid
waste disposal and recycling.
[7] Power
plant efficiency can also be greatly improved by using «combined heat and power» systems that use
waste heat from the combustion process for space heating or
industrial applications, [8] or by using a «combined cycle» that uses the
waste heat to power a steam turbine and make more electricity.
New Zealand - based Lanzatech, the developer of gas fermentation technology for producing ethanol and high value chemicals (e.g.: MEK, Butadiene) from
industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to... R
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It comprises
waste material, products, residues, and byproducts from agriculture,
plants, manure, and
industrial wastes, among other materials.
No mention of course, that wind turbines need a constant backup source of energy, usually in the form of a conventional power
plant, or that the production of these hundred - ton
industrial machines creates one ton of hazardous and toxic
waste PER turbine blade (according to a report from VESTA wind turbine manufacturer).
Sweden's University of Borås doctoral student Ramkumar Nair has shown it is possible to produce bioethanol from agricultural and
industrial waste in existing
plants in a socioeconomically sustainable way.
It built a combined heat and power
plant to use tree
waste from the city's parks,
industrial wood
waste, and wood from other sources.
89 Until we get zero
waste, however, the methane (natural gas) produced in existing landfills as organic materials in buried garbage decompose can also be tapped to produce
industrial process heat or to generate electricity in combined heat and power
plants.
This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer
plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials from that kind of
industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.
Industrial plants fill the air with smoke and dangerous chemicals, pollute the lakes and streams with
waste and toxic by products, and wear out or damage parts of the surrounding land.
Uroš Macerl, an organic farmer from Slovenia, successfully stopped a cement kiln from co-incinerating petcoke with hazardous
industrial waste by rallying legal support from fellow Eko Krog activists and leveraging his status as the only citizen allowed to challenge the
plant's permits.
Uroš Macerl, Slovenia: Uroš Macerl, an organic farmer from Slovenia, successfully stopped a cement kiln from co-incinerating petcoke with hazardous
industrial waste by rallying legal support from fellow Eko Krog activists and leveraging his status as the only citizen allowed to challenge the
plant's permits.
Industrial wastes and other organic materials could easily be gasified to both produce electricity and fuel as well as to eliminate some of the land area needed for landfills — land area that could be used for other things, like harvesting
plant biomass.
The
industrial facilities covered by the analysis include large power
plants, refineries, manufacturing combustion and
industrial processes,
waste and certain agricultural activities.
Major Environmental Issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal - fired electric
plants, and transportation in major cities;
industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and sea coasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; ground water contamination from toxic
waste.
The central heat sources can be
waste - heat recovery at
industrial processes,
waste - incineration
plants, cogeneration power
plants or stand - alone boilers burning fossil fuels or biomass.
The letter explains why large - scale
industrial production of transport fuels and other energy from
plants such as corn, sugar cane, oilseeds, trees, grasses, or so - called agricultural and woodland
waste threatens forests, biodiversity, food sovereignty, community - based land rights and will worsen climate change.
This report indicates that millions of our tax dollars are
wasted on eradicating harmless low - THC
industrial hemp
plants instead of focusing on the eradication of cultivated marijuana.
This is happening to thousands of Americans right now — and the toxic
waste is coal ash, the by - product of burning coal for energy.Coal - fired power
plants produce approximately 131 million tons of
waste per year, making coal combustion
waste the second largest
industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and aluminum.
Burning biomass (such as
plant and animal
waste) will supply 60 % of
industrial fuels and heat, 13 % of building heat, and 13 % of electricity needs.
We are in talks with a number of people about setting up a quality feedstock
plant for
waste oil though that could supply
Industrial.»
The images of a town flooded with toxic sludge are an all too stark reminder of the potential damage looming over communities in the proximity of
industrial plants that produce harmful
waste products on a daily basis.
In the United States, about 67 % of total electricity generation in 2016 was produced from: fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum), materials that come from
plants (biomass), and municipal and
industrial wastes.
His environmental practice covers all aspects of UK and EU environmental regulation with a focus on contaminated land and water, defending prosecutions, decommissioning
industrial plant,
waste, REACH and producer responsibility legislation.
For now, Loowatt's UK - generated
waste ends up at existing
industrial treatment
plants, not little hyperlocal biodigesters, as in Antananarivo, pumping out compost.