Sentences with phrase «industrial water use»

The big question is can conservation be increased and can urban, agricultural and industrial water use be trimmed?

Water used in fracking makes up less than one percent of total industrial water use nationwide, study finds.»

Improvements in domestic and industrial water use could be achieved in water stressed areas through significant domestic or industrial water use reduction, for example, by reducing leakage in the water infrastructure and improving water - recycling facilities.

Not exact matches

Industrial companies make the pipes, pumps and valves used in water delivery systems, and they also help design and build projects.

The company developed chemical treatments designed to recover metal and other substances from used industrial water.

High Efficiency Turbo Blowers are used in a variety of water and wastewater treatments, as well as industrial applications, meeting a wide spectrum of our customers» needs.

Discovered several years ago by Japanese industry, this innovative technology allows for the use of up to 90 per cent less water to clean products — from floors to industrial machinery — through the injection of ultra-fine air bubbles into the water.

IPG is a key player in the development, manufacture and sale of a variety of paper and film based pressure sensitive and water activated tapes, polyethylene and specialised polyolefin films, and complementary packaging systems for industrial and retail use.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

Whether ready - to - use doses of household dishwasher or laundry detergents, or chemicals for industrial applications, Mondi water soluble film provides excellent barrier properties to protect the product and the end - user, making it safe and easy to use.

The new plant will use Aquabio's AMBR LE ™ Low Energy Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) technology which has been successfully utilised for industrial effluent treatment and water reuse in numerous applications in the UK and US since 2001.

We believe that effective water stewardship will require that provisions are made firstly for water to meet the human right to water, then to ensure that ecosystems are able to function, and finally to ensure that water is used efficiently for agricultural and industrial use.

He despised the new sort, the gangs who worked the big river in low - water summer conditions, driving up from the industrial cities of south Wales, putting on scuba suits to drive salmon and sea - run trout into fixed trammel nets, or using cyanide bombs to suffocate the fish and send them drifting downstream to a collection point.

The park being developed by MGM Construction Inc. will consist of 18 lots: nine for office buildings, seven for industrial uses and two for water detention / retention.

Hickey researched a man - made chemical, perfluorooctanoic acid, that has been used since the 1940s to make industrial and household products, like nonstick coatings and heat - resistant wiring, including at a factory owned by Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics near the village water treatment plant.

«We use natural gas to produce electricity, -LSB-...] water to cool the generators and then you subsequently use that hot water elsewhere in your process, whether that be domestic hot water or industrial processes.»

Ha and McEwen, a WSU assistant professor of chemical engineering, say they have a solution: a small reactor that inexpensively breaks water and methane into carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can be used for energy and industrial products.

In an article published Jan 26 in Nature Chemistry, nanotechnology experts from Stanford Engineering and from Denmark's Aarhus University explain how to liberate hydrogen from water on an industrial scale by using electrolysis.

One recent development: making use of water — for drinking or industrial purposes — from sources that are otherwise considered unusable.

Much of New Haven's groundwater has already risen by as much as 4 feet over the past 100 years, partially because the waters are no longer being used for industrial purposes as they were in the early 1900s.

The patent - pending gel is made of water and polyethylene glycol, a substance used widely today in various forms, from skin creams and toothpastes to industrial applications and, as in this case, bioengineering.

Yet capturing and reusing wastewater for municipal and household use, agricultural and industrial production, and recharging depleted aquifers is precisely what researchers writing in the latest issue of Science suggest needs to happen in order to address the world's growing water crisis.

We can't continue to indefinitely expand our old practices — of chemical use, of water diversion, of plowing wild lands and converting them to farms, of nonagricultural sprawl, and of the production of industrial waste.

Although pneumatic pipelines have been in widespread use since the Victorian period — for conveying capsules containing documents in shops and offices for example — hydraulic pipelines, which propel capsules through water, are a more recent development and although they have been used in some industrial locations their full potential is yet to be realised.

Groundwater is a key source of water for drinking or for commercial and industrial uses such as agriculture.

Then at peak demand times, the ice or cold water is used to cool air for large office or industrial buildings, meaning they need much less power from the grid.

Finally, the water and polymer solution is sprayed onto plates using a common industrial process called spin casting, which reconstitutes it into a solid plastic film.

His biggest project is an aquifer east of Los Angeles where groundwater contaminated with fuel and industrial solvents is being pumped out and treated for use as drinking water.

According to Nicholas Booker, a CSIRO chemical engineer, the water treated by the prototype plant is clean enough to be used for some industrial applications or to be discharged into the ocean.

China has vowed to reverse the environmental consequences of three decades of breakneck industrial expansion and clean up its heavily polluted air, water and soil and is hoping to use the market to encourage firms to cut emissions.

The project, called CarbFix, won't act as a global warming panacea because it uses more water than some industrial sites can offer.

Dichtel and colleagues are working to commercialize this polymer and others like it so such materials could someday be used for home or industrial water filtration.

The simulated attack was designed to highlight vulnerabilities in the control systems used to operate industrial facilities such as manufacturing plants, water and wastewater treatment facilities, and building management systems for controlling escalators, elevators and HVAC systems.

Recycled water, including treated sewage, can be used on gardens and in industrial processes instead of being flushed into rivers and oceans, alleviating pressure on potable water supplies.

The Board also recommends specific investment areas, including «novel alternative energy solutions, water filters that remove pathogens at the point - of - use, new robust building materials from locally available materials, nanotechnology for health and agriculture, and biological approaches to industrial production, environmental remediation and management.»

Many uses of water include agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities.

Metz's video depicts the use of policy networks by groups with diverse interests — governmental bodies, agricultural groups, industrial associations, and environmentalists — to achieve effective water protection policies.

Its solubility in water is «appreciable,» according to one of its Material Safety Data Sheet, information required by regulation for any chemical in industrial use.

«Using photosynthesis for the production of industrial enzymes from carbon dioxide and water is a novel and environmentally friendly approach.»

The algae uses CO2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while dramatically reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks.

SMR - 160 is a passive, intrinsically safe, secure and economical small modular reactor that has the flexibility to be used in remote locations, in areas with limited water supplies or land, and in unique industrial applications where traditional larger reactors are not practical.

That ridge has blocked water - laden winter storms, sending them spiraling northward instead of into the Golden State, reducing snowpacks that Californians use as they melt to satiate their thirsts, lawns and industrial operations.

Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have increased due to the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation, transportation, industrial processes, and space and water heating.

SMR - 160 is a conventional fission reactor, using water as the cooling medium, and is designed with six decades of world - wide industrial operating experience with pressurized water reactors.

SMR - 160 is a passive, intrinsically safe, supremely secure, and economically attractive small modular reactor with the flexibility to be used in remote locations, in areas with limited water supplies or land, and in unique industrial applications where traditional larger reactors are not practical.

A common cause of thermal pollution is the use of water as a coolant by power plants and industrial manufacturers.

Montana depends on an adequate supply of clean water for nearly every aspect of our economy, including food production, hydroelectric power, domestic and industrial uses, and sustaining our natural ecosystems.

This amazing «tree of life» as it is called is found throughout the tropic and subtropics and is well known for its incredible versatility as can be seen in the many domestic, commercial, and industrial uses of its different parts such as the husk, oil, water and copra.

Furthermore, we don't fill our water with top - notch pharmaceutical grade fluoride; we use an industrial by - product called hydrofluorosilicic acid.

The water is filtered using an ozonator, UV light, 2 industrial sized pool filters and trace of chlorine (1ppm).