And like today,
these large chemical plants will be a bit further away.
Perhaps the most important lesson from this earthquake is that critical facilities such as
large chemical plants and dams require safeguards that will ensure public safety in the case of earthquake - triggered failures.
Not exact matches
In tests the team conducted, the EcoScraps soil grew
plants as
large as or
larger than
plants grown in soils using
chemical fertilizers.
Martin said Class 2 assessments are used in cases of
larger projects, such as the building of a petro -
chemical plant or pulp mill.
Milk processing
plants usually require daily cleaning using
large quantities of water and
chemicals.
Overflowing sewers, runoff from
chemical plants and seepage from toxic waste sites have created a hazardous stew in the waters covering much of the nation's fourth
largest city, and officials are just beginning to grapple with the health problems looming.
But their passionate opposition to the
chemical plant generated an explosion of public anger that forced a halt in construction, pending further environmental impact studies by authorities in Beijing, and produced
large demonstrations June 1 and 2, drawing national publicity.
The app found two «trapped» people in a
large - scale, simulated terrorist attack at a seaside
chemical plant in Stavanger, Norway.
A
larger chemical arsenal alone will not solve the problem, but in combination with traditional weed management, such as tilling and crop rotation, it should make it harder for unwanted
plants to evolve resistance.
Principal stationary pollution sources include
chemical plants, coal - fired power
plants, oil refineries, petrochemical
plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators,
large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.
It is the nation's first dedicated biorefinery, employing high heat to turn
plant matter into oil, followed by
chemical catalysis to upgrade that oil into a usable fuel, just like the much
larger refinery down the road.
Principal stationary pollution sources include
chemical plants, coal - fired power
plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators,
large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.
At the Hanford nuclear site in eastern Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is building the world's
largest radioactive waste treatment
plant for cleanup of 56 million gallons of radioactive and
chemical waste.
Google will also become TVA's 12th directly served customer, along with a host of
chemical plants, steel mills and other
large industrial power consumers.
Scientists from the University of York have developed an innovative new green method of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power stations,
chemical and other
large scale manufacturing
plants.
In addition to the coal waste, the team is working with marginal soils, such as those in desert climates, which normally require
large amounts of water and
chemical fertilisers in order for
plants to grow.
capture, where the CO2 is removed by
chemical processes from power
plants and other
large industrial facilities, such as refineries or cement
plants.
This technique, published in the journal Nature, not only uses existing
plant waste but consumes
large amounts of CO2 and could be applied to other types of
chemical manufacturing as well — a boon to our increasingly CO2 - saturated atmosphere.
Scientists at the University of York have discovered that very small
chemical changes to dietary flavonoids cause very
large effects when the
plant natural products are tested for their impact on the human immune system.
Here you can crank a handle to generate electricity to electrolyse water into hydrogen and oxygen (and recombine them with a bang), operate a miniature
chemical plant or a gas scrubber, measure the pH of various common substances, or discover your personal hot spots by lying against a
large sheet of liquid crystals.
Mosse's
large scale photographs can be easily distinguished for the vivid reds, pinks, fuchsias and blues the artist achieves by using a rare and discontinued Kodak Aerochrome III Infrared film that reacts to chlorophyl, the
chemical that gives
plants their green color.
This «gift» would have produced no viable seeds for future
plantings and would have required a
large amount of heavy
chemical inputs.
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... Read more →
Flanked by 10 major refineries — including the nation's
largest — and dozens of
chemical manufacturing
plants, the Ship Channel is a crucial transportation route for crude oil and other key products, such as plastics and pesticides.
And so we are like a giant test tube experiment involving the whole
plant where
chemical reactions at some point will be too far past maintaining equilibrium - perhaps with a
large climate related disaster the world will wake up just a little too late to stop unforeseen consequences
I was in East Germany shortly after the «Wende» in 1990 and saw how the environment had been raped in places like Bitterfeld, where there were
large, state - owned
chemical plants.
Collecting liquid carbon dioxide by pipeline from
large plants powered by coal is designed to allow steel, cement and
chemical industries to continue to operate without making climate change worse.
But pollution also covers hundreds of
chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in
large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of
plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).
Plants absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, but decades of
chemical pesticides and fertilizers has made a
large portion of the planet's farmland salinated, dry, and unhealthy.
Dr Martin Linck has revealed to the 244th meeting of the American
Chemical Society in Philadelphia that his
large scale fuel
plants are capable of producing 300,000 gallons of fuel a day.
By Emily Atkin Posted on Share this: «Here's Who To Blame For America's Increased Contribution To Global Warming In 2013» Share: CREDIT: Shutterstock A new report released by the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday shows just how much
large American industrial facilities including power
plants, refineries, and
chemical manufacturers contributed to global warming in 2013.
Lead researcher Jan Baeyens says that the team envisions a
large - scale
plant capable of dealing with 10,000 tons of plastic a year being able to generate # 5 million ($ 7.8 million) worth of recycled
chemicals.
SASOL, a South African
chemical conglomerate, is the world's
largest producer of coal - based liquids and operates a
plant that produces 150,000 barrels a day.
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.
Regardless of the safety of GM crops, do we want a world in which our agriculture is ruled (or continued to be ruled as in the US) by
large corporations, the cultivation of only a small variety of crops
planted everywhere without regard for tradition or local conditions, the continued heavy dependence on
chemical inputs?
Runoff from
chemical inputs and CAFO waste pollutes our water and contributes to global warming; monoculture —
planting a single crop over a
large area year after year — depletes soil and reduces biodiversity; overuse of antibiotics in meat production threatens our ability to fight human disease.
In pines, resins — a
large class of complex
plant chemicals that function as antimicrobials, fungicides and insect toxins — are delivered primarily via a constitutive production / delivery system consisting of resin canals lined with resin - producing epithelial cells.
Mesothelioma cases are particularly high in the state of Louisiana because of the
large number of
chemical plants and manufacturing companies.
Our client is a
large international
chemical manufacturer with a
plant in the Greater Manchester area.