Sentences with phrase «municipal waste plant»

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Western Australians could be using energy converted from municipal solid waste in less than two years if companies proposing waste - to - energy plants achieve their timeframes.

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.

And Los Angeles County short - listed its technology for a municipal waste - processing plant the county hopes to build.

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.

That cellulose could come from a native plant like switchgrass, or even from municipal waste.

For example, if the evidence shows that effluents from municipal water treatment, from animal manure, or from pharmaceutical manufacturing plants are selecting for antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment, that may justify treatment of such waste streams prior to application on croplands.

A handful of other cellulosic ethanol plants, which will make biofuels from corn stover, wheat straw and municipal waste, plan to begin production by next year (ClimateWire, Aug. 5).

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).

sewage sludge Nutrient - rich solid materials pulled out of sewage and other waste waters that have been treated at municipal water - treatment plants.

So the whole idea behind this is that in our industrial society, we've got coal burning plants, we've got municipal waste combustors.

The laws that have been most effective such as the Clean Water Act for municipal waste treatment, have a carrot, low interest loans to build an better treatment plant, or fines if you did not.

Fulcrum BioEnergy has awarded a $ 200 - million fixed - price engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Abengoa for the construction of Fulcrum's first municipal solid waste (MSW) to transportation fuels facility, the Sierra BioFuels Plant.

In late 2013, GM joined with Detroit Renewable Energy to announce a renewable energy project to turn solid municipal waste from the metropolitan Detroit area into process steam that will be used to heat and cool portions of Detroit - Hamtramck assembly plant, home of the Chevrolet Volt.

Our renewable energy team has extensive knowledge in biomass power facilities, including woody biomass boiler - fired and gasification plants, municipal waste - to - energy plants, biofuels plants, anaerobic digestion plants, biomass pelletization or torrefaction plants, and coal - to - biomass conversion facilities.

Hazardous wastes were released in a number of areas, and 17 municipal wastewater treatment plants were breached by floodwaters.

When prompted to consider water pollution, most people envision classic point sources; the corroded factory pipe, the municipal waste treatment plant, the oil behemoth's offshore well.

This is especially true for WTE plants incinerating municipal solid waste, waste wood, refuse - derived fuel, or sewage sludge, because of their normally limited size.

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.

Much of the proposed biomass use comes from plant residues from agriculture and food processing, sawdust and residues from forestry and wood processing, manure, and municipal waste.

With a little help from the EPA, the East Bay Municipal Utility District in is set to expand its food waste - to - energy program at its main wastewater treatment plant in Oakland, California.

I consider the impacts of the LCFS policy on four pathways of RNG production: (1) dairy manure, (2) municipal solid waste, (3) wastewater treatment plants, and (4) landfill gas.

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.

The Frankfurt - based Tobias Faber continues advising a consortium of strategic and financial investers in the energy - from - waste sector, which is participating in the Kabd Municipal Waste Project tender for the construction and operation of a waste - to - energy plant in Kuwait; the project financing is of particular importance.