Sentences with phrase «oil waste into»

Back in 2011, the giant Chevron corporation was found guilty of illegally dumping billions of gallons of oil waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest in what has been described as the Amazon's «Chernobyl» and the worst case of oil pollution on the planet.

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On this year's list, robots are going places no human has ever been, «big data» is doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).

Oil and gas company Citation Resources is seeking to diversify its business by acquiring an initial 40 per cent interest in an unlisted firm that converts rubber waste into clean fuels, for a cash and share package worth about $ 7 million.

You arm on the other hand, can kick into high gear if needed, lowering the risk of wasting two cups of perfectly good oil.

Pour liquid into tins, using a spatula to scrape down sides of pot to not waste any oil.

This is a board solution that provides a barrier to mineral oil migration into food products, but uniquely remains recyclable in the normal waste stream, with no adaptations needed.

The Tema Chemu Lagoon has served as an industrial sink through which almost all the major industries including textiles, oil industries among other companies channel their waste into the sea over the years.

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.

Chemical engineer Charles Wyman of the University of California, Riverside, argues for biorefineries turning seed oil, the stalks and other detritus of crop plants, and even wood pulp waste into an assortment of alternative fuels.

The state's Division of Oil and Gas and Geothermal Resources on July 7 issued cease and desist orders to seven energy companies warning that they may be injecting their waste into aquifers that could be a source of drinking water, and stating that their waste disposal «poses danger to life, health, property, and natural resources.»

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought - wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.

«Researchers turn paper waste into ultralight super material that improves oil spill cleaning, heat insulation.»

Birds worldwide also cause damage running into billions in the agrarian sector, the waste disposal sector, harbours, and the oil and gas industry.

One of the main concerns in cleaning up oil spills (and other industrial waste) is the addition of new chemicals into the environment.

Now, scientists have developed a high - speed conversion that turns waste cooking oil into fuel using ultrasound and caustic soda.

Although the technology works, CWT has yet to turn waste into oil on a scale large enough to be profitable.

Researchers from A * STAR have developed a fungal culture for use in a cheap and efficient method to transform the waste oil palm material into useful products.

But Keller, a natural resource manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, has seen a more ominous effect of the boom, too: Oil companies are spilling and dumping drilling waste onto the region's land and into its waterways with increasing regularity.

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production, and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

A short distance away from the murky pond, an oil services company had begun pumping millions of gallons of drilling waste into an injection well.

For example, in waste - water treatment plants and oil refineries, there are groups of microbes that work together in an assembly line, each eating the waste products of the preceding one, leading to the final processing of waste into something like methane that is released into the environment.

NUS researchers turn paper waste into ultralight super material that improves oil spill cleaning and heat insulation

I used wipes to get the oil off when I was into it, but I also don't like creating that much waste.

In 1907 candle - maker William Procter and soap - maker James Gamble needed a use for cheap cottonseed oil, a waste product of the cotton mills they owned, and developed the process of hydrogenation, which turned the liquid oil into a solid resembling lard.

A: Additives that go into the engine oil are generally a waste of money.

System for converting waste plastics into oil.

Many of these small internal combustion engines used for yardwork can release as much as 30 % of the fuel / oil mixture as unburned pollutants into the atmosphere due to incomplete combustion, which not only wastes fuel and money, but also contributes to air pollution.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil waste injection sites and a review of over 100 others in the Central Valley for fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids into drinking water aquifers.

In California, state officials have admitted to allowing oil companies to drill injection wells into protected aquifers and dispose of oil waste fluid into underground water supplies across the state.

Run in partnership with Clean Energy Biofuels, the station uses 100 % solar power to convert waste oil from local restaurants into biodiesel.

Walking down East Patapsco, she pointed out the facilities as they came into view: the nation's largest medical waste facility along with coal export terminals, oil tank farms, animal rendering facilities, chemical factories and Baltimore City's main landfill — among others.

Thus, Trump's budget might threaten projects like a $ 3.8 billion plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana, meant to turn oil - refinery waste into valuable chemical projects and to capture carbon for oil recovery; that project relies on a $ 2 billion Department of Energy loan.

The city creatively generates electricity using everything from food scraps to manure to used cooking oil, converting waste into biogas, and then efficiently pumping heat all over the city from large central furnaces.

Today, more than 1/3 of our nation depends on this fuel source for electricity, meaning when oil and gas companies let it escape into the atmosphere, it not only accelerates global warming, it also results in massive amounts of wasted resources and diminishes our energy independence.

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

In fact, most of the waste cooking oil that is currently going into making biodiesel for terrestrial vehicles could probably be better used in planes.

In the last few years, companies and governments have made efforts to eliminate flaring and reclaim the wasted energy — by re-injecting it into the ground to bolster oil production, transporting it to new markets via pipelines, using it onsite for electricity generation or by converting it into LNG for shipment.

Over the long term, it surely pays to be green: you use less gas or heating oil and you leave more money in your pocket; you grow your own food and reduce your expenses (over time) as well as your diet's carbon footprint; you reduce, reuse, and recycle and you get far, far more bang for your buck while putting less waste into the production and distribution streams.

The invisible waste gas is dumped into the air by burning fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas.

Once the marketplace discovered this was unsustainable (USA hitting peak in 1970 and the oil embargo at the same time), all the efficiencies were put into place and energy waste was reduced so that we have assumed a much less than exponential increase regime since that time.

With help from Evolution Biodiesel, they went head - to - head in the «Fast Fuel» Challenge, where they turned waste vegetable oil from fast food restaurants into biodiesel.

So we take the water from that tank, feed it into the waste vegetable oil to wash excess water out of that, and to heat the oil up for the reactor.

Shell was the first of the big oil companies to venture significantly into the new biofuels, getting its toes wet in 2002 by providing money to a Canadian company called Iogen Corporation to research making ethanol from plant waste.

It's estimated that getting one liter of bottled drinking water into our hands requires seven liters of water and a quarter liter of oil, so there are a huge amount of wasted resources tied up in our bottled water habit, as well as an enormous plastic trash problem from all of those bottles and packaging.