Sentences with phrase «oil wasted by»

Given the amount of oil wasted by idling vehicles each year, Linda's work is making important progress towards improving vehicle fuel efficiency — a key piece of the UCS Half the Oil plan.

Not exact matches

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.

Oklahoma was shaken late Wednesday night by two of the strongest earthquakes to hit the state in recent years, the latest in a series of temblors that many researchers believe are caused by the burial of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the state.

Clean Harbors offers numerous alternatives to waste disposal by providing a variety of recycling, reuse and reclamation options for hazardous and non-hazardous materials — including solvents, precious metals, chemicals, oil, light bulbs, transformers and other electrical equipment.

The clog - free automatic liquid - to - solid waste separator is being introduced to the Asia - Pacific by CST Wastewater Solutions for compact dewatering applications ranging from food processing, food waste, grease trap and waste oil through to municipal wastewater sludge, livestock manure and agribusiness processes.

For example fish oil can be extracted from fisheries waste — a market expected to reach over US$ 2.6 billion by 2020.34

A clog - free automatic liquid - to - solid waste separator is being introduced to Australasia by CST Wastewater Solutions for compact dewatering applications ranging from food processing, food waste, grease trap and waste oil through to municipal wastewater sludge, -LSB-...]

The KDS separator is being introduced to Australasia by CST Wastewater Solutions for compact dewatering applications ranging from food processing, food waste, grease trap and waste oil through to municipal wastewater sludge, livestock manure and agribusiness processes.

In Australia, biodiesel is being produced from used cooking oil (an agricultural by - product), tallow and canola seed; and bioethanol is produced from sugarcane molasses, grain sorghum and waste wheat starch.

The oil I wipe away is a waste of money because of poor bottle design and choice by Nutiva.

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It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

Collected materials include (please note, these are estimates, the final numbers are provided by Hazardous Waste Contractor): 13,644 gallons of paint 2800 pounds of Aerosols 660 gallons of flammable liquids 1650 pounds of pesticides 825 gallons of corrosive materials 220 gallons of oxidizers 960 gallons of waste oil 175 gallons of antifreeze Plus mercury, batteries, and gas!

The land was polluted in the early 1900s by waste from the Solvay Process Co.'s soda ash production and later by a concrete batch plant and a metals scrap yard, as well as leaks from large oil storage tanks.

But Ecuador's experience with Chevron may have convinced it that oil actually stinks — an epic lawsuit has been fought for nearly two decades over oil spills and toxic waste left behind by previous development.

But he is encouraged by a study commissioned by an automakers» consortium showing that the thermal conversion process could be a solution to one of America's most vexing solid waste problems: the unholy mix of plastics and other leftovers from automobile metals recycling (see «Junkyard Oil,» below).

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

These elements are often found in trace concentrations in the waste water produced by oil and gas companies, but can also be found naturally in groundwater.

Agriculture, drilling, and old pollution from waste pits left by the oil and gas industry were all considered possible causes of the contamination.

Mandates like the U.S. renewable fuel standard, which calls for production of 36 billion gallons per year by 2022, are useful in promoting low - carbon fuels, like waste vegetable oil for biodiesel, said Malins.

The team has now demonstrated that biodiesel can be quickly produced from waste cooking oil by direct ultrasonic irradiation with caustic soda, sodium hydroxide NaOH or potassium hydroxide (KOH) as the chemical catalysts for the process known as a transesterification reaction.

Conducted by Zainab Ngaini and colleagues at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, the study found that when sago waste (consisting primarily of cellulose and lignin) is chemically modified using fatty acid derivatives, the resulting material is more hydrophobic than untreated sago waste, implying that it has less affinity for water and an excellent affinity for oil.

The Electric Power Development company says its experimental power plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired plant.

She spends most of her time giving advice to residents dealing with oil, chemical and hazardous waste spills and pollution, using her expertise to expose malfeasance by entrenched corporate interests without a second thought to her own personal safety.

What scientists call naturally occurring radioactive materials — known by the acronym NORM — are common in oil and gas drilling waste, and especially in brine, the dirty water that has been soaking in the shale for centuries.

State oil and gas regulators pushed back against the regulations, too, saying that enforcing the rules for Class 2 wells — which handle the vast majority of injected waste by volume — would be expensive and difficult.

By Maurice Smith A company that creates new value from CO2 waste for the plastics industry has won funding from the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative's investment arm, OGCI Climate Investments.

I think it's probably your toxic waste (after being constipated for days) giving off severe gas and causing discomfort when your bowels are «energized» by the MCFAs in coconut oil.

The lymphatic system removes toxins and waste from the area stimulated by the castor oil pack.

Highly processed foods are almost always loaded with chemical and synthetic additives, sugars, MSG, HFCS and the nasty waste by - product of soybeans; soybean oil.

What starts with an aborted suicide by John Ottway, a hunter of wolves for an oil refinery, becomes on one level a struggle for survival when the company plane on which he is traveling home crashes in the wastes of an Alaskan winter, and he his fellow survivors are forced to cope with freezing temperatures, no hope of rescue, and a pack of wolves that doesn't like them there.

In addition to acting and producing, Danson is an environmental activist, founding the American Oceans Campaign (AOC) in 1987 to alert Americans to the life - threatening hazards created by oil spills, off - shore development, toxic wastes, sewage pollution and other ocean abuses.

If we had been foolish enough to follow Jiffy Lube's 3,000 - mile change schedule (which is essentially the advice given by all quick oil change outlets and dealership service departments), the Fit would have undergone four unnecessary oil changes per year (assuming 15,000 miles per year of driving), wasting $ 369 and 15.2 quarts of perfectly good oil.

It can be controlled by a boost pressure assisted, generally vacuum hose attachment point diaphragm (for vacuum and positive pressure to return commonly oil contaminated waste to the emissions system) to force the spring - loaded diaphragm to stay closed until the overboost point is sensed by the ecu or a solenoid operated by the engine's electronic control unit or a boost controller, but most production vehicles use a single vacuum hose attachment point spring - loaded diaphragm that can alone be pushed open, thus limiting overboost ability due to exhaust gas pressure forcing open the wastegate.

That auditory harshness was taxing, but the 2.0 - liter paid dividends by averaging a spectacular 38 mpg during our test, and we wasted not a single mile driving to the dealership, thanks to BMW's famously long oil - change intervals.

Correa is currently under fire for his decision to open up almost 4,000 square miles of the rainforest in the country to oil drilling, a strange decision from a man whose determined to stop the oil waste brought on by the newspaper industry.

given the current market it probably does not matter where the «yield» comes from — there is a rally in oil trusts (a wasting asset) and mReits (who made much of their 2012 «yield» by realizing non-recurring capital gains).

Since the 1950s Ogoniland has suffered extreme environmental damage and degradation from crude oil extraction and waste dumping by multi-national oil and gas companies.

In many sculptures, such scenes of the detritus of human civilization are presided over by animals — parrots, gorillas, snails, etc. — that sit atop oil barrels and peer out of medicine cabinets, the innocent inheritors of our waste products.

Just in the U.S., if waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit of offsetting the need for the same amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.

This would include costs like storing and monitoring nuclear waste indefinitely, CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by fossil fuels, nitrous oxides and sulfur oxides from coal degrading the environment through acid rain, maintaining a large military to protect our oil supply lines from the middle east, pollutants entering water supplies from solar panel manufacture, pollutants generated by drilling for gas, etc., etc..

Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.

The study presents country case studies based on financial and environmental assessments and analyses agricultural waste generated by three sectors important to the region, namely the olive oil, sugar (from sugar cane and sugar beet) and dairy industries.

This new usage of the waste produced by olive oil reduces the density of building materials and improves their thermal and acoustic properties.

MBD's system ducts carbon dioxide through waste water (sewage is best) for absorption by select micro-algae that double in mass every 24 hours, speeding nature's oil production process a zillion times.

As recently as 1980, imported oil supplied over 90 percent of the heat for these systems, but by 2005 it had been largely replaced by wood chips, urban waste, and lignite.

Another company, Solazyme, Inc, hopes to get around the problem by feeding algae with renewable resources, such as waste sugars and starches, so they can make oil without sunlight and no matter where they are in a container.

If it were constructed from carbon composites that mileage could double, and, if it were a diesel and powered by biodiesel or renewable diesel derived from waste, it would be using no oil products at all.

That's because Big Oil is far too busy trying to greenwash its image — as Shell itself did by sponsoring the Guardian's environment pages for many years — to waste time on the plucky, outspoken heroes who do a better job for Big Oil's PR than the Big Oil's paid PR departments do.

Since January 1, 2012, renewable energy sources have accounted for nearly half (47.83 %) of all new installed U.S. electrical generating capacity followed by natural gas (38.34 %) and coal (13.40 %) with oil, waste heat, and «other» accounting for the balance.