Sentences with phrase «reduced nitrogen»

# 2: Continental Airlines, Houston, TX — «Besides spending more than $ 16 billion over the past ten years to replace its fleet with more efficient aircraft, it installed fuel - saving winglets that reduce emissions by up to 5 % on most of its Boeing 737s and 757s, and reduced the nitrogen oxide output from ground equipment at its Houston hub by over 75 % since 2000.»

In addition, Ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel now produced for all highway and non-road uses has 99.7 percent less sulfur, allowing for dramatically reduced nitrogen oxide emissions in newer diesel engines.

Adaptation is further supported by increased agro-ecosystem diversity of organic farms, based on management decisions, reduced nitrogen inputs and the absence of chemical pesticides.

Ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel has 99.5 percent less sulfur — and is now produced for all highway and non-road uses, allowing for dramatically reduced nitrogen oxide emissions from newer diesel engines.

However, large - scale change is possible, they said, noting that since the 1980s, increasingly stringent national and European Union regulations and policies have reduced nitrogen surpluses substantially in northern Europe.

All the engines will have reduced nitrogen dioxide emissions as they will be fitted with AdBlue tanks.

Reduced nitrogen content in atmospheres with raised carbon dioxide has previously been attributed to a kind of dilutive effect, in which nitrogen absorption fails to keep pace with the increase in plants» photosynthesis and growth.

We are seeing reduced nitrogen content even when growth has not been affected.

And I'm going to see another technology in the U.S. that reduces nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel trucks by up to 50 % while preserving horsepower.

In anticipation of its activities at Natural Products Expo West, The Organic Center released new research findings from the University of Virginia in collaboration with The Organic Center showing that organic farming can help reduce nitrogen pollution on a global scale.

The economic and environmental benefits of adopting practices that reduce emissions may include: improving the conversion of feed to energy, reducing nitrogen losses from intensive production systems and the potential to create offsets under the Carbon Farming Initiative.

Suffolk County government for years delayed considering advanced wastewater treatment systems — to be installed at homes and featuring new technologies that reduce nitrogen discharges to a fraction of what traditional cesspools put out.

Since February, Peconic Green Growth has been looking at phasing out cesspools in favor of developing an alternative cluster of septic systems that have proved effective in reducing nitrogen contamination in environmentally sensitive areas, Ms. Berry said.

Gov. Cuomo wants the state to invest a record $ 2 billion in water infrastructure projects across New York, including helping to pay for new wastewater systems on Long Island that would reduce nitrogen runoff.

He has clearly articulated the need to reduce nitrogen and other contaminants from entering groundwater and surface waters by limiting development.

During Tuesday morning's Town Board work session, Kevin McAllister, founder of Defend H2O and former Peconic Baykeeper, continued his push for East End towns to enact regulations similar to Brookhaven's, which are aimed at reducing nitrogen pollution associated with sewer systems.

Reducing nitrogen is critical.

The plants now carpet three times as much real estate as in 1984, thanks to more than 30 years of efforts to reduce nitrogen pollution.

New research shows that as taller shrubs expand into the tundra, nutrients in their leaf litter will either promote or reduce the nitrogen fixation, depending upon which shrub species that will dominate.

On a 40 - acre plot where he grows corn and soybeans in rotation, Ortner has worked with Michigan State University researchers for the past several years to reduce his nitrogen fertilizer use.

But even if oyster farming does not become a major solution to reducing nitrogen in Great Bay, Grizzle emphasizes that oyster farming still provides valuable ecosystem services.

This «purification» function is carried out by the microorganisms present in their water column and sediments and, with it, they improve the general quality of the water and reduce the nitrogen load by promoting denitrification.»

An international group of researchers led by the University of Granada (UGR) has found that the greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) facilitates microbial «filtering» of organic matter in saline wetlands, thus improving water quality and reducing nitrogen loads by promoting denitrification.

«The findings have clear implications on how we need to accommodate climate change in our strategies to reduce nitrogen pollution.»

The committee examined existing technologies and concluded that they could reduce nitrogen pollution by 25 % over the next 1 to 2 decades.

A previous Iowa State study showed that converting just 10 percent of farmland back to native prairie grass could reduce nitrogen and phosphorous runoff by nearly 90 percent.

Studies have shown that it also reduces nitrogen losses in people who have undergone surgery, and improves the function of cells in lymphatic tissue.

Every diesel Tiguan Allspace is outfitted with a twelve - litre AdBlue tank to help reduce nitrogen oxide emissions.

The diesel model requires an additional reservoir tank for the AdBlue, the urea cleansing agent added to further reduce nitrogen dioxide emissions.

This causes ammonia to be released, which in turn reduces the nitrogen oxides almost completely to harmless nitrogen and water in a downstream SCR catalytic converter.

The systems employed by BLUETEC serve in particular to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx)-- the only constituent part of the exhaust gases which, due to the design of the diesel, inherently lies above the value for petrol engines.

To reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, Mercedes - Benz first uses dual electrically controlled and cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) which, depending on engine operating conditions, redirects up to 40 % of the exhaust gases back into the cylinders.

Most of Volkswagen's diesel competitors opted for urea - injection, using an additive called AdBlue contained in a separate reservoir that helps to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions.

A NOxtrap system for reducing the nitrogen oxides is also used, in addition to the two bulkhead catalytic converters and controlled recirculation of exhaust gas in each branch.

Mr. Zhang and his co-workers also demonstrated that use of nitrogen fertilizer could be halved without loss of yield or grain quality, reducing nitrogen losses by more than 50 percent in the process.

These include a significant investment in refining infrastructure and technology to manufacture clean fuels, as well as projects to monitor and reduce nitrogen oxide, sulfur oxide and greenhouse gas emissions, and expenditures for asset retirement obligations.

Concerted efforts to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from industry, improve the efficiency of their use in agriculture, and enhance their availability for use in fertilizer in food - insecure regions would have multiple benefits, including a reduction of climate risks.

However, we are a long way from achieving an equitable, efficient, and sustainable use of nitrogen and phosphorus in agriculture, and we are not close to reducing nitrogen and phosphorus pollution to tolerable levels.

The Delta Institute was presented with the Innovation award for the registration on ACR of the first U.S. fertilizer management project, a Michigan pilot currently in verification for reducing nitrogen fertilizer use on corn.

«Another major benefit is reducing nitrogen lost from farm fields in forms other than nitrous oxide.

California environmental goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 % from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 80 % by 2050, as well as reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other health - harming pollutants in areas of the state with the highest levels of air pollution by 2032.

This reduces nitrogen runoff into waterways, which can cause algae blooms and kill aquatic species.

They have developed a new way of producing ammonia which reduces nitrogen oxide emissions by 87 per cent, sulphur dioxide by 95 per cent and carbon dioxide by 60 per cent — and it uses less resources.

Not exact matches

Switching from coal to natural gas would reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 60 percent.

The life of one student, who shouted out for the autonomy, self - reliance, and reunification of a divided land and for the democratization of military dictatorships, was chemically reduced to a few grams of calcium, nitrogen, and so on.

Reduces greenhouse gases, especially nitrous oxide, as no chemical nitrogen fertilizers are used and nutrient losses are minimized

The world's food security would be ensured even with over 9 billion people in 2050, agricultural land area would not increase, greenhouse gas emissions would be lowered and the negative effects of today's intensive food systems, such as nitrogen surplus and high pesticide exposure, would be greatly reduced.

When serving «nitrate» vegetables, the levels of nitrates in Organics are reduced though not 100 percent eradicated (Nitrates are naturally occurring and farming without using nitrogen fertilizers does not eliminate nitrate concentration).

For example, a hermetic separator and the addition of nitrogen which reduce oxygen exposure.

the permanent plant cover in organic systems which results in a more efficient uptake of mobile nitrogen in soils, thus reducing the potential and risk for N2O emissions.