Sentences with phrase «stores the waste material»

2) The septic tank which stores the waste material and properly disposes of liquids into what is called a distribution box.

For each source, it approximates the land used during resource production, by energy plants, for transport and transmission, and to store waste materials.

Not exact matches

Their purpose is to minimise the volume of non-recyclable solid waste material and store it with minimal danger to the public.

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

The pools — water - filled basins that store and cool used radioactive fuel rods — are so densely packed with nuclear waste that a fire could release enough radioactive material to contaminate an area twice the size of New Jersey.

A team of researchers from the University of South Carolina is using neutrons to develop more durable and efficient materials called waste forms for safely storing hazardous substances.

Results: In the quest for safe methods of storing nuclear waste, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Curtin University, Australia are investigating radiation effects on candidate materials for immobilizing plutonium and other actinides.

Summary: Gibbsite (α - Al (OH) 3) is an important natural and industrial material that is used in a wide variety of energy applications, and is a significant component of some of the high - level nuclear waste stored in large quantities at the Hanford Site, Washington, U.S.A., and at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, U.S.A. Industrial - scale processing of these materials requires an understanding of their behavior in highly alkaline solutions (often called Bayer liquors); processing of slurries and precipitates from these liquors is facilitated by controlling the nanoparticulate gibbsite morphology.

This is because if you put more or less material than needed in your body, it will take some and leave the excess, which means you're wasting food, or if you put in less than it needs, it will utilize it perfectly and get the rest from your fat stores.

Jim Lambie (b. 1964, Glasgow, Scotland) collects the material for his energetic and colorful artworks from different sources: everyday objects, flea - market findings, bulky waste, Oxfam stores.

The Uranium is burned and then stored in a nuclear waste facility; the CIGS material produces power for at least the warranty period of the solar cell product after which it can then be recycled and reused an indefinite number of times.

These results suggest that turning organic materials into compost and applying it to rangelands on a larger scale could store a lot of carbon, repurpose organic waste, improve the health of rangelands, increase climate resilience, and help farmers» bottom lines.

Industry views the burning of forest waste — treetops and branches, rather than whole trees — as carbon - neutral because the material would decompose and release stored carbon anyway, even if it were not burned for energy.

Ramp up fuel supply — take back waste — store for a relatively short time and then reprocess for much more efficient 4th gen plants using a range of materials including thorium and plutonium.

Friends of the Earth Europe has expressed alarm that the Heads of State cast a role for nuclear power in Europe's energy future, without offering solutions to its unsolved problems: how to treat and store waste for thousands of years, the risk of serious accidents, the proliferation of nuclear weapon material and how to secure nuclear plants against terrorist attacks.

Stored, handled, and disposed of hazardous material and waste according to environmental standards

• Take and understand orders for sweeping streets and gutter in assigned areas • Ascertain that street cleaning equipment and motorized vehicles are in good shape prior to each shift • Fill water tanks at the beginning of each shit and ensure that they are refilled rom fire hydrants as and when needed • Drive sweeping vehicle to clean streets of debris, trash and other contaminants • Operate controls to activate rotary brushes and water sprays • Store collected waste in the vehicle's rear and transport it to designated dump areas • Empty waste in dump areas, maintaining awareness of any hazardous materials • Perform preventative and general maintenance on sweeping vehicles and also keep it fueled • Handle minor repair functions such as removing and replacing conveyors and repair tensioners and belts • Create and maintain logs of jobs for each day and ensure that they are submitted to the supervisor on a weekly / daily basis