Sentences with phrase «used fuel recycling»

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The company says its Fort Worth brewery is leading the company's effort, partly by converting wastewater into fuel for its boilers and by recycling the pressurized water used to clean bottles and cans.

They cut their usage by recycling waste water to fuel their boilers, checking for leaky equipment and using sensors to control irrigation on their farms.

The New Plastics Economy presents three key platforms: creating an effective after - use plastics economy by improving global recycling efforts, reducing the leakage of plastic waste into the environment, and decoupling plastic from the fossil fuels used to create it.

«We are working closely with the CleanTech Alliance Fund team to build U.S. infrastructure that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, expand the use of renewable energy and recycled materials, and improve the efficiency of our economy,» said Scott Brown, Managing Partner of the Fund.

Until then, let us greatly expand food recycling to be used as fuel.

The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

During the 2010 - 2011 school year, the department composted 143 tons of food waste, collected 4,533 gallons of used cooking oil (to create biodiesel fuel) and recycled more than 150 tons of cardboard, glass and plastic.

Released to the public in June 2017, the latest corrugated industry life cycle assessment (LCA) confirms continued environmental progress through increased efficiencies in mill energy systems, increased use of low - impact fossil fuels, and increased recovery for recycling.

He figured out how to recycle used diapers into corn oil to fuel for the eco friendly car he designed.

The goals include ending single use plastics, promoting alternatives to fossil fuel - based materials, promoting 100 percent recycling of plastics, corporate and government accountability, and changing human behavior concerning plastics.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

Coupling Reactor Types If advanced fast reactors come into use, they will at first burn spent thermal - reactor fuel that has been recycled using pyroprocessing.

Metallic fuel, as used in the ALMR, is preferable to oxide for several reasons: it has some safety advantages, it will permit faster breeding of new fuel, and it can more easily be paired with pyrometallurgical recycling.

The answer, according to American engineers, could be to use humble bacteria and fungi to decompose rocket fuel safely and allow its ingredients to be recycled.

Meanwhile, Japan has struggled to bring its Rokkasho reprocessing plant online, even with the help of Areva, and currently relies on France and the U.K. to recycle its used uranium fuel rods.

And Areva, which handles used nuclear fuel recycling for France, is in discussions to help with China's own plans in that regard, including the possibility of building a reprocessing plant in the Gobi Desert in Gansu Province.

Biodiesel is best known as the fuel made from recycled vegetable oil, the kind used by superenvironmentalists such as singer Willie Nelson, who calls it «BioWillie.»

Therefore, either reprocessing or recycling spent nuclear fuel, as the French and Japanese do, is likely to be a waste of money better spent on improving the light - water reactors presently in use.

By 2005 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), the United States had slashed that figure to 188 million, thanks to both recycling and using tires as industrial fuel.

One solution under consideration is to recycle the plutonium yet further — by using it as fuel in a pair of new, so - called «fast» reactors.

Consequently, the ultimate solution may be considerably less elegant than recycling: using tires as fuel.

The unstable element, which will remain radioactive for millennia, is the residue of ill - fated efforts to recycle used nuclear fuel.

In these countries, used fuel is recycled to recover uranium and plutonium (produced during irradiation in reactors) and reprocess it into new fuel.

In PUREX recycling, used fuel assemblies are transported to a recycling plant in heavily shielded, damage - resistant shipping casks.

Essentially all nuclear fuel recycling is performed using a process known as PUREX (plutonium uranium extraction), which was initially developed for extracting pure plutonium for nuclear weapons.

PRISM can recycle used nuclear fuel, reducing repository size, and cutting the duration of its high radiotoxicity down to hundreds (rather than hundreds of thousands) of years, and thereby is in a position to play a key role in enabling a new, sustainable generation of nuclear power.

It can therefore be used to close the nuclear fuel cycle, recycling used nuclear fuel to generate energy.

Fuel goes in the front end, electicity comes out the back end, and the used fuel is stored on site ready to be recycFuel goes in the front end, electicity comes out the back end, and the used fuel is stored on site ready to be recycfuel is stored on site ready to be recycled.

One of the big advantages offered by the PRISM reactor is that it offers a considerable advance in the ability to recycle used fuel and plutonium.

These documents also indicate that the fuel used in the PRISM reactor will contain a combination of recycled uranium, plutonium and zirconium.

«Nuclear energy, to reach a state of sustainability, will require used nuclear fuel to be recycled,» said Bruce Moyer, leader of ORNL's Chemical Separations Group and the paper's senior author.

GEH believes that modern recycling technologies should be used to address used nuclear fuel.

To this end, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between General Electric and Hitachi, is researching a reactor design which would use recycled spent nuclear fuel instead of creating new fuel.

The PRISM reactor would use recycled nuclear fuel from a reprocessing facility known as the Advanced Recycling Center (ARC).

By using electro - metallurgical separations, PRISM is designed to perform the recycling of the 96 percent of the fissionable material (uranium and transuranics) remaining in used nuclear fuel.

Recycling nuclear fuel can reuse uranium and plutonium — the majority of the used fuel — that would otherwise be destined for waste.

The PRISM reactor, as part of the Advanced Recycling Center, would recycle all the uranium and transuranics (elements heavier that uranium) contained within used nuclear fuel.

Improved separations would enable a closed nuclear fuel recycling option — a tantalizing prospect considering the United States uses only 1 percent of the potential nuclear energy of the uranium that it mines and currently does not recycle nuclear fuel.

Loewen said that when using a water reactor, it was only possible to recycle fuel twice, while PRISM can re-use fuel many times.

Why It Matters: Recycling nuclear fuel can reuse uranium and plutonium - the majority of the used fuel - that would otherwise be destined for waste.

Throughout its history, Centrus has been committed to the reduction of Cold War nuclear arsenals through the recycling of highly enriched uranium from nuclear warheads into low - enriched uranium to be used in fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

Instead, the glycerol backbone from triglycerides (fat) is recycled into glucose while the three fatty acid chains are used for fuel by most of the body.

Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.

Not only willit be one of the most fuel efficient sport - utes around, but thanks to a widespread use of bio foam, recycled fabrics, and reused steel, it's on track to be one of the greenest rides built in America.

Which Increases the ecological impact of the added fuel used, and then adding to the environmental impact by the incineration or recycling of those unused units only to start the process all over again.

The VOF team have also used last year's rally, and the continued surge this year (fueled by overseas inflows) to actively recycle funds into new private equity investments (here's their latest) & cheaper state - sponsored IPOs.

Everyone seems to be environmentally conscious on some level, whether it is by recycling or driving more fuel - efficient cars or using less water; most everyone is doing their part to be eco-friendly.

Buy Bowls Locally Made of Recycled Matter Eco-friendly food and water bowls on the market include: recycled plastics and glass; stainless steel, which is durable and doesn't often get scratch marks where bacteria can hide; and locally made, lead - free ceramic bowls, which cut down on the use of fossil fuels used to transport thRecycled Matter Eco-friendly food and water bowls on the market include: recycled plastics and glass; stainless steel, which is durable and doesn't often get scratch marks where bacteria can hide; and locally made, lead - free ceramic bowls, which cut down on the use of fossil fuels used to transport threcycled plastics and glass; stainless steel, which is durable and doesn't often get scratch marks where bacteria can hide; and locally made, lead - free ceramic bowls, which cut down on the use of fossil fuels used to transport the goods.

precious metals (like gold, platinum and palladium), a variety of which can be recycled into component plating and low voltage electrical contacts; palladium plays a key role in the technology used for fuel cells.

So on one alternative that gets outsized attention for the potential it provides (recycling restaurant cooking oil (WVO) as auto fuel) perhaps the best use of this fuel is in large city bus fleets.