For her doctoral work, Kadukova explored new methods of metal sequestration from polluted water
using waste plant material and biomass.
Not exact matches
The brewery switched to
using Voyager
Plant Optimization, an InBev system that has cut brewing process
waste in half in four years.
Western Australians could be
using energy converted from municipal solid
waste in less than two years if companies proposing
waste - to - energy
plants achieve their timeframes.
Not only will they have a dramatic effect on the mood and productivity of your employees, as well as on overall aesthetic impression in your offices, but
plant waste can be
used as an organic fertilizer.
INEOS Bio (which is the biofuel arm of petrochemical giant INEOS) and developer New Planet Energy say they will
use the loan guarantee to build the «INEOS BioEnergy Center,» near Vero Beach, Florida, that will produce 8 million gallons of advanced biofuels and 6 MW of biomass power from
plant waste and trash per year.
This means that less than 1 % of the total
waste generated by the
plant is
used in landfill.
Prior to the construction of new centre, Ornua Nutrition Ingredients
used to send offcuts and
waste cheese from the Leek
plant to its other site in south England to be converted into other products.
«Such
plants — including breweries, fruit, food
waste, agro industries, and energy crops including corn — can easily
use this technology to generate energy.
Results achieved over hundreds of
plants globally have achieved removal of organic
waste from discharge water of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the
plants installed by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic
waste converted to methane and
using it to power boilers and electricity generators.
A: Working towards food
waste reduction is a highly collaborative effort and we need to continue to work together to ensure we maximize the
use of food either on the farm, in the manufacturing
plant, or at home.
Biogas produced from Remo - Frit's
waste streams undergoes sweetening (sulphur removal) for environmental and
plant reliability purposes,
using GWE's BIO-SULFURIX ™ process, followed by drying in GWE's GASODRIX ™ system.
The Anaerobic Digestion
Plant uses natural biological processes to both reduce output in distillery
waste water by -LSB-...]
Alternative protein sources may include the
use of by - products currently viewed as
waste or the development of new protein sources from
plants, lower order animals, or single - cell organisms with a lower environmental impact compared with typical animal - based protein sources.
As a result, some of our food
waste has gone down the garbage disposal (which isn't a good option because it
uses a lot of water and energy to process at the water treatment
plants) and I've also thrown some into the * gasp * garbage.
«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal
wastes; storage, transportation and
use of equipment for tillage,
planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and
use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage,
use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and
use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal
wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal
wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the
use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;
He robs half a billion dollars from an environmental fund that is
used to clean up water, to safeguard and strengthen our
waste water treatment
plants, and he was rebuked by the federal government, who said it was the first time that's ever been requested and it was disallowed.»
This is a fluidized bed reactor, an energy - generation technology that has been
used for decades to power paper mills and
waste - treatment
plants but that had never before been installed in an ethanol
plant.
They
used biomass, essentially
waste from
plant materials.
Using waste heat from a coal
plant to power the heat pump can mean 80 per cent of the energy put into the slush can be retrieved.
Cooking farm
waste yields compact, easily transportable material that will not degrade and can be
used in energy - producing
plants.
The team achieved better hydrogen yields
using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived from
plant waste such as wood pulp, straw and leftovers from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.
The
plant, which will be able to handle 10 cubic metres of
waste water an hour, will
use a combination of chemical and physical processes to extract the organic dye component and concentrate it into a sludge suitable for disposal in a landfill.
With a combination of water,
plant food and 17,500 LEDs, he harvests as much as 10,000 heads of lettuce a day — 100 times more per square foot than an ordinary farm —
using 90 percent less water and producing 80 percent less
waste.
They also must control mercury air emissions from coal - fired power
plants,
waste incineration and related industrial processes, and reduce or eliminate mercury
use in small - scale gold mining and chemical manufacturing.
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 setup is part of an experiment aimed at testing an unusual water pollution control scheme that
uses gypsum, a
waste product from coal - fired power
plants, to reduce nutrient runoff from farms.
Thermal salt - removing processes require high temperatures so they tend to be expensive (more than $ 1 per cubic meter of freshwater), but the
use of rejected «
waste» heat from other industrial or power
plant operations for co-generation can cut energy expenditure.
So they have managed to create centralized power
plants to create electricity and the heat
waste from that process is
used for desalinating water.
In writing about the
use of second - generation biomass, such as
plant waste and paper, to produce biofuels, Helen Knight did...
But this sort of cogeneration system, if you want to call it that, of
using the power
plant output and the
waste heat from that to drive the desalination
plants, he was saying, you know, in 20 years that probably could be a great model and an efficient model for water generation in Southern California.
This technique, published in the journal Nature, not only
uses existing
plant waste but consumes large amounts of CO2 and could be applied to other types of chemical manufacturing as well — a boon to our increasingly CO2 - saturated atmosphere.
That method could make a difference in cellulosic biofuel
plants, which produce ethanol from
waste products — corn husks and cobs — rather than edible kernels, a major advance in addressing the tradeoff of
using agricultural land to grow corn for fuel rather than for food.
One example isPanda Ethanol, which is building the largest biomass
plant in the United Statesin Hereford, Texas, where it will
use the
waste of 3.5 milliongrazing cattle to fuel the production of approximately 115 million gallons ofethanol per year.
Chlorine, a disinfectant commonly
used in most wastewater treatment
plants, may be failing to completely eliminate pharmaceuticals from
wastes.
When it comes to
using plant waste to mitigate climate change, most people think of turning it into ethanol or biodiesel for
use as a fuel.
Only 10 % of the mass
used is turned into biodiesel, whereas we
use whole
plant waste and obtain 70 %.
Plutonium Pyramids Hematite, a shiny black mineral sometimes
used to make jewelry, can soak up plutonium and uranium
waste from nuclear
plants.
Zuluaga Gallego, Jorge A. Velásquez Cock and colleagues at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Colombia) have been investigating a different approach
using banana
plants, which are considered
waste once the fruit is harvested.
Cellulosic's slow path to commercial
use Two weeks ago, INEOS Bio announced it had begun commercial production of cellulosic ethanol from yard
waste in its Vero Beach, Fla.,
plant.
It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid
waste, municipal wastewater
plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for
use as fertilizer (instead of
using fossil fuels).
The potential for capturing heat — from power
plants, industrial smokestacks and even vehicle tailpipes — and converting it into electricity is huge, allowing heat that is currently
wasted to be
used to generate power.
A nuclear
waste disposal facility being
used to store radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power
plant will soon be full, Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials said Monday.
«It is possible that sanitation laws requiring the removal of faeces from the streets actually led to reinfection of the population as the
waste was often
used to fertilise crops
planted in farms surrounding the towns,» said Mitchell.
Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be
used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn
plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to
waste and
using them to fuel our energy independence.
Even though federal laws limit the
Waste Isolation Pilot
Plant (WIPP) to be
used only for defense transuranic (plutonium - contaminated)
waste from nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed actions to expand WIPP to three additional missions in 2012 - 2013.
The January 1997 Record of Decision stated that surplus plutonium would either be immobilized or
used as fuel (Mixed - Oxide or MOX) in commercial power
plants and the
waste would all be disposed in a Nuclear
Waste Policy Act repository.
German sporting and dog magazine Wild und Hund reports that thousands of domestic and wild animals are falling ill from tainted
waste from green «climate - friendly» biogas
plants, which is then
used as an agricultural fertilizer in fields.
Methanogenic microbes are easier to
use and live off of animal and
plant wastes making them GHG neutral.
Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)'s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean
waste water from Fischer - Tropsch
plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by - product for power generation.
The 70C temperature requirement could be met
using the
waste heat from power
plants, coal or nuclear.