Sentences with phrase «wastewater generated»

We report on contamination from the millions of gallons of toxic wastewater generated each day by tar sands mines.

Graywater includes any wastewater generated in households or office buildings except from the toilet.

The Barnett and Eagle Ford shale formations in Texas contain high amounts lithium, and the produced wastewater generated by hydraulic fracturing in those areas has high concentrations of lithium.

In 2010, the brand added a second wastewater treatment system to treat 100 % of the wastewater generated from cafeterias, restrooms, bathrooms, etc..

The industry has struggled to find effective treatment methods to recycle the volume of wastewater it generates, which is sometimes calls «produced water.»

Not exact matches

«Any factory with a biological waste stream or wastewater with high COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) can easily use this technology to generate energy.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

CST Wastewater Solutions Managing Director Mr Mike Bambridge will be on hand to discuss these latest wastewater and green energy technologies that not only clean wastewater to top world standards, but also extract biogas to substitute for fossil fuel in boilers and to generate electricity.

The rotting organic material can generate considerable odour and release heavily polluted wastewater leaching out of mountainous pulp piles.

Nicholas Meats new facilities, scheduled to be completed this year, are engineered to properly manage the factory wastewater on - site for water reuse and recover energy from by - products generated within both the production process and within the wastewater treatment operations themselves.

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

«Any factory with a biological waste stream or wastewater with high COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) can easily use this model to generate energy,» said Michael Bambridge, Managing Director of CST Wastewater Solutions.

Closed anaerobic reactors generate large quantities of methane (CH4) from the organic materials in the wastewater that can diminish or even completely replace the use of fossil fuels in the production process.

When the fermentation is finished, the seeds are washed to remove the fermentation residue, which generates massive amounts of Kona wastewater.

In 2009, Casa Herradura installed a waste - to - energy process that fuels a steam boiler with biogas generated by a biological anaerobic reactor, as part of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).

The BIDA ® System works efficiently year - round in spite of seasonal fluctuations in wastewater flow like those seen in the wine industry, and generates compost - enhancing castings from worm digestion, returning nutrients to the soil.

Due to deficiencies in the sewer collection system and lack of treatment capacity, wet weather events such as rain or snowmelt generate more wastewater than the plant can handle.

The exciting implication is that next - generation wastewater treatment plants could use new technologies, including microbe - powered fuel cells, to capture enough methane, hydrogen, and other fuels from wastewater to generate all the energy they need, and then some.

Once such hurdles are crossed, however, the process offers the intriguing possibility of using the organic matter in wastewater to generate energy, he notes.

Hydraulic fracturing has boosted U.S. energy production while coming under scrutiny for its potential environmental impacts, mostly related to the wastewater the method generates.

«It's a large amount of pharmaceuticals that we [wastewater treatment plant researchers] look at, it's not a trend that the plants generate higher compound concentrations,» she said.

Some even argue that vertical farms could save energy by recycling wastewater and composting non-edible plant material to generate methane energy.

Elizabeth Heidrich, a PhD student at Newcastle University in England and lead author of the new study, studies microbial fuel cells — devices that generate electrical current by capturing the electrons freed as bacteria break down organic matter in wastewater.

Urban water consumption also generates large volumes of wastewater.

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).

Industries, like municipalities and other entities that generate wastes, dispose of many liquid wastes through wastewater systems (and ultimately to waterbodies), whereas they dispose of their solid wastes in landfills.

Now, researchers at UCSB have chemically modified the bacteria to increase its energy production, which could lead to wastewater treatment plants that generate some of their own power.

Within the heating sector, fee avoidance options include energy efficiency, switching to efficient electric heat paired with the electric sector tax avoidance options, and potentially switching to lower carbon heating options such as waste heat from sewage systems and wastewater treatment plants or buying «renewable natural gas» from bio-digesters, generated either within the District or from outside.

Defines: (1) «renewable electricity» as electricity generated from a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resources; (2) «renewable energy resource» as wind, solar, and geothermal energy, renewable biomass, biogas and biofuels derived exclusively from renewable biomass, qualified hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy; and (3) «other qualifying energy resource» as landfill gas, wastewater treatment gas, coal mine methane used to generate electricity at or near the mine mouth, and qualified waste - to - energy.

Before developing an effective and sustainable water management strategy, it is necessary to put in place water measurement procedures to generate realistic water use and wastewater discharge figures that are comparable from year to year.

Joburg BioGas To Energy Programme forms part of a larger initiative to generate renewable energy from bio-waste (landfill waste and wastewater) and is a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project registered under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The facility treats 100,000 tons of wastewater daily, generating about 3 tons of ash.

With the combination of self - generated power and reduced wastewater fees, the methane - collection system paid itself off in three years».

Now with this rocket thruster design, nitrates in the wastewater can be used to generate nitrus oxide and methane, with the methane harvested to run the plant, the nitrus oxide burned in a rocket thruster to break it down into clean hot air, and the nitrates safely removed from the water through the whole process.