Environmental Industry Articles
Air & Climate
Helping Laurel Asphalt to Fight Foul Odors and Be Good Neighbors
One of the unavoidable byproducts of the asphalt production process is a mixture of volatile hydrocarbons, mercaptans, hydrogen sulfide, and heat, which may cause a unique mixture of foul odors. When this happens, many asphalt producers ...
Energy & Renewables
Let’s talk plasma
Usually when I attend a conference on behalf of Tetronics I am about the average age of the other delegates. Not this time. Suddenly, I am old enough to be the father of most of the other people here, because this is a university-based ...
Environmental Management
The Importance of Local Knowledge When Preparing an Oil Spill Response Plan
What to Know About New OSRP Regulations What is an OSRP? Comprehensive Oil Spill Response Plans (OSRPs) have been required for many years for containers with a capacity of 42,000 gallons or more. The goal of these comprehensive OSRPs was ...
Health & Safety
Curtailing Construction’s Fatal Four: Shrinking Struck-By Injury Incidents
The “Fatal Four” of construction are falls, electrocutions, workers being caught in or between objects, and worker being struck by objects. In the United States, these hazards consistently account for over 50% of construction ...
Monitoring & Testing
Does Ultrasonic Wind Sensor VENTUS-UMB pass extreme tests?
Sometimes we give our sensors a hard time. But this has a good cause: We want to guarantee the high quality and the keeping of our promises. A few weeks ago, the ultrasonic wind sensor VENTUS was the one to be challenged. We exposed the ...
Soil & Groundwater
UncerTZ Consortium - Time to Depth Conversion Evolved
Near the end of 2015 Geovariances committed itself into building a new, sophisticated tool for Time to Depth conversion in Reservoir Characterization. The challenges petitioned by the consortium partners were not easy. It included features ...
Waste & Recycling
Polish CEMEX cement plant relies on WEIMA - Case Study
In the eastern Polish town of Chelm, not far from the Ukrainian border, the waste recycling company EkoPaliwa recently successfully commissioned their new plant for the production of alternative fuels. Two WEIMA PowerLine 3000 single-shaft ...
Water & Wastewater
Supplemental Aeration Nearly Eliminates Filamentous Sludge Bulking - Case Study
The Dubai Investments Park Wastewater Treatment plant in the United Arab Emirates faced challenges in their oxidation ditch due to filamentous sludge bulking, resulting in poor sludge settling in the secondary clarifier. Supplemental ...
