Houston Articles
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Water and Wastewater Cost of Service Rate and Impact Fee Study - Case Study
Client: City of Houston Location: Houston, Texas Solutions: Utility Advisory Services ...
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The Importance of Quality NDT Equipment for Houston Companies
Oil and gas infrastructure can suffer from high-temperature hydrogen attack (HTHA), where hydrogen dissociates and disbands within the steel under high temperatures, causing cracks and fissures. This is particularly concerning for refineries, and petrochemical plants in Houston, which is home to one-third of the nation’s energy jobs. Therefore, Houston-based producers need impeccable NDT ...
By Zetec, Inc
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Helping the grand parkway stay on schedule - Case study
INDUSTRY: CONSTRUCTION / TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT USED: CARDINAL'S ARMOR PORTABLE TRUCK SCALES Houston, TX is a city with tremendous growth potential. In Houston we have a wide variety of industries, such as Oil and Gas, Construction, and Manufacturing. This great city has become a place where fortune 500 companies want to grow and expand their business, like Exxon ...
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Dry CleanersSite, Houston, Texas - Case Study
Site Summary: BioLogix CL bioremediation was implementedat a dry cleaners site in Houston, Texasto reduce residualPCE and other chlorinated solvent concentrations in groundwaterfollowing dual phase vacuum extraction. After application of BioLogix CL®bioremediation the chlorinated solvent concentrations were reduced by 98%to 99% in less than 90 days.In Control Technologies, of Houston, ...
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Dry Cleaners Site, Houston, Texas - Case Study
Site Summary: BioLogix CL bioremediation was implemented at a dry cleaners site in Houston, Texas to reduce residual PCE and other chlorinated solvent concentrations in groundwater following dual phase vacuum extraction. After application of BioLogix CL® bioremediation the chlorinated solvent concentrations were reduced by 98% to 99% in less than 90 days. In Control Technologies, of Houston, ...
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Brownfields: eyesore or opportunity?
Minute Maid Park, the Downtown Aquarium and the Federal Reserve Bank are all examples of how the City of Houston is cleaning up and reusing local brownfields to create positive impacts on the community through its Brownfields Redevelopment Program. Brownfields are properties where redevelopment is complicated by the presence or perceived presence of environmental contamination. These sites were, ...
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Houston, Texas Dry Cleaner Site Remediation in Less than 6 Months
Summary Dry cleaning solvents were found in the ground water adjacent to a dry cleaning facility located in a commercial shopping center in Houston, Texas. InControl Technologies, Inc. of Houston, Texas was the environmental consulting firm that completed the site investigation and remediation. CL-Out bioremediation was implemented to reduce the mass of contamination in the source area. CL-Out ...
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Drycleaner site: Houston, Texas
Site Summary: Historical dry cleaning solvent spills from an active dry cleaners contaminated soil and ground water under a shopping center. The migration of contaminants in shallow ground water spread contamination from under the building into a residential subdivision. The resulting plume of contaminated ground water was more than 1,000 feet long. Geology and Hydrogeology The geology of the ...
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Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer Installation #1562 A Drill Pipe Refurbishing Company Pollution Control System in Houston, Texas - Case Study
A drill pipe refurbishing company adds pollution control with the help of Alliance Corporation. Application: Petroleum – Houston, Texas Project: A 3,000 SCFM BOXIDIZER™ 2-Bed Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer. Installed by customer. ...
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The Dow Chemical Company
THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY operates a number of sites in the Southeast Texas Houston-Galveston Area (HGA) federal non-attainment area. To meet stringent requirements mandated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on HGA facilities, Dow turned to Pavilion to deploy a robust Environmental Management ...
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Report documents effects of 40 years of groundwater withdrawal
The cumulative effects of 40 years of groundwater withdrawals in the Houston-Galveston region are documented in a report from the United States Geological Survey. Decades of extensive withdrawals have caused the land to sink, or subside. The Houston-Galveston region is one of the largest areas of land surface subsidence in the U.S., according to the agency. Water withdrawals started as early as ...
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Biomimicry: solutions hidden in plain sight
Some call it arrogance, the way human beings believe it is possible to out-smart nature with science and technology. Now, Houston and other large cities deal with excessive water runoff as a result of cutting down forests and paving over prairie. The fish in most Texas lakes and in many lakes and rivers around the world are not safe to eat. Scientific evidence increasingly links heart ...
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Sterling Chemicals
Houston-based Sterling Chemicals Holdings, Inc., via its operating subsidiaries, serves leading customers such as British Petroleum PLC and BASF to produce a wide array of high quality consumer goods and industrial products. Sterling adopted Pavilion8 to identify best practices and ensure optimal performance on their Ethyl Benzene (EB) ...
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Chemical Company - Environmental
One of the world’s top chemical producers, with major operations in the Houston area, needed to deploy a real-time environmental management application to meet local, state and federal regulatory requirements for NOx and HRVOC, and take advantage of the new emissions trading programs. It sought a solution that would leverage its existing IT infrastructure and support a multi-site emissions ...
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Past the Peak - what the peak oil theory means to the economy
Except for scores of cars abandoned on the shoulder, the eight-lane highway was nearly empty one Friday morning last September. Gas stations along the feeder roads were closed, with trash overflowing the bins and blowing across the pavement. Shopping center parking lots were empty; entry doors were blockaded. It was the day before the much-anticipated arrival of Hurricane Rita and the entire ...
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Industrial Site, Houston, Texas - Case Study
Site Summary BioLogix CL bioaugmentation was implemented in combination with dual phase extraction at an industrial site near Houston, Texas to remove trichloroethylene (TCE) from ground water. The overlying contaminated soil was excavated, but perched ground water and a deeper aquifer had TCE concentrations greater than 10,000 |jg/L A dual-phase vacuum extraction system was installed to control ...
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Implementation of a real-time environmental data management system to ensure HRVOC program compliance
The BP Texas City Site (Refinery and Chemicals Plant) has successfully implemented a real-time environmental data management system in order to comply with the Highly Reactive Volatile Organic Compound (HRVOC) rule from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). This unique rule is part of TCEQ's overall strategy within the Texas State Implementation Plan to bring the Houston area into ...
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Project - Grass Pave Fire Lane at Market Center Station Kansas City, Kansas
AirPave Porous Flexible Paving at Market Center Station Grass Pave Fire Lane Kansas City, Kansas A grass pave project designed by AMR Architects Inc out of Little Rock, Arkansas and developed by Houston-based The Morgan Group Inc., Market Station is the largest new construction project erected in Downtown Kansas City since Quality Hill in 1984. AirPave was chosen as the solution for porous ...
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Hurricanes Harvey and Irma highlight need for regulating developments
There’s a lingering image of the American Frontier where a calm breeze blows through endless prairies of tall grass, and “the skies are not cloudy all day.” As the prairies become more populated, they get paved over to make way for roads and westward expansion. The tall grass that once ran 14 feet deep is replaced with impermeable asphalt, and the calm quiet is replaced with ...
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Develop a `real-time` air emissions monitoring strategy for your facility
To improve air quality, states and localities are requiring more intense 24/7 monitoring of listed air pollutants from hydrocarbon processing facilities. Affected facilities must develop reliable and accurate environmental data management systems for reporting purposes. In this case history, the BP Texas City site (a refinery and chemicals plant) successfully implemented a real-time ...
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