environmental permit Articles
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Qatar Environmental Permitting System
Qatar, situated on the Arabian Peninsula has the highest GDP per capita worldwide. The country has witnessed economic growth over the last few decades. Qatar’s wealth has been largely fuelled by its vast reserves of gas, which has enabled the country to diversify and grow into a modern state since its independence in 1971. The environmental regulations in Qatar are well presented, fairly ...
By WKC Group
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Methodologies for atmospheric pollution assessment and the procedures for environmental permits in large combustion plants in Europe
The procedures followed by the European electricity companies for securing operation licenses and obtaining environmental permits, as well as the content of the environmental permits and authorisation documents, have been reviewed. The review aims to identify different and common elements of the procedures, since most of the companies recognise that the interaction between environmental ...
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Addressing Environmental Justice in the Permitting Process
On February 11, 1994, Executive Order 12898 Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations was issued. Executive Order 12898 calls on each Federal agency to make achieving environmental justice part of its mission. Since that time the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA or Agency) has developed and issued several plans and ...
By All4 Inc.
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Climate Change Risk Assessment and the Equator Principles Requirements
What is a Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA)? CCRA’s seek to identify the likelihood of future climate risks and their potential impacts, with the aim of prioritisation of appropriate climate action and adaptation. In terms of a new project or development, climate change risk assessments can include both Physical and Transitional Risks. How do Physical and Transitional Risks Impact ...
By WKC Group
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Axion waste processing plant training case study 1 – Management team at MBT plant
The full recovery system was a unique and complex MBT and AD plant. Individual equipment suppliers were not able to provide training in the combined waste recovery system as an overall integrated process. Machinery was not yet operational so separation stages could not be seen working. The new management team was a complex mixture of people, recently recruited from different backgrounds and ...
By Axion Group
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Salt Drift: Surprisingly Short Hang Times
One of the biggest questions I always get asked from potential clients wanting to incorporate enhanced evaporation equipment, is the containment of salt drift from high TDS waste streams. As technology improves and more studies evolve, one thing is for sure, salt is always in the atmosphere, mostly from the salt loading from the ocean due to natures design. Surprisingly, models and observations ...
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International EHS Permitting - A Review of Enhesa's May 2011 Webinar
Enhesa’s webinar held on May 19 and 21 2011, explored the intricate and complex international Environmental, Health & Safety permitting process. Enhesa experts, Cecile Baudon and Eduardo Molina brought the topic to light by sharing the varying methods of permitting globally. The webinar offered practical and usable information on how to: identify when a permit becomes necessary, ...
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Items That Determine The Buying Price Of A Tire Recycling Plant
In order to invest in a tire recycling plant, researching will certainly assist you in getting right one yet. Understanding the cost can help you understand how much money you must have in hand and even begin saving. Note that it is never easy since Google will not likely be a response. You have got to be on the ground and visit stores that deal with such machines. Doing this, you will understand ...
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Water and Energy Recovery from Flue Gas Condensate - Case Study
Waste-to-energy plant in Tampere, Finland, is incinerating 160.000 tons of municipal solid waste annually. Power plant is equipped with the latest state-of-the-art technology. Plant features include semi dry system scrubber to purify the flue gas, and water condenser to condensate the flue gas humidity into liquid water and therefore increase the plant energy output. W-t-E plant performance has ...
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`Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD), Permitting of Major Refinery Expansion Projects (An Important Case Study),` presented at the 1999 National Petroleum Refiners Assoc. Env. Conf.
Introduction Williams Refining, LLC (Williams) operates an integrated petroleum refinery in Memphis, Tennessee. In the fall of 1997, Williams began the process of new source review (NSR) permitting under the Clean Air Act (CAA) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) regulations. The focus of the permitting was on two major expansion projects: Expansion of the east and west crude units ...
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Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) , Permitting of Major Refinery Expansion Projects (An Important Case Study)
Williams Refining, LLC (Williams) operates an integrated petroleum refinery in Memphis, Tennessee. In the fall of 1997, Williams began the process of new source review (NSR) permitting under the Clean Air Act (CAA) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) regulations. The focus of the permitting was on two major expansion projects: 1) Expansion of the east and west crude units 2) ...
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When reduce - reuse - recycle means save time - save money - save the planet, Slovenia - Case Study
A company from Ljubljana has found a cost-effective solution to process all the rubble Specialized in residential buildings, this company from Ljubljana has found a cost-effective solution to process all the rubble, asphalt and debris they encounter during their operation. The cost of transportation and landfills : a big concern With the cost of transportation and landfills always ...
By MB Crusher
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Supporting global expansion case study
Challenge: A global specialty chemicals and materials company seeking to expand operations enlisted the support of Antea Group to provide environmental due diligence services and environmental permitting support at proposed facility locations across six countries. Specifically, the client was seeking a technology enabled process that would allow them to conduct environmental audits, capture ...
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Unleashing the Asphalt Frontier
Welcome to the wild, rugged terrain of Indonesia's asphalt market. To navigate this landscape successfully, you need a roadmap, and that's precisely what this guide aims to be. From the bustling city streets to the remote construction sites, Indonesia's appetite for asphalt is insatiable. To get your hands on an asphalt mixing plant in this archipelagic nation, you need to understand the lay of ...
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Sustainable development and permits to pollute – an impossible combination
The world economy is experiencing the turbulence of the end of a long wave of development or the Kondratieff cycle that precedes its entry into the new cycle, on which the 21st century will leave its mark. A technical system is drawing to a close – that of the 20th century characterised by a monetary, fiscal, political, epidemiological, economic, cultural, scientific, organisational, etc., order ...
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Emissions Testing
What Is Stack Emissions Testing? Stack emissions testing (stack sampling or stack monitoring) is the experimental process for evaluating the characteristics of waste gas stream emissions into the atmosphere from industrial facilities to meet environmental standards. Stack testing measures the amount of specific regulated pollutants or surrogates being emitted or determines the destruction or ...
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ILTA Meets with OMB, CEQ on Environmental Review Changes
ILTA participated in a meeting with the Office of Management and Budget and the Council on Environmental Quality on November 20 to encourage the Trump administration to expeditiously propose and finalize changes to National Environmental Policy Act regulations governing reviews of projects requiring federal agency approvals. Over the past decades, the length of NEPA reviews has steadily ...
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Emissions analyzers helps manage Thetford power station - Case Study
A multiparameter emissions monitor at Thetford power station is being used to demonstrate to the UK Environment Agency that the plant is performing within the conditions of its environmental permit. However, the data from the analyzer, which was supplied by Gasmet Technologies UK, also performs a vitally important role in helping to manage the plant. “Individual gas readings are displayed ...
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Optimal restrictions on vehicle use for urban sustainability for Mexico City
This paper describes and develops the conditions that make the demand side policy of vehicle use restrictions part of a cost-effective set of environmental control policies. Mexico City's experience with vehicle use restrictions is described and its failure analysed. It is argued that Mexico City took a step in the right direction, but failed to make the restrictions flexible, thereby making the ...
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Why is the Environment Agency Investigating Major Water Companies?
Over the past year, business and residential customers alike have been concerned with reports that 11 major water companies have been discharging raw sewage into Britain’s waterways in a way that might potentially be illegal. With reports that the Environment Agency has opened a criminal investigation into the conditions at wastewater treatment works and the scale of how environmental ...
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