Robert E. S. Bain Articles - page 3

Removing VOCs from Municipal Water Supply - Case Study

QED E-Z Tray® Air Strippers Removing Volatile Compounds in Cheyenne’s Drinking Water The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) – Omaha District has funded the design and construction of a new groundwater treatment plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming to treat groundwater from the city’s Borie well field. This important groundwater supply was apparently contaminated with ...

Jan. 16, 2017

By QED Environmental Systems, Inc

PERT Trail, Empire, CO - Case Study

Project Name: PAW Educational Research Trail (PERT) Products: Gravelpave2 Permeable Pavement Applications: Trail Reinforcement and “Tactile Warning” City: Empire State/Province: Colorado Install Date: June 2012 Client: Partners for Access to the Woods (PAW) with a grant from the State of Colorado Install Size: 10 m2 (108 sq ft) Address: 1/4 mile west of Empire, CO on Hwy ...

Jul. 3, 2012

By Invisible Structures, Inc.

Join us for the Inaugural Astars Awards!

Do you remember Gwyneth Paltrow’s three-minute hiccup engulfed award speech? Kanye West’s stage invasion of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 VMA’s? And of course, let’s not forget the elephant in the award room, the La La Land and Moonlight fiasco at this year’s Academy Awards. Better than a Brit Award and more outstanding than an Oscar.. it's ...

Mar. 7, 2017

By Analox Sensor Technology

S-SoDiA: a semantic enabled social diagnosis advisor

Medical information systems have recently gained momentum as a proof-of-concept of the efficiency of new support-oriented technologies, in particular, semantic technologies. In principle, diagnosis or medicine advisory and recommendation can change the current biomedical IT landscape, providing intelligent reasoning and inference support. This paper presents S-SoDiA, a social diagnosis advisor ...

Jun. 4, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Bridging the gap between EH&S and technology

“IT Insight” is a new bimonthly column that will look at the wide world of information technology, with a focus on emerging tools and technologies for managing environmental, health, and safety data. Today’s environmental professional is faced with the challenge of sustaining an efficient and cost-effectiveenvironmental, health, and safety (EH&S) management process in an economy dominated by ...

Feb. 1, 2001

By Lexicon Systems, LLC

Case study - Dansk Dekommisionering

Cost effective and environmentally correct handling of radioactive wastewater Client: Dansk Dekommissionering, formerly known as Forskningscenter Risø. The Institution Dansk Dekommissionering was established in September 2003 with the purpose of taking over the responsibility for the nuclear facilities at the Risoe Research Centre. Industry: Handling of radioactive water from different ...

Jun. 17, 2016

By Envotherm A/S

Book Review: The path to power by Robert Caro

The path to power, by Robert Caro. New York, Vintage, 1990Keywords: book ...

Dec. 4, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

Canarina DESCAR software · lake pollution modeling · algorithms 8

Typical values (pollutants): Organic matter as DBO5 - 350g/m3 Suspended matter - 600g/m3 E. Coli - 1012 /m3 N2 (total) - 30 gN/m3 Effluent velocity - entre 0.6 y 0.8 m/s Port diameter - 6cm Dispersion coefficients: Horizontal dispersion: Ky(m2/s)=3x10-5 B4/3. B=initial plume width(m) Vertical dispersion: Kz(m2/s)=4x10-3 Ua e e= thickness of the mixing layer Ua=horizontal ambient ...

Nov. 25, 2011

By Canarina Environmental Software

Climate Change Verification Comes Of Age: ISO 14064

Since the mid 90’s SGS has been providing Greenhouse Gas Verification services for our clients, and now, with the rise in prominence of Climate Change and the release of ISO 14064, this service is coming into its prime. SGS is accredited for, and active in, all the credible schemes around the globe. From Kyoto Projects to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, from the California Climate Action ...

Nov. 30, 2006

By SGS North America Inc

Acceleration of the G1/S phase transition by expression of cyclins D1 and E with an inducible system

Conditional overexpression of human cyclins B1, D1, and E was accomplished by using a synthetic cDNA expression system based on the Escherichia coli tetracycline repressor. After induction of these cyclins in asynchronous Rat-1 fibroblasts, a decrease in the length of the G1 interval was observed for cyclins D1 and E, consistent with an acceleration of the G1/S phase transition. We observed, in ...

Mar. 1, 1994

By American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

Water and Developing Island States

The United Nation’s SAMOA Pathway lays out goals for critical water management issues Islands share many challenges to development. They tend to be economically and geographic isolated, environmentally fragile, plagued with high energy and transportation costs, limited in resources, and vulnerable to weather and climate disasters. At the 1991 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the United ...

Aug. 8, 2019

By Fluence Corporation

Canarina DESCAR software · wastewater effluent modeling · algorithms 11

Case V: θ >65º F>0,1 In such a case, we have the next relationships S=0.58 Ua H q-1 B=max[Ltsin θ; 0,93Lt F-1/3] e=SQ/BUa From Case II to Case V, and if e>H, we take e=H and S= UaBH/Q. It is interesting for electronic waste, wastewater modeling, waste data, stratification, diffusers, wastewater effluent, agricultural effluents ...

Nov. 25, 2011

By Canarina Environmental Software

3e goes Global as international EH&S regulations become more far-reaching and complex

3E Co. (www.3ecompany.com) is a globalprovider of chemical, regulatory and complianceinformation services. 3E provides a comprehensivesuite of data products and informationservices that addresses the entire lifecycle ofa chemical, covering global regulatory data;material safety data sheet (MSDS) authoring,distribution and management, transportation,emergency response training; regulatory ...

Apr. 10, 2008

By Verisk 3E

European Union: T&E paper highlights full picture of transport emissions

The gulf between the transport sector’s increased greenhouse gas emissions and cuts from other sectors grew again in 2008. And aviation and shipping’s share of transport emissions rose from 18% in 2007 to 24% in 2008. These are two findings from T&E’s latest report on transport emissions. The paper is described as a complement to the European Environment Agency’s ...

Nov. 19, 2010

By Transport and Environment (T&E)

Electronics destroy only policy - bad for the environment and your budget - Case Study

Problem: Due to compelling data security concerns, a large business client had developed a destroy-only policy for the company’s used wireless devices. e-Cycle Solution: e-Cycle’s proven, rigorous mobile data deletion and protection processes gave our client the confidence they needed to do away with their destroy-only policy and began to generate significant revenue while protecting ...

Jul. 9, 2018

By e-Cycle LLC

Utah leisure operators - Case Study

A Utah success story - Fighting Cryptosporidium During the summer of 2007, 1,900 residents of Utah, had been infected by the parasite Cryptosporidium. In response to this outbreak, Americas largest of 2007, The Utah Health Department, who had already taken the controversial step of banning under fives from using public facilities demanded action, and called upon the extensive experience of atg ...

May 20, 2014

By atg UV Technology

Selected Developments Related to Takings Issues, 2001-2002

For general background, see Robert Meltz, Wetlands Regulation and the Law of Regulatory Takings, 30 ELR 10468 (June ...

By Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Odor fighter`s job really does stink

Robert Bowker"s job stinks, and he known it. Bowker is one of handful of odor control engineers in the country. He visits sewage treatment plants around the world and recommends ways to relieve the stench. This week he is visiting Concord"s plant. Vowker grew up in Maine and received a civil engineering degree from the University of New Hampshire before earning a msater"s of environmental ...

Jul. 8, 2010

By Bowker & Associates, Inc.

Improving Social and Ethical Compliance in the Supply Chain

This white paper from BSI Entropy International’s CEO, Hewitt Roberts, provides an overview of the drivers for improving social and ethical performance of a company’s suppliers and the significant benefits of implementing web-based purpose-built management system software solutions to do so. Abstract In recent years, competitive pressures, globalization and increasingly discerning ...

Oct. 1, 2006

By BSI

Project - M/Y Belle Aimee

The M/Y Belle Aimée is a 52m (171 ft) luxury motor yacht that charters in French Polynesia. Built in 2010 by prestigious Dutch builder Amels, the Belle Aimée acquired its VideoRay Pro 4 as part of an interior and AV upgrade in 2013. Equipped with an HD camera, fiber optic tether, and manipulator arm, the Pro 4 is part of the Belle Aimée’s state-of-the-art dive center ...

Jul. 15, 2020

By VideoRay LLC

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