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One-stop Soil Physical and Chemical Testing Service Now Available at Lifeasible
Lifeasible, a leading provider for environmental testing services, striving to deliver custom solutions to all research fields, now released a one-stop soil physical and chemical testing service that aims to free researchers from the tedious pre-processing work. Soil testing is essential for assessing the fertility of agricultural soils, as nutrients and other components affect plant growth. ...
By Lifeasible
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EPA region 7 to begin issuing orders to obtain access to residential properties in Omaha for environmental sampling
EPA Region 7 will soon begin to issue administrative orders to a small group of residential property owners in Omaha, Neb., allowing the Agency legal access to those properties to conduct environmental sampling for toxic lead in soil and exterior paint, all at no cost to the property owners. Under the authority of the Superfund program, EPA has been working in Omaha since 1999 to identify and ...
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Gas sensors `see` through soil to analyze microbial interactions
Rice University researchers have developed gas biosensors to “see” into soil and allow them to follow the behavior of the microbial communities within. In a study in the American Chemical Society’s journal Environmental Science and Technology, the Rice team described using genetically engineered bacteria that release methyl halide gases to monitor microbial gene expression in ...
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Measuring Oil Content in Off-Shore Drill Cuttings Using Portable IR Analyzers
Large amounts of drill cuttings are produced in off-shore drilling and must meet an allowable limit on the amount of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) they contain for ocean disposal. As an example, the North Sea currently has a 1% limit for disposal of drilling cuttings. Transporting the cuttings to shore is labor intensive, costly and could cease due to bad weather. Limit requirements also ...
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Accurate Analysis of Oily Waste in Minutes - it`s easy
Some of the UK’s largest Waste Management companies are now using the QED and saving thousands. The QED is the only single analyser, either in the laboratory or on site, that can accurately identify the hydrocarbon- so easy to use, you can do it yourself for results in minutes from as little as £5 per sample. Allowed by the Environment Agency. The accuracy of any analysis is highly ...
By QROS Ltd
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Is your hydrocarbon analysis as reliable as you think it is? And if not, who`s liable?
A major multinational organisation recently undertook an evaluation of MCERTS laboratory performance for petroleum hydrocarbons. Ten duplicate sets of samples containing sand and gravel were prepared. Five of the sets also had 10% by weight of peat added. (Peat in common with other organic material is known to interfere with the lab TPH analysis.) A 5000ppm concentration of diesel was spiked into ...
By QROS Ltd
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Tests confirm no radioactivity release to environment from IAEA Seibersdorf Lab
Independent analysis has confirmed that there was no release of radioactive material to the environment following an incident at the IAEA´s Seibersdorf Laboratory on 3 August. The test results were provided by the Austrian Research Centers (ARC), from analysis of soil, plant and water samples collected from outside the IAEA´s Laboratories in Seibersdorf, where the incident occurred. The ...
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Triad expedites brownfields redevelopment in Fairbanks
The Fairbanks North Star Borough (FNSB) used Triad in 2006-2007 to assess environmental conditions at a municipal property along the Chena River in Fairbanks, AK. FNSB accelerated the site investigation as part of a brownfields assessment grant received from the U.S. EPA in 2005. Low-level contamination had been identified onsite in past investigations, but its extent and impact on future ...
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Predicting amount of oil in contaminated soils
Scientists are reporting a new technique for mapping and testing oil-contaminated soils. Traditionally, samples need to be collected from the field and returned to a lab for extensive chemical analysis, costing time and money when neither is readily available during a clean-up operation. The new method can take measurements in the field and accurately predict the total amount of petroleum ...
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