integrity monitoring Articles
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Pipeline Integrity Monitoring Overview
Understanding Pipeline Integrity Pipeline integrity is all about keeping pipelines operating properly throughout their life cycle. From design and construction to maintenance and inspection to decommissioning and retirement, pipeline integrity engineers work to ensure pipelines and their related components are reliable, sustainable, and safe throughout their service life. Pipeline integrity can ...
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Decision support system for risk-based land management and rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated territories: PRANA approach
Description of the approaches to a decision support system on Risk Based Land Management (RBLM) and rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated territories on the basis of integrating monitoring data, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), models and decision support tools is presented in this paper. The key blocks of the PRANA DSS, developed for scientific and practical needs for model ...
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Review and recommendations on a water pollution control framework for the pulp and paper sector in China
The pulp and paper sector has been a significant source of water pollution in China for many years. The Chinese government has made great efforts on water pollution control for the pulp and paper sector. While actively participating in various international treaties and conventions related to environmental management and pollution control in this sector, China has created a comprehensive ...
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A Framework for Assessing Cumulative Effects in Watersheds: An Introduction to Canadian Case Studies
From 2008 to 2013, a series of studies supported by the Canadian Water Network were conducted in Canadian watersheds in an effort to improve methods to assess cumulative effects. These studies fit under a common framework for watershed cumulative effects assessment (CEA). This paper presents an introduction to the Special Series on Watershed CEA in Integrated Environmental Assessment and ...
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Data Driven Environmental Automation
Environmental monitoring systems generate incredible amounts of data each day. The opportunity of putting such valuable data at work is missed if the data cannot be converted into timely actions. Data-driven environmental automation can be triggered in real-time by integrating monitoring data with various mitigative systems such as dust suppression, odour control, air purification, etc. ...
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An inexpensive, temporally‐integrated system for monitoring occurrence and biological effects of aquatic contaminants in the field
Assessment of potential risks of complex contaminant mixtures in the environment requires integrated chemical and biological approaches. Our laboratory is developing these types of methods for assessing possible risks of aquatic contaminants in near‐shore Great Lakes sites. A component of this involves an exposure system for caged fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) adults suitable for the ...
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Estimating the spatial-temporal distribution of Radon releases from the K-65 silos
This study investigates the spatial and temporal distribution of Radon at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Fernald Environmental Management Project (FEMP), in southwest Ohio in 1999. It employs the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Industrial Source Complex Short Term 3 (ISCST3) dispersion model, existing monitoring data and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as tools to ...
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How FPI Makes Pollution Source Control More Intelligent
Targeting the common demands for regular monitoring of certain pollution sources, unstructured discharge, and digital management, FPI launches an intelligent solution in pollution source control. The solution features high-tech equipment, digitization, and automation, facilitating companies to realize their social responsibility. It is a comprehensive solution concluding intelligent monitoring, ...
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Promoting Ecosystems for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation - Opportunities for integration
This paper seeks to highlight the differences and commonalities between ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation (EBA) and ecosystem-based approaches to disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) and suggests key integration points at the project level through examining a number of Eco-DRR, EBA and hybrid (Eco-DRR/CCA) projects. A total of 38 (Eco-DRR, EBA and hybrid Eco-DRR/CCA) projects were examined in ...
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From Design to Delivery: A Deep Dive into the Life Cycle of 20T Double Girder Gantry Cranes
In the realm of industrial machinery, the 20-ton double girder gantry crane stands as a testament to precision engineering and technological innovation. This article takes a comprehensive look at the life cycle of these cranes, from the initial design stages to their final delivery on the manufacturing floor. Conception and Design: The life cycle of a 20T double girder gantry crane begins with ...
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The Importance of Managing VOCs Emission is Worth Repeating
VOCs, the abbreviation of Volatile Organic Compound, originate from automobiles, industrial production, and civilian use. Studies have shown that long exposure to the components will damage the liver, kidneys, or central nervous system. That is why governments plan to cope with the problem, longing for a solution for this health-threatened issue. As a leading environmental issue solutions ...
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A tiered, integrated biological and chemical monitoring framework for contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in aquatic ecosystems
The chemical‐specific risk‐based paradigm that informs monitoring and assessment of environmental contaminants does not apply well to the many thousands of new chemicals that are being introduced into ambient receiving waters. We propose a tiered framework that incorporates bioanalytical screening tools and diagnostic non‐targeted chemical analysis to more effectively monitor for contaminants ...
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Assessing Environmental Integration in EU Agriculture
Farming has a strong impact on the environment in the European Union (EU), both in a negative and a positive sense. The common agricultural policy (CAP) is a major driver of the agricultural sector, and can therefore positively influence environmental management by farmers. This briefing investigates whether relevant policy measures are well-targeted from a biodiversity perspective. It builds on ...
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Performance Track Record of Composites in Chlorine Manufacturing
For 30 years SABIC has been using composite pipes and assemblies in its Chlorine manufacturing operations. Through the collaboration with Versteden, and using high quality Atlac® resins from AOC Aliancys, these reliable material solutions have enabled SABIC to run its operations in a safe and continuous way, as explained by Thana Kammeijer, Paul Peterse, and Erwin Simons. At the site of ...
By AOC, LLC
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Remote water quality monitoring in South Africa - Case study
Situated in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, the Xstrata Coal South Africa (XCSA) runs several open cut and underground mining operations producing thermal coal. To ensure their mining operations do not affect the surrounding natural water bodies, the company employs Hydrolab and OTT water quality monitoring equipment with remote data transmission options: the OTT ecoLog 800 water level ...
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Cementing the PC MACT
On September 9, 2010, the U.S. EPA promulgated the final amendments to the National Emissions Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry (40 CFR 63 Subpart LLL), also known as the PC MACT. EPA’s self-proclaimed “historic” rulemaking includes some important implications for cement manufacturers and other sources that may be subject to ...
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Mapping Freshwater Algal Blooms with Remote Sensing
Algal blooms are a severe ecological disaster that threatens aquatic systems around the world. They pose a threat to public health and biodiversity. To protect our interests, we need continuous monitoring and early warning systems. Most traditional monitoring methods, such as field measurements and sampling followed by laboratory analysis, are logistically tricky, time-consuming, and ...
By LG Sonic
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South West Water Exmouth case study
It can be a tough job for the water treatment industry, faced with the needs to ensure the effectiveness of their treatment plants and processes whilst keeping operating costs within strict budgets. Finding a solution to these challenges means not only investing in the most appropriate technologies so that treatment works fulfil their obligations, but also evaluating ways of optimising ...
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Development of a New Approach to Cumulative Effects Assessment: A Northern River Ecosystem Example
If sustainable development of Canadian waters is to be achieved, a realistic and manageable framework is required for assessing cumulative effects. The objective of this paper is to describe an approach for aquatic cumulative effects assessment that was developed under the Northern Rivers Ecosystem Initiative. The approach is based on a review of existing monitoring practices in Canada and the ...
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Climate change and water governance: an International Joint Commission case study
Governance has been identified by many scholars as a challenge to managing natural resources in a sustainable way. In addition, climate change is impacting natural resources, and complicating management. In light of these concerns, it is important that key characteristics of sustainable management are not ignored. Scientific legitimacy, an integrative ecosystem approach, long-term monitoring and ...
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