Health & Safety Articles

About the Project Biorem has conducted a successful demonstration of high rate odour control at Preston Wastewater Treatment Plant in Cambridge, Ontario over the last three years. The system treats exhausts from primary clarifier and intermediate pump station. A combination of biotrickling filtration (BTF) and biofiltration (BF) processes was used in a novel horizontal flow ...

Jun. 14, 2018

By Biorem Technologies Inc.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published a May 17, 2018, document entitled Developments in Delegations on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials — Tour de Table.  The document compiles information provided by delegations for the February 2018 ...

May 30, 2018

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Timing is everything for your sensors. A sensor that is too sluggish to respond to quickly changing levels or pressure won’t alert you to dangerous process conditions until it’s too late. And an overly sensitive sensor sees an emergency in every stray reading or transient condition. Neither sensor is effective, in terms of time or money. Sensors ...

Dec. 17, 2015

By Automation Products Group, Inc. (APG)

Project Location: SW Florida Client: DoE Contamination: TCE, PCE, Vinyl Chloride, Toluene Site Size: 4+ Acres Project Description: Over the ...

Jun. 20, 2018

By Integrity Engineering, Inc.

Project Location: Northern New York Client: Private Corporation – Petroleum Distribution Center Contamination: Gasoline Site Size: 10+ Acres Project ...

Jun. 20, 2018

By Integrity Engineering, Inc.

About the Project Summary: The apparent simplicity of the biofiltration process is deceptive. Various biofilter designs have been applied to wastewater odors since the 1920s, however, the acceptance of biofilters by the industry has been hampered by unreliability in the majority of designs. The BIOCUBE™ System, as patented by Biocube, ...

Jun. 15, 2018

By Biorem Technologies Inc.

About the Project Summary: The apparent simplicity of the biofiltration process is deceptive. Various biofilter designs have been applied to wastewater odors since the 1920s, however, the acceptance of biofilters by the industry has been hampered by unreliability in the majority of designs. The BIOCUBE™ System, as patented by Biocube, ...

Jun. 14, 2018

By Biorem Technologies Inc.

About the Project Summary Casa Grande, AZ – Plant and operations management at a 6 mgd wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and water reclamation facility (WRF) here report elimination of odor complaints through installation of a 9000-cfm biofiltration system. The selection of the biofiltration ...

Jun. 14, 2018

By Biorem Technologies Inc.

A zero-incident objective, known formally as Zero-Accident Vision (ZAV), is a popular philosophy in environmental health & safety (EHS) that holds that no one should ever be injured in the workplace. It’s a way of thinking about injury-prevention strategies rather than an actual goal, thus providing a basis for continually improving EHS processes. ZAV proposes ...

Jun. 11, 2018

By Sphera

When it comes to selecting the type of boiler for your specific hot water application, you are faced with the options of a condensing boiler or a conventional boiler. If you think the decisions end after making this choice, think again! If you do in fact proceed with the more efficient condensing boiler, there is another important decision to be made – what boiler design is best ...

Jun. 7, 2018

By Gasmaster Industries Ltd.

If you haven’t considered these specs before, you should—and here’s why.  Option to easily add 2-way telemetry. The reasons for having 2-way redundant telemetry are explained in the above article…a dual-telemetry system can always be cobbled together, but when the GOES transmitter is designed with this capability built-in, things are so ...

Jun. 7, 2018

By Stevens Water Monitoring Systems, Inc.

Evapotranspiration (ET) represents the loss of water from the Earth’s surface from the combination of direct evaporation and plant transpiration. ET is usually expressed as a rate such as inches per day. Knowledge of ET is important for irrigation scheduling but it is also an important factor for other land use applications such as septic tank drain fields, watershed level budgeting, and ...

Jun. 7, 2018

By Stevens Water Monitoring Systems, Inc.

'A company in France operating in landfill, waste management and fuel production businesses produces SRF (Solid Recovered Fuel) from unsorted industrial waste for their own mill. The key for improving productivity of all these three business areas is a more effective shredding process to increase the low SRF production capacity. TANA ran a demonstration at their site and the results show that ...

Jun. 5, 2018

By Tana Oy

If you find yourself visiting a remote tank level monitoringsite for troubleshooting and maintenance too often, then you are losing out on the benefit of having a remote monitoring system. This can happen to you when your sensors and their systems are either inadequate or installed improperly. So ...

Jun. 5, 2018

By Automation Products Group, Inc. (APG)

There are a lot of applications for remote level monitoring. Some of them have been around for a while, and the owners, operators, and engineers involved in purchasing remote systems are well versed in the options available and the cost associated. However, as more people learn about the technology and how it can benefit them, there are many who don’t understand what it takes to deploy ...

Jun. 5, 2018

By Automation Products Group, Inc. (APG)

Most sanitary relief valves are equipped with an established pressure safety system. At the point where the set pressure level is reached, the sanitary relief valve opens to discharge the gases or fluids so that the pressure level is decreased. The arrival of pressure is routed through an alternative pipeline, in some cases even outside so that any holes or damage can be diverted. Once the frame ...

May 31, 2018

By Adamant Valves

Hello, my name is Dr. Laura Patterson-Fortin, lead for BioLargo Water’s disinfection R&D team in Edmonton. My team has previously reported many exciting results using the AOS for water disinfection. In today’s blot post, I hope to inform our shareholders and followers of some really positive recent results we’ve achieved in virus disinfection, and to share a little bit on ...

May 30, 2018

By Biolargo, Inc.

Zinc refinery free of solid waste Nyrstar operates a zinc refinery in Budel-Dorplein in the Netherlands where 450 employees produce 260,000 tonnes of zinc per year. The subsidiary is owned 100% by Nyrstar, the world's biggest producer of zinc and a leading company in lead, silver, gold and copper. The production process produces two bleed streams that require treatment: a weak acid from ...

May 25, 2018

By Paques B.V.

Challenge One of the largest players in the Indian cigarette industry working with farmers to implement GAP (Good Agricultural Practices). Focus area of their CSR is to discourage child labor. The company needed a complete farm management solution. ...

May 25, 2018

By Cropin Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd.

At the beginning of 2016, Chalk River Laboratories (CRL), Ontario/Canada, which is part of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), put into operation a Urraco 75 DK mobile shredder from Lindner (www.l-rt.com) on their site. On the landfill for non-contaminated waste, which is operated by the company's Decommissioning & Waste Management division, the shredder is in permanent use crushing wood, ...

May 17, 2018

By Lindner-Recyclingtech GmbH