Chemical Spills News
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Journal of Health Reports and Technology: The Effects of Oil Spill Eater II on Oil Degradation
Background Hydrocarbon contamination is considered to be a crucial environmental pollutant, which threatens the marine ecosystem and indirectly affects human health. Petrochemical industries are among the major sources of oil release into the environment. Several approaches are used to remove hydrocarbons from contaminated water, including biological, mechanical, and chemical methods. Oil Spill ...
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Water Affected By Pet Parasite Treatments, Study Reveals
Water quality in the UK is a hot topic these days, hitting headlines on an increasingly regular basis thanks to issues such as storm overflow discharges, surface water runoff, pesticides, herbicides, algal blooms, drought, flooding… the list goes on and on, it seems. And now, according to a new report from Imperial College London, it appears that there’s another growing problem that ...
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How WVRB ensures safe drinking water for 250’000 people
The Wasserverbund Region Bern AG (WVRB) delivers drinking water to a quarter of a million people. In his role as Process Engineer, Bruno Burkhalter, is responsible to ensure its quality. From raw water extraction to transport and eventually disinfection, he keeps an eye on all steps to ensure that only the purest water reaches the Bernese network. We wanted to learn how he manages this task ...
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Clarke Energy Demonstrates its Commitment to the Environment on Earth Day 2022
Earth Day is observed each year on 22 April to recognise support for environmental protection. Earth Day celebrations have been occurring since 1970; every year over one billion people focus on challenging environmental issues on this day. The official theme for Earth Day 2022 is “Invest in our Planet”. Clarke Energy recognises Earth Day’s importance and the need to protect ...
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Sphera Identified as a Chemicals Management Market Leader in Independent Research Report
Sphera has been named a market leader for chemicals management by Verdantix, an independent research and consulting firm, in its recently released “EHS Software Benchmark” report. Verdantix gave Sphera the highest marks for having “the most comprehensive functionality to facilitate chemicals compliance foundations.” For the benchmark report, Verdantix applied seven ...
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Spill Containment Railroad Railcar Spill Containment
Many clients are not sure what is needed and the requirements. We have great partner in Ultratech who makes it much easier. Training our reps have gone thru is done to make your project a success. Now, there is something new. *NEW* Ultra-Track Pans - Composite Model Been in the works and now available. Revolutionary Modular, 20-foot spill containment pans share containment, providing unlimited ...
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Mira Protective Boot: Extra protection for extreme conditions
When conditions are tough, we get tougher. Mira is already a rugged, water resistant, vibration-proof workhorse... but sometimes you need even more protection. Protective Boot is a custom-fitted, sleek solution for when Mira faces demanding conditions. Whether sampling occurs at a chemical spill, a clandestine drug lab, or on the warehouse floor, Mira is ready. It is designed to ...
By Metrohm AG
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Using PID for HAZMAT response procedures
HAZMAT response procedures – The versatile nature of a PID instrument makes it an indispensable device for the emergency services in response to a HAZMAT incident. The photoionisation detector (PID) measures low levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) making them a vital tool in the decision-making process following a hazardous materials (HAZMAT) incident. In the immediate aftermath of ...
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Dr. Tom Coolbaugh Selected as Ohmsett Facility Manager
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Tom Coolbaugh has joined the team as the Program/Facility Manager for Ohmsett – The National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility. He will have oversight of the day-to-day operations, maintenance, and testing at the facility, while ensuring facility users’ needs are met. Dr. ...
By OHMSETT
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How to safely manage hazardous chemicals in your workplace
Bad luck or bad planning? It’s often easier to figure out what happened and why after a chemical incident has occurred. A couple of seemingly unrelated events combine to produce an explosion, a chemical spill and/or worse case an injury. You think – “If only the regular operator had not been sick that day” “If only the waste oil drum had been emptied on Monday ...
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Managing the Risk of Legionella in Emergency Safety Showers and Eye Washes
Legionnaires’ disease is contracted when bacteria in water droplets or aerosols are inhaled into the lungs. Certain conditions allow Legionella bacteria to multiply rapidly and increase the risk of an outbreak, these include temperatures between 20-45 C, stagnated water and areas that produce a lot of water spray. As such, emergency safety showers and eye wash units, which can often remain ...
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Suitability of Photoionisation Detectors (PIDs) for HAZMAT response
The ability of a photoionisation detector (PID) to measure low levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) makes them a vital tool in the decision making process following a hazardous materials (HAZMAT) incident. In the immediate aftermath of an accident, chemical spill or other incident involving hazardous materials there are many unknown factors. The speed at which these can be identified is ...
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PIDs – A versatile device for emergency services in response to a HAZMAT incident
The ability of a photoionisation detector (PID) to measure low levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) makes them a vital tool in the decision making process following a hazardous materials (HAZMAT) incident. In the immediate aftermath of an accident, chemical spill or other incident involving hazardous materials there are many unknown factors. The speed at which these can be identified is ...
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ChemClear & MobileMuster team up
South Australian property owners can safely dispose of their mobile phones at the same time as their unwanted farm chemicals, when Agsafe’s ChemClear collection hits the road in June. The agricultural and veterinary chemical waste disposal program has teamed up with MobileMuster, the mobile industry product stewardship program, for the first collection of its kind, giving remote farmers ...
By Agsafe
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Many disasters, few solutions: chemical contamination needs ‘Paris-like agreement’
The head of a global forum has called for a Paris-like international agreement to combat chemical contamination, which he says has five times the impact of climate change. Professor Ravi Naidu, Managing Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE), told the CleanUp 2017 global forum this week that a clean Earth is ...
By CRC Care
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OSHA releases three new Process Safety Management (PSM) publications
OSHA has released three guidance documents to help employers comply with the agency’s Process Safety Management (PSM) standard, (29 CFR 1910.119), which contains requirements for the management of hazards associated with processes using highly hazardous chemicals. “Unexpected releases of toxic, reactive, or flammable liquids and gases in processes involving highly hazardous ...
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Tailor Your Emergency Safety Equipment to Your Specific Site Needs With Optional Fittings
Hughes Safety Showers offer a wide range of emergency safety showers and eye/face washes to suit every situation. From robust free standing tank showers to unheated tubular showers for laboratories and medical centres, there is a Hughes design for each and every hazardous environment. However, Hughes have gone beyond simply offering a wide range of showers. Available with each range is a wide ...
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Spectro Scientific Wins U.S. Patent for Water Contamination Measurement Method Used in its FluidScan® Handheld Infrared Oil Analyzer
Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of oil, fuel, and processed water analysis instrumentation and software, has been awarded a U.S. patent for a company-developed method to measure water contamination in turbine and other industrial oils. The patent is “Method of measuring water contamination in turbine and other industrial oils”, patent no. US9500638. The ...
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AmWater agrees to $126m chemical spill settlement
American Water has settled a class action lawsuit over the 2014 Freedom Industries chemical spill in Charleston, WV for $126 million – an amount which effectively equals the investor-owned utility’s annual revenues for West Virginia in 2015 ($129 million). CEO Susan Story explained on a conference call earlier today that the settlement will remove uncertainty surrounding the risks ...
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Industry News: Importance of protecting drinking water
International Lining Technology would like to recognize other great work being done in the geosynthetics industry, particularly those who are making an effort to educate others about sustainability. BTL Liners is exploring the uses of reinforced polyethylene material as liner materials. We follow their blog and stumbled upon a great blog post from January about “Secondary Containment ...
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