soil sample test Articles
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Increase efficiency and reduce labor time when evaporating samples - Case Study
“The Syncore® Polyvap greatly improved the efficiency and turnover time in our lab, while providing high quality results and highest solvent recovery”. Customer name Adam Nicholas Company / Institution OMIC USA Inc. Analytical laboratory, Portland, OR, USA Product lines Parallel Evaporation Industries Environmental Customer: OMIC USA Inc. Analytical laboratory, ...
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Crude Oil in Soil
For many good reasons are there in the moment high focus on cleaning up soil do to varies contamination over the years from example oil production or wars. One of the major cleaning projects is on the way in Kuwait, caused by the oil well fires happened during the Iraq war I 1991. Photos from the U.S. Space Shuttles (nasa.gov), show oil wells set on fire along the Persian Gulf in June 1991. ...
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Expansion Potential of Compacted Fine-Grained Soils Using Suction Measurements
Fine-grained soils in arid climates are most often unsaturated. If such soils have a swelling potential, their expansive pressure must be determined for structural design. Hitherto employed swelling test methods are time consuming and not reliable. Testing methods based on suction potential measurements are being introduced in order to evaluate the expansive potential.Swelling test results on ...
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KASTHEW GEOTECH DRILLING SOLUTIONS CO. UGANDA LTD (EAST AFRICA)
KASTHEW GEOTECH Solutions Co. Uganda Ltd. offers Geophysical and Hydro-geological surveys, Water well drilling, coring and Geotechnical with services (works, Consultation, project supervision and contracting) across the East African Region. KASTHEW GEOTECH WORKS / SERVICES;- 1. SITE INVESTIGATIONS (Dam sites, Bridges, Roads, Buildings, Quarries, Mines, Windmills, Towers) (Uganda- east ...
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Soil Sieving Study Examines Artifacts in Respiration, SLAN, VAST
A recent paper examines how soil sieving for proficiency samples affects soil health test parameters. The work, a collaboration of Brinton and the Utah State PSC appears in the international peer-reviewed Agriculture Research and Technology Journal. A focus of the study was if CO2 respiration would be influenced by sieving finer than 2 mm. The paper reflects a concern first raised by Brinton in ...
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Recent & Other Noteworthy Projects - Case Study
Hanby Field Test Kits continue to lead the way in environmental assessment for marine and land petroleum clean-up projects. Entrix, the primary environmental consultant for BP for the recent Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf, employed the Hanby water test in hundreds of water column analyses they performed offshore. These analyses enabled clean-up and skimming vessels to rapidly determine ...
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Health Hazards at Construction Sites
When we think of construction sites, especially those involving infrastructures like bridges, tunnels, and highways, we usually picture heavy equipment like bulldozers, excavators, steamrollers and heavy-duty dump trucks. These visible signs of construction activity tend to make us think more about safety problems than of health hazards. But the reality is that there can be just as many, if not ...
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Price Battery Plant Lead Contaminated Soil - Case Study
The Price Battery plant operated in the Borough of Hamburg, Berks County, Pa., from approximately 1940 to the mid-1990s. The site, about 1.2 square miles in size located in a mixed commercial/residential area in the former Price Battery facility. During operations, battery casings broke open and the lead plates are removed for smelting. The on-site battery plant lead smelter produced emissions ...
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Contaminated Soil Sampling Method
What is Contaminated Soil Sampling? Use of a proper contaminated soil sampling method is vital to obtain a representative sample of soil waste. A representative sample of soil waste is necessary to accurately characterize (hazardous or non-hazardous) your stabilized waste piles. If improperly conducted, valuable time and resources may be wasted by contractors, generators and consultants. The ...
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Increased demand for XRF analyser hire
Steve Drake, NDT Market Manager at Ashtead Technology believes that XRF is one of the most important technologies in the company’s fleet of NDT and environmental testing instruments. “With a small amount of training, almost anyone can implement detailed inspections in a wide variety of applications, and with most instruments being lightweight and robust, XRF analysers are among the ...
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Hired metals analyser ensures remediation success
Cognition Land and Water Ltd, a UK based remediation specialist, has hired a portable XRF metals analyser to improve the speed of remediation work at a project in London’s Kentish Town. The project had a major impact on local residents so timescales were extremely tight but Cognition’s Charlie Jarvis says “It would not have been possible to meet the deadline without the use of ...
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Lower costs, fewer delays - a highway expansion project applies XRF technology to obtain cost-effective remediation.
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry is a non-destructive, analytical method used primarily to detect the metal composition in soil/solids samples. Portable XRF instruments can provide rapid, accurate analysis of heavy metal levels in soil on new construction or redevelopment sites. In response to the growing need for field analysis of metals, many of these units have been adapted for use in the ...
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Train derailment prompts contaminated land investigation
On March 30th 2015 a long freight train, transporting a variety of goods including lumber and chemicals, wound its way through the state of Mississippi. At around 5pm, part of the train failed to negotiate a curved portion of the track in a rural area near Minter City, resulting in the derailment of nine railcars, one of which leaked chemicals onto agricultural farmland and woodlands. Emergency ...
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Train derailment prompts contaminated land investigation - Case study
On March 30th 2015 a long freight train, transporting a variety of goods including lumber and chemicals, wound its way through the state of Mississippi. At around 5pm, part of the train failed to negotiate a curved portion of the track in a rural area near Minter City, resulting in the derailment of nine railcars, one of which leaked chemicals onto agricultural farmland and woodlands. Emergency ...
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Spolchemie site remediation and NanoRem field site application
Site Remediation The Spolchemie site was chosen as one of the NanoRem case study sites, to test two types of nanoparticles (NPs) (zerovalent iron - nZVI and iron oxide NPs) for in situ remediation of BTEX (Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylenes) contamination. Nanoremediation was seen as an opportunity to enhance the in situ biodegradation of the BTEX contaminants and to reduce the current ...
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