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Encouraging bacteria to clean up oil spills
Catastrophic accidents account for 9 per cent of the oil released into marine environments. Several disasters, including the 1989 Exxon Valdez in Alaska, and the Prestige incident, off northern Spain in 2002, have seen the use of 'bioremediation' as part of the clean-up operation. Recent work has investigated combinations of natural additives to increase the speed and efficiency of ...
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Using microbes to clean up oil spills
Original story at MIT News Catherine Drennan, a professor of chemistry and biology, likes to wax poetic about the complex chemistry of microbes. "I think they’re elegant and beautiful," she says. Of course, she also sees their practical applications. "I love the fact that these microbes can be used for bioremediation in hard-to-reach polluted spots," she says. "Normally, cleaning these ...
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Iranian fungi show promise in cleaning up oil spills
Iranian scientists have isolated local strains of fungi that can digest petroleum compounds and may be useful in cleaning up polluted sites, especially in similar, semi-arid areas. The researchers isolated fungal strains from oil-contaminated sites within the Arak refinery in Iran and found some of them to cut the amount of petroleum pollution in soil by more than half. Although bioremediation ...
By SciDev.Net
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Crews clean up oil spill in Texas shipping channel
Cannon booms reverberate across the Houston Ship Channel, a scare-tactic to keep birds away from oil-slicked beaches. On a mainland shore near a line of refineries, crews scour the sand for quarter-sized tar balls that have washed ashore. Far on the horizon a few ships floated outside the channel, among the dozens of vessels waiting for the U.S. Coast Guard to reopen one of the nation's busiest ...
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Enterprise Crude Pipeline Fined for Oil Spill in Scurry County, Texas
The Environmental Protection Agency has fined Enterprise Crude Pipeline of Houston, Texas, $5,000 for violating the federal Clean Water Act. Today’s announcement settles a Clean Water Act violation for a 4,200 gallon oil spill into Bull Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River, and adjoining shorelines in Scurry County, Texas. As part of an Expedited Settlement with the EPA, the company has ...
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Dynamic Adsorbents, Inc. (DAI) Alumina Adsorbent Technology Featured in Textile World Magazine as July-Augusts’ Quality Fabric of the Month
JULY 21, 2010, ATLANTA, GA - DAI launches its first alumina enhanced textile product line designed for responding to disasters like cleaning-up oil spills and providing superior protection against diseases like influenza. Hobbs Bonded Fiber (Waco, TX) is working alongside DAI, impregnating the activated alumina into needle-punched woven substrates producing these innovative products. ...
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Cherrington Model 5000 Cleans Up After Oil Spill
A fleet of Cherrington Model 5000 Beach Cleaners has been working in Grand Isle, LA since the Deep Horizon Oil Spill skimming off oil soaked sand for remediation at the wash stations, picking up tar balls and grooming the beaches there as the community recovers for the tragedy. Cherrington Beach Cleaners handle all phases of shoreline beach clean-up, both catastrophic response and ongoing ...
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FFT-SolutionTM, Used to Assist In Oil Spill Cleanup
A new green, toxin free, cost efficient Oil Dispersant has been used to assist in the Oil Spill Remediation at a mid-Atlantic naval facility. FFT-SolutionTM an approved EPA registered chemical is now listed on the National Contingency Plan list for approved dispersants. EnviroSmart was tasked with responding to a release of number 6 fuel oil that spread on the sidewalls of a storage tank, the ...
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Cleaning oil spills with high performance magnets
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used to clean up oil spills. They believe that, with their technique, the oil could be recovered for use, offsetting much of the cost of cleanup. The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is reported as one of the US’s worst environmental disasters, costing $40 million. At the time, ...
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Opening of the NOSCA Test Center
On Thursday 15. October 2020, the Innovation Cluster NOSCA Clean Oceans opened its new test center at Store Lungegårdsvann in Bergen. Going forward, the “Store Lungen” will function as a fantastic test pool for the development of groundbreaking technology for collecting marine polution. During the opening event, completely new solutions were presented, such as self-propelled ...
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Soaking up oil spills with nanowires
Oil spills and other industrial chemical leaks can cause havoc in ecosystems, killing marine and aquatic wildlife and polluting drinking water supplies. New research has developed a way of cleaning up spills using a super-absorbent material, which selectively draws up oil and other organic pollutants, leaving clean water behind. Current methods for cleaning up oil spills have limitations. Many ...
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Shell to negotiate with Nigerians over oil spill
Shell officials on Monday began talks in Nigeria's southern city of Port Harcourt with representatives for the Bodo community on compensation and cleanup five years after one of the worst oil spills in Nigeria's history. Some experts say two oil spills that started in 2008 led to the largest loss of a mangrove habitat ever caused by an oil spill, affecting about 30,000 people in the Niger Delta ...
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Nantucket Company Faces Penalty for Violations of Oil Pollution Prevention Regulations
Harbor Fuel Oil Corp., a fuel storage and distribution company on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts faces penalties of potentially up to $177,500 for alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act. EPA recently filed a complaint against the company for failing to properly prepare for possible oil spills at its Nantucket facility in violation of federal Facility Response Plan ...
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Los Angeles Tar Pits Hold Bacteria That Degrade Petroleum
RIVERSIDE, California (ENS) – The Rancho La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles house hundreds of new species of bacteria with unusual properties that allow the bacteria to survive and grow in heavy oil and natural asphalt, environmental scientists at UC Riverside have discovered. Trapped in soil that was mixed with heavy oil nearly 28,000 years ago, the bacteria are uniquely adapted to the ...
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EPA: More Work Needed to Clean up Enbridge Oil Spill in Kalamazoo River
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today notified Enbridge that more work is needed in Michigan’s Kalamazoo River to clean up oil from the company’s pipeline spill in July 2010. EPA is proposing further action upstream of Ceresco Dam, upstream of the Battle Creek Dam (Mill Ponds area), and in the delta upstream of Morrow Lake. Enbridge has 10 days to request a conference with ...
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New 3D printing technique for environmental nanodevices
A nanoscale 3D printing technique could be useful for nanomanufacturing processes with environmental applications. The authors of a new study have found a way to control their printing process by incorporating a simple pattern into the printing surface. They say their technique could reduce costs for nanoscale printing. Nanoscale manufacturing methods are already being used in environmental ...
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Designer `nanobatons` could help clean polluted groundwater and oil spills
In a development that could lead to new technologies for cleaning up oil spills and polluted groundwater, scientists at Rice University have shown how stick-shaped nano-particles of metal and carbon can trap oil droplets in water by assembling themselves into bag-like sacs. The tiny particles - each one smaller than one-billionth of a meter - were found to assemble spontaneously by the tens of ...
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Xylem recognizes 2013 Stockholm Junior Water Prize winners for research on cleaning oil spills
Xylem Inc., a leading global water technology company focused on addressing the world’s most challenging water issues, congratulates Naomi Estay and Omayra Toro of Chile, the winners of the 2013 Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP), the most prestigious international student competition for water-related research. The award was presented to the students at the annual World Water Week ...
By Xylem, Inc.
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Oil spills could be cleaned up by bacteria from underground petroleum reserves
Bacteria taken from underground petroleum reserves could be used to effectively break down crude oil from spills at sea, new research has found. The study measured the breakdown of crude oil components in simulated seawater by four bacterial strains that had been isolated from petroleum reservoirs, as well as by four genetically modified stains. The findings raise the possibility of tailor-making ...
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Moyno 500 Grinder Pumps Offer Superior Solids Reduction
Moyno 500 Grinder Pumps feature compact, lightweight designs that combine an efficient solids reduction unit with a high performance progressing cavity pump. Ideal for marine septic systems, environmental clean up, marine oil spills, industrial wastes and raw sewage transfer, Moyno 500 Grinder Pumps offer a variety of innovative design characteristics. The replaceable carbide tips on the cast ...
By Moyno, Inc.
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