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The ARK Enterprises featured by World Business Review
Innovative soil remediation and the use of natural products to protect the environment are proving more beneficial to companies with petroleum spills or problems. P.O.L. Sorb, manufactured by The ARK Enterprises, Inc., is leading the market in excellent performance with organic peat moss as an oil absorbent. World Business Review helps us to consider why natural products can be better for the ...
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The ARK Enterprises featured by World Business Review for innovative soil remediation technologies and natural spill cleanup products.
Innovative soil remediation and the use of natural products to protect the environment are proving more beneficial to companies with petroleum spills or problems. P.O.L. Sorb, manufactured by The ARK Enterprises, Inc., is leading the market in excellent performance with organic peat moss as an oil absorbent. World Business Review helps us to consider why natural products can be better for the ...
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Absorbing organic pollutants in soils
A new study closely examines the role degrading plant materials play in absorbing organic pollutants in the soil. These “biopolymers” are the waxy, water resistant barriers between the plant cells and the environment. This information is important to evaluate the role of these biopolymers as a natural sorbent for organic pollutants in the environment. The study, reported in the ...
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Changes ordered at Los Alamos over nuke waste leak
Four Los Alamos National Laboratory workers have been reassigned and the Department of Energy has pulled nuclear waste cleanup operations from the contractor that runs the lab after a barrel of waste packed at Los Alamos leaked, officials said Friday. The leak contaminated 22 workers with low levels of radiation and indefinitely shuttered the government's only permanent repository for waste from ...
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Mishaps at nuke repository lead to $54M in fines
New Mexico on Saturday levied more than $54 million in penalties against the U.S. Department of Energy for numerous violations that resulted in the indefinite closure of the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository. The state Environment Department delivered a pair of compliance orders to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, marking the state's largest penalty ever imposed on the agency. ...
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Star Wars` Moisture Farming No Longer Fiction; Water From Air Startup, Genesis Systems, Makes History – Tops U.S. Startup Of The Year Summit: Raises More Than $10M
After exiting stealth months ago, Genesis Systems announced an oversubscribed early raise of more than $10M led by Mr. Paresh Ghelani, Co-founder of the X-PRIZE global water challenge, breaking records for early-stage Water Technology companies that make water from air. The same week, Genesis Systems presented its novel technology to address water scarcity at the 9th annual Startup of the Year ...
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Calculating ‘old’ and ‘new’ water runoff
Just ahead of a rainstorm, Cody Ross might run out to an agricultural research site as part of his graduate work. He’ll need to get some dye into an injection well. The point? To evaluate the path that water follows from the field during and after the rainstorm. Ross, a member of the Watershed Systems Research Program at the University of Manitoba, is measuring water flow in a part of the ...
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Markes launches new ‘xr’ series of thermal desorption instruments
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced the launch of a new family of thermal desorption instruments for GC–MS at the Analytica 2016 tradeshow in Munich, Germany. The new products, which form the ‘xr’ series, pre-concentrate organic vapours sampled using sorbent tubes, canisters and on-line air streams, and as well as options for automation, incorporate powerful ...
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Markes launches new ‘xr’ series of thermal desorption instruments
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced the launch of a new family of thermal desorption instruments for GC–MS at the Analytica 2016 tradeshow in Munich, Germany. The new products, which form the ‘xr’ series, pre-concentrate organic vapours sampled using sorbent tubes, canisters and on-line air streams, and as well as options for automation, incorporate powerful ...
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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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Independent Tests Show TOC, THMs And Combined Chlorine All Lower Following UV Treatment
Recent independent tests carried out at a UK leisure centre showed a dramatic reduction in TOC (total organic carbon), THMs (trihalomethanes) and combined chlorine in pool water following the installation of a Hanovia medium pressure UV system. The tests were carried out by WRK Design and Services Limited, an independent chemical engineering consultancy specialising in contract research and ...
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Black & Veatch launches new service to support corporate transformation initiatives for utilities
Black & Veatch today announced a new, proprietary service offering that will help energy and water utilities quickly align their organizations with the rapidly changing business climate. Black & Veatch’s Accelerated Corporate Transformation (ACT) was developed by former Harvard Professor Dr. Robert H. Miles, Senior Advisor to Black & Veatch, who will lead the ACT methodology process ...
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Storage Bunkers sealed off at Nuclear Dump closed by Leak
Hundreds of containers of waste have been entombed at the federal government's underground nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico now that workers have closed off storage areas affected by a radiation leak, officials said Tuesday. After months of work, crews finished sealing the last of two bunkers at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant late Friday. The milestone was announced by state ...
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Better monitoring of environmental pollutants
One of Mistra´s Idea Support projects has developed a new technique for measuring a material´s chemical activity, i.e., how it reacts with and influences organisms. The technique is simple, cheap and appropriate for both field and laboratory use. Several of the methods that are used for calculating how different chemical environmental pollutants impact organisms measure concentrations of such ...
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Geoengineering: may provide help but not the cure to counteract effects of greenhouse gases
Scientists say large-scale engineering projects designed to counteract the effects of greenhouse gases should not be considered as an alternative to strategies which directly reduce carbon emissions. As complementary schemes, however, they may be of some benefit. Large-scale geoengineering schemes for mitigating climate change have attracted increasing publicity in recent years. But in order to ...
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Plastic Pollution in the Deep Sea: A Geological Perspective
USA: A new focus article in the May issue of Geology summarizes research on plastic waste in marine and sedimentary environments. Authors I.A. Kane of the Univ. of Manchester and A. Fildani of the Deep Time Institute write that “Environmental pollution caused by uncontrolled human activity is occurring on a vast and unprecedented scale around the globe. Of the diverse forms of anthropogenic ...
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Nothing dirty here: FAO kicks off International Year of Soils 2015
Healthy soils are critical for global food production, but we are not paying enough attention to this important "silent ally," FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said on the eve of World Soil Day, to be celebrated on 5 December. Healthy soils not only are the foundation for food, fuel, fibre and medical products, but also are essential to our ecosystems, playing a key role in ...
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Top 8 Water Quality Sensors For Water monitoring
The water quality sensors measure pH, ORP, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, residual chlorine, turbidity, salinity, BOD, COD and other water quality parameters through various methods such as chemical, physical and biological reactions of water, providing data support for researchers, observers and engineers. Applications include laboratory research, environmental management improvement, marine ...
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