predictive emissions News
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CMC Solutions’ President featured in Chemical Engineering
In this month’s issue of Chemical Engineering, CMC Solutions’ President Brian Swanson speaks with Chemical Engineering about Air Emissions & Monitoring Systems. “If you look at monitoring systems, there are costs associated with the initial purchase price, with maintenance and repair of each instrument and its support systems and with calibration and quality assurance, as ...
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Warming Homes, Regulating Emissions
At the urging of state regulatory bodies, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expanding its wood burning appliance emissions regulation. A new ASTM International standard will enable manufacturers of masonry heaters and their components to better verify the emissions performance of their products. The new standard is E2778, Specification for Custom Tiled/Mortared Masonry Heaters ...
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EPA Rule Changes
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on December 6, 2018 promulgated a final rule “Emissions Monitoring Provisions in State Implementation Plans Required Under the NOX SIP Call.” This regulatory action amends the Part 75 applicability for certain sources in the Midwest (NOx SIP Call) to allow states to establish alternative, lower-cost monitoring approaches using PEMS (Predictive ...
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Shipping industry must support CO2 target for sector, say transport groups
The Clean Shipping Coalition (CSC) is calling on shipping industry leaders to support a carbon emissions reduction target for their sector, as ship owners and stakeholders gather in Brussels for European Shipping Week. The CSC, the global NGO coalition campaigning for cleaner shipping [1], said that as the only remaining major economic sphere yet to tackle its carbon emissions, shipping must act ...
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How have carbon emissions changed in 2019?
Carbon emissions have risen slightly in 2019, according to the Global Carbon Project. Despite the fact that consumption of coal fell in the past 12 months, overall emissions of CO2 have increased due to ongoing growth in the use of oil and gas. That continues a worrying trend of continued growth since 2015, despite the Paris Agreement’s aims to reduce emissions and curb climate change. ...
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What is the best `school run` for the environment?
New research indicates that educational policies can affect the environmental, health and financial impacts of school commuting. It found that the most effective school-enrolment policy for reducing traffic emissions is to send children to the school closest to where they live. School commuting emits both air pollutants and CO2. The US study explored the influence of school policy on the ...
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Tropical wetlands emit more methane than previously thought
Since 2007, the world's atmospheric methane concentration has risen at an accelerated rate, but scientists aren't exactly sure why. This is a problem, because methane is a particularly potent greenhouse gas. It has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, and it accounts for about 30% of global warming since preindustrial times. ...
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Frost & Sullivan recognizes Pavilion Technologies for innovation in the air emission control and monitoring market
Based on its recent analysis of the air emission control market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Pavilion Technologies, a Rockwell Automation company, with the 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year Award. Pavilion Technologies leverages the skills of its development team, expert process designs, and cutting-edge patented technology to offer ...
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SRC, UCLA and ERC Utilize Atomic Layer Etch Analysis to Accelerate Development of Green Chemistries
Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced development of a modeling process designed to simulate atomic-level etching with chemicals that are effective alternatives to widely used perfluorocarbon (PFC) gases. The novel approach under way at the University of ...
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CEM 2016 announces Conference Programme
The organisers of CEM 2016, the international emissions monitoring event, have published details of the conference that will run over three days in Lisbon from 18th to 20th May. Featuring speakers from 13 countries there will be 48 presentations within seven main themes: Regulation Standards and Quality Predictive Emission Monitoring Innovative Measurement Technology Fine Particulate ...
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Air traffic management to balance CO2 emissions and noise pollution
Speed constraints for aircraft are put in place, at some airports, to minimise noise pollution in local areas, however, such practices can be very fuel-inefficient. New research has now shown that relaxing departure speed limits could substantially reduce CO2 emissions, while maintaining acceptable noise levels. The aviation industry is a major contributor to emissions of greenhouse gases, in ...
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Is it time to restrict demand for air travel?
International aviation traffic has been growing rapidly over recent decades and is forecast to expand significantly in the future. A recent study has concluded that future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from aviation could compromise climate change targets unless demand for flights is restricted. In 2005, the aviation industry is estimated to have contributed between 3 to 8 per cent of the ...
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Multi-pollutant approach needed to halt soil degradation
A new study highlights the need for new policies to stop the rise of nitrogen oxide emissions in China. The researchers suggest that the positive impact of policies to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions are not enough in themselves to avoid soil acidification, as they will be outweighed over the next decade by the impact of nitrogen emissions. Soil acidification is a type of soil degradation that ...
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Office-related carbon emissions surge
The office is becoming a major driver of climate change. Despite ongoing efforts to improve energy efficiency in the workplace, the world's growing reliance on the Internet is leading to a rapid increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The energy required to power all the world's computers, data storage, and communications networks is expected to double by 2020, according to a new McKinsey & Company ...
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POPs have decreased significantly thanks to regulation, EU study reveals
Quantities of dioxins and furans (PCDD/F), and hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), in air and water decreased significantly between 1990 and 2000, according to a recent study evaluating the effectiveness of regulations governing the release of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Modelling future scenarios suggest further decreases in these and other POPs through 2020. POPs are toxic substances that ...
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AspenTech Software Demonstrates Economically Viable Carbon Capture at World’s Largest CO2 Test Facility
Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, announced that Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) is using aspenONE® software at the world’s largest industrial-scale facility for testing and improving CO2 capture technologies. TCM uses Aspen Plus® software and Aspen InfoPlus.21® software for planning, follow-up and ...
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Conclusions on Preparations for the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 19) 9th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (Warsaw, 11 - 22 November 2013)
The Council adopted the following conclusions: The Council of the European Union, Urgency 1. NOTES with concern the latest findings of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); UNDERLINES that global warming is unequivocal and since the 1950s many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia, that it is extremely likely that human ...
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Lessons from Gothenburg on setting air pollution ceilings
The 2010 deadline for the Gothenburg Protocol ceilings for transboundary air pollutants is fast approaching and new ceilings may soon be set for 2020. Recent research indicates that, although the ceilings have been effective, they could benefit from more flexibility to allow for the inherent uncertainty in modelling future energy use, technologies and growth. The UN Gothenburg Protocol to abate ...
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The Copenhagen climate change negotiations: EU position and state of play
International negotiations were launched in December 2007 to draw up a United Nations agreement on tackling climate change for the period after 2012, when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (setting emission targets for industrialised countries) will expire. The deadline set for the negotiations to be concluded is the Copenhagen climate conference on 7-18 December 2009. Five ...
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The case of the missing gas tax
MIT researchers find vehicle efficiency standards are at least six times more costly than a tax on fuel. Written by Vicki Ekstrom. You can read the original story in MIT News Vehicle efficiency standards have long been considered vital to cutting the United States’ oil imports. Strengthened last year with the added hope of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the standards have been ...
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