Soil Treatment News
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EPA Extends Comment Period for Addressing Contaminated Soil and Groundwater at Superfund Site in Puerto Rico
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced it extended the public comment period for its proposed cleanup plan to address lead-contaminated soil and groundwater at the Battery Recycling Company Superfund Site in Arecibo, Puerto Rico to October 16, 2023. The main property at the site was operated as a secondary lead smelter and battery recycling operation until 2014. Prior ...
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Is your hydrocarbon analysis as reliable as you think it is? And if not, who`s liable?
A major multinational organisation recently undertook an evaluation of MCERTS laboratory performance for petroleum hydrocarbons. Ten duplicate sets of samples containing sand and gravel were prepared. Five of the sets also had 10% by weight of peat added. (Peat in common with other organic material is known to interfere with the lab TPH analysis.) A 5000ppm concentration of diesel was spiked into ...
By QROS Ltd
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Soiling Sensor DustIQ: Firmware Update Improves Response and Handling
Better response to soiling with increased sensitivity Measurements taken outdoor in various desert regions across the world show that the DustIQ underestimated the degree of transmission loss with its earlier factory calibration dust slopes. Those various sites report that the outdoor dust slope is a factor reaching from 1.8 and 2.6 higher than the factory calibration. Based on these reports, an ...
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Soiling Sensor DustIQ: Firmware Update Improves Response and Handling
The pioneering soiling monitoring system Kipp & Zonen DustIQ is becoming even better. From now on, OTT HydroMet provides the DustIQ with a new firmware that simplifies both handling and calibration. Active users can update to the new firmware, too. Read this article to learn how. Better response to soiling with increased sensitivity Measurements taken outdoor in various desert regions ...
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One-stop Soil Physical and Chemical Testing Service Now Available at Lifeasible
Lifeasible, a leading provider for environmental testing services, striving to deliver custom solutions to all research fields, now released a one-stop soil physical and chemical testing service that aims to free researchers from the tedious pre-processing work. Soil testing is essential for assessing the fertility of agricultural soils, as nutrients and other components affect plant growth. ...
By Lifeasible
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Best technology for oily wastes and OBM cuttings in the Middle East – VacuDry® vs. rotary kiln
When it comes to drill cuttings and contaminated soils treatment, numerous technologies are available on the market. For heavy oily wastes, especially OBM cuttings and oil sludges, only thermal processes have proved to be effective. For the last decade, few technologies have been competing for the latter oily wastes. In particular, traditional indirect fired rotary kilns and VacuDry® vacuum ...
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Biogénie Europe and HT sign an operational license agreement for the French market
Biogénie Europe and Haemers Technologies are pleased to announce the signing of an operating license agreement for the joint implementation of on-site and in-situ thermal desorption technologies designed by Haemers Technologies. “Biogénie Europe is now a full member of our ever-growing Remediation family joining many other worldwide companies promoting more sustainable ...
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HT and HEC signed a license agreement for Thermal Desorption in 3 Chinese Provinces
Haemers Technologies (HT) and Zhejiang Huanyao Environmental Construction Company ‘HEC’ are jointly pleased to announce that HEC is now a part of HT’s Remediation family joining many other companies in the world who promote more sustainable remediation technologies in their own markets. Both companies signed a Non Exclusive Commercial License agreement to work on different ...
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Mercury pollution abatement by VacuDry® reaches a new peak with the highest soil remediation job in the world
Mercury pollution continues to present a significant risk to the environment and human health globally. econ industries is proud to help address this issue. For more than 15 years our equipment treated mercury contaminated soils and waste all over Europe using our VacuDry® technology. This technology enables us to safely separate mercury from wastes and stabilize, if required, the pure ...
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Mercury pollution abatement by VacuDry reaches a new peak with the highest soil remediation job in the world
Are contaminated soils and mercury waste a topic for you? Have the high investment cost of large equipment prevented you from addressing the issue? Maybe a mobile unit is the right solution for your project? Find out more about our project in India… Mercury pollution continues to present a significant risk to the environment and human health globally. econ industries is proud to help ...
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From growth to wellbeing and resilience
As a devastating European Environment Agency report takes the EU to task for its dismal failure to protect the ecosystem, it is high time for Europe to abandon its fixation on endless economic growth, experts at a post-growth event in Helsinki urged. The message is clear. Europe’s environment is in grave peril. That was the verdict of the European Environmental Agency’s ‘State ...
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TD-550/560 Technical Data Now Translated in Multiple Languages
Technical data on the TD-550 and TD-560 Oil in Water Analyzers is now available in multiple languages. TDHI will continue to add translations in the coming weeks. Presently, the brochures are available in the following languages. Chinese English Italian Korean Vietnamese Applications Produced water Waste water Steam condensate Cooling water Intake protection Discharge compliance ...
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A4F at EUBCE 2019
A4F is proud to announce its participation and sponsoring of the 27th edition of the European Biomass Conference & Exhibition. This event, supported by the European Commission, UNESC, Natural Science Sector, EUBIA, WCRE, and others, is the leading platform for the collection, exchange and dissemination of scientific and industrial know-how in the field of biomass. A4F will share its ...
By A4F
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Clever science leads to stunning reversal of acid-sulfate soil contamination at East Trinity, Queensland
Scientists involved in an 18-year project to remediate acid sulphate soils at a north Queensland site have pulled off a major accomplishment, turning the once badly acidified land into a place where mangroves, native birds and other wildlife have now returned. The 774-hectare site at East Trinity, located directly across Trinity Inlet, Cairns, was originally a natural estuarine floodplain, ...
By CRC Care
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BAUER Resources GmbH with new dual leadership
For three decades, Johann Mesch was at the top of Bauer Umwelt and, since 2010, of BAUER Resources GmbH. On April 1, he left his post and since then Peter Hingott (chair.) und Dr. Roman Breuer have formed the new dual leadership. But although he has definitely earned his retirement, Johann Mesch is not saying goodbye just yet. He has taken on interim management post for the BAUER Training Center ...
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Jan De Nul gets recognition for sustainable entrepreneurship
Environmental subsidiary Envisan receives Charter Sustainable Entrepreneurship from Flanders’ Chamber of Commerce 20 June 2018 - This evening, Envisan, environmental subsidiary of Jan De Nul Group, received the Charter Sustainable Entrepreneurship from the Flanders’ Chamber of Commerce (Voka) as a recognition for its sustainability programme. This programme includes various ...
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Project History: Chicago Elevator Pit
This project history examines dewatering performed for a new elevator pit in an existing basement in Chicago. Locked-Up Storage tried to dewater two feet of water by sumping with no success. Griffin installed sanded wickpoints to a depth of eight feet and ran a discharge hose up a vent shaft to discharge outside of the basement. The vacuum pump fumes were also vented outside via the same shaft, ...
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Carus partners with ISAWWA for No Water, No Beer
Cheers to clean water! That will be the toast when partygoers lift their glasses at the upcoming “No Water, No Beer” event in Ottawa. Carus Corporation is teaming up with the Illinois Section of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) to host the awareness/networking event, to be held in the Tangled Roots Tap Room at the Lone Buffalo Brew Pub October 12. The event will feature ...
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Osprey Biotechnics named a 2017 Partner of the Year Award Winner by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safer Choice Program
This is the third year in a row the company has received a partner of the year award. This award is in the Formulators-Product Manufacturers category which recognizes their continued efforts to support the ideals of the Safer Choice Program with customers and the public to reduce health and environmental risks by advancing the manufacture and use of safer products and technologies. Partner of ...
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Carus Group announces sale of Sierra Chemical Company assets
Carus Group Inc., a global supplier of specialty chemistries for environmental applications, has signed an agreement for the sale of Sierra Chemical Company assets to Thatcher Company of California, Inc. The sale also includes assets of Circle Transport, Inc. used to provide trucking and delivery services for Sierra Chemical. The sale is expected to close by August 31, 2017. Sierra Chemical ...
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