waste engineering Articles
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Solid Waste to Engineered Fuel Solution
Engineered fuel is a kind of alternative fuel produced by processing and blending construction and demolition material, and/or select industrial and/or commercial byproduct material streams including: plastic, paper, paper mill contraries, paper fiber, cardboard, textiles, carpet, and rubber. Waste to Engineered Fuel Processing pre-screening of potential customers' material before it is received; ...
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Application of Geographical Information System (GIS) in optimisation of waste collection for Alandur Municipality in South Chennai, India
The population outburst in urban areas had resulted in a substantial increase in the generation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and challenged with waste management. Issam et al. (2007) pointed out that most of the cities which is burning the waste in open dumps lacks in proper health and safety requirements. Alandur which is under Alandur Municipal Corporation (AMC) generate nearly 80 MT MSW ...
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Experimental vs. arbitrary landfill diversion targets
An experimental method is developed for setting pragmatic short–term landfill diversion targets of municipal waste in emerging economies. Domestic waste composition is shown to be quite uniform throughout developing countries of Africa, Asia and America. Consequently, the method developed in Brazil is readily exportable to other continents with minor numerical adjustments. It consists of ...
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Project Crazy Horse Salinas California - Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Closure - Case Study
Project: Crazy Horse Landfill Location: Salinas, CA Type: Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Closure Owner: Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority Engineer: Golder Associates ClosureTurf Size: 68 acres HydroTurf Size: 43,560 sq.ft. Completion: 2013 The Crazy Horse Landfill (CHLF), owned and maintained by the Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority (SVSWA), had been in service for 75 years, ...
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Innovative fracture-resistant construction material from C&D waste aggregate, fly ash and recycled plastics
A laboratory investigation was conducted to evaluate the fracture behaviour of an alternative pavement foundation material containing cement stabilised reclaimed crushed aggregate, Class C fly ash and waste-plastic strip (high density polyethylene or HDPE) reinforcement. The primary objective of using strip reinforcement was to improve the tensile strength, crack resistance and toughness ...
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Using Geosynthetics in Slope Stability
The majority of slope failures within the geosynthetics industry can often be avoided with proper engineering and material selection. However, the factors that affect slope stability can be difficult to discern and measure. Soil thickness, seepage forces, seismic forces, gas uplift, geomembrane texturing, engineering and provision of reinforcing elements are only a few of the factors affecting ...
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Geosynthetics Products Application in Landfills
With the acceleration of the urbanization process, the amount of urban domestic waste is increasing, and there are more and more landfills. In all countries, municipal solid waste is construction waste, garden waste, etc., and municipal solid waste comes from various types of construction waste generated by residents’ daily waste, municipal engineering, etc., and kitchen waste generated by ...
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Drivers of solid waste minimisation in Finnish metal engineering SMEs: the role of Environmental Management Systems
The paper reports on a survey in Finnish small- and medium-sized metal engineering enterprises (SMEs) with certified Environmental Management System (EMS). Waste awareness has increased after certifying EMS and the treatment of solid waste has improved; source separation of solid waste facilitated the recovery of recyclables and their diversion from landfill. EMS has raised knowledge levels, in ...
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Which Material is Best as A Liner for A Landfill
Landfill leakage pollution is very harmful to the environment. After the soil is polluted, it will be salinized, poisoned, parasites, pathogenic bacteria and other pathogens in the soil can make people sick. Infiltration can also contaminate groundwater and enter the human food chain, causing serious harm to the human body. Artificial material impermeability: geomembrane are usually high-density ...
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Mater-bi starch-based materials : present situation and future perspectives
The environmental impact related to the emissions of gases with green-house effect and the management of solid waste disposal with regard to the decreasing availability of landfills, the litter problem and the pollution of the marine environment became very urgent in the last decade. An obliged approach to solve the problem is: the valorisation of waste as a resource through its separation into ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Kiverco to provide a third waste system to Haulaway Plant.
Kiverco has been chosen to design a new static solution for Haulaway Plant for their new facility in Polegate, East Sussex. The new waste processing system will be used to process and separate different types of plastic and is the third plant that the Company has purchased from Kiverco. The new machine will be capable of processing up to 25tph and will enable the separation of various plastic ...
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What is energy recovery?
Processes like incineration and anaerobic digestion not only provide sources of energy, but they also reduce waste volume The term “energy recovery” often is applied only to a narrow number of methods for converting wastes into energy, when in fact it applies to a broad range of technologies used to create heat, electricity, or fuel. Energy recovery gives governments and businesses ...
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Environmental analysis of management systems for organic waste
Organic waste is generally easily degradable and has a high nutrient content. Thus the risk is large that the handling of such material will generate emissions that affect the environment. New systems have been introduced for managing organic waste fractions from households and industries. These systems are based on source separation and biological treatment, e.g. composting and anaerobic ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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How do waste recycling companies serve people in Canada?
In developed countries such as the United States and Canada in North America and Germany and France in Europe, Japan and China and South Korea in Asia and Australia in the Pacific, due to high economic and industrial rankings, the production of waste is very high. Waste from iron, plastic, paper, food, electronics, construction, etc. is produced in large volumes in these countries. Companies, ...
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The Most Comprehensive Guide to Pond Liners
Pond Liner Introduction What is the pond liner? There are so many waterproof materials for the pond, such as PVC pond liners, EPDM pond liners, HDPE pond liners, LLDPE pond liners. HDPE is the best choice for pond liners. It is a geomembrane sheet made of HDPE resins and other additives. Now the following is the details of pond liners: HDPE pond liners’ main material is 97.5% HDPE resin, ...
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Environmental issues and management strategies for waste electronic and electrical equipment
One of the great technological advancements of the 20th century has been the worldwide development of information access and communications through electronic technology. With the introduction of new technologies inevitably comes the issue of the management of discarded hardware. The growth of waste and recyclable material from the electronics and electricity age has been remarkable. The ...
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Sustainable technologies for ocean conservation
We live on a blue planet. The oceans are the lungs, producing 50% of the Earth’s oxygen and absorbing 30% of its carbon dioxide. They are the source of many foods and medicines. They form a fundamental part of the biosphere and are the basis of much of the world economy, supporting different sectors such as tourism, fishing, and international shipping. However, man’s hand is causing ...
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Geotube Dewatering for Lagoon Sludge - Case Study
Background In many animal waste management schemes it is desirable to separate solids from waste water and/or manures. In cooperation with the Department of Animal and Dairy Science, animal waste specialists from Biological and Agricultural Engineering are field testing a technology new to agriculture, to remove solids from lagoons. The test is currently being conducted at the UGA Dairy Science ...
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Axion: is ‘storing’ waste plastics better than burning?
As global temperatures head for potentially catastrophic levels, landfilling rather than burning waste plastics might be better for the environment, suggests Keith Freegard, Director of Axion Polymers. Landfill or incineration: what is the best disposal route for our waste plastic materials? Large numbers of energy-from-waste (EfW) plants exist right across Europe and many of the UK’s ...
By Axion Group
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Biofiltration systems for the treatment of waste gas from industrial plants
Bord na Móna Environmental Ltd have considerable experience in the field of biological air filtration (600 installations). Initially, the majority of installations were on Municipal and Industrial Wastewater applications. This was quickly followed by Municipal Solid Waste, an application Bord na Móna jointly developed with its Italian partners Air Clean srl. Since 2000, Bord na Móna have ...
By Anua
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