Oil Spills News
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GFL Environmental receives CN Rail’s Safe Handling Award
Congratulations to our Environmental Services Division on receiving CN Rail’s Safe Handling Award! This year commemorates the 30th anniversary of this prestigious accolade, recognizing providers who load CN freight cars with hazardous materials and adhere to stringent criteria for the secure handling and shipping of regulated products. “Receiving this award underscores our ...
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U.S. EPA Conference on Air Quality Modeling
Earlier this month, the U.S. EPA hosted the 13th Conference on Air Quality Modeling at their offices in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. This month’s Modeling Tip takes a closer look at why this Conference is held and what gets accomplished. The Clean Air Act (CAA) is the comprehensive federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources. Section 320 of the ...
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GFL’s Emergency Response goes beyond the field
The words “emergency response” may evoke a picture of workers in hazmat suits attending incidents from oil spills to train derailments. No matter how these events begin, GFL’s on-site responders enter every emergency, regardless of scale, with a level of knowledge and professionalism that is the backbone of the company’s success in the ER space. Meet three of our ER ...
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FPI SUPEC-7000 ICP-MS Organic Sample Analysis
In petrochemical processes, trace and ultra-trace elements in petroleum products play vital roles. For instance, the presence of elements such as Na, Mg, Fe, Ca, and Va in crude oil can poison catalyst activity. Elements like Ni, V and Pb can serve as fingerprint information for crude oil, providing crucial references for understanding crude oil formation and tracing the oil spills. Therefore, ...
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Chemical Testing & Solution Development in Enigmatic Wastewater Process
As businesses operate and progress over time their treatment processes are bound to change. Unfortunately, some elements of treatment fail to evolve in step with these changes. A loss of insight across iterations can create costly problems, leading to unnecessary steps or chemical inclusions that no longer serve a beneficial function to the overall process. After being called in to conduct ...
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Industrial Oily Hazardous Waste Recycling Solution - Pyrolysis Plant
Industrial oily hazardous waste poses a growing challenge for various sectors, from petrochemical and automotive industries to oil drilling operations. Disposing of this waste safely and efficiently is not just a regulatory requirement but also a pressing environmental concern. Pyrolysis, an innovative recycling solution, has emerged as a game-changer in the quest for sustainable waste ...
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What is the difference between geomembrane and geosynthetic clay liners?
Geomembranes and geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) are both materials used in civil and environmental engineering for containment and barrier applications, but they have distinct differences:1. **Composition**:- **Geomembrane**: Geomembranes are synthetic sheets made from materials such as high-density polyethylene (HDPE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), or ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM). They ...
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Clean Gulf Conference and Exhibition
Ohmsett in Booth #413 at the Clean Gulf Conference and Exhibition Ohmsett is exhibiting at the Clean Gulf Conference from November 7-9 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. Clean Gulf is the premier forum to come together with your peers to discuss case studies and lessons learned from both recent and past incidents and discover the latest technologies being used in ...
By OHMSETT
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How do you like our new lab?
Same or next day results! Our new laboratory brings the you the same speed, reliability and low cost that we have enabled on site for the London Olympics, Crossrail and numerous other projects, large and small, in the UK and globally. OK, so this is not really our new lab*. But it was, while we were finding a fuel spill on a resort in the Maldives. We were able to tell exactly what the offending ...
By QROS Ltd
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New Sensor System Tested by Petrobras
Together with the crew of our agent Belga Marine we installed a SEA OWL™ sensor system for Petrobras aboard the Oil Spill Response Vessel (OSRV) "Marlin Stolmen". Working closely with the Petrobras R&D Remote Sensing team since 2018, Ocean Visuals has designed a sensor system that incorporates Petrobras’ wanted position in detection, verification, and classification of oil in ...
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Oil spill detection seminar on 23. August at Navalshore, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Petrobras, Ocean Visuals and Miros Group will attend the panel at the Belga Marine seminar on oil spill detection and explain how we address challenges to oil in water with innovation and new technologies. In this seminar, Petrobras, Ocean Visuals and Miros will share insights from its experiences with oil spill detection in Brazil. Join us and this amazing team during the Navalshore, and ...
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Removing Odour from Bitumen & Asphalt production using Anotec PRO5L
Chemical deodorisers and long-chain oils are both effective at minimising or eliminating odours in bitumen manufacturing through different mechanisms. Chemical Deodorisers: Chemical deodorisers are typically formulated with active ingredients that are designed to neutralize or bind to odour-causing compounds, reducing the concentration of these compounds and thus reducing the intensity of the ...
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Journal of Health Reports and Technology: The Effects of Oil Spill Eater II on Oil Degradation
Background Hydrocarbon contamination is considered to be a crucial environmental pollutant, which threatens the marine ecosystem and indirectly affects human health. Petrochemical industries are among the major sources of oil release into the environment. Several approaches are used to remove hydrocarbons from contaminated water, including biological, mechanical, and chemical methods. Oil Spill ...
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Unlocking carbon reduction with advanced oil spill sensors
Unlocking carbon reduction with advanced oil spill sensors Oil spills not only have devastating effects on marine ecosystems, but they also contribute to climate change by releasing large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere during cleanup and recovery operations, plus subsequent replacement of lost product. With early detection by our non-contact oil spill detector, ROW, we minimise the ...
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Earth Day 2023: Invest in Our Planet, Protect Our Home Together
There has never been a time when we have needed Earth Day to bring together a consensus of humanity to reconcile and coexist with nature and the social environment. War, conflict, and climate extremes are threatening the Earth's civilization on which humanity depends. 53 years ago World Earth Day was about balancing economic prosperity and environmental protection; today's crisis is about ...
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Retyres For Recycling Tyres
Engineer Mahmoud Mohsen from Retyres is a young Egyptian, studying in the final year of the Faculty of Engineering, Suez Canal University, Petroleum Engineering Division. Engineer Mahmoud Mohsen’s Graduation Project for his final year in College was; The Extraction of Oil and Carbon Black from Waste Tyres. Mohsen explained; “by thermal decomposition of rubber under reduced pressure, ...
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SHINCCI Does Something For Sewage Treatment Plant
SHINCCI Low Temperature Sludge Drying Solution can simply reduce sludge moisture content from 80% (20% solids) to 30-10% (70-90% solids) with a reduction as high as 80%, which has been widely applied in sludges generated from municipal, printing & dyeing, My friends, have you heard of the sludge dryer? So what should be done with the dried sludge? https://shincci-global.com/about There ...
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Woodland Habitat Flood Defence Project In Hull Now Underway
A new woodland habitat project is now underway in Castlehill in East Hull to help improve local flood defences through a tree-planting programme that will see thousands of tree and hedgerow seedlings established across seven hectares. The overall aim is to develop an aquagreen that will store floodwater to the east of the city, with tree species including English oak, downy birch, field maple ...
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Resources to Support the EPA’s Proposed First-Ever PFAS National Drinking Water Standard
Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the nation’s first-ever national drinking water standard for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. EPA reports that through this action, it is taking a major step towards protecting public health from PFAS pollution, complementing state efforts to limit PFAS by proposing to establish legally enforceable levels ...
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Ohmsett Staff to Exhibit at Clean Waterways 2023
Ohmsett is exhibiting at the Clean Waterways Conference in booth #210, April 11-13, 2023, at the Hilton Denver City Center in Denver, Colorado. We invite you to join us and are pleased to offer you a friends and family discount to attend. Register online using VIP code: EXHINVITE to receive over 40% off regular rates. This conference will connect you with the right people involved in incident ...
By OHMSETT
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