Green Car Congress
JULY 10, 2023
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method that can reduce the levels of mercury in sulfuric acid by more than 90%, even from low levels. It is therefore a worldwide challenge that sulfuric acid often contains one of the most toxic substances: mercury.
Innovation News Network
JULY 5, 2023
Learn more about the dangers of mercury emissions from industry and how these can be reduced with an innovative new method. The post How can dangerous mercury emissions from industry be reduced? appeared first on Innovation News Network.
Cars That Think
APRIL 19, 2022
A recent United Nations provision has banned the use of mercury in spacecraft propellant. Although no private company has actually used mercury propellant in a launched spacecraft, the possibility was alarming enough—and the dangers extreme enough—that the ban was enacted just a few years after one U.S.-based Mercury is a neurotoxin.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 19, 2013
At the conclusion of the International Negotiating Committee on Mercury ( INC5 ) meeting in Geneva ( earlier post ), nations agreed on a global, legally-binding treaty to prevent mercury emissions and releases. The scope of the new treaty which puts in controls and also reduction measures in respect to mercury is as follows: Products.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 9, 2024
Mercury Marine just showed off two new electric outboard motors at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mercury previously unveiled its Avator 7.5e , which was followed by the Avator 20e and 35e. Now these two new models round out the five-model lineup and open new doors for electric boaters. “We
Green Car Congress
JUNE 30, 2014
Researchers from QUILL —the Queen’s University (Belfast) Ionic Liquid Laboratories—will display a novel process for removing toxic mercury from natural gas using ionic liquids at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition. So where there are 300 conventional molecular solvents, there are over a trillion available ionic liquids.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 21, 2011
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), the first national standards for power plant emissions of mercury and toxic air pollutants (also known as hazardous air pollutants, HAPs) such as arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide. fossil-fuel-fired power plants.
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