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JUNE 4, 2014

Siemens recently introduced an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module for industrial plants or power stations for the conversion of waste heat to electricity. The Siemens system can generate electricity from waste heat of only about 300 ?C. The oil absorbs the waste heat energy by way of a heat exchanger. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Basic operation of the Opcon Powerbox ORC waste heat recovery system. Opcon, the Sweden-based energy and environmental technology Group, will install an Opcon Powerbox—an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) waste heat recovery system—on one of Wallenius’ ships. Tags: Ports and Marine Waste Heat Recovery. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 28, 2011

GS Engineering & Construction (GS E&C) has selected GE to supply the produced water evaporation and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) system for the Blackgold Oil Sands project, located near Conklin, Alberta. This enables speedy installation and significantly lowers total installed costs.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Velocys is pursuing a USDA loan guarantee that could apply up to $200 million of debut as part of the total installed cost of the project. The site will be home to a biorefinery that will use Velocys’ technology to produce low-carbon transportation fuels from the wood wastes of lumber operations and tree plantations.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. The shower head would then automatically turn the water off, turning it back on again when the person moved back into range. With such a device, he thought, people could enjoy a long shower without wasting water.

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IDEA Water REVA Personal 92

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JUNE 21, 2020

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) announced that its hydrogen-based autonomous energy supply system H2One, which Toshiba ESS delivered and installed on the rooftop of Toranomon Hills Business Tower (Minato-ku, Tokyo), has started full-scale operation with the opening of commercial facilities.

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APRIL 7, 2022

El-Hannouny is working closely with Progress Rail, a Caterpillar company, to develop a second fuel system that can be installed in existing locomotives to supply hydrous ethanol to engines. Hydrous ethanol (also sometimes known as azeotropic ethanol) typically ranges from 186 proof (93% ethanol, 7% water) to 192 proof (96% ethanol, 4% water).

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JULY 16, 2023

Ohmium International, a green hydrogen company that designs, manufactures, and deploys advanced Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzers, announced a strategic collaboration with Aquastill , one of the leaders in modular membrane distillation technology that uses the sustainable power of waste heat for desalination.

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

Ford plans to cut the amount of water used to make each vehicle 30% globally by 2015, compared with the amount of water used per vehicle in 2009. If Ford meets the 30% goal, the amount of water used to make a vehicle will have dropped from 9.5 Between 2000 and 2010, Ford reduced its global water use by 62%, or 10.5

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OCTOBER 20, 2018

As a first step, the parties will study the feasibility of a 100 megawatt water electrolysis facility to produce up to 15,000 tons of hydrogen per year as well as oxygen at Tata Steel’s IJmuiden site, near Amsterdam. by combining it with emissions from steel manufacture to make new products.

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Water Green Hydrogen Europe 170

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AUGUST 4, 2016

The new Ford EcoBlue diesel engine production line at Dagenham Engine Plant will reduce water and energy consumption by more than 50%. Water usage per engine will be among the lowest at any Ford manufacturing facility worldwide, delivering an anticipated annual saving of 17.5

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Water Diesel Engine Energy 150

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Borla will combine this with its diesel exhaust technology to create a low-cost, novel system that doubles as a device to extract potable water from diesel and other internal combustion exhaust. For the recovery of previously wasted energy from relatively low temperature (. industrial process streams, and solid oxide fuel cells.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The M-Series units are methanol reformers that use water plus methanol to make hydrogen. The units uses two input streams (methanol/water mix and combustion air) and produces two output streams (product H 2 and combustion exhaust). Source: e1.

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Hydrogen Fuel Oregon Water 418

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MARCH 24, 2022

The filters prevent tire wear particles and other environmentally harmful substances from being washed into sewers and bodies of water along with rainwater. Together with the TUB Department of Urban Water Management, the Audi Environmental Foundation is developing an innovative new filter concept for urban runoff.

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Audi Water Clean Cleaning 422

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JULY 17, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued final New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) to reduce emissions of methane-rich landfill gas from new, modified and reconstructed municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, updating standards that were issued in 1996. —“ Standards of Performance for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills ”.

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft analysis of data from its Pavillion, Wyoming ground water investigation, indicating that ground water in the aquifer contains compounds likely associated with gas production practices, including hydraulic fracturing. Background.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At the 17 th Supercharging conference this week in Dresden, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will launch what it says is the first water-cooled electric supercharger developed for “quasi-continuous” boosting of commercial diesel engines, including those developed for off highway applications. Cobra electric supercharger. Click to enlarge.

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Water Commercial Engine Diesel 370

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Straight tubes connect the water and steam drums directly, which ensures safe circulation with no risk of overheating and subsequent tube burnout. Initial results, obtained with both pure methanol and a methanol-water mixture, showed as expected that methanol is easy to ignite and results in very low emissions. Source: Alfa Laval.

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MARCH 21, 2020

The process technology is inherently sustainable—it produces no solid waste streams, minimal/no water discharge, nor any harmful air emissions. Furthermore, the capacity of global lithium-ion battery energy storage installations is projected to grow over 50 times during that same period.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Oily water treatment schematics. ABB has developed a water treatment technology that cleans oily wastewater—by far the largest waste product in oil and gas production—quickly, cost-effectively and energy-efficiently. About seven to ten barrels of produced water are generated for each barrel of oil. Click to enlarge.

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Water Clean Cleaning Oil 186

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

With its ability to produce synthetic and renewable-fuels and chemicals from feedstocks such as natural gas, flared gas, biogas, biomass, municipal solid waste, carbon dioxide (CO?) EFT’s BioGTL plants are easy to install and maintain, and require minimal human capital and equipment.

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Fuel Waste Renewable Carbon 170

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The agreement aims to exploit the possibilities arising from the merging of Opcon’s Powerbox waste-heat-recovery (WHR) technology ( earlier post ) with MAN Diesel & Turbo’s diesel engines for cutting fuel consumption and reducing emissions. The Opcon Powerbox is an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) implementation.

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Waste Diesel Emissions Mariner 186

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MARCH 11, 2010

POET plans to decrease water use in the production of ethanol by 22% over the next five years in the first goal of its sustainability initiative, Ingreenuity. If successful, it will cut the company’s water used per gallon of ethanol from an average of 3 gallons to 2.33, an annual water savings of one billion gallons. Caro (Mich.)

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Water Nigeria Iowa Portland 218

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JUNE 27, 2023

It is mined in an environmentally benign manner with no explosives, no waste water and only water used as a reagent. GM and its joint venture partners are installing 160GWh of battery cell manufacturing capacity in the US, and its suppliers are onshoring production of permanent magnets and other EV components to North America.

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MAY 21, 2021

Electricity sourced from renewable energy would power compressors to turn waste vapor into steam, which would then be used to provide refinery process heat. The technology also has the potential to significantly reduce water use in the refining process by capturing water vapor that would otherwise be lost to the atmosphere.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The patent list makes mention of the space being utilized for a “first aid kit, waste can, water container, cooler, vacuum canister, compressed air system, toolbox, electrical appliance, electrical cord wound on a reel, a camera, or other types of containers.”

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APRIL 23, 2022

A major project will see Aston Martin install more than 14,000 solar panels at its St Athan site in Wales, capable of delivering 20% of the plant’s annual energy demands. 100% of waste at Aston Martin is already successfully diverted from landfill, with a target to eliminate all plastic packaging waste at Aston Martin within three years.

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JUNE 2, 2016

In addition to the VOC guidelines, Blue5 sets targets for conserving energy and water, as well as reducing waste and CO 2 emissions. Minimizing harmful emissions is a continuing focus at Airbus as part of its multi-pronged Blue5 initiative for improved environmental performance.

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JUNE 5, 2017

By the end of 2016, the company had already improved its five major environmental indicators (energy and water consumption, as well as the generation of waste, volatile compounds and CO 2 ) by 33.6%. less waste and 16.2% Energy and water consumption have been reduced by 21.7% In addition, the company has generated 41.4%

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JANUARY 16, 2013

The TRI program collects information on certain toxic chemical releases to the air, water and land, as well as information on waste management and pollution prevention activities by facilities across the country. air, water or land), an 8% increase from 2010. Among the HAPs showing decline were hydrochloric acid and mercury.

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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2016 Ford Manufacturer Energy 256

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

This is higher than the 3 to 5 percent U-235 concentration, or “assay,” of Low-Enriched Uranium that fuels the existing fleet of light water reactors. HALEU can also reduce the volume of waste generated. Source: Centrus Energy. HALEU fuel has advantages that improve reactor performance.

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MAY 20, 2021

With Ford Intelligent Backup Power, enabled by the available 80-amp Ford Charge Station Pro and home management system Ford can help install, F-150 Lightning automatically kicks in to power your house. With the ability to offload 9.6 Once power is restored, the truck automatically reverts to charging its battery.

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APRIL 25, 2018

As an example of the type of work, SDSMT researchers just published a study, supported in part by the BuG ReMeDEE initiative, on the production of methane methanol and electricity from organic waste. This, the deepest mine in North America, began filling with water following its closure in 2002. Johnson, Bhupinder S. 2018.02.128.

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DECEMBER 17, 2016

For example, while eliminating the use of heavy metals, such as zinc and nickel, it involves significantly fewer processing steps and less rinsing, which can reduce water consumption by 20%. In addition, it produces far less solid waste. In the meantime, Henkel has installed eight Bonderite thin film body pre-treatment lines in China.

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MARCH 9, 2023

Tesla Giga Berlin runs into more bureaucratic red tape While Tesla did not receive explicit permission from local authorities to install the piles, but the District of Oder-Spree admitted that the low insertion depth of the piles was not likely to interfere with groundwater quality. I’d love to hear from you!

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