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CleanTech Biofuels To Begin Producing Renewable Electricity

8/8/2008 5:02:39 AM

CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. intends to use its proprietary technology at a commercial site in Chicago, Illinois to produce cellulosic biomass as solid fuel for the production of electricity

New Green Technologies Announces Preliminary Agreement For Sale Of First CAVD Waste To Energy Plant

8/8/2008 4:43:00 AM

New Green Technologies (OTCBB:NGRN) announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Proguard Acquisition Corp. (OTCBB:PRGD) for the sale of the first of four CAVD waste to energy plants

BlueFire Ethanol Awarded Final Permits To Construct The Nation's First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Production Plant

8/8/2008 4:38:00 AM

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC: BFRE.OB), a leader in cellulosic ethanol production technology, was granted a conditional-use permit ("CUP") from the County of Los Angeles, Department of Regional Planning, to permit the construction of the nation's first commercial facility to convert biowaste into ethanol

SO 15270 Will Help Expand Plastics Recovery And Recycling Worldwide

8/8/2008 4:13:00 AM

A new ISO International Standard will assist the emerging worldwide market for plastic recovery and recycling

Microanalytics Launches Sumo-Bag, Improved Gas Collection Method For Malodorous Waste

8/24/2008 4:52:00 AM

Microanalytics, a subsidiary of MOCON, has developed a new, improved gas collection method for a variety of human, biological and industrial waste environments

Green Catalysts Provide Promise For Cleaning Toxins And Pollutants

8/19/2008 9:56:47 AM

Tetra-Amido Macrocyclic Ligands (TAMLs) are environmentally friendly catalysts with a host of applications for reducing and cleaning up pollutants, and a prime example of "green chemistry." Carnegie Mellon University's Terry Collins, the catalyst's inventor, believes that the small-molecule catalysts have the potential to be even more effective than previously proven.

Turning Waste Material Into Ethanol

8/18/2008 1:36:00 AM

Say the word "biofuels" and most people think of grain ethanol and biodiesel. But there's another, older technology called gasification that's getting a new look from researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University

Pulltarps Expands Product Line By Offering Lumber Tarps And Waste Industry Tarps

8/16/2008 4:26:00 AM

Pulltarps Manufacturing recently announced the addition of two new products to its line of high-quality tarping solutions-lumber tarps and waste industry tarps

Wonderware Unveils IndustryPack For Water & Wastewater Applications

7/6/2008 4:34:00 AM

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, announced the release of the Wonderware IndustryPack for Water & Wastewater designed to enhance overall productivity in facility operations for the water and wastewater industry

New Sortasaurus Trux Line Of Recycling Carts Promotes Accurate Sorting During Collection

7/4/2008 1:43:50 AM

Recycling product manufacturer Meese Orbitron Dunne Co., Ashtabula, Ohio has introduced the Sortasaurus Trux line of recycling collection carts

Franklin Miller Launches Powerful And Versatile Crusher

7/4/2008 1:39:49 AM

The DELUMPER 1075 LP Crusher reduces hard or soft, heat sensitive, sticky or wet agglomerates and lumps at high volume without degrading the material or causing rise in temperature

UGA Biomass Technology Increases Ethanol Yield From Grasses And Yard Waste

7/29/2008 8:13:29 AM

University of Georgia researchers have developed a new technology that promises to dramatically increase the yield of ethanol from readily available non-food crops, such as Bermudagrass, switchgrass, Napiergrass-and even yard waste.

Solar Powered Pneumatic Pump Controller

7/18/2008 1:27:00 AM

Blackhawk's solar powered pneumatic pump controller manages air consumption by turning the air supply to the pump ON and OFF based on timer functions or based on input from level sensors in the well or sump.

Free Chlorine Measurement As Simple As 1-2-3 With New FCA-22 Analyzer System

7/16/2008 2:09:00 AM

The measurement and control of Free Chlorine has never been easier than with the new FCA-22 Analyzer System from Electro-Chemical Devices, Inc., which features a virtually plumb-and-play design

Sulfur-Rite Hydrogen Sulfide And Mercaptan Scavenger System

6/8/2000 5:31:00 PM

The Sulfur-Rite process is a hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) and light mercaptan scavenger system. The process utilizes a solid, iron-based material that reacts with H₂S and mercaptan sulfur to form iron pyrite (Fool's Gold)

Bulk Deliveries: Automation Exceeds Expectations

4/3/2008 12:20:00 AM

White Paper: Bulk Deliveries Automation Exceeds Expectations

Eco-Tec, Inc - Comprehensive Analytical Lab and Pilot Plant Services

4/28/2005 4:32:00 PM

Eco-Tec Inc. engineers, designs, manufacturers and distributes from Pickering, near Toronto, Canada. Customer service and technical support provide treatability studies, installation service, on-site supervision and operator training...

White Paper: Gas Purification Primer: Advanced Process For Hydrogen Sulfide Removal From Industrial Gases

4/18/2008 2:17:00 PM

In the economic range from about 0.1 to 20 tons sulfur per day, a new process effects the Claus Reaction in a single (pressure) vessel, not unlike the conventional amine acid gas absorption tower. This paper discusses the technology of this new, patented, sulfur purification process that offers clear economic and environmental advantages over current, conventional technologies

H2S: SgPur Sour Gas Purification System

4/18/2008 2:17:00 PM

The sour gas purification system, SgPur, recovers and purifies industrial gases produced in the oil, chemical and steel industries. Gases such as Claus tail gas, refinery flare gas, and coke gas are recovered and purified of the hydrogen sulfide (H2S), while converting the H2S to elemental sulfur

Brochure: SgPurT Sour Gas Purification System

4/18/2008 2:17:00 PM

Utility Network Design and Data Management: Autodesk Utility Design and Autodesk Topobase

3/26/2008 2:18:00 PM

Executive White Paper

Why Develop with Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise Technology?

3/26/2008 2:11:00 PM

Executive White Paper

AutoCAD Map 3D and Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise: Powerful, Affordable, Open GIS

3/25/2008 3:00:00 PM

Technology White Paper

Mashup Google with Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise

3/25/2008 2:53:00 PM

Technology White Paper.

Case Study: Piston Pumping Solutions - Tar Pitch

2/4/2008 3:52:00 PM

In most instances, thick, viscous coal tar is a stinking mess to recover from groundwater. This is not the case for a major Midwest tar manufacturer. At the company's Ohio manufacturing facility, Blackhawk Pumps have assisted in removing the major clog in the works that coal tar poses to groundwater remediation efforts

Case Study: Explosion-Proof Electric Anchor Pump And Electric Control Panel Improve Landfill Gas Capture

2/4/2008 3:43:00 PM

Landfill gas collection and control, leachate recirculation and liquid application are critical to bioreactor landfills designed to maximize environmental recovery. In 2000, the Salem County Utilities Authority Landfill Facility (SCUA) in Alloway, N.J., began recirculating leachate within its landfill mass

Case Study: Piston Pumping Solutions - Gas Well

2/4/2008 3:34:00 PM

A major Industrial District/Recycling Disposal Facility, located in Illinois, consists of a municipal and hazardous waste site, which also has an active biosoil, leachate recovery and gas recovery operation for the wastes generated by the population of the southeast Chicagoland metropolitan area

Case Study: Piston Pumping Solutions - Sampling

2/4/2008 3:16:00 PM

High standards are imperative when you're operating a municipal solid waste landfill handling 325,000 tons of waste generated annually by a population of more than 115,000 people living in a region famed for its highly scenic environment

Case Study: Piston Pumping Solutions - Landfill

2/4/2008 3:08:00 PM

Time stands still for no person or thing, and certainly not for a nearly 30-year-old landfill turned into an award-winning recreational preserve. Completed in 1973, Mt. Hoy in the Blackwell Forest Preserve is the first of three projects undertaken by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County (FPDDC), Illinois, to use the collected wastes generated by one of the fastest growing populations in the United States in recontouring forest preserve land for recreational use

Case Study: Piston Pumping Solutions - Coal Tar DNAPL Recovery

2/4/2008 2:59:00 PM

In the realm of contaminated site remediation and source recovery, coal tar has reigned as one of the most stubborn substances to remove in quantity from the subsurface. Time and again, this thick, sticky, viscous liquid with the consistency of molasses has thwarted efforts to remove it from below ground areas at the 30-acre Calhoun Park Area Superfund Site in the burgeoning, historic harbor district of Charleston, SC. That is, until persistence and the decision to use the Blackhawk Piston Pump to do the cleanup paid off

Case Study: Piston Pumping Solutions - DNAPL Recovery

2/4/2008 2:49:00 PM

Thick, viscous, oily, and sticky coal tar tops the list in the field of contaminated site remediation and source recovery when it comes to being the ugliest and most stubborn substance to clean up in quantity. Due to the difficult nature of coal tar, initial recovery efforts at the 30-acre Calhoun Park Area Superfund Site in the historic harbor district in Charleston, SC, which began in 1998, were skimpy and sporadic until March 2001, when a Blackhawk Electric Piston Pump was brought in to do the job

Article: A Synopsis Of Sustainability And Other Related Definitions

2/19/2008 3:50:00 PM

From the time you wake up in the morning to the time you go back to sleep at night, a wise decision related to the environment can be made. This can either be the coffee you drink in the morning to the lights you turn off at night there are choices to be made that have far-reaching consequences on our society, economy, and on the environment both at the local and the global scale. Tagged along are the terms sustainability, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility

Egyptian Government Turns Over Control Of 10th Of Ramadan Site To International Power Group Egypt, Ltd.

12/31/2008 3:22:00 AM

International Power Group Egypt, Ltd., a subsidiary of International Power Group, Ltd., recently announced that it has assumed control of a 245 acres (1,000,000 square meters) parcel of land in the industrial city of the 10th of Ramadan, Egypt on which it plans be construct and operate state-of-the-art waste management and recycling facilities

BioGold Fuels Gets License For Municipal Solid Waste Separation And Processing Technology

12/27/2008 2:35:00 AM

BioGold Fuels Corporation has licensed a proprietary separation process technology from Gemini Environmental

Xethanol Announces Grant Application For Citrus Waste To Ethanol Production

12/18/2008 4:37:00 AM

Xethanol Corporation, a renewable energy company, recently announced that its subsidiary Southeast Biofuels LLC has filed a grant application with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to expand the company's work on converting waste to energy, using citrus waste as the raw material and converting it into ethanol

NetApp Receives California Waste-Reduction Honors

12/17/2008 4:22:00 AM

NetApp recently announced it has been recognized by the California Integrated Waste Management Board's Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) for its outstanding actions to reduce waste locally and minimize its global impact on the environment

Rackspace Announces Support Of More Renewable Energy Projects Funded Through NativeEnergy

12/13/2008 4:10:00 AM

Rackspace Managed Hosting recently announced that through its GreenSpace initiative and relationship with NativeEnergy, a leading national marketer of renewable energy credits and carbon offsets, the IT hosting specialist will be providing support to two new renewable energy projects through the purchasing of carbon offsets

UniPureEnergy, Corp. Announces Arctic Star Project

12/13/2008 3:44:00 AM

Arctic Star is currently being developed by UniPureEnergy, Corp. (UPE) to process 1,000 barrels per day of Alaska North Slope oil production related emulsion waste streams using the patented Ohsol process

Sternvent Offers Cyclone Dust Collector With Storage Hopper

11/7/2008 6:08:00 AM

For applications where a 55 gallon drum must be emptied too frequently and a motorized rotary airlock is too costly, Sternvent now offers a cyclone dust collector with a storage hopper underneath for greater volume of waste storage. The 105 cu ft hopper features a 24" square rack and pinion slide gate with hand wheel or pull chain operator

Pumps;Electric Anchor Pump PM

11/26/2007 5:18:00 PM

The NEW Electric PM (Parallel Mount) Anchor Pump is an electrically driven positive displacement piston jack pump with top head drive motor. The pump is designed for difficult and challenging vault sump pumping applications and features a heavy-duty parallel mounted driver that makes the pump compact enough to easily fit into enclosed vaults

Case Study: Piston Pumping Solutions - LNAPL Recovery

1/29/2008 7:12:00 PM

On July 30, 2003, gasoline sprayed 50 feet into the air near a large city in the United States contaminating soil and groundwater as the result of a break in the pipeline used by a major U.S. pipeline partnership to transport fuel

Case Study: Anchor Pump Successfully Recovers Creosote Oil From 250 Feet Well

1/29/2008 7:06:00 PM

BLACKHAWK ENVIRONMENTAL COMPANY'S Anchor Pump was used to successfully recover creosote oil from a 100-year-old wood preserving operation that produced wood products

Case Study: Blackhawk's Anchor Pump� For Tough DNAPL Recovery

1/29/2008 7:01:00 PM

BLACKHAWK ENVIRONMENTAL COMPANY'S Anchor Pump, positive displacement piston pump, effectively cleans up and recovers Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (DNAPL). Typically DNAPL is found in 20' to 120' deep wells with DNAPL often residing in the bottom few feet or inches of the well

Case Study: Piston Pumping Solutions - Slideslope

1/29/2008 6:55:00 PM

Why would anyone need to go to such great length to pump landfill leachate? Outside the burgeoning Sacramento metropolitan area, the terrain is so flat that the Placer County, Calif. mixed solid-waste landfill is the sum of 14 modular landfills, 6 out of the 14 have been filled up to 60 feet above grade and created by excavating 45 feet down into the land