Science news articles about 'industry waste'

  • Satellite helps make transportation of dangerous waste safer

    ... data to ensure safe roads in Europe. Developed by an SME for the Italian Lombardy region, the system monitors daily the displacement of 200 containers carrying industrial waste on 100 trucks.
  • Obtaining biogas from food industry waste

    ... atmosphere are reduced, smells are considerably reduced and the final value of the waste is enhanced, As a consequence, the industry can adapt itself to environmental and social requisites, at the ...
  • Waste not, want not

    Tapping industrial waste heat could reduce fossil fuel demands in the short term and improve ... precisely the same site. They say their approach can "recuperate industrial waste heat beyond time and space ...
  • Olive Industry Waste, Such As Olive Pits, Pomace And Pruning Remains Used To Decontaminate Sewage

    ... the oil extraction process may be used to eliminate heavy metals from sewage or waste waters of productive activities. The olive industry produces great amounts of such sub-products in and their cost ...
  • Chicken waste makes cheap, food-friendly biofuel

    Poultry industry waste can produce cheap, good-quality biodiesel comparable to what is produced from common feedstocks, say researchers.
  • Sounding out Congo Red

    ... of less toxic intermediates that can then be broken down still further by conventional industrial waste water biodegradation treatment. As a proof of principle, the researchers suggest that the ...
  • Do chemicals in the environment affect fertility?

    ... . “These chemicals come from a variety of sources including plastics, pesticides and industrial waste and many of these persist in the environment for a long time — albeit at very low levels,” said ...
  • Building on pyramids of trash

    ... devised a simple solution to the growing amounts of waste society generates. Writing in the current issue ... plan to dispose of solid domestic and even toxic industrial waste by building solid monuments ...
  • Scientists determine strength of 'liquid smoke'

    ... use as supercapacitors, and as a water purifier for extracting harmful contaminants from industrial waste or for desalinizing seawater, and even used aerogel to capture stardust particles during NASA' ...
  • Smoke smudges Mexico City's air, chemists identify sources

    ... measured. By afternoon, shifting winds swept these industrial emissions away but blew in smoke particles ... morning after 11:00 am, blowing the industrial waste away and bringing smoke from the fires ...
  • EPA's stormwater program needs a significant overhaul

    ... current regulatory framework for stormwater, which was originally designed to address sewage and industrial wastes, has suffered from poor accountability and uncertainty about its effectiveness at ...
  • Orange appeal to clean up dirty water

    Highly colored industrial waste water is a serious environmental problem as it seriously discolors waterways ... , orange peel. He has now tested waste orange peel as an absorbent for the removal of four ...
  • Orange Peel Can Help Clean Up Dirty Water

    Highly colored industrial waste water is a serious environmental problem as it seriously discolors waterways as well as blocking sunlight for photosynthesizing plant species in the water. Now, ...
  • Oak Ridge supercomputer is the world's fastest for science

    ... as well as coal gasification processes to help industry design near-zero-emission plants. ... the workings of cellular ion channels to detoxify industrial wastes. Jaguar's superlative speed is matched by ...
  • Energy-efficient water purification made possible by Yale engineers

    ... economically from lower-temperature heat sources, including industrial waste heat, using a related method — pressure-retarded osmosis. In this closed loop process, the "draw" solution is ...

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