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Food Processing March 2011 Dave Fusaro |
Clean Your Wastewater Before the City Does Pretreatment technologies can pay for themselves in surcharge savings.  |
Food Engineering November 1, 2006 Kevin T. Higgins |
The New Math of Energy Efficiency Mothballing energy management plans probably isn't a prudent idea at this juncture in the nation's history.  |
Food Engineering November 1, 2006 |
Engineering R and D: Engineers mine brown energy Steven J. Brunner, vice president of engineering, discusses Microgy Inc.'s anaerobic digesters, which are designed to harness the energy potential in agricultural and food processing waste.  |
Food Processing March 2012 David Phillips |
Capital Avoidance for Wastewater Despite toughening municipal standards, your plant's wastewater system probably can be pressed to do more.  |
Food Engineering January 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Water Gets Its Due The sustainability bandwagon is groaning under the weight of corporations climbing aboard. The time for water resource management has never been better.  |
Food Engineering February 1, 2007 |
Engineering R&D: In-Line Waste Incineration A purification loop using UV-generated ozone is enabling US dairies to drastically reduce wastewater discharges and chemical costs from their CIP systems.  |
Food Engineering July 30, 2009 Kevin T. Higgins |
Water Efficiency: Don't Let Your Liquid Assets Go Down the Drain Food processors confront both financial and behavioral issues when they implement green water practices.  |
Food Engineering November 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Cover Story: How Green Was My Factory Renewable energy is becoming a factor in all types of food facilities, though it's only one part of a wider drive toward green building design.  |
Food Processing August 2013 Kevin T. Higgins |
Cheese Processor Selects Electrical Generation As Biogas Go-To Option Ohio-based Pearl Valley Cheese converted its methane into pricier electricity.  |
Food Engineering February 27, 2007 Kevin T. Higgins |
Go-slow commercialization Significant progress has been made on thermochemical conversion of swine waste to crude oil, but chemical engineers are not rushing to market.  |
Geotimes February 2006 |
Turning Trash Into Energy Global investment is growing in a variety of projects that take trash and convert it into usable energy: Turkey to oil... Poop power... From bread basket to fuel pump... Flying high on plant waste... Trash to light up New York...  |
Food Processing March 2013 David Phillips |
Food Manufacturers Seek Alternatives for Wastewater Treatment In-plant wastewater and odor treatment continues to migrate to a biological systems approaches.  |
Food Engineering June 4, 2007 Joyce Fassl |
30th Annual Construction Survey Projects Go Green New construction projects are at their highest level since 2002, as processors demand energy-efficient, environmentally friendly plants.  |
Food Processing April 2009 |
MRO Q&A: Fruit and Vegetable Water Waste In terms of effluent and water waste, what does the fruit and vegetable sector have to measure for? Does the industry have to report this information to anyone?  |
Chemistry World October 31, 2011 Phillip Broadwith |
Pee-powered fuel cell turns urine to energy Urine-powered fuel cells could generate electricity and reclaim essential nutrients directly from human and animal waste, say UK scientists.  |
Popular Mechanics October 2, 2008 Jennifer Bogo |
Poop Power: U.S. Farms Save Big Turning Manure to Kilowatts An anaerobic biodigester is capable of turning manure into electricity, bedding, fertilizer and heating fuel -- saving hefty sums of money and preventing the emissions of an extremely potent greenhouse gas, methane, to boot.  |
Chemistry World July 5, 2011 |
Cleaning up Water Dion Dionysiou talks about how growing up in a region of water scarcity in Cyprus led to a career in environmental water chemistry.  |
Investment Advisor October 2008 Robert F. Keane |
Going Green With Garbage When many advisors and their clients get together these days, topic number one is energy. How it will affect the portfolio, and the planet.  |
Food Engineering June 4, 2006 |
29th Annual Plant Construction Survey Measuring Up to a Higher Standard Today's food processors are focusing on the fundamentals -- clean, safe, economical -- but with a twist. The stakes -- and responsibilities -- are much higher.  |
Chemistry World January 23, 2008 Michael Gross |
Turning Gas Into Fuel Cheaply Researchers in Japan have developed a fuel cell that can convert methane, the main component of natural gas, into methanol, a useful fuel, at moderate temperatures.  |
Chemistry World February 7, 2012 James Urquhart |
Treating hospital wastewater Researchers have found that hospital wastewater containing low concentrations of pharmaceutical compounds can be treated using a membrane bioreactor - an established method of biologically treating wastewater.  |
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 |
Bacteria make clean power The Penn State researchers' microbial fuel cell is fueled by wastewater skimmed from the settling pond of a treatment plant, and the process of drawing electricity from the microbial action taking place in the wastewater also cleans the water.  |
Wired May 22, 2009 Nate Berg |
Deja Poo: The Living Machine Sewage System Picture the lobby atrium of a new, green building, one filled with leafy plants and trees. Now imagine that those trees are growing in waste collected from the building's toilets.  |
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Plant Methane Surprises Climate Scientists Atmospheric scientists have long blamed cattle and microbes for the production of significant amounts of methane on Earth. But the discovery of a new large source of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, is putting trees on the hot seat.  |
Chemistry World August 22, 2012 James Urquhart |
Turning wastewater into food German researchers have developed an efficient and environmentally friendly process to recover phosphate from wastewater for use in fertilizer.  |
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
US methane emissions reduction effort generates sparks The White House has set a new goal of cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40-45% by 2025.  |