The document summarizes a panel discussion on how the biomethane market will evolve. The panel was chaired by Ruth Murray from Ashfords LLP and included representatives from DHL Supply Chain, Gas Alliance Group, Calor Gas, Red Kite Management, and Air Liquide. Will Llewellyn from Red Kite Management presented on different types of vehicles that can use biomethane, including dual fuel HGVs that can run on compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG), dedicated gas HGVs, and options for retrofitting existing diesel vehicles to be dual fuel.
The panel discussed how the biomethane market will evolve. Ruth Murray from Ashfords LLP chaired the panel, which included representatives from DHL Supply Chain, Gas Alliance Group, Calor Gas, Red Kite Management, and Air Liquide. The panelists represented different organizations involved in the production and use of biomethane as a renewable fuel and discussed their perspectives on the future of the biomethane market in the UK.
The panel discussion focused on how the UK biomethane market will evolve. Panelists represented organizations in the biomethane supply chain including DHL Supply Chain, Gas Alliance Group, Calor Gas, Red Kite Management, and Air Liquide. They discussed topics like the commercial vehicle market, government support programs, incentives for low-carbon fuels, and reducing CO2 emissions through biomethane use in transportation.
The panel discussion centered around how the biomethane market in the UK will evolve. The panel included representatives from DHL Supply Chain, Gas Alliance Group, Calor Gas, Red Kite Management, and Air Liquide. They discussed topics such as the build time needed to develop biomethane projects and the number of biomethane plants currently operating in the UK market.
The document discusses how anaerobic digestion (AD) can support local authority waste plans. It summarizes presentations given by a panel on the topic, including Alan Douglas from Cleanergy, who discussed Cleanergy's technology for combusting contaminated biogas to produce cleaner gas for energy production. He noted barriers to further AD development like disorganized feedstock collection and the need for long-term feedstock contracts. The panel explored how AD can complement large-scale facilities to optimize output, and how government policies could help encourage more investment in the sector.
This document summarizes a panel discussion on developing bioresources through anaerobic digestion. The panel included experts from organizations involved in anaerobic digestion, including the National Non-Food Crops Centre, Centre for Process Innovation, AMEC, ADAS UK, and Northumbria Water. The panel discussed challenges in commercializing new anaerobic digestion technologies and overcoming the "valley of death" between research and commercialization. One example project presented was the SeaGas project at the Centre for Process Innovation to develop gas from seaweed through anaerobic digestion.
CSWDC is a waste disposal company owned by three councils in the UK. It operates an energy recovery plant and household waste recycling center. Richard Gray, the current Managing Director, will retire at the end of September and become Non-Executive Chairman. He will be replaced as Managing Director by Karl Starkey, currently the General Manager of an energy from waste facility, who brings experience from the waste industry and engineering background.
Fusion has the potential to be a sustainable energy source that avoids the issues of fossil fuels and current nuclear power. It involves fusing two light atomic nuclei to produce energy. The fuel for fusion, mainly deuterium, is widely available. Fusion also avoids producing long-term radioactive waste or carbon emissions. Significant challenges remain, such as achieving the extremely high temperatures required for fusion. International experiments like ITER in France aim to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion power.
The document summarizes a panel discussion on how the biomethane market will evolve. The panel was chaired by Ruth Murray from Ashfords LLP and included representatives from DHL Supply Chain, Gas Alliance Group, Calor Gas, Red Kite Management, and Air Liquide. Will Llewellyn from Red Kite Management presented on different types of vehicles that can use biomethane, including dual fuel HGVs that can run on compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG), dedicated gas HGVs, and options for retrofitting existing diesel vehicles to be dual fuel.
The panel discussed how the biomethane market will evolve. Ruth Murray from Ashfords LLP chaired the panel, which included representatives from DHL Supply Chain, Gas Alliance Group, Calor Gas, Red Kite Management, and Air Liquide. The panelists represented different organizations involved in the production and use of biomethane as a renewable fuel and discussed their perspectives on the future of the biomethane market in the UK.
The panel discussion focused on how the UK biomethane market will evolve. Panelists represented organizations in the biomethane supply chain including DHL Supply Chain, Gas Alliance Group, Calor Gas, Red Kite Management, and Air Liquide. They discussed topics like the commercial vehicle market, government support programs, incentives for low-carbon fuels, and reducing CO2 emissions through biomethane use in transportation.
The panel discussion centered around how the biomethane market in the UK will evolve. The panel included representatives from DHL Supply Chain, Gas Alliance Group, Calor Gas, Red Kite Management, and Air Liquide. They discussed topics such as the build time needed to develop biomethane projects and the number of biomethane plants currently operating in the UK market.
The document discusses how anaerobic digestion (AD) can support local authority waste plans. It summarizes presentations given by a panel on the topic, including Alan Douglas from Cleanergy, who discussed Cleanergy's technology for combusting contaminated biogas to produce cleaner gas for energy production. He noted barriers to further AD development like disorganized feedstock collection and the need for long-term feedstock contracts. The panel explored how AD can complement large-scale facilities to optimize output, and how government policies could help encourage more investment in the sector.
This document summarizes a panel discussion on developing bioresources through anaerobic digestion. The panel included experts from organizations involved in anaerobic digestion, including the National Non-Food Crops Centre, Centre for Process Innovation, AMEC, ADAS UK, and Northumbria Water. The panel discussed challenges in commercializing new anaerobic digestion technologies and overcoming the "valley of death" between research and commercialization. One example project presented was the SeaGas project at the Centre for Process Innovation to develop gas from seaweed through anaerobic digestion.
CSWDC is a waste disposal company owned by three councils in the UK. It operates an energy recovery plant and household waste recycling center. Richard Gray, the current Managing Director, will retire at the end of September and become Non-Executive Chairman. He will be replaced as Managing Director by Karl Starkey, currently the General Manager of an energy from waste facility, who brings experience from the waste industry and engineering background.
Fusion has the potential to be a sustainable energy source that avoids the issues of fossil fuels and current nuclear power. It involves fusing two light atomic nuclei to produce energy. The fuel for fusion, mainly deuterium, is widely available. Fusion also avoids producing long-term radioactive waste or carbon emissions. Significant challenges remain, such as achieving the extremely high temperatures required for fusion. International experiments like ITER in France aim to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion power.
Nuclear fusion is a reaction that joins two light nuclei to form a heavier one. While it can power hydrogen bombs, using nuclear fusion for electricity production remains experimental due to technical and economic challenges. A few hypothetical fusion reactors have been proposed that could function like current nuclear power plants that use fission.
The document discusses nuclear fusion as an energy source. It explains that fusion occurs when two atomic nuclei collide and fuse together, forming helium nuclei and releasing energy. This is the same process that powers the sun. Currently, fusion has not been harnessed as an energy source because scientists do not yet know how to sustain fusion reactions. The document notes that fusion would produce clean, renewable energy but developing the technology to utilize it would have a very high cost, making it not practical for the Canary Islands at this time.
Fusion has the potential to provide unlimited clean energy through the fusion of hydrogen isotopes into helium. However, achieving controlled fusion reactions on Earth is extremely challenging due to the need to heat hydrogen fuels to temperatures over 100 million degrees Celsius and confine them long enough for fusion to occur. While progress is being made, a commercially viable fusion reactor has yet to be built. Alternative energy sources will still be needed even if fusion is realized until it can be widely adopted.
Nuclear fusion is the process by which lighter atomic nuclei fuse together to form heavier nuclei, releasing enormous amounts of energy. It is the process that powers stars like our Sun by fusing hydrogen into helium. Researchers are working to develop fusion as an energy source on Earth by containing and heating hydrogen isotopes to fuse in reactors such as tokamaks using magnetic and inertial confinement. Fusion reactors could provide safe, sustainable, and virtually limitless clean energy but developing viable commercial fusion power remains an engineering challenge that requires overcoming high costs and achieving breakeven where energy output exceeds energy input.
This is the seminar report on the topic Nuclear fusion and its prospects as a future source of Energy. You can also look for the slides that I've published by the same title.
Nuclear fusion involves fusing together light atomic nuclei such as hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium to release energy. It requires extremely high temperatures to fuse atomic nuclei together, which plasma confinement techniques aim to achieve. Fusion promises a virtually limitless and carbon-free source of energy, but producing self-sustaining fusion reactions requires solving significant technical challenges and has yet to be achieved on a commercial scale.
Presentation on energy iter2017 januaryCooper Lackay
This document provides an overview of nuclear fusion and the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) project. It describes how ITER aims to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power by producing 500 megawatts of power sustained for long periods using the tokamak design. Key challenges for ITER include materials issues from high heat and particle loads as well as producing tritium fuel on-site, but proposed solutions could help address these challenges. If successful, ITER will bring the world closer to developing fusion as a safe, clean, and virtually limitless source of energy.
The document is a magazine focused on natural refrigerants in the HVACR industry in Australia and New Zealand. It discusses several topics:
1) Countdown, a major New Zealand retailer, is taking the lead in adopting CO2 refrigeration systems, with a goal of opening 10 new CO2 transcritical stores per year.
2) Over 180 companies at the Chillventa 2016 trade show in Germany featured natural refrigerant technologies, a 50% increase from the previous show, reflecting growing interest.
3) Whole Foods is pushing adoption of propane and CO2 refrigeration systems.
4) Coca-Cola targets using only natural refrigerants for all vending equipment by
Energy Research and the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050IEA-ETSAP
The document discusses Switzerland's energy research landscape and financing. It provides an overview of the key stakeholders in Swiss energy research including government agencies, universities, and private industry. It also outlines the sources of public funding for energy research and how funding has increased over time. Additionally, it summarizes Switzerland's Energy Strategy 2050 which aims to increase renewable energy production and reduce energy consumption. A key part of realizing this strategy is the national energy research action plan that coordinates funding across various programs.
This events guide provides details on upcoming HVACR and refrigeration industry trade shows and conferences taking place between May and June 2016 in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and the wider Asia-Pacific region. Major events include CeBIT Australia in Sydney, DesignBUILD in Melbourne, ATMO Australia in Melbourne, ARBS in Melbourne, and various food industry expos in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia. The guide aims to keep HVACR professionals in Australia and New Zealand informed of opportunities to learn about natural refrigerant technologies in the region.
This document provides an overview and introduction to the "Canada Energy [R]evolution" scenario report, which analyzes Canada's energy efficiency potential and choices for the transport sector. It discusses the need to shift toward renewable energy sources and implement energy efficiency measures to mitigate climate change impacts from greenhouse gas emissions. The scenario examines how Canada can achieve at least a 25% reduction in emissions by 2020 and deeper cuts by 2050 through ambitious development of renewable energy and a transition away from fossil fuels in the energy sector. It presents the energy [r]evolution scenario as a practical blueprint for maintaining economic growth while significantly reducing emissions.
Dominican Republic| Nov-16 | Escenarios sostenibles para Jamaica y El Caribe ...Smart Villages
This document provides an overview of sustainable energy solutions and consulting services offered by RHO-Energy Consulting LLC. It discusses challenges around energy and water in the Caribbean region and outlines various sustainable options including hydropower, solar, wind, fuel cells, and more. Examples of potential applications are described such as a planned hydro-installation in Jamaica that could offset 206,000 kWh of energy or 150 metric tons of CO2 annually. The conclusion emphasizes that energy and water are necessary for life and that educating populations and prioritizing end users are important for sustainable design and partnerships.
Petroleum Vapor Intrusion Strategies at UST and non-UST Sites Under 2015 EPA ...Chris Lutes
Lutes, C., L. Lund, J. Lowe and K. Hallberg “Petroleum Vapor Intrusion Strategies at UST and non-UST Sites Under 2015 EPA and 2014 ITRC Guides” Oral presentation at the 26th Annual International Conference on Soil, Water, Energy and Air, March 2016, San Diego.
This document discusses the NanoFASE project, which received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The project aimed to assess exposure to nanomaterials in the wider environment. It investigated how much of various nanomaterials are released from products, where they go, and whether they could cause effects. The project developed approaches for evaluating the environmental fate and behavior of nanomaterials at various stages from production to waste management.
This document discusses the major global drivers transforming energy systems: security of supply, climate change, and energy access for development. It notes that these factors are interlinked and influence energy policy. While countries have focused on different drivers in the past, policies now aim to address all three concerns. Renewable energy technologies can help by providing secure, low-carbon energy. The document provides context for the technical sections that follow on renewable energy status and innovations.
The results of the global Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) 2017 highlight key trends in the energy transition moving towards more sustainable, affordable and secure energy systems around the world, as well as the challenges countries continue to face, individually and as cohorts. Looking back at five years of data from the EAPI, this report also distils insights from countries that have shown significant improvements in performance or remained consistently high performers
Renewable Energy final paper, Cordell-Hedin-KrahenbuhlPancakes
This document discusses arguments for and against public policy support for renewable energy based on the economic theory of externalities. It summarizes key points regarding external costs of fossil fuels like health impacts and environmental damage. It also outlines challenges for renewable energy scale-up including high upfront capital costs, issues with intermittency, and land use requirements. Examples of policies to address externalities like cap-and-trade programs in California are provided. The importance of accounting for externalities to incentivize a transition to renewable energy is a major theme.
The document proposes reducing dependence on fossil fuels by increasing use of nuclear power, renewable energy, and more efficient transportation and buildings. It suggests using nuclear power for electricity generation, ships, and potentially trains. Renewable energy like solar, wind, and biomass can offset fossil fuel usage for power and transportation. More efficient cars, use of biofuels and electric vehicles also reduce fossil fuel demand. Improving building energy generation and usage through solar, wind, and better insulation contributes. However, plastics remain challenging as they heavily rely on natural gas. Overall, a variety of solutions can significantly lower but may not fully eliminate fossil fuel dependence.
This document discusses enhanced plasma gasification as an innovative technology solution for processing solid waste resources into clean renewable energy. Plasma gasification can address climate change by reducing harmful methane emissions from landfills, eliminate landfill dependency, create new green jobs, and generate clean renewable energy from waste resources rather than letting them decompose in landfills. Nova Waste Solutions has a proven enhanced plasma gasification system that can achieve these benefits while also reducing costs for municipalities and creating economic opportunities in Canada and developing countries. The system is presented as superior to incineration due to generating no toxic emissions or residues, being more energy efficient, and enabling additional waste streams to be processed.
This document discusses enhanced plasma gasification as an innovative technology solution for processing solid waste resources into clean renewable energy. Plasma gasification can address climate change by reducing harmful methane emissions from landfills, eliminate landfill dependency, create new green jobs, and generate clean renewable energy from waste resources rather than letting them decompose in landfills. Nova Waste Solutions has a proven enhanced plasma gasification system that can achieve these benefits while also reducing municipal costs and moving communities toward zero waste. The technology is presented as superior to incineration by generating no toxic emissions or residues, being more energy efficient, and allowing waste streams like contaminated materials to be processed.
Nuclear fusion is a reaction that joins two light nuclei to form a heavier one. While it can power hydrogen bombs, using nuclear fusion for electricity production remains experimental due to technical and economic challenges. A few hypothetical fusion reactors have been proposed that could function like current nuclear power plants that use fission.
The document discusses nuclear fusion as an energy source. It explains that fusion occurs when two atomic nuclei collide and fuse together, forming helium nuclei and releasing energy. This is the same process that powers the sun. Currently, fusion has not been harnessed as an energy source because scientists do not yet know how to sustain fusion reactions. The document notes that fusion would produce clean, renewable energy but developing the technology to utilize it would have a very high cost, making it not practical for the Canary Islands at this time.
Fusion has the potential to provide unlimited clean energy through the fusion of hydrogen isotopes into helium. However, achieving controlled fusion reactions on Earth is extremely challenging due to the need to heat hydrogen fuels to temperatures over 100 million degrees Celsius and confine them long enough for fusion to occur. While progress is being made, a commercially viable fusion reactor has yet to be built. Alternative energy sources will still be needed even if fusion is realized until it can be widely adopted.
Nuclear fusion is the process by which lighter atomic nuclei fuse together to form heavier nuclei, releasing enormous amounts of energy. It is the process that powers stars like our Sun by fusing hydrogen into helium. Researchers are working to develop fusion as an energy source on Earth by containing and heating hydrogen isotopes to fuse in reactors such as tokamaks using magnetic and inertial confinement. Fusion reactors could provide safe, sustainable, and virtually limitless clean energy but developing viable commercial fusion power remains an engineering challenge that requires overcoming high costs and achieving breakeven where energy output exceeds energy input.
This is the seminar report on the topic Nuclear fusion and its prospects as a future source of Energy. You can also look for the slides that I've published by the same title.
Nuclear fusion involves fusing together light atomic nuclei such as hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium to release energy. It requires extremely high temperatures to fuse atomic nuclei together, which plasma confinement techniques aim to achieve. Fusion promises a virtually limitless and carbon-free source of energy, but producing self-sustaining fusion reactions requires solving significant technical challenges and has yet to be achieved on a commercial scale.
Presentation on energy iter2017 januaryCooper Lackay
This document provides an overview of nuclear fusion and the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) project. It describes how ITER aims to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power by producing 500 megawatts of power sustained for long periods using the tokamak design. Key challenges for ITER include materials issues from high heat and particle loads as well as producing tritium fuel on-site, but proposed solutions could help address these challenges. If successful, ITER will bring the world closer to developing fusion as a safe, clean, and virtually limitless source of energy.
The document is a magazine focused on natural refrigerants in the HVACR industry in Australia and New Zealand. It discusses several topics:
1) Countdown, a major New Zealand retailer, is taking the lead in adopting CO2 refrigeration systems, with a goal of opening 10 new CO2 transcritical stores per year.
2) Over 180 companies at the Chillventa 2016 trade show in Germany featured natural refrigerant technologies, a 50% increase from the previous show, reflecting growing interest.
3) Whole Foods is pushing adoption of propane and CO2 refrigeration systems.
4) Coca-Cola targets using only natural refrigerants for all vending equipment by
Energy Research and the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050IEA-ETSAP
The document discusses Switzerland's energy research landscape and financing. It provides an overview of the key stakeholders in Swiss energy research including government agencies, universities, and private industry. It also outlines the sources of public funding for energy research and how funding has increased over time. Additionally, it summarizes Switzerland's Energy Strategy 2050 which aims to increase renewable energy production and reduce energy consumption. A key part of realizing this strategy is the national energy research action plan that coordinates funding across various programs.
This events guide provides details on upcoming HVACR and refrigeration industry trade shows and conferences taking place between May and June 2016 in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and the wider Asia-Pacific region. Major events include CeBIT Australia in Sydney, DesignBUILD in Melbourne, ATMO Australia in Melbourne, ARBS in Melbourne, and various food industry expos in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia. The guide aims to keep HVACR professionals in Australia and New Zealand informed of opportunities to learn about natural refrigerant technologies in the region.
This document provides an overview and introduction to the "Canada Energy [R]evolution" scenario report, which analyzes Canada's energy efficiency potential and choices for the transport sector. It discusses the need to shift toward renewable energy sources and implement energy efficiency measures to mitigate climate change impacts from greenhouse gas emissions. The scenario examines how Canada can achieve at least a 25% reduction in emissions by 2020 and deeper cuts by 2050 through ambitious development of renewable energy and a transition away from fossil fuels in the energy sector. It presents the energy [r]evolution scenario as a practical blueprint for maintaining economic growth while significantly reducing emissions.
Dominican Republic| Nov-16 | Escenarios sostenibles para Jamaica y El Caribe ...Smart Villages
This document provides an overview of sustainable energy solutions and consulting services offered by RHO-Energy Consulting LLC. It discusses challenges around energy and water in the Caribbean region and outlines various sustainable options including hydropower, solar, wind, fuel cells, and more. Examples of potential applications are described such as a planned hydro-installation in Jamaica that could offset 206,000 kWh of energy or 150 metric tons of CO2 annually. The conclusion emphasizes that energy and water are necessary for life and that educating populations and prioritizing end users are important for sustainable design and partnerships.
Petroleum Vapor Intrusion Strategies at UST and non-UST Sites Under 2015 EPA ...Chris Lutes
Lutes, C., L. Lund, J. Lowe and K. Hallberg “Petroleum Vapor Intrusion Strategies at UST and non-UST Sites Under 2015 EPA and 2014 ITRC Guides” Oral presentation at the 26th Annual International Conference on Soil, Water, Energy and Air, March 2016, San Diego.
This document discusses the NanoFASE project, which received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The project aimed to assess exposure to nanomaterials in the wider environment. It investigated how much of various nanomaterials are released from products, where they go, and whether they could cause effects. The project developed approaches for evaluating the environmental fate and behavior of nanomaterials at various stages from production to waste management.
This document discusses the major global drivers transforming energy systems: security of supply, climate change, and energy access for development. It notes that these factors are interlinked and influence energy policy. While countries have focused on different drivers in the past, policies now aim to address all three concerns. Renewable energy technologies can help by providing secure, low-carbon energy. The document provides context for the technical sections that follow on renewable energy status and innovations.
The results of the global Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) 2017 highlight key trends in the energy transition moving towards more sustainable, affordable and secure energy systems around the world, as well as the challenges countries continue to face, individually and as cohorts. Looking back at five years of data from the EAPI, this report also distils insights from countries that have shown significant improvements in performance or remained consistently high performers
Renewable Energy final paper, Cordell-Hedin-KrahenbuhlPancakes
This document discusses arguments for and against public policy support for renewable energy based on the economic theory of externalities. It summarizes key points regarding external costs of fossil fuels like health impacts and environmental damage. It also outlines challenges for renewable energy scale-up including high upfront capital costs, issues with intermittency, and land use requirements. Examples of policies to address externalities like cap-and-trade programs in California are provided. The importance of accounting for externalities to incentivize a transition to renewable energy is a major theme.
The document proposes reducing dependence on fossil fuels by increasing use of nuclear power, renewable energy, and more efficient transportation and buildings. It suggests using nuclear power for electricity generation, ships, and potentially trains. Renewable energy like solar, wind, and biomass can offset fossil fuel usage for power and transportation. More efficient cars, use of biofuels and electric vehicles also reduce fossil fuel demand. Improving building energy generation and usage through solar, wind, and better insulation contributes. However, plastics remain challenging as they heavily rely on natural gas. Overall, a variety of solutions can significantly lower but may not fully eliminate fossil fuel dependence.
This document discusses enhanced plasma gasification as an innovative technology solution for processing solid waste resources into clean renewable energy. Plasma gasification can address climate change by reducing harmful methane emissions from landfills, eliminate landfill dependency, create new green jobs, and generate clean renewable energy from waste resources rather than letting them decompose in landfills. Nova Waste Solutions has a proven enhanced plasma gasification system that can achieve these benefits while also reducing costs for municipalities and creating economic opportunities in Canada and developing countries. The system is presented as superior to incineration due to generating no toxic emissions or residues, being more energy efficient, and enabling additional waste streams to be processed.
This document discusses enhanced plasma gasification as an innovative technology solution for processing solid waste resources into clean renewable energy. Plasma gasification can address climate change by reducing harmful methane emissions from landfills, eliminate landfill dependency, create new green jobs, and generate clean renewable energy from waste resources rather than letting them decompose in landfills. Nova Waste Solutions has a proven enhanced plasma gasification system that can achieve these benefits while also reducing municipal costs and moving communities toward zero waste. The technology is presented as superior to incineration by generating no toxic emissions or residues, being more energy efficient, and allowing waste streams like contaminated materials to be processed.
This document summarizes the key findings of the Risø Energy Report 3 on hydrogen and its role as an energy carrier. The main conclusions are:
1) Hydrogen has the potential to help address climate change and energy security challenges if technologies can be developed to make its production, storage, and conversion more efficient and cost-effective.
2) Current barriers include the need for cheaper hydrogen production methods, better storage solutions especially for transport, and lower fuel cell prices with longer lifetimes.
3) If these barriers can be overcome within 20-40 years, hydrogen used with fuel cells could provide an efficient and clean energy system when combined with renewable energy sources and an infrastructure for transport.
Air Quality Management in the UK - Duncan LaxenIES / IAQM
This document summarizes the key steps in air quality management (AQM) in the UK from the 1950s to present day, including challenges. It outlines that effective AQM requires scientific evidence, political will, campaigns/lobbying, legislation, enforcement, economic instruments, public concern, and technology. Specific pollutants addressed over time include smoke/sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, lead, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen dioxide. The challenges of continuing to improve AQM under changing standards and technologies are also discussed.
The document describes the DecarbEurope initiative, which aims to engage decision-makers in reducing European greenhouse gas emissions through cost-effective technical solutions. The initiative includes 9 organizations and 2 media partners working to connect low-carbon technologies, policies, and markets. Each promoted solution is meant to reduce emissions by hundreds of millions of tons per year in a cost-effective and scalable way. The initiative seeks to encourage policies that remove barriers hindering the deployment of these emissions-reducing technologies.
SWANA Atlantic Conference Final Presentation 27 april 2016Gord Helm
This document discusses the issues with landfilling municipal solid waste in Nova Scotia and proposes plasma gasification as an alternative. It notes the high costs and environmental impacts of landfilling, including frequent landfill fires. Plasma gasification is presented as a waste-to-energy technology that can reduce dependence on landfilling by processing waste into syngas. The document argues this could lower costs for municipalities while providing environmental benefits like reduced methane emissions. It aims to start a conversation about adopting plasma gasification and advancing changes to Nova Scotia's solid waste management system.
The document discusses whether 1.5°C global warming can be avoided according to the Paris Agreement goals. It summarizes that emission scenarios consistent with limiting warming to 2°C show a median temperature rise of 1.7-1.8°C. Nationally determined contributions are currently insufficient and would lead to around 2.5-3.5°C warming. Avoiding over 2°C of warming would require rapid declines in fossil fuel use, rapid growth of non-fossil sources like solar and wind, deployment of carbon capture and storage, and net-negative emissions globally by mid-century with participation from all countries and sectors.
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
Microbial characterisation and identification, and potability of River Kuywa ...Open Access Research Paper
Water contamination is one of the major causes of water borne diseases worldwide. In Kenya, approximately 43% of people lack access to potable water due to human contamination. River Kuywa water is currently experiencing contamination due to human activities. Its water is widely used for domestic, agricultural, industrial and recreational purposes. This study aimed at characterizing bacteria and fungi in river Kuywa water. Water samples were randomly collected from four sites of the river: site A (Matisi), site B (Ngwelo), site C (Nzoia water pump) and site D (Chalicha), during the dry season (January-March 2018) and wet season (April-July 2018) and were transported to Maseno University Microbiology and plant pathology laboratory for analysis. The characterization and identification of bacteria and fungi were carried out using standard microbiological techniques. Nine bacterial genera and three fungi were identified from Kuywa river water. Clostridium spp., Staphylococcus spp., Enterobacter spp., Streptococcus spp., E. coli, Klebsiella spp., Shigella spp., Proteus spp. and Salmonella spp. Fungi were Fusarium oxysporum, Aspergillus flavus complex and Penicillium species. Wet season recorded highest bacterial and fungal counts (6.61-7.66 and 3.83-6.75cfu/ml) respectively. The results indicated that the river Kuywa water is polluted and therefore unsafe for human consumption before treatment. It is therefore recommended that the communities to ensure that they boil water especially for drinking.
Epcon is One of the World's leading Manufacturing Companies.EpconLP
Epcon is One of the World's leading Manufacturing Companies. With over 4000 installations worldwide, EPCON has been pioneering new techniques since 1977 that have become industry standards now. Founded in 1977, Epcon has grown from a one-man operation to a global leader in developing and manufacturing innovative air pollution control technology and industrial heating equipment.
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Evolving Lifecycles with High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) and 3-D...Joshua Orris
The incorporation of a 3DCSM and completion of HRSC provided a tool for enhanced, data-driven, decisions to support a change in remediation closure strategies. Currently, an approved pilot study has been obtained to shut-down the remediation systems (ISCO, P&T) and conduct a hydraulic study under non-pumping conditions. A separate micro-biological bench scale treatability study was competed that yielded positive results for an emerging innovative technology. As a result, a field pilot study has commenced with results expected in nine-twelve months. With the results of the hydraulic study, field pilot studies and an updated risk assessment leading site monitoring optimization cost lifecycle savings upwards of $15MM towards an alternatively evolved best available technology remediation closure strategy.
Improving the viability of probiotics by encapsulation methods for developmen...Open Access Research Paper
The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, which is also known as t...vijaykumar292010
RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, which is also known as the Directive 2002/95/EC. It includes the restrictions for the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. RoHS is a WEEE (Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment).
RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, which is also known as t...
Fusion Energy
1. Worldwide Status of
Fusion Electricity Developments
Dr. Howard Hornfeld
Fusion Advocates
Geneva, Switzerland
Presentation to the Gas, Oil and Petroleum Engineering Conference
November 2016 Las Vegas
3. What you’ll hear…
What fusion electricity is
Why we need it
Where it’s being developed
When it’ll be in the grid
Q & A
3FUSION ADVOCATES GOPE NOV. 2016 LAS VEGAS
4. Energy and electricity
Electricity is 20% of energy
Renewables are mainly electricity
Electricity growth will outstrip all other
energy-delivery systems
4FUSION ADVOCATES GOPE NOV. 2016 LAS VEGAS
5. Why more electricity?
15% of the world’s population have no electricity and
will soon demand it
Rising demand in urban areas in developed countries
Increasing number of electric vehicles
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6. More electricity
Provides unlimited fresh water supplies through
desalination
Hospitals can rely on power, and vaccines can be
refrigerated
Safe street lighting and traffic control systems
Heating or cooling for homes, buildings and
factories
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8. Definitions
Fusion
Controlled reaction between nuclei of isotopes of
hydrogen carried out in a very high temperature reactor
and generating heat
Fusion Electricity
Electrical power on the public grid generated from a
fusion reactor
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9. Nuclear energy
Fissionission
Uses high atomic weight materials
Operates in standard process regimes
Some waste and raw material problems
Fusion
Low atomic weight materials
Extreme temperatures
Minimal waste and raw materials problems
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10. Why Fusion ?
Clean and safe
Unlimited
Non-political
No proliferation danger
Environmentally pro-active
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11. The Fusion Reaction
Reaction products = helium and a neutron, and
massive energy
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12. Fuel
Deuterium and Lithium
Unlimited supplies worldwide
Cheap
Low volumes (low transport cost/pollution)
No ash or solid waste removal
Safety, security, environmental and economic comparison
with alternate electricity systems -
Coal, Oil and Gas
Fission
Renewables
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13. Fuel Supply
Deuterium – all water has 0.017% deuterium
Tritium –
Initial : purchase (today’s price: $30,000 per gram)
Subsequent : 3Li6 + 0n1
2He4 + 1H3
(takes place in the reactor)
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Fuel Supply
Deuterium – all water has 0.017% deuterium
Tritium –
Initial : purchase (today’s price: $30,000 per gram)
Subsequent : 3Li6 + 0n1
2He4 + 1H3
(takes place in the reactor)
15. How is Fusion Done ?
Two basic systems, and a few oddballs:
Inertial confinement fusion
Magnetic confinement fusion
General Fusion
Tri-Alpha
Lockheed Martin
Tokamak Energy
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20. Fusion electricity plans
China
Korea
Japan
Europe
USA
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21. Competitivity of fusion power
High investment
Low raw-material costs
Lower operating costs than nuclear
Dependent on government tax policies
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22. Fuel considerations
1 ton fusion fuel = 4 -10 million tons coal
Storage facilities minimal
(main cost is for tritium)
Cheap extraction of deuterium and lithium
Low transport costs (short distances)
No cost for ash or solid waste removal
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Do we have a choice?
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28. Conclusions – TE Ltd (UK)
Much work remains to be done, but there are
grounds for optimism
ST25s will be used to work on diagnostics,
heating and current drive. Other labs are doing
similar things
ST40 will demonstrate scaling on small, high
field, spherical tokamaks
Manufacturers are rapidly improving HTS
performance at temperatures and higher fields
29. Conclusions – TE Ltd (UK) (cont’d)
Joints with suitable performance have been
demonstrated
Various cable designs are being developed
around the world
Significant knowledge gaps remain around HTS
irradiation and magnet protection
A combination of in-house development,
collaboration and a systematic approach will
progressively reduce technical risk, at minimum
cost and time