Engineering Earth 'is feasible' Sep 2, 2009
Suggestions range from having giant mirrors in space to erecting giant CO2 scrubbers that would "clean" the air. Such engineering projects could either remove carbon dioxide or reflect the Sun's rays away from the planet. (BBC News)
The Science Of Longer Lasting Lager Sep 1, 2009
"An important transition [for molecularly imprinted polymers] from being artificial receptors used in laboratory applications to being scrubbers capable of selectively removing unwanted, toxic or irritating compounds from many types of consumer products" - Nicholas Snow, Seton Hall University, South Orange, US ... Nicholas Snow, who specialises in separation science at Seton Hall University, South Orange, US, says the work represents 'an important transition [for molecularly imprinted polymers]... (Science Daily)
New Technology Cuts Industrial Odors, Pollutants Aug 28, 2009
The industry currently uses chemical "scrubbers" to remove odor-causing agents, but this technique is not very effective, Kolar says. Furthermore, some of the odor-causing compounds are aldehydes, which can combine with other atmospheric compounds to form ozone triggering asthma attacks and causing other adverse respiratory health effects. (Science Daily)
Giant trees 'to clear excess CO2' Aug 27, 2009
Wallace Broecker said millions of 'carbon scrubbers' would be needed ... Wallace Broecker advocated millions of "carbon scrubbers" - giant artificial trees to pull CO2 from the air. (BBC News -- Science)
Ash Grove faces new pollution standards Aug 23, 2009
Wet scrubbers do not remove mercury, she said. Ash Grove and the DEQ signed a a mutual agreement and order to formalize the emissions reduction plan using ACI technology. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
Whatever Happened to Acid Rain? Aug 19, 2009
To prevent all this, the Clean Air Act amendments required that power plants make significant cuts on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions, which they did by installing "scrubbers" in their smokestacks and switching to low-sulfur coal. like the ones that came online in 1995 for and 2003 for. (Slate)
$300 million Lafarge project may start in 2014 Aug 13, 2009
Plant officials say new kilns, scrubbers will reduce emissions ... Plans also call for installing scrubbers for SO2 and Hg which would reduce pollution by 90 percent per ton of product, Lafarge officials said. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Community Shower Aug 8, 2009
Gaylord Herald Times - News. Current Gaylord Weather. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Alpine Haus fire update: Community Shower needs - itemized listing Aug 7, 2009
Current Gaylord Weather. With cooler temperatures this summer. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
NH court dismisses plant mercury project appeal Aug 6, 2009
The Legislature approved the project to install mercury scrubbers at the coal-fired plant in Bow in 2006. At that time, the estimate was $250 million. (Concord Monitor)
Allegheny Energy posts lower 2Q profits Aug 5, 2009
Work and maintenance in preparation for the installation of scrubbers on the company s power plants accounted for another $10. 6 million bump in cost. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
Click to read:Poll: Obama Not Blamed For Economy Jul 30, 2009
Poll: Obama Not Blamed For Economy - CBS News. Poll: Obama Not Blamed For Economy. (CBS News)
Letters to the editor Jul 25, 2009
If the developers can be proved negligent, they should be the ones to pay the costs of scrubbers on the plant's smokestacks. In recent years, the owners have done everything they could to minimize odors and to screen the facility from view. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Want to Wear Your Wardrobe for Longer? Jul 22, 2009
ShopSmart put Tide 2X Ultra with Color Clean Bleach Alternative, Tide 2X Ultra for Cold Water, Tide 2X Ultra with Dawn Stain Scrubbers and Tide 2X Ultra with a Touch of Downy to the test. Tide 2X Ultra with Color Clean Bleach Alternative out cleaned the rest of the concentrates recommended for top-loading washers and was easy on fabrics. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Newsweek: Tracking largest industrial spill Jul 21, 2009
It installed scrubbers to filter out sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which contribute to acid rain. And it added devices called electrostatic precipitators to trap fly ash, which is so fine that it would otherwise shoot out through the flues, float into the atmosphere, and potentially lodge itself in people's lungs. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Spectra Energy Conducts Tourof Oxford Compressor Station Jul 15, 2009
Depicted above are suction scrubbers which pick up foreign material in the gas and keep it from going into the compressor in the compressor building beyond. (Quirke photos). (Voices, CT)
Hatfield's Ferry project gets $235 million Jul 14, 2009
The bond issue through the Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority will be used to complete the two-year-old effort to add scrubbers to the 1,710-megawatt facility. The first of three units hooked up to the scrubbers went online last month, according to company spokesman Doug Colafella, with the other two scheduled to follow suit by the end of this year. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
New Chinese drywall worry: Radiation Jul 9, 2009
It is different from normal gypsum, a mineral-like substance that can come from mines or as a residue from coal-fired power plant air pollution scrubbers. But, phosphogypsum is banned as a building product in drywall in the U.S. So far, limited tests by state and federal authorities have not found it in any problem drywall. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, FL)
More Business & Money... Jul 5, 2009
New filters and scrubbers at the plant are expected to reduce acid rain and the haze clouding the Columbia River Gorge, Mount Hood and Hells Canyon. TriMet was expected to surpass a milestone on Wednesday with the 100 millionth rider in 12 months climbing aboard a MAX train or metro bus. (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR -- Business)
New Material Could Vastly Improve Carbon Capture Jul 1, 2009
With an acronym that sounds like the name of a fuzzy rodent, different species of MOFs may become the basis for hydrogen fuel tanks, drug-delivery devices and CO2 scrubbers. Now, the lab has created a new generation of MOFs that have close to the same storage capacity and preference for CO2 as amines do, while only weakly bonding with the molecule. (Scientific American)
Groups sue Mirant over nuclear power plant Jun 30, 2009
6 billion project to install scrubbers and other pollution-reducing equipment on its Chalk Point boilers by the beginning of 2010. Reader Comments. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
How to Save the Planet and Make Money Doing It Jun 27, 2009
The government could simply mandate reduced emissions, or force power plants to install expensive SO2 and NO scrubbers, but that might not be efficient. To Sandor, the answer was clear: markets. (Time.com)
Duke seeks 12.6% N.C. rate increase Jun 3, 2009
Additional costs include scrubbers installed to remove pollutants from emissions at the large Allen and Marshall coal plants Duke operates ... In that rate case, Duke was able to cut the proposed increase in large part because of changes in how Duke was allowed to recover the costs of scrubbers installed on coal plants to reduce pollution. (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
Wastewater is transformed after $64.6M in upgrades Jun 3, 2009
The addition of new air scrubbers and fans at the newly expanded headworks, the area where wastewater first enters the plant, was part of the upgrade. Dan Urie, operator supervisor, told the River Watch volunteers during a May 22 visit that 65 percent to 70 percent of the sewage entering the plant comes from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, with the rest from Nogales, Ariz. (Nogales International, AZ)
In memoriam, 2009… May 26, 2009
We are installing state-of-the-art scrubbers and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems, which will reduce Progress Energy Carolinas sulfur dioxide emissions by approximately 78 percent and nitrogen oxides emissions by approximately 50 percent from 2001 levels. The technologies we install will also help to significantly reduce mercury emissions in the state. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
School board faces tough financial calls May 17, 2009
Fewer custodians will be needed with the purchase of automatic scrubbers, which make cleaning quicker ... 5 custodial positions because of the purchase of auto scrubbers: $454,950. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Hawaii Superferry gear will be auctioned off on Maui, Oahu May 17, 2009
Everything from restroom trailers, large tents, portable offices, traffic cones, light towers, crowd-control barriers, a backhoe, Superferry shirts and shoe scrubbers will go on the auction block at 10 a.m. today at the former ferry terminal at Kahului Harbor, at Pu'unene and Ka'ahumanu avenues. The shoe scrubbers were required by the state to address concerns about the transport of weed seeds, ants and other invasive species hiding in hiking boots and other footwear. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Mattoon woman stuck on duct tape as a home-based business May 11, 2009
For example, when the Apollo 13 crew faced death unless they could jury-rig a system of CO2 scrubbers, Ken Canfield, the designer on the ground who came up with the answer, said he knew the situation was fixable when he found out there was a roll of duct tape aboard. I felt like we were home free, he was quoted as saying. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Coalition: Plant's pollution mars Canyon views May 8, 2009
The sulfur dioxide scrubbers installed a decade ago made Navajo one of the most efficient-burning plants in the country, he said. SRP owns Navajo along with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, APS, Nevada Power and Tucson Electric Power. (AZCentral -- News)
Making phosphorus May 5, 2009
To reduce emissions into the air, Hydzik said, high energy Venturi scrubbers use water to remove and capture contaminants. "Doing the right thing is never a bad decision," said Hydzik, who has been at Monsanto for 40 years. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
UPDATE: Landfill Permit Meeting Tuesday in Labadie Apr 29, 2009
To reduce air emissions, the plant will install new scrubbers in its flues. The product created from the new scrubbers, a sort of synthetic gypsum, will be usable in wall board production, Fox said. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Could Cleaning Up Air Pollution Actually Speed Up Global Warming? Apr 28, 2009
Further declines are expected as skies clear going forward as U.S. and European Union regulations reduce sulfur dioxide and particulate emissions by attaching scrubbers to smokestacks, among other efforts. Although the scrubbers and other pollution controls are being added to combat aerosols, among other air pollution problems, few such measures are in place for CO2. (Scientific American)
Tribune editorial:Timing is everything for clean coal Apr 28, 2009
Ezra wrote on Apr 24, 2009 10:00 AM:" Under ideal circumstances you can capture around 27% of the energy that is in coal and do something useful with it. That simply means that for every four railroad cars of coal you burn, three turn into nothing but waste heat and pollution. That is physics in it's simplest form. Whenever you add scrubbers or other devices to a coal fired power plant to reduce any kind of pollution you inevitably reduce the efficiency of the power plant. Nuclear energy has no... (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
NH coal-burning dispute part of national debate Apr 19, 2009
What they disagree about is whether building mercury scrubbers at Public Service Company of New Hampshire's Merrimack Station plant makes sense, especially when the project's estimated cost nearly doubled recently ... A study Hirshberg's group commissioned predicts that building the scrubbers would add costs as well, billions of dollars if the plant runs another 15 to 20 years ... The scrubbers would not reduce the plant's carbon emissions. (Concord Monitor)
Shadow puppets add magic to music Apr 14, 2009
The figures and props in the workshops are made up of card, doilies, pot scrubbers and ostrich feathers. The Israeli-born Lior, whose rootsy lyrical style recalls Paul Simon or Nick Drake and draws on his Middle Eastern heritage, calls working with the puppeteers inspiring. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
How Fast Can Carbon Capture and Storage Fix Climate Change? Apr 11, 2009
The second uses various forms of chemistry in the form of amine or ammonia scrubbers, special membranes or ionic liquids to pull CO2 out of a more mixed set of exhaust gases ... The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) estimated in May 2007 that a new power plant burning pulverized coal and equipped with amine scrubbers to capture 90 percent of the CO2 would make electricity at a cost of more than $114 per megawatt-hour (compared to just $63 per MWh without CO2 capture) ... 75 million metric tons of... (Scientific American)
Gertrude Wood BensonApril 16,1905 - April 7, 2009 Apr 11, 2009
She was well known for her quilts, doilies and her famous scrubbers. She did alterations for many years in Utah. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
Can Carbon Capture and Storage Save Coal? Apr 7, 2009
The second uses various forms of chemistry in the form of amine scrubbers, special membranes or ionic liquids to pull carbon dioxide out of a more mixed set of exhaust gases. The third is gasification, in which liquid or solid fuels are first turned into synthetic natural gas; CO2 from the conversion of the gas can be siphoned off. (Scientific American)
SCE&G Cope Station reducing emissions via new equipment Apr 5, 2009
The equipment included baghouses that filter 99 percent of the fly ash, dry scrubbers that remove 95 percent of the sulfur dioxide and low-nitrous-oxide burners. The scrubbers also eliminate approximately 60 to 90 percent of mercury emissions. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
EPA to monitor air quality near Longview school Apr 4, 2009
Mr. Bastinado wrote on Apr 3, 2009 7:46 PM:" 2009 and they're gonna start testing the air pollution levels in highland's schools. LMFAO. How about 1969, when Reynolds (obviously now defunct), WEYCO, and Fibre used to un-cork their scrubbers at sunset and let 'er rip 'cause it was difficult to tell the difference between the golden sunset or the brownish spew out of their smoke stacks. How about the scores of years when the industries here covered every square inch of this county with measurable... (Longview Daily News, WA)
EPA To Test Air Around 62 Schools Apr 1, 2009
It was cheaper for this factory to pay the fines then install the proper "scrubbers" as required by law. The factory has since installed some scrubbers, but they really don't do the job. (CBS News)
A lemon for New Hampshire Mar 26, 2009
But also green as in the stuff the ratepayers of the Granite State are likely to be taking out of their wallets in ever-larger amounts should the utility succeed in stifling any further review, and sticking the scrubbers up on top of the plant ... For a long time, PSNH, like many utilities around the country, fended off the mandate to install scrubbers, but finally decided to go ahead and put on $250 million worth of technology, a figure that as construction is about to begin has now almost... (Boston Globe)
About 300 BOE Workers On Paid Leave Mar 25, 2009
On other floors where employees continue to work, there are "air scrubbers" to clean particulates out of the air, and dehumidifiers pump hot air into the walls to dry out any water that seeped in. The BOE employees on paid administrative leave check the accuracy of taxes from retail companies and similar businesses, spokeswoman Anita Gore said. (KCRA 3, CA)
Stanford, others honored for water conservation Mar 24, 2009
So far, the company says it has saved more than 51 million gallons of water through a variety of projects initiatives, including using recycled water to feed cooling towers and scrubbers, installing low-flow toilets and sensor-activated faucets, and relying more on native landscaping, which requires less water. meanwhile, won in the "innovation" category for its water-allocation program, which creates water budgets for landscape-irrigation customers. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Coal ash put to good use Mar 22, 2009
Smokestack scrubbers generate synthetic gypsum for wallboard ... The process that smokestack "scrubbers" use to reduce nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions creates high-quality synthetic gypsum, said Robert E. Williams, spokesman for U.S. Gypsum Co., maker of Sheetrock brand wallboard ... Scrubbers at electric utility PPL Corp.'s Montour plant near Washingtonville, Pennsylvania, generate 500,000 tons of gypsum annually, plant manager Michael Munroe said. (CNN -- International)
Itll be a Buick of a plant Mar 22, 2009
It will catch every defined pollutant and will include baghouses for ash removal, dry scrubbers for sulfur dioxide capture and nitrogen oxides and mercury control technologies. The Sierra Club and Powder River Resource Council have criticized the technology and have tried to stop construction. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
New Instruments Improve Control Of ... Mar 21, 2009
Measure the efficiency of scrubbers or other devices removing pollution. Measure the efficiency of chemical processes and of combustion in furnaces and incinerators. (Suite101.com)
Plant's dumping bid comes under attack Mar 16, 2009
"Allegheny Energy is finally installing scrubbers, but that creates a whole new wastewater stream. The controls are taking pollution from the air and putting it into rivers," said Ms. Dillen, who today will file a motion to intervene in Allegheny Energy's appeal of its state-issued water discharge permit. "Many power plants will be installing scrubbers to clean up their air emissions in the next few years and that will put increasing pressures on water resources," Ms. Dillen said ... She said... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
> UF to examine source of drywall problems Mar 14, 2009
One possible cause in the rise of out-gassing could come from the use of synthetic gypsum produced in pollution scrubbers at coal-fired power plants. Synthetic gypsum is produced when limestone scrubbers remove sulfur gases from smokestack emissions. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, FL)
UF launches study to understand defective drywall Mar 13, 2009
says about 20 percent to 30 percent of U.S. drywall is made with synthetic gypsum produced in pollution scrubbers at coal-fired power plants. Synthetic gypsum is produced when limestone scrubbers remove sulfur gases from smokestack emissions. (South Florida Business Journal, FL)
Manufacturer says its clear in Chinese drywall investigation Mar 13, 2009
The class-action suit, brought by Shane M. Allen and Nicole J. Allen of Fort Myers, claims drywall from Knauf Group subsidiary used waste collected from scrubbers on coal-fired power plants in China to create a synthetic gypsum material that could leak into the air and emit one of several sulfur compounds including sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide. The collection is similar to a process used by National Gypsum, a division of French manufacturer (NYSE: LR), at its Apollo Beach plant, hauling... (Tampa Bay Business Journal, FL)
Hearing being held on PSNH scrubbers Mar 6, 2009
Concord Monitor Online - AP Headlines. The news you need now. (Concord Monitor)
Carbon capture and storage: Trouble in store Mar 6, 2009
There are several proven ways to isolate carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, using a variety of combustion techniques and an assortment of chemical scrubbers to react with the gas. Oil firms, meanwhile, have long experience of pumping carbon dioxide into reservoirs to increase their pressure and thus squeeze out more fuel. (The Economist)
Bolivia pins hopes on lithium, electric vehicles Mar 3, 2009
Kamath said scrubbers at modern plants can contain sulfur dioxide and other byproducts of processing the lithium, which is shipped as non-hazardous lithium carbonate for use in heat-resistant glass, ceramics and anti-psychotic drugs, as well as batteries. Marco Octavio Rivera of Bolivia's Environmental Defense League says he can't yet estimate the environmental impact, since no details of Morales' visions have emerged. (USA Today -- Tech)
What to keep under the sink - and not Feb 23, 2009
Sponges, rubber gloves, Tuffy Pads and other scrubbers: Keep a supply of cleaning tools right where you need them and not in some distant closet. Change sponges often because they tend to mildew and smell. (San Francisco Chronicle)
China's family firms test home market Feb 21, 2009
WENZHOU, China - What their business does is simple enough: it assembles many of the hairbrushes, bathroom scrubbers, and floor mops ubiquitous in the West and which few pause to wonder where the products come from or who makes them. But in many ways, the family that owns this company embodies the Chinese dream. (Asia Times Online)
"Funky" Smell At Brown Middle School Drives Students Out Feb 17, 2009
Current conditions for local cities. -Weekend Anchor/Weathercaster/News Reporter. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
Class action lawsuit filed over Chinese drywall Feb 8, 2009
Defendants' drywall was made with waste material from scrubbers on coal-fired power plants, also called fly ash. These materials can leak in the air and emit one of several sulfur compounds including sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, according to the complaint provided to the Business Journal by Jordan Chaikin, the lead plaintiff's attorney. (South Florida Business Journal, FL)
