http://www.che.com Chemical Engineering en-us 2013 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:53:14 EDT An ultraviolet oxidation process for the destruction of water-borne organic contaminants that combines UV with chlorine, rather than hydrogen peroxide, is being developed by MIOX Corp. (Albuquerque, N.M.; www.miox.com). The company’s Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) promises to be less expensive than... http://www.che.com/chementator/waste_and_recycling/10259.html Fri, 1 Mar 2013 0:00:00 EST A water-recycling system for the oil-and-gas industries developed by Ecosphere Technologies Inc. (Stuart, Fla.; www.EcosphereTech.com) is designed to destroy bacteria and control corrosion in high-volume wastewater-treatment applications using a proprietary oxidation process. The technology, called Ozonix... http://www.che.com/chementator/waste_and_recycling/10150.html Fri, 1 Feb 2013 0:00:00 EST A process developed by Lehigh Technologies (Lehigh; Tucker, Ga.; www.lehightechnologies.com) for embrittling and milling rubber from end-of-life vehicle-tire material is capable of generating micron-scale rubber particles that can be used in a host of rubber, foam and plastic products to lower costs while... http://www.che.com/chementator/waste_and_recycling/9761.html Mon, 1 Oct 2012 0:00:00 EDT A newly demonstrated system for removing trace levels of heavy metals from water combines the positive traits of two existing technologies — chemical precipitation and electrowinning — while avoiding drawbacks of each. An engineering team at Brown University (Providence, R.I.; www.brown.edu), led... http://www.che.com/chementator/waste_and_recycling/8940.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST The Micro Auto Gasification System (MAGS) is a compact solid-waste disposal system that is designed for energy-efficient operation onboard naval vessels, in forward-operating military bases and in other isolated installations. Developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR; Arlington, Va.; www.onr.navy.mil)... http://www.che.com/chementator/waste_and_recycling/8831.html Sun, 1 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST To date, the difficult-to-treat contaminants and their related biological inhibition in petroleum refinery wastewater have defied efforts to bring predictive and mathematical process control to biological wastewater-treatment systems. Now, for the first time, engineers at Refinery Water Engineering &... http://www.che.com/chementator/waste_and_recycling/8612.html Tue, 1 Nov 2011 0:00:00 EDT A 60% reduction in the sludge volume was achieved at the sewage treatment plant of Noboribetu City, Hokkaido, Japan, after installing a Bio-Diet SBD-1200 system from Nippon Steel Kankyo Engineering Co. (NSKE; Tokyo, www.nske.co.jp). The demonstration unit, developed at the Wakayama Cleanup Center of... http://www.che.com/chementator/waste_and_recycling/8504.html Sat, 1 Oct 2011 0:00:00 EDT A joint venture (JV) between Vadxx Energy LLC (Akron, Ohio; www.vadxx.com) and Greenstar Recycling (Houston; www.greenstarrecycling.com) plans to start up a facility in mid-2012 to convert recovered plastics to synthetic crude oil. When complete, the facility will produce 80,000 bbl/yr of synthetic crude oil... http://www.che.com/chementator/waste_and_recycling/8416.html Thu, 1 Sep 2011 0:00:00 EDT GE Power & Water (Trevose, Penn.; ge.com) has introduced an improved membrane bioreactor (mbr) technology whose productivity is said to be 15% higher than that of its predecessor for wastewater treatment plants. The new system, called LEAPmbr, was derived from innovations to GE’s ZeeWeed 500 mbr... http://www.che.com/chementator/waste_and_recycling/8291.html Mon, 1 Aug 2011 0:00:00 EDT Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA; Ibaraki, www.jaea.go.jp) has enhanced the efficiency of a solvent-extraction process to separate organic solvents from water contaminated by radioactive waste. JAEA was able to reduce the toluene concentration from 5,000 parts per million (ppm) to below 10 ppm, which is below the... http://www.che.com/chementator/waste_and_recycling/8094.html Wed, 1 Jun 2011 0:00:00 EDT