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Mercury Control with Regenerative Activated Coke Technology

Mar 21, 2010
James Peters
Many issues face coal fired utilities with respect to environmental demands, some based on regulations and others based on local pressures. These include increasingly stringent control of criteria pollutants, anticipated federal and state requirements for mercury control, issues revolving around...

Reduction of Neptunium In Synthetic High Level Liquid Waste

Oct 18, 2011
Shaowei Li
High-level liquid waste (HLLW), which is produced from reprocessing of the spent nuclear fuel and contains actinides, 90Sr, 137Cs, 99Tc, 129I, etc., engenders permanent hazard to environment. The safe treatment and disposal of HLLW are crucial to sustainable development of nuclear energy. The TRPO...

Optimal Synthesis of Fuel Gas Networks for Energy Sustainability

Oct 16, 2011
Iftekar A. Karimi
The world is facing two critical and inseparable issues in energy and climate change. The fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) that supply over 85% of the current primary worldwide demand will continue to be the major source for the near future. However, coal, oil, and natural gas emit 208,...

A Compact Integrated Warm Syngas Overall Cleanup System

Nov 8, 2010
Liyu Li
Gasification of coal or biomass to syngas followed by catalytic synthesis of ammonia, hydrocarbons or oxygenates provides a feasible strategy to meet the increasing demand for fertilizers and transportation fuels. This syngas has many impurities, including As, Be, Cd, Cl, Cr, Hg, K, N, Na, P, Pb, S...

Treatment of Produced Water Using Microbial Fuel Cells

Nov 7, 2010
Abhijeet P. Borole
Sustainable utilization of natural energy sources in the future will require development of technologies with minimal impact on the environment. Produced water generated from oil and gas production operations currently generate 10 times more water than the amount of fossil fuel produced. In order...

Beyond Water: Expanding the Spectrum of Efficient Large Scale Separations

Oct 18, 2011
William J. Koros
Innovations in membrane materials, structures, modules and system design have fundamentally changed the water purification industry over the past four decades. Revolutionary reductions by a full order of magnitude in energy consumption per unit of delivered product were achieved by substituting...

Creating Chemistry for a Sustainable Supply Chain

Nov 7, 2010
Charlene A. Wall-Warren
BASF, the world's leading chemical company, has a strong history of programs to foster sustainable development, including our eco-efficiency life cycle analysis program which we developed in partnership with outside experts in 1996. To date we have conducted over 400 eco-efficiency analyses for...

Water Sustainability Plenary

Apr 29, 2009
Mary Ellen Ternes
This special plenary session will feature invited speakers to provide a summary of water law and policy that will provide attendees with a better understanding of water law, which is based upon water as a resource, rather than as a commodity as it is sometimes perceived, as well as water resource...

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