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Industrial Microbes is developing a green fermentation platform to replace carbon-emitting petrochemical production with newer methods that build chemicals out of methane and carbon dioxide.Chemical production is a major source of carbon pollution, responsible for 18% of direct industrialemissions. Our innovation is an engineered microbe that can consume carbon dioxide and methane and produce a ch ...

Biomass heating/cooking stoves in developing countries do not efficiently cook food or heat houses, while consuming too much fuel and emitting pollution resulting in respiratory illnesses, premature death, and climate change. Affordable technologies found in 1.) EPA approved heating stoves, 2.) DOE funded cooking stoves, and 3.) TEG (thermoelectric generation) lighting devices, improve heating, co ...

Over 50 million Indian households cook on a bio-mass fire and have unreliable or no electricity but are anxious to purchase an affordable power stove which will provide on-demand power and lighting to their homes. Annually, projected sales of the power stove could save sixteen million trees, reduce cooking fire particulates by 90%, reduce the two million premature deaths caused from indoor air pol ...

Discharge of nutrients (e.g. phosphorus and ammonia) to surface waters can cause eutrophication and the formation of toxic algal blooms, threatening human health and the environment. However, current phosphorus treatment technologies such as chemical precipitation and conventional biological systems can be costly and ineffective to reliably achieve impending effluent regulatory limits of

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APPROXIMATEL HALF OF AUTOMOTIVE NOX IS RELEASED IN THE INITIAL MINUTES AFTER STARTUP, WHEN THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER IS COLD, AND IS A SIGNIFICANT SOURCE OF ACID RAIN. THIS PROJECT WILL DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF REVERSIBLY ADSORBING THIS "COLD-START" NOX IN A SORBENT BED AND SUBSEQUENTLY RELEASING THE NOX INTO A THREE-WAY CATALYTIC CONVERTER TO BE REDUCED. THIS COULD REDUCE THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOX ...

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RESEARCH WILL BE CONDUCTED BY HICHEM CORPORATION, TO DEVELOP A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR PYROLYSIS OF SCRAP TIRES. DISPOSAL OF USED TIRES IS A BIG PROBLEM IN THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY USA, SINCE MORE THAN 2.5 MILLION TIRES ARE DISCARDED EACH YEAR. MOST OF THESE TIRES ARE DISPOSED IN LANDFILLS. PYROLYSIS OF SCRAP TIRES HELPS TO RECOVER AND REUSE MOST OF THE VALUABLE CHEMICAL AVAILABLE IN TIRES. PYROLYSIS OF S ...

THE CLEAN AIR ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1990 INCLUDED STANDARDS FOR VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND (VOC) EMISSIONS FROM EQUIPMENT LEAKS (FUGITIVE EMISSIONS) AND FROM SMALL VENT STREAMS. SUCH EMISSIONS ARE ESTIMATED TO TOTAL 330 MILLION KG/YEAR; ADDITIONAL CONTROLS REQUIRED BY THE NEW ACT ARE EXPECTED TO COST INDUSTRY ALMOST $120 MILLION/YEAR FOR THE NEXT DECADE AND BEYOND. VERY SMALL (1-3 SCFM) MEMBRANE VAPOR ...

CHLORINE RANKS AMONG THE TEN MOST IMPORTANT COMMODITY CHEMICALS. APPROXIMATELY 54% OF THE TOTAL U.S. CHLORINE PRODUCTION IS LIQUEFIED FOR SALE OR FOR IN-PLANT TRANSPORT. TAIL GAS PRODUCED FROM THE CHLORINE LIQUEFACTION PROCESS IS THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF CHLORINE-CONTAINING WASTE GAS STREAMS PRODUCED BY CHLOR-ALKALI PLANTS. CURRENTLY, SUCH STREAMS ARE TREATED BY ABSORPTION IN CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; ...