Blood-platelet shortages may become a thing of the past, according to scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The researchers have designed an industrial-strength bone marrow bioreactor that can generate human platelets in ...
Tags: Bioreactor, Health, Medicine
People have long known there is energy in wastewater; extracting it economically is the problem. Startup Cambrian Innovation claims its technology can do it and a brewery and a winery are now using it to clean their wastewater while ...
Tags: energy in wastewater, reduced energy costs, wastewater reuse
Biofuel researchers have dramatically improved microalgae hydrocarbon productivity by using non-destructive extraction, akin to 'milking' algal cells as opposed to the conventional harvest and destruction. The algae species Bortyococcus ...
Tags: Algal Cells, Milk
Unitywater has selected GE’s LEAPmbr membrane bioreactor (MBR) for its Maleny sewage treatment plant expansion in Queensland, Australia. The LEAPmbr technology will enable Unitywater to double the amount of water treated per day to ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, GE, Wastewater Treatment
This long-term, pilot-scale investigation used a dual-barrier, hybrid forward osmosis–reverse osmosis (FO–RO) system for treatment of reclaimed water to produce potable water. Researchers at the Colorado School of Mines and at ...
Envirogen announces sucess at Nevada industrial site. Envirogen Technologies has announced the successful start of a large-scale fluidized bed bioreactor (FBR) system for American Pacific Corporation (AMPAC), to achieve the biodegradation ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, fluidized bed bioreactor system
Veolia presents two new wastewater treatment processes that 'significantly improve efficiency and reduce costs'. Veolia Water has reported it has introduced two new wastewater processes which significantly improve efficiency and reduce ...
Thanks to the rapid growth in Asia, flow control and treatment revenues in the municipal wastewater treatment sector will grow to over $23 billion in 2014. This is the latest aggregation from a number of market reports published by the ...
American government organization Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded $66m for 33 energy projects under two programs to provide sustainable technologies in the US. The first program, Modern Electro/Thermochemical ...
Tags: Auto, Electrical, Electronics
United Envirotech Ltd has signed a RMB286 million 30 year Transfer-Operate-Transfer (TOT) cum Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) agreement with Hong Wei District's municipal government in Liaoyang City, China. Hong Wei is an important industrial ...
In the second of a series of three articles on the treatment of waters, oil and gas industry expert David Robinson discusses the treatment and discharge of produced and other waters from onshore oil and gas production. First stage ...
Tags: Oil, Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Ak-Chin Indian Community's surface water treatment plant in Southern Arizona, featuring GE's ZeeWeed 500 advanced treatment technology, has won the 2013 Water Project of the Year Award from the AZ Water Association. The Native American ...
Tags: Water Plant, membrane bioreactor, Processing Machinery
Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sembcorp Utilities, has signed an agreement to invest NOK30 million (approximately S$6.4 million) in Biowater Technology (Biowater), a Norwegian-based company that ...
Tags: Service
Envirogen Technologies, Inc. has received a U.S. patent for 'Methods for Treatment of Perchlorate Contaminated Water', for enhanced automated operation of Envirogen's high-efficiency fluidised bed bioreactor (FBR) systems. The Envirogen ...
An open high-rate bioreactor is used to exclusively bio-reduce selenate to selenite, with the selenite subsequently reduced by chemical means under optimal conditions to produce a biomass-free selenium product. The removal of the toxic ...
Tags: Microbiological Selenate, Selenium, Processing Machinery