Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Shortages of copper and other important metals look likely to decisively shape the unfolding of any proposed energy transition Not enough copper is being mined to meet demand, according to the world’s largest producers, with shortages now looking likely to slow the transition to low-carbon energy sources. An open-pit copper mine in Peru.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

With increasing demand for reliable dewatering of effluent in municipal sewage treatment plants, GEA has stepped up with its class-leading environmental decanters designed for high clarification performance and maximum solid thickening. A centrifugal separator. This article contains paid-for content created in collaboration with GEA.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The fundraise will also allow the company to grow its team from 20 to more than 40 and build out its IP base with a rapidly growing patent and trademark portfolio. “We They are hard to treat and, in many cases, conventional technologies cannot meet removal demands.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

HRS Heat Exchangers has developed a multi-effect vapour compression evaporation system for ZLD use, based on its highly successful, patented Unicus Series of scraped surface heat exchangers. Every cubic foot of recycled or reused water results in a corresponding reduction in mains water demand and wastewater discharge.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

This patented process involves selective steps for the sustainable leaching and recovery of base metals like nickel, then copper, silver and, finally, gold, using green and safe reagents. The teams are working to extend this approach to the recovery and re-use of the palladium content of end-of-life automotive catalytic converters.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Invinity’s patented vanadium flow battery technology is already making its mark in the energy storage market world-wide as a safer, more durable and sustainable alternative to traditional lithium-ion batteries. The digital optimisation platform, Dynamic Demand 2.0,

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their supply chains is to find ways to meet the rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs). Consequently, there are enormous demands for lithium production to be efficient, high-quality and fast.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

According to the World Resources Institute, demand for water has increased by 600% worldwide over the past 100 years and water utilities face challenges from aging infrastructure and vast networks spanning both urban and rural environments. Wake-up call. The need to protect water supplies has never been more urgent.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In total, the plant processes 720,000 litres of runoff water per hour and 550kg of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) per day. The large surface area of the carriers in the AnoxKaldnes™ patented MBBR systems enable the treatment of a high quantity of wastewater using a very small footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2020

The team’s H2Pro system, uses patented E-TAC technology (electrochemical thermally activated chemical), splitting water 30 per cent faster, and reducing manufacturing costs by 50 per cent. However, soya production is often not sustainable, with large scale deforestation occurring to clear enough land to meet demand.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A new ‘low energy’ desalination technology, developed at Aston University and the University of Birmingham, and patented by University of Birmingham Enterprise, will soon begin field tests in Palestine, where it is expected to help mitigate the effects of water shortages and improve the efficiency of crop production.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 21, 2021

Business usage accounts for almost a third of all water demand in England – by signing up to the promise, businesses receive advice, posters and support on ways that they can reduce their water usage. Laundry detergent and chemical manufacturer, Christeyns UK, is based in Bradford and signed up for the pledge last year.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Rare-Earth Extraction from Audio Products (REAP) used a patented recycling technology called hydrogen recycling of magnet scrap (HPMS) that was developed within the university to extract and de-magnetise the neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) alloy powders embedded in loudspeakers from end of life cars and flat screen TVs.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Short summary: With support from the University of Sheffield, UniPart Rail, KT Precision Engineering Ltd, PCB Train, Techni Measure Ltd and Murgitroyd, European Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys, National Research Council Canada, L.B. PEAK TO PEAK MEASUREMENT SOLUTIONS LTD.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

By 1843, a Punch magazine article featured the first artificial ice rink, “not of frozen water but of a slush of chemicals including hog’s lard and melted sulphur, which smelled abominably.” That was followed by the growing popularity of ice hockey from the 1880s onward, which increased the demand for more rink construction.

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