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The secret life of ESG ratings

GreenBiz

Part 1 of a three-part series on ratings and ratings agencies and some of the challenges they are facing.

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Data deluge

Envirotec Magazine

More data is becoming available to help with understanding why so much sewage is being spilled in UK rivers, and fascinating efforts are underway to interpret it and present it to the public in an accessible and transparent format. Envirotec reviews the latest data, tools and what experts believe we can learn. The EA released the latest batch of Event Duration Monitorling (EDM) data on 31 March, offering a picture of untreated sewage discharges from monitored storm overflows and CSO s during 202

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Have corporate sustainability advisory panels had consequential impacts?

GreenBiz

What began several decades ago as an effort to improve corporate environmental performance has now evolved into a pre-governance role counseling corporations on impactful business.

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Comparing aeration and biofiltration for odour impact

Envirotec Magazine

A study of two wastewater treatment plants in Cordoba, Spain evaluates the odorous impact of the technologies deployed in each. Aerating activated sludge: The process allows for the elimination of nitrogenous contaminating compounds from wastewater. The study appears to show that degrading wastewater pollution by means of mechanical aeration results in fewer odorous compounds than the use of intensive systems.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Helping Create a Nationwide Recycling Infrastructure

GreenBiz

Landfills across the country are rapidly reaching capacity, and it is therefore more important than ever that we remain mindful of how we dispose of our waste. Collective action is needed on the part of industry and business leaders, cities and governments, and citizens around the world to develop an infrastructure that promotes recycling, the composting of organic materials, and ultimately, that helps to bring about the end of waste.

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A Common Baseline

Envirotec Magazine

The revised European Standard for Olfactometry, EN13725:2022, was published in March, the first significant update of the standard in 19 years, according to odour consultancy firm Silsoe Odours, one of the contributors. It specifies a method for the objective determination of the odour concentration of a gaseous sample using dynamic olfactometry with human assessors, as the group explains on its blog.

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Decarbonisation depot

Envirotec Magazine

In an investment said to be worth tens of millions of pounds, a storage facility for the temporary storage of liquid CO2 will be constructed by anaerobic digestion (AD) plant developer and operator Future Biogas by the end of 2024 on a dedicated site at Saltend, comprising up to 32 CO2 storage tanks. A simple, step-by-step guide to the production, transport and storage of the CO2 is offered below, along with an explainer of how the process can be carbon negative.

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The power of being of a student in sustainability

GreenBiz

In the real world, it isn’t always clear how to make an impact. Being a student can help find a focus.

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Pong preferences puzzle piece

Envirotec Magazine

What smells we like or dislike is primarily determined by the structure of the particular odour molecule. A collaborative study seems to show that people share odour preferences regardless of cultural background. We wanted to examine if people around the world have the same smell perception and like the same types of odour, or whether this is something that is culturally learned,” says Artin Arshamian, researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, one of t

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Higher salaries, hot jobs and restless employees

GreenBiz

What the recent State of the Profession Report says about the ‘Great Reshuffle’.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Sponsored Content: Firms partner to tackle trommel fines

Envirotec Magazine

(Left) Feed material and (right) washed sand output. Waste management firm Ace Liftaway has announced plans to introduce a new 90tph trommel fines recycling plant to its waste recycling and processing facility in Hampshire. The company already recycles up to 90% of all incoming waste streams, with the remaining 10% coming from trommel fines. Ace Liftaway Managing director, Philip Liddell, says its investment in the CDE wet processing solution will help close the loop “Trommel fines have a lot of

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Kurri Kurri gas folly: Cost blowout, limited operation, not hydrogen-ready

Renew Economy

The total cost of Kurri Kurri has blown out to more than $1 billion, it won't have much storage, and it won't use hydrogen. The post Kurri Kurri gas folly: Cost blowout, limited operation, not hydrogen-ready appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Rust Restraint

Envirotec Magazine

Wastewater treatment presents one of the most corrosive industrial settings around. Constant exposure to moisture, harsh chemicals, and corrosive gases such as H2S poses an ongoing threat to components, equipment, and structures. Corrosion of wastewater plant electronics is one of the most obvious problems but is also easy to prevent, says corrosion control specialist Cortec.

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Designing DC fast charging stations for next-gen EVs

Charged

Sponsored by Littelfuse. Supercharged solutions that provide for fast charging reliability, efficiency, and safety. The adoption of EVs will reduce pollution and help slow the effects of climate change. A significant impediment to broader EV adoption is both a public charging infrastructure that can support long-distance travel and chargers that can recharge an EV battery in a time that drivers will accept.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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Sponsored Content: Low energy mixers make the long haul

Envirotec Magazine

Still going strong: Fifteen years on, over 200 Landia mixers continue to serve a major UK water utility. Fifteen years since a major UK water utility chose Landia as its framework supplier for anoxic mixers, over 200 of the units continue to work day and night across the region. Installed in anoxic zones during 2007 at over 20 wastewater treatment plants, the Landia POP-I Flowmakers were seen at the time as the equipment that could offer the very best in performance and efficiency, as well as th

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Shortage of battery-grade graphite could slow down EV adoption

Charged

Graphite is a critical mineral for battery anodes, and surging demand for EVs is colliding with a limited global graphite supply. George Miller, an Analyst at data provider Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, recently told the South China Morning Post that global EV sales are widely expected to reach up to 11 million units in 2022, and this could translate to a deficit of around 40,000 tons of graphite.

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Sponsored Content: Advances in optical gas imaging make leak detection

Envirotec Magazine

Safety must be a core value of any operation dealing with potentially hazardous gases. While a practitioner of safety within the organization may set protocols or procedures, buy-in from all levels is critical to create a culture of safety and avoid issues where a serious lapse in safety might occur. Organizations that work with gas should seek to integrate effective technologies into protocols which will ultimately help ensure safe operational practices.

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Soltec participates in Intersolar Europe trade fair with its SFOne

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• Soltec will bring the SFOne tracker to Intersolar, international trade fair held on May 11-13 and considered a reference for the solar industry • SFOne represents Soltec’s commitment to the 1P-array technology • This new tracker is easier to install, similarly to the SF7, favoring a construction time reduction of 75%.

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Sponsored Content: Innovative odour abatement for even challenging budgets

Envirotec Magazine

A specialist in high-performance, low-cost odour and solvent emission abatement, Anua Clean Air UK offers products drawing primarily on its proprietary (and patented) biofiltration and bioscrubbing technologies. The company has the exclusive world-wide branding and patent rights to Monashell, Monasfil and CrumRubber technologies. Recent technology developments include multi-stage solutions using different media to optimise filter size, performance, and power and water consumption.

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EV sales dropped in March—or did they?

Charged

We’ve seen some disturbing headlines recently—sales of plug-in vehicles are decreasing after years of slow but steady gains. Were the naysayers right all along? Is the EV party winding down? Well, no. Those who look beyond the headlines and read the actual articles will find that quite a different story is unfolding. For example, we read (in InsideEVs ) that plug-in vehicle registrations in Germany (pure electrics and plug-in hybrids) decreased in March by 6% year-over-year, to 61,762.

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Sponsored Content: Non-contact radar to support the end user

Envirotec Magazine

Adapting to climate change is now a challenge for every industry, regardless of location. It is also having a substantial impact on the flood risk management practices of local and national governments. All strategies addressing the effects of climate change, including destructive floods, call for the drawing-up of long-term scenarios and plans, particularly for cities and city planning.

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Qcells plugs in Completely Clean Energy for Intersolar Europe 2022

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Featuring next-generation, high-efficiency modules, intelligent storage solutions, and an enticing package of cost-saving electricity tariffs for the end customer, Qcells – resplendent in its new brand and emboldened by its new vision – anticipates an era-defining exhibition in Munich.

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Plant extracts

Envirotec Magazine

In many cuisines, okra serves as a master thickener of stews and soups. The goo from that fruit and other plants, such as aloe, cactus and psylium, can also clean water and wastewater of some types of solid pollutants, as well as some that are dissolved. Now, researchers say they have demonstrated that combinations of these food-grade plant extracts can remove microplastics from wastewater.

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Leapers Semiconductor to introduce new SiC power module series

Charged

Leapers Semiconductor plans to introduce its HPD series SiC power modules for the traction inverters and motors of EVs at PCIM Europe in May of 2022. Leapers Semiconductor is a China-based company that develops and manufactures semiconductors and modules. It also has an R&D center located in Japan. The HPD series consists of 1,200 V, three-phase and water-cooled SiC MOSFET power modules.

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Bugs, good and bad

Envirotec Magazine

A new study seems to show that chlorinated water supplies don’t disturb healthy gut microbiomes in young children, addressing concerns that such effects could lead to longer-term susceptibility to chronic disease. Child retrieves chlorine-treated water from a rural kiosk in Kenya. More than 2,000 children die every day around the world simply because they lack clean drinking water, according to the US Centres for Disease Control.

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Li-Cycle to use Veolia’s HPD crystallization tech at its Rochester Hub

Charged

Battery recycling firm Li-Cycle has partnered with Veolia Water Technologies , a designer of water treatment plants and equipment, to use its HPD crystallization technology for battery recycling at its Rochester Hub, a facility scheduled to be fully operational in 2023. HPD crystallization is used in the final stage of the battery recycling process to produce nickel sulfate and cobalt sulfate.

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Sponsored Content: Reciprocating action solves heat exchange challenges

Envirotec Magazine

By Matt Hale, International Sales & Marketing Director, HRS Heat Exchangers. Scraped surface heat exchangers (SSHEs) have been used for difficult heat transfer applications involving viscous fluids or where fouling is an issue, such as sludge evaporation. The HRS Unicus Series is specifically designed to provide the improved heat transfer of a traditional SSHE but is suitable for a range of wastewater and sludge applications including digestate pasteurisation and sludge evaporation.

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Energy Vault starts work on 100MWh gravity-based storage system in China

Renew Economy

Energy Vault says it has begun construction of a "world first" gravity energy storage system next to a wind farm in China. The post Energy Vault starts work on 100MWh gravity-based storage system in China appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Slurry spill precautions

Envirotec Magazine

Following a major pollution incident in late March that caused a catastrophic fish kill in the Ballinderry River in Northern Ireland, The Rivers Trust has called on all farmers across the UK and Ireland to urgently check their equipment to prevent further incidents elsewhere. Mark Horton of the conservation charity made the appeal to all farmers “to urgently check there is sufficient capacity in their slurry stores and that all above ground slurry tank valves are properly maintained and se

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Global oil giant poised to buy in to massive Pilbara wind and solar hub

Renew Economy

Global oil giant expected to buy a significant stake in Asia Renewable Energy Hub in the Pilbara, according to reports. The post Global oil giant poised to buy in to massive Pilbara wind and solar hub appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Ballast tanks keep gates open

Envirotec Magazine

The new stainless steel ballast tanks, ECS Engineering Services has completed an overhaul of the radial gate at Pillings on the River Soar in Leicestershire, a vital asset for controlling water levels upstream. The group has replaced the ballast tanks and carried out preventative maintenance on the gate for the EA. With its shallow gradient, the River Soar has been prone to flooding during heavy rainfall in the past.

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Grok meets AGL before going into campaign mode against coal demerger

Renew Economy

Cannon-Brookes meets AGL chair and CEO before launching campaign against demerger and slow pace of coal exit. The post Grok meets AGL before going into campaign mode against coal demerger appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Circular solution for screenings?

Envirotec Magazine

A seemingly eco-friendly way of dealing with wet wipes clogging up sewage systems is in the pipeline, or so claims Edinburgh-based circular economy start-up Carbogenics, which recently received funding for a trial project with Scottish Water. At the moment, non-degradable materials such as wet wipes, nappies and sanitary items are “screened” – filtered out – as they arrive at wastewater treatment works via the sewer system.

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20-year SaaS partnership signals priority shift for energy firms

Smart Energy International

Energy generation and storage specialist, Ylem Energy, has signed a 20-year software-as-a-service (SaaS) partnership with energy technology solutions provider, Origami. The partnership will see Ylem’s portfolio of low carbon, on-site generation and storage assets integrate with the Origami energy data platform. Whereas standard SaaS contracts range between five to seven years, the partnership between Ylem and Origami, which spans an asset’s lifetime, is thought to signal a shift in priorities fo