Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Japanese knotweed removal firm Environet UK has developed a method for converting waste from Japanese knotweed and other invasive plants into biochar, with the potential to eliminate the need for environmentally damaging and expensive landfill disposal in the future.

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Waste Waste Carbon-negative Soil 188

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Materials technology firm Betolar has been granted a patent for a method for converting mining waste material into a reinforcing binder. Hence it creates value for the waste material now generating costs. The treatment and storage of waste materials in mining areas also require massive storage pools.

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Carbon Patents Waste Waste 147

Green Business Bureau

JULY 20, 2021

cities, Replate is a tech-driven nonprofit that combats food waste by connecting food donors and food rescuers together. Food waste is both a social and environmental issue and by finding a way to fully utilize perfectly good food, insecure communities find relief and the environmental repercussions of food waste are avoided.

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Waste Waste Climate change Organic 148

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2022

The Royal Mint has announced plans to build a “world first” plant in South Wales to recover gold from UK electronic waste. The government-owned mint is using patented new chemistry – created by Canadian based Excir – to recover gold within the circuit boards of laptops and mobile phones.

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Waste Waste Patents Recycling 298

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2023

Salinity Solutions says its technology more than halves the energy used, with the help of a patented combination of a pressure exchange vessel and advanced recirculation control. It also generates around 80% less waste than conventional RO methods, says the firm. Conventional RO expends a lot of energy pumping water through a membrane.

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Patents Lithium Waste Waste 130

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2023

Multistage evaporation is a key process in many ZLD systems, with the waste stream being concentrated to a point just below full saturation. To overcome this and maintain thermal efficiency and process effectiveness, HRS ZLD systems utilise the patented HRS Unicus Series of reciprocating scraped surface heat exchangers.

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Patents Waste Waste Cooling 130

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

WPL’s patented technology is fully compliant with Environment Agency regulations, which means final effluent can be safely discharged to a soakaway or watercourse. WPL continues to see an increase in enquiries about its packaged wastewater treatment plants, which can remove up to 65% of nutrients found in wastewater.

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Waste Waste Patents Packaging 130

Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A research team at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a system capable of converting waste from sewage, food crops, algae and other renewable carbon sources into hydrogen fuel. From here, the waste stream undergoes a catalytic conversion, with biocrude being converted to useful oils and paraffin.

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Waste Waste Hydrogen Carbon-negative 99

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

A new study looks at the use of gold extracted from electronic waste as catalysts for reactions that could be applied to making medicines. Re-using gold from electronic waste prevents it from being lost to landfill, and using this reclaimed gold for drug manufacture reduces the need to mine new materials.

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Sustainability Recycling Recycling Waste 235

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2023

The PigProGrAm project includes Membracon’s Downflow Gas Contactor (DGC), described as “a patented technology that excels in a wide variety of gas separation applications, such as industrial carbon capture.”. He said the DGC will be used “to help generate a route for the livestock sector to become truly sustainable.”

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Patents Carbon-negative Agriculture Waste 130

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

Te-Tech will manufacture and market Salinity Solutions’ patented, batch reverse osmosis technology, which is said to deliver significant advantages over conventional reverse osmosis technology. One patent has already been granted and four more are in the pipeline. Since it was founded, Salinity Solutions has raised over £1.5m

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Patents Technology Waste Waste 237

Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Siemens Energy has signed an agreement with Canada-based TC Energy Corporation (TC Energy) to commission what is said to be a first-of-its-kind waste heat-to-power pilot installation in Alberta. The facility will capture waste heat from a gas-fired turbine operating at a pipeline compression station and convert it into emissions-free power.

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Waste Waste Energy Energy 113

Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A closer look at CIC energiGUNE innovative patent system for producing hydrogen fuel from plastic materials. CIC energiGUNE has pioneered an innovative catalytic system that uses ionic liquids to generate hydrogen from plastic waste. A significant part of this trend involves transforming waste into hydrogen fuel.

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Plastics Hydrogen Waste Waste 83

Charged

JULY 4, 2023

Nth Cycle’s electro-extraction technology will convert metal scrap, electronics waste, undeveloped mining resources and refinery waste into nickel and cobalt through its premium Mixed Hydroxide Precipitate (MHP) product at the new plant.

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Patents Lithium Waste Waste 121

Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Veolia is partnering with Carbon Clean to trial a new carbon capture technology, while a separate £300m energy-from-waste facility in Teesside was this week granted planning permission. million tonnes of non-recyclable waste and use it to generate electricity sufficient to power 400,000 homes.

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Waste Waste Carbon Energy 97

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Designed to reduce the risk of prolonged exposure, its patented design represents the biggest technological step change in asbestos safety management for decades. Alert Technology writes: The award-winning ALERT PRO Connect is the world’s first and only real-time airborne asbestos monitor and alarm.

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Patents Technology Innovation Waste 130

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

In a year-long trial project that began in February, Carbogenics will put these “screenings” through the high-temperature low-oxygen process of pyrolysis, to produce a patent-pending biochar. Carbogenics says it already uses pyrolysis to turn waste paper into a patent-pending product called CreChar.

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Patents Waste Waste Europe 130

Charged

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Li-Metal , a developer of lithium metal anode and lithium metal production technologies, has demonstrated an electrolyte reconditioning process that it calls “a pivotal component supporting Li-Metal’s patented and modular carbonate-to-metal (C2M) technology for lithium metal production.”

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Carbon Lithium Patents Technology 118

Charged

MAY 23, 2022

GM has announced that its current Ultium platform-based EVs come standard with an energy recovery system composed of a patented heat pump and technology that recovers waste heat from the vehicle as well as humidity from inside and outside the vehicle. .

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Technology Patents Batteries Waste 124

ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 21, 2024

The key component to this method is the proprietary liquid component that has been patented by AirMyne. Patent documents indicate it to be one or more variants of quaternary ammonium compounds, which are already widely used in many household products.

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Startups Patents Carbon Waste 97

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Katie Smith is a Technical Assistant with Reddie & Grose LLP, a firm of patent, trade mark and design attorneys. Last year the European Patent Office and the International Energy Agency published a detailed report on innovation in batteries and electricity storage. Energy storage is widely viewed as a potential solution.

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Cooling Patents Energy Energy 162

Michael Grossman

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” Unfortunately, as millions of broke patent holders have discovered over the last couple hundred years, the recipe for success also requires money, timing, necessity, novelty, competitive advantage, and luck. If you have to include credentials, patents, and history, place them further back in the auditorium.

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Patents Climate change Cooling Pollution 147

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The Japanese knotweed removal industry generates thousands of tonnes of plant waste every year which is consigned to landfill sites where it either regrows or decays, giving off harmful gases such as methane. We recognise our business activities create waste and emissions to land, air and water which we seek to mitigate as best we can.

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Soil Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Waste 244

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The company behind the project, Yes Recycling, writes: As an experienced recycler, we specialise in hard-to-recycle plastics, including banknotes, hard hats, printed packaging film, and post-industrial and construction waste streams.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Waste 245

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

“We see hydrogen as an opportunity to decarbonise key pillars of our society – including things that form part of our critical infrastructure like water and waste,” said Dr Baxter. It is a circular economy of energy and waste.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2023

Founders Abdulbari Belouafi and Ibrahim Albaik first met as graduate researchers at the University of Birmingham, after which they worked on developing the breakthrough technology, which has broad-based patent protection. Abdulbari said: “As first-time innovators we were unaware of the range of support that is available.

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Innovation Technology Incubators Incubators 130

Charged

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Ionic MT uses a patented continuous production process that enables low-impact, high-capacity operations. The company also uses chemical recycling techniques to transform waste into value-added by-products, which it says results in a substantially reduced carbon footprint compared to conventional EV battery materials.

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Patents Batteries Lithium Technology 110

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A Scottish-based manufacturing facility which will enable the production of lower carbon cement products has secured a £500,000 award from Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Investment Fund. The product was also short-listed as a finalist in the 2021 National Recycling Awards.

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Innovation Sustainability Waste Waste 130

Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Startups Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Gaute Juliussen, CEO and Founder of Toraphene, commented: “Amidst a climate crisis, plastic waste is known to be a huge, global problem and many plastic alternatives now exist, so why don’t we see them everywhere?”. Such plastics make up 23 percent of marine waste.

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Biodegradable Plastics Packaging Biotech 246

Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The patented Hazer Process, a pioneering technology developed by Hazer Group , marks a significant departure from conventional methods by transforming natural gas into hydrogen and graphite, with the ingenious use of iron ore as a catalyst.

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Hydrogen Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 108

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

She says, “having an open chimney is a terrible waste of energy. After developing and patenting the Chimney Sheep, Phillips took the product to market in 2012 not knowing what demand would be like for her innovation. It’s like leaving a window wide open all the time.

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Patents Innovation Waste Waste 242

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

By 1964 the company was also manufacturing air-cooled heat exchangers, sulphur condensers and waste heat boilers, which still remain core products to the present day. HRS clients come from a wide variety of industries, including food production, water and waste management, environmental, AD/biogas and industrial sectors.

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Patents Waste Waste Technology 130

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 22, 2020

After five years and $3 million worth of research and development, two Pennsylvania scientists have developed a proprietary process to create a brand new, 100% leather waste fiber. Pennsylvania scientists develop 100% leather waste fiber made from scraps. Related: Oliver Co. Original post:Â .

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Waste Waste Recycled materials Patents 36

Charged

APRIL 19, 2023

Novalith is working to commercialize its patented LiCAL technology for lithium extraction and refining from lithium ores such as spodumene and clays. We want to take this one step further and turn carbon waste into carbon value. We’re using CO 2 and sequestering it as part of our process.

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Lithium Technology Investment Batteries 137

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The act of wasting food when people don’t have enough to eat is a tragedy that dates back to the beginning of time, retold generation after generation by fear-mongering mothers hoping their kids will finish dinner. A month… if you’re proactive! Replate lets tech do the hard work. There are other companies following this trend.

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Waste Waste Patents Methane 147

AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

With the globally patented Trombia technology we are able to take down the power requirement dramatically, so turning it into a beautiful and powerful, electrified and autonomous device has been an exciting journey to this day.” Trombia tests a fully autonomous electric street sweeper that doesnt waste water. Excerpt from:Â .

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Waste Waste Electricity Patents 36