Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2023

The use of so-called “negative emissions technologies” to enhance carbon sequestration and storage in the ocean is increasingly being discussed. This process, also known as alkalinization, harnesses chemical processes to alter the geochemistry of seawater and thereby increase the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Drawing upon findings recently published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), the report from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) argues that current global emissions targets are inadequate and that net negative – rather than net zero – strategies are required.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Hailing from KAUST and Aarhus University, the co-authors outline a prospectus for the cultivation and use of seaweed as a carbon capture technology, a job and tax revenue generator, and a food source. Our research consolidates seaweed farming as an underpinning of a sustainable future,” said lead author Professor Carlos Duarte. “It

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Technology firm Asahi Kasei announced the trial in September, which will evaluate the performance of a biogas purification system at a sewage treatment plant in the city. While the use of biogas as a carbon-neutral fuel is rapidly expanding, it is also used as a substitute for natural gas in Europe and the US.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2025

A new report, Developing sustainable Gen AI, published on 14 January, appears to show that generative AI has a significant and growing negative environmental impact. This increase in carbon footprint is projected to continue to grow. over the next two years.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A report from NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) seems to strengthen the case against Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), currently a key ingredient of the UK government’s climate plan. Released on 13 October, the NRDC report summarises its latest investigation into BECCS.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

These might turn out to look quite different in the future, if carbon-accounting under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) were to be based on science and the real effects on climate. Much of the biomass employed in Europe is anything but carbon neutral. Labelling forest biomass as renewable has a perverse impact on the climate.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most people seem to believe some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be necessary, although many are stil sceptical of an arguably “unproven” and ambitious technology. Envirotec writes. The same document said that CCS was “not on a trajectory” to meet the 2ºC target of over 400 MtCO2 being stored per year in 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Deploying a seemingly innovative technology configuration and design, the group behind it, LIPOR, suggests it is set to revolutionize the waste-to-energy industry while simultaneously decarbonizing the aviation sector. One of the first synthetic eFuel production units in Europe could be implemented at an Energy Recovery Plant near Porto.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters in January, the duo reported their findings from the chemical analysis of wastewater associated with mining the lithium brine at the Salar de Uyuni. Lithium, however, becomes more concentrated in the brine at each stage.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

When these molecules enter the water they cause acidification, having a negative impact on marine environments, particularly for shell forming organisms such as crabs and shellfish that rely on fragile eco-systems for survival. At present, around 25% of all CO2 emitted to the air is absorbed by the oceans.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2023

A green carbon laboratory – examining the role that the non-operational highways ‘green’ asset can play in providing a source of materials and fuels to decarbonise highway operations: South Gloucestershire Council and West Sussex County Council. The decision panel of independent experts were drawn from the highways and transportation sector.

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POWER Magazine

MARCH 1, 2024

GW Drax Power Station in northeastern England—once Western Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant—is poised to pioneer bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a negative emissions The post UK’s Drax Eyes U.S. for Bioenergy CCS Expansion Drive appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Energy-from-Waste (EfW) operator enfinium signed an agreement – on 19 March – with green technology company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) to install the UK’s first carbon capture pilot plant at an EfW facility. The aims of the pilot is to demonstrate the use of carbon capture technology at EfW facilities.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

Energy-from-waste operator enfinium has announced (on 11 April) it is progressing plans to invest around £200 million in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the Parc Adfer energy from waste facility in Deeside, North Wales. The project could capture up to 235,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year, said the group.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 11, 2023

New “bio” ropes made from biomaterials have the potential to replace conventional plastics of fossil origin in mussel and algae cultivation, say the groups behind their development, who claim sustainability advantages including up to 34% carbon footprint reduction compared to ropes made from conventional plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

A seemingly first-of-a-kind project will support the decarbonisation of the UK’s largest waste-to-energy facility, while also contributing 3% of the UK Government’s 2035 target for negative emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The phase one feasibility study will allow the consortium to assess the performance of various biogas samples in a small-scale LOOP system located at the Levidian Technology Centre in Cambridge and carry out detailed analysis to optimise the hydrogen output.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

UK energy-from-waste (Efw) operator enfinium has launched the UK’s first carbon capture pilot at an EfW site, the group announced on 16 September. The launch is described as a milestone for the sector and for the group’s plans to deploy Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology across its UK facilities to generate carbon removals at scale.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2020

There are also an increasing number of emerging technologies, currently under development, both in the UK and abroad. Put simply, the term ‘cleantech’ describes a product that aims to reduce or mitigate negative environmental impact. At the same time, carbon dioxide is released and captured, alongside oxygen and hydrogen.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

Laser technology overcomes many of the limitations of better established landfill gas measurement methods such as FID, as QED Environmental explains (pictured: The Geotech SEM5000). FID equipment burns a hydrogen flame to ionise organic compounds containing carbon to detect gasses in the atmosphere, including methane.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. To help businesses create their individual decarbonisation strategies, Siemens has published a new whitepaper suggesting a range of specific steps towards carbon neutrality. Shift to low-carbon heat.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

However, it is crucial that as we move from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, we do not not risk disturbing our planet’s largest carbon sinks by giving the destructive deep-sea mining industry the green light and opening up a new frontier of industrial extraction, writes campaign organisation the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

UK energy utility Drax has unveiled plans to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility with the goal of removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than it produces, and thereby securing “carbon negative” status. But campaign groups continue to insist that the maths behind biomass doesn’t add up.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

A technology to sanitise clothing without the water-intensive drawbacks of traditional methods is being publicised as a useful way to advance the reuse of items like clothing and PPE. With sterilisation technology, we hope to reverse much of this single-use problem. Public body Scottish Enterprise will financially support the project.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To achieve this it will require an annual reduction in carbon intensity of 9.7%, according to the latest “Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)” produced by professional services firm PwC. Regulatory intervention will be key to helping many technologies and business models reach critical lift-off point.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Randeep Somel is VP, Global Head of Communications and Sustainability with technology firm Iron Mountain. Scope 3 emissions can account for over 70% of many businesses’ carbon footprint, which means that organisations – and the world – cannot reach net-zero without taking huge strides to reduce their indirect emissions. What’s next?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Mission Zero Tech nologies (or ‘MZT’) announced the delivery and installation of their third modular system at partner Deep Sky’s carbon removal innovation and commercialisation centre, Deep Sky Labs, in Innisfail, Alberta, on 14 October.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A new technique offers a less energy-intensive way to recover lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, and uses carbon dioxide for the process rather than the high temperatures or corrosive and hazardous chemicals traditionally associated with this activity.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2022

Biomethane is the only ready-to-use technology capable of immediately greening the gas grid, currently responsible for 23% of total annual emissions. In fact, converting biomethane to green hydrogen can be net negative. By utilising the UK’s existing gas infrastructure, biomethane is a cost-effective option.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Akmez Nabeerasool is a Senior Project Manager at Arvia Technology, a provider of advanced tertiary water and wastewater treatment systems. The technology can help textile manufacturers meet the many strict discharge consent limits with respect to organics in the form of COD, colour and specific hazardous chemicals such as Nonylphenols.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

All the more so when a greenhouse gas—carbon dioxide—is used to power the process. Municipal wastewater treatment plants in large cities are insulated from the negative effects of climate change, and treated wastewater can serve as a potential water source, provided appropriate sustainable and cost-effective technologies are available.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2024

Factors including a European shortage of available seeds and tree-stock, changing climate, changing soil conditions and low seedling survival rates are negatively impacting reforestation efforts at historical estates like Blenheim. To find out more about ForestFactory, visit [link]

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. Birds and plants, and forests’ important carbon stores, are being damaged by this industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Carbon-free “green” hydrogen is produced using electrolyzers to split water molecules to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen. This is where grid operators shut down access to the grid or adopt pricing mechanisms to generate negative pricing to reduce production. Making hydrogen competitive. The result is curtailment.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2023

These show that Puraffinity’s new material performs better by lasting longer and treating three times the amount of GenX contaminants compared with current ion exchange and activated carbon technologies. www.puraffinity.com.

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