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MARCH 18, 2012

GE’s wastewater evaporation technologies have been selected to improve wastewater recovery at an existing oil sands project near Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. To date, 14 SAGD projects have selected GE evaporation technologies, including six over the past 19 months, for their produced water and OTSG blowdown treatment applications.

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MAY 19, 2013

The Government of Canada is supporting a three-year project that will result in the construction of a $19-million, demonstration-scale facility in Alberta that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 10, 2011

GreenField Ethanol, Canada’s largest ethanol producer, announced the launch of G2BioChem , a collaborative effort between GreenField, industrial process solutions company Andritz and enzyme developer Novozymes. The group is committed to making transportation fuel from agricultural waste, energy crops and forest biomass.

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APRIL 13, 2022

GM and POSCO Chemical are building a new facility in Quebec, Canada, as part of their joint venture to produce CAM for GM’s Ultium batteries. The ore is then mixed with water to form a slurry for processing in the HPAL circuit. The HPAL circuit consists of four titanium-lined autoclaves, each the size of a small submarine.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah. Overlay of the proposed plant site on the terrain.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

million in funding through the Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) initiative, and close to C$10 million from industry and other contributions. These partnerships will be supported with funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. This includes C$6.5

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Next, these fats are processed into renewable diesel by: Hydrotreating: Using high pressure hydrogen to remove the oxygen (which is converted to water). The petroleum refineries are located in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and the ethanol plants are located in the Mid-Continent region of the US.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The BMW Group intends to source aluminum with significantly reduced CO 2 emissions from Rio Tinto’s hydro-powered operations in Canada starting in 2024 and has signed a memorandum of understanding to this effect. Compared to conventionally manufactured aluminum, this approach can save around 70% of CO 2 emissions.

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APRIL 26, 2023

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), and Cap Clean Energy, a clean energy development company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop biofuels facilities in Canada to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) for the heavy duty transport sector.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Canada-based Mangrove Lithium closed a $3-million financing from BDC Capital’s Cleantech Practice. The platform technology is also being commercialized for conversion of waste brines to chemicals and desalinated water. The Mangrove technology is derivative of the company’s original focus on the treatment of produced water.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought problem and also makes it possible to pump more oil out of the ground. At the same time, the new technology uses no chemicals, rendering it quite possibly the ‘greenest’ water processing technology in operation today.

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MARCH 17, 2011

The Penn State separation method uses very little energy and water, and all solvents are recycled and reused. The separation takes place at room temperature without the generation of waste process water. Extraction and separation of bitumen from surface-mined oil sands involves the use of significant amounts of energy and water.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

The tailings storage facility at Imperial Metals Corporation’s Mount Polley mine was breached , early Monday morning, releasing an undetermined amount of water and tailings in the early morning of 4 August. Mount Polley is an open pit copper/gold mine with a developing underground project, located in south-central British Columbia, Canada.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Canada-based Forge Hydrocarbons Corporation, a spin-off from the University of Alberta ( earlier post ), has received a US$4-million from Lockheed Martin under the Industrial and Technological Benefits (ITB) Policy. million contribution by Sustainable Development Technology Canada. C until the oxygen within is released.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Researchers at the University of Waterloo (Canada) have demonstrated a single-step solid acid-catalyzed process with the potential for industrial-scale production of biodiesel from high free fatty acid (FFA) feedstocks. FFA content in waste oils and fats can range from 3 to 40%. These values can be reduced further by water washing.

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Production Oil Waste Conversion 239

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APRIL 27, 2011

Waste heat recovery. FT cooling water system. was awarded the EPC contract for the balance of plant and the GTL demonstration plant was constructed at Zeton’s facility in Burlington, Canada. Pre-reforming. Process steam generation. Syngas compression. Fischer Tropsch synthesis. Tail gas recycling. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

(JAPEX), will postpone making a final investment decision (FID) for the Hangingstone Oil Sands Expansion Project ( earlier post ) in Alberta Province, Canada, based on a longer-than-expected approval process with the Alberta authorities. infrastructure expansion to the site including a natural gas pipeline (by JACOS), diluent and diluted.

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Green hydrogen is a carbon-free method that uses an electrolyzer to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gas. The low efficiency of available electrolyzers means that most of the energy in the water-splitting step is wasted as heat, rather than being captured in the hydrogen.

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APRIL 23, 2020

Canada-based DeepGreen Metals Inc., 100% reduction in solid waste. Polymetallic nodules are hard, compact lumps of matter formed through precipitation and interactions of water contained in seafloor sediments (pore waters) and more oxidized seawaters. 94% less stored carbon at risk. 94% less land use.

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Batteries Battery Tonga Water 269

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MAY 21, 2010

Other environmental footprint concerns associated with oil sands development touched on by the IHS CERA report include water use; land disturbance and reclamation; and tailings. Net water use in oil sands production averages four barrels of water per barrel of bitumen for mining operations and 0.9 Conventional oil uses 0.1

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Varennes Carbon Recycling (VCR) will produce biofuels and renewable chemicals made from non-recyclable residual materials as well as wood waste. The water electrolysis plant will require an investment of about $200 million from Hydro-Québec, which will be the sole shareholder.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Canada-based biomass-to-gasoline company CORE BioFuel Inc. based in Toronto, Canada. Osprey Capital will secure equity investment capital to fund the completion of construction engineering for CORE’s first wood-to-Green Gasoline plant to be built in Canada.

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DECEMBER 22, 2024

They say that as if the waste heat from fuel cells was. continued] The post Heat Pumps For Electric Buses Blow Another Meme Out Of Water appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

Researchers at the Universities of Calgary and Alberta are collaborating on a project for the microbial remediation of oil sands tailings—the waste byproducts of oil sands surface mining that are collected in large manufactured settling basins called tailing ponds. Those consortia of biofilms are able to, slowly, detoxify the water.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Xylathin also reduces grain water retention lowering grain drying energy requirements. The main markets for Xylathin are Europe and Canada, which are the largest global regions that process wheat into fuel ethanol. The faster acting enzyme allows producers to shorten retention times and reduce enzyme dose. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 6, 2023

GEM had provided Volt Carbon with a single 5 kilogram sample of crushed feedstock that was obtained from GEM’s 100%-owned Berkwood Graphite project in Québec, Canada. Green Battery Minerals (GEM) and Volt Carbon Technologies (VCT) have signed a preliminary mineral processing agreement. yield of graphite flakes per kilogram of feedstock.

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Volt Carbon Green Batteries 221

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MAY 16, 2022

Canada-based battery materials company Euro Manganese (EMN) reported that the first shipment of the components of its demonstration plant to be sited in Chvaletice, Czech Republic is underway from China, where the components of the plant are being assembled. Chvaletice is not a mining project. Background.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Westinghouse AP-1000, advanced pressured water reactor (APWR, about 1,200MW capacity. GE Hitachi ABWR (advanced boiling water reactor), 1,300-1,600MW. Atomic Energy of Canada ACR (Advanced CANDU Reactor), 1,200MW. India PHWR (pressurized heavy water reactor),540-700MW. Super-Critical Water-cooled Reactor (SCWR).

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Producers in Canada had conceded defeat by 2008 and the US industry was reduced to just one player that would probably not still be around were it not for punitive anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of Chinese magnesium. The source of magnesium can be from sea water, brine, dolomite, magnesite, and carnallite.

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JUNE 28, 2017

Canada-based SBI has a patented process that can convert a wide range of waste oils, greases and sustainable vegetable oils into lower carbon drop-ins for diesel, jet fuel and gasoline. CGCs function in a way that does not require the addition of hydrogen, consumable chemicals, or water to the reaction, generate any waste stream.

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Waste Oil Renewable Convert 150

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JUNE 16, 2017

University of British Columbia (UBC) engineers have used polymeric scrap tire fibers (STF) to develop a more resilient type of concrete that could be used for concrete structures such as buildings, roads, dams and bridges, while reducing landfill waste. This fiber can be in every cubic metre of that concrete. —Nemy Banthia.

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JUNE 27, 2023

GM is scaling EV production in North America well past 1 million units annually and our direct investments in battery raw materials, processing and components for EVs are providing certainty of supply, favorable commercial terms and thousands of new jobs, especially in the US, Canada and free trade agreement countries like Australia.

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MAY 30, 2016

and Canada-based Canfor Pulp Products Inc. Licella’s Cat-HTR technology may add significant value to Canfor Pulp’s kraft process by creating new products from Canfor Pulp’s waste streams. In addition, the process liberates water versus some competitive technologies that are net water users. Len Humphreys, CEO of Licella.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Data describing emissions to air compiled from two official sources result in simulated concentrations in air, soil, water, and foliage that tend to fall close to or below the minimum measured concentrations of phenanthrene [PHE], pyrene [PYR], and benzo(a)pyrene [BaP] in the environment. Accounting for evaporative emissions (e.g.,

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MARCH 8, 2016

Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is awarding Nsolv $13 million in grant funding to commercialize its field-tested, proprietary warm solvent technology for in situ heavy oil extraction without the use of steam. Naturally occurring water and non-condensable gases are also carried along and out of the reservoir.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Ensyn (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. PGSTech (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). Mississauga, Ontario, Canada). Mesofluidic Inline Separation for Produced Water Treatment, $246,979. Lorama Group Inc.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Power-to-gas technology takes excess renewable electricity which would otherwise go to waste and converts it to hydrogen, which can then be blended with natural gas and utilized in everything from home appliances to power plants. Power-to-gas systems are currently in place in Germany and Canada.

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