Every wastewater treatment plant spends money getting rid of ammonia. At Severn Trent Water alone, aeration to oxidise ammonia to nitrate costs around £1 million a year, burning through 10 GWh of electricity and generating roughly 5,000 tonnes of CO2 in the process....
Ammonia production accounts for between 3% and 5% of the world's natural gas production. This consumption equates to between 1% and 2% of the world’s energy supply. Here on earth, it requires a great deal of effort to produce ammonia. The following article,...
A new palm oil mill in Kutai Timur, East Kalimantan, is processing 60 tonnes of fresh fruit bunches an hour and with them, up to 600 cubic metres a day of palm oil mill effluent (POME) carrying a chemical oxygen demand (COD) of roughly 100,000 g/m³. That's an enormous...
The problem SBI Group runs a landfill site in Victoria, Australia, and needed to deal with residual odour from its landfill gas stream. The gas doesn't arrive clean: it's a lean, wet mixture — 25% to 50% methane by volume, saturated with moisture, carrying 0% to 5%...
