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Environmental engineering firms offer retrofits of pollution controls or temporary remediation measures for factories built before emissions standards went into effect. Scrubbing systems help process plants meet strict nitrogen oxides emissions standards. Underground contaminants can be pumped to the surface and destroyed by thermal oxidation. Catalytic conversion technologies can mitigate toxic emissions at great fuel savings over thermal methods. Refrigerated liquefaction of gaseous pollutants, baghouses for steel minimills and wet electrostatic precipitators are also profiled., Restrictions on emissions continue to tighten. Older factories, built before modern environmental legislation, as well as some newer factories, are hard-pressed to comply with stricter emissions standards. Among the equipment [...]

Acquisition of the BHA Group Holdings Inc. by GE Energy has enabled it to provide comprehensive and global emission solutions to the cement industry worldwide. Installation of the pleated filter elements has proved to be beneficial in applications throughout the entire cement process from the clinker cooler baghouse to the auxiliary units.

Federal oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions rules, primarily contained in titles I and IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, will force many utilities to retrofit coal-fired generators with low-NOx equipment. NOx control methods for wall-fired boilers include flue-gas recirculation and reburning, overfire air (OFA), and low-NOx burners. Control options for tangential-fired boilers include OFA and coal/air redesign. These options are examined., BARRINGTON, ILL. U.S. electric utilities, and eventually all utilities, will have to reduce their emissions of what are popularly and politically classified as 'harmful' emissions. But it is not providing [...]

Two companies that own and operate a cement manufacturing facility near Dixon, Ill., have agreed to install state-of-the-art pollution controls to reduce air emissions and pay an $800,000 civil penalty [...]

Israel's Haifa Chemicals, a producer of specialty fertilizers, is installing equipment to reduce the output of nitrous oxide from its four nitrate producing plants. Haifa Chemicals is investing $900,000 (E695,000) [...]

Energy Bonds to fund FirstEnergy equipment FirstEnergy Corp. will receive $1.255 billion in bonds to pay for pollution control equipment at two of its coal-fired power plants in Ohio. The [...]

Dominion Resources Inc. will shell out $500 million to reduce emissions at its coal-fired power plants in Virginia to meet new reductions required under federal law. The company will finish [...]

Another New Source Review settlement has given environmental and industry groups yet another opportunity to bicker about emission reduction policy. FirstEnergy Corp. will spend $1.1 billion to reduce emissions at [...]

PPL Corp. will spend $630 million on a voluntary project to install pollution control equipment on three of its coal-fired generating units at two Pennsylvania power plants. It will add [...]

EPA announced an agreement with Premcor Refining Group that may significantly reduce harmful air pollution, including more than 4,700 tons of sulfur dioxide annually, from Premcor's petroleum refinery in Hartford, [...]

Kentucky's two largest electric companies, Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities, would spend about $2.25 billion to install additional pollution control equipment on their largest coal-burning power plants under [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Asarco announced an agreement in early November requiring the company to spend $150 million to install new equipment and pollution control technology to [...]

Coal supporters celebrated a year-end victory when the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) board of directors voted on December 30 to spend up to $185 million to install pollution controls on [...]

More than 500 old power plants and 17,000 other aging factories and refineries will be allowed to make significant equipment upgrades without having to install costly pollution control devices, according [...]

A SPIRAX SARCO flash steam recovery system is reported to be saving Cambridgeshire-based Jardin Corrugated Cases nearly [pounds sterling]40,000 per year and has reduced the company's CO2 emissions by 282 [...]

ASHEVILLE -- A federal court refused a request by the Tennessee Valley Authority to delay installation of pollution-control equipment at four coal-burning power plants blamed for fouling the air in [...]

With the need to remain in line with the Clean Smokestacks Act passed in the year 2002, Duke Power Co. has reported the estimated amount ($242 million) it is likely to spend in installing the pollution control equipment. Most of the figures presented indicate atleast a 12% increase than the previous figures it had quoted. And this is due to the higher costs of steel, concrete and other materials as well as fundamental problems in the act .

Public Service Co. of New Mexico and eight other owners of the San Juan Generating Station will spend $200 million to install and operate new pollution control technology. The investment [...]

The Environment Protection Agency(EPA) issued a final rule that will allow utilities to overhaul coal-fired plants built before the Clean Air Act of 1970 took effect. The rule clarified the law's New Source Review(NSR) requirements to install pollution-control equipment.

New York Coalition Announces $5 Million Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Grant For Cleaner Diesel Ferries: Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York two years ago, passenger water ferry serviced [...]

TasteTech, the food flavouring and fragrance company, has installed a new scrubber system to ensure there is no bad smell coming from its factory. Specially designed and custom built in-house, [...]

Domtar Inc. announced last week it plans to make C$320 million in environmental investments at nine of its pulp, paper, and packaging mills in Quebec and Ontario over the next [...]

New emissions rules promulgated by the EPA which aim to reduce toxic air emissions by 80% or over a billion pounds every year in 371 chemical plants are expected to substantially affect plants in the Texas Gulf Coast's chemical corridor. The rules call for the installation of 'maximum achievable control technologies,' which are equipment usually found in environmentally advanced plants. Compliance with the new regulations are predicted to cost these facilities $350 million within the next three to four years, according to the EPA.

Lyondell Petrochemical Co. is pressing full steam ahead with its plan to meet tough new clean air standards. The company plans to install a wet gas scrubber system on its [...]