Wastewater treatment system recovers electricity, filters water
Whether wastewater is full of "waste" is a matter of perspective.
Whether wastewater is full of "waste" is a matter of perspective.
Earth Sciences
May 10, 2021
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Around the world, economic development has been accompanied by the generation of about 2 billion tons of urban waste each year. The developed nations have put a lot of effort into sorting out recyclable materials, but there ...
Environment
May 5, 2021
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A wide variety of portable and wearable electronics have become a large part of our daily lives, so a group of Stanford University researchers wondered if these could be powered by harvesting electricity from the waste heat ...
Nanophysics
Apr 27, 2021
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Waste materials from the pulp and paper industry have long been seen as possible fillers for building products like cement, but for years these materials have ended up in the landfill. Now, researchers at UBC Okanagan are ...
Materials Science
Apr 8, 2021
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Thermoelectric technology can generate electricity from waste heat, although their performance can result in a bottleneck for wider applications. Materials scientists can regulate the configurational entropy of a material ...
A lot of material is wasted when clothes are produced; reducing this waste requires new ways of thinking. "The system was built up during a time when we thought that the earth's resources were unlimited, which we now know ...
Environment
Feb 9, 2021
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Plastic pollution has become one of the most complex environmental issues, especially in the context of increasing production and demand for plastic materials. While innovations in polymer chemistry have radically changed ...
Polymers
Jan 25, 2021
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In the summer of 2014 a strange building began to take shape just outside MoMA PS1, a contemporary art centre in New York City. It looked like someone had started building an igloo and then got carried away, so that the ice-white ...
Materials Science
Jan 15, 2021
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The shift from fossil-based to renewable bio-plastics requires new efficient methods. New technology developed at VTT enables the use of pectin-containing agricultural waste, such as citrus peel and sugar beet pulp, as raw ...
Biochemistry
Dec 8, 2020
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Results of a new five-year study of recycled concrete show that it performs as well, and in several cases even better, than conventional concrete.
Materials Science
Nov 30, 2020
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