The News Review:
- Business Briefs – February 9 2008
- L&T wins Rs 1107 cr order from SAIL
- rganising Committee: Sri Radha Kalyana mahotsavam unchavruthi Sri…
- Energy-efficiency visionary
- Dentists filtering out mercury
- Appeals court rejects Bush administration’s mercury emission…
Business Briefs – February 9 2008
Madison Courier – Feb 9, 2008
2006 as an associate engineer in the Performance Department. Critchlow plant engineer-operations recently celebrated his anniversary for 30 years of service to the company. Critchlow joined the company on June 13 1977 as a performance engineer in the Performance Department. During the following year he transferred to the company headquarters in Piketon as an associate production and environmental engineer. In 1980 he was promoted to production and environmental engineer and in 1982 to senior field engineer-production and environmental. In 1984 he transferred back to the Clifty Creek Plant as an assistant chief performance engineer in the Performance Department.
L&T wins Rs 1107 cr order from SAIL
Central Chronicle – Feb 9, 2008
Larsen & Toubro bagged orders worth Rs 1107 crore from SAIL for the turnkey construction of coal and coke handling plant and base mix preparation plant at IISC Steel Plant at Burnpur L&T said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. “L&T is a leading player in the field of Bulk Material Handling Projects and has been active in this field for over 27 years catering to steel power port and cement sector requirements. Further L&T is well known for its track record of high quality and on-time delivery” L&T President (construction) and board member K V Rangaswami said. The construction division of L&T ECC would execute this order and this turnkey project would be completed in 26 months it said… Further L&T is well known for its track record of high quality and on-time delivery” L&T President (construction) and board member K V Rangaswami said. The construction division of L&T ECC would execute this order and this turnkey project would be completed in 26 months it said. “L&T has already signed a contract for executing the sinter plant package for SAIL at IISC Steel Plant on a turnkey basis. With these orders L&T has emerged as the largest partner in the implementation of 2. 5 mtpa modernisation project at IISC Burnpur” Rangaswami added. The scope of work includes basic and detail engineering civil and structural works testing and commissioning of the same.
rganising Committee: Sri Radha Kalyana mahotsavam unchavruthi Sri…
Hindu – Feb 9, 2008
CULTUREKurinji College of Engineering and Technology Manapparai: ‘The Boss Fest-2008’ intra-college cultural festival inauguration Karikalan from Srimad Andavar College of Arts and Science chief guest P. Selvaraj Chairman JJ CET presides 3 p. Subramanian president Tamil Nadu Consumer Protection and Service Centre Sivakasi distributes prizes 8… Joseph’s College: The Rapinat Herbarium and Centre for Molucular Systematics workshop on use of Biological tools N. Sivaraj senior scientist National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources Hyderabad speaks on ‘plant genetic resources and conservation’ 9. Social Work Department of Urumu Dhanalakshmi College and SEVAI: Awareness programme S. Suvetha chief guest R.
Energy-efficiency visionary
Rocky Mountain News – Feb 9, 2008
And that’s infectious” says Westbrook sustainable development manager at Texas Instruments. The Dallas maker of semiconductors consulted with Lovins and his Rocky Mountain Institute team on designing a new production plant in Richardson Texas. The $300 million plant completed in 2006 is built to use 35 percent less water and 20 percent less energy than a traditional semiconductor plant. TI spent a little less than $2 million on “green” features such as waterless urinals and a solar water heater for administrative areas. The company is waiting for conditions in the semiconductor market to improve before it revs up production. nce it does TI expects to reap $1 million in “efficiency gains” in the first year and more than $4 million a year once the plant is fully operational. The upshot: The nearly $2 million in “green” investments would be recouped in less than two years… nce it does TI expects to reap $1 million in “efficiency gains” in the first year and more than $4 million a year once the plant is fully operational. The upshot: The nearly $2 million in “green” investments would be recouped in less than two years. TI is using similar design features at two new facilities in the Philippines. Lovins’ philosophy is spelled out in a 2004 book Winning the il Endgame bankrolled in part by the Pentagon. The goal is to get the United States off imported oil by 2040 and end the nation’s use of oil by 2050. Ultra-light superefficient cars SUVs trucks and planes would play a key role as would energy-efficient buildings factories and renewable fuels. “Because saving and substitution for oil costs less than buying it our study finds a net savings of $70 billion a year” Lovins said when the book was issued.
Dentists filtering out mercury
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Feb 9, 2008
They are curtailing discharges of the metal as part of a strategy to reduce both contamination of fish in lakes and rivers and the risk of ill health effects to the people who eat those fish. Unless there is a large industrial source in a community about 50% of the mercury in wastewater flowing to sewage treatment plants comes from dental offices using silver amalgam said Randy Case community mercury reduction coordinator with the state Department of Natural Resources. Any Wisconsin sewage treatment plant that cannot meet stringent mercury discharge limits must implement programs in its community to minimize the volume of the metal flushed to sewers Case said. The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District and 25 others in the state are the first group required to test treated wastewater for remaining mercury. Mandates for dentists Though treatment plant operators have approached hospitals medical clinics and schools with voluntary plans to keep mercury out of their drains MMSD and several other municipal wastewater utilities are mandating use of special mercury collection devices at dental offices. Silver-colored fillings are formed from an amalgam containing 50% liquid mercury and several other metals: silver tin copper and zinc. Mercury has been used in fillings for more than 150 years because it can be easily shaped is inexpensive and it adheres to a tooth under wet conditions inside a mouth… Use of silver fillings is declining however as resin composites and other substitutes become more widely used for repairing cavities in teeth. Bacteria in lakes and rivers transform elemental mercury to a toxic methyl form that can accumulate in fish and damage the health of people who eat the fish. Almost all waste amalgam can be removed from a dental office’s wastewater through a series of relatively inexpensive steps said Tom Nowicki a senior industrial waste engineer with MMSD. A trap in the chair-side vacuum line collects large chunks of the alloy drilled out of teeth. And the installation of filters or gravity separators can remove 95% or more of the remaining amalgam in the sludge of water saliva and other fluids suctioned out of a mouth Nowicki said. Compliance rate Feb. 1 was the final day for dental offices in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s four-county service area and in the Racine sewerage district to comply with local separator mandates.
Appeals court rejects Bush administration’s mercury emission…
Great Falls Tribune – Feb 9, 2008
“The MEIC along with other environmental and public health groups urged the DEQ to adopt the more stringent maximum achievable control technology standards when the agency was is the process of formulating the state’s mercury rules in 2006. The DEQ instead adopted a rule that calls for the “best available control technology” a lower standard of emission control. Debbie Skibicki lead environmental engineer for the DEQ’s resource management bureau said it’s too soon to tell if the appeals court’s ruling will require the DEQ to modify its mercury rule. She said the agency won’t know if Montana’s existing mercury emission-control standard will end up meeting the maximum achievable control technology standard the EPA might eventually adopt. “I would guess that Montana’s standards will be comparable but I don’t know” Skibicki said. “It will take some time for the EPA to come up with its decision. “Abigail Dillen an attorney for the environmental law firm Earth Justice said the state will probably have to revisit its mercury rule… She said there is little doubt that the state’s rule fails to comply with the stricter requirement in the Clean Air Act. “Let’s take Highwood (Generating Station) as an example. They have an emission limit that at most will require the plant to control 90 percent of its mercury emissions” Dillen said of the coal-fired power plant proposed eight miles east of Great Falls. “We know that right now by using maximum achievable control technologies you can get a lot higher level of control than that. “Dillen said some coal plants in the United States are controlling as much as 95 percent of their mercury using existing technology. “Ninety percent is by no means the high mark and the high mark is what’s required” Dillen said. Jeff Chaffee is the vice president of Bison Engineering Inc.