Anyone who owns or operates a boiler and wants to generate more power from their combustion equipment faces several challenges, as they need to comply with numerous economic, environmental, legal, political and technical regulations pertaining to atmospheric emissions. In...
[caption id="attachment_1123" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Two digesters at the Black River wastewater treatment plant near Baltimore, Maryland[/caption] Anaerobic digestion is the most commonly used method of wastewater sludge treatment, where the primary aim is to break down the sludge in order...
[caption id="attachment_1105" align="alignnone" width="640"] Trash pickers on Lagos landfill [Credit: Rainer Wozny / Heinrich Böll Foundation, via Flickr][/caption] Fueled by population growth and consumerism, the mountains of waste at landfills across the planet just grow and grow. Over a billion...
With Thanksgiving officially done and dusted, we can now sit back and reflect on the amount of food that is consumed, and wasted, during this traditional annual celebratory feast. Thanksgiving, which traditionally began as a day of giving thanks...
Biogas is natural gas that is produced as organic matter naturally decomposes. Biogas is comprised largely of methane (around 50%) and to a lesser degree carbon dioxide, but may also have traces of other gases such as nitrogen and hydrogen...
The EPA has launched the Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP), a voluntary program that encourages waste managers and other stakeholders in the landfill industry to reduce methane emissions from landfill sites. Rather than being released into the atmosphere as a...
The EPA is Currently Soliciting Recommendations on Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda - Open for Public Comment until May 15, 2017 The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently requesting recommendations on existing regulations that could be repealed, replaced or...
Brevard County Florida based, Veteran-Owned Small Business Diamond Scientific has been awarded an extension by the Center for Verification and Evaluation of the Veteran Administration as a verified Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) until March, 28, 2020. As a Veteran-Owned Small...
Diamond Scientific is very pleased to have been involved with the development of the first new class 1 landfill at the Central Disposal Facility for Brevard County, Florida, consisting of approximately 41 acres expansion at the site located at 2250...
