White Papers


Sustainability Plus: How Renewable Energy Helps Conserve, Move and Heat Water while Curtailing Emissions and Saving Money

There is much more to renewable energy than saving fossil fuels and improving carbon emissions. Because water and energy are closely connected, technologies like wind and solar power, digester-gas-to-energy, and geothermal heating and cooling also help make optimal use of increasingly stressed water resources.


Savings Multiplied: Conserving Water and Energy to Maximize Efficiency and Reduce Emissions

Water and energy are closely intertwined: Conserving one inevitably conserves the other. Similar disciplines drive water and energy savings and help communities, businesses and households operate more sustainably.


The Evolving Concept of the Discharge of Dredged and Fill Material

Because dredged material and other material that is defined as fill are also defined as “pollutants,” the overlap has generated controversy over whether discharges of certain dredged or fill material must be authorized by a permit under only the Clean Water Act Section 404 or under both Sections 402 and 404.


Mercury Control with Regenerative Activated Coke Technology

The multi-pollutant control ReACT™ technology is a completely dry scrubbing system based on adsorption of SO2, SO3, and Hg and reduction of NOx to N2 on activated coke in a moving bed, with regeneration of the coke for return to the adsorber, and production of saleable byproduct, such as sulfuric acid, from desorbed sulfur rich gases.


The Executive's Guide to Global Climate Change

Global Climate Change is a growing concern as organizations adjust to ever-changing disclosure mandates, while trying to gain a competitive advantage through implementation of climate strategies to reduce GHG emissions. Towards this end, many organizations are trying to forge ahead utilizing manual processes and disparate legacy systems that only provide limited support for assessment of current conditions and hinder the development of forward looking business strategies. Read this paper to learn why a robust information management strategy is needed to support your organization’s overall climate strategy and GHG inventory management plan.


Building Sustainability in Hard Times: Integrated EHS Platforms Support Cost Savings

Organizations worldwide are looking for ways to reduce their environmental footprint, efficiently monitor greenhouse gas emissions, limit costly workplace injuries and mitigate business disruption from unplanned incidents. Download this paper to learn about a practical, hands-on approach for justifying your next sustainability IT investment.


Refrigerant Management: Compliance from the Plant Floor to the Boardroom

As the White House and Congress shift to more stringent environmental policy, and the EPA increases climate change legislation, implementing a refrigerant compliance plan is more critical to your supply chain and manufacturing operations than ever before. Learn more…


Developing Virtual Sensors to Monitor Disinfection Byproducts

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is placing stricter limits on the formation of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in water treatment facilities. The new limits pose a serious challenge to plant operators because the most critical (highest) areas of the water system must be sampled and each site must stand independent of system-wide averaging.




Why Activated Carbon Makes Sense for PCB Remediation

For about 50 years, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were commonly used in industrial materials including, caulking, cutting oils, inks, paints and as dielectric fluids in electrical equipment such as transformers and capacitors. Concerns over health effects led to a North American ban of manufacturing PCBs in 1977. By the mid-1980s, an initiative was started to clean up contaminated areas and to phase out PCB-containing equipment and products that were still in use. This cleanup effort continues today.


Tuning the Forgotten Loop

The purpose of tuning loops is to reduce errors and thus provide more efficient operation that returns quickly to steady-state efficiency after upsets, errors or changes in load. State-of-the-art manufacturers in process and discrete industries have invested in advanced control software, manufacturing execution software and modeling software to “tune” everything from control loops to supply chains, thus driving higher quality and productivity.