Innovation

Selecting inappropriate oil-in-water monitoring technologies can jeopardize environmental compliance, market leading maker of smart water quality monitoring equipment Rivertrace has warned.

Endress+Hauser have launched a new IIoT solution platform, Netilion, that combines digital services and system components that are intended to improve the management, life cycle, maintenance and support of instruments and analyzers.Netilion allows users to keep track of their installed base, documentation and data management, as well as instruments’ performance and health status.

ExxonMobil is conducting field trials of eight emerging methane detection technologies, including satellite and aerial surveillance monitoring, at nearly 1,000 sites in Texas and New Mexico to further reduce methane emissions.The field tests are evaluating effectiveness and scalability of a range of next-generation detection technologies that in addition to satellites use drones, planes, helicopters, ground-based mobile and fixed-position sensors.

FLIR Systems, Inc. recently announced the FLIR A400/A700 Thermal Smart Sensor and Thermal Image Streaming fixed camera solutions for monitoring equipment, production lines, critical infrastructure, and screening for elevated skin temperatures.

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) has issued a draft environmental impact statement for Holtec International’s proposed consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) called HI-STORE CISF in southeastern New Mexico.

Striving to be the first carbon neutral continent by 2050 is undoubtedly a great challenge. To achieve this, the European Commission has developed its Green Deal – an ambitious package of measures designed to enable people and businesses to transition into a green and sustainable future.

Carbon Clean Solutions Limited (CCSL), a low-cost carbon dioxide (CO2) capture & separation technology, is pleased to announce the completion of an equity investment of USD $16 Million from three global investors, WAVE Equity Partners, Chevron Technology Ventures, and Marubeni Corporation.

Aemetis, Inc announced that its subsidiary Aemetis Advanced Fuels Keyes, Inc. has received two grants for a combined total of USD $14M from the California Energy Commission to implement upgrades that would reduce natural gas use, lower greenhouse gas emissions, decrease operating costs and reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of fuel-grade ethanol produced at the Keyes plant.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and NETL have selected 16 projects to receive nearly USD $25 million in federal funding for cost-shared projects to advance natural gas infrastructure technology development.

The NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE is a global initiative, operated by the XPRIZE Foundation, designed to accelerate new technologies by converting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial facilities for electricity generation and oil & gas production into new and useful products.The competition is structured as a two-track prize, with the new technologies tested at either a coal power plant or a natural gas power plant.