http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:29:41 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69798 Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., is on the cusp of turning on what it says will be the largest ground source heat pump in the U.S., if not the world. The pump will cut the University’s carbon footprint roughly in half, the school says. It will also eradicate almost all of its $3 million [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:51:50 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69794 Air Products has cut the ribbon on a hydrogen manufacturing facility that uses excess gas from a neighboring ExxonMobil refinery when making its product. Hydrogen manufactured at Air Products’ Rotterdam, Netherlands, facility (pictured) is then used by the refinery for the desulphurization of oil products and in the manufacture of petrochemicals. Processes applied at the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/tools-of-the-manufacturing-trade-part-v/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/tools-of-the-manufacturing-trade-part-v/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:15:46 +0000 David Dornfeld http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69612 Software to the rescue… In part 4 of this series, I introduced the idea of the “design to production pipeline.”  This was to illustrate the design to manufacturing continuum and show a strategy whereby the designer, looking into the pipeline from the design perspective, could see the follow-on steps and requirements for successful production. Although [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/tools-of-the-manufacturing-trade-part-v/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/solvay-unveils-1mw-nedstack-fuel-cell/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/solvay-unveils-1mw-nedstack-fuel-cell/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:25:37 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69556 Chemicals company Solvay has unveiled its 1MW fuel cell built by Nedstack. The emission-free system was installed at the Solvay’s Lillo, Belgium, facility in September 2011. After a few weeks of testing, it has now been running continuously for 2 months, Nedstack says. It is currently running at 50 percent electrical efficiency, with a total [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/solvay-unveils-1mw-nedstack-fuel-cell/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/siemens-launches-drive-train-savings-estimator/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/siemens-launches-drive-train-savings-estimator/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:15:10 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69448 The Drive Technologies division of Siemens Industry Inc. has launched its online Energy Savings Estimator, a tool that allows companies using drives, motors, couplings and gearboxes to estimate potential energy savings across their entire drive train. The online Energy Savings Estimator – which Siemens says is an industry first – requires the end user to [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/siemens-launches-drive-train-savings-estimator/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/epa-green-lights-ecodual-dual-fuel-truck-conversion-kit/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/epa-green-lights-ecodual-dual-fuel-truck-conversion-kit/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:55:44 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69470 EcoDual LLC, a provider of dual fuel conversion systems for heavy duty diesel trucks, has achieved authorization from the EPA to begin installing its systems on 2004 to 2009 Cummins ISX engines. The EcoDual conversion kit currently works with the 15L Cummins ISX engine – one of the most widely used engines in heavy duty [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/epa-green-lights-ecodual-dual-fuel-truck-conversion-kit/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/ecologix-launches-fracking-water-treatment-system/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/ecologix-launches-fracking-water-treatment-system/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:18:26 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69422 Ecologix Environmental Systems, an Atlanta-based wastewater treatment company specializing in the oil and gas industry, has designed a mobile integrated treatment system for hydraulic fracturing that allows the re-use of water for future drilling. Using dissolved air flotation technology, the system can treat up to 900 gallons per minute of frac flowback water. The sped [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/ecologix-launches-fracking-water-treatment-system/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/renewables-briefing-siemens-and-army-bancorp-bets-on-renewables-and-wind-power-getting-cheaper/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/renewables-briefing-siemens-and-army-bancorp-bets-on-renewables-and-wind-power-getting-cheaper/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:53:16 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69417 Siemens Government Technologies Inc. is to build the U.S. Army’s largest solar photovoltaic system at the White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico. The 4.465 MW solar photovoltaic power generating system is part of a wider $16.8 million contract to implement energy-conserving upgrades. U.S. Bancorp, the U.S.’s fifth-largest commercial bank, is planning to invest hundreds [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/renewables-briefing-siemens-and-army-bancorp-bets-on-renewables-and-wind-power-getting-cheaper/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/hireright-implements-new-green-data-centers/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/hireright-implements-new-green-data-centers/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:20:18 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69342 Employment screening products firm HireRight has improved the efficiency of its data center infrastructure and technology. The improvements increase performance by 50 percent, decrease power consumption by 45 percent and reduce data center square footage by 60 percent, HireRight says. The new system features a 10-gigabit network capability from Cisco, uses data storage arrays from [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/hireright-implements-new-green-data-centers/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/intertek-fost-plus-launch-packaging-life-cycle-tool/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/intertek-fost-plus-launch-packaging-life-cycle-tool/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:03:48 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69346 Intertek, a provider of quality and safety services to businesses, and Beligian nonprofit Fost Plus have developed a packaging life-cycle analysis tool. Pack4ecodesign offers guidelines for eco-friendly design, and provides users with the environmental impacts of their packaging designs, suggests various methods for improvement and instantly calculates the environmental gain from proposed changes, Intertek says. The [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/intertek-fost-plus-launch-packaging-life-cycle-tool/feed/ 0