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Unintended gas leaks from the processing, transmission, and/or transportation of fossil fuels, CFCs from refrigeration leaks, SF6 from electrical power distributor, etc. (source: EPA)

CVRD Inco plugs sulphur dioxide holes  -  Oct 16, 2007
Northern Ontario Business,Moving the gas collection hoods out of the way to allow cranes to get access means many "fugitive emissions" escape. Normally the gases that are collected

A Permitting Primer  -  Oct 17, 2007
Biodiesel Magazine,Process equipment (eg, pumps, valves and non-welded connections) handling methanol must be monitored for fugitive emissions on a monthly basis.

Dow Chemical, EPA In Talks For Cleanup In Michigan  -  Oct 18, 2007
CNNMoney.comPast waste-disposal practices, fugitive emissions and incineration at Dow have resulted in on- and off-site" contamination by dioxin and furan,

Cleaning Components in a Closed Solvent System  -  Oct 10, 2007
Controlled Environments Magazine,...which has already been implemented, however, is the design of closed systems that allow the almost complete capture of potential fugitive emissions.

SAIL to spend over Rs 2500 cr to be greener  -  Oct 14, 2007
Daily News & Analysis,In the long term, SAIL has decided to increase waste utilisation to a level of 85-90 per cent, reduce stack emissions and fugitive emissions, enhance water

Advantages of Pre-Wetted Wipers in Sterile Environments  -  Oct 9, 2007
Controlled Environments Magazine,Also, sterile pre-wetted wipers eliminate fugitive emissions from squirt bottle dispense nozzles and from alcohol transfer operations.

Claymont residents want to bust the dust  -  Oct 17, 2007
The News Journal,Claymont Steel has attempted to minimize fugitive emissions, installed a weather station to track wind direction and planted cypress trees along Naamans

The science  -  Oct 4, 2007
The Age,Certain "fugitive" emissions are likely to get trapped into materials and slowly leak into the atmosphere; this odour is likely to drift up and down the

Team, Inc. Reports Strong First Quarter Results for Fiscal Year ...  -  Oct 3, 2007
WELT ONLINE,Revenues for Team’s TMS Division (Team’s mechanical service lines of leak repair, hot tapping, fugitive emissions monitoring, field machining,

Chemical Filtration Strategies For The Control of Airborne ...  -  Oct 9, 2007
Controlled Environments Magazine,...removing tramp and fugitive emissions from recirculation airstreams, and cleaning process emission and exhaust streams are some of the many applications

DOJ Reaches Agreement with Aluminum Facility  -  Aug 14, 2007
Recycling Today,Should the tests demonstrate that Jupiter is not adequately capturing fugitive emissions or not adequately removing pollutants, then Jupiter will be

Energy Greenhouse Gas Emissions increased slightl  -  Aug 1, 2007
Scoop.co.nz,...including for transport, provision of heat to industry and thermal electricity generation, with the rest from fugitive emissions from fuels.

No time for complacency  -  Aug 2, 2007
Scoop.co.nz,One of the largest increases, almost 50 percent, is in fugitive emissions from coal mining (methane escaping during production). This reflects an increase

Infrared Thermography at Refineries  -  Aug 7, 2007
Ferret,Fugitive emissions of process liquids and gases are a major concern for both the industry and national or supranational regulation bodies.

Parker presents the 'long view' at OE2007  -  Jul 23, 2007
Processing Talk,...number of brand new products on display for the first time is a manifold range that meets the A rating of the ISO 15848 standard for fugitive emissions.

Dow, DuPont Each Reach Agreement With EPA  -  Jul 23, 2007
IndustryWeekPast waste disposal practices, fugitive emissions and incineration at Dow have resulted in on- and off-site contamination.

Vigilant citizen confronts Kinder Morgan  -  Jul 31, 2007
Charleston City Paper,Water Classifications and Standards have persisted, covering everything from spillage of petroleum coke into the water to fugitive emissions from ships.

Don't burn those tires!  -  Aug 7, 2007
Inside Greentech,EarthFirst said its process has been certified by Oak Ridge National Laboratory as producing virtually no fugitive emissions. Earlier this year, the Mobile

Engineering Firm Agrees to Contribute $1.6 Million to EarthFirst ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
Canada NewsWire (press release),Most significantly WESCO's CAVD process has been certified by Oak Ridge National Laboratory as producing virtually no fugitive emissions.

Tourism industry takes "middle ground" in pulp mill debate  -  Aug 2, 2007
ABC Online,Valley will be met by overpowering odours from fugitive emissions, which will not be assessed by the sham assessment process set up by the Government.

Questions about smell from pulp mill  -  Jul 29, 2007
ABC Online,..."There has to be assessments of the fugitive emissions of these odours." he said. The former head of the assessment panel, retired judge Christoper Wright,

Control Valve combines the best of linear and rotary technologies  -  Aug 7, 2007
SA Instrumentation and Control,The rotary motion stem is employed to provide improved control of fugitive emissions. Flow characterisation is achieved by use of the interchangeable trims

Thursday, 2nd August 2007 TICT SURVEY CONFIRMS PULP MILL DAMAGE TO ...  -  Aug 1, 2007
Tasmanian Greens,...“If tourism operators are worried now, how will they feel when fugitive emissions of some of the smelliest compounds known to humanity, which remain

Team, Inc. Reports Record FY 2007 Results of $1.64 Per Share ...  -  Jul 25, 2007
Business Wire (press release),Revenues for the TMS Division (Team’s mechanical service lines of leak repair, hot tapping, fugitive emissions monitoring, field machining,

Air Pollution Rules Relaxed for US Ethanol Producers  -  13 Apr 2007
Environment News ServicePollutants released to the air other than those from stacks or vents are called fugitive emissions. They can be due to equipment leaks,

State fines Thomaston perlite mill for fugitive dust  -  Apr 3, 2007
knox.VillageSoup.com,Those accounts included "allowing perlite to leak from the kiln causing fugitive emissions to the surrounding area, the baghouse used to control the

Dry Scrubber uses turbine propulsion to remove pollution.  -  Apr 11, 2007
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release),April 11, 2007 - Consisting of continuous dry filtration system, KlearAire eliminates fugitive emissions occurring during filter cleaning cycles that effect

Campaign aims to clean up plant ranked as major health threat  -  Mar 26, 2007
The Athens News,The vast majority of these were classified as "fugitive emissions," meaning they did not undergo any kind of filtration process before being released into

Hearing on air pollution bills to be Tuesday  -  Mar 25, 2007
Baytown Sun,Companies would be so encouraged by the elimination of fines or other penalties on companies for reporting “fugitive emissions,� or leaks, that are detected

The brouhaha over benzene  -  Apr 7, 2007
Baytown Sun,...will help further eliminate so-called “fugitive emissions,� which in contrast to “stack emissions� from normal refining processes are not expected from

Our toxic South  -  Apr 2, 2007
Facing South,Those figures represent point-source and fugitive emissions combined. At the same time, emissions to surface waters were up 40 percent across the South from

Can BC make U-turn to green?  -  Mar 26, 2007
Globe and Mail,From its booming energy sector (fugitive emissions up 96 per cent; mining emissions up 186 per cent) its road transportation (which has so clogged major

Drought Forecast to Intensify Across California, Southwest  -  Mar 20, 2007
Environment News Service...the Army has announced plans to demolish approximately 30 buildings that contain asbestos, utilizing a spray of water to reduce fugitive emissions.

Alarm at lead levels in Port Pirie children  -  Mar 15, 2007
Advertiser Adelaide,...we will invest a further $18 million in reducing emissions, including major works to enclose the blast furnace to capture fugitive emissions."

Alarm at lead levels in Port Pirie children  -  15 Mar 2007
Advertiser Adelaide,...we will invest a further $18 million in reducing emissions, including major works to enclose the blast furnace to capture fugitive emissions."

ISA Fugitive Emissions - LDAR Symposium planned  -  Mar 6, 2007
Processing Talk,The 7th Annual ISA fugitive emissions - LDAR Symposium will be held 5-7 June 2007 at the Doubletree Hotel in Austin, Texas.

ISA to hold Fugitive Emissions-LDAR Symposium in June  -  Mar 6, 2007
Automation.com (press release),Research Triangle Park, NC (March 6, 2007) - ISA's 7th Annual Fugitive Emissions - LDAR Symposium will be held 5-7 June 2007 at the Doubletree Austin Hotel

Oil, gas companies failing to reduce emissions  -  Mar 14, 2007
Vancouver Sun (subscription),He noted as an example that companies that are reducing emissions are doing it by capturing "fugitive emissions" that escape through leaky pipes and valves.

Enviro Technology Services on display at MCERTS  -  Mar 12, 2007
Processing Talk,Workshops include CEMS for LCPD and WID directives and fenceline monitoring of fugitive emissions. With 24 years experience, MCERTS approved products and

Manganism fears flare at Assmang plant  -  Mar 12, 2007
Business Day,The inspection team also noted “fugitive emissions from the furnaces� and faulty emission filtering plants. Assmang, owned by African Rainbow Minerals and

Mining company says blood and soil test results a relief  -  Mar 12, 2007
ABC Online,..."Two of the residents are in the same house and they're very close to the plant so we believe that potentially the fugitive emissions from the plant could

Nevada officials order gold mine to fix faulty mercury equipment  -  Feb 23, 2007
Reno Gazette Journal,The company is spending $500000 this year as part of an ongoing effort to control fugitive emissions at the mine's mill and is planning an emissions study

Company That Survived Hurricane Katrina Emerges With Technologies ...  -  Feb 27, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),In 2001, David Avina won a US Patent for a continuous dry filtration pollution control system that eliminates fugitive emissions occurring during filter

New technologies coming to measure emissions and flow rates  -  Dec 14, 2006
Plant Services,Air quality is a universal concern, and quick and accurate detection of fugitive emissions can, in extreme cases, be a life-or-death matter.

Recyling facility pushing for extension  -  Dec 20, 2006
YorkRegion.com,...amount of organic waste accepted for processing, reduce fugitive emissions and odours and fully implement its remedial action plan, the town reports.

PERU: Company Offers Bandaid Solutions to a Polluted Town  -  Dec 14, 2006
CorpWatch.org,Such efforts would only be of some help after controlling "fugitive emissions" and building new smelters with state-of-the-art technology, the CDC's August

Officials: Ethanol proposal beneficial  -  Nov 22, 2006
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader,...“That said,� he cautioned, “it’s impossible to eliminate all fugitive emissions.� Every gallon of ethanol created also requires around 3 gallons of water,

Crowd keeps heat on Lafarge  -  Oct 10, 2006
Blue Springs Examiner,...financially as well as make three concessions in the name of being "good neighbors": decrease blasting levels, control "fugitive emissions" ­ contaminants in ...

Clean-Air Settlement to Cost ADM $1.35M  -  Oct 4, 2006
Washington Post,The two projects are designed to reduce emissions of hazardous air pollutants not caught by an air pollution control system, called fugitive emissions. ...

Environmental violations will cost ADM nearly $1.35M  -  Oct 4, 2006
Reliable Plant Magazine,The two projects are designed to reduce fugitive emissions of hazardous air pollutants from the facility. Fugitive emissions are ...

Cleaning up the refinery act  -  Sep 15, 2006
Panorama,The questions focused on the largest sources of unmonitored and controlled pollution at refineries worldwide: fugitive emissions or equipment leaks and upset ...

Team, Inc. Announces Earnings Conference Call for Thursday ...  -  Oct 2, 2006
Business Wire (press release),Team’s current industrial service offering encompasses on-stream leak repair, hot tapping, fugitive emissions monitoring, field machining, technical bolting ...

Magnetically coupled level switches for demanding applications  -  Sep 27, 2006
SA Instrumentation and Control,...design isolates the switching mechanism from the process fluid, eliminating problems related to coating, plating, fouling, fugitive emissions, and hazardous ...

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