CARBON FOOTPRINT

Climate change has become one of the major challenges for mankind and the natural environment. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released into the atmosphere in ever rapidly growing volumes are recognised to be responsible for this change. Carbon footprint quantification, analysis and reduction are key to preventing this, for example, by enhancing energy efficiency, mitigating carbon emissions by means of green energy and then compensating for remaining GHG emissions by investing in carbon offsets, with a final goal to becoming carbon neutral.

PE’s first-class consulting, IT solutions and databases serve to determine, analyse and reduce both product carbon footprints and corporate carbon footprints.

For 18 years, PE INTERNATIONAL has been the premier provider of sustainability management consulting, CSR, life cycle assessments and carbon footprints. Hundreds of projects have been successfully delivered, thousands of software licenses have been sold.

Customer ISO to achieve full qualification

Recently Eastern Concrete,Kingdom of Bahrain, send their quality control manager to inspect the ISO 9001-2000 procedures and records of the DIRK Pozzocrete plant at Nashik. Eastern Concrete is one of the most reputable Ready-Mix Concrete plants in Bahrain. EASTERN is producing a reliable concrete for it's customers.

CECO Abatment

CECO Abatement has quickly become one of the industry's leading equipment manufacturers, specializing in clean air solutions for the oxidation and abatement marketplace. CECO offers a complete range of engineered products to meet the most demanding clean air needs:

• Regenerative Thermal Oxidation
• Regenerative Catalytic Oxidation
• Selective Catalytic Reduction
• Thermal Oxidation
• Catalytic Oxidation

As part of the CECO Environmental family of companies, we can offer complete solutions from initial design to installation to follow-up service and equipment maintenance. With CECO's strategically located regional fabrication facilities, we can offer timely delivery and fast, responsive maintenance support.

Analysis of Dioxins and PCBs

It is to be taken from current press reports that Japan and Korea imposed an import stop for Buffalo Mozzarella from Campania (Italy).

Italian investigators had proven the high-poisonous dioxin in the milk of buffalos, which is used for the production of the cheese.

A multiplicity of producers and breed enterprises is concerned.
Over the entry path there are so far only assumptions.

Present the European Union examines the further proceeding.

Eurofins | GfA has more than 20 years experience in the analysis of Dioxins and PCBs including highly toxic co-PCBs in food and feed matrices (e.g. milk, cheese).

Eurofins | GfA is DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accredited for the analysis of PCDD/Fs and PCBs in food, feed, environmental samples and many other matrices.

Our analytical procedures and QA are in compliance with the requirements for the HRGC/HRMS analysis of food and feed for PCDD/Fs and PCBs as laid down in the Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1883/2006 and EC-Directive 2002/70/EC.

Running 10 High resolution mass-spectrometers exclusively for PCDD/F and PCB analyses guarantees high capacities and short turn-around times.

Marshall Miller & Associates

Marshall Miller & Associates (MM&A) has recently been approved by the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) a qualified, independent verifier for carbon credits related to coal mine methane (CMM) and Abandoned Mine Methane (AMM) projects. CCX is the world's first legally binding rules-based greenhouse gas emissions trading system. Basically, carbon credits can be earned (and traded on the exchange) for documented reductions in methane emissions occurring during the mining process if the gas that would have otherwise been emitted to the atmosphere is rather (1) sold as high quality gas on natural gas pipeline system or (2) is used as mid-quality gas in electricity generation.

In order to qualify for the carbon credits, the methane extraction technique must first be approved for use by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and meet the following eligibility requirements:

Pre-Mining Activities
* CMM collected from wells drilled after January 1, 1999, and mined around or through after January 1, 2003, can be registered and traded on the CCX up to the sales limits sets for years 2003-2006 (Phase I reporting).
* CMM collected from wells drilled after January 1, 1999, and mined around or through after January 1, 2007 (Phase II reporting) and traded on the CCX.

Post-Mining Activities
* CMM from any well drilled at any time, collected after January 1, 2003, which is processed/refined through a low quality gas facility, constructed after January 1, 1999, or utilized in a low quality combustion process, constructed after January 1, 1999, can be registered and traded on the CCX up to the sales limits set for years 2003-2006 (Phase I reporting).
* CMM from any well drilled at any time, collected after January 1, 2007 (Phase II reporting), which is processed/refined through a low quality gas facility, constructed after January 1, 1999, or utilized in a low quality combustion process, constructed after January 1, 1999, can be registered and traded on the CCX.

High-Accuracy CO2

Insensitive to all other atmospheric gases, the High-Accuracy CO₂ Analyzer measures carbon dioxide in dry ambient air with unprecedented accuracy and precision (total measurement uncertainty of less than 1 part in 3000). The instrument can store data practically indefinitely on its internal hard disk drive and can send real-time data to a data logger through its analog, digital (RS232), and Ethernet outputs allowing unattended long-term standalone operation.

Based on high-resolution direct-absorption spectroscopy (see Theory of Operation), the instrument offers negligible zero and span drift and a significantly reduced need for regular calibration with expensive reference gases (compared with conventional instruments). The High-Accuracy CO₂ Analyzer is designed for applications that require the performance of a reference laboratory without the need for regular calibration with expensive gas standards.

BIOGAS TECHNOLOGY

Established in 1988 Biogas Technology Ltd brings together the resources and expertise to lift the burden of risk, liability and finance faced by landfill site operators, and to help you capitalise on commercial opportunities. Biogas Technology Ltd has been able to provide the infrastructure and engineering support to projects producing in excess of 90MW of renewable energy from landfill gas within the UK and throughout Europe. The company continues to provide a wide range of services and products to help landfill owners and operators meet there site licence and environmental objectives.

While still providing a high level of service to the UK and European Landfill sector Biogas Technology Ltd has continued to increase its global activity through strategic partnerships and ventures in many emerging markets countries as diverse as Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Argentina, China, Ghana and many more. With the recognition of landfill gas methane as a potent contributor to the global green house gas effect and global warming, Biogas Technology Ltd has been able to provide high quality engineering and technical skills required to successfully capture, recover and process landfill gas and create carbon credits which contributes to the world wide efforts to reduce global warming.

Cement Group

Kenya’s Bamburi Cement Group plans to cut its annual carbon dioxide emissions from plants in Kenya and Uganda by 132,000t by reducing the use of fossil fuels in cement-making. Bamburi did not give an exact figure for its annual emissions but managing director Michel Puchercos put it at about 1.5Mt, based on the production of 1.5Mt of cement. The company, which is 60%-owned by Lafarge, plans to reduce its use of fossils fuels such as coal, and substitute it with wood from its own plantations as well as coffee, rice and cashewnut husks. The fuels are used to fire kilns that roast limestone, a key ingredient in cement.

Bernard Osawa, business manager in charge of alternative fuels, said: “In Kenya and Uganda Between now and 2010 we are targeting a redution of 132,000t of CO2. We are looking at three projects. They are in various stages of development.” Osawa said that cumulatively the company had cut its emissions by a total of over 111,000t of CO2 since 2002 at a cost of Euro3.8m and plans to invest another Euro14m euros in the next two to three years. The firm plans to substitute 20% of fossil fuel at its plant in the coastal city of Mombasa, which uses about 300t of coal a day. It also plans to substitute fossil fuel use by 50% in Uganda where it has its Hima Cement subsidiary.

The cement sector is one of the world’s largest producers of greenhouse gases, producing about 5% of global emissions. Cement production creates carbon emissions twice – first from burning coal to heat the limestone raw material, and again as the limestone separates into carbon dioxide and lime.

POLLUTION PREVENTION

It doesn’t take a leap of faith to understand that the best way to reduce toxic emissions is to not make them in the first place. That’s the simple idea behind pollution prevention: the "best" pollution is the one you never create. Putting that into practice has led companies to re-examine their products and processes with an eye to reducing or eliminating toxic ingredients, recycling or reusing chemicals to keep them out of the waste stream, and using a wide range of alternative materials to replace polluting ones.

In most cases, the benefits of preventing pollution are economic as well as environmental. After all, waste and pollution are inefficiencies -- something that a company bought, didn’t sell, and often had to pay to get rid of -- so reducing or eliminating these inefficiencies can have positive paybacks.

Gas-sensor

e2v has been leading the way in the design, development and manufacture of a wide range of reliable gas sensors for OEMs since developing the catalytic bead gas sensor (which became known as the Pellistor) in 1967.
As an independent OEM supplier of gas sensors, e2v pride themselves on providing customers with unrivalled product reliability and personal product support via specialist engineers. e2v gas sensors are built to the highest standards with all pellistor and infrared gas sensors achieving ATEX and IECEx certification, e2v gas sensors are also UL and CSA approved

Todays concern

Eco finance provides an integrated solution for atmospheric pollutants and green house gas (GHG) emissions risk management.

Eco finance specializes in financial advisory topics related to atmospheric pollutants and CO2 regulatory frameworks management.

Eco finance works with buyers and sellers in environmental commodity markets, in particular carbon markets. We specialize in carbon credits origination processes and risk management through environmental markets.

We help our clients understand the stakes at play in the market place today and advise on what they should do toward environmental and climate change matters.

Our solution relies on a global expertise network. We modulate this expertise according to our clients stated needs.

Businesses with high and intensive energy consumption, particularly in the fossil fuel area, find great added value in our services. Emission reductions projects promoters are also our focus.

Eco finance knows that every business as an interest to discover or to preserve in today’s new carbon-constrained global economy.

Environment-Friendly Companies

CECO Abatement has quickly become one of the industry's leading equipment manufacturers, specializing in clean air solutions for the oxidation and abatement marketplace. CECO offers a complete range of engineered products to meet the most demanding clean air needs:
Regenerative Thermal Oxidation
Regenerative Catalytic Oxidation
Selective Catalytic Reduction
Thermal Oxidation
Catalytic Oxidation
As part of the CECO Environmental family of companies, we can offer complete solutions from initial design to installation to follow-up service and equipment maintenance. With CECO's strategically located regional fabrication facilities, we can offer timely delivery and fast, responsive maintenance support.

Air Treatment plants

Project planning, design, development, and engineering is based on internal company process know-how and is executed on CAD systems. Rotamill plants, fans, and equipment are used worldwide and have an excellent reputation among experts. Several hundred plants as well as thousands of fans have been constructed for the most complicated tasks and
requirements, and have been delivered to world-renowned customers.

Activated charcoal equipment for exhaust air purification with simultaneous recovery of the solvent vapors. Concentrator equipment for converting large volumes of air with a low solvent concentration to low volumes of air with a high concentration of solvents, enabling a 10 to 1 size reducing of the main exhaust purification equipment running on adsorption or oxidation technology.The high technological standards of Rotamill's exhaust air purification systems offer excellent problem solutions. Our activated charcoal equipment represents an elegant and economically efficient concept for the solution of purification challenges.


As polluted air passes through the activated charcoal, solvents are adsorbed and the purified air is released into the atmosphere. Once the activated charcoal is saturated, the desorption phase is automatically started, blowing steam through the charcoal in the reverse direction. The solvents are evaporated by the heat and mix with the steam. The solvent is then separated from the steam and both components are returned to their respective circulatory systems.

Double and in-line plants consist of two or more interconnected adsorption vessels which adsorb and desorb alternately in a continuous system. The functional principle of the concentrators is basically the same as described above, with the addition that the activated charcoal surface rotates continuously so that all processes operate simultaneously. The desorption is achieved by heated air in counterflow, which continues in concentrated form to a subsequent exhaust air purification plant for cleaning.

CARBON FINANCE

The selling of landfill gas, for example, has been taking place for some time and Durban is an example which presents the first such project to be registered and where carbon finance assisted with the construction existing flare only burns a small percentage of toatl emissions.of South Africa’s first Landfill Gas EfW system.
Such carbon finance is defined as resources provided to projects generating (or expected to generate) emission reductions, in the form of the purchase of such emission reductions (PCF, 2002). Carbon finance is thus determined from a measure of the environmental additionality whereby the emission reductions (ER) that are achieved by the implementation of a given project must be additional to the business as usual (BAU) scenario.
The calculation of the “Baseline Scenario” is, therefore, a calculation of the ER that would not have resulted if the projected was not implemented and/or if carbon finance funds were not made available.
It could be said that a landfill breeze was never so sweet smelling until it became a financial one. Indeed, this is an unfortunate statement that must be made with consideration to the true cost of the globe’s environment. It is the greatest challenge to the environment to realise clean technologies, often termed as Green Technology or in the case of a power generation project, Green Energy, that is economically viable.
In the case of South Africa, most of the electrical power is generated by the parastatal company Eskom through coal-fired power plants. Durban citizens in 2003 purchased electrical power for an overall low unit purchase price of R0.12 per KWh (SA Rand – approximately $0.015 US), when the Durban scheme was proposed.
Following several previous investigations into the utilisation of landfill gas by DSW, no project has been deemed to be financially viable. With particular regard to electrical generation from landfill gas, a unit selling price of no less than R0.25 per KWh could be offered to the electricity department. Indeed this would required a financial “top-up” of no less than 100% before any proposed LFG-to-electricity-generation project became viable, but carbon credits were about to provide this.

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS OF TREE PLANTATION

In spite of many people being aware of the impending global warming and the existence of the international agreement, the Kyoto Accord, that seeks to lower the carbon dioxide emissions of all nations, few are aware of the importance of Industrial Tree Plantations in helping achieve this goal.
The facts are that trees absorb and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. For every 1,000 hectares of industrial tree plantation, nearly 28,000 tons of carbon dioxide is absorbed and stored by the trees. Unfortunately, our natural forests are nowhere near as useful in this respect. The continual decay of vegetation that occurs release the previously stored gas and this is reabsorbed by new growth. Thus, the release and absorption tend to cancel each other out, whereas in managed industrial tree plantations, decaying vegetation is kept at a minimum and carbon dioxide retained.

So important is this factor that countries that carry out extensive reforestation can claim carbon dioxide credits for their plantations and even sell these credits to less fortunate countries. Industrial tree plantations are therefore an essential ingredient in keeping the earth cooler, preventing the melting of ice caps and rising oceans

CARBON EMISSIONS

Climate change has become one of the major challenges for mankind and the natural environment. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released into the atmosphere in ever rapidly growing volumes are recognised to be responsible for this change. Carbon footprint quantification, analysis and reduction are key to preventing this, for example, by enhancing energy efficiency, mitigating carbon emissions by means of green energy and then compensating for remaining GHG emissions by investing in carbon offsets, with a final goal to becoming carbon neutral.