Source: KHQA Newsdesk

HANNIBAL, MO. -- Last week the Hannibal Board of Public Works started getting calls for funny tasting and smelling water, similar to the calls in Quincy.

That's not completely surprising since both communities draw their raw water from the Mississippi River.

Those calls increased over the weekend.

Source: BIOMASS MAGAZINE    By Erin Voegele

Hawaii-based Big Island Carbon LLC filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court District of Delaware last month. According to archived information published by the Hawaii State Energy Office, the company intended to convert macadamia nut shells into biobased activated carbon, which could be used for air, water and chemical purification. The Energy Office also noted that the shells could also be converted into biofuels, which when blended with diesel, could be used to power the company’s facility.

Source: ReportsnReports

The report covers the major activated carbon market which includes primarily powdered activated carbon and granular activated carbon segments. It also studies other activated carbon such as pellet activated carbon, bead activated carbon, and impregnated carbon. The report analyses the market for activated carbon with respect to market drivers, opportunities, and winning imperatives related to the industry.

Source: The New Zealand Herald    By Kevin Pilley

The air was filled with aromatic charcoal smoke. Every seat along the narrow alleyway in the middle of the famous Khan El Khalili bazaar was occupied. Every low table was full and every "shisha" was taken. There was a long queue for seats outside Cairo's oldest coffee-house, El Fishawy.

Source: Midwest Energy News  by Dan Haugen

Cheap natural gas and flat electricity demand has left the prospects for wood-chip and wood-pellet fuels barely smoldering in recent years.

But wood biomass could soon have a new role in energy production: cleaning up coal-fired power plant emissions.

Source: Global Technologies Group, Inc.

Global (PINKSHEETS: GTGP) announces the results of the live run at the cement plant incorporating the MBS technology for Mercury capture in the cement plant emission gasses. This final report is the result of the compilation of multiple data sets which were received over a two month period by MSE and a final analysis completed by MSE Technology Applications, Inc.

Source: WorldNow and Quincy Herald-Whig   By Matt Hof

The city of Quincy continues to treat its water with activated carbon powder to remove an “earthy” taste and smell that has persisted for more than a week in the city’s drinking water.

City officials said the problem should have been fixed last week, but complaints continue, though David Kent, the director of utilities, says they have subsided a bit.

The problem is because of an increase in algae entering the system, which is being caused by the current stage and slow movement of the Mississippi River.

Source: SciDev.Net

Date palm leaves — currently a waste product of date farming — could be used to remove pharmaceutical chemicals and dyes from hospital wastewater, say researchers from Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Oman. The first hospital wastewater treatment pilot project is due to start in Oman early next year, and scientists are working to use this technology in both drinking water filters and for industrial wastewater treatment.