Dredging .
Provides numerous benefits for shipping, construction, and other projects. The advantages of dredging are: Reconfiguring for Larger Ships: By deepening and widening a waterway, dredging can make it passable for larger cargo vessels, which can have a positive economic impact.
There are several types of dredges used in the sediment removal process. The most common types are:
Plain-Suction: A plain-suction dredge is the most common type of sediment removal equipment. Unlike other dredge versions, it doesn’t contain a tool for penetrating or cutting into the bottom of the water body — it relies on suction to remove loose debris.
Cutter-Suction: This type of dredge contains a cutting tool that loosens material from the bottom and transports it to the mouth of the suction apparatus. The use of a cutter-suction dredge may be necessary for removing debris from hard surfaces that would prevent efficient suction via standard methods.
Auger-Suction: Essentially bores holes into the bed to loosen and suck up the debris. The rotating auger can burrow deeply into the surface. This type of dredge works well for sludge removal applications at wastewater treatment plants and other areas requiring heavy-duty sediment removal.
Jet-Lift: This technologically advanced sediment removal equipment works by injecting a high-volume stream of water to pull in nearby water, silt, and debris.
Waste-to-Energy .
Plants are designed to incinerate unrecyclable Municipal Solid Waste as well as other accepted industrial or commercial waste. They also simultaneously recuperate the energy and clean the gases generated by the combustion.
Waste Combustion: The grate transports the waste through the combustion chamber. The waste is thus also mixed and burns out completely. Unburnable material is left as bottom ash at the end of the grate. Metals and construction materials can be recovered from this bottom ash and returned to the material cycle, thereby saving other raw materials.
Energy recovery: The boiler recovers over 80% of the energy contained in the waste and makes it usable as steam.
Flue Gas Cleaning: Highly sophisticated processes assure that all pollutants contained in the waste and transferred into the flue gas through combustion are eliminated in an efficient, sustainable and reliable way.
Energy utilisation: The energy recovered is usable as electricity and/or heat (e.g. District Heating and Cooling, Industrial Processes). Roughly half of the energy produced is renewable because it comes from the carbon-neutral biogenic fraction of waste.
Equipment .
Supply of heavy machinery for Industry: Lifting equipment, Excavators, Backhoe Loaders, Bulldozers
Infrastructure .
Transportation: Airports, bridges, tunnels, railroads and stations
Energy: Dams, power plants, grids
Health: Hospitals, Pharmaceuticals and maintenance
Water: Water supply treatments and related systems
Government: Essential government services including emergency services
Food: Production and distribution
Communications: Information technology data centres