Sentence examples for floating materials from inspiring English sources

Mechanical surface-skimming devices remove grease and other floating materials.

Observations shall be made of oil slicks, floating materials, and other visible evidence of pollution; and, where possible, collections of floating materials shall be made.

One of the main problems of dry anaerobic digestion plants treating urban solid waste is the loss of useful volume by the sedimentation of solids (inerts) into the bottom of the digester, or by accumulation of floating materials in its upper part.

The settled and floating materials are removed and the remaining liquid may be discharged or subjected to secondary treatment.

The supernatants were pooled and filtered through filter paper to remove the floating materials.

Another approach has been to use a more robust surface film and possibilities tested include floating covers of expanded polystyrene or rubber (Dedrick et al. 1973), and other floating materials such as blocks of lightweight concrete or floating plastic spheres.

Vast currents such as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre swirl around, and in their becalmed centres floating material accumulates.

The septic tank serves as a primary sedimentation and sludge storage chamber, removing most of the settleable and floating material from the influent wastewater.

"The actual nylon which encases the floating material, once it's exposed to sun and seawater, it's very difficult to reuse".

Filter feeders either capture floating material with ciliated tentacles (Sabella) or pump water through their burrows and capture the fine material on a mucous secretion, upon which they feed (Chaetopterus).

But it is not the only place where a system of rotating ocean currents, known as gyres, concentrate floating material, particularly plastic detritus dumped into the sea or washed out from rivers.