As for the environmental performance of a petrochemical process, to date the approach for environmental solutions for process facilities are mostly revolved around the concept of end-of-pipe pollution control techniques, aiming to attain waste treatment, toxicity diminution and industrial discharge volume reduction.
Swollen ranks of missing and chronically jobless workers are the human equivalent of idled factories — a waste of resources, a diminution of wealth, and a sign of despair.
All this talk about a government rescue of General Motors and other automakers is misguided, likely a waste of taxpayers' money and a potential further diminution in the creditworthiness of the U.S. government.
But from a thermodynamic point of view, it is more a measure of the temporary energy value embedded in the goods and services produced at the expense of the diminution of the available energy reserves and an accumulation of entropic waste.
Results obtained showed that the main stages responsible for waste stabilization were the two first stages: mechanical separation and anaerobic digestion with a diminution of both RI and BMP around 40% and 60%, respectively, whereas the third stage, composting of digested materials, produced lesser biological degradation (20 30%).
There are more than 1300 articles in scientific literature dealing with positive impacts of Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction (UAE) such as reduction of extraction time, diminution of solvent and energy used, enhancement in yield and even selectivity, intensification of diffusion, and eliminating wastes.
We sense a diminution of our cosmos.
"There has been no apparent diminution.
"There's a subtle diminution in prestige".
There is a diminution of complexity.
The acknowledgement reflects the diminution of Christianity in Britain.
