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Article: Putting biotech to work for cleaner ports.(Spotlight On CLF Ventures)(Industrial Revolutions LLC )(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Conservation Matters
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Conservation Law Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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CLF VENTURES HAS PARTNERED with investment group Industrial Revolutions LLC to promote an environmentally-sound pollution prevention system that uses natural biological processes to clean ship bilge water. The patented system, called the PetroLiminator, is manufactured by Ensolve BioSystems, Inc., a North Carolina firm specializing in natural biological solutions to environmental problems. Unlike other technologies that merely separate oils from bilge water, the PetroLiminator uses naturally occurring microbes to destroy oil and grease. The result is a technology that greatly reduces operating and maintenance costs and leaves water considerably cleaner than conventional ...