If you purchase a report that is updated in the next 60 days, we will send you the new edition and data extract FREE! Why buy this report? Gain competitive intelligence about market leaders. Track key industry trends, opportunities and threats. Inform your marketing, brand, strategy and market development, sales and supply functions. Want to find out more about this report? Aspira plus A 700 Complete C3 Electro EcoLine AT 30 / AT 70 Compact C2 Excellence EcoLine Complete C3 Boost Parquet Plus EcoLine Complete C3 Brilliant EcoLine BSGL 5 PRO 5 ZPFALLFLR / ZPFSPEEDY / ZPFPARKETT ZSPREACH / ZSPPARKETT / ZSPPARKETW / ZSPCLASSIC ZUOGREEN+ / ZUOORIGWR+ / ZUOALLFLR+ DE / on demand CH / on demand CH DE / on demand CH / CZ / on demand AT / CZ / on demand AT / CH on demand CZ / DE / on demand CZ / on demand DE / on demand Queen of the Netherlands is a Dutch Trailing suction hopper dredger ship constructed in 1998.

After lengthening in 2009, she was the largest and most powerful dredger in the world. The vessel has been used in high-profile salvage and dredging operations including the investigation into the Swissair Flight 111 crash[1] and in the Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project. It has been called "the world's largest floating vacuum cleaner". The ship's dragheads are 6 metres (19.7 ft) wide and can dredge between 55 metres (180 ft) and 160 metres (520 ft) deep. Bath Tap Shower HoseThe ship has three hopper discharge options of pumping ashore by pipeline, dumping through bottom doors or rainbowing.Garage Floor Paint Or Sealer[2] The ship has equipment to dredge almost any material; Drape Cpoints Downloadsuch as clay, silt, sand and rock. During the Swissair Flight 111 salvage operation, a mixture of sea water, silt and aircraft pieces was pumped out of the Atlantic Ocean.

The ship assisted in the recovery of nearly 98% of the aircraft, with over 144,698 kilograms (319,004 lb) of aircraft and cargo pieces salvaged.[3] The pump room onboard has two 6,000 kW (8,000 hp) dredge engines that can be used in series or in parallel with the vessels two 1,200-millimetre-diameter (3.9 ft) suction pipes or combined with a submerged outboard pump. The vessel also has three 1,000 kW (1,300 hp) jet water pumps that are used to agitate subsea material whilst trailing, collapse and liquify hopper cargo for pumping or degassing natural air pockets in the seabed using the Venturi effect. Queen of the Netherlands has worked on various projects in Singapore, Doya Bay China, port construction in Busan South Korea, Dubai, the Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project in Australia and island creation / land reclamation The Maldives. The vessels sister ship is Fairway, which, like Queen of the Netherlands was also lengthened for land reclamation projects in the Far East.

The ship has caused constroversy in Australia, sparking protests.China’s pollution crisis has been highlighted once again by a thick blanket of smog which has this time settled over the northeastern city of Harbin, reducing visibility to just 10 metres in some cases.Beijing authorities have finally admitted that something must be done to reduce the pollution, but other than shutting down coal power plants, the main source of the airborne particles, which would be impractical due to their energy generating importance, alternative solutions are few and far between.A Dutch designer, Daan Roosegaarde, believes that he has a solution to Beijing’s smog problem. He plans to bury huge copper coil underground, and use them to create a low powered electrostatic field which would then suck the particles out of the sky towards the ground.Related article: China’s Plan to Reduce Coal-Fired Electricity Disastrous for Global ClimateThe design would effectively work similar to a giant electric vacuum cleaner, and create a smog-free hole about 50-60 metres in diameter.

Daan doesn’t expect his design to offer a long-term solution to the problem of inner-city air pollution, he states that that “it’s a human problem not a technological problem,” and the only way to truly solve it is to change the way we use and generate energy. Instead he hopes that his design could be used to create awareness of how bad smog really is in some cities, as the difference between the inside and outside of the ring would be very notable. He believes that installing the technology in a park or other public open space would allow people to begin enjoying the space once again.Daan, through his design company Studio Roosegaarde, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the mayor of Beijing to use the idea in a new park being developed in the city. Once people have a clear, visible example of how bad the smog is, it might be easier to gather support to make the necessary changes.Daan, explained that once turned on, the coils would create an electrostatic charge in the air that literally pulls the smog down to the ground, where it would form a layer to then be cleaned up.

It would work very similar to rubbing a balloon across a surface and watching it as it attracts fluff and hair due to the generated static.Working at the University of Delft, the Netherlands, Daan has already created and successfully tested a working prototype of his design.Related article: Chinese State Official Blames Beijing’s Smog on Cooking Fumes“We have a 5x5 metre room full of smog where we created a smog-free hole of one cubic metre. And now the question is to apply it in public spaces.It's a similar principle to if you have a statically charged balloon that attracts your hair. If you apply that to smog, to create fields of static electricity of ions, which literally attract or magnetise the smog so it drops down so you can clean it, like an electronic vacuum cleaner.”For those of you worried about the health implications of walking into such a large electrostatic field, Daan claims that it’s pacemaker-safe as the field is actually very low.What will humans look like in 100,000 years?