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We bring a number of benefits to our customers — cleaner water, less industrial use of freshwater, energy savings, reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants — enabling them to achieve their sustainable development goals while allowing them to operate more cost effectively.
There are many examples of our ability to accomplish this:
Our award-winning 3D TRASAR® technology for cooling water saved 63 billion gallons of water worldwide in 2008, enough to provide the basic annual water needs of 13 million people. Its environmental benefits have been recognized with a United States Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award.
Patented combustion efficiency solutions from Nalco Mobotec are helping power plants drastically cut harmful air emissions. Nalco Mobotec's innovative solutions to the world's global air pollution challenges offer practical approaches for the control of nitrogen and sulfur oxides (NOx /SOx), carbon monoxide, mercury and particulates.
PARETO™ wet-end optimization technology allowed paper customers around the world to save more than 4 million cubic meters of water and 460 billion BTUs of energy in 2008, the latter preventing 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. PARETO technology optimizes the paper machine's operations, reducing cost, improving operational efficiencies and enhancing finished product quality.
Our latest patented low dose hydrate inhibitors (LDHIs) provide specialized chemistry to meet specific project conditions that vary by field and geography. These Nalco LDHIs handle more severe conditions at lower dosages than competing programs, while being safer and easier to handle, reducing chemical consumption over current practices.
Helping boilers run more efficiently helps the environment by reducing fuel use and the resulting air emissions as well as cutting water use. Our 3D TRASAR Boiler Technology has demonstrated a variety of savings for customers. A major university in the Midwestern United States, for example, improved its boiler operations, reducing energy use and avoiding 113 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually. In addition it saved more than 2 million gallons of fresh water per year and reduced chemical exposure for its employees.
In addition to helping our customers, we have had success reducing the impacts of our own global operations. In 2008 we achieved a nearly 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990 while production increased 47 percent. The Kyoto Protocol was established in 1997 to begin to tackle the problem of climate change by establishing required reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for the developed nations of the world, using 1990 as the baseline. The reduction target for the United States was 7 percent and for most of the European Union it was 8 percent.
We report annually on our continuing efforts to reduce our environmental impact in our annual Safety, Health, Environment and Sustainability Report.
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