Sentences with phrase «as hydrocarbon gases»

As hydrocarbon gases sink toward their cores, increasing pressure squeezes out the hydrogen atoms and presses the remaining carbon into diamond, which travels through the planet's heart as very pricey precipitation.

Not exact matches

Perth - based hydrocarbon explor - er Hardman Resources NL is on track to develop its gas drilling project near Rome in Italy as the next stage of its exploration programme.

These hydrocarbons, which are also burned for heating and cooking and blended into vehicle fuel, are extracted from the natural gas production stream or produced as a by - product of refined oil.

Unilever admits it is difficult to obtain hydrocarbon (HC) gases in certain regions in the quantities and quality required, as the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) announces a second Refrigeration Resolution.

Other companies, like Falkland Oil and Gas, are pressing ahead with deeper drilling operations as the search for hydrocarbons continues.

Hydrocarbons are a category of molecules that includes methane, as well as other familiar substances including petrol, natural gas and bitumen.

As the hot hydrothermal fluid flows through this mud, it «cooks» organic material, forming methane (natural gas) and oil - like hydrocarbons.

In Pavillion, Wyo., where residents have complained of nerve damage and loss of sense of taste and smell, EPA superfund investigators found benzene and other hydrocarbons in well water samples, as well as methane gas, metals, and an unusual chemical variant of a compound used in hydraulic fracturing.

Of particular concern were compounds called adamantanes, a natural hydrocarbon found in gas that can be used to fingerprint its origin, and 2 - BE, listed as a common fracturing fluid in the EPA's 2004 research report on hydraulic fracturing.

When hydrocarbon - based fuels like methane are burned in normal air, nitrogen gets mixed in with the combustion product — flue gases from conventional gas power stations contain as little as 3 percent CO2 — which makes scrubbing carbon from power plant emissions difficult and expensive.

Fossil fuels — the hydrocarbons known as peat, coal, oil, and natural gas — are formed from the constituents of deeply buried and preserved organic matter.

Microbes might use the hydrogen gas and hydrocarbons formed from the gas as food.

«You can react it with water to produce energy - rich hydrogen gas, or with hydrogen to produce useful chemicals, such as hydrocarbons or alcohols.

As oil and gas gushed out of the ruptured well into the Gulf of Mexico, she reasoned, many of the hydrocarbons would spread underwater in deep plumes rather than all rise to the surface, as many expecteAs oil and gas gushed out of the ruptured well into the Gulf of Mexico, she reasoned, many of the hydrocarbons would spread underwater in deep plumes rather than all rise to the surface, as many expecteas many expected.

The team calculated that those hydrocarbon clumps could absorb heat from the sun as well as from gases in the atmosphere and radiate it back into space.

Officials with both industry and the state of Wyoming questioned the EPA's data as well as its interpretation, arguing that some hydrocarbons are to be expected through natural migration from the gas field.

We have further observations planned that will probe Pluto's atmosphere and map the distributions of hydrocarbon gases such as ethane, acetylene and ethylene that condense to form the aerosols.

Abstract Removal of CO2 from CO gas mixtures is a necessary but challenging step during production of ultra-pure CO as processed from either steam reforming of hydrocarbons or CO2 reduction.

The Division of Pulmonary Medicine deals with the breath of life in all its aspects: control of breathing; sleep disorders; obstruction to airflow in the common diseases of upper and lower airways such as croup, bronchiolitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia; restriction to lung function from disorders affecting the chest wall, the musculature, the nervous system, or lung tissue itself; congenital anomalies; accidents such as inhalation of foreign bodies, hydrocarbons, or toxic gases; secondary effects of non-pulmonary system disorders such as gastrointestinal reflux, myopathy, or cardiac dysfunction; disease of the upper respiratory tract including rhinitis and sinusitis; and so on.

Researchers at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a new catalyst based on nickel oxide on magnesium oxide (NiO / MgO) that is effective for the bi-reforming with steam and CO2 (combined steam and dry reforming) of methane as well as natural gas... Read more →

The US Patent and Trademark Office issued patent Nº 9,217,161 for a process using naturally occurring microorganisms to ferment biomass or gases directly to hydrocarbons such as hexane and octane.

Most natural gas starts out as 50 to 90 percent methane, along with small amounts of heavier hydrocarbons, such as propane and butane.

Usually contains platinum, palladium and / or rhodium, which acts as a catalyst in a chemical reaction that converts unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen into water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases that are less toxic than untreated exhaust fumes

Engines that use gases for fuel are called gas engines and those that use liquid hydrocarbons are called oil engines; however, gasoline engines are also often colloquially referred to as, «gas engines» («petrol engines» outside North America).

The retained exhaust gasses tend to be very rich in un-burnt Hydrocarbons, as they typically come from crevice volumes that are expelled at the end of the exhaust stroke.

With all the carbon available in the biosphere, the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and light hydrocarbons had to have been substantially higher in the atmosphere than it is now.

Natural gas liquids (NGLs) are hydrocarbons — in the same family of molecules as natural gas and crude oil, composed exclusively of carbon and hydrogen.

This condensate is made up of light hydrocarbons we find as a gas phase fluid in the reservoir.

In its long - term forecast, Exxon says that by 2050, hydrocarbons — including oil, gas, and coal — will account for 80 percent of the world's energy supplies, about the same as today.

These requirements could make our products more expensive, lengthen project implementation times, and reduce demand for hydrocarbons, as well as shift hydrocarbon demand toward relatively lower - carbon sources such as natural gas.

Given the scale of energy demand, and the relatively small base from which renewable energy sources begin, hydrocarbons such as oil and natural gas will necessarily continue to play a predominant role.

The last decade has seen an explosion in unconventional oil and gas drilling, as easy - to - extract hydrocarbons have become harder to find.

The rule, Listing of Substitutes for Refrigeration and Air Conditioning and Revision of the Venting Prohibition for Certain Refrigerant Substitutes, lists four climate - friendly hydrocarbon refrigerants as «acceptable» substitutes for ozone depleting substances and other fluorinated gases which are hundreds and thousands of times more damaging to the climate than CO2.

The annual harvest is used as feedstock for local village - scale charcoal retorts (thus minimizing haulage energy needs) with simple fairly efficient retorts converting about 67 % of the wood's carbon to charcoal, with the rest mostly going into hot hydrocarbon gasses that hold around 28 % of the wood's energy potential.

Coal and oil, especially, have been in the crosshairs, while, until recently, natural gas was the darling of environmentalists, who promoted it as the «clean energy» alternative to its «dirty» hydrocarbon cousins.

And, predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases in hydrocarbon use and resulting increases in minor greenhouse gases such as CO2 do not conform to current experimental knowledge or have any scientific basis.

To get liquid fuel from gas, CO2 needs to be broken up so as to extract the carbon atoms in order to make new hydrocarbons (the building blocks of fuel).

Of course, to me the ideal answer is direct solar power → Fuel, such as methane (to replace natural gas) or liquid hydrocarbons (to replace fossil).

Above the ground layer it acts as a greenhouse gas which, when it chemically breaks up, initiates the removal of methane (an even stronger greenhouse gas) and other hydrocarbons from the atmosphere.

Fossil fuels Natural resources, such as coal, oil and natural gas, containing hydrocarbons.

For example, early global chemical modelling results argued that global tropospheric ozone, a greenhouse gas, was controlled by emissions of the highly reactive gases nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC, also known as volatile organic compounds, VOC).

Carbon enters the energy economy in the hydrocarbon fuels, coal, oil, and gas, as well as wood.

Emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and of reactive gases such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons, which lead to the formation of secondary pollutants including aerosol particles and tropospheric ozone, have increased substantially in response to human activities.

«Arctic Oil & Gas cites recent scientific evidence that huge, floating mats of azolla - a prehistoric fern believed to have covered much of the Arctic Ocean during a planetary hothouse era about 55 million years ago - decomposed soon after the age of the dinosaurs and exist today as «vast hydrocarbon resources» trapped in layers of rock below the polar ice cap.»

BTW: We're only a short time away from realizing that fossils or better, those that made them, had nothing to do with the creation of oil or natural gas and that both (& all hydrocarbons) were simply created as the planet was... there is a theory that if you drill anywhere on Earth — deep enuff — you will find oil.

The fuel reformer, usually through a process called steam reformation (a process that creates carbon emissions) isolates the pure hydrogen from a hydrocarbon fuel (methane, ethanol, propane, natural gas, etc.) This hydrogen, although pure, is sometimes referred to as dirty hydrogen due to the way it is created.

He also regularly advises clients on gathering, processing and transportation arrangements for hydrocarbons, as well as the long - term sale / supply of oil, gas, natural gas liquids and LNG.

Described by colleagues as an «out - of - the box» thinker, she manages pan-African client relationships in both the public and private sector; covering hydrocarbons, mining, oil and gas infrastructure and power.

Baker Botts has as long history assisting clients with the development of pipeline projects, particularly those used to transport crude oil, other liquid hydrocarbons and natural gas.

We follow the whole life cycle of a hydrocarbon — everything from traditional oil and gas exploration and mining through to refining of finished products you would put in your gas tank at a retail station along with chemical production and different forms of hydrocarbons such as LNG and natural gas.