Sentences with phrase «producing synthetic gas»

Producing synthetic gas and using though a combined cycle operation should put Kemper ahead of other coal units.

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A chemistry professor in Florida has just found a way to trigger the process of photosynthesis in a synthetic material, turning greenhouse gases into clean air and producing energy all at the same time.

As part of the largest investment in coal - fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history, the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large - scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters of synthetic natural gas annually.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study.

Rather, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would drop by 28 percent without farmed animals because of increases associated with producing additional food crops and the use of more synthetic fertilizer to replace manure.

With air captured CO2 from plants like Climeworks», renewable energy can be efficiently stored by producing synthetic fuels using Power - to - Gas or Power - to - Liquids technology.

Primus Green Energy Inc., developer of a proprietary process to produce gasoline and other fuels from biomass and / or natural gas (earlier post), will provide financial support to engineers at Princeton University for general research on synthetic fuels, which will include... Read more →

A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.

The Oil Sands segment includes mining, extracts and transports bitumen from oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada, and upgrades the bitumen to produce and market synthetic crude oil and vacuum gas oil.

China, with similarly huge reserves, is even planning to convert coal into synthetic fuel for cars - even though such processes typically produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.

The most water - efficient energy sources are natural gas (though we may be just about out of it) and synthetic fuels produced by coal gasification; the least efficient are ethanol and biodiesel — the biofuels just can't catch a break these days, can they?Water use winners and losers The research pair analyzed 11 types of energy sources, including coal, fuel ethanol, natural gas, and oil; and five power generating methods, including hydroelectric, fossil fuel thermoelectric, and nuclear methods; in terms of power generation, Younos and Hill have found that geothermal and hydroelectric energy types use the least amount of water, while nuclear plants use the most.

Aside from purely human - produced synthetic halocarbons, most greenhouse gases have both natural and human - caused sources.

A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.

Agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are mainly produced when chemical companies burn fossil fuels to produce synthetic fertilizers, and when distributors fly food around the world.

It is a synthetic chemical produced in industrial quantities, it is not included in the Kyoto basket of greenhouse gases, or in national reporting under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,» Professor Prather said in the Sentinel.

This absolutely means no chemicals, not even synthetic nitrogen which takes petroleum (natural gas) to produce and is hugely polluting (contributes to acid rain.)