Using ethane as a tracer for fugitive methane emissions, his team found two high - emitting sites in the central United States.
The cracker will
use ethane as a feedstock and enable the construction of a large gas storage tank.
He uses ethane as a proxy in the lab but will probably use mostly methane with a little ethane for the real thing.
In the United States, chemical companies
use ethane and propane, NGLs derived from shale gas, as key feedstocks.
Not exact matches
In theory, sunlight should glint off Titan's
ethane waves, yet measurements
using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii have failed to detect such reflections.
The discovery of new materials for separating ethylene from
ethane by adsorption, instead of
using cryogenic distillation, is a key milestone for molecular separations because of the multiple and widely extended
uses of these molecules in industry.
Using radar, infrared, and visual imaging, Cassini has revealed a string of
ethane and methane lakes on Titan, making it the only other known world with bodies of liquid on its surface.
In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period,
using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of
ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.
For energy storage needs, hydrogen, methane, and
ethane could be
used in biofuels.
Since 2006, he has worked with NOAA's air sampling system that
uses glass flasks to collect atmospheric samples from 44 different sites around the world to track the annual increase of
ethane and other so - called volatile organic compounds in the air.
Shell's complex will
use low - cost
ethane from shale gas producers in the Marcellus and Utica basins to produce polyethylene, which is
used in a variety of products, from food packaging and containers to automotive components.
Preliminary results
using carbon dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide,
ethane, and soot spectroscopy observations are teasing apart biogenic and thermogenic (i.e., biomass burning and oil and gas production) contributions.
According to a recent news story, a state task force in South Charleston is working to attract companies that convert
ethane — a byproduct of natural gas production — into ethylene, a chemical compound
used in a variety of manufacturing and consumer products.
Using correlations between concentrations of CH4 and carbon monoxide (CO) we estimated total emissions of 30.8 Tg CH4 during the 2008 monsoon season (June — September), 19.7 Tg of which were identified as additional, monsoon - related biogenic methane using the relationship of CH4 to ethane (C
Using correlations between concentrations of CH4 and carbon monoxide (CO) we estimated total emissions of 30.8 Tg CH4 during the 2008 monsoon season (June — September), 19.7 Tg of which were identified as additional, monsoon - related biogenic methane
using the relationship of CH4 to ethane (C
using the relationship of CH4 to
ethane (C2H6).
Cracking plants — also known as «crackers» — convert
ethane to ethylene, which is
used to make polyethylene plastic.
Shell's complex will
use low - cost
ethane from shale gas producers in the Marcellus and Utica basins to produce polyethylene, which is
used in a variety of products, from food packaging and containers to automotive components.
Natural gas liquids (NGLs)
ethane and propane get extracted and sent to a «cracking facility» where
ethane is made into ethylene (the foundation of polyethylene - the most common plastic in the world, frequently
used for packaging, bottles, and synthetic clothing), and at a dehydrogenation plant, propane is made into propylene (the foundation of polypropylene - a plastic commonly found in food packaging and vehicle manufacturing).