Sentences with phrase «capture waste gas»

GOP lawmakers want to remove a rule forcing companies to capture waste gas.

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One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the waste gas of power plants, typically by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.

The problem is that large emitters such as power stations and steel or cement works have no economic incentive to capture and bury their waste gases.

«With Synfuels plants, if you captured and processed all the natural gas that is being reinjected and wasted today, you could make 550,000 barrels (87.5 million liters) of gasoline a day,» Rolfe says.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

Researchers are investigating a new material that might help in nuclear fuel recycling and waste reduction by capturing certain gases released during reprocessing.

Further, vented mine gases in the same area are now being captured as an economic resource, and there may be additional opportunities for such conversion of a waste product to a resource.

So the solution to CO2 emissions must lie in a new way for post-combustion CO2 capture out of flue gas, followed by CO2 cracking using the otherwise wasted energy of renewables.

Each time you participate in a Northwest Earth Institute Discussion Course, or purchase one of our course books, you now have the option to contribute funds which will go directly toward supporting projects and programs that include forest management, renewable energy projects, waste heat capture and landfill gas management.

Consequently, our proposed CES would include a percentage of natural gas when replacing existing coal capacity, 25 coal with carbon capture and sequestration, waste - to - energy, biomass, energy efficiency and nuclear power.

Still, all regions of the nation can take advantage of cleaner electric power, like nuclear, waste - to - energy, coal with carbon capture and sequestration, and natural gas.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

Gases arising from the breakdown of waste during the sewage treatment process are captured and later burned to generate electricity.

Eligible technologies include energy storage, wind turbines, pressure reduction turbines, fuel cells, waste heat capture and combined heat and power (CHP), internal combustion engines (ICE), microturbines and gas turbines.

Cleaning up soot pollution could prevent between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths each year, according to the international team of researchers, while capturing methane from coal mines, landfills, and agricultural waste can yield natural gas, a less carbon intensive and increasingly valuable fuel.

WPX / Williams started capturing this «waste» gas ten years ago.

The good news is that it can be done with existing technology, by cutting energy waste, expanding the use of renewable sources, growing trees and crops (which remove carbon dioxide from the air) to turn into fuel, capturing the gas before it is released from power stations, and - maybe - using more nuclear energy.

The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R - CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste....

Studies show that the natural gas industry could save more than $ 1 billion per year by capturing additional wasted gas.

These projects capture, destroy or reduce harmful greenhouse gases emitted from sources such as animal waste, landfills, fossil fuel use or refrigerants.

Methane is also the principal constituent of natural gas and, therefore, when captured, this waste product can be put to a productive use as fuel for the generation of electrical energy as an alternative fuel to natural gas, fuel oil, or coal.

Biofuels can only reduce greenhouse gases if they result in additional plant growth, or if they in effect generate additional useable biomass by capturing waste material that would otherwise decompose anyway.

It's possible to capture some natural gas without mega-infrastructure, and a suite of companies with different ideas for turning waste gas into wealth are flocking to the Bakken.

And studies show that the natural gas industry could save more than $ 1 billion per year by capturing additional wasted gas.

Here's a novel way to generate some (extra) electricity: Bath, UK - based company 2OC has unveiled a plan to capture wasted pressure from the natural gas grid, Cleantech reports.

He has particular experience of Electricity Market Reform, Contracts for Difference, carbon capture and storage, solar, wind, tidal, energy from waste and electricity and heat power purchase, off - take and supply agreements, as well as regulated asset and PPP models.Alex also advises clients in the Transport, Utilities, Oil and Gas and Mining sectors.

Cooking meth generates some very nasty waste gasses that are often captured in trash bags and abandoned.