Sentences with phrase «carbon dioxide and water directly»

A team of University of Texas at Arlington chemists and engineers have proven that concentrated light, heat and high pressures can drive the one - step conversion of carbon dioxide and water directly into useable liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

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In addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

From the products of a biomass gasification plant, i.e. hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide, the DemoSNG pilot plant directly produces methane and water by means of a nickel catalyst (SNG operation).

Their ultimate goal is to find ways to use solar energy — either directly or via electricity generated by solar cells — to convert the end products of hydrocarbon combustion, water and carbon dioxide, back into a carbon - based fuel.

«Artificial photosynthesis uses a single integrated system to directly convert carbon dioxide and water molecules through sunlight into a transportation fuel in one system,» Frei said.

The body is under constant danger of becoming acid, due to the very basic process of energy production, by oxidizing (breaking down) carbohydrates into carbon dioxide and water, producing acidic residue (CO2), that needs to be disposed of through cellular respiration, and then exhaled through the lungs (this is why the rate of breathing can directly affect body's acid / alkaline balance).

But most of the infra - red radiation emitted by the earth's surface is absorbed in the atmosphere by water vapour, carbon dioxide, and other naturally occurring «greenhouse gases», making it difficult for the surface to radiate energy directly to space.

It is the only technology that acts to directly reduce the temperature of the ocean (it was estimated one degree Fahrenheit reduction every twenty years for 10,000 250 MWe plants in» 77), eliminates carbon emissions, and increases carbon dioxide absorption (cooler water absorbs more CO2) at the same time.

Allahverdiyeva - Rinne noted, «The study opens up new possibilities for the construction of efficient living cell factories for the production of biofuels and different chemicals directly from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water.

As we have noted, one of the Achilles heels for the US aviation industry could be the complex mixture of greenhouse gases and precursors — carbon dioxide, water vapor, and oxides of nitrogen — injected directly into the atmosphere by every jet and turboprop in the sky.