Sentences with word «ethane»

The US exported close to 3 million barrels of ethane in H1 2017, a rise of 83 % year - on - year.

This material can kinetically separate ethylene from ethane with an unprecedented selectivity of ~ 100, owing to its distinctive pore topology with large heart - shaped cages and framework flexibility.

It says that nearly 30 chemical plants are proposed in the next five years, and a mere 25 per cent increase in ethane production would result in 17,000 chemical industry jobs.

Titan's average surface temperature lies somewhere in between, so researchers expect to find lakes and seas of liquid ethane on the surface.

«The fracking - driven industry expansion will likely generate even more ocean plastics as more ethane crackers come online and produce more plastic resins,» the Food and Water Watch report concludes.

The cracker will use ethane as a feedstock and enable the construction of a large gas storage tank.

Research in the past several months has further fueled the excitement, yielding new hints of liquid water on Enceladus and revealing ethane lakes and methane rain on Titan.

Titan's surface seems to be covered with ethane oceans and an organic goo that may resemble the Earth's early surface chemistry, but nobody knows for sure, because astronomers can't see through the moon's maddeningly opaque orange fog.

Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which for the first time takes into account different production management systems and geological conditions around the world.

On January 14, the Huygens probe will parachute to the surface and show what lies beneath the haze: Light areas may be ice continents; darker regions could be chilly ethane seas.

Their decaying corpses could release enough methanethiol and ethane gas to briefly show up in the atmosphere, but again we'd have to be looking at the right time.

Using ethane as a tracer for fugitive methane emissions, his team found two high - emitting sites in the central United States.

Using his measurements and those from land - based efforts, he and his coauthors suggest that atmospheric leak rates from the blowout were up to 66 tons of methane and 4.9 tons of ethane per hour at times.

The Study: «The Sequestration of Ethane on Titan in Smog Particles» by Donald M. Hunten, published in the journal Nature.

- Ethlylene plant debottlenecks for ethane crackers and naphtha / gas oil crackers.

With access to low - cost ethane from shale gas, the US is on its way to becoming one of the world's cheapest chemical producers, predicts the American Chemistry Council.

Titan's atmosphere, for instance, consists of a large quantity of greenhouse gases like ethane and methane.

The sea may also be stratified, with more ethane in the deeper layers and methane near the surface.

Its «rock» is water ice and its rains are hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane condensed by the cold.

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.

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.

It could be that the liquid is thick and viscous, like honey, though the material properties of methane and ethane at low temperatures are not well known.

Hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL): A group of hydrocarbons including ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutane, and natural gasoline, and their associated olefins, including ethylene, propylene, butylene, and isobutylene.

Recent estimates suggest the lakes are made of 80 per cent ethane, with slugs of propane, methane and acetylene, which could be a source of food for Titanian life, some researchers suggest.

The fact that the radar signals could bounce off the sea bottom suggests that the seas were more transparent than expected and thus must contain mostly methane, not ethane.

The bodies appear to be made mostly of methane, and not mostly ethane as previously thought.

As part of this work, Conley and colleagues analyzed methane and ethane data from 13 research aircraft flights between 7 November 2015 and 13 February 2016 — two days after the leak was finally plugged.

Chemical producers try to tailor the process to produce as much ethylene and as little ethane possible, but selectivity remains a challenge, Swearer said.

Twenty new or expanded ethane cracker projects have been proposed since the shale rush started, the new Food and Water Watch report says.

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.

A pure silica zeolite has small, flexible pores that preferentially adsorb ethylene over ethane.

The key ingredient is gas hydrate, a substance that forms when hydrocarbon gases like methane and ethane come into contact with water at the right temperature and pressure.

[M] ethane doesn't need to be an emission or a waste.

Wwhat caused global ethane emissions to rise between 2009 and 2014, after a significant decline prior to 2009?

«Dragon - class» and VLEC vessels facilitate transoceanic trade of surplus US ethane.

But the shape theory doesn't explain why some nearly identically shaped molecules smell vastly different, such as ethanol, which smells like vodka, and ethane thiol (rotten eggs).

The Motive: Since the early 1980s, astronomers have postulated that a vast, sloshing sea of liquid ethane half a mile deep may cover the surface of Saturn's giant moon, Titan.

(The researchers also found ethane, propane and butane in some of the drinking water wells.)

Cassini has identified ethane in Ontario Lacus, and methane is almost certainly present.

But, he realized, if the water were to cool extremely rapidly to 196 ° Celsius — in ethane cooled by liquid nitrogen — it would solidify without forming ice crystals, instead becoming vitreous, or glassy.

Over the course of 13 flights in the region, Conley et al. sampled the air column and determined daily release rates of methane (a powerful greenhouse gas) and ethane throughout the leak.

Over 4.5 billion years, Titan could have accumulated enough ethane to cover a good portion of the surface.

Ethane there may act the way water does on Earth.

When ultraviolet rays from the sun fall on methane, they break the molecule into components that form ethane, a constituent of natural gas on Earth.

Ethane freezes at — 295ºF and boils at — 128ºF.

A fake lake simulating conditions there hints that the moon may host ethane pools saturated with benzene, just as the Dead Sea is packed with salt.

They're made not of sand but of ice or frozenhydrocarbons or even of a strange, mile - high fluffy ethane - smog mixthat one planetary scientist has dubbed «smust.»

What they found in the skies over the Bakken that May was the equivalent of 1 to 3 percent of the world's estimated emissions of ethane floating over a relatively tiny place.

She was there as Cassini discovered lakes of liquid methane and ethane dotting the poles of Saturn's giant moon Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury.