Sentences with phrase «ethylene plants»

She designed, contracted and built pilot plant and laboratory installations; developed justification for a $ 6M factory retrofit; saved $ 11M annually with just $ 2M investment and developed and implemented optimization improvements at ethylene plants.

SABIC affiliate United Jubail Petrochemical Company hopes to capture about 1,500 tons a day of carbon dioxide from ethylene plants, and use it in SABIC petrochemical plants, Reuters reports.

Not exact matches

The plant is DuPont's largest manufacturing site in Texas and makes high performance ethylene copolymers, such as Surlyn ® ionomer resin and Vamac ® ethylene acrylic elastomers, which are used for packaging, automotive components, construction materials and other everyday items.

The Texas plant upgraded the design of its ethylene furnaces and saved more than 67 million btu / hr fuel savings via the new system.

Plant upgrades to ethylene furnaces have saved approximately 540 billion BTUs of energy — enough to power 3,800 households.

Within the DuPont Packaging business, plant upgrades to ethylene furnaces have saved approximately 540 billion BTUs of energy — enough to power 3,800 households.

Comprised of carbon and hydrogen, in closed growing environments, like on a spacecraft or in a terrestrial greenhouse or a land - base perishable cooler, ethylene builds up rapidly and causes plants to mature too quickly.

Ma works at Dow Chemical's ethylene - processing plant in Fort Saskatchewan, in northern Alberta.

When the team induced expression of the corresponding gene in the leaves of two other plant species (one closely related to S. lycopersicum and the other more distantly related), both plants reacted to presence of the C. reflexa peptide with increased production of ethylene, and exhibited increased resistance to C. reflexa infestation.

Randy Woodson, a plant physiologist at Purdue University, says it should be valuable for carnation growers because that flower is particularly susceptible to ethylene.

But he warns that the gene could have undesirable side effects in some plants: «If we indiscriminately make a plant insensitive to ethylene, we may affect its response to diseases or to pests.»

He's optimistic that the gene will work in other plants as well, such as broccoli, which ethylene turns soft and yellow.

The normal gene codes for a receptor for ethylene, a gaseous plant hormone that ripens fruit.

In the quest for firmer tomatoes and melons, plant scientists have attempted to prevent plants from producing ethylene.

The team spliced a nonfunctional gene for the ethylene receptor, taken from a common laboratory plant called Arabidopsis, into petunias.

EIN2 protein binds to the messenger RNA of the ethylene circuit breaker EBF2, incapacitating its protein synthesis, and thus allowing for a full activation of plant ethylene responses.

Alonso and Stepanova say that although the results are specific to ethylene, the findings provide a blueprint for examining other plant hormones and their effects on genes.

Acetylene, a hydrocarbon that's often found in the gas feedstocks that are used at polyethylene plants, damages the catalysts that producers use to convert ethylene to polyethylene.

Recently the team developed a system that soaks up ethylene, a plant hormone that degrades fruit and vegetables.

Although ethylene (or ethene) is best known as a plant hormone, humans also produce it as consequence of oxidative stress, caused for example by the UV radiation from the sun.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (February 2, 2017)-- Reductions of spike - ethylene, a plant - aging hormone, could increase wheat yields by 10 to 15 percent in warm locations, according to a recent study published in New Phytologist journal.

The presence of the acdS gene, encoding an 1 - aminocyclopropane -1-carboxylic acid (ACC) deaminase was detected in all the genomes analyzed here, which highlights the relevant role of this enzyme in lowering the levels of ethylene, thus indirectly promoting plant growth (24).

Modulation of plant ethylene levels by the bacterial enzyme ACC deaminase.

Using the well - characterized signaling pathway of the phytohormone ethylene and plant - optimized genome - wide ribosome footprinting, we have uncovered a molecular mechanism linking this hormone's perception to the activation of a gene - specific translational control mechanism.

Teacher Answer Key Topics Include: • plant systems: roots and shoots • plant tissues: dermal, vascular, ground • epidermis • trichomes • xylem • phloem • plant cell types: parenchyma, collenchyma, sclerenchyma • fibrous roots • taproots • root hairs • root cap • stems • leaves • palisade mesophyll • spongy mesophyll • cuticle • stomata • guard cells • meristems • primary growth • secondary growth • vascular cambium • cork cambium • wood • tree rings • bark • mycorrhiza • legumes • tracheids • vessel elements • transpiration • sieve - tube members • companion cells • pressure - flow hypothesis • parasitic plants • carnivorous plants • epiphytes • hormones • auxins • phototropism • gravitropism • thigmotropism • cytokinins • gibberellins • ethylene • abscisic acid • photoperiodism • desert plants • plant defenses Happy Teaching!

Cracking plants — also known as «crackers» — convert ethane to ethylene, which is used to make polyethylene plastic.

To handwave less, one refers to a document (http://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/v5/n5/full/nchembio.165.html) that discusses the plant hormone topic (CO2 is an ethylene inhibitor) and a contrary report (though paywalled) in its abstract touches on some of the questions hot in botany today and at least tangential to what I am suggesting be considered: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1399-3054.2011.01444.x/full

It may suppres the formation and actions of ethylene, which is a strong growth inhibitor (and a plant poison in elevated dosis) and a ripening gas (reason that you need a lot of ventilation on banana ships).

Home: From the lumber framing your house (planted, harvested and transported by machines powered by gasoline and diesel) to the vinyl siding and flooring (derived from ethylene, which comes from crude oil) to the very roof over your head (most roofs are protected by shingles covered in asphalt, a byproduct of the refining process that provides durability), energy makes your home safer and more comfortable in numerous ways.

«The worst originated from cracker plants producing ethylene and propylene.»

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).

Vinyl chloride emissions from polyvinyl chloride (PVC), ethylene dichloride (EDC), and vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plants cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to result in an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness.

Dandelions exhale ethylene gas, which provides robust growth in nearby flowers and plants and causes them to mature early.