Sentences with phrase «feedstock at»

In the meantime, the same larger entity can afford to import alternate source feedstocks at prices much lower than local areas with weak or spent land can produce.

Not exact matches

At the same time, the price of its main feedstock, natural gas, has remained very low in North America.

Mr Ferrier said Wilsons has «buy» recommendations on animal feedstock group Ridley Corp (RIC) and rural services company Ruralco (RHL) because both have structural growth opportunities and are relatively cheap, with Ruralco for instance trading at below 10 times expected FY2018 earnings.

On the benefits of the project, Baru said the construction of the plant and the production of cassava feedstock could create at least one million direct and indirect jobs.

«Introductions go a long way,» says Marco Farsheed, CEO at enEvolv, a Boston - based startup that engineers micro-organisms to produce products from renewable feedstocks.

«We're looking at wood chips and other feedstock sources that are not necessarily in the mainstream for ethanol but are in abundance in our region.

The Department of Energy (DOE) operates a Bioenergy Feedstock Development Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee.

Dry feedstocks like tires and plastics need additional water at this stage, but offal is wet enough.

But Changing World Technologies» experience at Carthage — where the feedstock is tons of turkey parts from the nearby Con Agra Foods Butterball Turkey slaughterhouse — has yet to demonstrate the economics of biocrude.

Growing cellulosic feedstocks, however, neutralizes the carbon debt, said lead author Ilya Gelfand, a researcher at Michigan State University's Kellogg Biological Station.

«The second [test] will be to look more at sustainability issues and second - generation feedstocks.»

This is obvious in the most egregious example of all: the clearing of tropical rainforest in Malaysia and Indonesia for oil - palm plantations, at least a third of which are used to produce feedstocks for biofuels (the rest goes into processed food, from chocolate to cooking oil, and cosmetics).

Also, while electrolysis uses a renewable feedstock (water), burning fossil fuels at a power plant to run an electrolysis machine undermines the fuel's low - carbon attributes.

So say researchers at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which alongside Seattle - based Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) has secured $ 9 million from the Department of Energy to explore seaweed's potential as a feedstock for biobutanol, an advanced biofuel.

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.

«Cheap, energy - efficient and clean reaction to make chemical feedstock: Combining experimental and computer chemistry, scientists find the conditions to break carbon - hydrogen bonds at low temperature with cheap titanium in place of rare metals.»

In the second study, Timothy Searchinger, a researcher at Princeton University, looked at a future scenario in which the United States substantially increases its production of corn - based ethanol, a move that would decrease domestic crops for food and feedstock.

At present, chemists derive these precursor compounds from a benzene «feedstock».

Because platinum is at the center of many clean energy and green chemicals production technologies, such as fuel cells, catalytic converters, and value - added chemicals from bio-renewable feedstocks, the new, less expensive platinum - copper catalysts could facilitate broader adoption of such environmentally friendly devices and processes, she added.

Published in Chemical Science, the reaction employs a chiral nickel catalyst and an activating agent at low temperatures to couple nucleophilic arenes, common motifs in bioactive compounds, with a feedstock chemical known as pyridine.

Researchers in the Doyle lab at Princeton have developed a direct and selective cross-coupling reaction that employs a chiral nickel catalyst and an activating agent at low temperatures to couple nucleophilic arenes, common motifs in bioactive compounds, with a feedstock chemical known as pyridine.

Industries that use coal as a feedstock for manufacturing plastics, fertilizers, and other chemicals need such materials, and scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working to oblige.

A team from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one - pot process to produce gasoline - grade (C6 — C18) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)-- an energy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial species.

Sustainable and renewable feedstocks are one aspect of green chemistry, a key topic at this year's meeting.

«Water is ubiquitous and abundant in biomass - derived feedstocks,» said Dr. Hui Shi, a postdoctorate fellow who has worked for 3 years at PNNL and participated in this joint research.

Production begins at Idaho National Laboratory, which stores the existing inventory of neptunium - 237 feedstock and ships it as needed to ORNL.

Atomic precision starts with small - molecule feedstocks, atomically precise by nature and often available at a low cost per kilogram.

And while I'm not personally a fan of ethanol, the plant described at the following link seems to address many of the concerns about ethanol and big - scale farming by treating wastes from one process as feedstock into another and reducing the amount of energy required at each stage.

Though they're not the first group to have a go at using seaweed as a feedstock for biofuels, they may be one of the largest.

Around 99 % of the feedstock for plastics is fossil fuels, so we are looking at the same companies, like Exxon and Shell, that have helped create the climate crisis.

One prime goal of Venter, a genomics pioneer and entrepreneur (partnering with Exxon Mobil, among others), is to program organisms that, at large scale, could harvest carbon dioxide and generate hydrocarbons, replacing oil as a fuel and feedstock.

There would be less packaging and less low tech consumer waste and packaging, since the feedstock for this would be at a premium.

Therefore, since an energy input is only required at start - up, it is desirable to run the unit continuously, to the extent that feedstock availability and maintenance requirements allow.

It is not clear right now if there is any site in the US where this much biomass feedstock could be provided to a plant year - round at economical cost.

Michael Blaylock, Ph.D., vp of systems development at Edenspace Systems, reported on the status of Energy Corn ™, a feedstock designed to lower the cost of producing cellulosic biofuels from corn stover.

Camelina appears to be a promising renewable feedstock for producing hydrotreated renewable jet (HRJ) fuel, but annual production capacity for camelina - based HRJ is projected at only 68 — 98 million gallons by 2020.

Wes Bolsen, CMO and head of government affairs at Coskata, discussed a recent Sandia National Labs and General Motors study demonstrating that 90 billion gallons of feedstock - flexible ethanol is possible in the U.S. without a significant change in current land use.

-- At worst one could say it was an error of omission, and those errors are the feedstock for the half - truths that pseudoscience breeds on.

Our broad portfolio of biofuels research doesn't just investigate the potential of algae, it also looks at turning cellulosic feedstocks into motor fuels.

«This production for feedstock purpose will reach one million tonnes at its peak, ensuring the incineration of HFC — 23 being produced as by - product will ensure an avoidance of more than 444 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent globally,» the statement added.

The new research looks at the «carbon payback time» or «carbon debt» of various biofuel feedstocks including oil palm, sugar cane, and soy.

Biofuels expansion in Africa may impact rainforests, wetlands (5/28/2008) Biofuel feedstock expansion in Africa will likely come at the expense of ecologically - sensitive lands, reports a new analysis presented by Wetlands International at the Convention of Biological Diversity in Bonn.

The raw coal feedstock is specified at quite normal thermal coal characteristics.

The term qualified coal - to - liquid facility means a manufacturing facility that has the capacity to produce at least 10,000 barrels per day of transportation grade liquid fuels from a feedstock that is primarily domestic coal (including peat and any property which allows for the capture, transportation, or sequestration of by - products resulting from such process, including carbon emissions).

Assessing the potential role of biopower as a climate solution requires a look at its lifecycle carbon emissions — which vary according to the type of feedstock, the manner in which it is developed and harvested, the scale at which it is used and the technology used to convert biomass into electricity.

The sugarcane would then provide feedstock for an ethanol plant, with leftover cane used to create biomass electricity at night with a nearby solar concentrator complex generating power during the day.

Almost all of these projects differ from the ethanol being blended into the US gasoline supply in that they are made from inedible feedstocks, which sidesteps one of the critiques often leveled at biofuels: that they compete in with crops raised for people or livestock, driving up food prices.

To square this circle, Congress mandated that ethanol from cellulose feedstocks contribute at least 16 billion gallons by 2022.

Economic Benefits The development of an advanced biofuel industry will help rebuild the local and regional economies devastated as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita by providing: (1) increased value to the feedstock crops which will benefit local farmers and provide more revenue to the local community; (2) increased investments in plants and equipment which will stimulate the local economy by providing construction jobs initially and the chance for full - time employment after the plant is completed; (3) secondary employment as associated industries develop due to plant co-products becoming available at a competitive price; and (4) increased local and state revenues collected from plant operations will stimulate local and state tax revenues and provide funds for improvements to the community and to the region.

The idea of bio-fuels, at least from a policy implementation standpoint in the OEDC nations, has been largely centered on use as a feedstock for concentration to support transportation.