Sentences with phrase «feedstock materials»

The researchers are currently working to apply the technique to wood and other biomass feedstock materials, as well as to better understand and fine - tune the interactions between the PILs and lignin.
Australia Minerals and Mining Group has chosen its Meckering aluminous clay deposit as the key supply of feedstock material for its HPA chemicals project, which will be located north of Perth.
Australia Minerals and Mining Group has chosen its Meckering aluminous clay deposit as the key supply of feedstock material for its high purity alumina (HPA) project, which will be located north of Perth.
High quality agaves are very good feedstock material for biofuel... for the following characteristics: high total sugar density and content; high weight of the fruit and stems; cultivation and harvest cycles of six years; high density of plants per hectare; genetic diversity and high adaptability, low water requirements; CO2 and capture; methane metabolism; soil retention; plant nutrition; products from inulin; and low maintenance during cultivation.

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These recyclables are collected by a single truck and taken to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) to be sorted into various commodity streams for sale to markets, where it is processed into feedstock which can be used in the manufacture of new products.
The PROTECTOR is installed directly above the material infeed of the blow molding machine, and reliably separates out impurities beginning from a size of 0,3 mm in the feedstock, both during initial filling and refilling.
What began in 1989 as a Cargill research project looking for innovative uses of carbohydrates from plants as feedstock for more sustainable plastics has quickly matured into the innovative materials for which we are known today.
Some of the other projects involve the development of proton exchange membrane for fuel cell application, a gyroscope based on micro-electromechanical technology and research on innovative engineering materials to fabricate ceramic membranes that can partially oxidize methane to syngas used as feedstock in commercial methanol production.
Astronauts would only need «feedstock» material, such as plastic or metal, to make new tools or spare parts on the fly.
«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.
Synthetic biology could usher in a new bioeconomy where biomass becomes the primary source of feedstocks for chemicals and materials currently manufactured from crude oil and natural gas.
Most feedstock chemicals — raw materials used in manufacturing a product — come from oil or natural gas.
The researchers also tested the different microbes» performance with minimal pretreatment of the plant materials, indicating it may be possible to reduce or eliminate use of heat and chemicals that make the feedstock accessible to biological processing.
Future studies will explore different feedstocks, particularly those from biorefineries, and correlations among processing conditions, material structure and performance.
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.
The process would also generate solid byproduct materials that leach less contaminants, making them more stable than the original coal fly ash used as feedstock for the process.
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.
While previous methods used county - level slash data to estimate the amount of wood residue available as a feedstock, the new research reported in the journal Biomass and Bioenergy, uses more refined data on demand from individual sawmills, said Natalie Martinkus, one of the authors of the paper and an assistant professor in WSU's Composite Materials and Engineering Center.
Throughout the course of this study, the teams compiled an extensive library of experimental and theoretical data including electronic, magnetic, optical, photoelectrochemical, and structural properties, which are now used as feedstock in material genome work and near - term development of superior PEC materials through materials - by - design techniques.
The feedstock for the new process is levulinic acid, which can be produced by chemical processing of materials such as straw, corn stalks or even municipal green waste.
According to Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, «although polymers are manufactured from petroleum feedstock, plastics manufacturers often use additives of animal origin to improve material properties and / or to aid in processing of raw polymers.»
Indeed, NatureWorks» commitment to responsible innovation means there is a long term plan is to transition the current raw material supply to one which uses a new carbohydrate feedstock.
One major step on the pathway to a circular economy is finding ways to transform waste materials into feedstock for other products, whether that's as a raw material for production, or as a «fuel» for generating energy.
So the company spend a lot of time, energy and money sourcing recycled feedstock, getting it processed into footwear grade materials, and supplying it to shoemakers.
The facility is a two ton per day biorefinery which uses corn stover as feedstock — meaning the residual corn leaves, husks, and stalks left after harvest are used as the raw materials from which the fuel is derived.
Byproduct: A secondary or additional product resulting from the feedstock use of energy or the processing of nonenergy materials.
Feedstocks can include more durable material such as woody biomass and wastes that are not broken down in traditional anaerobic digester plants.
Under the agreement, Cooper Marine & Timberlands («CMT») will supply BlueFire's Fulton, Mississippi project with all of the feedstock required to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year from locally sourced cellulosic materials such as wood chips, forest residual chips, pre-commercial thinnings and urban wood waste such as construction waste, storm debris, land clearing; or manufactured wood waste from furniture manufacturing.
biomass the total quantity of living matter in a particular habitat; plant and organic waste materials used as fuel and feedstock in place of fossil fuels
Under the Agreement, CMT will pursue a least - cost strategy for feedstock supply made possible by the project site's proximity to feedstock sources and the flexibility of BlueFire's process to use a wide spectrum of cellulosic waste materials in pure or mixed forms.
Beyond their uses as fuels, oil and natural gas serve as the feedstocks for thousands of products like medical devices, cellphones, clothing, building materials and pharmaceuticals.
Cement production is either «wet» or «dry», depending on the water content of the material feedstock.
Options for mitigation of GHG emissions from industry fall into the following categories: energy efficiency, emissions efficiency (including fuel and feedstock switching, carbon dioxide capture and storage), material efficiency (for example through reduced yield losses in production), re ‐ use of materials and recycling of products, more intensive and longer use of products, and reduced demand for product services.
With more than 130 million tons being landfilled, considerable opportunity remains to recover material and keep it in the economy as a feedstock to make new products.
Hydrogen from the waste and many cheaper catalysts move the processes by which the «feedstock» raw materials are converted into the oily products.
Each facility will deploy the proprietary technology, which uses all cellulosic waste materials traditionally disposed of in landfills as feedstock.
Since a large part of industry fossil fuel use is for feedstock, to manufacture plastics and other materials, increased recycling can reduce feedstock needs.
Fossils fuels are the feedstock for the petrochemical ndustries (sometimes called the chemical process industries), which manufacture everything from A to Z, such as tough synthetic fibers and exotic material suchas silicones and Teflon.
Conventional ethanol production is energy - intensive, expensive, and time - consuming as the barley malt or other material being brewed needs to be heated up as a mash in feedstock pre-treatment.
The waste feedstocks for the process will most likely come from a mixture of sources ranging from food scraps and other household material such as grass and tree cuttings, to agricultural and industrial waste.
Pentatonic is tapping in to this waste stream for feedstock for its products, which are intended to be truly «circular» in nature, by virtue of being made from 100 % recycled materials, being fully recyclable, and coming with a lifetime buy - back guarantee.
This approach can be extended to a complete industrial ecosystem, e.g. recycling «waste» outputs from industrial and agricultural processes as feedstock or energy inputs for other industries and users - cascading and integrating to increase overall materials and energy efficiency, and, where possible topping up with renewables to drive the system.
We take in biodegradable materials and use them as feedstocks and amendments in the manufacture of a branded line of compost products.
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