Sentences with phrase «feedstock which»

Bitumen, or asphalt, is the feedstock which tar sands and oil sands producers remove from the ground, thick enough to require mining, not pumping.

You can use just about any form of energy / feedstock which might be the problem getting approval, since there are taboo sources even though the process removes most of the taboo elements.

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 Ecofining Process hydrogenates triglycerides and free fatty acid feedstocks which are then isomerized to create a high - quality hydrocarbon fuel.

Not exact matches

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.

Ervin said cutting off light oil supplies through Trans Mountain would hurt Alberta - based Parkland Fuels Corp., which bought the 55,000 - barrel - per - day Burnaby refinery last year and has enjoyed good margins thanks to its access to low - cost Alberta feedstock.

«We're trying to build a feedstock portfolio, and the supply chain is amazingly immature,» says Brown, which means, among other things, that Beyond Burgers run $ 5.99 for two four - ounce patties, more expensive than ground beef.

But thanks to the subsidy they get from Canada, refineries in Cushing often enjoy refinery margins, or crack spreads as they're known in the industry, that have been as much as five times what refineries on the Gulf Coast, which have to pay full world oil prices for their feedstock, operate with.

Canada's oilpatch is bound and determined to find a way to get land - locked Alberta bitumen to tidewater, which would give it entrée to the higher prices that global refineries pay for feedstock.

Chemical and fertilizer companies, which use gas as both a feedstock and energy source, say lower prices have reduced costs and made the U.S. a more competitive manufacturing location.

Tethers Unlimited has been working on a specialized 3D printer that can convert plastic waste — which comprises much of the space debris spinning around in orbit — into filament, or feedstock, or 3D printers.

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.

Feedstock is defined in the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989 as «an intermediate substance which is used to manufacture other chemicals».

The plant has been designed and built for Lake District Biogas, which will operate the site for twenty years taking feedstock -LSB-...]

The plant has been designed and built for Lake District Biogas, which will operate the site for 20 years, taking feedstock from First Milk's creamery site.

«We also welcome restated backing for developing UK shale gas reserves which in turn will support our vital future energy and feedstock security.

«The Abu Dhabi project is a ground - breaking and important project based on gas feedstock, but Rio Tinto prefers to focus on projects with solid fuel feedstocks, which are better aligned with our other businesses,» Mr Chiaro said.

Each variable — temperature, pressure, volume, tank - residence time — needs to precisely match the feedstock, which proves to be no mean feat on an industrial scale.

And while this demonstration used an ore that is a sulfide (metal combined with sulfur), «we see no reason why this approach couldn't be generalized to oxide feedstocks,» which represent the other major category of metal ores.

One area in which algae perform better, environmentally, than other feedstocks is land use, Clarens said.

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).

«One bacterium ferments the glycerol waste to produce bioethanol, which can be reused to make biodiesel from oil feedstocks.

Faster - growing root systems could allow new plants to take hold more quickly, including perennial grasses like switchgrass and Miscanthus, which are considered viable feedstocks for next - generation biofuel.

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.

Ethylene is the chemical feedstock for making polyethylene, the world's most common plastic, which is used in thousands of everyday products.

It also is a prime feedstock for the Fischer - Tropsch process, which allows for the production of synthetic petroleum, gasoline and diesel.

In particular, it can be a feedstock to make ammonia and urea, which are used to manufacture fertilizer.

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.

The protein threads could be spun and woven into novel biomaterials, which could provide a sustainable alternative to synthetic fibres such as Nylon, which are made from petroleum feedstocks.

Ethylene, which is the building block of polyethylene, is an important chemical feedstock produced in large quantities for manufacturing plastics, rubber and fibres.

Different chemicals used for the field include inhibitors for scaling, fouling, corrosion, asphaltene control, formation damage, differential pressures in multiphase environments which will be met by new synthesis methods including metathesis reactions, bio based feedstocks, new polymer surfactants, living polymers, and nanoparticle.

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.

In the syngas upgrading to hydrocarbon fuels pathway, biomass feedstocks are gasified to produce a syngas (H2 / CO), which is used as a feedstock for hydrocarbon biofuel production.

One of these solutions is to improve plants as bioenergy feedstocks, which is an achievable goal, according to Donohue.

Also featured, is a «big idea» which considers converting feedstock to energy.

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

In 2006 CATF supported an evaluation on biochar research gaps and co-founded the International Biochar Initiative (IBI), which seeks to develop practical demonstrations and commercial development for capturing and storing carbon from a wide range of feedstocks, including wastes and manures.

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.

In my own field, I'd like to see consumer product manufacturing follow the path of biomimicry and achieve a closed loop model in which the wastes of each process become the feedstocks for the next and the products we use actually enhance the environment.

Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.

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.

As defined in Title 26 of the US Code (The Internal Revenue Code of 1986), refined coal means a fuel which is a liquid, gaseous or solid fuel produced from coal (including lignite) or high carbon fly ash, including such fuel used as a feedstock; and is sold with the reasonable expectation that it will be used to produce steam, resulting in a qualified emission reduction.

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.

The most favorable estimates, which include still - developing cellulosic feedstocks, point out that fuel made from biomass can replace only a fourth to a third of transport - related oil consumption.

«The U.S. and Europe can not produce enough plant feedstocks to meet targets» for biofuel production — even with cellulosic corn — as defined by government mandates, which are largely being driven by a growing demand for energy independence and national security concerns, said Thurmond.

Geography may determine which type of biofuel technology is most readily adopted in a specific region, depending on what type of feedstock and biomass is locally available, thereby maximizing local resources and minimizing the energy and cost required to transport these resources.

H2O and CO2 can supply the feedstock for all the liquid fuels currently used for transportation, which are just various molecular recombinations of hydrogen and carbon.

There will be decided financial advantages in using as feedstocks any wastes which carry a tipping fee (a negative cost) to finance disposal: e.g. waste paper, or rice straw, which can not be left in the fields after harvest because of its silicon content.

Authorizes the EPA Administrator to study: (1) the extent to which petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas are used as feedstocks in manufacturing processes to produce products; and (2) the GHG emissions resulting from such uses.