It tells Bourne the company's technology: «represents a PROFITABLE [sic] use for CO2 emissions from power stations, by turning them into cheap chemical
feedstocks with a new process.»
Not exact matches
Sadly for these towns — and the farmers who might have supplied the plants
with feedstock — none of these projects has come to fruition.
While these two business verticals are linked,
with the upstream providing the
feedstock for the downstream, their respective markets aren't perfectly correlated.
With an ultimate
feedstock capacity of one million barrels a day and «near net zero» emissions, the refinery would produce high - margin products such as kerosene and aviation fuel for the Asian market.
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.
With considerable uncertainty all around the globe, chemical manufacturers must be prepared for swings in their
feedstock costs.
Aramco will supply up to 70 percent of the crude
feedstock requirement of the refinery,
with natural gas, power and other utilities to be supplied by Petronas.
feedstock permit holders are not supplied
with more
feedstock methyl bromide in a permit period than the amount specified on the
feedstock permit, and
Importers must comply
with the conditions of their controlled substance licence, including who they can supply non-Quarantine and Pre-Shipment and
feedstock methyl bromide to and in what amounts.
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.
«Also, to target a zero - waste society by fully turning agro-waste
feedstock into a portfolio of energy and chemicals to substitute non-renewable equivalents,
with favorable air, water and soil impacts.»
«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.
It added that «while export gas sales and NLNG
feedstock accounted for $ 84.57 million, that is, 18.97 per cent contribution compared
with 31.21 per cent contribution in the prior month of September 2015.»
The raw
feedstock, corn, is subsidized, too,
with cash payments to farmers.
My contribution was to identify the correct
feedstock for a continuous fermentation run, in fermenters specially equipped
with custom controllers that used programming I co-wrote.
Out of 100 Btus in a given unit of
feedstock, only 15 Btus are used to power the process,
with the remainder residing in oil, gas, and chemicals.
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.
I think we'll need to make a transition to a point where our fuel is coming from other
feedstocks in combination
with petroleum.»
In the meantime, efforts to grow Jatropha — already planted in quantity in Africa and India — may be scaled up, whereas other
feedstocks that can be rotated
with wheat, such as Camelina — a relative of canola — will play a role.
With conventional ore - based
feedstocks, the pressure must be kept down to around 5 per cent of atmospheric pressure to encourage the formation of magnesium.
«We are able to collaborate
with experts in several areas including catalytic chemistry, high throughput experimentation, spectroscopy, technoeconomic analysis; and in partnership
with our contractor Iowa State University, we can also select and grow the best
feedstocks.»
German river levels lowest in a century Some three - quarters of oilseed rape goes into the country's biodiesel industry — the biggest in the 27 - nation bloc — leaving it critically short of
feedstock and either forcing imports or cutting production,
with a consequent knock - on effect on the country's and the European Union's efforts to cut climate - changing carbon emissions.
For this reason, acetylene is considered a «catalyst poison» and must be removed from the ethylene
feedstock — often
with another catalyst — before it can cause damage.
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.
«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.»
«One of the reasons for interest in these second - generation cellulosic
feedstocks is that if they can be grown on low - quality soil, they wouldn't compete for land
with food crops, such as corn.
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.
To produce an energy - efficient method of synthesizing and extruding high - performance thermoplastic elastomers based on lignin, the ORNL team needed to answer several questions: Can variations in lignin
feedstocks be overcome to make a product
with superior performance?
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.
Agricultural waste and other fuel
feedstocks are packed
with oxygen that needs to be replaced
with hydrogen.
The algae uses CO2 from air or industrial emitters
with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while dramatically reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage,
with no reliance on food crops as
feedstocks.
Sundrop Fuels will convert sustainable forest residues and thinnings as
feedstock combined
with natural gas into bio-based «green gasoline» by using a commercially - proven... Read more →
JBEI's
Feedstocks Division collaborated
with Sandia National Laboratories in a study that looked into efficient ways to turn discarded plant matter into chemicals.
To date, biomass - derived synthetic paraffinic kerosenes (SPK) have required blending
with petroleum
feedstocks on a 50 % basis to... Read more →
Research in this program involves work
with plants, fungi, and bacteria and is focused on four key areas:
feedstock development, biomass depolymerization, biofuels production, and waste management.
Atomic precision starts
with small - molecule
feedstocks, atomically precise by nature and often available at a low cost per kilogram.
Use of bioenergy to draw down CO2 should employ
feedstocks from residues, wastes, and dedicated energy crops that do not compete
with food crops, thus avoiding loss of natural ecosystems and cropland [183]--[185].
A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production
with the
feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.
The solution is obvious — sustainable aquaculture,
with fish fed from land - based
feedstocks.
The production of plastics draws on fossil
feedstocks,
with a significant carbon impact that will become even more significant
with the projected surge in consumption.
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.
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.
Biomass energy under the Clean Power Plan is considered an emissions control technology, but the EPA has expressed concern
with the sustainability of many biomass
feedstocks.
Rain forests in Indonesia have been cut down and replaced
with palm oil plantations, so that
feedstock for biodiesel can be shipped 10,000 miles to Germany to meet biofuel targets.
Eligible
feedstocks for diesel substitutes are waste - based biomass and purpose grown crops
with a carbon intensity substantially lower than soy (83.25 gCO2 - eq / MJ).
Biomass - based diesel fuel: Biodiesel and other renewable diesel fuel or diesel fuel blending components derived from biomass, but excluding renewable diesel fuel coprocessed
with petroleum
feedstocks.
Eligible
feedstocks for gasoline substitutes are waste - based biomass and purpose grown crops
with a carbon intensity substantially lower than current average California produced ethanol using Midwest corn
feedstocks (80.7 gCO2 - eq / MJ).
A full lifecycle analysis of Bio-SNG production undertaken by North Energy Associates found that for many types of
feedstock, the lifecycle CO2e savings of Bio-SNG compared
with fossil fuel alternatives are typically ~ 90 %.
A straightforward comparison of the adoption and emissions results
with other sources is not possible, due to the specificities of the
feedstock considered herein, since all other global energy system models consider aggregate numbers for biomass and waste.
In addition, Sundrop Fuels is able to maximize its synthesis gas production by integrating natural gas
with biomass
feedstock, facilitating the most efficient utilization of hydrogen from both the biomass and natural gas to produce higher yields than any other biomass process, it says.