Sentences with phrase «for heat production»

This is especially significant given that 80 % of Irelands energy consumption is used for heat production, (2.4 million tonnes of oil every year), making it the main contributor of CO2, (11 million tonnes annually).
The American Lung Association recognizes that pollution from the combustion of wood and other biomass sources poses a significant threat to human health, and supports measures to transition away from using these products for heat production.
The science Short - term cold exposure of around 30 minutes can lead to fatty acid release and provide fuel for heat production through shivering, leading not only to weight loss, but some lean muscle gain.
«The aim of the project was to develop a sustainable, zero emissions system for heat production,» Fioroni said.

Not exact matches

A mild winter led to swelling distillate stockpiles, resulting in a rare winter occurrence where heating oil traded at a discount to gasoline, catching refiners off - guard at a time when they typically increase distillate production to meet high demand for heating oil.
When Williams created «Cool Flash for the Hot Flash» topical cream as a natural solution for hot flashes, he drew upon an unusual remedy an on - set medic used when he was shooting a production in sweltering desert heat as his inspiration for the product.
Refining and production are, for the most part, separate activities — they don't benefit much from integration in the physical sense (oil sands upgrading from mines is a bit of an exception, since the waste heat from the upgrader can feed the extraction plant).
These hydrocarbons, which are also burned for heating and cooking and blended into vehicle fuel, are extracted from the natural gas production stream or produced as a by - product of refined oil.
The uranium sector has been dead for a while, but recent production cuts and supply disruptions could be a sign that things are heating up.
That is certainly good for the living standards of people in societies that are dependent on oil imports for production, transportation and heating.
Pryor, Oklahoma — Century Refrigeration, a division of RAE Corporation, an industry leader in the design and production of engineered heating, cooling, and refrigeration systems, announces the availability of its N - Series Chillers, ideal for winery chilling applications.
AAK Foods use Steam Infusion at their site in Runcorn for heating and mixing sauces which offers a very high production rate.
To protect the vitamins during the gummy process, for example, Watson uses a specialized coating, which can withstand production - related heat and moisture.
Palsgaard ® IceTriple also offers excellent heat shock stability for ice cream and milk ice: «The key to delivering this improvement is a uniform, fine air cell distribution together with greater control over ice crystal size during production and storage of the ice cream.
In an exclusive Q&A with one of the producers Cat Williams, actor Adil Hussain and Patty Rundall from Baby Milk Action UK, the topics of discussion ranged from the problematic method of artificial feeding, to production issues, the inspiration behind the story and a heated discussion about MNCs quite literally milking developing countries for all that they are worth.
Fluid flow controls heat transfer in volcanic systems, which can be harnessed for geothermal energy production.
«This process can be extremely effective for certain combinations of layer thickness and viscosity which can generate resonances that enhance heat production,» said Hamilton.
Previously developed techniques for generating hydrogen from ethanol are best suited to large - scale production at specialized facilities, however, because they require external sources of heat.
This demonstration of the key steps in fuel production will ensure that this vital space power technology will be available to provide electricity and heat for ambitious exploration missions of the solar system in this decade and beyond.
The resulting models of the terrestrial heat production will be considerably different from those for chondritic heat production because of the longer half - life of U238 and Th238 compared with K40
«When their concentration in the blood reaches a certain level, it can turn up the thermostat and increase fat burning for energy and heat production
European wheat production areas have to prepare for greater harvest losses in the future when global warming will lead to increased drought and heat waves in southern Europe, and wet and cool conditions in the north, especially at the time of sowing.
Here on Earth, the Aalto researchers» results will be invaluable for curtailing the production of heat and unwanted glitches in quantum computer components.
Fracking is part of a nationwide boom in the production of natural gas, which is a ready replacement for home heating oil and could lessen dependence on foreign fossil fuels if vast underground shales could be hydraulically fractured.
This makes it possible to accurately regulate the heat input so that it is optimal for the production process,» says Tobias Lüke, who has developed the new Sens - o - Spheres measuring spheres at the Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS in cooperation with scientists from the Technical University Dresden and project partners from industry.
Yet, even today he doesn't know how a commercial energy source could be constructed for the palladium - deuterium system, despite his many experiments that have produced significant excess heat correlated with helium production.
Producing beef for the table releases more heat - trapping greenhouse gases than most people realize — far more, pound for pound, than are generated by the production of most other kinds of food
In the United States in 2010, food production was responsible for about 8 percent of the nation's heat - trapping greenhouse gas emissions.
As Marcelis explained, it is not heat production that is the problem, «the problem is the energy needed for lighting, and light is the driving force behind plant growth.»
Winston's postdoc Lun Jiang notes that in the 1990s, evacuated tubes used for solar water heating cost more than US$ 100 per meter, but they now cost just $ 2 — 3 because of mass production driven by widespread use of the systems in China.
«Heat tolerance is a very important trait for bean production in Central America and the Caribbean,» says James Beaver, a plant breeder at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, who was not involved in the study.
«The use of waste heat for power production would allow additional electricity generation without any added consumption of fossil fuels,» said Bruce E. Logan, Evan Pugh Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering.
According to Whitehead Institute researchers, protein production or translation is tightly coupled to a highly conserved stress response — the heat shock response and its primary regulator, heat shock factor 1 (HSF1)-- that cancer cells rely on for survival and proliferation.
New research indicates that understanding the combined heating shows how we could improve the production of fusion in ITER and other next - generation fusion facilities — a key finding of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the DIII - D National Fusion Facility that General Atomics operates for the DOE, and other collaborators.
The technique, which uses a heated atomic force microscope (AFM) tip to produce patterns, could facilitate high - density, low - cost production of complex ferroelectric structures for energy harvesting arrays, sensors and actuators in nano - electromechanical systems (NEMS) and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).
NREL's CST BOP design capability can integrate the hydrogen production with the solar thermal collection and storage for plant overall heat and mass balance.
For each carbon footprint, researchers considered both direct carbon emissions — from the consumption of food, heating and cooling of homes and the use of transport — and indirect carbon emissions — from the production of household goods and services.
Protein production or translation is tightly coupled to a highly conserved stress response — the heat shock response and its primary regulator, heat shock factor 1 (HSF1)-- that cancer cells rely on for survival and proliferation, according to Whitehead Institute researchers.
The rapid increase in domestic natural gas production from shale reserves has significantly impacted the economics of coal fuels used for power and heat in recent years.
The cascading pressure reactor is a kW - sized test device, intended for two ‑ step hydrogen production, using simulated solar heat.
Food production, heating, transport, wars... For the rest of your life.
It is designed as a modular reactor for factory fabrication, and could be used for electricity production and industrial process heat generation.
A steamy pot of pasta, for example, emits heat, which can stimulate futher pigmentation production, notes Dr. Downie.
The heat deactivates the enzyme myrosinase needed for sulforaphane production.
This type of drugs was used for many decades, since skeletal muscle will respond to the exact same meds by increasing the production of heat and numerous processes within the cells, a type known as thermogenic weight - loss meds.
It's usually not metabolism that increases but some for of increased energy expenditure / heat production, unconscious movement, thermogenesis, metabolically active tissue etc... metabolism is more closely linked to size and body surface area, usually decreasing with weight loss and hence body size...
Calories go out as basal metabolism (used for vital organs, heat production, etc) and exercise.
Baby formulas have to be heated during manufacture to keep out bad bacteria, and now scientists have discovered that the quest for bacteria - free purity leads to the production of toxins than can increase the risk of a myriad of health problems including diabetes.
It's super heavily processed and pretty much already rancid by the time it hits store shelves, due to the high heat required for its production.
1) Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the amount of energy (calories) you spend in one day to maintain the basic body functions, like breathing, heart beat, metabolism, and for the production of heat.
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