Sentences with phrase «fuel processes like»

Your body uses them to move and fuel processes like breathing and maintaining a constant body temperature.

Not exact matches

Chevron's refining business, which processes crude oil into fuels like gasoline, saw profits surge 70 percent from last year to $ 1.8 billion.

They taste like candy, but they're nutritionally very similar to energy gels and are compact, too, so you can carry a few with you when you run and know that you're fueling with something far healthier than processed gels.

She is part of a team that helps to ensure oil and gas are produced safely and efficiently, and then processed and manipulated to make useful products, like fuel.

Indeed, mitochondria can be thought of rather like a car engine, that burns fuel (food molecules), and recovers the energy in a useful form to drive the processes of life.

«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.

«Armed with this new understanding, practitioners will be able to design catalysts using just the necessary amount of the precious metals like gold and platinum, dramatically cutting down the catalyst cost in fuels and chemicals production processes,» she adds.

There is always going to be some local need for fossil - based fuels, you know, in industrial processing or some things you just can't do with electricity, but by and large, right, if you wanted to try to replace those sorts of applications with biofuels and things like that, then you could be off oil altogether.

Because the process makes a blend of hydrocarbons, it does not lack the aromatic compounds that seal aircraft engines, like the biojet fuel produced from camelina oil by UOP.

Changing World Technologies» method of thermal depolymerization used intense heat and pressure to break waste materials into desirable, short - chain hydrocarbons (much like the Earth's super-slow, fossil fuel - producing process).

Like plants on land, phytoplankton produce energy by photosynthesis, pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fuel the process.

Burning fat is a more effective long - term fuel but is more complex to process and isn't as readily accessible for quick bursts of muscle activity as is a fuel like glucose.

«Cost competitive, energy responsible cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass or from forestry waste like sawdust and wood chips requires a more complex refining process but it's worth the investment,» Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said at the Range Fuels facility groundbreaking in November.

Glover and other executives said they think the approval process will be smooth because after processing plant oils, «We leave a hydrocarbon that looks exactly like petroleum fuel,» said Jennifer Holmgren, the general manager of renewable energy and chemicals at UOP, the company that derived the plant - oil refining and processing treatment for the Air New Zealand, Continental and Japan Airlines test flights.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process invented by chemists at the University of California, Davis.

Today, photosynthesis is considered «the most important chemical reaction on earth», providing food for humans and animals, releasing oxygen for them to breathe — and millions of years later, this process provides fossil fuel in the form of oil, coal and natural gas, as Michel likes to point out.

Statistically decomposing processes or functional systems is often like asking what percent of a car's speed is caused by its engine or fuel or driver (all contribute inseparably).

Researchers at the EBI are searching for more efficient ways to use non-food biomass like cellulose as the starting material for fuel production as well as for ways to boost the concentration of fuel produced and improve on the efficiency of the process.

Natural gas is a fossil fuel — like oil and coal — and it does produce carbon dioxide as a result of the combustion process.

Those precursor gases come from manmade sources like fossil fuel combustion and production, biofuel combustion, industrial processes and biomass burning.

Date: February 3, 2014; Source: University of California - Davis; Summary: Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process.

Transport that oil prequel, using more energy, to specialized refineries that can deal with heavy oil, which is again a more intensive process with more emissions, and you get products like diesel fuel.

While we can't store excess protein, our bodies can convert protein to other fuels like glucose — in a process known as «neoglucogenesis» — to be used as fuel.

Plant - sourced oils like canola oil, once processed, can also be used industrially to formulate lubricants, oils, fuels, soaps, paints, plastics, cosmetics, and ink.

But like Justin's talking about the to help fuel the enzymatic processes and help Krebs cycle and promote energy and all that, it's not going to do anything.

As another lean and mean snack, hard boiled eggs are a great way to fuel up on protein while leaving things like sugar and processed chemicals at home.

Nickel — air pollution from combustion of fossil fuels, batteries, baking powder, coins, cosmetics, dental restorations and orthodontics, electroplating, hydrogenated vegetable oils (shortening, Crisco, fast food, margarine, processed foods, imitation whipped cream, interisterified fats, partially hydrogenated fats), nickel - plated jewelry, nickel - plated machine parts and tools, electroplating, welding, prostheses (like hip, knee, cochlear and cardiac implants), spark plugs, stainless steel cookware and utensils, cardiac stents, soil, tobacco smoke, water, rooibos tea and red teas, occupational exposure

Parts of foods that historically were disposed of, used for composting and considered waste or at best reserved for lower quality, utilitarian applications (like lamp oil) have suddenly become «food» through the alchemy of fossil fuel powered extraction and processing.

Lacto - fermentation, a process in which bacteria feed on the sugars and starches in a bacteria - like starter base, create lactic acid, an extremely efficient fuel source that's preferred by the heart and muscles during exercise.

Insulin lowers blood glucose levels partly by suppressing the release of glucose from the liver, by increasing glycogen (a kind of starch) synthesis and storage, and by inhibiting glycogen breakdown and the formation of glucose from other sources such as glycerol (from fat), lactate (from the metabolism of fuels like glucose and fructose by the liver and muscles) and amino acids (from proteins) by the process known as gluconeogenesis.

Also, I'd like to point out (just so it's clear to members of the audience) that coal generates huge amounts of carbon dioxide when it's burned as fuel, as a CENTRAL part of the process.

It can be a lot more productive to produce mixed fuels like Acetone, Butanol and Ethanol in a process than trying to produce a single highly pure fuel.

Using plant waste this way means you couldn't simply burn it for fuel, reducing the world's biomass potential; and there are the carbon costs of transporting it and processing it and such like.

Additionally, Brazilian sugarcane is often boiled and processed using leftover plant matter — as opposed to using fossil fuels (like in the United States) to separate the plastic materials — said Mayfield.

Once hydrogen production is converted to a non-fossil source (probably electrolytic or thermochemical splitting of water, powered by nuclear energy) and all industrial hydrogen (for things like the Haber Process) sourced thus, it would probably be better to synthesize hydrocarbon fuels (either methanol, or Fischer - Tropsch petrol or diesel) than attempt to use hydrogen directly.

Also known as «shale oil,» tight oil is processed into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels — just like conventional oil — but is extracted using hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking.»

While these fuels may have brought into the production process primarily to increase profits for the owners of a business, the mechanical work of machines has had secondary benefits for workers especially with the advent of consumer durables and Fordism, the ability of those in the lower middle and working classes to afford major energy using devices like automobiles.

After documenting the largely successful efforts of companies like ExxonMobil to paralyze the policy process, confuse the American people and cynically ««reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,»» as one strategy paper put it, he concludes that «what began as a normal business response by the fossil fuel lobby — denial and delay — has now attained the status of a crime against humanity.»

This zombie - like process is guaranteed to go on for years, even decades, as at every turn the fossil fuel industry fights the new laws and regulations that would be necessary, were agreements like the Paris accord to have any real teeth.

Plutonium in the spent fuel is easily separated from other waste through chemical processing and, like the uranium, can be used to make a nuclear bomb.

Ethanol is an alcohol - based alternative fuel made through a distillation and fermentation process using plant crops, like corn.

It certainly is a slow process to get off the fossil fuels, and no one advocates going cold turkey, yet many like yourself irrationally fear, or some even fearmonger, that is what is being called for.

Instead of burning a fossil fuel for the heat needed to drive the thermal chemistry process, for chemical reactions like splitting H2 (hydrogen) from H2O, scientists have been testing various kinds of reactors heated by the thermal form of solar, using mirrors to concentrate the solar flux.

The radiation can either be used to replace fossil fuels for heating established processes like steam or dry reforming of methane.

The implication: in addition to rapid reductions in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use, we'll likely need big industrial CCS processes to generate negative emissions via approaches like sustainable bioenergy coupled with CCS and / or direct air capture (DAC) + sequestration to make our climate goals a reality.

By sharing the initiative with Tweets, Likes, Posts, or Shares, the car gains «social fuel», which lets it use energy in proportion to that amount of social fuel, and in the process, helps to boost the visibility of programs like this.

The same process is followed for other kinds of energy, like motor fuel.

Fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil and Koch Industries are among the largest and most profitable in the nation, and they exert their influence over the political process to deprive the 99 % of something we all want: Clean, secure energy.

The Magliozzis first point out the difficulty of calculating the cost of producing the fuel; they agree that the energy to plant the corn and processing it into starch should be in the equation, but what about the energy needed for things like the production of the tractor used to process it?