Sentences with phrase «fuel processing technologies»

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It was a modified steam - assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology that, instead of burning natural gas to create steam to inject into the oilsands layer and thus «melt» the bitumen (heavy oil) away from the sand (as some experts describe it, burning a clean fuel to create a dirty one), it would burn a bituminous byproduct of the upgrading process in a closed loop.

Technology - fueled change is happening so fast that even a six - month - old process could be outdated.

Fueled by web - based tools that speed up the application process, a new paradigm for evaluating credit worthiness, and the ability to leverage technology to help them determine eligibility (often in under an hour), these lenders may approve business loans that might be overlooked by traditional banks, and can typically do it in much less time than their traditional counterparts.

A few years later, LifeLine Foods and ICM Inc., the world leader in ethanol facility design and engineering, formed a joint venture to transform the corn mill into the country's first corn - processing plant that utilizes a proprietary technology developed by ICM to produce food and fuel simultaneously.

The proven GWE anaerobic technology has been demonstrated in more than 300 projects completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace fossil fuels in fuelling boilers and processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.

Similar global expertise is embodied in the GWE anaerobic technologies of which more than 300 have been completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace fossil fuels in fuelling boilers and processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.

Anaerobic technology is particularly applicable to countries suffering drought, where treated waste water not only provides green energy to substitute for fossil fuels emitting climate change gases, but also processes waste streams to high recycling standards.

The anaerobic digestion technologies — recently applied to a major SE Asian pineapple producer — extract biogas from crop processing waste water streams to simultaneously raise water quality while generating methane to replace fossil fuels used in production processes.

Another popular aspect is «greenness» — catalysts mean lower energy, cleaner processes, and environmentally friendly technologies such as fuel cells (see profile of Sarah Ball).

(I) t is not uniformly true that high - technology is an organic process fueled exclusively by pre-existing location advantages,» the authors write.

Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.

«Our process also has an important advantage over battery or gaseous - hydrogen powered vehicle technologies as many of the hydrocarbon products from our reaction are exactly what we use in cars, trucks and planes, so there would be no need to change the current fuel distribution system,» said Frederick MacDonnell, UTA interim chair of chemistry and biochemistry and co-principal investigator of the project.

Undertaken by University of Adelaide in collaboration with CSIRO, the research could make viable a process that has enormous potential to replace fossil fuels and continue to use existing carbon - based fuel technologies without increasing atmospheric CO2.

Rechargeable batteries are too heavy for the job, so engineers are planning to try a technology that would use current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen during the day, and then reverse the process at night via fuel cells to produce electricity.

Process technology has improved steadily in the past 60 years, and since the 1970s, when most existing facilities were built, the amount of energy used per ton of ammonia (as both feed and fuel) has decreased about 30 percent.

And the industrial nations commit to helping the developing ones «leapfrog» past the inefficient and dirty - energy technologies that fueled the industrialization of the former but mortgaged the environ - ment in the process.

Fuel cell expert Subhash Singhal, a fellow emeritus at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, says he had a similar experience at the China University of Mining and Technology in Beijing, where he received a short - term Thousand Talents award: «[With] the grant process, I had absolutely no idea what they were doing or how they were doing it.»

Because platinum is at the center of many clean energy and green chemicals production technologies, such as fuel cells, catalytic converters, and value - added chemicals from bio-renewable feedstocks, the new, less expensive platinum - copper catalysts could facilitate broader adoption of such environmentally friendly devices and processes, she added.

During the past decade, DNA sequencing costs have fallen dramatically, a drop largely fueled by tools, technologies and process improvements developed by genomic researchers.

DNA sequencing costs have fallen more than 100-fold over the past decade, fueled in large part by tools, technologies and process improvements developed as part of the successful effort to sequence the human genome.

In a new twist to waste - to - fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol.

PRISM, coupled with electrometallurgical processing, is a technology solution that can help close the nuclear fuel cycle using the energy contained in spent nuclear fuel or plutonium.

This Bioenergy Technologies Office helps solve this equation by supporting research on which bioenergy crops to grow and how to grow them; technologies designed to convert biomass to fuels and other products; and analysis methods for determining how well the production processes achieve their economic and environmental goals.

In ENUSA we manufacture nuclear fuel in our Juzbado facility (Salamanca), where the activities focus on procurement of the uranium and components required for the process and on the engineering and manufacturing of fuel assemblies for Spanish and European nuclear power plants, using the most innovative technologies and latest market advances.

The main hardware in the existing research infrastructure at IFE Hynor is found in a process room for testing and development of high temperature hydrogen production and solid oxide fuel cell technology (SOFC), including a Dual Bubbling Fluidized Bed reactor prototype (DBFB) for continuous hydrogen production by sorption - enhanced reforming (SER) of methane with an integrated process for CO2 - capture.

The nascent technology of iron smelting allows for the development of firearms, but also means that forests are felled to fuel the process — forests where the ancient gods still live.

On the new - generation 4 - cylinder engine, this world - exclusive technology package from BMW again provides a very efficient way to extract more power from the engine, rather than taking the route of a much larger displacement and, in the process, adding to the weight and therefore to fuel consumption.

Strengths of this model include fuel efficiency, Sleek, sporty styling, available technology, and interior spaceAt Bluewater Motorsports we pride ourselves on our relaxed, zero pressure buying process.

Electric power generated in overrun and when applying the brakes on BMW ActiveHybrid 7 in a neutral process without any additional consumption of fuel is fed into the car's two on - board networks: BMW ActiveHybrid 7 features both a conventional 12 - volt on - board network fed by an AGM (absorbent glass mat) battery and a high - voltage battery featuring lithium - ion technology and operating at 120 V.

That engine works well to put together Fuel Saver Technology cylinder deactivation processes and the Variable Valve Timing.

Combining the design and layout of the six - cylinder engine using BMW Twin Turbo Technology and High Precision Injection, the qualities of direct injection allow for very precise delivery of fuel and a clean combustion process.

But it uses plenty of fuel in the process — the combined figure of 12.9 L / 100 km is unlikely to be approached in the real world without the benefits of idle stop - start and other smart technologies.

The Refining Solutions segment consist of the heavy oil upgrading and clean fuels technologies businesses delivering a portfolio of catalyst solutions that apply to the entire refinery process.

Emissions globally are set to go through the roof because developing countries are trying to grow their way out of poverty, and in the process they are fueling that growth with today's carbon - hungry technologies.

I propose we begin implementing the viable technologies now, transfer some of the money that is being used to subsidize fossil fuel consumption into research for more technology, and begin the process of weaning our economy now while we still have oil reserves left.

Qteros is a venture - backed company committed to delivering innovative process technologies for clean transportation fuels that reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a price competitive with gasoline.

Achieving zero net carbon emissions is possible, even with continued burning of fossil fuels, said Dr. Patrinos, but only with the development of advanced biofuel production processes, and carbon capture and disposal or recycling technologies.

A demonstration plant powered by geothermal has been running in Iceland since 2011, using a novel low - temp & low pressure technology to process electrolytic hydrogen and carbon from airborne CO2, to provide 2.5 % of the national liquid fuel requirement cut with petrol.

«In the process, we will put Americans to work in new jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced — jobs building solar panels and wind turbines; constructing fuel - efficient cars and buildings; and developing the new energy technologies that will lead to even more jobs, more savings, and a cleaner, safer planet in the bargain,» Obama said Thursday in a speech at George Mason University.

Use of oils sands bitumen and heavy crude with current processing technologies can significantly increase the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of vehicle fuel.

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.

Combining the gasification process with Rentech's unique application of proven syngas conditioning and clean - up technology and the patented Rentech Process based on Fischer - Tropsch chemistry, Rentech offers an integrated solution for production of synthetic fuels from bprocess with Rentech's unique application of proven syngas conditioning and clean - up technology and the patented Rentech Process based on Fischer - Tropsch chemistry, Rentech offers an integrated solution for production of synthetic fuels from bProcess based on Fischer - Tropsch chemistry, Rentech offers an integrated solution for production of synthetic fuels from biomass.

Although the burning of fossil fuels generates most of the potential emissions from most reserves, emissions from production and processing operations (known as «upstream emissions») can also be important, depending on the reserve type and technologies used.

Jet fuel produced from the Fischer - Tropsch process, on which Rentech's technology is based, is certified for use by the US Air Force and for use in commercial aircraft.

In their guidance establishing what could be considered Best Available Control Technology (BACT) for regulating GHGs in the permitting process, EPA stated that fuel - switching from coal to natural gas would not and could not be considered BACT: Since NSPS are traditionally interpreted to set the BACT «floor» for permitting purposes, how can a NSPS that eliminates the ability to construct new coal units without the implementation of commercially infeasible carbon capture and storage (CCS) be consistent with EPA's previous guidance?

In its recent submission to the federal government, RAC says long refuelling processes and higher - than - expected maintenance costs, as well as a drop in diesel fuel prices, «have stalled the mainstream application of this technology in the railway sector.»

CCS technologies prevent CO2 emissions produced from industrial processes or from the use of combustion fuels in electricity generation and industry from entering the atmosphere.

Consider that the fuels we depend on every day for travel and commerce, as well as the chemical components that make up countless consumer products, result from the innovations and advanced technologies that America's refiners apply every day in the processing of millions of barrels of crude oil.

Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is a family of technologies and techniques that enable the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fuel combustion or industrial processes, the transport of CO2 via ships or pipelines, and its storage underground, in depleted oil and gas fields and deep saline formations.

Al Gore (who premiered his solutions - oriented slide show, including many of zero - carbon technologies) heard it, as did individuals ranging from Project Better Place's Shai Agassi to ocean explorer Robert Ballard, actress Cameron Diaz, the Simpson's Matt Groening, genetics pioneer Craig Venter and mycologist Paul Stamets (both working on creating zero - carbon fuels from biological processes).