Sentences with phrase «gas as a byproduct»

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

In the process, the microbes create methane, ethylene, and propylene gasses as byproducts.

The formation of this mineral is known to commonly produce methane gas as a byproduct.

When oil (and oil - derivative fuels) burns, the combustion process creates carbon dioxide gas as a byproduct.

Or consider the refrigerant HCFC - 22, the manufacture of which creates an extremely powerful greenhouse gas as a byproduct.

Not exact matches

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.

The sacs might evolve to be separate from the lungs and filled with a gas less dense than air, such as methane — a byproduct of, ahem, flatulence, to which a dragon might be prone.

Limestone scrubbers deployed at natural gas power plants could help reduce carbon emissions as well as lower ocean acidification by pumping a byproduct of the scrubbing process back into the water, according to an experiment conducted by the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Likewise, most hydrogen fuel is derived from natural gas through an industrial process that emits carbon dioxide as a byproduct.

About a third of the clean development mechanism credits stem from projects aimed at controlling just one industrial gas, trifluoromethane, or HFC - 23, a byproduct of industrial processes that is 12,000 times as strong as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

Scientists agree that tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, is key to obtaining a precise measurement: As a gas, tritium decays at such a rate that scientists can relatively easily observe its electron byproducts.

Often these sites generate electricity as a byproduct of other industrial processes such as using gas from landfills to drive turbines.

Injecting wastewater deep underground as a byproduct of oil and gas extraction techniques that include fracking causes human - made earthquakes, the lead author of new research from Arizona State University said Thursday.

The reaction combines the hydroxyl molecule (OH, produced by reaction of oxygen and water) and carbon monoxide (CO, a byproduct of incomplete fossil fuel combustion) to form hydrogen (H) and carbon dioxide (CO2, a «greenhouse gas» contributing to global warming), as well as heat.

These gases, such as carbon dioxide, are a byproduct of burning fossil fuels.

In addition, they produce as a byproduct the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (known to dental patients everywhere as laughing gas).

Argonne's process delivers a gas that is close to pipeline quality (greater than 90 percent methane) and generates fertilizer grade byproducts as the byproduct of anaerobic digestion (a series of biological processes in which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen).

The waste — the byproduct of oil and gas drilling — was described in regulatory documents as a benign mixture of salt and water.

Most of the flatulence your body produces is due to intestinal bacteria, which create methane, and other gases, as a byproduct of digestion.

As fermentation drops, so to does the byproducts of fermentation which include short chain fatty acids (primarily acetate, butyrate, propionate), organic acids, and gases like hydrogen.

Also, coal gasification converts only a portion of the coal carbon to methane; to my knowledge, approximately 1/2 of the carbon ends up being emitted as CO2, which is not the result of energy production but rather a byproduct of making the gas that will be used to make the energy.

No greenhouse gases, no wealth transfers to despotic dictators, 6000 years of fuel ready to be used, and useful radioactive byproducts such as cesium to kill e-coli bacteria poisoning meats, spinach, etc..

Gases such as carbon dioxide and methane are a byproduct of the processes at the heart of modern civilization: industry, transportation, power generation, and agriculture.

In Mexico, methane from landfills, a natural byproduct of decomposing organic matter known as landfill gas, or LFG, makes up 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.

Waste energy: Municipal solid waste, landfill gas, methane, digester gas, liquid acetonitrile waste, tall oil, waste alcohol, medical waste, paper pellets, sludge waste, solid byproducts, tires, agricultural byproducts, closed loop biomass, fish oil, and straw used as fuel.

At current production rates, high - carbon tar sands oil and its byproducts throw off enough greenhouse gas emissions to mark Canada as an obstacle to stopping global warming short of catastrophic levels.

«Most of what we produce — for fertilizer and as a byproduct of industry — does not end up on our plates or in our gas tanks.

But when some stepped back and looked at the entire fuel extraction and distribution system, they realized that byproduct methane emissions can make gas as bad as gasoline.

Nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas also known as N2O, is released as a byproduct of the bacterial conversion of nitrogen in agricultural soils, the so - called nitrification and denitrification processes.

The Great Plains Synfuel plant in North Dakota turns coal into natural gas, producing carbon dioxide as a byproduct.

Some of the projects will focus on other gases, the byproduct of certain industrial processes, known as HFCs.

Shale: new production economics, regions, and technology Imminent LNG Export: Significant volumes, long timeline Coal - fired Power Replacement: Gradual, large, predictable Liquids: rising gas production as an oil and NGL byproduct