Sentences with phrase «hydrogen gas from»

I was in New York City doing a photo shoot for Corporate Knights when news broke that a duo of University of Calgary researchers had come up with a new, very inexpensive catalyst — i.e. rust — for generating hydrogen gas from water.

It produces its own hydrogen gas from biomass which means no gas or coal is used to make the necessary hydrogen in the fuel molecules.

The supposed dream scenario of hydrogen advocates is using renewable electricity to electrolyze water, isolating hydrogen gas from water.

Then the task force followed with a dozen major recommendations, some of which would order nuclear plant operators to strengthen defenses against extreme flooding or earthquakes when necessary and to harden vents that would carry away explosive hydrogen gas from damaged reactor cores in the two types of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The older eruption is plowing a layer of glowing hydrogen gas from the center of NGC 5195, which sits about 26 million light - years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.

Just beyond the outer arc, the researchers detected a slender region of hydrogen gas emission, suggesting that X-ray emitting gas displaced the hydrogen gas from the center of the galaxy.

Not exact matches

In 2011 General Fusion had what at first looked like a successful test of its plasma injector, a funnel - shaped machine where plasma is created from super-heated hydrogen gas.

«They found hydrogen sulfide, the odiferous gas that most people avoid, in Uranus's cloud tops,» according to a press release from Gemini Observatory, a high - power telescope atop a Hawaiian volcano.

Technologies from Westport Innovations Inc. allow engines to operate on clean - burning fuels such as compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), hydrogen and biofuels such as landfill gas.

If the earth were slightly larger, having a stronger gravitational force, it would prevent hydrogen, a light gas, from escaping at a specified rate, building up in our atmosphere and eventually rendering our planet lifeless.

Again, astronomy appears to be a «useless» subject, but has yielded a number of practical results, from the discovery of helium to the theories of the properties of gas plasma currently important in hydrogen fusion projects.

Hydrogen, which can be produced from natural gas through Steam Methane Reforming - at which point the carbon needs to be captured - is the ultimate green gas: it emits no carbon when combusted.

«One of the proposed scenarios,» comments Romano Corradi, director of the GTC and another of the authors «is the presence of a component in the gas which is different from that which we normally find, poor in hydrogen and rich in heavier elements such as oxygen and carbon.

We can see the nearest few of these great collections of stars, gas (mostly hydrogen) and dust with our eyes from Earth.

A molecular cloud is an interstellar cloud of dust, gas, and a variety of molecules ranging from molecular hydrogen (H2) to complex, carbon - containing organics.

Extracting CO2 from traditional coal plants is much less efficient than from gasification plants, where coal is first turned to a gas and reacted with water to form CO2 and hydrogen.

From this vast collection of genes, Venter hopes to build microbes that can produce hydrogen gas or be an efficient source of solar energy.

The reaction rate between atmospheric hydrogen chloride (HCl) and chlorine nitrate (ClONO2) is greatly enhanced in the presence of ice particles; HCl dissolves readily into ice, and the collisional reaction probability for ClONO2 on the surface of ice with HCl in the mole fraction range from ∼ 0.003 to 0.010 is in the range from ∼ 0.05 to 0.1 for temperatures near 200 K. Chlorine (Cl2) is released into the gas phase on a time scale of at most a few milliseconds, whereas nitric acid (HNO3), the other product, remains in the condensed phase.

Emission nebulae like IC 2944 are composed mostly of hydrogen gas that glows in a distinctive shade of red, due to the intense radiation from the many brilliant newborn stars.

Hydrogen gas is injected into the cyclotron, where static electricity separates protons from hydrogen moHydrogen gas is injected into the cyclotron, where static electricity separates protons from hydrogen mohydrogen molecules.

Its size and distance from Earth were unveiled by mapping radio waves emitted from hydrogen gas (www.arxiv.org/abs/0906.0616).

Then, Ralstonia eutropha bacteria consume the hydrogen gas and pull in carbon dioxide from the air.

BUGGING OUT Not only can this insectlike robot fly and swim, but it also splits water into hydrogen and oxygen gas, which the bot ignites to propel itself from the water.

At present, industrial hydrogen is produced from natural gas using a process that consumes a great deal of energy while also releasing carbon into the atmosphere, thus contributing to global carbon emissions.

This hot gas excited the cool, five - kilometer - per - second breeze of hydrogen molecules and heavier elements emanating from Mira, causing it to glow in the ultraviolet.

But the newly discovered objects may have kicked off the subsequent phase of reionization, in which ultraviolet starlight stripped electrons from hydrogen gas.

There's also currently no cost - effective way to capture the carbon dioxide produced in making hydrogen from natural gas on site at a fueling station, which would undermine any climate benefits.

To their surprise, the ice bubbled like boiling water at temperatures between -210 C / -346 F and -120 C / -184 F. Analysis of the gas showed it to be hydrogen molecules, which the researchers believe were formed from methanol and ammonia broken up by UV irradiation.

He doubts that an Earth - like planet or super-Earth would pull in so much hydrogen from the cloud of gas surrounding a young star.

The electrical current can also be channeled to form hydrogen gas through the addition of electric power from a small photovoltaic cell that absorbs the excess light.

The average station supplied with hydrogen made from low - cost natural gas costs roughly $ 2 million.

There is relatively less interest in power - to - gas in the U.S., where hydrogen from electrolysis, even by taking advantage of cheap excess renewable energy, would have a tough time competing against abundant, low - cost shale gas.

Ultraviolet light from early, blueish stars (illustrated) interacted with hydrogen gas, causing it to absorb background radiation, and creating a signature scientists have now detected.

The water - gas shift reaction, in which carbon monoxide is removed from the fuel gas stream by reacting with water to produce carbon dioxide and hydrogen, is a key step in the process.

«Rare isotopes will help us to understand how stars processed some of the hydrogen and helium gas from the Big Bang into elements that make up solid planets and life,» Wrede said.

First - generation stars, forged from pristine hydrogen and helium gas produced just minutes after the Big Bang, burst onto the scene about 13.4 billion years ago.

On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered car.

The University of California, Davis, estimates that the cost per gram of hydrogen produced from the electrolysis of water will remain more expensive than hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture and sequestration well through the end of the decade.

«However, we found that the molecular hydrogen gas is also blown from the in - falling galaxy,» says Suresh Sivanandam of the Dunlap Institute at the University of Toronto, «much like smoke blown from a candle being carried into a room.»

Hydrogen gas is considered a possible future source of energy and can be produced from water using platinum catalysts and electricity.

There, the coal is partially oxidized; the gas which escapes from the second pipe is a mixture of syngas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen) and carbon dioxide and a little methane.

Many of us are familiar with electrolytic splitting of water from their school days: if you hold two electrodes into an aqueous electrolyte and apply a sufficient voltage, gas bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen are formed.

When they grew to about 10 times the mass of Earth, their gravity pulled in gas from their birth cloud, giving them thick atmospheres made mainly of hydrogen around their solid cores.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Hydrogen fuel itself can be developed relatively cheaply from natural gas, or produced from renewable sources of biogas or directly from water through electrolysis.

Although the catalyst does produce oxygen from water, it does not produce hydrogen gas (H2) that can be burnt in a fuel cell.

Units 1 and 3 have experienced explosions that destroyed exterior walls, apparently from buildups of hydrogen gas produced by the zirconium in the fuel rods reacting with coolant water at extremely high temperatures — but the interior containment vessels there thus far seem to be intact.

Using the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the US, the team observed radio emission from hydrogen in a distant galaxy and found that it would have contained billions of young, massive stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogen gas.

As bacteria fed on the creatures that rained from above, they produced toxic gases — methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide — that in turn bubbled up to poison the birds and insects flying overhead.

Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the faint signal emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million light years.