Sentences with phrase «in ethane»

North Dakota's Bakken shale formation is so ethane - rich that leaks and venting from drilling and fracking there was responsible for a spike in ethane levels in the Earth's atmosphere, researchers concluded last year.

Last year, Lorenz calculated that wind speeds of less than 1 metre per second — calm by terrestrial standards — should be sufficient to produce detectable waves in an ethane lake.

Given that the rest of the Middle Eastern countries are experiencing limited supplies in ethane, this presents a huge opportunity for the Iranian petrochemical sector as sanctions are eased.

Not exact matches

But in this case, the liquid is not water, but rather liquid methane and ethane.

The US exported close to 3 million barrels of ethane in H1 2017, a rise of 83 % year - on - year.

The Party has also implemented the Ethane Extraction Policy to ensure that more natural gas is processed into petrochemicals in Alberta.

«Researchers build alien ocean to test NASA outer space submarine: Working in a -300 F ocean of methane and ethane has its challenges.»

The engineering is even trickier because, unlike the nearly homogeneous water in earth - based oceans, the concentration of ethane and methane can vary dramatically in the Titan oceans and change the liquid's density properties.

In 1805, Henry experimentally confirmed the composition of ammonia, and later the compositions of methane and ethane.

The Study: «The Sequestration of Ethane on Titan in Smog Particles» by Donald M. Hunten, published in the journal Nature.

Originally it was thought that the ethane condenses into droplets, and rains down in the frigid cold of Titan's — 290 degree Fahrenheit atmosphere.

In theory, sunlight should glint off Titan's ethane waves, yet measurements using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii have failed to detect such reflectionIn theory, sunlight should glint off Titan's ethane waves, yet measurements using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii have failed to detect such reflectionin Hawaii have failed to detect such reflections.

(The researchers also found ethane, propane and butane in some of the drinking water wells.)

Hunten contends that molecules of ethane can't form droplets, so they instead cling to smog particles in Titan's atmosphere.

The discovery of new materials for separating ethylene from ethane by adsorption, instead of using cryogenic distillation, is a key milestone for molecular separations because of the multiple and widely extended uses of these molecules in industry.

The sea may also be stratified, with more ethane in the deeper layers and methane near the surface.

It sits in Ligeia Mare, a sea made of methane, ethane and nitrogen in Titan's northern polar region.

Indeed, in competitive adsorption experiments, the zeolite preferentially adsorbed ethylene from a mixed stream of ethylene and ethane.

Part of the reason for that presupposition is that light coverts methane in the atmosphere to ethane.

If currents occasionally pull methane down to the deeper sea, the methane and ethane can mix, simulations by Daniel Cordier of the University of Reims Champagne - Ardenne in France and colleagues suggest.

Cassini has identified ethane in Ontario Lacus, and methane is almost certainly present.

«Both methane and ethane are produced in biomass burning, but perc is an industrial solvent.

He uses ethane as a proxy in the lab but will probably use mostly methane with a little ethane for the real thing.

Their decaying corpses could release enough methanethiol and ethane gas to briefly show up in the atmosphere, but again we'd have to be looking at the right time.

With an increase in pressure, water and carbon dioxide remain stable, but at pressures above 93 gigapascals (0.93 million atmospheres) methane begins to decompose forming heavy hydrocarbons — ethane, butane, and polyethylene.

Anything we can do to figure out how much methane or ethane is in the crust is important.»

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activitieIn the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activitiein the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activitiein over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.

For energy storage needs, hydrogen, methane, and ethane could be used in biofuels.

As a proof - of - concept for the new antenna - reactor catalysts, Swearer, Halas and colleagues conducted acetylene conversion tests at LANP and found that the light - driven antenna - reactor catalysts produced a 40 - to - 1 ratio of ethylene to ethane, a significant improvement in selectivity over thermal catalysis.

What they found in the skies over the Bakken that May was the equivalent of 1 to 3 percent of the world's estimated emissions of ethane floating over a relatively tiny place.

Using ethane as a tracer for fugitive methane emissions, his team found two high - emitting sites in the central United States.

«When the ethane goes up, the methane goes up in the Uinta Basin, which means they're coming from the same source.

Since 2006, he has worked with NOAA's air sampling system that uses glass flasks to collect atmospheric samples from 44 different sites around the world to track the annual increase of ethane and other so - called volatile organic compounds in the air.

From his ethane research and other international studies, he learned that there appears to be a much higher ethane source in the earth's Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern and a higher leak rate in the central United States than in more eastern oil and gas fields, and that some oil and gas fields in the central United States leak at much higher rates than others.

«What is exciting, however, is that the wind speeds predicted during northern spring and summer approach those necessary to generate wind waves in liquid ethane and / or methane.

But chemical companies have also long had the technology to convert the primary hydrocarbons in natural gas — methane, ethane, and propane — into alcohols, the liquid starting materials for plastics, fuels, and other commodities made by the train load.

He knew he needed to find metals that were deft at breaking the carbon - hydrogen bonds that are at the heart of methane, ethane, and propane, short hydrocarbons known as alkanes, and then add in oxygen atoms that would transform the alkanes into alcohols.

Consider this whimsical snippet from a 2007 Titan - themed poem by study co-author Mike Malaska, a scientist in the Planetary Ices Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: «Methane sky; ethane drizzle.Surface made of organic shizzle.Dunes of plastic; it's fantastic.Let's get stickyand electrostatic.»

Research in the past several months has further fueled the excitement, yielding new hints of liquid water on Enceladus and revealing ethane lakes and methane rain on Titan.

Shell's complex will use low - cost ethane from shale gas producers in the Marcellus and Utica basins to produce polyethylene, which is used in a variety of products, from food packaging and containers to automotive components.

Saturn is seen in the background through Titan's thick atmosphere of methane, ethane and (mostly) nitrogen.

In place of water, however, Titan's frigid surface flows with liquid organic molecules, including methane (CH4) and ethane (C2H6).

[1] The combined seeps in the field release about 40 tons of methane per day and about 19 tons of reactive organic gas (ethane, propane, butane and higher hydrocarbons); about twice the hydrocarbon air pollution released by all the cars and trucks in Santa Barbara County in 1990.

According to a recent news story, a state task force in South Charleston is working to attract companies that convert ethane — a byproduct of natural gas production — into ethylene, a chemical compound used in a variety of manufacturing and consumer products.

Ohio is trying to lure a multi-billion dollar ethane cracker plant to the state, he said, and «there is no way in hell we're going to be able to land that project without appreciable assistance from the state.»

The greatest surge in manmade CO2 (plus methane, ethane, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, and many more so - called greenhouses gases) occurred from 1940, as the industrialized world experienced an explosive growth in (95 % coal - fired) heavy industry, first for armaments in WWII, then infrastructure and industrial rebuilding and consumer durables (cars, refrigerators etc.) in the post war boom.

Ethane, one of many components in fracked gas, serves as the base ingredient for the production of numerous plastics and petrochemicals.

The study notes that other researchers have recently observed increases in atmospheric concentrations of ethane.

«Recent data from NSF - funded research in both Greenland and Antarctica demonstrate that fossil - fuel related emissions of both methane and ethane, two of the most abundant hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, declined at the end of the twentieth century... causes of the decline in methane emission rates to the atmosphere have been puzzling scientists for some time.

First - of - its - kind business activity by Texas - based Gas Innovations highlights the current surge in domestic ethane supply.