Sentences with phrase «in liquid methane»

The azotosome is capable of functioning in liquid methane, which is present in abundance on Titan, at temperatures of 292 degrees below zero.

Only at Titan, the evaporated material is thought to be organic chemicals originally from Titan's haze particles that once dissolved in liquid methane.

Solar heating could create currents in liquid methane seas on Saturn's largest moon — which could pose a challenge for proposed missions there

Computer simulations predicted that vinyl cyanide (also called acrylonitrile or propenenitrile) could make flexible bubbles called azotosomes that would be stable in liquid methane (SN: 4/30/16, p. 28).

Not exact matches

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

There's enough vinyl cyanide (C2H3CN) in the moon's liquid methane seas to make about 10 million cell - like balls per cubic centimeter of ocean, researchers calculate.

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.

Methane emissions from liquids unloading in the San Juan fell by 66 percent since 2013, and emissions from pneumatic devices fell by 59 percent, she said.

Ho and her colleagues created these delicate structures by attaching droplets of liquid gallium to tiny silicon wires and immersing them in a gas containing methane.

Most of ConocoPhillips» emissions in the San Juan Basin are from venting of methane to the atmosphere during a well cleaning process called «liquids unloading.»

Cassini team scientist Radebaugh and an international team of colleagues announced in December 2012 that they found a river of liquid methane over 200 miles long resembling the famed Nile.

In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers found that interactions between methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen in the early Martian atmosphere may have created warm periods when the planet could support liquid water on the surfacIn a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers found that interactions between methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen in the early Martian atmosphere may have created warm periods when the planet could support liquid water on the surfacin Geophysical Research Letters, researchers found that interactions between methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen in the early Martian atmosphere may have created warm periods when the planet could support liquid water on the surfacin the early Martian atmosphere may have created warm periods when the planet could support liquid water on the surface.

There's enough vinyl cyanide (C2H3CN) in the moon's liquid methane seas to make about 10 million cell - like balls per...

Meanwhile, on hazy Titan, Huygens and Cassini found an Earth - like landscape of rivers and lakes filled with liquid methane — the only liquid bodies found on the surface of moon or planet in the solar system, except Earth.

Heat and catalysts converted methane into syngas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen) which were then transformed into liquid hydrocarbons (otherwise known as oil and its derivatives): petroleum, gasoline and, in the case of aviation, kerosene.

Huygens came to rest in what looked to be a floodplain strewn with «stones» of water ice polished smooth by flows of liquid methane, and it touched down with a crunch that suggested its slushy landing site was covered in a frozen glaze — a bit like crème brûlée.

Titan is the only place in the solar system, besides Earth, that has large bodies of liquid on its surface, though its seas are composed of hydrocarbons such as methane rather than water.

Forty - five years after Grossman's daydream, we still can not discount the possibility that somewhere in the universe a strange life form thirsts for a frosty swig of ammonia or liquid methane to soothe its parched lips.

«If nature figured out how to do it in mild conditions, then perhaps we can devise an inexpensive way to design catalysts to convert methane into liquid fuels like we use in our vehicles and jets.»

«In addition, detailed knowledge of the chemical steps involved in making methane could lead to major breakthroughs in designing energy efficient catalysts for converting methane into liquid fuels and other chemicals.&raquIn addition, detailed knowledge of the chemical steps involved in making methane could lead to major breakthroughs in designing energy efficient catalysts for converting methane into liquid fuels and other chemicals.&raquin making methane could lead to major breakthroughs in designing energy efficient catalysts for converting methane into liquid fuels and other chemicals.&raquin designing energy efficient catalysts for converting methane into liquid fuels and other chemicals.»

«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.

And its seas are made of liquid methane, in which lipid membranes couldn't develop.

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.

Outside of Earth, Titan is the only other planetary body in the solar system with actively flowing rivers, though they're fed by liquid methane instead of water.

Titan's liquid methane rain appears to play a major role in shaping its icy surface, and the downpours are much more common than researchers expected.

Even though Titan lacks sunlight, NASA's Huygens probe detected what looked like liquid methane on the mini planet's surface in 2005.

Too cold for liquid water, the only liquid on Titan is in the form of methane — any water is frozen rock - solid.

Instead of water, liquid methane falls as rain, creates rivers that cut into the hydrocarbon - rich surface, which in turn make valleys, and flows into vast liquid methane lakes.

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

Additional unprocessed images gathered during Cassini's plunge are available online, along with hundreds of thousands collected by the probe during the more than 13 years it has spend studying Saturn and its moons — observations which resulted in the publication of more than 3,000 studies and such discoveries as liquid methane seas at Titan and hydrothermal activity on Enceladus.

In the colder outer areas of the disk, some substances that would otherwise be gaseous or liquid such as water and methane are available as solid ices to agglomerate with the dust grains.

The injection of the hydraulic fracturing fluids creates channels for flow in the formations (often shale formations), allowing methane and other hydrocarbon gases and liquids in the formation to migrate to the production well.

When used as a source of energy to manufacture hydrocarbons such as methane and liquid fuels, as you point out solar panels can only do this in the daytime.

Estimates for the global size of the CO2 utilization market by 2030 in carbonate aggregates, fuels (methane and liquid fuels), concrete, methanol, and polymers are as large as $ 700 billion, utilizing 7 billion metric tons of CO2 per year, which is equivalent to approximately 15 percent of current global CO2 emissions.

Methane emissions from liquid unloadings were measured at 107 wells in natural gas production regions throughout the United States.

I would be rather interested in the costs of methane to liquid fuels (such as the plant in Qatar), LNG for transphort (with infrastructure costs) and combined methane / coal to liquids.

Steam, methane and hydrocarbon liquids are proposed to be recovered via the annulus of the well with the hydrocarbon liquids being stripped at surface and the remaining products being recycled by the jet pumps in a continuous cycle.

Siluria Technologies, developer of a catalytic oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) process to convert natural gas into liquid fuels or petrochemical building blocks (earlier post), and Wood, a leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets, announced the availability of the Modus process... Read more →

Researchers from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSMT) are heading a project to to investigate methane cycling in deep and extreme environments and to develop new biological routes using previously unexplored and novel microorganisms from extreme environments for converting methane into value - added products such as liquid biofuels, biopolymers,... Read more →

They have created the first porous liquid, specially designed of cage - like molecules sized to capture small molecules like methane or carbon dioxide, but too large to be filled by the liquid solvent in which they are dissolved.

CO2 and methane are gases water vapour probably exists in two states (gas and suspended liquid).