Sentences with phrase «into fuel products»

Energy economist Andrew Leach has looked at the economics of refining in Canada (here, here and here) and claims that producers can make more money by selling raw bitumen than they could by upgrading it to synthetic crude oil or by refining it into fuel products.

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Politico has been expanding into Europe aggressively, opening offices and news bureaus in London and Brussels, and at least some of this expansion has been fueled by some impressive growth in its Politico Pro subscription products.
Large integrated oil companies are known as such because they not only produce oil, but they also refine it into finished products, such as jet fuel, gasoline, heating oil, and diesel, and sell it via a network of gasoline stations.
Contacted in 2011 by The Tyee, Dr. Carl E. Brown, research manager of Emergencies, Science and Technology Division at Environment Canada confirmed that «a concern with bitumen fuels is their density is quite high and chances are if those materials were spilled into the marine environment, those products might sink.»
The Downstream segment comprises refining of crude oil into petroleum products; marketing of crude oil and refined products; transporting of crude oil and refined products by pipeline, marine vessel, motor equipment, and rail car; and manufacturing and marketing of commodity petrochemicals, plastics for industrial uses, and fuel and lubricant additives.
After processing and upgrading, the end result is sent to refineries, where it's made into gasoline, jet fuel and other petroleum products.
The Company's other services include blending of renewable fuels into petroleum products, and the manufacture of biodiesel at its Birmingham facility.»
The answer to that question would be a book in its own right, but he built his wealth by turning gasoline into fuel while his competitors treated gasoline as a waste product to pour into the Cuyahoga River and watch it burn.
Speaking in a statement, Steven Morrison, senior product owner at Booking.com, said: «At this new dedicated research and learning space, we plan to tap into the region's deep pool of talent to explore how machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as other new and emerging technologies can fuel future innovations in travel.
These hydrocarbons, which are also burned for heating and cooking and blended into vehicle fuel, are extracted from the natural gas production stream or produced as a by - product of refined oil.
This transformation is being fueled by the infusion of intelligence into products and processes, the proliferation of mobile devices and social media, and heightened expectations from digitally - empowered consumers.
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Food ingredients company Opta Food Ingredients this week boasted a healthy 24 per cent increase in revenue for the third quarter with the demand for fibre products largely fuelling the growth and catapulting the company into the black.
New EU rules will trick parents into buying expensive and unnecessary products that will fuel the obesity crisis
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However, Mr Awuah Darko, said the arrangement run into serious difficulties after confusion ensued over which fuel product supplied, went to the army officers and to Goil.
Commenting on the figures, Construction Products Association senior economist, Kelly Forrest said: «It is encouraging that sales rose in the first quarter, but manufacturers also highlighted the key factors that threaten growth throughout 2012 and into 2013, these factors include the continuing uncertainty within the euro zone, and significant concern regarding rising costs, especially fuel costs.
BOST sold five million litres of contaminated fuel to Movenpinaa, a deal that has snowballed into a raging controversy following revelations the below - standard product has found its way to the pumps.
Oil marketers has declared that readiness to support measures set into motion by the Federal Government to end the fuel scarcity menace and as such restore sanity by adequately supplying and distributing the products in a matter of days.
He leads a team at Monash University in Melbourne that is developing technologies to extract fossil fuels more cleanly, turn waste products into fertiliser and cement, and store carbon dioxide deep underground.
Selective hydrogenation is the key to producing valuable chemicals, for example, turning triple - bonded hydrocarbons called alkynes selectively into double - bonded alkenes — starting materials for the synthesis of plastics, fuels and other commercial products.
However, unlike the combustion of hydrocarbon fuels — which emit greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere and pollute the environment — the product of hydrogen combustion is clean water.
And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].
The team also developed an additional process that uses another catalyst to convert the two phenol products into high - octane hydrocarbon fuel suitable for use as drop - in gasoline.
Hydrogen is another attractive by - product of wastewater, and some of Logan's research at Penn State involves looking into how to capture hydrogen to run fuel cells.
When carbon dioxide is fed into the cell, electricity splits it into oxygen and solid carbon or carbon monoxide gas that could then be used to manufacture many different products and fuels.
Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.
The scientists are part of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, whose goal is to convert CO2 into high - value chemical products like liquid fuels.
«Under those conditions you get a very high conversion of all the carbon in the biomass into various gaseous products,» says Arie Geertsema, Range Fuel's chief technical officer.
Fuel cells convert chemical energy into electrical energy using hydrogen and oxygen — with water as the only product.
In another approach, his group has demonstrated in the lab all the chemical reactions necessary to turn biomass such as corn fiber into biocrude, an intermediate product on the way to gasoline and diesel fuel, he says, although the reactions are not yet efficient enough to operate on a large scale.
In the piece Zuber and Holt wrote, «Federal agencies, with bipartisan support, are the primary investor of cutting - edge basic research that fuels industry's ability to harness that knowledge into innovative products and business.
Their ultimate goal is to find ways to use solar energy — either directly or via electricity generated by solar cells — to convert the end products of hydrocarbon combustion, water and carbon dioxide, back into a carbon - based fuel.
A prime mover turns a fuel into the mechanical energy used to drive a product; changing prime movers does close to zero to solve the problem.
Furthermore, there is a guaranteed market for PRISM's low - carbon by - product — electricity — which eliminates the need to sell a fuel product and turns the UK's stores of plutonium into an economic asset.
It can be used to convert CO2, or carbon dioxide, into useful items like biodegradable plastic products, medications, or fuel sources; as such, this would essentially eliminate the need of having to travel to various locations to dig up fossil fuels, like oil or coal.
The product cylinders are then loaded into sturdy protective containers for shipment to a nuclear fuel fabricator where the enriched uranium is converted into fuel assemblies for nuclear power reactors.
They can convert CO2, an industrial waste product, into methane, a versatile fuel that can be readily integrated into efforts to fuel vehicles and power plants.
This understanding will provide the foundation for new «catch - and - consume» approaches in which carbon dioxide is not only captured, but also converted into useful products such as fuels.
Yes, nanotechnology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and has found its way into many commercial products, for example, strong, lightweight materials for better fuel economy; targeted drug delivery for safer and more effective cancer treatments; clean, accessible drinking water around the world; superfast computers with vast amounts of storage; self - cleaning surfaces; wearable health monitors; more efficient solar panels; safer food through packaging and monitoring; regrowth of skin, bone, and nerve cells for better medical outcomes; smart windows that lighten or darken to conserve energy; and nanotechnology - enabled concrete that dries more quickly and has sensors to detect stress or corrosion at the nanoscale in roads, bridges, and buildings.
Coral is already threatened by insidious change in sea water chemistry as ever more carbonic acid — from dissolved atmospheric carbon dioxide, the product of the combustion of fossil fuels — gets into the sea.
-- Efficient energy transfer: A better conditioned athlete will be more efficient at turning fuel into energy and dealing with the waste products from this transfer.
These harmful gases are emitted into your home's air from certain liquids and solids, including conventional household cleaning supplies, cosmetics, paints, varnishes, waxes disinfectants, fuels and hobby products.
This results in cancer cells secreting large amounts of the fermentation product lactic acid into their extracellular microenvironment, lowering the extracellular pH to 6 - 6.5, contributing to acidosis, initiation of angiogenesis and providing a metabolic fuel for cancer cells, which also induces immunosuppression.
Keanu Reeves (A Walk in the Clouds, Speed) stars as Eddie Kasalivich, a machinist working on an experiment to rid the world of petroleum products and introduce hydrogen - based power into the world through an ever abundant and clean «fossil fuel» known as water.
However, Rose Luckin, who made it into the Seldon List as the «Dr Who of AI», is clear that teachers need to be part of developing these AI - fuelled products and services: «Teachers need to be more aware of AI and its potential benefits, and part of the dialogue about its use.
With fuel prices so low, we're seeing it's more of a lifestyle product for people who are really into making a statement and having an ecologically sensitive life.
The 2014 Infiniti Q50 Hybrid is intended to maintain the sporty spirit that is built into most of the premium automaker's products, while simultaneously enhancing fuel mileage by a considerable amount.
Honda also installed new technologies into their products, first as optional equipment, then later standard, like anti lock brakes, speed sensitive power steering, and multi-port fuel injection in the early 1980s.
His teacher was Valero Energy, an independent oil refining company that had just developed a new «catalytic cracker» that could turn a dirty, sludge - like refinery by - product called residual fuel oil into pure gasoline.
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