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.
Not exact matches
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 20
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 20
Fuel - 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.