Sentences with phrase «into synthetic»

Those pellets are then put into a gasifier, which heats them until they turn into synthetic gas — fuel for the generator.

Some tar sands producers use on - site upgrading facilities to turn the bitumen into synthetic crude, which is similar to conventional crude oil.

The government has also approved at least nine large - scale projects that would turn coal into synthetic natural gas (SNG), a strategy that may help ease China's air pollution woes but create more environmental problems than it solves.

China, with similarly huge reserves, is even planning to convert coal into synthetic fuel for cars - even though such processes typically produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.

It proposes to capture up to one - third of the emissions from a plant that transforms oil sands bitumen into synthetic crude.

The Alberta government could see to it that the energy producers refined the stuff into synthetic crude oil on site but this is a high - cost, high - carbon asset already at some risk of becoming «stranded.»

Natuna was one example; another was Exxon's proposed leap into synthetic fuels.

The facility would use lignite mined adjacent to the plant, convert it into synthetic gas and then capture and sequester 65 % of its carbon emissions.

In May 2012, Tenaska said they would cut the plant's costs by 60 % and have it run on natural gas rather than coal, although it is believed the plant would be built so that it could later be retrofitted to begin transforming Illinois coal into synthetic natural gas.

The Rentech Process can also convert syngas from fossil resources into synthetic jet and diesel fuels, specialty waxes and chemicals.

The latest achievement of J. Craig Venter — rebooting a bacterial cell as a different species by giving it a man - made genetic instruction manual — is just one step on the long inevitable path into synthetic biology.

Shielding their surfaces from hazardous environments, these clothing, made of disposable cellophane, soft textiles or expensive hard duty, heat - resistant fabrics, bring them even closer to their human coworkers, blending the organic and automated into a synthetic whole.

Alexander Wolff's Wallpainting Wexner Center, Columbus provides a delightfully perspective - challenging experience as you ascend the ramp toward the towering gallery wall that has been completely transformed into a Synthetic Cubist collage for this exhibition.

From here, players take on the role of one several so - called «Intellects»: those who were among the first humans transferred into synthetic bodies.

We also use an all natural in - infill that is applied into the synthetic grass that will not absorb odors.

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch gained their powers from these tests, and Vision eventually came into being as a result of the Mind Stone, with Iron Man's JARVIS operating system becoming fused into a synthetic body originally crafted for Ultron.

Resveratrol is one of the forerunners in the anti-aging pill race, but more than likely, by the time they've manipulated it into a synthetic pill (like the fish oil discussed above), it won't be healthy for you.

How does B6 fit into this synthetic scenario?

Further, as in natural gecko feet, the skin is woven into a synthetic «tendon,» yielding a design that plays a key role in maintaining stiffness and rotational freedom, the researchers explain.

We have seen piezoelectric transistors incorporated into synthetic skins making them sensitive enough to read fingerprints, other approaches that use multipurpose sensors to detect temperature and humidity in addition to pressure, and others that use pressure - sensitive materials made from inorganic semiconductors to only use a small amounts of power.

The third is gasification, in which liquid or solid fuels are first turned into synthetic natural gas; CO2 from the conversion of the gas can be siphoned off.

These fibers, which are embedded into the synthetic matrix, give the material its additional durability.

Upgrading The process of heating, distillation, and hydrogenation that turns bitumen into synthetic crude oil for refining.

Working in his lab in UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rosenthal and doctoral student John DiMeglio have developed an inexpensive catalyst that uses the electricity generated from solar energy to convert carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into synthetic fuels for powering cars, homes and businesses.

He has coded everything from a Goethe poem to a map of the Milky Way into synthetic DNA, which he then inserts into the genome of living bacteria like E. coli.

63 Chemistry Turns Straw Into Black Gold Researchers announced a technique for converting almost any source of carbon into synthetic diesel and gas...

Australian scientists have paved the way for carbon neutral fuel with the development of a new efficient catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air into synthetic natural gas in a «clean» process using solar energy.

Rice University researchers have developed computer simulations to decode natural materials to guide research into synthetic multifunctional composites.

In December the U.S. Air Force flew a C - 17 transport plane across the country powered in part by a new propellant: natural gas transmuted into a synthetic liquid fuel.

This is the end of natural biology, now we are into synthetic biology where humans have greater control than ever over life around them, and our ability to manipulate life can be fairly said to be unequalled in all of humankind's time before — what does that mean?

GSE is made by taking the pulp, not necessarily seeds, from grapefruit juice production and in a multi step industrial chemical process change the natural phenolic compounds into synthetic quaternary ammonium compounds.

For, in the nature of the case, the fruit of exegesis has to be constructed into a synthetic whole and that construction is significantly affected by the pre-understanding, the presuppositions, the experience, and the psychology of the interpreter.

Investor cash sunk into a synthetic ETF doesn't just go towards buying a total return swap.

People worked at Syncrude or Suncor, scooping up bitumen and processing it into synthetic crude.

It just means we have to upgrade it into synthetic crude first, which would spur investment and job creation in Canada.

Make sure that you prep natural diapers separately from synthetic diapers to avoid those natural oils from moving into the synthetics.

Not exact matches

The tiny, synthetic beads — found in facial cleansers, hand washes and toothpastes — have been found to pollute our waters and introduce toxic chemicals into the food chain.

News of Lucara's discovery of the Lesedi La Rona diamond (it was named in a national contest held in Botswana and translates into «our light» in the Tswana language) has helped invigorate a mining category that has languished in the wake of a global recession, not to mention a campaign by Blood Diamond star Leonardo DiCaprio to promote synthetic alternatives to alleviate working conditions of miners in Africa.

Accenture is an example of what naming guru Alex Frankel describes in his book Wordcraft: The Art of Turning Little Words into Big Business as «the synthetic, just - add - water (and a lot of advertising dollars), umbrella name.»

The method involves tagging a molecular drug delivery vehicle with synthetic DNA that can then be used to see how cancerous tumors are responding to specific treatments (the drugs themselves are placed into these tagged nanoparticles).

Meanwhile, Mexican producers — especially those in Sinaloa state — have moved heavily into the production of heroin and synthetic drugs like methamphetamine.

Back in 2010 it paid $ 550 million to settle charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it mislead investors into buying a so - called synthetic collateralized debt obligation named Abacus, which was made up of a bundle of financial instruments tied to subprime mortgage bonds, many of which plummeted in value shortly after the deal was sold.

Pedro Pereira - Almao, a heavy - oil researcher who left Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, has developed a catalyst that can «crack» complex bitumen molecules into simpler synthetic crude.

«We now know the depth to which drug traffickers exploit our mail system to ship fentanyl and other synthetic drugs into the United States,» said subcommittee Chairman Rob Portman.

«Dr. Hambleton's unique clinical background in both immuno - oncology and synthetic lethality will strengthen our organization's capabilities as we advance multiple first - in - class programs into the clinic, leveraging our clinical strategy in patient selection and combinations.»

However, he continued, this synthetic portfolio «morphed into something that, rather than protect the firm, created new and potentially larger risks.

State owned Chinese energy companies are not pouring billions of dollars into developing Alberta's oil sands so more synthetic crude or bitumen can be sent to refineries in Cushing Oklahoma.

In the past few years, synthetic knots have really come into their own.

On top of all this, the fund's index holds a synthetic protective put on itself — in practice, this means DMRI shifts more assets into notes and bills after a significant decline, potentially staving off an even larger crash.

The gasification process takes organic, carbonaceous materials and transforms them into efficient synthetic gas through a series of chemical reactions held at high temperatures.