Sentences with phrase «liquid fuels plant»

The proposed port expansion in Washington is being developed by Ambre Energy who are also trying to build Australia's first coal to liquid fuels plant in the fertile Felton Valley in Queensland.

The development will include a 600 megawatt power station, a coal - to - liquid fuel plant, and coking fuel plants.

Not exact matches

He said government will next week go to Parliament to seek approval for a Liquid Natural Gas contract as an alternative fuel for the country's plants, particularly those within the Tema enclave.

«Plant - inspired power plants: Pitt study outlines framework for developing catalysts that turn excess atmospheric CO2 into new source of liquid fuel.»

«You don't have to waste energy on all the extra baggage it takes to grow plants, and the result is a man - made carbon cycle that produces liquid fuel.»

The idea of using the sun to make a liquid fuel has been kicking around ever since Melvin Calvin elucidated the chemical steps by which a plant turns sunlight into sugar, for which he won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Senator Jeff Bingaman, Democrat of New Mexico, opposed big subsidies for coal - based fuels until mid-June, when he moved to offer up to $ 10 billion in loans for coal - to - liquid plants.

«Overall conversion rates from the [natural] gas to fuel - grade liquids is as high as 46 percent in optimal, real - world conditions,» Rolfe says — as good or better than established facilities employing Fischer - Tropsch, such as Johannesburg - based Sasol, Ltd.'s plants in South Africa.

Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.

These liquids are then shipped to chemical plants or fuel companies all over the world.

«Power - to - liquid: 200 liters of fuel from solar power and the air's carbon dioxide: Pilot plant produces first synthetic fuel from solar power and the air's carbon dioxide / KIT spin - off ineratec supplied key component.»

«For example, this could help us develop bacterial strains that are more efficient at converting plant biomass into liquid fuels.»

Aerosols are solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, consisting of (in rough order of abundance): sea salt, mineral dust, inorganic salts such as ammonium sulfate (which has natural as well as anthropogenic sources from e.g. coal burning), and carbonaceous aerosol such as soot, plant emissions, and incompletely combusted fossil fuel.

Professor Eugene Chen of Colorado State University is being recognized for developing a process that uses plant - based materials in the production of renewable chemicals and liquid fuels.

With air captured CO2 from plants like Climeworks», renewable energy can be efficiently stored by producing synthetic fuels using Power - to - Gas or Power - to - Liquids technology.

In addition, the use of hydrogen in an FT plant could nearly triple yields of liquid fuels.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Washington State University professor Xiao Zhang has received a prestigious National Science Foundation award to junior faculty for his work in converting tough plant material to liquid fuels.

JBEI, based in Emeryville, Cal., is a multi-institutional research partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) dedicated to developing advanced drop - in biofuels — liquid fuels derived from the solar energy stored in plant biomass that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.

Both aSMR designs share fundamental features, such as high energy neutrons, liquid sodium cooling and metallic fuel, which provide inherent safety performance and more economically competitive plant architecture compared to traditional water - cooled reactors.

Striking an ideal balance in terms of size and power, the affordably priced Pioneer 700 has a 675cc liquid - cooled, single - cylinder, fuel - injected power plant and a low - maintenance, beltless automatic transmission.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

With 50 plants running at 10 GW per plant, the US could meet all of its liquid fuel needs, some of its electricity needs and export excess liquid fuel.

Evidence on the ground reinforces such assertions, most notably the startup in recent days of China's first large - scale plant for turning coal into liquid fuels, in Inner Mongolia.

Plenty of coal to run high tech civilization at least another hundred years even with substantial economic growth by burning it in conventional coal - fired electric plants and making liquid hydrocarbon automotive fuels from it.

They spoke at length about Shell's existing push to produce liquid fuels from gas, most notably at the huge new gas - to - liquids plant in Qatar:

A pilot plant in Dresden has started production of the synthetic fuel Audi e-diesel using water, CO2 and green power — i.e., power - to - liquid (PtL).

The goal is to capture CO2 from flue gas — for example, from a natural gas - burning power plant — and to use the catalytic system to efficiently convert it into liquid fuels.

A detailed study by researchers from China and the US has concluded that Fischer - Tropsch synthetic liquid fuels (FTL) are typically less costly to produce when electricity is generated as a major coproduct than when the plants are designed to produce mainly liquid fuels.

Biomass gasification could be used either to produce electricity (e.g., use biomass instead of coal in a power plant application) or as the first step in a liquid - fuels program.

Due to the high cost of capturing, transporting, and sequestering carbon dioxide, EPA expects that any new coal fired power plants built in the foreseeable future will defray the costs of CCS by selling its carbon dioxide to oil companies, which can use the gas to help extract oil by displacing liquid fuels deep underground, in a process known as CO2 enhanced oil recovery (or CO2 - EOR).

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) on its proposal to contribute $ 100 million toward a new plant that will convert coal to liquid fuels.

In fact those synthetic organisms can pull carbon out of the atmosphere and store it liquid forms that could, if we so desire, be put into the fuel tanks of extant internal and external combustion engines like trains, planes, automobiles, and electrical generation plants.

One area where companies are increasingly focused is the development of liquid fuels from plants.

A demonstration plant powered by geothermal has been running in Iceland since 2011, using a novel low - temp & low pressure technology to process electrolytic hydrogen and carbon from airborne CO2, to provide 2.5 % of the national liquid fuel requirement cut with petrol.

Biofuel - Any liquid, gaseous, or solid fuel produced from plant or animal organic matter.

Bioenergy refers to sources of energy (electricity and solid, liquid, or gaseous fuels) derived from biomass: plant - or animal - based materials such as crops, crop residues, trees, animal fats, by - products, and wastes.

Alternative sources of liquid fuel and liquefiable gas fuel (elsewhere on this page — and biodiesel, gasohol, etc.)(In the Third World rainforest is being cleared to plant oil palms for biodiesel and food production, to the detriment of the global environment.)

To satisfy the increase in world liquids demand in the Reference case, liquids production increases by 28.3 million barrels per day from 2010 to 2040, including the production of both petroleum (crude oil and lease condensate, natural gas plant [NGPL], bitumen, extra-heavy oil, and refinery gains), and other liquid fuels (coal - to - liquids [CTL], gas - to - liquids [GTL], biofuels, and kerogen).

Real Climate defines «aerosols» as ``... solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, consisting of (in rough order of abundance): sea salt, mineral dust, inorganic salts such as ammonium sulfate (which has natural as well as anthropogenic sources from e.g. coal burning), and carbonaceous aerosol such as soot, plant emissions, and incompletely combusted fossil fuel.»

Develop advanced oxygen production systems for use in gasification plants that will result in a significantly lower cost compared to conventional processes for applications to produce power with carbon capture or liquid fuels with carbon capture.

To develop a fuel feed technology for high - pressure gasifiers that will result in significantly lower - cost coal gasification plant construction and / or operation for production of power with carbon capture; or that will result in significantly lower - cost coal gasification plant construction and / or operation for production of liquid fuels with carbon capture.

You build a nuclear powered hydrogen factory near the coal and feed that hydrogen into a coal to liquid plant to make any fuel you want.

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.

The Texas panhandle for instance is ideal and just a tenth of it can produce all the liquid fuel the United States currently consumes at yield / acre currently achieved in pilot plants.

Government and industry must decide whether to invest vast sums, of the order of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of billions of dollars in production of synthetic liquid fuels from coal or oil shale, an equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

Biofuels are liquid fuels — most often ethanol or biodiesel — that are made from plant - or animal - based sources called «biomass.»

The U.S. Energy Information Administration includes the following in U.S. primary energy production: coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production; natural gas plant liquids production; dry natural gas excluding supplemental gaseous fuels production; nuclear electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the nuclear plant heat rates); conventional hydroelectricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); geothermal electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and geothermal heat pump energy and geothermal direct use energy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedstock.

via: Greentech Media and Reuters Global Climate Change Obama Should Implement Carbon Tax, Eminent Climatologist Says 1 in 10,000 Chance Global Warming Not the Cause of Recent Hot Years Coal - To - Liquids Fuels Score One For The Stupid Fuel: Ohio Coal - to - Liquids Plant Gets Final Permitting Air Force Asks Wall Street Investors for Coal - to - Liquids Money

So I was wondering if this can be avoided with the Th - type power plant, or perhaps more generally, the concept of fuel used in a liquid state as suggested in the link from the Brave New Climate site (I think it's under Blogroll — just look for Thorium)-- which allows easier processing of fuel and removal of some isotopes.

China joined South Africa as the only countries with a working coal - to - liquids plant designed to turn abundant domestic coal into liquid transport fuel, Bloomberg notes.