"Liquid hydrocarbons" refers to substances that are made up of carbon and hydrogen atoms and exist in a liquid state at room temperature. Examples include gasoline, diesel fuel, and lubricating oils.
Full definition
Researchers at Nanjing Tech University in China have developed a new pathway for the production of
liquid hydrocarbon fuels from lignocellulose.
For example, a stream of pure CO2 becomes available for capture and storage if biomass is used as the fuel for power plants or as feedstock for production
of liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
The team at Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) has created a system for using renewable energy to power the capture of CO2 and water, which is then transformed
into liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used directly in gasoline engines.
The Cassini spacecraft discovered an extensive system of lakes filled
with liquid hydrocarbons in the north polar region.
«We are the first to use both light and heat to synthesize
liquid hydrocarbons in a single stage reactor from carbon dioxide and water,» said Brian Dennis, UTA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and co-principal investigator of the project.
Will wait to hear more, but to the extent that for certain applications (e.g. aviation) there are really no viable substitutions
for liquid hydrocarbons on the horizon, at least a «carbon - neutral» source would be desirable...
Cassini also detected lakes and seas of
liquid hydrocarbons on Titan — the first stable bodies of liquid ever discovered on the surface of a world beyond Earth.
Adding insult to injury electricity, even were it free to produce at centralized generation facilities, can not practically
replace liquid hydrocarbon fuels for lack of distribution capacity to local consumption and lack of storage capacity for transportation.
Later, after Wallace - Babb came to and sought answers, a sheriff's deputy told her that a tank full of gas condensate —
liquid hydrocarbons gathered from the production process — had overflowed into another tank.
A few years back researchers thought that hydrogen could be extracted chemically onboard from
liquid hydrocarbons such as methanol, but those schemes did not pan out.
A team of University of Texas at Arlington chemists and engineers have proven that concentrated light, heat and high pressures can drive the one - step conversion of carbon dioxide and water directly into
useable liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
Engines that use gases for fuel are called gas engines and those that
use liquid hydrocarbons are called oil engines; however, gasoline engines are also often colloquially referred to as, «gas engines» («petrol engines» outside North America).
UW - Madison team develops more streamlined, cost - effective process for conversion of biomass to
liquid hydrocarbons via a GVL pathway
In 2012, the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers launched a three - year project on the production of
synthetic liquid hydrocarbons from electricity (i.e. Power - to - Liquids, PtL) using a multistage process (SynKWS), in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center (DLR)-- Institute of Combustion Technology Stuttgart; the University of Stuttgart IFK; and... Read more →
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one - step, gas - phase conversion of CO2 and H2O to C5
+ liquid hydrocarbons and O2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures.
Start - up Calysta Energy plans to use methane as a feedstock for engineered organisms to
produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels and high value chemicals that are cost - effective, scalable and reduce environmental impact.
Shell still must receive permits for individual wells, a hurdle that hinges on the company's oil spill response plan and the certification of its containment system, which is designed to capture
flowing liquid hydrocarbons in the event of a loss of well control.
[It] has hundreds of times
more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth -LSB-...] The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.»
For example, direct air capture might prove especially well - suited to recycle carbon dioxide back into the ordinary,
familiar liquid hydrocarbon fuels that power today's trucks, planes, and even cars.
Baker Botts has as long history assisting clients with the development of pipeline projects, particularly those used to transport crude oil,
other liquid hydrocarbons and natural gas.
But second place goes to Saturn's moon Titan (0.64), which hosts vast lakes
of liquid hydrocarbons but has surface temperatures of — 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
The process is quite dirty if the source of heat for the endothermic process is burning coal itself, but if the source of heat for the process was supplied by nuclear energy, we could have an excellent source of domestic fuel if we stop burning the coal for electricity and instead use the carbon in it as the feed stock
for liquid hydrocarbons.
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, whose surface remained invisible through its thick, ubiquitous haze, nonetheless teased observers with hints of a possible ocean of
liquid hydrocarbons.
How do you manufacture on the scale of multiple — square - mile facilities and billions of gallons of
liquid hydrocarbons that can go into ExxonMobil refineries?
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found deep, steep - sided canyons on Saturn's moon Titan that are flooded with
liquid hydrocarbons.
Titan is home to lakes and rivers made of
liquid hydrocarbons, which may be hospitable to life unlike that on Earth.