Sentences with phrase «liquids fuel processes»

Not exact matches

The process of making liquid fuel from the oil sands requires steam injection and and refining, all of which requires energy.

Unlike other solid - to - liquid - fuel processes such as cornstarch into ethanol, this one will accept almost any carbon - based feedstock.

The oil vapor, meanwhile, is condensed into a liquid fuel, which is then further upgraded and processed to make a green fuel similar to the bunker fuel that is used in cargo ship engines and industrial boilers, for example, except it lacks the pollution - causing sulfur common to the bunker fuel refined from petroleum.

Tapping it and converting it to liquid fuels (a process nobody has fully mastered yet) could yield a supply lasting a millennium.

«Proven one - step process to convert CO2 and water directly into liquid hydrocarbon fuel.»

In the 1980s this research was directed toward a fast reactor (dubbed the advanced liquidmetal reactor, or ALMR), with metallic fuel cooled by a liquid metal, that was to be integrated with a high - temperature pyrometallurgical processing unit for recycling and replenishing the fuel.

Workers heat, pressurize and process coal into diesel and other needed fuels, leaving liquid carbon dioxide as a byproduct.

For instance, carbon dioxide enables energy storage by reacting with hydrogen gas — called the hydrogenation process — transforming the mixture into higher energy liquid compounds such as methanol that can be easily transported and used as fuel for cars.

Dioxide Materials is not alone in trying to commercialize the process: Already, chemical giant BASF has announced plans to produce liquid methanol fuel using a similar method.

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.

The production method involves processing biogas to deliver renewable hydrogen and then incorporating the renewable hydrogen into conventional liquid fuels via selected refinery... Read more →

For the near - and mid-term alternative fuel options (i.e., hydrotreated oil from animal fats and vegetable oils, and FT liquids), electric power is not an important input to the production process, but hydrogen is.

The Fischer - Tropsch process is a chemical reaction that uses catalysts to convert two gases, carbon monoxide and hydrogen, to liquid fuels in a simple, one - step process.

«There is a pressing need for a game - changing approach to produce alternative, drop - in, liquid transportation fuels by sustainable, technologically viable and environmentally acceptable emissions processes from abundant, low - cost, renewable materials.

Heterogeneous catalysis for controlling gaseous emissions from automotive and stationary engines, alternative energy using catalytic reforming of gaseous and liquid fuels to hydrogen for fuel cells, catalytic processes for upgrading carbon dioxide to useful products

Your body is created to process whole, organic ingredients as natural fuel, not to chug chemically created liquids as fake insta - fuel.

Not Jason, however: When considering that the complete digestive process of a solid exogenous nutrient (maybe some liquids as well) is approximately 36 hours (give or take, depending on the individual), this could represent the transitional fasting time frame (the autophagy «on - switch» sweet spot if you will) to engage the reverse fuel gauge of AMPK.

The system is designed to control and process fuel vapor not liquid fuel.

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The position is that IF you have a carbon - neutral power source, such as nuke - electric, wind - electric, solar - electric, geothermal, etc, then the claim is that this process will efficiently produce liquid fuel from atmospheric CO2.

-- Approaches in which biomass is converted to heat, electricity, or liquid or gas fuels followed by CO2 capture and sequestration are limited by the availability of land for biomass cultivation and the need to transport it to processing facilities.

But photosynthesis is only a few percents efficient (often just 1 %), and then the refining process to harvest the crops and then extract their sugars and turn them into liquid fuel further reduces efficiency.

The team used detailed process simulations, lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions analyses, and cost analyses in a comprehensive analytical framework to assess 16 alternative system configurations that involve gasification - based coproduction of Fischer - Tropsch liquid (FTL) fuels and electricity from coal and / or biomass, with and without capture and storage of byproduct CO2.

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).

Sundrop's syngas process will serve the heavy lift liquid fuel demand well.

The video,» Beyond Recycling: Recovering the Energy in Non-Recycled Plastics,» illustrates processes for recycling plastics and converting those plastics that can't be economically recycled into various forms of energy, including oil, gas, electricity and liquid and solid fuels.

Researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have concentrated 3,000 «suns» of solar thermal energy into a solar reactor at 1,500 °C for thermochemical splitting of H2O and CO2 into hydrogen and carbon monoxide (syngas), the precursor to kerosene and other liquid fuels.

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.

Authorizes the EPA Administrator to study: (1) the extent to which petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas are used as feedstocks in manufacturing processes to produce products; and (2) the GHG emissions resulting from such uses.

Unlike Brown, however, Newsom supports a ban on future oil and natural - gas extraction projects that involve fracking, a process that injects high - pressure liquid into rock formations to free up fossil fuels.

«(A) The Administrator may conduct a study to determine the extent to which petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas are used as feedstocks in manufacturing processes to produce products and the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from such uses.

In thermochemical conversion, liquid fuels are produced through a process that involves heating wood and bark in the absence or minimum presence of oxygen.

EIA says U.S. liquid fuels production — including crude oil, hydrocarbon gas liquids, biofuels and refinery processing gain — grew by more than 4 million barrels per day (bpd) from January 2011 to July 2014.

Biofuel is bioenergy converted into a liquid fuel such as ethanol or biodiesel, but biomass can also be converted into gaseous fuels via biological or chemical processes such as digestion and gasification.

The term qualified coal - to - liquid facility means a manufacturing facility that has the capacity to produce at least 10,000 barrels per day of transportation grade liquid fuels from a feedstock that is primarily domestic coal (including peat and any property which allows for the capture, transportation, or sequestration of by - products resulting from such process, including carbon emissions).

UTA researchers demonstrate one - step solar process to convert CO2 and H2O directly into renewable liquid hydrocarbon fuels

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.

Siluria Technologies, developer of a catalytic oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) process to convert natural gas into liquid fuels or petrochemical building blocks (earlier post), and Wood, a leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets, announced the availability of the Modus process... Read more →

None of these approaches has been completely successful because they are all being compared to the cheapest, most easily processed, and most energy dense liquid fuel known in the history of mankind — high - grade crude oil.

The jobs are beneficial, it can move liquid products of various kinds for decades, and selfishly speaking it can move our Canadian heavy oil (oh yeah, it's heavy with carbon) which can be purchased by existing US refineries that have the spare capacity to process it into lighter fuels.

The circuitous travels of the Fischer - Tropsch process, a chemical technique to convert natural gas and coal into liquid fuels, provide an object lesson in historical irony.

The gas can be used as a fuel or processed further and concentrated into chemical or liquid fuel.

Nuclear heat should be provided to all the required chemical processes for producing liquid fuels.

However, Carbon Sciences has developed a highly scalable process that provides a protected environment to organic biocatalysts, where they can go about converting CO2 into liquid fuels many times over with out «dying.»

They too have the diurnal problem under control — and they talk about the very high temperatures and pressures they obtain being used in other process to produce liquid fuels, which solve all the intermittency and transport problems (at a cost).

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.

Boats, planes, freight trains and trucks, construction, mining and agricultural machines, most cars and light trucks with spirit and muscle (i.e., hot V - 8's), motorcycles, motorhomes, snowmobiles, ATV's, all military vehicles, go - carts, golf course and sports field grass mowers, etc will always require and use liquid fossils fuels becasue these fuels have HIGH ENERGY DENSITY and are easily prepared from readily recoverable crude oil, which exits abundantly free in Nature, by fractional distillation and blending low energy processes that do not require the breaking of chemical bonds.

No doubt the same thing is happening along much of the west coast of Canada, which is why China's sanctioning of coal to liquid technology to produce transportation fuel is directly significant to North Americans, and why it is so important to help China become more reliant on efficient processes and products.

Yet this capacity of technosolar to wholly replace fossil fuels (solid and liquid fuels) is ultimately going to be the key issues renewables face in the next few years, most especially for those folks (unlike you or I) who see no role for nuclear, but even for me (unlike you) who can not countenance a role for «natural gas» that is not generated from recent biological or other processes that do not further contribute to the already overburdened load of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Southern Research Institute has entered into a $ 1.5 - million cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy to test an innovative method for producing liquid transportation fuels from coal and biomass, thereby improving the economics and lifecycle impacts of coal - to - liquid (CTL) and coal - biomass - to - liquid (CBTL) processes.