Sentences with phrase «many other liquid fuels»

«We can do this while simultaneously producing from the biomass lignin - free cellulose, which is the basis of ethanol and other liquid fuels.

These findings have significance for human health but also for biofuels production, since the same sugars can be fed to yeast to generate ethanol and other liquid fuels.

Renewable diesel generated via TCP is similar to other liquid fuels with respect to its physical properties and combustion performance as demonstrated by the table below.

It also has high power density, meaning that it produces more energy per gallon than many other liquid fuels.

That last point is critically important, as the government expects U.S. consumption of oil and other liquid fuels will total 19.3 million barrels per day in 2040.

U.S. output of petroleum and other liquid fuels grew from 14.08 million barrels per day in 2014 to 15.04 million barrels per day in 2015.

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.

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).

Add in the other liquid fuels and the 3390 million barrel number is less than 40 % of our total consumption.

Not exact matches

Some ICBMs burn solid fuel, while others use liquid fuel or a combination of both, but the goal is to generate enough lift and thrust to deliver a bomb to a target as quickly as possible.

While power generation can be shifted to other energy sources rather than coal, it's not so easy to find substitutes for liquid transportation fuels like petrol, diesel fuel, or jet fuel.

The other investors who joined the seed round include SV Angel, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Leah Busque (founder of TaskRabbit) via Fuel Capital, PJC, Novel TMT Ventures, Blue Seed Collective, Joe Montana via Liquid 2 Ventures, and FundersClub.

In the one case, it is replaced with coal - based liquid fuels and in the other with renewable resources, such as wind, solar, or nuclear power.

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

But the environmental price tag of biofuels now joins the ranks of other, cheaper domestic fuel sources — such as coal - to - liquid fuel — as major sources of globe - warming pollution as well as unintended social consequences.

An example of what rocketeers call a pintle engine, even to a lay observer it is brilliantly straightforward, with one high - pressure coaxial fuel injector to mix rocket - grade kerosene and liquid oxygen instead of the hundreds of smaller injector holes used in other rocket engines.

But untangling the complex chains of these polymers into components, which can be useful for liquid fuel and other applications ranging from pharmaceuticals to plastics, has presented an ongoing challenge to science and industry.

Stored alongside nine others — those from Discovery, plus spares — in the engine shop at Kennedy, these Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne liquid - fuelled motors are awaiting transport to NASA's Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi.

In addition to the biocrude, the liquid phase can be treated with a catalyst to create other fuels and chemical products.

Existing technologies allow oil producers who can not pump the natural gas into a pipeline to simply reinject it back underground, use it to generate electricity or, by installing a so - called Fischer — Tropsch conversion system, change the former nuisance gas into liquid fuel, among other options.

It could offer a convenient and portable source of hydrogen for fuel cells and other applications, potentially transforming the energy market and providing an alternative to batteries and liquid fuels.

«In addition, detailed knowledge of the chemical steps involved in making methane could lead to major breakthroughs in designing energy efficient catalysts for converting methane into liquid fuels and other chemicals.»

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

But chemical companies have also long had the technology to convert the primary hydrocarbons in natural gas — methane, ethane, and propane — into alcohols, the liquid starting materials for plastics, fuels, and other commodities made by the train load.

But now, researchers have taken a more sizable jump with solar panels, creating a hybrid device that uses a combination of catalysts and microbes to convert 10 % of the captured solar energy into liquid fuels and other commodity chemicals.

But liquid transportation fuel is something where we don't have other options.

His design calls for loops of liquid lithium to clean and recycle tritium, a key fusion fuel ingredient, while protecting tokamak components that exhaust waste heat, and cleaning dust and other impurities from the tokamak — all at the same time.

All other sodium reactors use oxide fuels, while PRISM uses a metal fuel, an alloy of zirconium, uranium, and plutonium, and the fuel rods sit in a bath of liquid sodium at atmospheric pressure.

But unlike old Jaguars with two gas caps, one is for liquid fuel, the other for electrons.

Other considerations are given to the conversion from liquid fuel to electric power: A dash gauge shows the battery - charge percentage, and all vehicle lighting, inside and out, is via efficient LEDs.

INFINITI's VC - Turbo technology marks a significant leap forward for the internal combustion engine, joining other renowned powertrain innovations such as liquid - cooling, fuel injection, catalytic convertors, and turbocharging.

[10][11] Among other advantages, the micro turbines used in the C - X75 can be run on a range of fuels including diesel, biofuels, compressed natural gas and liquid petroleum gas.

As to transportation or industry the truth is there is no other portable energy source that offers quite the concentration of energy or the abundance found of the original bounty found in liquid fossil fuels.

So, apparently, if I understand this correctly, the idea is really about a way that actually requires an independent source of energy (and a big one) in order to make liquid fuels and other hydrocarbon - based products in a relatively «carbon - neutral» way.

Andy, thank you for writing about synthetic liquid fuels made from dirty coal and other low grade fossil fuels.

Question asked: «What ideas are out there for shaping transportation choices as China, India, Mexico, and other countries race toward prosperity so they avoid the traps of sprawl, of ever - growing demand for liquid fuels, of the insulation from community that comes when you're camped alone on a congested freeway?»

What ideas are out there for shaping transportation choices as China, India, Mexico, and other countries race toward prosperity so they avoid the traps of sprawl, of ever - growing demand for liquid fuels, of the insulation from community that comes when you're camped alone on a congested freeway?

Various researchers studying the interface of climate and energy policy have said that such technology is well worth pursuing, particularly given that oil and other liquid fossil fuels are almost surely going to be burned — particularly in vehicles or other dispersed sources — for many years to come, according to many assessments.

So, if you could create liquid hydrocarbons that are compatible with gasoline cars, then the adoption cycle would be a lot easier than switching over to electric or hydrogen or some other type of fuel for cars.

That means that we'll need to convert the underlying electric grid — which now depends on fossil fuels to run turbines — to clean sources, which will be hard, but not as hard as figuring out some other low - carbon replacement for liquid fuels.

There is little reason to avoid liquid fuels if they are made from CO2 collected from the air or other standard sources.

One is electricity for use in homes, buildings, and industry and the other is transportation, which is powered primarily by liquid fuels (gasoline and diesel) from oil.

Some experts believe that algae is set to eclipse all other biofuel feedstocks as the cheapest, easiest, and most environmentally friendly way to produce liquid fuel.

The decision by the U.S. on whether to continue pursuit of liquid fuel and other forms of energy from food and terrestrial ecosystems will be of great importance to the well - being and survival of humanity and the Earth.

As an example, soot - free buses can be powered by a wide range of fuels including fossil diesel or compressed natural gas (CNG), biogas, or other liquid biofuels, and electric drive engines including hybrid drive, fuel cell, and battery electric drivetrains.

One exception has been some use of liquid natural gas (LNG) and other fuels for fleets of buses or delivery vehicles, although not substantially for privately - owned ones, and the use of corn - derived ethanol mixed with gasoline in proportions up to 10 per cent ethanol («gasohol») in some states.

Our effort will inspire other startups to accelerate development of liquid fuels from algae and agricultural waste products.

According to EIA, the quantity of oil and other liquid energy sources produced by the three countries could outpace their liquid fuels consumption as soon as 2020.

Liquid and gaseous fuels can be produced from firewood and other organic matter, for example garden waste and shit.

front - end engineering and design for facilities that produce liquid fuels from hydrocarbons and other biological matter.