Sentences with phrase «material as fuel»

Booth says there is wide agreement in the industry that when biomass comes from forestry residues, wood products manufacturing, or agriculture, the net carbon impact is the difference between emissions from the use of the material as fuel and emissions from some other fate, such as leaving it on the ground to decompose.

Defendants» attorneys should ask them if they use electricity, drive a car, travel on a bus, use anything but organic material as fuel to cook with, believe hospitals shouldn't use electricity if they ever need to go to the hospital, whether police and the fire department should ride bicycles to their homes if they call 911, etc..

At the back end, GNEP proposes that the lessors separate the plutonium and other actinides and use this material themselves as fuel in a new kind of «burner» reactor.

Burning a valuable chemical raw material as fuel makes no sense at all.

ADG is a renewable energy source that can also reduce costs for a facility by using waste materials as fuel.

Not exact matches

The newly designed aircraft, built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney's fuel - saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older, inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.

Fuel your success with tools such as books, seminars and other educational materials.

Other activities include: producing products that may be recycled at the end of their lifespan for material reuse; reducing energy consumption in operations; or even re-engineering distribution methods as a means of reducing long - distance travel during product delivery, ultimately reducing fossil fuel consumption (and the disease - causing air pollution that is its byproduct).

As truckers move raw materials, goods - in - process and finished goods across the U.S., their real - time movement and diesel fuel consumption is tracked.

The leftover product is something called biochar, a charcoal - like material which can then be used as fuel or fertilizer.

Clean Harbors finds beneficial uses for your manufacturing by - products, such as creating supplemental fuels created by blending waste or separating out usable materials from disassembled electronic equipment.

A versatile and eco-friendly substance, hemp has been used in medicine, paper, clothing, building materials, fuel and, in most countries, as a nutritious food.

UK firm Fuel For Adventure has chosen Innovia Films» compostable flexible material NatureFlex ™ as the packaging for its range of natural energy bars...

The results from the case studies show that flexible packaging has more preferable environmental attributes for carbon impact, fossil fuel usage, water usage, product - to - package ratio, as well as material to landfill, when compared to other package formats.

The two trade associations have joined together to call on UK and EU authorities to ensure that «unnecessary» trade barriers and tariffs on the trade of waste materials, such as refuse derived fuel (RDF), are avoided.

Conservation of resources and basic amenities (such as raw material, water, fuel, electricity and compressed air) through recovery and recycling as applicable

We source materials as close to Avery Island as possible (most within a 10 - hour delivery circle), resulting in lower fuel and freight costs and reduced environmental impact.

Trees produce life giving oxygen, give us building materials and fuel, serve as windbreaks and can help cut down air conditioning costs this summer.

Some of the other projects involve the development of proton exchange membrane for fuel cell application, a gyroscope based on micro-electromechanical technology and research on innovative engineering materials to fabricate ceramic membranes that can partially oxidize methane to syngas used as feedstock in commercial methanol production.

The bioenergy crop sorghum holds great promise as a raw material for making environmentally friendly fuels and chemicals that offer alternatives to petroleum - based products.

The early version of the fuel cell uses an expensive material called an ionic liquid as the electrolyte, for example.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

CO2 is formed when any kind of organic material or fossil fuel, such as natural gas, petroleum, coal or gasoline, is burned.

Although these materials are not as «hot» as the spent fuel, which must also be disposed of, the sheer quantities involved are daunting.

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

The practical side of the Emefcy fuel cell relates to the materials engineering: both the anode and cathode are made of a carbon cloth that acts as a conductor.

Israel - based company, Emefcy, named as a play on the acronym for microbial fuel cell (MFC), starts with the same principle as most wastewater treatment — water is aerated so bacteria in the liquid break down organic material in a closed series of containers known as a bioreactor.

Precious metals have long been used as conducting materials in batteries and other types of fuel cells but are too expensive to use at a commercial scale in microbial fuel cells.

Materials with these novel characteristics would be useful in devices such as rechargeable batteries, sensors, gas converters and fuel cells.

For long - haul trucks, applying lightweight materials such as aluminum and carbon composites could reduce fuel consumption by up to 5 percent.

This particular active material, originally developed at Brandeis University, borrows elements of cellular machinery, with bundles of rod - like microtubules forming the filaments, kinesin motor proteins acting as the engines, and ATP as the fuel.

This could, in the long term, replace oil as the raw material for products such as plastics, fertilisers and fuels.

The researchers are using «big data» concepts and techniques to discover and design new nanomaterials — a priority area under the White House's Materials Genome Initiative — using a methodology that will revolutionize materials design, impacting a broad range of products that affect our daily lives, from drugs and agricultural chemicals such as pesticides or herbicides to fuel additives, paints and varnishes, and even personal care products such asMaterials Genome Initiative — using a methodology that will revolutionize materials design, impacting a broad range of products that affect our daily lives, from drugs and agricultural chemicals such as pesticides or herbicides to fuel additives, paints and varnishes, and even personal care products such asmaterials design, impacting a broad range of products that affect our daily lives, from drugs and agricultural chemicals such as pesticides or herbicides to fuel additives, paints and varnishes, and even personal care products such as shampoo.

As Vilenkin saw it, inflation's eternal nature stemmed from two competing properties of the cosmic fuel, the gravity - repulsive material that caused the universe to rapidly expand.

This figure shows the crystal structure of Sc - doped BaZrO3 to be used as an electrolyte material in intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells (IT - SOFCs).

Highly packed spent fuel pools at the Japanese facility have caught fire, lost coolant, and released unknown quantities of radioactive material, underscoring the need to remove as much fuel from overcrowded pools as possible.

By doubling the power density of the fuel cell stack, GM engineers halved its size as well as halved the amount of expensive materials, such as platinum catalysts, that such fuel cells require.

The unlikely material may one day compete with more high - tech solutions such as carbon nanotubes for storing hydrogen for fuel - cell - powered vehicles.

«The fats or lipids appear to facilitate the conversion of other materials in the wastewater such as toilet paper, keep the sludge moving through the reactor, and produce a very high quality biocrude that, when refined, yields fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.»

That hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered by a cladding of zirconium alloy, or «zircaloy» — the material used as fuel - rod cladding in all water - cooled nuclear reactors, which constitute more than 90 percent of the world's power reactors.

It requires an intricate understanding of these massive energy - converting machines — their materials, aerodynamics, and heat transfer, as well as how effectively they combust, or burn, fuel.

When applied to semiconducting materials such as silicon, the nickel oxide film prevents rust buildup and facilitates an important chemical process in the solar - driven production of fuels such as methane or hydrogen.

Cost - effective applications for fuel cells have been identified for material handling equipment, as well as primary and backup power for data centers and telecommunication systems, he said.

LIG can be written into target materials in patterns and used as a supercapacitor, an electrocatalyst for fuel cells, radio - frequency identification (RFID) antennas and biological sensors, among other potential applications.

Their report on a new solid, stable material that can pack in a large amount of hydrogen that can be used as a fuel appears in the ACS journal Chemistry of Materials.

Strontium cobaltites are just one example of a class of materials known as transition metal oxides, which is considered promising for a variety of applications including electrodes in fuel cells, membranes that allow oxygen to pass through for gas separation, and electronic devices such as memristors — a form of nonvolatile, ultrafast, and energy - efficient memory device.

These results provide an important step towards possible future applications as a luminescent material, such as for lighting and displays, as well as light absorbers in solar cells and photocatalysts for producing solar fuel.

Heavy, silvery - white, toxic, metallic, naturally radioactive, pyrophoric, and teratogenic uranium belongs to the actinide series and its isotope 235U is used as the fuel for nuclear reactors and the explosive material for nuclear weapons.

The steam - powered «aeolipile» was invented by Hero of Alexandria in Roman Egypt during the 1st century AD, but it wasn't until some 1700 years later that the steam engine as we know it emerged, thanks to better construction materials, plentiful fuel and, critically, growing industrial demand for an alternative source of power.

High - tech metal alloys are widely used in important materials such as the cladding that protects the fuel inside a nuclear reactor.