Sentences with phrase «natural ethylene gas»

Apples produce a natural ethylene gas that speeds the ripening of other fruits.

Tip: Place an underripe avocado in a paper bag so its natural ethylene gas will help it ripen.

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The study — conducted by what was then the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the EPA and more than 40 other public, private and academic institutions — singled out as culprits VOCs such as ethylene, a flammable gas used mainly in the production of plastics.

The process converts roughly 50 percent of the natural gas to acetylene — the other half is burned for the heat that drives the process, which still releases CO2 into the atmosphere — and nearly all of that acetylene to ethylene, and then ethylene to fuel.

According to a recent news story, a state task force in South Charleston is working to attract companies that convert ethane — a byproduct of natural gas production — into ethylene, a chemical compound used in a variety of manufacturing and consumer products.

Natural gas liquids (NGLs) ethane and propane get extracted and sent to a «cracking facility» where ethane is made into ethylene (the foundation of polyethylene - the most common plastic in the world, frequently used for packaging, bottles, and synthetic clothing), and at a dehydrogenation plant, propane is made into propylene (the foundation of polypropylene - a plastic commonly found in food packaging and vehicle manufacturing).

It is made by combining ethylene (made from natural gas or petroleum) and benzene (made from petroleum) to produce ethylbenzene, which is then dehydrogenated to form styrene in a process that produces byproducts benzene and toluene.