With the help of bacteria in the soil, peas and other pulse crops are able to take
nitrogen gas from the air and convert it into more complex and usable forms.
Not exact matches
Switching
from coal to natural
gas would reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent and
nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 60 percent.
It contains 90 % coffee by weight, with diversion of this
nitrogen - rich food
from landfills and the recycling stream supporting achievement of waste diversion and greenhouse -
gas targets;
Much higher contaminant counts were detected inside the air filter for the
nitrogen gas — installed in 1979 and not opened for nearly 40 years — but Regberg says the bugs were growing on the filter's outer parts and multiple additional lines of defense separated this fungi
from the actual samples.
View a slide show of the world's first carbon capture and storage facility in operation The small stream of flue
gas travels to the carbon - capture unit through plastic pipes reinforced with fiberglass and is cooled to between — 1 and 21 degrees Celsius
from the 55 - degree C temperature at which it emerges
from the other environmental technology add - ons that strip out the fly ash, sulfur dioxide and
nitrogen oxides.
This reaction could play an important role in explaining the observed depletion of ozone over Antarctica; it releases photolytically active chlorine
from its most abundant reservoir species, and it promotes the formation of HNO3 and thus removes
nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
from the
gas phase.
In this paper, UCR and Forest Service researchers teamed up to explore a previously unstudied aspect of
nitrogen saturation: its effect on the
gases and aerosols released during burning of forest fuels
from an area experiencing
nitrogen saturation.
And a Nobel - prize winning chemist has publicized his findings that biofuels made
from nitrogen - thirsty plants (like corn and canola) actually produce a net increase in greenhouse
gas emissions, because they release nitrous oxide during their production.
Particles of
nitrogen - containing porous carbon are able to capture carbon dioxide
from natural
gas under pressure at a wellhead by polymerizing it, according to researchers at Rice University.
Earth's atmosphere differs
from the atmospheres of most other rocky planets and moons in our solar system in that it is rich in
nitrogen gas, or N2; Earth's atmosphere is 78 percent
nitrogen gas.
Fuels derived
from natural
gas burn more cleanly than those derived
from crude oil because they don't contain components like
nitrogen, sulfur, or carbon arranged in rings, which are notorious air pollutants.
When hydrocarbon - based fuels like methane are burned in normal air,
nitrogen gets mixed in with the combustion product — flue
gases from conventional
gas power stations contain as little as 3 percent CO2 — which makes scrubbing carbon
from power plant emissions difficult and expensive.
As no direct coordination via the
nitrogen atom took place, the researchers assume a reaction
from the
gas phase with a potential activation on the ammonia molecule.
NOx
gases represent some of the most reactive
gases produced
from diesel combustion and other fossil fuels, but the emissions limits for
nitrogen dioxide are regularly exceeded, especially in urban areas.
Thus, in addition to the so - called «Haber - Bosch process of
nitrogen fixation,» nitrogenase also stimulates a reaction corresponding to the «Fischer - Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons,» which can be used on a large scale to synthesize fuels, for instance
from industrial waste
gases..
Ammonia is currently made by a reaction between
nitrogen and hydrogen, called the Haber - Bosch process, where hydrogen is produced
from reforming natural
gas.
Only the methane
gas is detected (red), when 0.2 liters per minute of methane are delivered via the green tube and 2 liters per minute of
nitrogen are delivered
from the red tube.
The right mix of heat, pressure, and chemistry keeps the coal
from burning; instead, it undergoes a series of reactions that give rise to a mix of
gases, including hydrogen, carbon monoxide,
nitrogen, and sulfur dioxide.
On Pluto, ultraviolet light
from the sun breaks apart
gas molecules like
nitrogen and methane to create reactive ions.
The little probe that Galileo dropped into the atmosphere in 1995 found that Jupiter is anomalously enriched in certain heavy elements such as
nitrogen and argon, as if it formed farther
from the sun where those
gases were abundant.
Resource - conserving cropping practices
from WHEAT, such as more targeted use of
nitrogen fertilizers or sowing wheat into untilled soils and crop residues, can raise wheat farmers» incomes while curbing greenhouse
gas emissions, if widely adopted, he added.
When the star's ultraviolet radiation strikes the
gases in the nebula, they heat up, giving out radiation ranging in wavelength
from blue — emitted by hot oxygen in the bubble near the star — to yellow — emitted by hot hydrogen and
nitrogen.
As the researchers bombarded the diamond strips with deuterons, or tiny pairs of protons and neutrons, they observed a bluish light coming
from the diamond and soon determined that it was
nitrogen gas leaking out of the diamond.
The team observed that warmer temperatures significantly increase production of ozone, a colorless toxic
gas, due to the reactions of certain chemical compounds with
nitrogen oxides — greenhouse
gases that come
from vehicle tailpipes and power plant smokestacks.
The various colors in the picture arise
from different chemical elements in the expanding
gas, including hydrogen (orange),
nitrogen (red), sulfur (pink), and oxygen (green).
This session solicits presentations examining all aspects of air emissions and / or air quality or climate impacts of methane, volatile organic compounds, and
nitrogen oxides
from all stages of oil and
gas development.
If I'm understanding this correctly, then, much of what's doing the re-radiating is ordinary oxygen and
nitrogen that have had the energy
from excited CO2 (and other greenhouse
gases) transferred to them by collisions.
Ultraviolet light
from the distant Sun causes the surface ice — which is composed of
nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane — to turn into a
gas.
The company's primary products are atmospheric
gases, which are produced
from air (e.g., oxygen and
nitrogen) and process
gases, which are produced through additional processes (e.g., carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and acetylene).
SeaYu Enterprises SeaYu Enterprises» Clean + Green line of odor - control products — including a product specifically made for small animals — are made
from cane - sugar derivatives, a proprietary blend of botanical extracts, hydrated cellulose (a plant - based cleaning agent), purified water, and
nitrogen gas as a natural propellant.
This algae has long central stems with leaf - like organs growing
from the stems, and small, spherical
gas bladders that are filled with
nitrogen and enable the plant to float.
Chemical capture
from flue
gas is a much harder problem than capture
from natural
gas wells or IGCC gasification, due to the presence of a large 75 % volume percentage of N2 («
nitrogen ballast»), fly ash, and acid - forming SOx and NOx.
One should also pay attention to other greenhouse
gases, particularly methane (
from rice paddies, ruminant animal digestive processes, industrial processes, and distributed natural sources, some of which could be triggered to large releases by warming) and nitrous oxide (
from the
nitrogen cycle linking the atmosphere, plants, and bacteria, now exacerbated by extremely heavy use of nitrogenous fertilizers in agriculture; note, as does Vaclav Smil
from the University of Manitoba, that fertilizer use is required to feed half the world's current population.
(2018) Simulating greenhouse
gas emissions and stocks of carbon and
nitrogen in soil
from a long - term no - till system in the North China Plain.
Almost immediately (nanoseconds) they relax
from their excited state by either 1) emitting that energy as a new photon, some of which will continue up towards space, some of which will go back downward to be reabsorbed, thus keeping the energy in the atmosphere longer, or 2) by colliding with another
gas molecule, most likely an O2 (oxygen) or N2 (
nitrogen) molecule since they make up over 98 % of the atmosphere, thereby converting the extra vibrational energy into kinetic energy by transferring it to the other
gas molecule, which will then collide with other molecules, and so on, making the air warmer.
In the atmosphere, a portion of the
nitrogen winds up as nitrous oxide — laughing
gas — which is not only a greenhouse
gas that is 300 times more potent that carbon dioxide, but also destroys ozone, the
gas that keeps us
from getting more of a dose of UV radiation.
Breakthrough experiments showed that IRMOF -74-III compounds are especially efficient at removing carbon dioxide
from wet
nitrogen gas streams in record efficiency and time while fully preserving the IRMOF structure.
Starting
from 187 ppmv (typical for 20 KY), doubling four times brings the CO2 up to 3000 ppmv (typical for 60 MY) or 0.3 %, still a trace
gas compared to water vapor at most locations, let alone oxygen and
nitrogen.
lolwot, have a doze of the real truth, it will help you a bit against your suffering
from the Warmist CON: oxygen &
nitrogen are the» greenhouse
gases» in the atmosphere, not CO2!!!
Just as there is no «33 °C warming by greenhouse
gases from the minus 18 °C it would be without them» — when the real blanket which slows heat loss is reinstated — the heavy voluminous fluid ocean atmosphere of real
gas, mainly
nitrogen and oxygen, and when the Water Cycle is reinstated.
Petra December 16, 2012 at 2:12 am said:» That oxygen and
nitrogen may insulate the earth against some cooling, does not preclude greenhouse
gasses from being warmed by IR»
That oxygen and
nitrogen may insulate the earth against some cooling, does not preclude greenhouse
gasses from being warmed by IR.
If you're actually thinking about what I've just said, you'll realise that the real world's greenhouse
gases are predominantly
nitrogen and oxygen, they are the bulk of our atmosphere and act like a blanket delaying the escape of heat
from the surface..
So the 100 tons or 100,000 kg of liquid
nitrogen requires 198.38 kJ / kg to change
from liquid state to
gas.
In the real greenhouse which is our whole fluid real
gas atmosphere which has volume, weight and attraction and is subject to gravity, the some 99 %
nitrogen and oxygen dry air is what acts as a blanket keeping the Earth's heat
from escaping too fast before the Sun again heats the surface, without water the Earth's temperature would be 67 °C not 15 °C — think deserts.
For example, misappropriating the concept of blanket warming
from the real
gases responsible,
nitrogen and oxygen, to claim it is the «greenhouse
gases».
Without water our
nitrogen and oxygen real heavy
gas atmosphere stops the Earth
from losing the Sun's warming too quickly before it's warmed again.
The greatest surge in manmade CO2 (plus methane, ethane,
nitrogen and sulfur oxides, and many more so - called greenhouses
gases) occurred
from 1940, as the industrialized world experienced an explosive growth in (95 % coal - fired) heavy industry, first for armaments in WWII, then infrastructure and industrial rebuilding and consumer durables (cars, refrigerators etc.) in the post war boom.
One could ask the question if dropped liquid
nitrogen in a tube, at what height would it need to drop
from so it gains enough heat to overcome it's latent heat to transform
from a liquid into a
gas and for
gas molecules to attain average velocity of 400 m / s?
The reliability of supply provided by our nation's network of storage and distribution facilities has contributed to the increased use of natural
gas in many sectors of the U.S. economy, which has led to reductions in air emissions — ranging
from criteria pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide and
nitrogen oxides, to greenhouse
gases.