Sentences with phrase «of ammonia gas»

The toxic conditions of the home were so extreme and unsafe that Pacific Grove Fire Department personnel strongly recommended that animal rescuers not return inside the house without protective equipment due to high levels of ammonia gas.
«The Juno data from the very first flyby of Jupiter showed that structures of ammonia gas extended over 60 miles into Jupiter's interior, which was a big shock to the Juno science team,» Aurnou said.
Image of Jupiter taken on May 18, 2017, one day before the Juno spacecraft's sixth close approach to Jupiter, taken with a filter centered at 8.8 microns that is sensitive to Jupiter's tropospheric temperatures and the thickness of a cloud near the condensation level of ammonia gas.
Saying the smoke wasn't packed with too many particulates and that the thousands of pounds of ammonia gas that once graced Central Warehouse (a former refrigeration and dry storage facility) had been drained by its circa 2000 owners.

Not exact matches

Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.
In the case of ammonium phosphate, used as a leavening agent in baking, she said the heat during baking causes the gas to evaporate so no ammonia is left in the product.
This was the case also since 2008 when BPI was still using the method in question and seeing if they could lower ammonia gas level so as to eliminate the ammonia smell, once they did that the alkalinity of the product was lowered and hence the cases of salmonella increased, hence the NSLP did not purchase.
The reason the product required ammonia gas was because it was so contaminated and unfortunately, it doesn't always work, meaning the product doesn't necessarily come out the other end of being gassed as «sterile».
Observations by Williams and colleagues at Cardiff University and the University of Manchester, using the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) and the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), have now captured the effects of gravity on ammonia gas moving within the SDC13 system.
But the previous studies shared a common problem, says Marc Baum, a chemist at the Oak Crest Institute of Science, a nonprofit research center in Baldwin Park, California: They tracked car exhaust drifting out of highway tunnels, and the researchers were concerned that ammonia could react with the walls of the tunnel or other gases and thus not show up on detectors.
A single carbon nanotube about two billionths of a meter wide can compete with the best materials of today at detecting ammonia and nitrous oxide, a gas often found in automobile emissions.
Ammonia (NH3) reacts readily with airborne sulfuric acid and nitric acid, both of which are formed by reactions of other tailpipe gases.
Meanwhile, researchers were showing that besides soil and water contamination, hog CAFOs emit high volumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane (pound for pound, hog manure produces twice the methane of cattle manure) and ammonia, which has been linked to respiratory ailments.
This carbon - capture unit built by Alstom and dubbed the «chilled ammonia» process, consumes 25 - kilogram bags of baker's ammonia to strip CO2 from the cooled flue gas and then, by reheating the resulting ammonium bicarbonate, captures that CO2 and recycles the reconstituted ammonia back into the industrial process.
Many power plants already employ such ammonia in selective catalytic reduction units to strip nitrogen oxides out of the flue gas.
Agricultural air pollution comes mainly in the form of ammonia, which enters the air as a gas from heavily fertilized fields and livestock waste.
To their surprise, the ice bubbled like boiling water at temperatures between -210 C / -346 F and -120 C / -184 F. Analysis of the gas showed it to be hydrogen molecules, which the researchers believe were formed from methanol and ammonia broken up by UV irradiation.
But the Miller - Urey results were later questioned: It turns out that the gases he used (a reactive mixture of methane and ammonia) did not exist in large amounts on early Earth.
Another $ 3.5 - billion plant planned for Sweetwater, Tex., would burn pulverized coal to generate 600 MW of electricity while capturing its 5.75 million metric tons of emissions postcombustion with amine or ammonia scrubbers or, possibly, with advanced membranes that separate CO2 from other flue gases.
They rapidly detect and continuously respond to extremely small changes in the concentrations of gases including ammonia, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide.
The second uses various forms of chemistry — in the form of amine or ammonia scrubbers, special membranes or ionic liquids — to pull carbon dioxide out of a more mixed set of exhaust gases.
They ran an electric current through a mix of ammonia, methane, and other gases believed at the time to have been present on early Earth.
But unlike many of the industries capitalizing on the low price of natural gas, ammonia producers don't use it primarily as a fuel source.
Ammonia, a colorless gas produced naturally in the body, has been linked to the production of HO - 1.
Endothelial cells can produce substantial amounts of ammonia, but the biological significance of this gas in these cells is not known.
Instead of reacting with all of the available acidic sulfates, the alkaline ammonia emitted from agricultural operations and other sources appears to form an equilibrium between gas - phase compounds and particle compounds.
THE smell of ammonia wafts past me as I stand next to the world's largest urea and ammonia factory, clutching the gas mask I've been issued as a precaution.
Although SynGest's price isn't yet competitive with natural gas ammonia, Oswald believes there's substantial demand for a lower - carbon source of ammonia - based fertilizer: «Cheap natural gas won't fix that.»
Holland suggests that the gases responsible are methane and ammonia, a possibility proposed more than 20 years ago by Carl Sagan and George Mullen of Cornell University in New York.
And that doesn't take into account the supply chain of natural gas production, energy - related emissions in the production process, fertilizer application (and misapplication) or industrial use of urea and other ammonia products.
Greenhouse impact In 2011 U.S. ammonia - producing facilities released 25 million tons of greenhouse gases (nearly all of it CO2)-- just under 14 percent of the chemical - manufacturing sector's total carbon footprint (and about 0.1 percent of total U.S. emissions).
Nearly all commercially - available efforts at scrubbing greenhouse gasses, GHG's, from emissions use a liquid solution of water and amine, derived from ammonia, that contacts the stream, removing CO2 or other unwanted gases.
Dealing with the emissions of CO2, the most ubiquitous greenhouse gas, will require carbon capture and storage (CCS) for the ammonia, cement and iron industries — and that will cost.
It's in areas where there are lots of cattle (and the large amountsof manure they inevitably give back to the world) that companies are bestequipped to divert animal waste from contaminating the air (via methane, CO2, and ammonia gases) and water towards fueling ethanol production.
Anhydrous ammonia is a gas that can cause severe burns when it comes in contact with human skin, Richard Ferguson, professor of soil science at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln told TechNewsDaily.
The duo filled a closed loop of glass chambers and tubes with water and different mixes of hydrogen, ammonia, and methane — gases presumed at the time to be the main constituents of the atmosphere billions of years ago.
We already knew that Jupiter was completely shrouded in ammonia clouds, but the existence of such a deep gas «belt» is surprising.
Right: Brand new, high resolution map of SDC13 tracing the internal dense Ammonia gas revealing cores dotted along all the filaments.
While ammonia gas and liquid behavior is dominated by the interactions between pairs of molecules, the main building block for solid ammonia is a trimer, three molecules arranged in an acute triangle.
It can be used as sustainable fertilizers and to filter a broad range of contaminants, including antibiotics, pesticide and hormones in wastewater and water, as well as to capture greenhouse and odorous gases such as carbon dioxide and ammonia.
One well - known model for the beginnings of life on Earth posits that terrestrial life sprang from complex molecules such as amino acids and sugars produced by electrical discharges in a primeval atmosphere replete with gases such as methane, hydrogen, ammonia and water.
A comet is basically a «dirty snowball» of dust and sometimes rock, frozen water, and frozen gases like ammonia, methane, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide.
The ammonia is washed away, creating a major environmental issue as it leads to eutrophication of water ways and ultimately enters the atmosphere as nitrogen dioxide, the main greenhouse gas associated with agriculture.
Some of those waves get trapped by ammonia gas in Jupiter's atmosphere before leaving the planet.
Currently, fertilizer is made using natural gas (steam reforming of methane to generate hydrogen to feed into the Haber process)-- but with the new advances (http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/07/researchers-at.html), it should be possible to generate that hydrogen directly from water using sunlight; feed the hydrogen into the Haber process (energy expensive, true, but doable), and then you have your ammonia, convert half of that to nitrate, and there you have your ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which currently accounts for about 1/2 of all agricultral fossil fuel use.
The general consensus among scientists is that the young Earth's atmosphere contained much larger quantities of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide and / or ammonia) than are present today, which trapped enough heat to compensate for the lesser amount of solar energy reaching the planet.
The Moso air purifying bag has been scientifically proven to reduce the amount of formaldehyde, ammonia, benzene, and chloroform gases emitted from everyday items such as paint, carpeting, furniture, air fresheners, chemical cleaners, rubber, and plastics.
It is made up of aluminum, hydrated silicon compounds, and oxygen and can trap toxic gases and odors such as formaldehyde, ammonia, and carbon monoxide.
In the hot exhaust gas, the solution breaks down into ammonia, which splits the oxides of nitrogen into nitrogen and water.
The accumulation of dirty bedding can lead to a build - up of ammonia, a gas that can damage the respiratory tract.
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