Sentences with phrase «of fuel material»

«What it does is it takes different sorts of fuel materials such as plutonium or used nuclear fuel, it casts that into a metallic fuel, it puts it in a reactor that has liquid sodium as a coolant — and if you have liquid sodium as a coolant then the energies of the neutrons are higher so you can use a different fuel source.

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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).

Contractors are already grappling with higher prices on key materials for construction projects like diesel fuel, steel, copper, wallboard, and lumber, said Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Association of General Contractors, a lobbying group with about 26,000 members which also includes suppliers.

Contacted in 2011 by The Tyee, Dr. Carl E. Brown, research manager of Emergencies, Science and Technology Division at Environment Canada confirmed that «a concern with bitumen fuels is their density is quite high and chances are if those materials were spilled into the marine environment, those products might sink.»

But a growing number of U.S. consumer product companies are saying they plan to push up their selling prices to cover a big jump in the cost of fuel and other raw materials.

Given 85 per cent of Caltex earnings are from fuel - related sales and refining margins, «even the smallest level of electric vehicle penetration would have a material impact on earnings,» the fund wrote on its website in October.

«We are working closely with the CleanTech Alliance Fund team to build U.S. infrastructure that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, expand the use of renewable energy and recycled materials, and improve the efficiency of our economy,» said Scott Brown, Managing Partner of the Fund.

Both all - time highs are being fueled by steady demand from move - up buyers coupled with the rising costs of land, labor and materials.

Supercooling of Hydrogen on Template Materials to Deterministically Seed Ignition - Quality Solid Fuel Layers

Public collection of economic rent can be collected without affecting the supply of fuels and other raw materials, land or public utility services.

Potential uses include alternative forms of building materials, low - carbon transportation fuels and entirely new products.

They give us a paycheck to help them milk the wealth from our land in the form of fossil fuel, minerals, raw materials and food; pay us to process it into pretty, Twinkie - packages of stuff that we «just can't live without», and then sell it back to us and others at a profit that puts them on easy street.

Social development has already made a contribution to the economic development of the state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources».

The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

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

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

With clever carton design and luxury aesthetics at the forefront of consumer attraction, it seems the previous emphasis on sustainability in the packaging world is taking a lesser role with tea packing in this post-recession era — with high quality, often costly, materials fueling the battle for market share.

There will be plenty of these packed in the car for our big move here in just under two weeks, and things are about to get REAL this next week when our boxes and packing materials show up — so I may need a few of these to fuel the bubble wrapping madness that will ensue.

Closed anaerobic reactors generate large quantities of methane (CH4) from the organic materials in the wastewater that can diminish or even completely replace the use of fossil fuels in the production process.

Casarino will present «Perspectives on Partially Bio-Based Materials,» which focuses on bio-content sources, coupling agents and compatabilizers, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 2:30 p.m. DuPont led the industry with the first families of high - performance renewably sourced materials to help reduce dependence on fossMaterials,» which focuses on bio-content sources, coupling agents and compatabilizers, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 2:30 p.m. DuPont led the industry with the first families of high - performance renewably sourced materials to help reduce dependence on fossmaterials to help reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

FrieslandCampina added that it is aware of how dairy production affects the environment and has a multidisciplinary sustainability strategy, route2020, which aims to achieve climate - neutral growth by reducing the use of scarce materials (e.g. water, raw materials, and fossil fuels).

Our materials make innovation design solutions possible in a range of industries including consumer electronics, solar and wind energy, fuel cells, package printing, aerospace, automotive, food safety and industrial applications.

There was going to be plenty of hype around them and Clark is only adding fuel and bulletin board material.

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Transportation of raw materials for the production of artificial baby milk, packaging, and all of the components of bottle - feeding consumes precious fuel.

Gary Schaefer, president of Hey & Associates, which oversees the dredging project for the Park District, learned that some of the truckers working for Elgin - based Martam Construction Inc. had put diesel fuel in their truck beds to keep the material from adhering when it was dumped.

Entergy will also move a set yearly number of spent fuel rods from their dangerous storage pools to dry cask storage on site — a much safer solution for this radioactive material.

No containment structures exist over the spent fuel pools; the pools are vulnerable to a loss - of - coolant scenario; mock attack drills reveal accessibility to and vulnerability of spent fuel buildings; and two of the spent fuel pools at Indian Point have been leaking radioactive materials.

The government hopes NDA land, its fuel manufacturing business at Springfields and existing uranic material could all be used in the next generation of nuclear power stations.

At the very least, Reinhardt hopes the planners will consider biogas, fuel material from food waste and wastewater treatment plants, for combustion instead of the natural gas.

Meanwhile, the city «saved» nearly $ 1 billion because it had overestimated how much it would have to spend for expenses like supplies and materials, the cost of borrowing for bond issues and fuel and energy costs.

Cleanup on Isle Giglio: The wreck's environmental impact has been limited, with minimal leakage of fuels and waste materials.

The design and formation of an atomic - scale bridge between different materials will lead to new and improved physical properties, opening the path to new information technology and energy science applications amongst a myriad of science and engineering possibilities — for example, atoms could move faster at the interface between the materials, enabling better batteries and fuel cells.

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 ancient Maya who built the great cities of Tikal, Palenque and Calakmul used the region's trees for building material and fuel wood.

The goals include ending single use plastics, promoting alternatives to fossil fuel - based materials, promoting 100 percent recycling of plastics, corporate and government accountability, and changing human behavior concerning plastics.

At the end of their useful lives, they would be converted in thermal depolymerization machines into short - chain fuels, fertilizers, and industrial raw materials, ready for plants or people to convert them back into long chains again.

Selective hydrogenation is the key to producing valuable chemicals, for example, turning triple - bonded hydrocarbons called alkynes selectively into double - bonded alkenes — starting materials for the synthesis of plastics, fuels and other commercial products.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

Ong, who leads the Materials Virtual Lab and is a faculty member in the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials for energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells Materials Virtual Lab and is a faculty member in the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials for energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells materials for energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells and LEDs.

Ten years later, no one knows what was in the cloud of gases released by the combustion of all that jet fuel and building material but science has revealed what was in the dust — cement, steel, gypsum from drywall, building materials, cellulose from paper, synthetic molecules from rugs, glass fibers and human hair from the long decades of the two towers» use, among other items.

The acrid miasma of 91,000 liters of jet fuel and the 10,000,000 tons of building materials and contents burning at temperatures above 1,000 degrees Celsius extended from lower Manhattan across the East River into Brooklyn and beyond to the sea.

One group, led by Ryan O'Hayre, a materials scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, reported last year in Science that it had produced an intermediate temperature fuel cell capable of producing 455 mW / cm2.

Perhaps more importantly, the researchers have also imported genes that allow E. coli to secrete enzymes that break down the tough material that makes up the bulk of plants — cellulose, specifically hemicellulose — and produce the sugar needed to fuel this process.

These would be new types of bio-ethanol or other sorts of potential fuels that would be made by converting the cellulose, the stocky, woody material that's really makes up the structure of most plants; and we have a lot of that.

But University of Utah engineers have developed a new type of fiber material for a handheld scanner that can detect small traces of alkane fuel vapor, a valuable advancement that could be an early - warning signal for leaks in an oil pipeline, an airliner, or for locating a terrorist's explosive.

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.