Sentences with phrase «of synthetic fuel»

Oxygen is a required component of the gasification process, and the hydrogen will be used to enhance the quantity and quality of the synthetic fuel produced.

A pilot plant in Dresden has started production of the synthetic fuel Audi e-diesel using water, CO2 and green power — i.e., power - to - liquid (PtL).

Accelergy Corporation has begun production of a synthetic fuel from coal and biomass, to be evaluated by the United States Air Force (USAF) as the industry benchmark for 100 % synthetic jet fuel.

The first 200 l of synthetic fuel have now been produced from solar energy and the air's carbon dioxide by Fischer - Tropsch synthesis under the SOLETAIR project.

To date, natural oil still serves as our primary source of fuel, even though a much cleaner alternative exists in the form of synthetic fuel.

If researchers have a better understanding of the production process of synthetic fuel, the balance could tip the other way.

For example, the Department of Energy was promoting development of synthetic fuels from coal, tar sands and oil shale.

Combining the gasification process with Rentech's unique application of proven syngas conditioning and clean - up technology and the patented Rentech Process based on Fischer - Tropsch chemistry, Rentech offers an integrated solution for production of synthetic fuels from biomass.

A plant in North Dakota that was conceived as part of a synthetic fuels project in the 1970s takes the excess carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, and pipes it through to an oil field in Saskatchewan, where it is used to force oil to the surface.

«For example, some environmentalists suggested that all development of synthetic fuels be terminated until sufficient information becomes available to permit adequate strategic decisions to be made.

As in so many other realms of its research, Exxon studied a potential future of synthetic fuels while recognizing that carbon dioxide could be a powerful factor in its business decisions for decades to come.

SOEC cells with a proton - conducting electrolyte can operate at lower temperatures and can be used to produce different kinds of synthetic fuels.

The syngas can then be used for power generation in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants or as a raw material in the chemical industry, for example in the production of synthetic fuels.

Brandt found that the Shell ICP production process has GHG emissions that are similar to those from tar sands production in Alberta; and that the mining and retorting process has emissions significantly in excess of synthetic fuels produced from coal and over 4 times the emissions from conventional oil (Table 2).

Not exact matches

Suncor provides a good, diversified example of the sector — Suncor markets oil sands products from a variety of operations, both mining and in situ operations, and sells both diluted bitumen and synthetic products including diesel fuel.

Minimizes energy consumption by 30 - 70 % per unit of land by eliminating the energy required to manufacture synthetic fertilizers, and by using internal farm inputs, thus reducing fuel used for transportation

Particularly daunting is the production or acquisition of large volumes of organic compost for fertilizer; synthetic fertilizers are not allowed due to high fossil fuel use in their manufacture and their limited use in promoting healthy soil.

Energy consumption in agriculture includes the direct consumption of fossil energy (e.g. fuel and oil), as well as indirect energy consumption (e.g. from the production of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides).

In order to compare farming systems, they are subdivided into emissions due to burning of oil and fuel (direct energy) and the use of oil and fuel for the production and transport of fertilizers, machinery and synthetic pesticides (indirect energy).

Mark Doriski: Along those same lines, we have a synthetic lubricant called SpectraSyn Elite that allows us to improve fuel efficiency both at low temperatures, when you first start up any kind of machinery — for example, an automobile — and also at high temperatures.

Continental jet 516 — a two - engine Boeing 737 - 800 — completed a two hour test flight out of Houston today with one engine powered by a 50 - 50 blend of regular petroleum - based jet fuel and a synthetic alternative made from Jatropha and algae.

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.

«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.

Whether for supersonic fighter jets or commercial airliners, the aviation world has begun a quest for the fuel of the future, transitioning away from petroleum - derived JP - 8 and Jet A varieties to Fischer - Tropsch synthetics or biofuels.

Fossil Blends The Air Force, meanwhile, plans to certify its entire fleet of aircraft on Fischer - Tropsch process synthetic fuels derived from methane or coal by 2011 and plans to purchase enough such fuel to power at least 50 percent of the fleet in the continental U.S. by 2016.

Yet a third player in the emerging algae fuel market is Synthetic Genomics, the brainchild of genomics guru Craig Venter, who beat the U.S. government in sequencing the human genome and at a fraction of the cost.

Some energy experts worry that the scale of the incentives could lead to a repeat of the disastrous effort 30 years ago to underwrite a synthetic fuels industry.

«You can do synthetic biology to produce a product, and they tend to be products either that evolution would not have selected for — like a fuel, for instance — or that evolution would not select to produce enough of — engineering microbes to produce artemisinin.»

As part of the largest investment in coal - fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history, the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large - scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters of synthetic natural gas annually.

Australian scientists have paved the way for carbon neutral fuel with the development of a new efficient catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air into synthetic natural gas in a «clean» process using solar energy.

«New way to prevent genetically engineered and unaltered organisms from producing offspring: «Synthetic incompatibility» could boost safety and effectiveness of applying genetic engineering to control invasive species, produce fuel, prevent disease and more.»

Thanks to the organism's creation, synthetic biologists are learning more about customizing cells, such as for development of highly effective drugs and energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

As Jiang explained, the efficiency of coal conversion technologies remains low, and coal - derived liquid fuels or coal - based synthetic gas have lost their price advantage due to falling prices for conventional energy sources.

Working in his lab in UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rosenthal and doctoral student John DiMeglio have developed an inexpensive catalyst that uses the electricity generated from solar energy to convert carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into synthetic fuels for powering cars, homes and businesses.

How many of these synthetic trees worldwide would be needed to soak up the 22 billion tons of CO2 produced annually from fossil fuels?

A case in point is the field of chemical nanomotors [5], where a synthetic micro - or nanostructure immersed in a chemical fuel can self - propel and even show chemotaxis (see Fig. 2).

The third is gasification, in which liquid or solid fuels are first turned into synthetic natural gas; CO2 from the conversion of the gas can be siphoned off.

There are actually a number of companies that are now using synthetic biology on E. coli and other microbes to try to make fuel.

If the researchers succeed in creating their synthetic bacteria, they will be closer to conceiving artificial creatures that could be used to mitigate some of society's greatest problems, among them climate change and overdependence on fossil fuels.

«Power - to - liquid: 200 liters of fuel from solar power and the air's carbon dioxide: Pilot plant produces first synthetic fuel from solar power and the air's carbon dioxide / KIT spin - off ineratec supplied key component.»

Together with other project partners, KIT and INERATEC also study decentralized production of high - quality synthetic fuel from air and renewable power under the «Power - to - X» Kopernikus project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

«What we're doing is opening up, in a more serious way, a pathway to synthetic fuels from air,» says David Keith, the former University of Calgary physicist who is the company's founder and executive chairman.

Prior to joining at the DOE JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni was a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at a clean technology start - up, Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. where his significant achievement was using synthetic biology to develop the first microbial platform technologies enabling to unlock the potential of macroalgae as highly environmentally sustainable and cost - effective biomass for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

JBEI has pioneered the development of advanced routes to the production of fuels from sugars for use in blendstocks by using synthetic biology.

Primus Green Energy Inc., developer of a proprietary process to produce gasoline and other fuels from biomass and / or natural gas (earlier post), will provide financial support to engineers at Princeton University for general research on synthetic fuels, which will include... Read more →

A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.

A research collaboration between South Africa - based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high - tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.

The announcement of an altered bacterium with fuel - production abilities is the latest breakthrough in the fast - expanding field of synthetic biology.

A core group of 15 commercial airlines has signed non-binding memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for negotiating purchases from two different producers of synthetic jet fuel: AltAir Fuels LLC and RenTech Inc..

The validation flight was conducted using a 40:60 mix of Rentech's synthetic jet fuel with conventional Jet A fuel in one of two engines on an Airbus 319 aircraft.