Sentences with phrase «over ethane»

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Over 4.5 billion years, Titan could have accumulated enough ethane to cover a good portion of the surface.

Over time, the moon should have built up an ethane ocean hundreds of metres deep.

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.

With the sun now shining down over the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, a little luck with the weather, and trajectories that put the spacecraft into optimal viewing positions, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained new pictures of the liquid methane and ethane seas and lakes that reside near Titan's north pole.

As a proof - of - concept for the new antenna - reactor catalysts, Swearer, Halas and colleagues conducted acetylene conversion tests at LANP and found that the light - driven antenna - reactor catalysts produced a 40 - to - 1 ratio of ethylene to ethane, a significant improvement in selectivity over thermal catalysis.

What they found in the skies over the Bakken that May was the equivalent of 1 to 3 percent of the world's estimated emissions of ethane floating over a relatively tiny place.

Titan's surface may hold lakes of liquid ethane and methane, sprinkled over a thin veneer of frozen methane and ammonia.

Nonetheless, Shell's ethane cracker was granted multiple tax breaks — including the largest tax break in state history, worth $ 1.65 billion over 25 years — by state officials who argue that the economic benefits to the region make it all worthwhile.

[75] The American Chemistry Council determined that a 25 % increase in the supply of ethane (a liquid derived from shale gas) could add over 400,000 jobs across the economy, provide over $ 4.4 billion annually in federal, state, and local tax revenue, and spur $ 16.2 billion in capital investment by the chemical industry.