Sentences with phrase «oxide gas into»

While their design started out as a nitrous oxide thruster for spacecraft, they figured out how it could also be used at wastewater treatment plants to turn decompose nitrous oxide gas into nothing but hot air.

Not exact matches

Some of the nitrogen the crops do not absorb is converted into nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

The pollution is generally a mixture of gases — such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — and particulate matter, microscopic solids or droplets that can be inhaled into the lungs.

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

Any nitrogen not taken up by plants is met by soil microbes that turn the fertilizer into nitrous oxide, an ozone - depleting gas that is also 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

The explosive force occurs when solid ammonium nitrate decomposes very rapidly into two gases, nitrous oxide and water vapor.

In this nitric oxide (NO) generator, which can be incorporated into a mechanical ventilator or anesthesia machine, air is taken in through the inlet on the left and passes by the electrode at the top of the vertical segment, where a series of sparks generates NO gas.

The astronomers suggest that powerful winds on Kepler - 13Ab carry the titanium oxide gas around, condensing it into crystalline flakes that form clouds.

In the mid-1980s, the company teamed up with another, Lean Burn Associates, to add a second component: a system which recirculates some exhaust gases into the air intake, which reduces emissions of oxides of nitrogen.

Microbes emit methane and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere, and seaweeds emit chloromethane gas.

That gas would have escaped through the facility's filters and solidified in the cool outside air, he says, turning into small solid oxide particles that could have wafted across Europe.

A process of solid oxide electrolysis splits the air into oxygen and waste carbon monoxide gas, which can be dumped back into the atmosphere.

At the same time, the burning of ever - increasing quantities of coal, oil and natural gas converts some atmospheric nitrogen into oxides of nitrogen (NOx).

Presumably, the strong stellar wind emitted by giant stars eventually blows the titanium oxide out of the star's outer regions (along with hydrogen and helium gases and dust made of elements and molecules like carbon) into interstellar space, until vigorous convection brings out more titanium and oxygen that are created from nuclear processes deeper in the star.

The EGR system works by recirculating some of the exhaust gas back into the intake to lower combustion temperatures and cut emissions of nitrogen oxides.

The hot gases mingle with AdBlue, which breaks down into ammonia, which then splits nitric oxides down into nitrogen and water.

Usually contains platinum, palladium and / or rhodium, which acts as a catalyst in a chemical reaction that converts unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen into water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases that are less toxic than untreated exhaust fumes

Catalytic Converter - Carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides are converted into water vapor and less harmful gases.

- Carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides are converted into water vapor and less harmful gases.

To reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, Mercedes - Benz first uses dual electrically controlled and cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) which, depending on engine operating conditions, redirects up to 40 % of the exhaust gases back into the cylinders.

In the hot exhaust gas, the solution breaks down into ammonia, which splits the oxides of nitrogen into nitrogen and water.

Re: 220 Chris, you forgot to include in your calcualtions that the number of cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry etc have been growing close to exponentially with the rate of human expansion - their waste products mean a nett increase in the amount of CO2 being puffed into the air over time but also the increase in other gasses such as methane and nitrous oxide.

In the U.S, fertilizers are often put on fields in winter, when they do nothing but go into groundwater or are demineralized and sent back to the atmosphere as nitrous oxide (the laughing gas that isn't so funny).

On Thursday, the Obama administration announced a «comprehensive approach» to enlist American farmers in a voluntary effort to cut greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides — through programs and incentives designed to reduce fertilizer use, encouraging tree planting, and turn poop into power by capturing methane.

The protocol embraces six greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and industrial gases HFCs, PFCs and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), that are combined in a «basket», so that individual gases are translated into CO2 equivalents, which are then added up to produce a single figure.

While carbon was not included in the estimates, IPCC take into account other greenhouse gases emitted by wastewater treatment plants, including, methane and nitrous oxide.

Ozone is an odorless gas that is not directly emitted into the air but is created by chemical reactions between nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC)-- which occur naturally but are also produced from the burning of fossil fuels and are released in the process of drilling for oil and natural gas.

As we have noted, one of the Achilles heels for the US aviation industry could be the complex mixture of greenhouse gases and precursors — carbon dioxide, water vapor, and oxides of nitrogen — injected directly into the atmosphere by every jet and turboprop in the sky.

In addition to greenhouse gases, tar sands operations release large volumes of acid rain - causing sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the environment.

This natural process replaces the need to add nitrogen fertilizers, which converts into nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Some of the unused nitrogen would leach into the nearest waterway the next time it rained, and some would evaporate into the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide.