Sentences with phrase «plant material into»

Grouping natural mosses, rocks and plant material into cake stands or other containers makes a naturally beautiful centerpiece!

Instead, converting the plant material into biochar would reduce such pollution, professor Jun has noted.

In a broad sense, the geographic differences reflect the greater degree of coalification — the process that transformed plant material into coal under the influence of heat and pressure — in the coal - bearing areas in the East.

The steady state [CO2] level is a function of two rates, the influx (conversion of plant material into CO2, burning fossil fuels and vulcanism) and efflux (fixation of carbon, mineralization of carbon).

They thought tropical deforestation, plowing the prairie, cutting down the forest to build suburbs — all that stuff was, on the net, turning plant material into CO2.

Whereas dogs are able to convert linoleic and linolenic acids found in plant material into arachidonic acid, cats lack this ability and require arachidonic acid from an animal source.

Here's how it works: Grass plants convert solar energy (and atmospheric carbon dioxide) into plant biomass, and the cow synthesizes that plant material into her own energy via the cellulose - digesting microbes in her rumen.

It all depends on how quickly the permafrost melts, and how quickly bacteria convert the plant material into carbon dioxide and methane gas, and nobody knows the full answer to that.

Renmatix in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, is being recognized for developing a process using supercritical water to more cost effectively break down plant material into sugars used as building blocks for renewable chemicals and fuels.

But making that dream a reality could harm local environments and would require developing new technology to harvest, process and convert such plant material into biofuels such as ethanol.

Studies of the pandas» poop show that their gut microbes break down bamboo efficiently — a trick that humans could co-opt to turn woody plant material into alternative energy sources.

But a new study suggests we may have more to gain by converting plant material into biochar, a type of charcoal, and burying it in farmers» fields.

They then selectively removed different plant species such as heather, cotton grass and moss enabling them to study the effects of both warming and vegetation change on carbon release from the dead plant material into the atmosphere.

A shipping container that processes waste and plant materials into green energy that can run engines and provide electricity to rural and marginalized communities may sound too good to be true — but it is not.

We turn grains, fruits, vegetables and other plant materials into value - added ingredients and biomaterial solutions for the food, beverage, paper and corrugating, brewing and other industries.

This is one of the first steps in converting complex plant materials into simple forms that can be fermented into ethanol for fuel.

She and her students are using a protein to breakdown complex plant materials into simple starches.

Not exact matches

U.S. rival DowDuPont is planning to break up into a Materials Science division that relies on in - house basic petrochemicals plants and a Specialty Products unit selling more differentiated and complex mMaterials Science division that relies on in - house basic petrochemicals plants and a Specialty Products unit selling more differentiated and complex materialsmaterials.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Yet Unilever estimates that worldwide only 20 percent of this material makes its way to recycling plants with the rest either incinerated, disposed of in landfills or leaking into the natural environment.

Because ingredients and raw material can come into a manufacturing plant from different vendors and sources, a thorough early foreign object detection is pivotal in protecting products before the process begins in the facility.

You get a sense EcoLogic Solutions Inc. is a different type of chemical company the moment you walk into its Brooklyn Navy Yard headquarters and see walls made out of plants and furniture fashioned from old doors and reclaimed materials.

The plant material is produced through an innovative process that turns natural sugars found in plants into a key component for PET plastic.

What began in 1989 as a Cargill research project looking for innovative uses of carbohydrates from plants as feedstock for more sustainable plastics has quickly matured into the innovative materials for which we are known today.

Tate & Lyle is a global provider of distinctive, high quality ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage and other industries.Though our large - scale, efficient manufacturing plants, we use innovative technology to turn raw materials into distinctive,...

Inputs into an organic production system are generally prohibited if synthetically compounded — defined by the ACO Standard as a process which chemically changes a material derived from plant, animal or mineral resources, with the exception of microbiological processes.

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It contains all the genetic material, and stored energy, to grow into a plant (potentially) displaying the same traits as its parent.

Natural materials, interior colors inspired by nature and planters filled with Zen rock gardens and live plants further draw nature into the work environment.

They observe this correlation firsthand as they cultivate the school garden using materials they find in their everyday classroom lives, and in return, the garden provides educational tools, such as samples for botany classes and plants that can be made into natural dyes for fiber arts projects.

«Stabilizing the shoreline with plant material and boulders will help to filter the water running off into the lake,» said Jerry Culp, superintendent of parks and planning.

Rayon fibers from the lush bamboo plant area unit skilfully woven into this material thus it eagerly absorbs wet.

These other interpretations employ other types of evidence: oral history, the evolution of plants and animals, archaeology, stones, tools and weapons, material artefacts of all kinds, song, poetry, even dance and body movement, Antarctic ice, radio - activity, all these open windows into the past.

These methodologies rely on a smooth continuous flow of material into and out of the production plant.

Indian Point officials will send a camera - equipped robot into pipes beneath the nuclear power plant next week to try to find the source of radioactive material showing up in the groundwater below the plant.

During its heyday, the plant burned approximately 350 tons of waste each day, sending toxic materials into, and sometimes beyond the downtown Albany air.

A fire at the Indian Point nuclear plant, about 24 miles north of New York City, was extinguished Saturday night, but the materials used to fight it could prove hazardous if they seep into the Hudson River.

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.

Since epiphytes are cut off from the rich pool of forest floor nutrients, each species has to extract what it needs from the air, rainwater and scant canopy soil, with hundreds of plants tapping into the same 1 - inch acidic layer that forms from decomposing organic material.

Utility - scale solar power plants and second - generation biofuels such as algae have led the field in recent financing rounds, but funding is now branching into less developed technologies such as bioplastics, green building materials and water desalination.

«We have to take care, because there are huge amounts of materials around the Fukushima nuclear plant,» he says, concerned that radioactive materials in the debris could be released into the atmosphere all over again if ignited.

Most microbes live quiet lives: they pass their time breaking down and recycling organic material or taking nitrogen from the air and turning it into water - soluble salts which plants can use as nutrients.

Nitrogen helps plants produce proteins, including the key molecules that control photosynthesis, the process by which the sun's energy is captured and converted into the carbon compounds that are the raw material for growth.

New research reveals that charred plant material is leaching out of the soil and into rivers, eventually making its way to the ocean.

The prevailing winds are indeed heading east over the Pacific from Japan, but the vast majority of radioactive material will rain down into the ocean within a few hundred kilometers of the nuclear plant.

The findings, published online this week in the journal Ecology, show that the type of plants growing on the surface of our peaty moorlands can change how quickly dead plant material is broken down, influencing the speed with which carbon from dead plant matter is released back into the air we breathe.

«The challenge is breaking down cellulose (plant) material, using enzymes, into sugars that can be fermented into ethanol,» he said.

Professor Davies said: «To begin fermenting materials such as wood chips or plant stems, there needs to be a way of breaking into it.

One approach to tapping into all that biomass focuses on cellulose, the material that gives plant cells their strong walls.

Already, the former head of CNNC, Kang Rixin, will spend the rest of his life in prison due to corruption related to the unparalleled nuclear power plant expansion, which may call into question the safety of the materials used.