Sentences with phrase «produce ethylene»

«The reason is simple: because of shale gas, it is more cost effective to produce ethylene in U.S. than just about anywhere else in the world.»

Avocados produce ethylene which facilitates the ripening process, and this is best done at room temperature but happen faster if you put the avocado in a paper bag to concentration the ethylene gas.

To speed up the process, put them next to bananas, which produce an ethylene gas that accelerates ripening. To check if your pear is ready to eat, press on the neck.

It's still much too early to say when or even if these algae will produce ethylene at a commercial scale.

At the time, the researchers were not able to produce ethylene reliably.

Recognising the need for a more eco-friendly method, Asst Prof Yeo and his team tapped into renewable energy to produce ethylene.

The acetylene is absorbed by a liquid solvent and then reacted to produce ethylene, a longer hydrocarbon chain that is the starting constituent of many plastics, detergents and other products.

«For simple substrates, such as oxidizing ethylene to produce ethylene oxide, this is already possible using commercialized processes,» he said.

The research suggests that filtering out acetylene using MOFs would produce ethylene at the high purity that industry demands while sidestepping the current need to convert acetylene to ethylene via a costly catalytic process.

«The pyridinic nitrogen helps to anchor the copper nanoparticles and change the electronic environment around them, which changes the reaction pathway to selectively produce ethylene.»

«Most other techniques produce ethylene, methane, carbon monoxide — all kinds of things that you would then have to separate,» Sun said.

«We hope that this new catalyst could be a step toward a greener way to produce ethylene,» said Shouheng Sun, a professor of chemistry and engineering at Brown, whose research team developed the catalyst.

In the quest for firmer tomatoes and melons, plant scientists have attempted to prevent plants from producing ethylene.

As such, there is a growing demand for a cleaner and more sustainable way of producing ethylene.

The novel method, which produces ethylene at room temperature and pressure using benign chemicals, could be scaled up to provide a more eco-friendly and sustainable alternative to the current method of ethylene production.

«The worst originated from cracker plants producing ethylene and propylene.»

Not exact matches

The banana's carbon footprint includes the growing, packing, shipping and transport, as well as the energy produced to treat bananas while they are being ripened (bananas are picked green and then are artificially ripened with ethylene gas under controlled conditions).

I have along with one of my friends found a desiccant filter made of diatomaceous earth that will absorb moisture and ethylene gas which causes produce to decay prematurely.

The ethylene gas produced by bananas quickens the ripening process.

These storage bins battle the 3 causes of produce spoilage: ethylene gas, improper airflow, and humidity.

Apples produce a natural ethylene gas that speeds the ripening of other fruits.

To help soften a firm peach, put it into a paper bag — the ethylene gas it produces will speed the process along!

To ripen your kiwifruit if it's very hard, pop it in a paper bag with a ripe banana and the ethylene gas the banana produces should soften up the kiwi fruit within a day or two.

Instead, put tomatoes in a sealed paper bag with or without ethylene - producing fruit such as bananas.

It is a byproduct which is produced when ethylene oxide, which is a breast carcinogen.

This is because fresh produce releases a gas called «ethylene» into the atmosphere.

If you place an avocado into a bag, it re-absorbs the ethylene it has produced... and this acts as a stimulant to produce even MORE ethylene.

This then hastens the ripenening process — and you can speed things up further still by placing ANOTHER ethylene - producing item (like a banana) in the bag, too!

Store them away from other produce, or cover their brown stems with a little piece of plastic to keep their ethylene out of the air.

Sitting on an 850 - hectare manufacturing site, Dow Chemical's Fort Saskatchewan location is the second largest ethylene - producing facility in the world, after a neighbouring facility in Alberta, also owned by Dow.

The direct conversion process produces minimal amounts of ethylene by - product, making the technology more cost - effective than previous approaches.

Chemical producers try to tailor the process to produce as much ethylene and as little ethane possible, but selectivity remains a challenge, Swearer said.

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.

This ensures not only that a fruit ripens uniformly but also that neighbouring ones ripen together, producing more ethylene and leading to a ripening cascade.

Dr Andreoli said: «Currently, ethylene is produced at a very high temperature by steam from oils cracking.

Although ethylene (or ethene) is best known as a plant hormone, humans also produce it as consequence of oxidative stress, caused for example by the UV radiation from the sun.

Moving forward, the team will continue to work on their device to scale up the production of ethylene as well as employ similar systems to produce liquid fuels such as ethanol and propanol.

Researchers from several institutions, working at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, initially found the molecules — known as enols — in a flame that was produced by ethylene, the substance used to make the common plastic polyethylene.

More than 170 million tonnes of ethylene was produced worldwide in 2015 alone, and the global demand is expected to exceed 220 million tonnes by 2020.

The hydrocarbon and oxygen that are also produced by the algae are flammable, and certain safety precautions would have to be put in place to safely collect ethylene.

Because the algae take in three times the CO2 to produce a single ton of ethylene, the process acts as a carbon sink.

When hot weather hits a wheat field an increase in ethylene levels can lessen the amount of grains produced on ears or spikes by limiting the export of carbohydrates to pollen development.

The sad truth about many, mass - produced olives we come across is that they are picked before they are ripe and softened with chemicals (much like how many out - of - season tomatoes are picked green for safe transport and later exposed to ethylene gas to ripen).

The ethylene gas produced by bananas quickens the ripening process.

Firm kiwis can be ripened by putting them on the counter near ethylene producing fruits like bananas.

And when too much ethylene gets trapped inside a well sealed fridge it can speed up the aging and rotting of garden produce.

With modification of the reactant ratios a gas mixture of CO and H2 can be produced which can be reacted in another converter to form methanol or ethylene.

It is made by combining ethylene (made from natural gas or petroleum) and benzene (made from petroleum) to produce ethylbenzene, which is then dehydrogenated to form styrene in a process that produces byproducts benzene and toluene.