Sentences with phrase «producing fuel molecules»

The body is producing fuel molecules called «ketones».

Not exact matches

VHTR plants could even produce hydrogen for fuel using high - temperature steam electrolysis, which breaks apart the bonds of water molecules; this process is 50 percent more energy - efficient than existing hydrogen production methods.

The BPEC cell developed by the researchers is based on the naturally occurring process of photosynthesis in plants, in which light drives electrons that produce storable chemical energetic molecules, that are the fuels of all cells in the animal and plant worlds.

By tweaking the smallest units of life, scientists are making bigger gains in producing alternative and renewable energy, with recent efforts aimed at molecule - level controls and promoting fractal growth patterns to create different fuels and improve efficiencies.

«If you can create an efficient enough molecule for this reaction, it will produce energy that is free and storable in the form of fuels,» said Li, associate professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Chemistry.

Amyris will have to optimize each microbial strain so that it cranks out fuel without poisoning itself and produces enough fuel molecules so that it is economically worthwhile to grow.

These molecules are called olefins and are mainly produced from fossil fuels through an energy - intensive and polluting process known as steam cracking.

A catalyst made with thallium (orange) readily converts methane (gray and white molecule) into liquid methanol, a starting point for producing commodity chemicals and fuels.

The plants clean up the water and produce lipids — fat - soluble molecules — that will be used later as fuel.

This enzyme acts as a catalyst, reacting with fuel molecules to produce bubbles that propel the rocket forward.

The reaction combines the hydroxyl molecule (OH, produced by reaction of oxygen and water) and carbon monoxide (CO, a byproduct of incomplete fossil fuel combustion) to form hydrogen (H) and carbon dioxide (CO2, a «greenhouse gas» contributing to global warming), as well as heat.

The improvement transformed a catalyst that created two or three oxygen molecules per second to one that produces more than 100 per second — with a corresponding increase in the production of protons and electrons that can be used to create hydrogen fuel.

But in the freezing and thawing soil layer, sequencing showed that bacteria within the soil samples were producing some intriguing proteins, including enzymes that snip long chains of carbon molecules, like cellulose from plants, into shorter, simpler sugar compounds that the bacteria can use as fuel.

In an artificial photosynthetic system, the oxidation of water molecules into oxygen, electrons and protons (hydrogen ions) provides the electrons needed to produce liquid fuels from carbon dioxide and water.

The vision for solar fuels is a technology that uses sunlight to produce molecules such as hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methanol from water and carbon dioxide.

The goal is to produce molecules such as hydrogen, methane and methanol, currently produced from fossil fuels, in a renewable way.

A molecule called ATP (which stands for adenosine triphosphate), is actually the body's key fuel and we have microscopic energy - producing factories in our cells, especially muscle cells, that exist specially to provide us with all - important ATP that can be generated from fats, carbs or proteins.

The Ketosis diet makes the body produce small fuel molecules known as Ketones.

If this turns out to be correct, once the fuel molecule combines with the air molecule, how does combustion occur from there?Does the fuel molecule just rapidly release energy, thus the nearby air molecule start moving rapidly, and push on the piston head to produce power?

If so, then you either disagree with the theory of combustion, that is, one atom of carbon burned in an excess of oxygen produces one molecule of CO2, or you believe there is some sort of vast conspirousy to make people think that much more fossil fuel has been burned than actually has been.

The yields of target chemical molecules produced from the acetate were also encouraging — as high as 26 - percent for butanol, a fuel comparable to gasoline, 25 - percent for amorphadiene, a precursor to the antimaleria drug artemisinin, and 52 - percent for the renewable and biodegradable plastic PHB.

It produces its own hydrogen gas from biomass which means no gas or coal is used to make the necessary hydrogen in the fuel molecules.

Carbon dioxide — CO2, the molecule produced when we burn fossil fuels — traps heat in the atmosphere, causing much of the climate change we see around us.

The researchers basically amplified and then short - circuited E. coli's internal machinery for producing large fatty - acid molecules, enabling them to convert precursor molecules directly into fuels and other chemicals.

The bionic leaf is able to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen and then with the help of hydrogen - loving bacteria, produce liquid fuels and potentially many other products.