Sentences with phrase «remove sulfur»

The syngas is processed to remove sulfur, mercury and ash before being sent to a traditional combined cycle power plant.....

Some models say if we remove sulfur from the fuels we burn we can expect it's contribution to warming about equivalant to that for a doubling of CO2.

In 1977, the government made its first stab at confronting the issue, recommending that all new coal - fired plants have scrubbers to remove sulfur dioxide from their emissions.

That can combine with kraft process black liquor ethanol to remove sulfur btw.

China is the world's largest SO2 emitter, mostly due to the burning of high - sulfur coal in its many coal - fired power plants, which lack the technology used in many other countries to remove sulfur from smoke stack emissions.

The image, based on her work and that of PNNL's H. Todd Schaef, depicts the potential of carbonate minerals to remove sulfur dioxide, a troubling compound in the quest for clean energy.

Air pollution control devices called scrubbers use a sprayed slurry of ground limestone and water to remove sulfur dioxide from gases formed in coal combustion, said Tom Schmaltz, environmental director for Headwaters Resources, a world leader in coal combustion products.

«I think the quest to remove sulfur from fuels is inevitable and the right way to go.»

Those gases are cooled and pumped through a series of filters that remove sulfur, particulate matter, and other pollutants; only then is remaining synthetic gas, or syngas, burned for power.

Today, coal plants use scrubbers to remove sulfur, or burn low - sulfur western coal.

The company had already received city approval to construct a new hydrogen plant and upgrade equipment that would increase production and capacity to remove sulfur from crude oil, among other things.

Reanimating gold, the reasoning went, would be easier than adjusting the formula of base metals by adding and removing sulfur and mercury.

Geber, who tried to create gold by removing sulfur and adding mercury, pooh - poohed this idea in The Sum of Perfection.

Over 60 million tonnes of hydrogen are produced every year for a range of industrial purposes, including ammonia production, hydrocracking (breaking complex hydrocarbons into lighter fuels), and removing sulfur from fossil fuels.

Most environmentalists were pushing a «command - and - control» approach, with federal officials requiring utilities to install scrubbers capable of removing the sulfur dioxide from power - plant exhausts.

Not exact matches

After we picked the two technologies — the anaerobic digester and fuel cells — we hired HDR to marry the two together, come in and do the design for the gas — to remove all the sulfur — and gas compression, and the drying and cleaning for the fuel cells.»

Brussels sprouts are high in sulfur, which helps to remove toxins from the blood.

The concentrated gas is «scrubbed» by sulfur - absorbent materials to remove the compounds that cause acid rain.

[D] uring gasification, roughly half of the sulfur, mercury, arsenic, tar, ash, and particulates from the used coal remain in the subsurface, and any sulfur or metals that reach the surface arrive in a chemically reduced state, making them relatively simple to remove.

University of Trento biochemist Claudia Bonfio removed oxygen and mixed together a brew of iron and glutathione, a sulfur - containing peptide likely present in the prebiotic chemical soup.

The findings, published June 17 in Nature Communications, could help remove a major barrier to developing lithium - sulfur and lithium - air batteries, promising future technologies that could store up to 10 times more energy per weight than batteries now used in consumer electronics and electric cars.

(Sulfur and mercury are removed as solids and can be buried or converted to useful materials.)

Human emissions however are on the decline in many countries due to more strict pollution controls on power plants like burning low - sulfur fuel and technological advances to remove it during and after combustion.

Vitamin B6's chief function is to act on amino acids, the building blocks of protein, mostly to remove or transfer nitrogen, sulfur, or carbon - containing molecules.

Sulfur needs to be present for these toxins and wastes to be removed from the body.

Yet dairy products remove more calcium than they provide, since the body has to neutralise the excess sulfur with its own calcium.

The skin will be thoroughly cleansed then a sulfur treatment is applied to remove toxins.

Brussels sprouts are high in sulfur, which helps to remove toxins from the blood.

I found out it should be removed on a low sulfur diet.

will remove a good % of the sulfur from dried fruit.

Shampoos: While degreasing shampoos such as the benzoyl peroxide (oxydex ®, pyoben ®) and sulfur / salicylate (sebolyte ®, sebolux ®) shampoos will help remove the skin oils feeding the yeast, there are shampoos that are specifically anti-yeast.

It contains sulfur - lime, which is a keratolytic product, i.e. Compounds which remove keratin from scales on skin.

As it turns out, though, CO2 can be removed from syngas with the same liquid solvent, Selexol, that strips out the sulfur; it just takes more pots and pans.

In order to enable use of the most advanced exhaust controls, sulfur must be removed from the diesel fuel during refining.

Cap and trade was first used to remove lead from gasoline and then worked into amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990 to force power plants to cut back on sulfur dioxide, one of the chemicals that produce acid rain.

would let a plant meet clean air act goals without scrubbers or other pollution control equipment,...» A coal flue scrubber removes 90 percent of the sulfur dioxide emissions from the burning of coal.

The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty to regulate «Greenhouse Gases» only: - Carbon dioxide (CO2)- Methane (CH4)- Nitrous oxide (N2O)(Laughing Gas, Nitrous, NOS)- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)- Perfluorocarbons (PFCs)- Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) Car Exhaust consists of: Harmless: - Carbon dioxide (CO2)- Nitrogen (N2)- Water vapor (H2O) Some Pollutants: - Carbon monoxide (CO) * - Hydrocarbons or Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) * - Nitric oxide (NO) * - Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) * - Particulate matter (PM - 10) * - Sulfur dioxide (SO2) * * Your car's catalytic converter removes about 95 % of these pollutants.

Last month EPA implemented new gasoline regulations requiring the last microscopic bits of sulfur to be removed from fuel.

This removes nasty pollutants like sulfur and nitrogen oxides so that the syngas burns «cleaner» than coal, according to the Department of Energy.

The stack gas cleanup removes virtually all of the sulfur dioxide and the nitrous oxide, the real pollutants.

And there is no such thing as «clean coal», since if the carbon is removed, there is little left but radiocuclides, Sulfur and Mercury.

In the gasification process hard coal, lignite and other substances such as biomass, petcoke and refinery residues will be converted to syngas, and environmental pollutants such as sulfur and carbon dioxide subsequently removed.

A unique reusable organic liquid developed at PNNL can remove and store harmful gases from power plant emissions, including sulfur dioxide, a primary cause of acid rain.

The stack gas cleanup removes virtually all of the sulfur dioxide and the nitrous oxide, the real...

The plasma reduces the complex blend to a few simple gases, such as steam, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen, plus assorted contaminants such as mercury and sulfur; subsequent cleanup systems remove the steam and mercury and scrub out the soot before the syngas is sent to an internal combustion engine generator.

Collectively, a total of 2,011 megawatts (MW) of coal - fired power will retire as part of the settlement, removing almost 12 million tons of climate - disrupting carbon pollution and nearly 84,000 tons of sulfur dioxide pollution that the three coal - fired power plants spew into the air each year.

The failure to actually reduce global emissions has meant that all possibilities are now on the table, including some that sound like premises from a science - fiction novel: Humans could sequester carbon dioxide by removing it from the air through technologies that mimic trees, or we could spray water droplets in the lower atmosphere to reflect light and heat back to space, or we could seed sulfur aerosols in the stratosphere to do the same.

Use kerosene heaters only in well - ventilated areas to remove carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide from combustion.