Sentences with phrase «scale fuel plants»

Dr Martin Linck has revealed to the 244th meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia that his large scale fuel plants are capable of producing 300,000 gallons of fuel a day.

Not exact matches

Ethanol and biodiesel can both be used in bio-jet fuel, but the technologies to convert plant - derived oil to jet fuel are at an advanced stage of development, yield high energy efficiency and are ready for large - scale deployment.

Now, researchers think we could be on the cusp of a CO2 - recycling revolution, which would capture CO2 from power plants — and maybe even directly from the atmosphere — and convert it into these fuels at scale, they report today in Joule.

The focus of this technology is on the large - scale reduction of carbon emissions from fossil - fuelled power plants.

For a typical paper - recycling factory, one Emefcy fuel cell module, which is about the size of a cubic meter, could treat about three cubic meters per day of wastewater depending on the amount of organic material present, according to Cohen, and the modules can be scaled to meet the needs of larger or smaller plants.

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

As part of the largest investment in coal - fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history, the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large - scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters of synthetic natural gas annually.

Currently, it is possible to make fuels out of CO2 — plants do it all the time — but researchers are still trying to crack the problem of artificially producing the fuels at large enough scales to be useful.

BNFL, which runs a pilot MOX fabrication plant and plans to begin full - scale production in 1997, has already flown MOX fuel to Switzerland.

Furthermore, these indices capture changes in fuel (live and dead plant material) moistures, and thus scale to fuel consumption34 and pyrogenic emission production5.

Evidence on the ground reinforces such assertions, most notably the startup in recent days of China's first large - scale plant for turning coal into liquid fuels, in Inner Mongolia.

They also recommended prompt investment in projects aimed at capturing and permanently storing carbon dioxide from power plants on a large scale — something that many energy experts say has to happen because coal will continue being used as a fuel for decades.

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

Toyota has announced it will build the world's first megawatt - scale carbonate fuel cell power generation plant with a hydrogen fueling station in California.

But the results from projects like the Nyabyeya biomass energy plant are renewing interest in wood and biomass as larger scale energy sources, and an alternative to fossil fuels.

With this financial matching approach, the investor has the same capital costs and the same fuel costs whether building a coal plant or a wind turbine, and because the wind turbine has been scaled up, the investor will sell the same amount of power.

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We can build more large scale fossil fueled power plants and continue business - as - usual or invest in renewable and more decentralized energy technologies.

The plant will also produce hydrogen on a commercial scale, for applications like fuel cells.

However, CCS is an unproven technology which has not yet been implemented at a large - scale fossil fuel plant.

On a commercial scale, the plant would require a heat host, such as a power plant, that could provide the vortex engine with a constant supply of hot water «fuel.»

Mandating the use of renewable fuels has, thus far, been a failed experiment; the lack of commercial - scale cellulosic biofuels plants in the U.S. has left it unclear if even a drop of cellulosic biofuel was blended into the fuel supply in 2011.

For large - scale fuel production we foresee that a solar hydrogen plant will be much bigger, like a 100 MW solar tower.

Using the Petra Nova project as an example for the scale of a new carbon capture project at an existing coal - fuelled power plant, a 240 - MW capture project could yield about 1.4 million metric tonnes per year for enhanced oil recovery.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $ 36 million (DE-FOA-0001791) to continue the development of carbon capture technologies to either the engineering scale or to a commercial design, with an eye to reducing fossil fuel power plant emissions.

Previously, solar power plants had depended on back up energy plants powered by carbon emitting fuels because a solar system's peak generation hours do not coincide with the utility's peak load hours after 5 p.m. Low sunlight meant low energy generation, and this challenge scaled back the environmental benefits of solar plants.

Biomass — plant material and animal waste — can be used to create transportation fuels and generate electricity, but the key to using biomass resources in a beneficial way is to focus on the right resources and use them at an appropriate scale.

startups such as Infintree, Global Thermostat, Climeworks and Skytree are developing technologies that are being tested in greenhouses to feed CO2 to plants, which can eventually be scaled to provide CO2 for myriad other applications, from fuel synthesis to underground storage.

When someone proposes nuclear power plants, or wind farms, or solar farms, or large - scale use of microhydro, or hydrogen - based fuels, or changes to the building codes to accommodate conservation... that's what needs to be public.

The letter explains why large - scale industrial production of transport fuels and other energy from plants such as corn, sugar cane, oilseeds, trees, grasses, or so - called agricultural and woodland waste threatens forests, biodiversity, food sovereignty, community - based land rights and will worsen climate change.

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It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

We believe this approach has significant advantages over large - scale, centralized combustion - based biomass power plants in terms of higher efficiency, lower fuel risk and reduced emissions.»

Under home hydrogen it was suggested that water could be broken up into water hydrogen and oxygen in a home - scale plant when power was cheap and plentiful and these could then be recombined in a fuel - cell with regeneration of electricity as required.

According to Poulsen, Dong Energy will also begin its REnescience Northwich project, which is seen as the world's first large - scale waste - fuelled bio plant, in 2017.

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