Sentences with phrase «synthetic fuels by»

Carbon Engineering is aiming to build a $ 200 million commercial plant by 2017 and start selling synthetic fuels by 2018.

Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single - source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass.

Not exact matches

Minimizes energy consumption by 30 - 70 % per unit of land by eliminating the energy required to manufacture synthetic fertilizers, and by using internal farm inputs, thus reducing fuel used for transportation

Continental jet 516 — a two - engine Boeing 737 - 800 — completed a two hour test flight out of Houston today with one engine powered by a 50 - 50 blend of regular petroleum - based jet fuel and a synthetic alternative made from Jatropha and algae.

Ten years later, no one knows what was in the cloud of gases released by the combustion of all that jet fuel and building material but science has revealed what was in the dust — cement, steel, gypsum from drywall, building materials, cellulose from paper, synthetic molecules from rugs, glass fibers and human hair from the long decades of the two towers» use, among other items.

In December the U.S. Air Force flew a C - 17 transport plane across the country powered in part by a new propellant: natural gas transmuted into a synthetic liquid fuel.

Fossil Blends The Air Force, meanwhile, plans to certify its entire fleet of aircraft on Fischer - Tropsch process synthetic fuels derived from methane or coal by 2011 and plans to purchase enough such fuel to power at least 50 percent of the fleet in the continental U.S. by 2016.

If the synthetic natural gas made by the plants were used to fuel vehicles, the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be twice as large as from gasoline - fueled vehicles.

In the past, some technologies sponsored by the US government, from computers to transport aircraft, have become wildly successful, while others, including synthetic fuels and supersonic aircraft, have been disasters.

The first 200 l of synthetic fuel have now been produced from solar energy and the air's carbon dioxide by Fischer - Tropsch synthesis under the SOLETAIR project.

Together with other project partners, KIT and INERATEC also study decentralized production of high - quality synthetic fuel from air and renewable power under the «Power - to - X» Kopernikus project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Synthetic fuels have one particular advantage over batteries or hydrogen as a route to low - carbon transport: by dropping in exactly where fossil fuels are used now, they can reduce emissions dramatically without the need for major new infrastructure or changes in consumer behaviour, which may be decisive in certain cases.

With air captured CO2 from plants like Climeworks», renewable energy can be efficiently stored by producing synthetic fuels using Power - to - Gas or Power - to - Liquids technology.

JBEI has pioneered the development of advanced routes to the production of fuels from sugars for use in blendstocks by using synthetic biology.

A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)'s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer - Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by - product for power generation.

Accelergy Corporation has begun production of a synthetic fuel from coal and biomass, to be evaluated by the United States Air Force (USAF) as the industry benchmark for 100 % synthetic jet fuel.

Solazyme, Inc., a renewable oil production company and leading algal synthetic biology company, will feature a Jeep Liverty fueled by the world's first algal - based renewable diesel, SoladieselRD ™, at CALSTART Target 2030...

Synthetic oil can help improve your Toyota's fuel economy by half a mile per gallon of gasoline, which adds up over time.

The Guardian has called it «the biggest environmental problem you've never heard of,» and tells the story of ecologist Mark Browne, whose groundbreaking research in this field has gone largely ignored by the major clothing retailers whose shelves are stocked with the synthetic fabrics that are fuelling this problem.

A detailed study by researchers from China and the US has concluded that Fischer - Tropsch synthetic liquid fuels (FTL) are typically less costly to produce when electricity is generated as a major coproduct than when the plants are designed to produce mainly liquid fuels.

In an event in Bern, Switzerland, Swiss National Council member and president of the Clean Fuel Now initiative Thomas Böhni filled up his Audi A2 with 100 % synthetic diesel (Audi e-diesel) produced by sunfire GmbH to draw attention to the need to remove what he terms unjustified Swiss restrictions on... Read more →

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new feasibility study published by National Grid (UK), the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) and Centrica.

Before anyone could possibly develop, test, certify, and build next - generation nuclear it will be rendered uncompetitive by cheap synthetic replacements for fossil fuels.

Before much longer the cheapest fuel will be made by synthetic organisms with metabolisms re-designed to produce paraffins as the primary metabolic product.

95 The case for crop - based biofuels was further undermined when a team led by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize — winning chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, concluded that emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from the synthetic nitrogen fertilizer used to grow crops such as corn and rapeseed for biofuel production can negate any net reductions of CO2 emissions from replacing fossil fuels with biofuels, thus making biofuels a threat to climate stability.

This would entail using concentrating solar power generated from Australia's Outback to create synthetic energy fuels shipped to North Asia by tanker or pipeline.

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The preliminary engineering services will review use of Rentech's Fischer - Tropsch (FT) technology for the production of ultra-clean synthetic transportation fuels from synthesis gas (syngas) derived from fossil and biomass resources by the Clinton Project.

The most water - efficient energy sources are natural gas (though we may be just about out of it) and synthetic fuels produced by coal gasification; the least efficient are ethanol and biodiesel — the biofuels just can't catch a break these days, can they?Water use winners and losers The research pair analyzed 11 types of energy sources, including coal, fuel ethanol, natural gas, and oil; and five power generating methods, including hydroelectric, fossil fuel thermoelectric, and nuclear methods; in terms of power generation, Younos and Hill have found that geothermal and hydroelectric energy types use the least amount of water, while nuclear plants use the most.

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)'s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer - Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by - product for power generation.

A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.

Using Fischer - Tropsch (FT) synthetic fuel or blend can significantly reduce gaseous particulate matter and gaseous emissions compared to standard military jet (JP - 8) fuel when used in a T63 gas - turbine helicopter engine, according to a new study by a team from the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University and... Read more →

Energy economist Andrew Leach has looked at the economics of refining in Canada (here, here and here) and claims that producers can make more money by selling raw bitumen than they could by upgrading it to synthetic crude oil or by refining it into fuel products.