Sentences with phrase «use hydrothermal»

In contrast, today's geothermal projects use hydrothermal systems that tap naturally occurring water deposits to provide geothermal heat.

«It's amazing that you can use the hydrothermal source to observe the structure here,» she says.

Using hydrothermal liquefaction, organic matter such as human waste can be broken down to simpler chemical compounds.

The researchers show that by using hydrothermal liquefaction before anaerobic digestion, virtually all of the energy is extracted from the food waste.

Using a hydrothermal reaction, the researchers converted sea urchin spines to biodegradable magnesium - substituted tricalcium phosphate scaffolds while maintaining the spines» original interconnected, porous structure.

Not exact matches

Biochemists have managed to synthesise 10 of them in experiments that simulate lifeless prebiotic environments, using proxies for lightning, ionising radiation from space, or hydrothermal vents to provide the necessary energy.

«We try to use continuous ground shaking produced by humans, cars, wind, water and Yellowstone's hydrothermal boilings and convert it into our signal,» Lin says.

In 2012, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) used undersea robots to discover a new hydrothermal vent field along the Alarcón Rise at the southern end of the Gulf of California.

The organisms likely survive using mechanisms similar to the ever - increasing parade of creatures that have been discovered living in the total darkness of hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, deriving energy from minerals in seafloor rocks.

The discovery of the Pescadero Basin hydrothermal field is just the latest example of how MBARI's extensive use of underwater robotics has accelerated the pace of scientific discovery in the deep sea.

Puma navigates and hunts for hydrothermal vents using chemical sniffers and lasers to detect smoke traces.

We've really accelerated hydrothermal conversion technology over the last six years to create a continuous, and scalable process which allows the use of wet wastes like sewage sludge.»

This research was partly based on seafloor sampling at hydrothermal vent sites using the NOC maintained robotic vehicle Isis, which was launched over the side of the RRS James Cook.

The researchers made tungsten carbide nanoparticles using a series of steps including hydrothermal treatment, separation, reduction, carburization and more.

The technology, hydrothermal liquefaction, mimics the geological conditions Earth uses to create crude oil, using high pressure and temperature to achieve in minutes something that takes Mother Nature millions of years.

«The aqueous product from hydrothermal processing is much better for bugs in anaerobic digestion than using the raw biomass directly.

Astrobiologists fear that if the crust is too thick, any possible life would be limited to organisms that use chemical energy from hydrothermal vents, a very restricted niche.

Scientists working off the California coast use chemical - sniffing probes, robotically driven subs, and seafloor - tethered temperature sensors to watch flows of lava pave over a once - thriving ecosystem at hydrothermal vents several kilometers below the ocean's surface.

Such reactions at hydrothermal vents and in other extreme environments on Earth produce high abundances of hydrogen, which some microbes use for food.

Salinas de León and his colleagues used a remotely operated vehicle to explore the Iguanas - Pinguinos hydrothermal vents, north of Darwin Island in the Galapagos.

«This is the first time this egg - incubating behaviour, using heat from active hydrothermal vents, has been recorded in the marine environment,» says Pelayo Salinas de León of the Charles Darwin Foundation in the Galapagos, Ecuador.

At the moment, scientists have confirmed, using DNA analysis, that snotworms are closely related to the tubeworms that thrive around hydrothermal vents and probably have existed for as long as whales, if not longer.

Shannon Johnson uses robots to explore deep - sea hydrothermal vents, where science - fiction - worthy animals live in hot, acidic water and munch on bacteria that can survive in space.

Many methods, such as sol - gel, hydrothermal synthesis, rf - sputtering and chemical vapor deposition, have been used for the deposition of WO3.

Currently, we are exploring several environmental samples retrieved from allover the world - ranging from hydrothermal vents in Japan to hot springs in Yellowstone National Park and New Zealand — for the presence of novel archaeal (and bacterial) lineages using cultivation - independent approaches, such as metagenomics and single cell genomics.

«We report for the first time, a unique behavior where the deep - sea skate, Bathyraja spinosissima, appears to be actively using the elevated temperature of a hydrothermal vent environment to naturally «incubate» developing egg - cases,» the researchers wrote in the journal Scientific Reports on Feb. 8.

Michalski and his team use infrared measurements of hydrothermal minerals as a basis to interpret the detection of important minerals on Mars.

Using infrared data collected at Mars by spacecraft, they can interpret which minerals are there and describe the geology of ancient hydrothermal systems.

He joined ORNL as a Eugene P. Wigner Fellow in 1983, after completing his Ph.D. studies at Penn State University, and has pioneered the use of hydrothermal experiments and neutron and x-ray scattering methods to address complex problems in geosciences and electrical energy storage.

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However, even that can be avoided by using the wet biomass processes, hydrothermal liquification for biodiesel or microbial fuel - cells for electricity, for example.

Synthesis of NaA zeolite using PTMAOH (phenyltrimethylammoniumhydroxide): hydrothermal and microwave heating methods and comparison of their XRD patterns