Sentences with phrase «used as feedstock»

Methanol has potential as a liquid fuel, but is also used as feedstock for production of formaldehyde and other chemicals.»

The annual harvest is used as feedstock for local village - scale charcoal retorts (thus minimizing haulage energy needs) with simple fairly efficient retorts converting about 67 % of the wood's carbon to charcoal, with the rest mostly going into hot hydrocarbon gasses that hold around 28 % of the wood's energy potential.

Today 6.5 % of the world's grain is being used as feedstock for global ethanol production representing only one million barrels per day of the 85million barrels consumed daily.

A minimal first step would be to ensure that all fossil fuel inputs to biofuels are carbon - taxed, including natural gas used as feedstock for ammonia - based fertilizers of corn grown for ethanol.

As defined in Title 26 of the US Code (The Internal Revenue Code of 1986), refined coal means a fuel which is a liquid, gaseous or solid fuel produced from coal (including lignite) or high carbon fly ash, including such fuel used as a feedstock; and is sold with the reasonable expectation that it will be used to produce steam, resulting in a qualified emission reduction.

In the syngas upgrading to hydrocarbon fuels pathway, biomass feedstocks are gasified to produce a syngas (H2 / CO), which is used as a feedstock for hydrocarbon biofuel production.

Throughout the course of this study, the teams compiled an extensive library of experimental and theoretical data including electronic, magnetic, optical, photoelectrochemical, and structural properties, which are now used as feedstock in material genome work and near - term development of superior PEC materials through materials - by - design techniques.

The process would also generate solid byproduct materials that leach less contaminants, making them more stable than the original coal fly ash used as feedstock for the process.

Some of the other projects involve the development of proton exchange membrane for fuel cell application, a gyroscope based on micro-electromechanical technology and research on innovative engineering materials to fabricate ceramic membranes that can partially oxidize methane to syngas used as feedstock in commercial methanol production.

Polypropylene fibres can be used as feedstock for other polypropylene products such as plastic pipes and patio furniture.

However, it could be related to increased use of this chemical as a solvent in place of other long - lived chemicals (e.g. CFCs and HCFCs) that have been phased out, or from use as feedstock in the production of other chemicals.»

But European chemicals companies, including France's Elf - Atochem, Hoechst and the Chemical Industry Federation in Germany and Belgium's Solvay, protested last week that there are few controls on whether the imports are really used as feedstocks or recycled.

But this year the Commission plans to award import quotas for 16 000 tonnes of CFCs to be used as feedstocks.

REPREVE Renewables LLC produces modified rhizomes of Miscanthus x giganteus, a sterile hybrid type of perennial grass, for use as a feedstock.

There will be decided financial advantages in using as feedstocks any wastes which carry a tipping fee (a negative cost) to finance disposal: e.g. waste paper, or rice straw, which can not be left in the fields after harvest because of its silicon content.

Authorizes the EPA Administrator to study: (1) the extent to which petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas are used as feedstocks in manufacturing processes to produce products; and (2) the GHG emissions resulting from such uses.

«(A) The Administrator may conduct a study to determine the extent to which petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas are used as feedstocks in manufacturing processes to produce products and the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from such uses.

The idea of bio-fuels, at least from a policy implementation standpoint in the OEDC nations, has been largely centered on use as a feedstock for concentration to support transportation.

We take in biodegradable materials and use them as feedstocks and amendments in the manufacture of a branded line of compost products.

Not exact matches

Chemical and fertilizer companies, which use gas as both a feedstock and energy source, say lower prices have reduced costs and made the U.S. a more competitive manufacturing location.

Majors like Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC have announced plans to expand basic chemical production using natural gas as a feedstock.

Methanol production is also experiencing a global resurgence, particularly in China where the finished product — typically extracted from solid waste / biomass, but also from natural gas and coal feedstocks — is widely used in chemical production and industrial processes, as well as in blended vehicle fuel.

What began in 1989 as a Cargill research project looking for innovative uses of carbohydrates from plants as feedstock for more sustainable plastics has quickly matured into the innovative materials for which we are known today.

This permit allows the holder to buy and use methyl bromide as a feedstock, and specifies:

Feedstock is defined in the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989 as «an intermediate substance which is used to manufacture other chemicals».

Non-Quarantine and Pre-Shipment uses of methyl bromide are defined as all other uses that do not fall within the Quarantine and Pre-Shipment or feedstock definitions and require a critical use exemption under the Montreal Protocol.

Anyone wishing to apply for a permit to use methyl bromide as a feedstock in the manufacture of other chemicals should download the permit application form and send it to the Department.

Depending on the nature of the food waste and the location of the generation, our food waste can be used as animal feed, as feedstock for anaerobic digestion, a composting substrate, or as a synthetic nutrient substitute.

Preston Chiaro, group executive, Technology & Innovation, said that the California project is an excellent strategic fit for Rio Tinto as it will use coal or petcoke as a feedstock.

The cracker will use ethane as a feedstock and enable the construction of a large gas storage tank.

We calculate that growing lipidcane containing 20 percent oil would be five times more profitable per acre than soybeans, the main feedstock currently used to make biodiesel in the United States, and twice as profitable per acre as corn.

Some emissions come from certain plastics used as printer feedstock.

Thermal depolymerization, Appel says, has proved to be 85 percent energy efficient for complex feedstocks, such as turkey offal: «That means for every 100 Btus in the feedstock, we use only 15 Btus to run the process.»

«The question now is how can people in chemistry create new reactions, new mechanisms to use carbon dioxide as a feedstock?»

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

The study examines options for lessening the effects of expanding agricultural production prompted by fuels, such as using currently marginal or degraded land for fuels feedstock production.

The Commission says the Montreal Protocol allows «unlimited» production of CFCs as feedstocks, and puts no limit on trade in used chemicals because recycling is better for the environment than prod - ucing new chemicals.

An unforeseen benefit is that the revised process can make use of certain kinds of hazardous waste as part of the feedstock.

HTL may also be used to make fuel from other types of wet organic feedstock, such as agricultural waste.

But even other applications, such as using it for lubricants or as feedstocks for the chemical industry, would help reduce our dependence on fossil - derived carbon.»

The study did not consider other features of the white - listed species such as water use or susceptibility of pests and disease, factors that are also important for potential feedstock.

The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern - day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.

The study already reached a 50 % yield when considering the full process line and using corn beer as feedstock.

«(B) the term «nonemissive use» means the use of fossil fuel as a feedstock in an industrial or manufacturing process to the extent that greenhouse gases are not emitted from such process, and to the extent that the products of such process are not intended for use as, or to be contained in, a fuel; and

«(B) the nonemissive use, in 2012 or later, of petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas as a feedstock, if allowances or offset credits were retired for the greenhouse gases that would have been emitted from their combustion; and

The algae uses CO2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while dramatically reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks.

Industries that use coal as a feedstock for manufacturing plastics, fertilizers, and other chemicals need such materials, and scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working to oblige.

Sundrop Fuels will convert sustainable forest residues and thinnings as feedstock combined with natural gas into bio-based «green gasoline» by using a commercially - proven... Read more →

While previous methods used county - level slash data to estimate the amount of wood residue available as a feedstock, the new research reported in the journal Biomass and Bioenergy, uses more refined data on demand from individual sawmills, said Natalie Martinkus, one of the authors of the paper and an assistant professor in WSU's Composite Materials and Engineering Center.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to Natgasoline LLC to construct a new motor - grade gasoline production facility in Texas that uses natural gas as feedstock (gas - to - gasoline, or GtG).