Sentences with phrase «waste fueled this process»

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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.

Anaerobic technology is particularly applicable to countries suffering drought, where treated waste water not only provides green energy to substitute for fossil fuels emitting climate change gases, but also processes waste streams to high recycling standards.

The anaerobic digestion technologies — recently applied to a major SE Asian pineapple producer — extract biogas from crop processing waste water streams to simultaneously raise water quality while generating methane to replace fossil fuels used in production processes.

AD — anaerobic digestion — is a naturally occurring process which can be integrated into waste management and farming to reduce costs and carbon emissions, and produce gas, electricity, fuel and fertiliser:

In 2009, Casa Herradura installed a waste - to - energy process that fuels a steam boiler with biogas generated by a biological anaerobic reactor, as part of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).

I then sent the PDF out by email to the guests to avoid paper waste and fuel consumption in the mailing process.

This process could help scientists and governments comply with the European Council Directive 2011 / 70 / EURATOM on the «responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste» which requires EU Member States to establish a dedicated policy, including the implementation of national programmes for the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.

This nuclear fuel cycle would combine two innovations: pyrometallurgical processing (a high - temperature method of recycling reactor waste into fuel) and advanced fast - neutron reactors capable of burning that fuel.

Given the potential benefits, Congress has provided $ 10 million in funding — and the DOE has asked for $ 30 million more — to develop a second facility employing the process, as well as millions more for similar cellulosic biorefineries, such as the Range Fuels plant in Soperton, Ga., that converts wood waste into fuel.

This reaction is the enzymatic version of a second significant chemical process — Fischer - Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons which can be used on a large scale to synthesize fuels from industrial waste gases, for instance.

The former nuclear weapons facility at Savannah River, Ga. — also part of the Manhattan Project — has been successfully vitrifying weapons waste for years, but only one fuel separation process was used there.

Changing World Technologies» method of thermal depolymerization used intense heat and pressure to break waste materials into desirable, short - chain hydrocarbons (much like the Earth's super-slow, fossil fuel - producing process).

The waste products are burned as fuel to drive the process.

Thus, in addition to the so - called «Haber - Bosch process of nitrogen fixation,» nitrogenase also stimulates a reaction corresponding to the «Fischer - Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons,» which can be used on a large scale to synthesize fuels, for instance from industrial waste gases..

In this process, the organisms can produce hydrocarbon - based fuels from organic waste.

In 2010, the Obama administration abandoned a 2 - decade effort to bury much of the high level waste — spent fuel rods from commercial reactors and radioactive material from nuclear bomb manufacturing — inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert (although Congress has ordered parts of that process to keep moving).

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

The merger would then help fuel China's shift toward even more hog farms that adopt Smithfield's vertically integrated processes — namely, industrial - size farms that raise pigs in close quarters and dispose of their waste through the lagoon - and - spray method, thereby threatening to reproduce the same health and antibiotic - resistance issues in China.

«Cost competitive, energy responsible cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass or from forestry waste like sawdust and wood chips requires a more complex refining process but it's worth the investment,» Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said at the Range Fuels facility groundbreaking in November.

The real «Mr. Fusion,» or «tactical hybrid refinery» to use Army - speak, processes the waste produced by a typical kitchen — food, plastics, paper — into fuel that runs a standard diesel generator.

Another process proposed in 2014 would use microbes to convert the waste and other organic material into fuel.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process invented by chemists at the University of California, Davis.

The process would generate essentially no hazardous waste and wouldn't even require hazardous fuel.

A new heat - exchanger system to capture and recycle waste heat from oxy - fuel furnaces could cut process CO2 emissions by 30 % and nitrous oxide emissions by 90 %, as well enhancing thermal efficiency and significantly reducing operating costs.

We believe that water usage is a key component in optimizing the process for converting waste into fuel.

These processes include those to advance the cleanup of radiological and hazardous wastes, the processing and disposal of nuclear fuels, and the production and delivery of medical isotopes.

In a new twist to waste - to - fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol.

To design innovative large - scale processes that turn waste into fuels, scientists must understand — and control — the reactions involved.

PRISM fuel is metallic, which allows the use of a simple electrometallurgical process to recover all the long - lived waste products that make spent fuel so problematic to dispose of.

Date: February 3, 2014; Source: University of California - Davis; Summary: Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process.

«Our conversion process can potentially reduce jet fuel cost to end users by using lignin waste from refineries and less expensive catalytic upgrading to jet fuel.»

Parts of foods that historically were disposed of, used for composting and considered waste or at best reserved for lower quality, utilitarian applications (like lamp oil) have suddenly become «food» through the alchemy of fossil fuel powered extraction and processing.

The thought process being that if an engine isn't running it can't waste fuel.

And nothing goes to waste; the ashes left over from this biomass fuel conversion process is used as fertilizer for future plants.

Waste Management has made a strategic investment in Enerkem, a developer of a thermochemical (gasification and catalytic synthesis) process to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals from biomass and waste, as part of Enerkem's new... Read more →

There are plenty of fossil fuels and pseudo-fossil sources such as peat that have such low efficiency, that most of the carbon may be burned as process or waste heat.

The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer - Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel... Read more →

Using plant waste this way means you couldn't simply burn it for fuel, reducing the world's biomass potential; and there are the carbon costs of transporting it and processing it and such like.

Fulcrum BioEnergy, the parent company of Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, has applied for a new fuel pathway under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCSF) for its process of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into Fischer - Tropsch («FT») diesel ffuel pathway under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCSF) for its process of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into Fischer - Tropsch («FT») diesel fFuel Standard (LCSF) for its process of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into Fischer - Tropsch («FT») diesel fuelfuel.

An increasingly popular solution that solves both problems is a process that turns organic waste, such as food scraps and agricultural waste, into fuel.

Mobile cooking oil - to - biodiesel processing raises $ 1 million in funding: Twin Cities - based Revolution Fuels would make biodiesel on - site at restaurants and other establishments with waste cooking oil on hand.

Tomczyck (1997)(28) states the following... «The power generation and municipal solid waste management industries share an interest in the use of process engineered fuel (PEF) comprised mainly of paper and plastics as a supplement to conventional fuels.

Issues such as where the designed paper fiber fuel is to be introduced into the combustion process to maximize combustion, optimum operating temperatures, and pollutant management in flue gases and ash residue all will influence the waste processing operation and costs.

Hydrodec recently acquired the business and assets of OSS Group, the UK's largest collector, consolidator and processor of used lubricant oil and seller of processed fuel oil, with a national network of oil storage and transfer stations, currently serviced by a fleet of more than 90 trucks which collect used oil and other garage workshop waste from over 30,000 customers.

These include making renewable energy carriers available on - site by using more electricity and district heating instead of fossil fuels for processes, using more environmentally - friendly materials for lower emissions in production (e.g. recycled steel, and solid wood), better thinking around transport of surplus masses (soil / rock / gravel), and improved waste management and recycling.

Plutonium in the spent fuel is easily separated from other waste through chemical processing and, like the uranium, can be used to make a nuclear bomb.

«(B) characterize the waste streams resulting from all steps in the advanced fuel recycling process identified under subparagraph (A);

While nuclear energy is regarded as the lesser of the two evils when compared at an emission level to the burning of fossil - fuels, it may trump on the containment of the heat process, which burns in a contained nuclear reactor through an in - ward heat - chemical reaction called fission, but nuclear energy production is a chain from uranium mining to the toxic waste disposal and therefore as an entire process is an equally high risk environmental option.

For my part, I have no problem with nuclear power, but we have to seriously rethink how we go about handling and processing spent fuel, i.e. recycling it more effectively, to reduce the waste and possibility of contamination as much as possible.