Sentences with phrase «waste gases from»

Commercial airliners could soon be criss - crossing the skies powered by jet fuel made from waste gases from steel mills, thanks to a scientific breakthrough by low - carbon fuel specialists LanzaTech and...

LanzaTech's process uses either waste gas from steel production, or as the video says, from petroleum refining, or syngas created from municipal waste.

Not exact matches

There, wells and communities are often in close proximity, and pushback from locals has all but banned the practices of flaring (burning atop a standing pipe) and venting waste gas straight into the atmosphere.

Oklahoma was shaken late Wednesday night by two of the strongest earthquakes to hit the state in recent years, the latest in a series of temblors that many researchers believe are caused by the burial of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the state.

Among the rules that BLM plans to delay until January 2019 are requirements that oil and gas producers submit plans to cut waste, measure and report gas flared from wells and dispose of gas that reaches the surface during drilling and well completion.

For the most part, the only direct costs extracted from drivers for participating in congestion are the personal time and gas they waste sitting in traffic.

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.

Airport's sustainability progress report signals good news for EVs, renewables and plastic waste, but questions remain over tackling greenhouse gases from aircraft

The company is also converting its truck fleet from diesel fuel to more environmentally friendly compressed natural gas and is aiming to reduce its landfill - bound waste by 50 percent in the next five years.

The COHRAL ™ at Oakey Beef Exports» Abattoir on Queensland's Darling Downs extracts green energy biogas from its waste water streams to replace millions of dollars» worth of natural gas previously consumed at the abattoir.

Since 2008, we have saved more than $ 8.6 million in waste expenses and protected the planet from harmful greenhouse gases.

The COHRAL (TM) Covered High Rate Anaerobic Lagoon at Oakey Abattoir on Queensland's Darling Downs will extract green energy biogas from its waste water streams to replace millions of dollars worth of natural gas currently consumed at the abattoir.

It contains 90 % coffee by weight, with diversion of this nitrogen - rich food from landfills and the recycling stream supporting achievement of waste diversion and greenhouse - gas targets;

«In particular, instead of electricity or natural gas we plan to use waste heat or biogas generated from anaerobic digestion to bake our dog biscuits.

In 1981 SATTLER invented the double membrane gas holder for storing digester gas from waste water treatment plants.

Diverting food waste from landfills also reduces the generation of harmful gases that contribute to climate change.

Walmart recently announced that as part of moves to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas from its supply chain by the end of 2015, it is demanding stricter quality and environmental standards from its Chinese suppliers, and is looking at factories» air emissions and management disposal of hazardous waste.

This calculator also describes the environmental impacts of food recovery, including an estimate for the impact on greenhouse gas emissions from reducing food waste.

I tried those gas drops from the pharmacy and some gripe water from the health food store — total waste of money.

Rather than waste gas to drive the five blocks to school, I used the sling to position her so she could lay her head on my shoulder, draped the long end of the sling over her face to shield her eyes from the sun, put my keys and phone into the pocket and walked.

- The green toys sand play set is made in the U.S.A. from recycled plastic milk containers that save energy, reduce landfill waste and lower greenhouse gas emissions, all in the name of good green fun.

Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) is a methane - based gas created artificially from black bag waste that would otherwise be sent to landfill, hence earning its green credentiaGas (SNG) is a methane - based gas created artificially from black bag waste that would otherwise be sent to landfill, hence earning its green credentiagas created artificially from black bag waste that would otherwise be sent to landfill, hence earning its green credentials.

Some state legislators and environmental advocates see it as a chance to make sure oil and gas wastes from hydraulic fracturing in neighboring states like Pennsylvania stay out of wastewater plants and landfills.

At the very least, Reinhardt hopes the planners will consider biogas, fuel material from food waste and wastewater treatment plants, for combustion instead of the natural gas.

Meanwhile, under Governor Cuomo's watch, the oil and gas industry has been allowed to import and treat of fracking wastes from Pennsylvania in New York State.

Far from the limelight, Aubrey McClendon, Harold Hamm, Mark Papa, and other wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that Exxon, Chevron, and other giants had dismissed as a waste of time.

The gas did not match the shallower methane that the gas industry says is naturally occurring in water, a signal that the contamination was related to drilling and was less likely to have come from drilling waste spilled above ground.

The physical connection between mother and fetus is provided by the placenta, an organ, built of cells from both the mother and fetus, which serves as a conduit for the exchange of nutrients, gasses, and wastes.

One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the waste gas of power plants, typically by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.

Agricultural air pollution comes mainly in the form of ammonia, which enters the air as a gas from heavily fertilized fields and livestock waste.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

In the report released today, the EPA said that pollution from 33 abandoned oil and gas waste pits 2013 which are the subject of a separate cleanup program 2013 are indeed responsible for some degree of shallow groundwater pollution in the area.

Agriculture, drilling, and old pollution from waste pits left by the oil and gas industry were all considered possible causes of the contamination.

A Government Accountability Office report says environmental regulators are failing to adequately enforce rules for wells used to dispose of toxic waste from oil and gas drilling

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.

In their analysis, the team found that bio-methane produced from all available food waste and dairy manure in the US annually would offset about.74 percent of annual natural gas demand.

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

«Emissions from manure storage can all but be eliminated if the facilities are covered and waste gases are flared, says David Bryngelsson, lead author of the study.

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..

Solid waste from horizontal gas wells contains radioactive material that ends up in landfills.

Now, a report in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters takes a look at solid waste from horizontal gas wells.

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

But Wara discovered that offset sales from destruction of the gas were far more lucrative than the sale of the refrigerant responsible for creating the pollutant in the first place, giving factories a perverse incentive to produce as much waste as possible and then create projects that sell offsets to destroy it.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

Wiedinmyer wondered if this burning waste could be an underappreciated source of air pollutants, from greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide to tiny particles and toxic chemicals that can harm human lungs.

What she came up with was, as the study describes it, «the first comprehensive and consistent estimates of the global emissions of greenhouse gases, particulate matter, reactive trace gases, and toxic compounds from open waste burning.»

Although it is theoretically possible to produce biodiesel from human fat, it is still illegal to put medical waste in your gas tank.

The project is testing three approaches: wood - burning stoves that are more efficient and thus leave less black - carbon residue; stoves that burn natural gas produced from waste; and solar cookers.

It's in areas where there are lots of cattle (and the large amountsof manure they inevitably give back to the world) that companies are bestequipped to divert animal waste from contaminating the air (via methane, CO2, and ammonia gases) and water towards fueling ethanol production.