while cutting fuel consumption by 20 percent. The Air2nitrous team describes its electronic emissions control system as a"first phase"device because it works before and during combustion.
which is enriched an fuel/air mixture. According to the company, less nitrogen means less nitric oxide and nitrogen oxide (NOX),
The system works with combustion engines powered with various fuels, including diesel, LPG, bunker oil, gasoline, natural gas and others.
They add it takes 30 minutes to install the A2n device, a job that can be done by any mechanic to any internal combustion engine,
Suspended in oil and timed to move in very specific steps, the droplets in the system can theoretically be used to accomplish any process that a normal electronic computer can,
the whole structure is filled with oil and topped with a clear glass slide, so that the fluid is sandwiched between the layers.
Even plastics factory making small household items required as much manual labor as a metal works turning out petrol engines.
a foam is made by bubbling a gas through molten metal to form a light froth that cools into a lightweight matrix.
the designers added a hydrogen fuel-powered electric hub motor. The tires would measure 700 x 700 x 250 mm (27.5 x 27.5 x 9. 8 in)
and fuel cycle technologies, as well as technical support for the licensing of small modular reactors $560 million for fossil energy R&d to advance carbon capture
and storage and natural gas technologies $270. 1 million for electricity delivery and energy reliability grid modernization activities $257 million for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to operate
and increase the system durability and reliability $5. 34 billion for Science to continue to lead basic research in the physical sciences $8. 8 billion for weapons activities to ensure a safe, secure,
Some of these devices are far from cost-effective sources of power, such as water and gas meters.
White house Opens Up Southern Atlantic coast to Offshore Drilling The Obama administration on Tuesday outlined a politically fraught plan for allowing oil drilling in U s. coastal waters,
announcing steps to open parts of the southeastern U s. coastline for oil leasing while imposing new restrictions on environmentally fragile waters off Alaska North Slope.
Beyond air quality and climate change mitigation benefits, California abundant renewable energy resources provide energy with zero marginal cost and zero fuel price volatility to our citizens,
The UK electricity and natural gas regulator Ofgem has calculated that it will cost £50 billion $76 billion to rewire Britain.
The report, more optimistic about curbing the use of fossil fuels than a Chinese industry forecast on Monday,
and that a viable commercial product is in the pipeline. A 1-kilowatt-hour prototype is scheduled to be complete before the end of this year.
A new organization, PRIME Coalition, is committed to helping foundations manage the complex pipeline process of vetting candidates and helping to lower transaction costs for foundations,
PTT, Thailand state-owned oil and gas company; and a third, as yet unnamed investor that working on joint development of manufacturing systems for 24m technology,
Still, Silicon valley is betting that Bolt silk could supplant petroleum-based textiles such as polyester, Lycra,
and have anxiety (even) with getting gas, said Sandoval. ow we can have confidence to charge our electric vehicles and drive them from place to place (in Nevada).
which is used already widely in the petrochemicals industry could offer enormous benefits in other areas,
*The Airbus a380 passenger jet has a carbon fibre reinforced plastic fuselage for a lower fuel consumption. The researchers claim the new technology would allow wings to fix themselves in mid-flight,
The bottles are claimed to be a greener alternative to asphalt which is responsible for 1. 6 million tons of global carbon dioxide emissions a year and 2 per cent of all road transport emissions.
exceeded only by natural gas 1. A USA Sunshot Vision Study suggests that solar power could provide as much as 14%of U s. electricity demand by 2030 and 27%by 2050 2. Currently,
but if you have a continuous supply of fuel and air, it doesn run out in the same way that a battery does. he cell is made up of three layers cathode, electrolyte and anode
Natural gas on one side of the cell, and air on the other, says Rogers, generate a voltage across the cell.
Gas is essential to the Ceres fuel cell process. The stacks will be powered by piped gas in the same way that homes are supplied with gas from the mains in the street.
When the householder turns on a light, explains Rogers, the energy-making process will be activated immediately in the fuel cell stack.
%lost as heat as the fuel is burned. Then, the electricity has to travel by cable and pylon to the consumer,
which produces high-temperature steam that fuels a generator. The generator creates electricity that is used to power the machine.
#Following Tesla's Lead Toyota Makes Fuel cell Patents Free Toyota is making thousands of its hydrogen fuel cell patents available royalty-free,
Tesla motors, freely available. 10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life"The first-generation hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,
California-based hydrogen fueling company Firstelement Fuel to help maintain nearly 20 fueling stations across the state.
and Mercedes announced a new luxury vehicle powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Lots of small companies are getting in on the action too,
Automatic lets you harness the computing power of your car for the sake of fuel efficiency.
letting you diagnose a problem before it starts eating away at your fuel efficiency or increasing your emissions.
Automatic will inform you that this bad habit wastes gas. In fact, the company claims that the device can help you spend up to 33 percent less on fuel each year just by getting you to avoid a few gas-guzzling habits.
The fitness and lifestyle company Misfit announced a new product at CES: the Swarovski Shine.
New Trackers Go Beyond the Data Dump LAS VEGAS You earned 3, 000 Fuel points! You walked 8, 755 steps.
Experts on the board said they felt a sense of urgency this year because of the world's ongoing addiction to fossil fuels,
NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
or are filled with an inert gas like argon: At those temperatures tungsten would react with the oxygen in air and simply burn.
oil and Teflon layers are placed in turn between two glass slides. The researchers then carefully injected water droplets into the oil;
these droplets were infused with tiny magnetic particles only nanometers, or billionths of a meter, wide.
clean and flexible insulator for applications in a range of industries, including aerospace, oil and gas, RF-radar, automotive and building materials.
There is also a gas analyzer that will tell you if youe been drinking or need to think about quitting smoking.
#Why hydrogen fuel cell cars are taking off The news hasn't been great for electric vehicle and hybrid sales lately.
Hydrogen is the fuel (although the industry refers to call it an nergy carrier, and range is an excellent 300 miles or better.
The other advantage over battery cars is that refueling is just like getting gas, and takes only about five minutes.
"The advantage of CNF over other polymers is that it's a bio-based material and most other polymers are based petroleum polymers.
and their bases are immersed in a solution of deionized water, ethanol, and a dissolved polymer.
the water-ethanol mixture streams upward, dragging chains of polymer with it. The water and ethanol quickly dissolve, leaving a tangle of polymer filaments opposite each emitter, on the electrode.
The researchers were able to pack 225 emitters, several millimeters long, on a square chip about 35 millimeters on a side.
and their bases are immersed in a solution of deionized water, ethanol, and a dissolved polymer.
the water-ethanol mixture streams upward, dragging chains of polymer with it. The water and ethanol quickly dissolve, leaving a tangle of polymer filaments opposite each emitter, on the electrode.
The researchers were able to pack 225 emitters, several millimeters long, on a square chip about 35 millimeters on a side.
the latter being considered a form of solar fuel. However, the cost of producing efficient solar panels makes water-splitting technologies too expensive to commercialize.
called ungsten diselenide Past studies have shown that this material has a great efficiency for converting solar energy directly into hydrogen fuel
Exploiting this oil-and-water effect, they used the interface of the two liquids as a olling pinthat forced the 2-D flakes to form an even
he unintentionally let a copper foil heat for longer than usual before exposing it to methane vapor,
He later discovered that two leaky valves were letting in trace amounts of methane into the experiment chamber."
"The valves were letting in just the right amount of methane for graphene to grow,
2015researchers build atomically thin gas and chemical sensors: Sensors made of molybdenum disulfide are small,
#Directa Plus in Barcelona to present the innovative project GENIUS for oil spills cleanup activities: The company has created a graphene-based product for the remediation of water contaminated by oil and hydrocarbons Abstract:
Directa Plus at 18th European Forum on Eco-innovation to present GENIUS, the innovative project that leads to the creation of a graphene-based product able to remove hydrocarbons from polluted water
innovative and highly effective oil-adsorbent, characterized by unique performances in oil adsorbency, and at the same time absence of toxicity and flammability,
and the possibility to recover oil. The creation of this graphene-based oil-adsorbent product, commercialized as Grafysorber,
has been promoted by GENIUS project and already approved by the Italian Ministry of Enviroment to be used in occasion of oil spills cleanup activities.
Grafysorber has been tested firstly industrially in a Romanian former refinery site, containing a basin with about 30.000 m3 of water contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons.
The product used as loose material was able to abate the hydrocarbons concentration from 200-300 ppm down to 0. 5 ppm.
Moreover, our product, once exhausted after depuration of water, finishes positively its life cycle inside the asphalt and bitumen, introducing new properties as thermal conductivity and mechanical reinforcement.
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because the Tc of 50-60 K achieved in the present study is high enough to keep the superconducting state by using a closed-cycle-gas-type cooling system without liquid helium.
pyrrole, ferric chloride (Fecl3), ethanol and water--which makes it cheap enough and enables large-scale fabrication,
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The ETH professor is convinced that the industrial importance of these materials will even further increase-for example, in gas sensors, new classes of data storage and computer circuits,
This supports the development of future gas sensors, ion-based data storage and micro energy converters, such as fuel cells-and potentially a range of other as yet unknown applications in the promising field of ionics.##
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
2015iranian Scientists Design Nano Device to Detect Cyanogen Toxic Gas June 23rd, 2015announcements Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids:
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#The Hydrogen fuel cell will revolutionize the economy of the world: New non-platinum and nanosized catalyst for polymer electrolyte fuel cell Abstract:
and ability to use fuels from renewable sources are several reason why fuel cells such as PEMFC have attracted attention for large market applications,
Modern applications for PEMFCPEMFC will indirectly make water our future fuel. Hydrogen and oxygen generated by splitting water using photosynthesis can be used as a fuel for PEMFC.
PEMFC are leading candidates to power the space shuttle and other mobile applications even down to mobile phones,
2). Fuel cells generate electricity by combining hydrogen gas with oxygen to produce water (figure 1). Although that sounds perfectly clean and green,
that hydrogen is generated typically by"reforming"fuels such as natural gas, gasoline, or ethanol, which invariably introduces carbon monoxide into the hydrogen gas.
If even minute quantities of carbon monoxide are present in that gas, it can poison the platinum catalysts that are important to driving the fuel cell.
In the heart of a fuel cell, CO binds tightly to platinum and prevents it from grabbing hydrogen, the first step in the reaction.)
However, Hydrogen produced from water splitting by photosynthesis is very clean and has zero carbon monoxide.
An electrolyte or membrane is used to separate oxygen gas at the cathode region from hydrogen gas in the anodic region,
Optimizing PEMFC and positive environmental impactsfuture PEMFC will have to use low grade (inexpensive) hydrogen gas
Fuel cells & Infrastructure Technologies Program Multi-Year Research, Development and Demonstration Plan, U s. Department of energy, October 2007.2 Hydrogen fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies Program Multi
and petroleum to detect and measure heavy metals. Among the most important advantages of this nanosorbent, mention can be made of reducing the cost of food sample evaluation,
or gas phase organic compounds that are vaporized into the air at the room temperature. TVOC is known as a carcinogen that can cause disability in the nervous system from skin contact or from inhalation through respiratory organs s
ranging from gas leakage, toxic and explosive gas sensing, and contaminants in water to DNA and proteins.
#Iranian Scientists Use Gas Sensor to Detect Hydrogen Iranian researchers designed a sensor with the capability of rapidly detecting the amount of hydrogen existing in the environment.
Among other applications of this sensor, mention can be made of desulfurization of petroleum products, production of jet fuel and launching of aircrafts and other aerospace applications.
#Nanowires give'solar fuel cell'efficiency a tenfold boost: Eindhoven researchers make important step towards a solar cell that generates hydrogen A solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity.
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and FOM Foundation today present a very promising prototype of this in the journal Nature Communications.
The material gallium phosphide enables their solar cell to produce the clean fuel hydrogen gas from liquid water.
If this generates a fuel then one speaks of solar fuels-a hugely promising replacement for polluting fuels.
One of the possibilities is to split liquid water using the electricity that is generated (electrolysis.
Among oxygen, this produces hydrogen gas that can be used as a clean fuel in the chemical industry
Solar fuel cell To connect an existing silicon solar cell to a battery that splits the water may well be an efficient solution now
a kind of'solar fuel cell'.'Researchers at TU/e and FOM see their dream candidate in gallium phosphide (Gap),
In short, for a solar fuels future we cannot ignore gallium phosphide any longer
#UCLA study could lead to a new class of materials for making LEDS: Researchers are first to demonstrate electroluminescence from multilayer molybdenum disulfide Over the last decade, advances in the technology of light-emitting diodes,
multi-layer graphene by varying the ambient pressure, ambient gas, temperature and time during the treatment.
and is produced easily may lead to better gas separation, water purification, drug delivery and DNA recognition, according to an international team of researchers.
But many of the advances rely on petroleum-based plastics and toxic materials. Yu-Zhong Wang, Fei Song and colleagues wanted to seek a greener way forward.
fuel consumption can be reduced. Systematic application of our new method could save more than 100 billion liters of fuel each year over the next ten years
says Prof. Andreas Leson from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden, referencing a study that was published in the journal Tribology International in 2012.
The automotive and motorcycle manufacturer BMW is working intensively on the industrial-scale implementation of ta-C engine components in its various vehicle models with the aim of reducing their fuel consumption.
For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed-coal oil, gas, nuclear,
renewables-and calculated the fuel demands if all fuel usage were replaced with electricity. This is a significantly challenging step-it assumes that all the cars on the road become electric,
and that homes and industry convert to fully electrified heating and cooling systems. But Jacobson said that their calculations were based on integrating existing technology,
So the overall cost spread over time would be roughly equal to the price of the fossil fuel infrastructure, maintenance and production."
"When you account for the health and climate costs-as well as the rising price of fossil fuels-wind,
stabilize fuel prices, reduce pollution-related health problems and eliminate emissions from the United states. There is very little downside to a conversion, at least based on this science."
It would also eliminate U s. emissions of greenhouse gases produced from fossil fuel, which would otherwise cost the world $3. 3 trillion a year by 2050 0
ethanol and isopropanol, ordered by decreasing polarity. There wasn't much agglomeration in methanol; bunches got about 30 percent bigger than they were in water.
But in ethanol and isopropanol, the clumps got 400 percent and 600 percent bigger, respectivelyreally humongous bunches.
Water splitting combines sunlight and water in a chemical reaction in order to harvest clean hydrogen energy. By smoothing the surface of hematite,
a team of researchers led by Boston College chemist Dunwei Wang achieved'unassisted'water splitting using the abundant rust-like mineral and silicon to capture and store solar energy within hydrogen gas.
'This offers new hope that efficient and inexpensive solar fuel production by readily available natural resources is within reach,
the central process behind using artificial photosynthesis to capture and store solar energy in hydrogen gas.
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
poor access to water pipelines often leads to a heavy reliance on well water. But some ranchers find that even their livestock wont tolerate the saltiness of this water.
"The scientists further showed that the films are excellent gas barriers. This opens up further possibilities,
-burning hydrogen fuel for transportation and industry. Stanford scientists have invented a device that produces clean-burning hydrogen from water 24 hours a day
'Clean hydrogen Hydrogen has long been promoted as an emissions-free alternative to gasoline. Despite its sustainable reputation, most commercial-grade hydrogen is made from natural gas,
a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming. As an alternative, scientists have been trying to develop a cheap and efficient way to extract pure hydrogen from water.
A conventional water-splitting device consists of two electrodes submerged in a water-based electrolyte.
'We believe that electrochemical tuning can be used to find new catalysts for other chemical fuels beyond hydrogen.
much like the coalescing of oil droplets in water, with the hydrophobic ends pointing inward
"The friction between the tire and the ground consumes about 10 percent of a vehicle's fuel,
it could give us very good improvement in fuel efficiency.""The nanogenerator relies on an electrode integrated into a segment of the tire.
-but Wang estimates about a 10-percent increase in the average vehicle's gas mileage given 50-percent friction energy conversion efficiency."
#Fuel and chemicals from steel plant exhaust gases (Nanowerk News) Carbon monoxide-rich exhaust gases from steel plants are only being reclaimed to a minor extent as power or heat.
They successfully produced fuel and specialty chemicals from these exhaust gases on a laboratory scale.
and acetone at its fermentation facilities, using the synthesized gas from the steel plants. Fuels and specialty chemicals can be procured from these.
Image: Fraunhofer IME) The exhaust gas masses that arise from steel manufacturing plants are gigantic: the chimneys of the Duisburg Stahlwerke alone unleash several million tons of carbon dioxide.
Fraunhofer has developed a process by which these exhaust fumes can be reclaimed and recycled into fuels and specialty chemicals.
With the aid of genetically modified bacterial strains, the research team ferments the gas into alcohols and acetone, convert both substances catalytically into a kind of intermediary diesel product,
and from this they produce kerosene and special chemicals. Participants include the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular biology and Applied Ecology IME in Aachen,
as well as the Institute for Environment, Safety, and Energy technology UMSICHT in Oberhausen and the Institute for Chemical Technology ICT in Pfinztal.
Business model instead of problem From our viewpoint, the quantities of carbon alone which rise as smoke from the Duisburg steelworks as carbon dioxide would suffice to cover the entire need for kerosene of a major airline.
In addition to the exhaust gases, syngas similar gas mixtures from home and industrial waste incineration can also be used for the engineered process
The biochemists at IME use syngas a mixture of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and hydrogen as a carbon resource for fermentation.
the syngas transforms either into short-chain alcohols like butanol and hexanol, or into acetone.
At the same time, Fraunhofer further expanded its syngas fermentation system and used it for experiments with the steel and chemicals industry.
and, like fats and oils, can be converted through hydrogenation into diesel fuel for cars or kerosene for planes.
which already can now directly replace petroleum-based products. For example, amines can be used in the pharmaceutical industry or the production of tensides and dying agents.
The products synthetically produced by us can be used both as fuels as well as speciality chemicals. Exactly like this has worked until now with petroleum as the raw material source
states Jennewein. In the next stage, the scientists strive to demonstrate that their technology also works with large quantities.
Our goal is to apply for certification processes for the fuels. That is how its viability for practical use will be validated officially.
and for kerosene about three years, Axel Kraft adds s
#Researchers develop new storage cell for solar energy storage, nighttime conversion (Nanowerk News) A University of Texas at Arlington materials science and engineering team has developed a new energy cell that can store large-scale solar energy even
The flying particle detects the quantities to be measured over long distances with a high spatial resolution, even under harsh conditions like those in an aggressive chemical substance or inside an oil pipeline.
One example for possible applications are oil pipelines, says the physicist. Measurements of vibrations could uncover damage caused by sabotage, for example, at an early stage.
where they create clothing that kills bacteria, conducts electricity, wards off malaria, captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses.
Marcia Silva da Pinto, postdoctoral researcher, works on growing metal organic frameworks onto cotton samples to create a filtration system capable of capturing toxic gas,
can be manipulated at the nano level to build nanoscale cages that are the exact same size as the gas they are trying to capture.
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