an inert material obtained by the incomplete combustion of certain petroleum products. Prior to the team's research, the quantity and dimensions of the carbon black nanoparticles weren't considered particularly crucial to a battery's function."
which blocks fire's access to its fuel source--the polymer. The synergistic combination of both these processes makes polydopamine an attractive and powerful flame retardant.
#Archaeal Gas Vesicle Nanoparticles Hold Potential to Develop Powerful Malaria Vaccine In a recent breakthrough to combat malaria,
Shiladitya Dassarma's laboratory at the University of Maryland School of medicine, Baltimore, USA, who has developed Archaeal gas vesicle nanoparticles (GVNPS.
Globally, several clean energy policies and regulations have been implemented over the past decade to reduce the consumption of higher carbon fossil fuels.
There is a growing adoption of tank level monitoring system in various sectors, such as oil & fuel
In 2014, the oil & fuel application was the largest segment of the global tank level monitoring application market,
bacteria could be reprogrammed to convert readily available sources of natural energy into pharmaceuticals, plastics and fuel products."
oil and gas pipelines and nuclear plants has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde with inspiration from the natural world.
If there are defects in a nuclear plant or an oil pipeline, we would be able to detect cracks that have a range of sizes
such as gas chromatography or mass spectroscopy. hese are good ways to detect smell molecules, but they require a large amount of work before the sample is even ready to test,
Fuel factor Johan Steelant, a senior research engineer at the European space agency (Esa) and coordinator of Lapcat-II,
Fuel choice is important, especially as one consideration for any future hypersonic fleet will be to try to keep its emissions as low as possible.
This is why hydrogen was chosen, rather than a fuel based on hydrocarbons. What more, liquid hydrogen fuel is not highly combustible mid-flight.
Although hydrogen can be ignited, the risks of an explosion or fire are lower compared to conventional airline kerosene fuel.
Nasa used the same stuff to power the Space shuttle. f there is leak, the hydrogen is
hence there won't be a pool of hydrogen on the ground as is the case for kerosene.
Hydrogen, like kerosene, needs an igniter or a heat source to initiate combustion so it doesn't ignite spontaneously,
which simulates speeds up to Mach 1. 8. Hytex uses liquid hydrogen both as a fuel
The fuel consumption is one-fifth that of rocket engines, says Hideyuki Taguchi, leader of Jaxa hypersonic airplane research.
If the hydrogen can be sourced from natural gas, instead of from the electrolysis of water, the airfare tickets of a hypersonic trip could drop to about half the price of a business-class ticket.
An alternative fuel could be liquefied natural gas such as super-cold liquid methane; when stored as a liquid it needs far less space than gas. f a market for small business jets existed,
While the design consumes two times more fuel per second than a Mach 4 plane, it gets to the destination in roughly half the time so the fuel consumed overall during the trip is roughly the same.
A question of heat Dealing with heat will be a real concern. Anything travelling at Mach 5
we have lower fuel consumption and smaller tanks, which makes the vehicle again smaller, Steelant says.
Precisely because there will be a shortfall in electricity generation as a result of existing nuclear-and coal and gas-power stations shutting down.
In theory, it could simply increase power generation from traditional fossil fuels such as coal and gas, but stringent, legally-binding carbon dioxide emissions targets mean this is not possible.
There is some room for an increase in gas-generated power but as we import most of this gas,
the government has concerns about energy security-it wants us to generate our own power, not rely on others for it.
Because of their surrounding habitat and the lack of readily available fuel mangrove forests are also not susceptible to forest fires.
Tiny"microbubbles"of gas boosted the power of the low-frequency sound waves.""The microbubbles grow and shrink in tune with the ultrasound pressure waves,
is characterized by a cluster of confounding symptoms that include chronic bloating, abdominal pain, gas, and bouts of relentless diarrhea, constipation, or both.
and fuels using genetically engineered bacteria-such as common E coli -while safeguarding the"microbial workers"from infection by other microbes and pathogens."
gas-generating calcium carbonate micro-particles that can be applied in powder form to stop critical bleeding.
The particles work by releasing carbon dioxide gas, like antacid tablets to propel them toward the source of bleeding.
and Israel that Tehran successfully reverse-engineered before turning it into their own cyber-weapon to destroy the servers of Saudi arabia's national oil and natural gas company.
"Attacks by Iranian hackers have targeted the military, oil and gas, energy and utilities, transportation, airlines, airports, hospitals and aerospace industries, among others,
and oil and gas pipelines) had been attacked by Russian hackers using Blackenergy malware, ABC reported. It was not the first time hackers tried to cripple vital US infrastructure in 2012,
Scientists Enlist E coli To Make Planet-Saving Plastic Out Of Practically Nothing The Intertubes have buzzing with news of a new way to make plastic without using petroleum or petrochemicals.
Based on artificial photosynthesis, the process uses sunlight and carbon dioxide to make the building blocks for renewable plastics as well as fuels, paints,
Theye beginning to pop up in renewable fuel and reenchemical applications, and the one involved in the new artificial photosynthesis study is one of those.
Aside from producing renewable fuel and other products, you can use it to sequester waste carbon dioxide from industrial processes.
which don produce power on demand as a fossil fuel power plant does. For an individual consumer, having a battery behind the meter provides a great deal of flexibility in managing energy use.
Today, fossil fuels still dominate. However, the revolution is only now picking up steam. In fact, if we continue on at our current growth rate,
Beyond the obvious benefits of minimizing traditional fossil fuel energy technologies, the report also concludes that such a scale up of renewables in Africa s an affordable means to help meet fast-growing energy demand while increasing energy access, improving health,
which reacts with the inner platinum surface of the micromotors to generate a stream of oxygen gas bubbles that propel the micromotors around.
"If the micromotors can use the environment as fuel, they will be more scalable, environmentally friendly and less expensive,"said Kaufmann n
Indeed, every rocket engine ever made has fired burning rocket fuel out behind it, thus powering the craft forward.
says Mr Shawyer. nce you no longer have to carry fuel with you, the possibilities are immense.
The new material also promises to improve automotive fuel economy because it combines light weight with heat resistancealthough syntactic foams have been around for many years,
powered by electricity instead of petrol. A 10.4 kilowatt-per-hour battery pack lasts 150 to 200 miles on a single charge, according to Lit Motors.
which are difficult to maintain, like underground buildings, motorways or oil rigs,'added Dr Jonkers.''It is extremely durable.
Canadian space firm Thoth has outlined plans for an elevator to space, potentially saving huge amounts of fuel and money that form part of the vast cost of launching rockets into orbit.
Ladee spacecraft confirms presence of the gas for the first time The presence of neon in the moon atmosphere has been a subject of speculation for decades.
Now, for the first time, scientists have confirmed the gas is not only present, but abundant on the moon. The discovery was made by analysing data sent back from Nasa Lunar Atmosphere and Dust environment Explorer,
While the gas is used in electric signs On earth, there is not enough neon to make the moon glow visibly,
the readings showed that some gas comes from lunar rocks. For example, Argon-40 comes from the decay of naturally occurring radioactive potassium-40,
Dr Benna believes this transient source of argon may be the result of enhanced outgassing-the release of a gas that was dissolved,
However, the craft lacked fuel to maintain a long-term lunar orbit or continue science operations and was sent intentionally into the lunar surface,
They throw 100 times more superheated gas, ash and rock into the atmosphere than run-of-the-mill eruptions-enough to blanket continents and plunge the globe into decades-long volcanic winters.
when they become a super-eruption, the resulting gigantic volcanic outbursts that throw 100 times more superheated gas,
Liquid-oxygen or kerosene rockets would be fired to enable the plane to rapidly climb higher in the sky
the fossil fuels burned to power the machinery, and the decomposition of organic material within the wastewater itself.
The reaction also yields excess hydrogen gas, which can be stored and harnessed as energy in a fuel cell.
The project will accept about 120,000 tons of food waste, 30,000 tons of fats, oils and greases,
and the existing facility will be generated using biogas from the project. Long island Compost also plans to convert the biogas to renewable natural gas that will be used to fuel its trucks on-site, reducing diesel consumption by 200,000 gallons annually.
An additional 1. 9 million gallons of diesel per year will be offset by injecting the remaining renewable gas produced by the digester into the National grid natural gas pipeline on Long island.
This will enable the gas to be used to fuel compressed natural gas vehicles in other areas. The project is part of the Cleaner, Greener Communities program, a statewide initiative encouraging communities to incorporate sustainability goals and principles into local plans and projects.
It is scheduled to be completed in August 2016 6
#Environmental remediation Reagent Reduces Time to Regulatory Closure Environmental remediation technology company Regenesis has launched a first-of-its-kind liquid activated carbon technology that the company says captures
This includes reducing chlorinated solvents at industrial dry cleaning sites as well as petroleum cleanup projects. Plumestop is composed of very fine particles of activated carbon (1-2 m) suspended in water through the use of unique organic polymer dispersion chemistry.
began developing the material about four years ago for applications such as cleaning up oil or chemical spills
#Wood instead of petroleum: Producing chemical substances solely from renewable resources Petroleum might well be replaced by wood soon
when it comes to manufacturing chemical substances. Research has made now significant progress towards using sustainable biomass, like wood, as an alternative raw material for chemical production.
The process can be as cost-effective as the conventional petroleum product-based process and is less damaging to the environment."
or xylochemical, syntheses of substances for which petroleum products are employed usually as starting materials. This new work shows that the relevant carbon skeletons can be created solely from wood-based starting materials.
"Xylochemistry could represent an important alternative to the climate-damaging use of the earth's finite resources of natural oil and gas in the production of chemicals."
because of their chemical structure, are suited better than petroleum products for many applications. It is often necessary to subject the latter to extensive transformation processes before they acquire comparable functionality."
including water, oil, highly corrosive media, biological fluids containing bacteria and blood. Not only did the material repel all the liquid
a chemical produced by steam cracking of naphtha or by catalytic cracking of gas oil. Butadiene is an impurity in propene streams that must be removed from the stream through hydrogenation
This technique flows a mixture of methane, hydrogen and argon gases into a tube furnace.
At high temperatures, methane decomposes into carbon atoms that settle onto the germanium's surface to form a uniform graphene sheet.
Instead of the combustion of volatile chemicals, ion engines operate with chemically inert xenon gas. Using an electrostatic field,
the ionized gas is accelerated out of the nozzle, propelling the craft forward. This is the same type of thruster technology used on NASA Dawn spacecraft,
465-kilometer (910-mile) flight without a drop of fuel. The world's first aircraft powered by solar energy was to remain in Ahmedabad for two days before flying to the holy city of Varanasi on Saturday.
and vegetable wrapping foil but it is considered not yet a full alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics,
LA will never fully replace petroleum-based plastics. For one thing, some objects, such as toilet drain pipes, are meant not to be biodegradable.
however, is that climatic shifts tied to rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere a direct result of burning fossil fuels can only make matters worse.
and to maximize the use of renewable fuels. While it can operate totally independent of a large central generator
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Gundersen said. he extraction cost of fuels continues to rise, while technology costs continue to fall.
Theye even been approached by other producers of wine, hops and biofuel to join. Take that Chicago Board of Trade.
If a dangerous gas is detected in the air, or if a person using a restroom leaves it odorous,
Speculation that fossil fuel use overall is fast approaching a peak has been percolating for some time. A recent study published in the journal Fuel
and conducted by a team of resource geologists and environmental engineers in Australia and China suggested that global fossil fuel use would likely top out within the next 10 years,
and decline precipitously thereafter. They attributed much of this projection to decreased reliance on coal in China,
and economics are unlikely to be realized, given changes in energy consumption patterns in various countries and the status of ultimately recoverable fossil fuel resources globally. n a business-as usual situation,
and parts of Asia will strategically position themselves to be dependent on fossil fuel imports, said Gary Ellem,
The nearly limitless accessibility provided by smartphones fuels the idea that sharing things is more important than doing things.
said Magnus Egerstedt, Schlumberger Professor in Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer engineering, in a statement. nstead,
and efficiently create hydrogen fuel. his new system shatters all of the combined safety, performance, and stability records for artificial leaf technology by factors of 5 to 10
generating protons and electrons as well as oxygen gas. The photocathode recombines the protons and electrons to form hydrogen gas.
NO EXPLOSIONS A key part of the design is the plastic membrane, which keeps the oxygen and hydrogen gases separate.
the membrane lets the hydrogen fuel be collected separately under pressure and safely pushed into a pipeline.
Semiconductors such as silicon or gallium arsenide absorb light efficiently and are used therefore in solar panels. However, these materials also oxidize
so cannot be used to directly generate fuel. Previous work in Lewis laboratory led to a major advance in the design.
CHEAP CATALYST Another key advance is the use of active, inexpensive catalysts for fuel production. The photoanode requires a catalyst to drive the essential water-splitting reaction.
converts 10 percent of the energy in sunlight into stored energy in the chemical fuel,
and can operate for more than 40 hours continuously. ur work shows that it is indeed possible to produce fuels from sunlight safely and efficiently in an integrated system with inexpensive components,
#wiss Army knifehelps turn algae into biofuel Scientists have figured out a way to streamline the molecular machinery that turns cyanobacterialso known as blue-green algaento biofuels.
organisms that have many potential uses for making green chemicals or biofuels. The new protein
you burn a little bit of gas.""By offloading some of the clutching muscle forces from the calf to the passive-elastic device,
and the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s made the Concorde economically unviable and it ended up as a tiny fleet, only flying with British airways and Air france because of French and British government pressure.
but also alter the center of pressure as the fuel and oxygen are burned to keep the aircraft properly trimmed.
so long as they can supply the cryogenic propellants. It wouldn't interfere with existing air corridors,
#Finnish tech could let smartphones"see"gas Smartphones are already able to monitor things such as light, sound, movement and geographical location.
if a given gas is present, and in what amount. Among other things, it has been suggested that the device could be used to measure carbon dioxide concentrations.
San diego are also all working on smartphone gas sensors s
#Aluminum"yolk"nanoparticles deliver high-capacity battery recipe Researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China have found a way to more than triple the capacity of the anodes,
accelerating and braking, the system is said to be more efficient, meaning less fuel and carbon emissions as a result.
#Boron-doped graphene to enable ultrasensitive gas sensors As an atom-thick, two-dimensional material with high conductivity,
and may eventually lead to detectors with such sensitivity that they could detect infinitesimally tiny amounts of gas in the order of parts per quadrillion.
the researchers created sensors that are able to detect gas molecules at exceptionally low concentrations;
where they were compared then with known highly sensitive gas sensors. At the same time, the Novoselov lab at the University of Manchester, UK (where graphene was synthesized first
"This multidisciplinary research paves a new avenue for further exploration of ultrasensitive gas sensors, "says Dr. Avetik Harutyunyan,
or the detection of NOX leaks in automotive or industrial areas where exhaust fumes from engines containing the gas can prove lethal in confined spaces.
The scientists also believe that their theoretical research points towards using boron-doped graphene to improve such things as lithium-ion batteries by controlling generated gas levels for optimum efficiency y
#Teenage Girl Turns Plastic Trash Into Million-Dollar Biofuel An Egyptian teenager has discovered an inexpensive way to turn plastic trash into fuel
Azza Faiad ideas attracted the attention of the Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute. The institute gave the teen access to a lab
and its researchers in order to help refine her trash to fuel formula. Faiad discovered a cheap and plentiful catalyst called aluminisilicate that drastically reduces the cost of converting plastic waste into gases like methane and propane,
which can be turned into ethanol, what some scientists are calling iofuelbecause the organic chemicals from plastic polymers she extracts,
are the same chemicals extracted from vegetation to create ethanol biofuel. The process releases other chemicals that can also be recycled and sold.
Egypt produces a million tons of plastic trash every year, and it estimated Faiad process could convert that much trash into fuel worth$78 million every year.
In fact, she believes it could raise the total return to $163 million each year from Egypt plastic trash.
and she is now working on a patent for her trash to fuel process p
#Connecticut Becomes 1st State To end Chronic Homelessness Among Vets Connecticut officials announced Thursday they had become the first state in the nation to provide housing for every one of its chronically homeless veterans.
these problems can add up to rocketing fuel costs, excessive wear and tear, and the need to significantly oversize generators to cover relatively rare moments of fluctuating load,
For the grid at large, it could place strict limitations on how much renewable energy can be integrated before the need arises for excessive amounts of fossil fuel-fired power plants
Innovus is looking to maintain high fuel efficiency and the constant delivery of clean and stable power
while saving about 450,000 liters of fuel per year--a significant cost reduction for an island that must import all its fuel.
Mining companies pay roughly 70 cents per liter of diesel fuel, but often have to oversize their fixed-speed generator fleets to meet rare peaks in demand,
since it doesn imply any burning of fossil fuels. But pure battery systems still have a hard time penciling out in all but the most expensive fossil fuel markets.
Even if batteries get to the point where the round trip is more cost-effective than burning fossil fuel, hat greatfor Innovus,
Hoffman said. e still say, dispatch it when it there. But it in storage best interest to have fossil fuel,
or a fuel cell, or some dispatchable power source beyond your storage. t
#Solarcity Has a New Plan to Make Distributed Energy an Integral Part of the Grid Solarcity has an idea for how to help California utilities tap their own customers as an integral part of their billion-dollar distribution grid plans:
The plan is called a istribution loading ordera variation of the state longstanding loading order that puts renewables and efficiency ahead of fossil fuel-fired power for large-scale power procurements and transmission planning.
As part of the experiment, the worms were surrounded by fluid containing tiny gas-filled bubbles. Low-intensity ultrasound waves he same type used in sonography ere amplified by the bubbles before propagating into the worms.
#Insanely Fuel efficient Engine Could Go to Mars And Back On One Tank Of Fuel An ion engine that smashes the fuel efficiency record has been registered for an innovation patent.
Inventor Patrick Neumann told University of Sydney student newspaper Honi Soit the drive could go to ars
and back on a tank of fuel but its first application may be shunting networks of small satellites around in Earth orbit.
Neumann says metal fuels have advantages besides efficiency. Hipep uses Xenon, and as Neumann says,
Spaceships using his drive might find capturing fuel made from a dead satellite a handy way to refuel,
but the fuel tank would be empty when you got there. In the second case a return journey would require either scavenging material locally
or parking fuel in Mars orbit, or on a refuelling station established at Phobos or Deimos, preparatory to the voyage.
Visit to BMW factory fuels further rumours of possible partnership During the visit executives from the technology company asked detailed questions about tooling and production,
or biofuels when exposed to the sun. Oxman said, uch functions will in the near future augment the wearer by scanning our skins,
#GE scientist creates new fuel-saving material NISKAYUNA, N y. For nearly three decades Krishan Luthra stubbornly labored away in a General electric research lab on a long-shot effort to cook up a new type of ceramic that few consumers will ever see or use.
and promises to save billions of gallons of fuel in the coming decades by reducing weight
It has helped GE win jet engine orders worth $100 billion so far from airlines looking to shave their huge fuel bills.
Pratt & Whitney, CFM main competition, is trying to achieve similar fuel savings with a new type of jet engine that uses a gear system never tried before.
and fuel consumption could improve by 10 percent extraordinary gains for a technology that counts a single percentage point of improvement as a huge advance.
It will also almost certainly be used in gas-fired power plants and perhaps in nuclear reactors as well.
Essentially, government-led negotiations in Part D could stall the pipeline of new drugsne that has benefited highly from the plan previously,
and 29 arthritis drugs in the pipeline became 92. Thorpe insists that prescription drugs are not just about price. he most useful way to look at
a pollutant gas commonly found in vehicle exhaust that also results from fossil fuel combustion. Prolonged exposure to nitrogen dioxide can be dangerous to human health,
and filter harmful gas from air.""This sensor can bring a significant change to our daily life
unlike the gas sensors invariably developed with the existing solid substrates, "says Hyung-Kun Lee,
#New Material Could Turn Water into Fuel Scientists have designed theoretically a new material that could help supply the world with clean energy by turning water into fuel,
the complex new material could also be used to turn carbon dioxide from the air into a carbon-based fuel,
"Finding a material that can help create readily available fuels is one of the holy grails of science,
environmentally-friendly fuels to power the future.""Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen is an energy-intensive process,
which currently requires much more energy in from electricity than comes out in usable fuel. To make the process more efficient,
The Reading-led team used supercomputer simulations to look at many different candidates as potential photocatalysts for fuel production reactions.
With applications for both the food packaging and cosmetic industries, the new bioactive film is a green alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics
including a small polymer panel that literally goes"poof,"changing from a solid into a gas.
Modumetal's corrosion-resistant metal laminates have won already over the oil and gas industry, which require longer-lasting materials for the construction of oil rigs.
Car companies, the aviation industry as well as bridge manufacturers could be next in line. Corrosion resistance isn't the only super-trait of these metals.
But in gas sensing applications, copper oxide was much less widely investigated compared to other metal oxide materials.
The researchers detected carbon monoxide indirectly, by measuring the change in the resulting circuit electrical resistance in presence of the gas.
Compared to other options being explored in gas sensing which are bulky and difficult to miniaturize,
nanowire gas sensors will be cheaper and potentially easier to mass produce. The main energy cost in operating this kind of a sensor will be the high temperatures necessary to facilitate the chemical reactions for ensuring certain electrical response.
But in gas sensing applications, copper oxide was much less widely investigated compared to other metal oxide materials.
The researchers detected carbon monoxide indirectly, by measuring the change in the resulting circuit electrical resistance in presence of the gas.
Compared to other options being explored in gas sensing which are bulky and difficult to miniaturize,
nanowire gas sensors will be cheaper and potentially easier to mass produce. The main energy cost in operating this kind of a sensor will be the high temperatures necessary to facilitate the chemical reactions for ensuring certain electrical response.
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