-which is used already widely in the petrochemicals industry-could offer enormous benefits in other areas, at a"relatively low cost".
-which is used already widely in the petrochemicals industry-could offer enormous benefits in other areas, at a"relatively low cost".
polluting generators that require expensive fuel oil. The supply chains for such oil can be broken, making procurement unpredictable.
These problems gave the students the idea of designing a photovoltaic balloon inspired by inflatable balloons,
polluting generators that require expensive fuel oil. The supply chains for such oil can be broken, making procurement unpredictable.
These problems gave the students the idea of designing a photovoltaic balloon inspired by inflatable balloons
into a channel filled with oil. Since oil is immiscible with water, a'string'was created of a number of blue, virtually identical, microdroplets.
Interesting things started to happen when such a droplet'train, 'flowing in oil of one type, was injected into a channel filled with another oil immiscible with the other two fluids,
"says Dr. Jan Guzowski (IPC PAS; currently at Princeton university. The surface tension of the liquid shell around the encapsulated droplets caused it to itself form a drop.
and sandwiched a layer of oil in between. Then they carefully injected into the mix individual water droplets that had been infused with tiny magnetic nanoparticles.
very similar to having oil separated from water. The new research shows how simple changes in the channel size can be used to create very small structures,
In that case, both the plastic and the oil-based sauce are hydrophobic and interact together.
#New Technique Probes the Sea floor Using Ocean's Weak Seismic Waves A technology developed by Stanford scientists for passively probing the seafloor using weak seismic waves generated by the ocean could revolutionize offshore oil and natural gas extraction
Currently, many energy companies use a technique called time-lapse reflection seismology to monitor offshore oil
Our technique provides the first large-scale application to harness it for oil and gas production."
and Ekofisk oil fields in the North sea that are capable of recording ambient seismic waves. The proof-of-concept experiment has been successful,
and is coated in oil, thus keeping it from ever contacting the internal components. Once samples are loaded,
and petrochemical processing applications. Michell QMA601 process moisture analyzer uses the latest generation of this technology,
#FLIR GF320 Thermal Camera for Offshore Oil & Gas Leak Detection The FLIR GF320 thermal camera from FLIR Systems is a preventative maintenance tool purpose designed to spot leaks in piping
Offshore oil and gas facilities require state of the art technology to achieve results that are safe for the environment and safe for business.
FLIR GF-Series optical gas imaging cameras have been developed together with oil industries and the American Petroleum Institute (API) to meet their requirements for detecting
The use of optical gas imaging cameras has already become a standard practice in many oil
Offshore oil and gas facilities will improve safety and productivity and minimize emissions. Using a FLIR GF320 optical gas imaging camera literally thousands of components can be scanned for gas leaks per shift without the need to interrupt the process.
or hot spot. For further information on offshore oil and gas leak detection please visit www. flir. co. uk/ogi/display/?
AIS's portfolio of Smart HMI solutions are deployed currently in IIOT, Smart cities, Smart Transportation, Smart Factories, Smart buildings and Digital Oil fields.
much like the coalescing of oil droplets in water, with the hydrophobic ends pointing inward
Ruder also envisions droids that could execute tasks such as deploying bacteria to remediate oil spills. The findings also add to the ever-growing body of research about bacteria in the human body that are thought to regulate health and mood,
#Oil Droplets Into Human Cells, Harvard Medical school Study Scientists have turned individual cells into miniature lasers by injecting them with droplets of oil
or oil within a cell to reflect and amplify light, generating a laser. Yun had reported previously a method for generating laser light by engineering cells to express a fluorescent jellyfish protein,
rather than injected droplets of oil or fat. In theory, using different combinations of beads and dyes with different spectral properties should make it possible to individually tag almost as many cells as exist in the human body. t will be fun
and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel production. These are the first steps in a bigger initiative that will turn sugarcane
and sorghum two of the most productive crop plants known into even more productive oil-generating plants.
and mustard) and later with sugarcane the team introduced genes that boost natural oil production in the plant.
They increased oil production in sugarcane stems to about 1. 5 percent. The team hopes to increase the oil content of sugarcane stems to about 20 percent he said.
Using genetic engineering the researchers increased photosynthetic efficiency in sugarcane and sorghum by 30 percent Long said.
In fact, the first patented genetically engineered microbe was designed to clean up oil spills. Today, biotechnology enables manufacturers to make sustainable products with renewable material, instead of oil,
and to use less energy in the manufacturing process A recent Roundtable discussion hosted by the Industrial biotechnology Journal
and building a biobased economy is key to reducing dependence on foreign oil enhancing our nation economic and energy security.
Production and use of advanced biofuel could displace at least 15 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel the equivalent of 475 million barrels of oil each year by 2022, reducing oil imports by $70 billion
The U s. Navy has recognized long the importance of reducing dependence on foreign oil as it strives toward its goal of cutting petroleum use 50 percent by 2020.
and to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil, says JJ Rothgery, Biodico Chairman of the board in a Sustainablebusiness. com article.
In fiscal year 2012 alone, the $30 increase in prices of oil resulted in more than $3b in additional, unplanned costs to Dod.
and meet its responsibility to reduce reliance on foreign oil. A domestic biofuel industry means we grow fuels at home instead of importing them from abroad o
#Ruptured pipeline spills 79k litres of oil along California coast A broken pipeline spilled 21,000 gallons (79,500 litres) of crude oil into the ocean before it was shut off Tuesday,
They traced the oil to the onshore pipeline that spilled into a culvert running under the U s. 101 freeway
which said it shut down the flow of oil and the culvert carrying the oil to the ocean was blocked."
"Plains deeply regrets this release has occurred and is making every effort to limit its environmental impact,
because so much of the oil was so close to the shore, Coast guard spokeswoman Jennifer Williams said.
About 3, 200 litres of oil have been recovered from the water, Williams said. The accident occurred on the same stretch of coastline as a 1969 spill that at the time was the largest ever in U s. waters
Several hundred thousand gallons spilled from a blowout on an oil platform and thousands of sea birds were killed along with many marine mammals.
It was surpassed later in size by 1989's Exxon valdez spill off Alaska and the 2010 Gulf oil spill off Louisiana.
The stretch of coastline about 32 kilometres northwest of the pricey real estate of Santa barbara still is home to offshore oil rigs
#California oil spill 5 times bigger than first estimated A broken pipeline spilled 21,000 gallons (79,500 litres) of crude oil into the ocean before it was shut off Tuesday,
They traced the oil to the onshore pipeline that spilled into a culvert running under the U s. 101 freeway
which said it shut down the flow of oil and the culvert carrying the oil to the ocean was blocked."
"Plains deeply regrets this release has occurred and is making every effort to limit its environmental impact,
because so much of the oil was so close to the shore, Coast guard spokeswoman Jennifer Williams said.
About 3, 200 litres of oil have been recovered from the water, Williams said. The accident occurred on the same stretch of coastline as a 1969 spill that at the time was the largest ever in U s. waters
Several hundred thousand gallons spilled from a blowout on an oil platform and thousands of sea birds were killed along with many marine mammals.
It was surpassed later in size by 1989's Exxon valdez spill off Alaska and the 2010 Gulf oil spill off Louisiana.
The stretch of coastline about 32 kilometres northwest of the pricey real estate of Santa barbara still is home to offshore oil rigs
Kenneth Irving, the former CEO of Irving Oil, left three decades in the oil industry to work on improving mobility in cities.
#EV Batteries Good, Paper EV Batteries 10x Better No matter how fast the cost of oil drops, it just can keep up with the pace of improvements in electric vehicle batteries.
but the company is also a longtime oil sands developer in Canada, sobaby steps r
and oil, preventing the car from getting dirty. It been proven effective against road spray, sleet, standing water,
Doubtless, some historical controversiesike the fights over the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta oil sands to the US Gulf coast extensive petroleum infrastructureill remain,
#Big Oil & Gas Embraces Carbon Pricing Six of the world major oil and gas companies have called for national or regional carbon pricing.
Join m The oil companiesjoint statement effectively reverses previous claims from industry that petroleum causes the environmentnd the crucial atmospheric greenhouseo harm.
and three other predominantly European oil and gas companies (BG GROUP plc, Eni S. p. A, . and Statoil ASA) lmost a third of the Top 10 list, including#2 and#3ntered the agreement.
but today, six of the oil and gas industry biggest players did just that. Their joint letter sends an unequivocal message to the international community As we look ahead to the U n. climate change conference in Paris at the end of the year,
automatically protecting them from the pressures of a tenuous oil market. What makes the proposition even more enticing is the fact that successful technologies
The resources they compete with coal oil and gas follow a different pattern. If demand kept increasing,
because the newer reserves cost more to develop, such as deep sea oil. They may get cheaper through market shifts,
They can play on the edges, like shale gas, oil trading or mineral exploration, but they can play the main game.
Other companies like utilities and auto companies, meanwhile, have great options like taking away a large share of the oil industry market with renewable powered electric cars.
But big oil versus big utilities aligned with big auto is not the only disruptive impact for investors.
The company behind the idea, construction firm Volkerwessels, said that the surface would require less maintenance than the traditional road building material asphalt
as asphalt is responsible for 1. 6m tons of CO2 EMISSIONS a year globally, making up two per cent of all transport emissions, according to the firm.'
The hottest hot beverages in Manhattan are the sippable one brothsfrom Brodo single-service window, with add-ins like Calabrian chili oil, shiitake mushroom tea and fermented beet juice.
#Battelle Big data Improves Oil & Gas Efficiency Battelle has developed a data analytics platform to increase oil and gas industry efficiency.
Elucidata brings analytical and machine learning methods originally developed for data-heavy applications such as national security and the healthcare industry to the oil and gas industry,
Battelle says. The technology can be used to help petroleum developers make smarter decisions and more effectively manage assets.
says Elucidata can help oil and gas firms apply big data to improve their processes as well as save time
It also can show how oil production is related to geologic formations and how to develop robust predictive models.
and sandwiched a layer of oil in between. Then they carefully injected into the mix individual water droplets that had been infused with tiny magnetic nanoparticles.
Cheetham cited the huge pullback in oil prices and the inventory of traditional ships that are scheduled already to be built as factors that companies will need to consider before licensing a revolutionary design such as the Vindskip.
or prevent oil from building up on bolts, scientists are also aiming to uncovering characteristics that might lead to large-scale solutions for society.
refined form of the fuel"e-benzin"and claims that it burns clean due to its lack of sulfur and benzene.
"It's basically how we're moving away from an oil-based economy towards something that has a renewable, sustainable future to it."
including diesel, LPG, bunker oil, gasoline, natural gas and others. They add it takes 30 minutes to install the A2n device,
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.
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.
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,
which is used already widely in the petrochemicals industry could offer enormous benefits in other areas,
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.
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.
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
#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.
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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For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed-coal oil, gas, nuclear,
much like the coalescing of oil droplets in water, with the hydrophobic ends pointing inward
and, like fats and oils, can be converted through hydrogenation into diesel fuel for cars or kerosene for planes.
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.
In that case, both the plastic and the oil-based sauce are hydrophobic and interact together.
and identifying small vessels in various sea states as well as oil and gas platforms and if the RAAF wants others systems such as weather radar
#Living lasers made by injecting oil droplets into human cells Light fantastic (Image: Matja Humar and Seok Hyun Yun) Individual cells have been turned into tiny lasers. t actually super-easy,
The first involved injecting each one with a tiny oil droplet, forming an optical cavity which could be filled with fluorescent dye.
they performed the same function as the oil droplets, emitting laser light when excited. The final way involved exploiting the fatty droplets that exist naturally within living cells. e all have these fat cells inside our tissue.
Other uses might include engineering oil-eating bacteria to use on a spill. They could be killed off
#Oil and gas companies target coal industry as climate deal comes closer As the global climate deal draws closer,
oil and gas companies are claiming that coal is the major factor that is posing a threat to climate.
A letter was sent to UN climate officials who are working on a major climate deal to be adopted in Paris in December by six major European oil
According to them, natural gas and oil are so much part of the problem. However, gas produced by many oil companies release about half the CO2 EMISSIONS of coal fired plants and lower levels of air pollution.
Many environmental advocacy groups are skeptic behind the attacks of oil-and-gas industry's on coal.
when he was hit by an oil truck. lived in pain for 28 years, says Olafsson. fter 50-plus operations,
About 13 million tonnes of it is extracted annually from oil, and used to produce various types of fuels, plastics and elastomers.
And because their new fuel contains no benzene or sulphur they say it burns very cleanly.
"It's basically how we're moving away from an oil-based economy towards something that has a renewable, sustainable future to it."
Large oil filled transformers are found in all power and switching stations as well as in many large buildings.
All large transformers use oil for insulation and cooling as this greatly reduces energy losses and improves reliability compared to dry type transformers.
The increasing focus on energy efficiency actions might also enforce a substitution of many smaller dry isolated transformers with oil filled transformers.
The arc which occurs in such situations makes the oil evaporate and form combustible gasses.
The fire may also be fed with oil from the tank. If so it will keep burning Two different measures are adopted usually to prevent fire and explosion incidents of this sort:#
and allowing for vacuum filling of oil. However the stiffness that is usually incorporated has an unfortunate side-effect Nordhagen points out.
when the electric arc is burning causing the pressure in the oil and gas to rise dramatically.
Combustible gases and oil can leak out of gaskets and penetrators which may ignite fires or explosions.
Organelles are composed primarily of lipids--substances like fats and oils, so-called secondary gene products for
an element that one day could lessen the world's dependence on oil. Dr. Melanie Mormile professor of biological sciences at Missouri S&t and her team discovered the bacterium Halanaerobium hydrogeninformans in Soap Lake Washington.
Petrochemical and biofuel refineries use materials called zeolites that act as molecular sieves to sort filter and trap chemical compounds as well as catalyze chemical reactions necessary to produce
#Oils fats innovation: Use of nanotechnology in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals A Faculty of science Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) lecturer Professor Dr Mahiran Basri not only succeeded in producing new useful substances made of oils
and fats for the industry but also managed to produce them through environmental-friendly ways. This organic synthesis uses enzymes and it is produced through nanotechnology.
Our focus is to process new substances derived from oils and fats she said in an interview at her office.
and sandwiched a layer of oil in between. Then they carefully injected into the mix individual water droplets that had been infused with tiny magnetic nanoparticles.
#Eco-friendly oil spill solution developed An eco-friendly biodegradable green'herding'agent that can be used to clean up light crude oil spills on water has been developed by researchers.
In the case of oil spills, when they are added along the periphery of an oil spill slick,
they contract and thicken the slick or push slicks together so that they can be collected or burned."
Eco-friendly chemical herders as oil spill mitigation chemicals. Science Advances, June 2015 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv. 140026 6
#New method for rapid authentication of edible oils and screening of gutter oils Researchers in Hong kong have developed a new method for rapid authentication of edible oils and screening of gutter oils.
The Food safety and Technology Research Centre under the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of The Hong kong Polytechnic University (Polyu) has developed a new method for rapid authentication of edible oils and screening
of gutter oils. Authentication of edible oils has been a long-term issue in food safety, and becomes particularly important with the emergence and widespread use of gutter oils in recent years.
However the conventional analytical approach for edible oils is not only labor intensive and time consuming,
but also fails to provide a versatile solution for screening of gutter oils. By setting up a simple analytical protocol and a spectral library of edible oils, the new approach is able to determine the authenticity of a labeled edible oil sample
and hence screened gutter oils within five minutes. The conventional approach for edible oil authentication involves labor-intensive
and time-consuming sample pretreatment and the subsequent chromatographic separation to separate complex sample mixture before mass spectrometric detection, a commonly used technology for identification and quantitation of chemical compounds.
The whole process takes a few hours to analyze one sample. On the other hand identification of gutter oils mainly involves detection of certain food residue markers or toxic and carcinogenic chemicals in the sample.
However, due to the vast diversity of gutter oils, and the fact that target compounds could be removed by processing,
a universal strategy to screen gutter oils is not available at present. Polyu researchers have developed a simplified method for direct analysis of edible oils using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS). In the new MALDI-MS
approach, only simple sample preparation, automatic data acquisition and simple data processing are involved. High quality and highly reproducible MALDI-MS spectra results can be obtained using this method
and a preliminary spectral database of labeled edible oils available in the market has been set up.
Since different types of edible oils have different MALDI-MS spectral patterns, the authenticity of an edible oil sample can then be determined within five minutes by comparing its MALDI-MS spectrum with those of its labeled oil in the established database.
Since this method is capable of authenticating edible oils, it also enables a rapid screening of gutter oils,
given fraudulent mislabeling is a common feature of gutter oils. The related paper has been published recently on Analytica Chimica Acta.
The research team will establish a more complete MALDI spectral library of various edible oils in the coming two years
and improve the library searching technique. In addition, more testing of edible oil samples with different MALDI-MS equipment will be carried out to further validate the new approach h
#Discovery could lead to personalized colon cancer treatment approach A UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center discovery of just how a certain tumor suppressor molecule works to prevent tumor growth could lead to a personalized treatment
approach for colon cancer. In a study published in the journal Nature Medicine, the researchers reported that the tumor-suppressing protein AIM2,
or Absent in Melanoma 2, helps prevent colon cancer by restricting a signaling molecule called Akt.
With this finding, the researchers believe theye found a possible drug target for colon cancer patients who lack the tumor suppressor AIM2. everal studies
and clinical evidence suggest AIM2 functions as a tumor suppressor, but until now, wee had very little direct evidence to explains how this occurs,
and second runner-up Karan Jerath, who efined and tested a novel device that could allow an undersea oil well to rapidly
Running on heavy fuel oil freighters contribute to pollution. The International maritime organization (IMO) wants to reduce the environmental impact of ocean liners.
However, the higher-quality fuel with less sulfur is more expensive than the heavy fuel oil
With Vindskiptm he has designed a type of ship that does not use heavy fuel oil but utilizes wind for propulsion.
With the combination of wind and liquefied natural gas as an alternative fuel to heavy fuel oil, the fuel consumption is estimated to be only 60 percent of a reference ship on average.
and also improve transmission through the lenslet sandwich they used an optical oil, which allows small motors using a minimal amount of force for the mechanical tracking. he vision is that such a microtracking CPV panel could be placed on a roof in the same space as a traditional solar panel
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