Green Car Congress
JANUARY 18, 2018
Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have shown for the first time that road dust is photochemically active; i.e., sunlight causes chemical reactions in the dust. Styler (2018) “Photochemical Production of Singlet Oxygen by Urban Road Dust” Environmental Science & Technology Letters doi: 10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00533.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2016
A team of researchers University of South Florida is using naturally occurring fungi to drive an environmentally friendly recycling process to extract cobalt and lithium from tons of waste batteries. It is unclear how many electronic products are recycled. —Jeffrey A. Cunningham, Ph.D., project team leader.
Green Car Congress
JULY 16, 2017
The skepticism shown by a majority of financial analysts and oil commentators about the real threat to global oil (and gas) production volumes was countered by the news that the production at Saudi Aramco’s main offshore oil field, Manifa, has been hit by technical problems. The Saudi situation is not different from its neighbors.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 7, 2016
Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new system combining hydrodynamic cavitation with sodium percarbonate (SP) (an environmentally benign oxidation reagent) for the efficient pre-treatment of biomass. The HD-SP system also resulted in further increases in the production rate and yield of xylose.
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