Green Car Congress
MARCH 31, 2013
A breach in ExxonMobil’s Pegasus crude oil pipeline occurred late Friday afternoon near Mayflower, AR (about 20 miles north northwest of Little Rock and at the southeastern end of the Lake Conway reservoir). Efforts are being made to keep oil away from Lake Conway. Route of the Pegasus pipeline. Source: ExxonMobil. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2012
Novozymes has developed a fungus that enables production of malic acid from renewable raw materials instead of oil. Malic acid is used as a flavor enhancer in the food industry and can be converted into other chemical derivatives used for a variety of plastic, polymer and resin products. C 4 acids can be converted into 1.4-butanediol
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 2, 2015
In the wake of the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster (583 killed in a post-crash fireball), researchers looked into the possibility of using ultralong, associative polymers as a fuel additive to increase the drop diameter in the post-impact mist, thereby limiting the event to a relatively cool, short-lived fire.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 4, 2009
Using CO 2 injection for enhanced oil recovery (EOR)—an established commercial practice that currently annually consumes some 50 million metric tons of CO 2 (the majority from natural accumulations)—has also been identified as a method of sequestering CO 2 captured from industrial sources, such as power plants. CO 2 flooding for oil recovery.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2009
Thanks to the most aggressive economic strategy of any state in the country, Michigan, the global center of automotive research and development, is positioned to lessen the nation's dependence on foreign oil and become the advanced battery capital of the world. Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2015
CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. CRI is presenting at the 4 th Conference on CO 2 as Feedstock for Fuels, Chemistry and Polymers , being held at the end of September in Essen, Germany. Methanol in China.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 28, 2014
liter, normally-aspirated V8 engine used from 2006 to 2013 is replaced by a turbo 1.6-liter Oil thins at higher temperatures; thus, a hotter engine needs a thicker oil to stop metal components from rubbing together and failing. This requires thinner, faster flowing oil. Again, this requires thinner oil. The F1 W05.
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