article thumbnail

Researchers demonstrate new nickel selenide catalyst for more efficient water splitting

Green Car Congress

A team of researchers from Missouri University of Science and Technology and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece have developed a highly efficient transition metal selenide-based coordination complex, [Ni{(SePiPr 2 ) 2 N} 2 ] for oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions (OER and HER, respectively) in alkaline solution.

Water 150
article thumbnail

Study characterizes arc welding fume particles to advance understanding of health impacts

Green Car Congress

A team from the Far Eastern Federal University in Russia, with other colleagues in Russia and Greece, has focused on the key characteristics, as well as dispersion models, of welding fumes within a work zone. Resources. Arc welding generates welding fume that is hazardous for human health. —Kirichenko et al. Agoshkov, V.

Russia 255
article thumbnail

Study finds engines emit exhaust nanoparticles even when not fueled during engine braking

Green Car Congress

The study by researchers in Finland and Greece, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , suggests that both the characteristics of these particles and the mechanism by which they form seem to differ significantly from those of soot and nucleation particles. —Rönkkö et al.

Exhaust 319
article thumbnail

Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

Green Car Congress

—co-author Karen McGlathery, a scientist at the University of Virginia and NSF’s Virginia Coast Reserve LTER site. The research also estimates that, although seagrass meadows occupy less than 0.2% of the world’s oceans, they are responsible for more than 10% of all carbon buried annually in the sea. Fourqurean, Carlos M.

Carbon 199
article thumbnail

Researchers show oil palm plantation expansion a significant source of CO2; projected to contribute more than all of Canada’s current fossil fuel emissions by 2020

Green Car Congress

Its expanding production is driving rainforest destruction and massive carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study led by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities. The total allocated leases spanned about 120,000 square kilometers, an area slightly smaller than Greece. and Catherine T. Kimberly M. Carlson, Lisa M.

Oil 273
article thumbnail

EU investing >€3M in research into ultra-efficient aero engines; ULTIMATE project

Green Car Congress

Results from the project will be used in industry roadmapping to plan technology acquisition for future aero engines. It is anticipated that these sophisticated technological solutions would bring many high technology jobs to Europe. Grönstedt, T.

Engine 150
article thumbnail

EU-Funded Project Targets Sustainable Production of Ethyl Levulinate from Biomass as Diesel Miscibile Biofuel

Green Car Congress

Michael Hayes of the Carbolea Research Group at the University of Limerick in Ireland, the DIBANET co-ordinator. In addition to the Carbolea Research Group, the DIBANET consortium comprises partners from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Greece, Hungary and the UK. Hayes, Carbolea Research Group, University of Limerick).

Diesel 218