Researchers from NUS Faculty of Engineering have come up with a novel wastewater purification system that can remove up to 99 per cent of hard-to-treat organic compounds found in industrial wastewater.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
6 Dec 2017
The Diesel Technology Forum has issued a statement on the occasion of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) public hearing concerning heavy duty emissions standards:
Industrial ethanol, a first-generation biofuel, is synthesized from foodstuffs such as maize, and hence presents considerable worry in relation to a probable future food shortage. Hence it would be wise to synthesize ethanol from non-food biomass such as waste paper, weeds, paper cup, and so on—that is, second-generation biofuel ethanol.
One of the main challenges faced by the shipping industry is the quick covering of the ships’ hulls by marine organisms such as algae, barnacles, or muscles and the subsequent deterioration of their paintwork.
Globally, the United States is among the major emitters of greenhouse gas. The Obama government initiated attempts to decrease the figures by improving the standards of vehicle fuel economy in the year 2011 and by introducing its Clean Power Plan (CPP) proposals in the year 2015.
FuelCell Energy, an international company dealing with clean, innovative, and economical fuel cell solutions for the supply, recovery, and storage of energy, has just reported the execution of a hydrogen and power off-take agreement with Toyota, highlighting a unique collaboration in which Toyota will buy renewable hydrogen for vehicle fueling produced on-site from a multi-megawatt SureSourceTM fuel cell power plant situated at the Port of Long Beach in California.
MIT has been forging ahead on strategies to implement the Institute's Plan for Action on Climate Change, which was adopted in 2015.
Caltech's Frances Arnold, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, and her team, in feat of bioengineering, have formed bacteria that can, for the first time, make chemical compounds having bonds between carbon and boron. Before now, such boron-carbon bonds were formed only in the laboratories of chemists and could not be created by any known life form.
With maximum operating temperatures of 150°C and compatibility with petrochemical products including aromatics, Amazon Filters SupaSpun II Nylon filter cartridges provide unmatched performance for use in refineries and o...
The Asynt GP540 is a new bench-mounted, general-purpose, ventilated laboratory cabinet designed for use in a wide-range of applications.
In the modern laboratory, where space is always at a premium, the compact GP...
Grid operators need to do more than just distributing the electricity produced by photovoltaic plants and wind farms. They have to ensure a regular quality of supply as well. It is a complex issue to achieve this with the available components and systems.
Carbon dioxide is a waste product from industry and is, in part, responsible for global warming and the associated rising temperatures. But what if this greenhouse gas could be turned into useful compounds such as fuel and chemical feedstock?
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
29 Nov 2017
Until recently, acreage was chosen for either photosynthesis or photovoltaics, that is, to produce grow crops or electricity. An agrophotovoltaics (APV) pilot project near Lake Constance, however, has currently showed that both uses are compatible.
A research team at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has designed a prototype device that simulates natural photosynthesis to synthesize ethylene gas by using just water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide.
On a break from his studies in the MIT Media Lab, Anirudh Sharma SM '14 traveled home to Mumbai, India. While there, he noticed that throughout the day his T-shirts were gradually accumulating something that resembled dirt.