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UBC Okanagan Researcher Develops New Technique to Produce Biofuels Faster and Cheaper

New study carried out by a Professor of Engineering at UBC’s Okanagan Campus may hold the key to biofuels that are safer, cheaper, and much faster to generate.

14 Jul 2017

Wastewater from Hydraulic Fracturing May Cause Pollution with Radioactive Material

Hydraulic fracturing has led to a domestic gas and oil boom in the U.S.; however, its fast growth has raised questions about the billions of gallons of wastewater that result from this process.

13 Jul 2017

Mercaptans and Hydrogen Sulfide in Crude Oil as per ASTM D3227 and UOP163

In the refining process of crude oil, sulfur compounds are present throughout the entire boiling range of the hydrocarbons. In order to prevent corrosion of pipes and meet the specifications for the final products, various desulfurization treatments are used.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 12 Jul 2017

Environmental Analysis – Dedicated Solution for Online Monitoring of Chromate in Waste Water Streams

Metrohm Process Analytics is pleased to present a solution for the online monitoring of chromate (hexavalent chromium) in industrial waste water streams. This turn-key solution uses photometric determination and is performed on the ICON Analyzer, a dedicated online photometer for water and wastewater analysis.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 12 Jul 2017

Researchers Build Solar Cell Capable of Capturing Almost All Energy of Solar Spectrum

Researchers have designed and created a prototype for a new solar cell that incorporates many cells stacked into a single device capable of trapping almost all of the energy in the solar spectrum.

12 Jul 2017

New Study Reveals that Certain Hotspots in US will Experience Severe Reductions in Crop Yields

A new study by MIT climate scientists, economists, and agriculture experts finds that certain hotspots in the country will experience severe reductions in crop yields by 2050, due to climate change's impact on irrigation.

12 Jul 2017

Researchers Create New Battery Electrode Design from MXene Material

Imagine fully charging a cell phone in just a few seconds. Now, researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering have moved a big step forward in making this reality with their latest work unveiling of a new battery electrode design in the Nature Energy journal.

11 Jul 2017

Ability to Study Cubic Ice in Laboratory Could Aid Climate Change Models

Normally, a freezer will not have these kinds of ice cubes

11 Jul 2017

Meniscus-Assisted Method to Create Very Efficient Perovskite PV Films

A new low-temperature solution printing method allows fabrication of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with large crystals projected to reduce current-robbing grain boundaries. The meniscus-assisted solution printing (MASP) method increases power conversion efficiencies to approximately 20% by manipulating crystal size and orientation.

10 Jul 2017

Study Shows Concrete May Help Reduce Air Pollution

A new study claims that sulfur dioxide (SO2), a huge contributor to air pollution, can be removed from the air by concrete surfaces. Stony Brook University researcher Alex Orlov, Ph.D. and colleagues discovered how concrete interacts and removes sulfur and nitrogen oxides.

10 Jul 2017

Sucking Up Spilt Oil - An Organogelator–Cellulose Composite Material for Practical and Eco-Friendly Marine Oil-Spill Recovery

Image Credits: Angewandte Chemie International Editon Spilt crude oil has repeatedly polluted and even destroyed marine ecosystems. An effective measure would be to remove spilt oil slicks by absorption into a sep...

7 Jul 2017

Novel Biomaterial That Filters Out Harmful Micropollutants Wins Science Award

A granular adsorbent capable of the specific binding and removing of target micro-pollutants, including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, high performance chemicals and heavy metals, from wastewater has won a prestigious materials science award.

6 Jul 2017

Researchers Devise a New Way for Reducing the Amount of Enzymes Needed to Convert Biomass into Biofuels

Experts at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Michigan State University have worked on making it almost possible for biofuels such as ethanol in U.S. gasoline to become cheaper.

6 Jul 2017

Researchers Develop New Method to Create Pure Hydrogen Efficiently

Christopher J. Kiely, Harold B. Chambers Senior Professor, Materials Science and Engineering at Lehigh University, along with an international team have created a new low-temperature catalyst for making high-purity hydrogen gas while using up carbon monoxide (CO) at the same time.

6 Jul 2017

Exciting New Material Developed by Swansea Scientists Uses Solar Energy to Remove Man-Made Dye Pollutants from Water

A novel composite material has been developed by scientists in the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University which shows promise as a catalyst for the degradation of environmentally-harmful synthetic dye pollutants, which are released at a rate of nearly 300,000 tonnes a year into the world’s water.

6 Jul 2017