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Cyclone Power Technologies Performs Combustion Tests of Gulf Crude Oil
POMPANO BEACH, Fla - Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets: CYPW) has successfully performed combustion acceptability tests of crude oil recovered from the Gulf of Mexico with its award-winning, heat-regenerative external combustion engine. During the tests, Cyclone ignited a small amount of crude oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon accident through its combustion chamber fuel ...
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Alfa Chemistry Launches Testing Services on Toys, Semiconductor Materials, and Plastic Films
Material testing is a way to examine the exact chemical composition of samples, which has become increasingly important and often serves as a strategy for failure identification while in use. Alfa Chemistry, a chemical product and service provider, has been conducting analytical testing for various materials utilizing its advanced research laboratory. Earlier this month, the company finally ...
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Industrial Combustible Dust Tragedies can be Prevented
One year ago, a combustible dust explosion killed a worker at the Hoeganaes facility in Gallatin, Tennessee. During the same year there were additional two accidents at the plant that have been linked to combustible dust resulting in several additional deaths and injuries. The investigation found that significant amounts of fine iron powder had accumulated over time at the facility and the ...
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U.S. announces innovative clean air agreement for industrial flares with Marathon Petroleum Company
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice today announced an innovative environmental agreement with Ohio-based Marathon Petroleum Company that already has significantly reduced air pollution from all six of the company’s petroleum refineries. In a first for the refining industry, Marathon has agreed to state-of-the-art controls on combustion devices known ...
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CCS is moving forward
Two large components arrived today at the pilot plant for CO2 capture in Buggenum, the Netherlands. Through its subsidiary Nuon, Vattenfall is now actively working with development of three different carbon capture technologies. Important parts of the CO2 capture pilot are put into place today. The pilot is located at the Willem Alexander power plant in Buggenum and will start up operations in ...
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EPA Comfort Letter Provides Fuel Customers Added Assurance
An Environmental Protection Agency Comfort Letter recently issued regarding WastAway’s SE3™ fuel provides users solid assurances of regulatory compliance as a non-waste material, compatibility with fossil fuels, and significantly low levels of contamination. “This means the EPA concurs with our product’s capability to more cleanly utilize coal fuel resources,” said ...
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Metso and Fortum`s joint development work on oxyfuel combustion technology makes headway
Project aims to considerably reduce CO2 emissions Metso Corporation's press release on May 16, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. local time In a joint R&D project, Metso and Fortum have developed oxyfuel combustion technology that aims to reduce the CO2 emissions of power plants. In 2010, Metso's 4-MW test plant in Tampere, Finland, was modified for oxyfuel combustion, resulting in the biggest ...
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SwRI, Industry Collaborators Receive $3.8 Million from U.S. DOE to Develop Concentrating Solar Power Combustor for Solar Plants
Southwest Research Institute and industry collaborators Solar Turbines Inc., Oak Ridge National Laboratories, German Aerospace Center and San Diego State University have been awarded a $3.8 million contract by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a novel gas turbine combustor for a concentrating solar power (CSP) hybrid gas turbine system. The award was ...
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Air Products Collaborates with Huazhong University of Science and Technology to Drive Clean Energy with Focus on Advanced Combustion Technology
Air Products (NYSE: APD), a leading global industrial gases and performance materials supplier, today announced it has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and a joint research and development (R&D) agreement with Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China on clean energy. The collaboration between Air Products and the State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion ...
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Mobile carbon capture technology removes 1000 kg CO2/day from Polish coal power plant
Power plants are a major source of CO2 emissions and contributor to global warming. This study reports on a portable technology to remove CO2 from their combustion exhaust gases. Pilot testing on a coal burning plant in Poland captured thousands of kilograms of CO2 per day. This could be a viable future means of mitigating CO2 emissions from the power generation sector. The average temperatures ...
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GoodCents & Dominion East Ohio Partner to Offer Updated Home Performance Program
GoodCents is partnering with Dominion East Ohio to offer an updated program to better assist customers in reducing their gas bills. The Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® Program helps homeowners reduce their heating bills while making their homes more comfortable and energy efficient. The program fee has been reduced to $50 and includes a comprehensive assessment of the home by a BPI ...
By Dominion
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ASTM D975 - 11b Standard Specification for Diesel Fuel Oils
This specification covers seven grades of diesel fuel oils suitable for various types of diesel engines. These grades are: Grade No. 1-D S15; Grade No. 1-D S500; Grade No. 1-D S5000; Grade No. 2-D S15; Grade No. 2-D S500; Grade No. 2-D S5000; and Grade No. 4-D. The requirements specified for diesel fuel oils shall be determined in accordance with the following test methods: flash point; cloud ...
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Air-powered cars to be manufactured in India after developer signs licensing agreement
One of the great success stories of recent technological history is carbon fiber. Light, stronger than steel and corrosion proof, it’s used in everything from airplanes to fishing rods to sailboat masts. Without carbon fiber composites Guy Negre wouldn’t have his air powered cars. It’s the super strong carbon fiber pressure tanks that make the cars possible. Soon cars running on compressed air ...
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ASTM D7484 - 11 Standard Test Method for evaluation of automotive engine oils for valve-train wear performance in Cummins ISB medium-duty diesel engine
This test method was developed to assess the performance of a heavy-duty engine oil in controlling engine wear under operating conditions selected to accelerate soot production and valve-train wear in a turbocharged and aftercooled four-cycle diesel engine with sliding tappet followers equipped with exhaust gas recirculation hardware. The design of the engine used ...
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ASTM C578 - 11a standard specification for rigid, cellular polystyrene thermal insulation
This specification covers the standards for the types, physical properties and dimensions of cellular polystyrene boards with or without facings or coatings made by molding (EPS) or extrusion (XPS) of expandable polystyrene proposed for use as thermal insulation. This specification, however, does not cover ...
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ASTM C578 - 11b standard specification for rigid, cellular polystyrene thermal insulation
This specification covers the standards for the types, physical properties and dimensions of cellular polystyrene boards with or without facings or coatings made by molding (EPS) or extrusion (XPS) of expandable polystyrene proposed for use as thermal insulation. This specification, however, does not cover laminated products manufactured with any type of rigid board facer including ...
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ASTM C1594 - 11 Standard Specification for Polyimide Rigid Cellular Thermal Insulation
This specification establishes the composition and physical properties of rigid polyimide cellular foams intended for use as thermal and sound-isolating insulation in commercial and industrial environments. The polyimide insulations covered are classified into three types (Types I, II, and III) according to closed cell content, and into four grades (Grades ...
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Less CO2 emissions with new diesel from renewable energy sources
This week in Berlin, Daimler AG, Deutsche Post DHL, the energy group OMV, the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG public transportation company, and the Finnish oil company Neste Oil took part in a discussion-oriented event titled “Diesel from renewable sources — A step toward zero-emission transportation?”. At the event, the companies presented the initial results of their joint pilot test project ...
By Neste
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