News articles tagged with 'hydrocarbon'
New study reveals aerosol plumes downwind of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
— 11 Mar 2011 15:52 | EnvironmentScientists from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science were part of a national research team to find two plumes of oil-based pollutants downwind…
Study finds massive flux of gas, in addition to liquid oil, at BP well blowout in Gulf
— 13 Feb 2011 21:13 | EnvironmentA new University of Georgia study that is the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge…
Surprise hidden in Titan's smog: Cirrus-like clouds
— 4 Feb 2011 16:49 | AstronomyEvery day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes' London, the moon looks…
Cardiff scientists make hydrocarbon breakthrough using gold catalyst
— 14 Jan 2011 15:53 | ChemistryResearchers from Cardiff University are opening up a new way of using hydrocarbon feedstocks to make a range of valuable products…
Chemistry for greenhouse gases
— 30 Nov 2010 21:57 | ChemistryIf fossil fuels burn completely, the end products are carbon dioxide and water. Today the carbon dioxide is a waste product, one that goes into the air - adding to global warming; or…
Busy microbial world discovered in deepest ocean crust ever explored
— 20 Nov 2010 10:49 | EnvironmentThe first study to ever explore biological activity in the deepest layer of ocean crust has found bacteria with a remarkable range of capabilities, including eating hydrocarbons and…
'Fracking' mobilises uranium in marcellus shale
— 26 Oct 2010 14:02 | EnvironmentScientific and political disputes over drilling Marcellus shale for natural gas have focused primarily on the environmental effects of pumping millions of gallons of water and chemicals…
New oil detection technique
— 29 Sep 2010 15:44 | TechnologyCSIRO scientists have developed a revolutionary technique for the rapid on-site detection and quantification of petroleum hydrocarbons (commonly derived from crude oil) in soil, silt,…
Nanocatalyst is a gas
— 21 Sep 2010 12:01 | ChemistryA nanoparticle-based catalyst developed at Rice University may give that tiger in your tank a little more roar…
OU GeoChip technology plays critical role in Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil plume study
— 26 Aug 2010 19:49 | EnvironmentA University of Oklahoma technology - GeoChip - played a critical role in an intensive study of the dispersed oil plume that formed at a depth between 3,600 and 4,000 feet some 10 miles…