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• Chemists to capture atmospheric methane with sugar
  

  Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Science are in the process of finding out. Methane gas is 86 times more potent than CO2 and one of the major contributors to global warming. It is estimated that methane accounts for 30 percent of all global warming from gaseous emissions. Meg more

• Green gas to fight climate change
  

  Electrochaea has completed the engineering for the first standardized 10 MWe biomethanation plant designed for commercial operation. A 10 MWe plant can produce several million cubic meters of renewable synthetic methane per year that replaces any use of fossil natural gas. Electrochaea offers a prov more

• Researchers to engineer synthetic anaerobic bacteria to capture, convert methane
  

  Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is 25 times more damaging to the environment per molecule than carbon dioxide, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Bacteria at the bottom of the sea can remove methane from their surroundings, entirely without oxygen, through a process calle more

Infographics Methane

The Atmospheres of the Solar System

We’re heading out of this world for today’s post, to examine the atmospheric compositions of the other planets in the solar system, as well as our own. Practically every other planet in our solar system can be considered to have an atmosphere, apart from perhaps the extremely thin, transient atmosph more

Publications Methane

• The environmental biorefinery: state of the art on the production of hydrogen and value-added biomolecules in mixed-culture fermentation

  The environmental biorefinery consists in recovering and adding value to waste, possibly through a multi-product approach. A first implementation of such concept is the production of methane and nutrient-rich digestate by anaerobic digestion in biogas plants. However, methane and digestate have only more

• Materials, Vol. 11, Pages 1094: Optimization of the Iron Ore Direct Reduction Process through Multiscale Process Modeling

  Materials, Vol. 11, Pages 1094: Optimization of the Iron Ore Direct Reduction Process through Multiscale Process Modeling Materials doi: 10.3390/ma11071094 Authors: Rami Béchara Hamzeh Hamadeh Olivier Mirgaux Fabrice Patisson Iron ore direct reduction is an attractive alternativ more

• Near-infrared incoherent broadband cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy (NIR-IBBCEAS) for detection and quantification of natural gas components

  The principle of near-infrared incoherent broadband cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy was employed to develop a novel instrument for detecting natural gas leaks as well as for testing the quality of natural gas mixtures. The instrument utilizes the absorption features of methane, butane, ethan more