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• Lightning and subvisible discharges produce molecules that clean the atmosphere
  

  Lightning bolts break apart nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere and create reactive chemicals that affect greenhouse gases. Now, a team of atmospheric chemists and lightning scientists have found that lightning bolts and, surprisingly, subvisible discharges that cannot be seen by cameras more

• Carbon-neutral “biofuel” from lakes
  

  Lakes store huge amounts of methane. In a new study, environmental scientists at the University of Basel offer suggestions for how it can be extracted and used as an energy source in the form of methanol. Discussion about the current climate crisis usually focuses on carbon dioxide (CO2). The green more

• Gold-phosphorus nanosheets catalyzes nature gas to greener energy selectively
  

  Advances in hydraulic fracturing technology have enabled discovery of large reserves of natural gas which primarily contains methane, which is mainly burned directly and causing global warming potentially. Upgrading methane to greener energy such as methanol through aerobic oxidation is an ideal way more

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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