News tagged with soot
Fuel from market waste
Mushy tomatoes, brown bananas and overripe cherries -- to date, waste from wholesale markets has ended up on the compost heap at best. In future it will be put to better use: Researchers have developed a new ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 09, 2012 |
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NIST releases first certified reference material for single-wall carbon nanotubes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the world’s first reference material for single-wall carbon nanotube soot. Distantly related to the soot in your fireplace ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 21, 2011 |
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A dance of aerosols: Study shows plant-sourced particles pick and choose their partners
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the complex molecular mixer that is the atmosphere, some molecules dance with others and some are wallflowers, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Using a ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2011 |
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China's pollution data shrouded in official fog
(AP) -- Armed with a device that looks like an old transistor radio, some Beijing residents are recording pollution levels and posting them online. It's an act that borders on subversion.
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Urban 'heat island' effect is a small part of global warming; white roofs don't reduce it
Cities release more heat to the atmosphere than the rural vegetated areas around them, but how much influence these urban "heat islands" have on global warming has been a matter of debate. Now a study by Stanford researchers ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Clean soot particle filters
The soot particle filters found on diesel vehicles are designed to ensure that no harmful particles make their way through the exhaust pipe. Often, though, the exhaust from newer-model engines is not hot enough ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Cutting soot emissions: Fastest, most economical way to slow global warming
A new study of dust-like particles of soot in the air — now emerging as the second most important -- but previously overlooked -- factor in global warming provides fresh evidence that reducing soot emissions from diesel ...
Aug 31, 2011 |
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NASA measures wildfire pollution pour over Niagara Falls
Water isn't the only thing pouring over Niagara Falls. Pollution from fires in Ontario, Canada is also making the one thousand mile trip, while being measured by NASA's Aqua satellite.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2011 |
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New EPA rule will clean the air for 240 million Americans
Pollution that blows hundreds of miles from coal-fired power plants into other states will be reduced under a final plan that the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday.
Jul 10, 2011 |
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Space Image: Aflame
Fire acts differently in space than on Earth. Sandra Olson, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center, demonstrates just how differently in her art. This artwork is comprised of multiple overlays ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Five myths about diesel engines
(PhysOrg.com) -- Diesel engines, long confined to trucks and ships, are garnering more interest for their fuel efficiency and reduced carbon dioxide emissions, relative to gasoline engines. Argonne mechanical ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Curb soot and smog to keep Earth cool, says UN
Sharply reducing emissions of soot and smog could play a critical role in preventing Earth from overheating, according to a UN report released on Tuesday.
Jun 14, 2011 |
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An analyzer to measure the quantity and size of pollutants and aerosols in smoke emission
Chiang Mai University researchers invented an analyzer capable of measuring the quantity and size of pollutants and aerosols in smoke emissions, providing an equally accurate, lower-priced, local Thai substitute for pollution ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Space image: Burning
(PhysOrg.com) -- Because of the absence of gravity, fuels burning in space behave very differently than they do on Earth. In this image, a 3-millimeter diameter droplet of heptane fuel burns in microgravity, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 26, 2011 |
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Scientists measure Arctic soot in bid to slow global warming, oceans' rise
American scientists working on an island far above the Arctic Circle have been launching unmanned aircraft and digging snow samples to measure how soot helps melt Arctic snow and ice.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 11, 2011 |
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