News tagged with urea


Diesel Truck With Urea SCR Tank

Urea tanks on diesel trucks -- that's the law in the United States starting in 2010

Technology / Other

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Urea tanks will be standard equipment for most new diesel trucks, buses, cars, and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) manufactured in the United States after Jan. 1, 2010. An automotive grade of urea will be injected ...





Search results for urea


Studying Fertilizers to Cut Greenhouse Gases

Studying Fertilizers to Cut Greenhouse Gases

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that using alternative types of fertilizers can cut back on greenhouse gas emissions, at least in one part of the country. They are ...


New insights into the physiology of cockroaches

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study by scientists from the University of Valencia sheds new light on how the cockroach organism works. A research team from the Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, led by professors Amparo ...


With Help from a Bacterium, Cockroaches Develop Way to Store Excess Uric Acid

With Help from a Bacterium, Cockroaches Develop Way to Store Excess Uric Acid

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What life form can use materials as nutrients that we, and most other animals, would consider waste products?


Gasoline Pumps

Gasoline-diesel 'cocktail': A potent recipe for cleaner, more efficient engines

Technology / Energy

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diesel and gasoline fuel sources both bring unique assets and liabilities to powering internal combustion engines. But what if an engine could be programmed to harvest the best properties ...


urine

Producing hydrogen from urine

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (52) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- You do two things at motorway services: fill up one tank and empty another. US chemists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract ...


Sleeping through dialysis: No nightmare for kidney patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dialysis takes hours of kidney disease patients' time several days a week, so why not do it at night while sleeping? Overnight dialysis is more convenient for some patients and offers significant benefits over shorter daytime ...


Anti-microbial catheter to cut infection risk for dialysis patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Medical experts at The University of Nottingham have shown that an innovative anti-microbial catheter could vastly improve treatment and the quality of life for many community-based dialysis patients.


Clinical trial backs use of special yogurt to fight stomach ulcer bacteria

Clinical trial backs use of special yogurt to fight stomach ulcer bacteria

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Results of the first human clinical studies confirm that a new yogurt fights the bacteria that cause gastritis and stomach ulcers with what researchers describe as almost vaccine-like effects, scientists in ...


Updated formula measures kidney function more accurately

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Measuring kidney function in children can be expensive, time-consuming for clinicians, and tedious for children, who may be exposed to radioactivity and subjected to a large number of blood draws. A new calculation eliminates ...


A drug could improve the memory of those with Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A drug used in a type of hereditary metabolic disorder improved the memory of laboratory animals with Alzheimer's disease. The results of the project, developed by researchers of the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA) ...



List of search results for urea