News tagged with combustion heater

New biomass heater: A 'new era' of efficiency and sustainability

Millions of homes in rural areas of Far Eastern countries are heated by charcoal burned on small, hibachi-style portable grills. Scientists in Japan are now reporting development of an improved “biomass charcoal combustion ...

Chemistry /

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

New biomass charcoal heater: A 'new era' of efficiency and sustainability

Millions of homes in rural areas of Far Eastern countries are heated by charcoal burned on small, hibachi-style portable grills. Scientists in Japan are now reporting development of an improved "biomass charcoal ...

Chemistry /

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0




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Robots in the classroom

Tore Fløan smiles at me: “In the past we competed with European organizations, but now we have the Chinese breathing down our necks,” he says.

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hydrogen power in real life

Since 2009, a hydrogen powered street cleaning vehicle has been undergoing testing on the streets. The project is intended to take hydrogen drives out of the laboratory in order to gain experience on using ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 37

Graphene foam detects explosives, emissions better than today's gas sensors

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute demonstrates how graphene foam can outperform leading commercial gas sensors in detecting potentially dangerous and explosive chemicals. The ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

A surprising new vehicle for drug delivery?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Are our bodies vulnerable to some pollutants whose lack of solubility in water, or "hydrophobicity," has always been thought to protect us from them? New Tel Aviv University research has discovered ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA thruster test aids future robotic lander's ability to land safely

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., collaborated with NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, Calif., to successfully ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Plants' response to fire tested

A team from the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA) has developed a new method for identifying the flammability of plant species by using a device that measures how ...

Other Sciences / Other

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

Mobile home owners have many ways to increase energy efficiency

Of the 413,000 housing units in Montana in 2000, about 59,000 were mobile homes. However, almost half of existing mobile homes were manufactured before 1976, when a federal housing code was passed that required them to be ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Oil spray reduces greenhouse gas emissions from pig finishing barns

Animal feeding operations are an important emission source of air pollutants including methane and carbon dioxide—known greenhouse gases. Recent inventories suggest that animal manure makes a significant contribution to global ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers helping to take the natural gas out of ethanol production

It takes a lot of natural gas to run an ethanol plant. A plant needs steam to liquefy corn starch and heat to distill alcohol and more heat to dry the leftover distillers grains.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 26, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Device burns fuel with almost zero emissions

Georgia Tech researchers have created a new combustor (combustion chamber where fuel is burned to power an engine or gas turbine) designed to burn fuel in a wide range of devices - with next to no emission ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 21, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 0


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