New Hampshire college heats campus with used cooking oil
Things are heating up at New Hampshire's Keene State College, which is now using 100 percent used cooking oil to keep more than a third of its campus warm.
Energy & Green Tech
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Reclaiming industrial waste water in minutes
Treatment of industrial waste water is one of the biggest and most urgent environmental challenges of our time. All major energy production and manufacturing industries require water as a critical input. In 2013, Statistics ...
Materials Science
Sep 2, 2016
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Fuel made from recycled plastic could power ship engines
New research will test whether Plaxx, a fuel made from mixed plastic waste, can be used as an alternative to crude derived fuels in industrial and marine engines.
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 28, 2016
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Is lignin the crude oil of the future? Maybe so, thanks to the sun and photocatalysts
We associate refineries with crude oil and a dense tangle of technical fittings. They may, however, change in the future, if crude oil is replaced by lignin, a product currently treated as industrial waste. The research route ...
Materials Science
Feb 5, 2016
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Converting olive mash into cash
An experimental system to create heat and power with waste from olive oil processing is up-and-running in Spain. Carina Lagergren, a researcher from Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology, says the system shows a promising ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 26, 2015
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Video: Chemists develop new process for producing cleaner, cheaper diesel fuel
Diesel—we know it best as the fuel that does the heavy lifting.
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 22, 2014
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Another concern arises over groundwater contamination from fracking accidents
The oil and gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, could potentially contribute more pollutants to groundwater than past research has suggested, according to a new study in ACS' journal Environmental ...
Environment
Jun 25, 2014
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Video: Using microbes to generate bioplastics
European scientists are experimenting with bacteria and algae and turn them into bioplastic factories. Their vision: these microorganisms should produce a large portion of our plastic materials without any petroleum.
Materials Science
Mar 12, 2014
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Paper waste could be the solution to oil spills
(Phys.org)—Every year approximately 3 billion tonnes of waste are generated in the European Union. But not everything that gets thrown away is necessarily junk; in fact as one European research project is proving, one person's ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 25, 2012
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Report highlights eco-friendly brick research
A technique developed at the University of Leeds that makes carbon-negative bricks from waste materials is featured in a new report on the social and economic benefits of academic research.
Environment
Oct 25, 2012
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