New catalyst improves methane combustion

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A chemical engineering professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, developed a new catalyst that can improve methane combustion. Dr Jackie Ying collaborated with with Dr Andrey J Zarur, vice president of technology at Starlab in Brussels, Belgium, to create a new barium hexaaluminate catalyst via a reverse microemulsion. The procedure can enhance processes in the production of chemicals where catalysts are destroyed when temperatures rises 1,000 degree Celsius.

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Vegetable oil yields better biodiesel fuel

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A catalytic process can turn vegetable oils into a high-grade biodiesel fuel faster, according to Robert Fox and Dan Ginosaur, researchers at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho Falls, ID. The new technology, which is less expensive than current processes, removes the need for a base liquid, water to rinse away the acid, and acid to neutralize the base.

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Understanding agglomeration

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Keeping bulk solid dry and removing fines from particulate solids are some of the ways to avoid unwanted agglomeration. Solid bridges, adhesion and cohesion forces and interlocking bonds are some of the different types of binding mechanisms that make agglomeration possible.

Manufacturing processes, Chemical preparations, not elsewhere classified, Binders & Hardeners, Methods, Production processes, Control, Binders (Materials), Varieties, Mechanical properties, Agglomeration, Agglomeration (Materials)

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