Turns out humanity's preferred method of making power and heat for the last million years—burning stuff—isn't the only way to extract energy from fossil fuels. In the process of burning, hydrocarbons ...

Although battery-powered vehicles are making great strides, it’s tough to match the energy densities found in hydrocarbons. So they’ll always be an excellent choice for applications where weight or ...

AN investigation has been made of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons associated with the soot in pre-mixed acetylene–oxygen flames operating at a pressure of 20 mm of mercury. The burner, diameter 5 ...

So what's the secret to the top-shelf energy status of oil, coal, petroleum and natural gas? It comes down to their chemistry, quick response time and being common as muck. Literally. Fossil fuels ...

Throughout the months-long 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists expressed surprise at the development and relatively speedy disappearance of giant plumes of subsea oil and gas that ...

As scientists look for ways to help remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a number of experiments have focused on employing this gas to create usable fuels. Both hydrogen and methanol have ...

Polyamides are present in many different products, such as ropes for mountaineering, parachutes of nylon, and materials for 3D printing. Dicarboxylic acids are used as chemical building blocks for ...

In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists embarked on a research cruise with an urgent mission: determining the fate and impact of hydrocarbon gases escaping ...

The oxygen radicals produced in the plasma generate CO, CO 2, and H 2 O by reacting with carbon compounds, and these generated byproducts are eliminated from the instrument. As per quantum chemistry ...