Methanol is a high-demand industrial chemical used to make many products people use every day as fuel for ships and ...
Inside a submerged glass tube, tiny bolts of plasma pulse through bubbling methane gas. It looks like miniature lightning, ...
People often muse over catching lightning in a bottle, and what an amazing feat it would be. But have you ever wondered what ...
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US: Scientists catch ‘lightning in a bottle’ to convert methane into clean fuel
Researchers at Northwestern University in the US have successfully produced methanol from methane gas ...
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Northwestern turns methane into methanol using "bottled lightning"
A small glass tube, a copper coating, and a burst of plasma no hotter than room temperature. That is the setup behind a new ...
Enhancing with argon. To further enhance the process, the team diluted methane with argon, which is typically an inert noble ...
Professor Dayne Swearer found that bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol without high heat and pressures.
Lightning in a bottle, in a literal sense, may be the key to new, clean energy by reducing carbon emissions in methanol ...
The findings potentially resolve a long-standing issue with methanol conversion, which has tended to be clunky, inefficient, ...
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Northwestern chemists convert natural gas to liquid fuel at mild conditions
A team at Northwestern University has figured out how to turn methane into methanol in a single step, at room temperature, ...
By harnessing tiny bursts of plasma — or mini “lightning bolts” — in glass tubes submerged in water, the researchers ...
By harnessing tiny bursts of plasma - or mini "lightning bolts" - in glass tubes submerged in water, the team has ...
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