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The Importance of Surface Area and Adsorbents

Posted by Mr. Green at 3:17 pm on May 10 2012
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Large Surface Area is Key to a Valuable Adsorbent Why is surface area key to a quality adsorbent? Before we talk about surface area it’s helpful  to understand how adsorption works. Adsorbents work by adsorbing liquids or vapors into pores on their surface.  The adsorption process doesn’t truly absorb the vapor or liquid that’s running through...

Ethanol Plant: Molecular Sieve Bed Precautions

Posted by Mr. Green at 2:51 pm on April 25 2012
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6 Precautions to Consider While Dehydrating Ethanol   Purifying ethanol requires running your distilled ethanol through molecular sieve beds in order to produce over 99% pure ethanol.  In order to dehydrate ethanol thoroughly most plants require that you have ten’s if not hundred’s of thousands of pounds of sieve installed in your vessels. Making...

How to Prepare Your Vessel for Unloading Molecular Sieve

Posted by Mr. Ethanol at 2:22 pm on April 19 2012
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8 Useful Guidelines Before Doing a Complete Molecular Sieve Change Out You have decided to replace your molecular sieve, and now it’s time to load in what may be thousands upon thousands of pounds of molecular sieve in your vessel (of course the amount of sieve you load in depends on the size of your vessel).  What can you do to prepare your vessel before unloading...

Before You Unload Your Molecular Sieve…

Posted by Mr. Green at 2:05 pm on April 05 2012
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8 Steps to Prepare Your Vessel for Unloading Molecular Sieve    You have decided to replace your molecular sieve, and now it’s time to load in what may be thousands upon thousands of pounds of molecular sieve in your vessel (of course the amount of sieve you load in depends on the size of your vessel).  What can you do to prepare your vessel before...

Arundo Donax: An Old Plant, A New Source Of Energy

Posted by Mr. Green at 3:31 pm on March 29 2012
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Great Biofuel Potential For A Non-Edible Plant What is Arundo Donax? Arundo Donax is a large cane plant that is native to Asia and parts of Africa.  It is currently showing great potential as a biofuel producing plant, and as a feedstock for producing cellulosic ethanol.  Despite being native to these portions of the world humans have brought it to Europe...

Your Molecular Sieve Needs Support!

Posted by Mr. Ethanol at 2:39 pm on March 14 2012
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The Guide To Supporting Your Molecular Sieve Beds The use of molecular sieve supports such as screens and ceramic balls are very important for the industrial use of molecular sieve.  Ceramic balls prevent adsorbent from leaking on the screens that have been placed below them, and the screens keep the molecular sieve separate from the ceramic balls. In an industrial...

Solutions Looking For A Problem: Nitrogen Lasers and Carbon Molecular Sieve

Posted by Mr. Green at 10:49 am on March 08 2012
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Carbon Molecular Sieve and Producing Nitrogen Lasers   First invented in 1960 the laser was first called the solution looking for a problem.  More than fifty years later lasers have become an invaluable part of human technology. Today uses for lasers range from being used in material processing endeavors such as laser cutting, welding, and bending, to reading...

The Activated Carbon Standard

Posted by Mr. Green at 11:03 am on March 01 2012
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Carbon in Pulp Helps to Purify Gold Gold is one of the most historically significant, valuable, and precious naturally occurring metals that exists here on Earth.  Its history with humans has been both beautiful and tumultuous:a lot of people personally choose to wear gold as rings or other jewelry to symbolize marriage or wealth, while wars have been started...

5A Molecular Sieve’s Role In Hydrogen Production

Posted by Mr. Green at 10:45 am on February 23 2012
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The Steam-Methane Reforming Process Purifies Hydrogen Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the Universe (also the lightest) is actually rare to find in a pure form here on Earth.  This is due to hydrogen’s willingness to bond with other atoms and molecules.  Despite its abundance it needs to be separated from these other atoms and molecules in order...

Molecular Sieve Crystal Structure Determines the Size of Its Pores

Posted by Mr. Green at 3:39 pm on February 09 2012
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Molecular Sieve Basics: Crystals Help Determine the Pore Size of Molecular Sieve This article is a kind of a continuation on an article we wrote in 2011 that discusses the pores sizes of molecular sieve. Molecular sieve are crystalline metal aluminosilicates that belong to the zeolite family.  That means that the molecules and atoms that make up a molecular sieve...

The Mineral You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, But Couldn’t Live Without

Posted by Mr. Green at 2:44 pm on February 01 2012
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The Far Reaching Effect Zeolite Has On Everyday Human Lives   Some of the natural occurring forms of zeolite that can be seen on Earth.   Before reading this article here are four questions to consider: Have you ever drank a glass of tap water? Have you ever been to a hospital and seen someone receive medical oxygen? Do you heat up your home with gas? Have...

Removing Fluoride From Water

Posted by Mr. Green at 10:56 am on January 25 2012
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Activated Alumina Works To Lower Fluoride to Safe Levels in Drinking Water   Water fluoridation is a double edged sword.  In the U.S. fluoride has been added to most water streams in order to help prevent tooth decay.  (I should mention fluoride naturally occurs in a lot of drinking water sources throughout the world).  However fluoride can be damaging...

Ethanol Creates Energy Gains III

Posted by Mr. Green at 11:04 am on January 18 2012
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Part 3:  Trends in Ethanol Energy Gains and the Energy Contributions of Ethanol Co-Products This is the final blog article that discusses ethanol’s ability to produce energy gains.  The previous two articles focused on proving that ethanol is currently producing positive energy gains and proving that the primary research done by David Pimentel (research...

Ethanol Creates Energy Gains II

Posted by Mr. Green at 2:55 pm on January 11 2012
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Part 2: Disputing Pimentel’s Ethanol Research   This is the second article in a three part series that focuses on debunking the myth that ethanol production creates a net energy loss. Last weeks article focused on this myth’s origin and its strongest supporters  David Pimentel and Tad Patzek.  This week will focus on debunking the some of the...

Ethanol Creates Energy Gains

Posted by Mr. Green at 11:04 am on January 04 2012
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Part 1: Does Ethanol Cost More Energy to Produce than to Use? Does ethanol cost more energy to produce than to use? Since the ethanol industry has been the first industry to prominently challenge the oil industry in the U.S. over the fuel market in almost a century a lot of criticism has been thrown towards ethanol.  Ethanol costing more energy to produce than...

How is Ethanol Made?

Posted by Mr. Green at 9:58 am on December 22 2011
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Animated Video Gives a Synopsis of How Ethanol is Made It’s time for the holidays.  We don’t have any articles for you this week instead we will be putting up a video that has been circulating around YouTube for awhile that is about ethanol production.  It’s entertaining and informative, hopefully you learn something new. Happy Holidays from...

Will Switchgrass Be Fueling Your Car?

Posted by Mr. Green at 3:21 pm on December 15 2011
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Switchgrass Has Great Alternative Energy Potential   Switchgrass is a type of wild prairie grass that grows abundantly in the United States.  It’s so abundant that the only four U.S. states you can’t find switchgrass are California, Oregon, Alaska, and Washington.  At the turn of the 20th century an increased number of scientific studies have...

13X Molecular Sieve Purifies Medical Oxygen, Saving Lives

Posted by Mr. Ethanol at 9:57 am on December 07 2011
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Oxygen Therapy Relies on Purified Oxygen On earth oxygen occupies approximately 21% of the air in our atmosphere (the other 78% is nitrogen and 1% is argon, carbon dioxide and other gases).  In medical situations you may need a higher concentration of oxygen than what is available in our current living conditions.  This is where 13X molecular sieve and Lithium...

Ethanol Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Posted by Mr. Green at 1:51 pm on November 30 2011
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Ethanol Produces Less GHG Emissions Than Oil Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is important  because it helps to keep our atmosphere clean and helps to prevent climate change.   Since the Industrial Revolution carbon dioxide emissions, the largest human contribution to the increase of greenhouse gases has skyrocketed.  One of the ways greenhouse gas emissions...

The Future of Fuel…Cellulosic Ethanol

Posted by Mr. Green at 9:14 am on November 23 2011
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Non Edible Plants and Municipal Solid Waste Can Be Turned Into Fuel Cellulosic ethanol is a biofuel that is made from plants that are non-edible.  For example wood chips, corn stover,  switchgrass, and municipal solid waste can be used to produce cellulosic ethanol.  Basically, its turning waste into ethanol, which is then turned into fuel, or in other words...