Group including Climate Action Network Canada executive director Catherine Abreu and Assembly of First Nations Yukon Regional Chief Kluane Adamek will be able to draw upon the resources of Environment and Climate Change Canada and other government departments to conduct emissions modelling or other analysis, and can be briefed by public servants on federal programs.
UCalgary-Led Project Tackles Long-Standing Problem In Oilsands Industry
The University of Calgary is leading a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary research team in a $2M project aimed at finding a solution to one of the oilsands industry’s most persistent and costly operational problems in erosion and corrosion.
Researchers at UCalgary, the University of Alberta, and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) are collaborating with members of Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) on the five-year project. Canada’s oilsands are crucial to a sustainable energy future amidst diverse types of conventional, alternative and renewable energy sources.
The goal is to reduce fouling by inorganic and organic deposits, and erosion and corrosion that occur in boilers such as the “once-through steam generators” widely used in steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) oilsands operations.
Energy industry beginning to get behind tech incubators
Jim Magill, Correspondent
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Chevron Technology Ventures has set up shop at the Cannon startup hub in West Houston, photographed on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Employees with Chevron Technology Ventures demonstrate the different work locations at it s Cannon startup hub location in West Houston on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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With the open work space, Chevron Technology Ventures is able to work on systems in a controlled setting before heading out to a site.Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Nanodiamond-Enabled Membranes for High-Temperature Water Treatment
Written by AZoNanoDec 10 2020
Despite the fact that water covers a major part of the planet Earth, just a fraction of it is clean enough for human use.
Microscopic nanodiamonds clump together when placed in water (shown above), but dissociate when in ethyl acetate to clean hot wastewater. Image Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020.
Thus, it is essential to recycle this resource as far as possible. Existing methods to purify water cannot properly deal with the very hot wastewater produced by a few industries.
However, scientists have now integrated amine-enhanced nanodiamond particles into membranes to overcome this difficulty. The findings have been reported in