Methane

Inspired by a forsaken orange that sat in a North Carolina parking lot, Jonathan Bloom wrote American Wasteland to examine the growing problem of food-waste in America. I think Bloom did a tremendous job by presenting this looming issue. His numerous anecdotes pertaining to food-waste creates an innate sense of relatability, which in turn direct readers’ attention to the statistical and logical presentations of the issue. This is an impressive feat because Bloom avoided coming off as preachy or…

Methane is the final product of Anaerobic Digestion. A mixture of methane and carbon dioxide is called a biogas and it can be used for heating and can be used as a natural gas. Anaerobic treatment systems are divided into “high rate” systems involving biomass retention and “low rate” systems without biomass retention. High rate systems are characterized by a relatively short hydraulic retention time but long sludge retention time and can be used to treat many types of wastewater. Low rate…

warming, it is important to be aware of the fact that small changes have also caused global warming. For example, cows, which release between 70 and 120 kg of methane per year are very dangerous to the climate as the negative effect on the climate of methane is 23 times higher than the effect of CO₂. Therefore the release of about 100 kg methane per year for each cow is equivalent to about 2 '300 kg CO₂ per year for each cow. This is due to disorganised feeding processes. What is needed to solve…

surface of Titan for collecting evidence, which can help us to find weather the origin of methane comes from the underground or not. In January 2005, the Huygens probe landed on Titan. It is a good successful example to land on Titan and it also transmitted the data back to Earth before its batteries died. Scientists got some information about its atmosphere, weather, temperature, pressure, density, methane sources and surface. We believe that the Stationary Lander could study more details…

extract methane mostly. Controversies are around the issue because of its many pros and cons. I believe that the cons outweigh the pros in the long run and fracking should be avoided. Hydrofracking is a way of extracting methane from rocks like shale. It uses chemicals and water under high pressure to crack these rocks that contain the wanted gas. Methane is a molecule with four hydrogens bonded to a carbon atom that can combust when combined with oxygen. There are two types of methane:…

These activities includes burning oil, coal and gas thus releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. There are farming practices and land-use changes that increases the amounts of methane and nitrous oxide that’s being released. Factories produces long-lasting greenhouse gases that does not occur naturally in the environment. Deforestation contributes to the greenhouse effect as the trees that are being removed has a critical role…

Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, Nitrous oxide, and Ammonia. First, 9 percent of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide are released from livestock production. When cultivating livestock, a large amount of crop is consumed, and the conventional tillage of land for such a great amount of crop lead to the emissions of…

Original Proposal Methane hydrate formation by using coffee waste April, 2015 Wenxi Huang Florida International University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Advisor: Dr. Rudolf Jaffé 1. Introduction Natural gas hydrate (NGH) has been considered as a possible alternative for transporting natural gas because of its lower capital cost when comparing with liquefied natural gas (Javanmardi, et al., 2005). Methane is the main component in natural gas (Engineering Data Book…

Westfield Public Schools Poopy Power Boosting the power of cow manure to create more methane gas Gabriel Piepergerdes Tyler William Gentle Sweeney Literature Review When you hear the word cow manure, you automatically think of an awful smelling brown substance, which is true. The smell of manure from cows and other ruminants can be strong and extremely unpleasant, however cow waste is a great source of energy that can be used to power the farm.…

cause global warming. Even if everyone in the world were to stop driving, or drive environmentally friendly vehicles; would it really cause our ozone to return back to normal? Carbon dioxide isn’t the real problem, but it is the emissions of methane, and methane may take less time to absorb…