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Oct. 30, 2020 —New simulations have provided clues on reducing uncontrolled peat fires, which hide underground and are notoriously bad for human health and the ...
Nov. 3, 2021 —A new study introduces a novel method to reduce particulate emissions from residential biomass combustion: the high-temperature electric soot collector, HiTESC. In HiTESC, an electrically insulated ...
Mar. 16, 2023 —There is currently a large dependence on coal for power generation. As coal-fired plants cause environmental and health hazards, technologies such as swirl flow and air staging have been proposed to ...
May 17, 2022 —Researchers assessed the potential impact of a rocket launch on atmospheric pollution by investigating the heat and mass transfer and rapid mixing of the combustion byproducts. The team modeled the ...
Mar. 12, 2021 —New research shows a fire suppressant, when combined with water, cuts the amount of time and water needed to extinguish peat fires by ...
Jan. 12, 2021 —Vehicles have evolved to become more efficient and sophisticated, but their fuel hasn't necessarily evolved along with them. Researchers are determined to identify cleaner burning and renewable ...
May 18, 2021 —Five years after a disastrous wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, researchers are warning that the complex role of peatlands, a factor critical to projecting the risk and behaviour of future fires, ...
Nov. 10, 2020 —Researchers say they have found more concrete evidence of the volcanic cause of the largest mass extinction of life. Their research looked at two discrete eruption events: one that was previously ...
Mar. 14, 2022 —Research on the ground following two large wildfires in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range showed the vast majority of carbon stored in trees before the blazes was still there after the ...
May 10, 2023 —Our industrialized society releases many and various pollutants into the world. Combustion in particular produces aerosol mass including black carbon. Although this only accounts for a few percent of ...