Новости за 06.04.2022

UK businesses have filed fewer patent applications in Europe for the second year running, according to new data from the European Patent Office (EPO). According to the Patent Index Report 2021, patent applications made by UK businesses to the EPO last year fell by 1.2 per cent to 5,627, down from 5,698 in the previous year. […]

The advent of nuclear propulsion required a new class of floating dry dock and in April 1960 The Engineer’s naval correspondent visited Plymouth to report on the launch of a key new facility for the Royal Navy. Written by Jason Ford. Dry docks can be traced back to the Greco-Roman world when Phoenicians were observed […]

Rice University researchers have developed a chemical technique that turns waste plastic into an effective carbon dioxide (CO2) sorbent for industry. Rice chemist James Tour and co-lead authors Rice alumnus Wala Algozeeb, graduate student Paul Savas and postdoctoral researcher Zhe Yuan reported in ACS Nano that heating plastic waste in the presence of potassium acetate produced particles with nanometre-scale pores […]

Researchers at Brunel University London are using ammonia to develop what they describe as a new carbon-free transport fuel. Ammonia has potential as a 100 per cent renewable liquid fuel to for ships and lorries and power generators, but higher ignition energy, higher auto-ignition temperature and significantly lower flame speed are factors that restrict its […]