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CARIVS 2022 will be held in March

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Inspenet, March 14, 2022
The 2nd Virtual Caribbean Oil and Gas Summit CARIVS 2022 will be held on March 15 and 16, in a fully digital format, which envisions providing the best networking and business development opportunities to all participants, in addition to placing the potential of oil and gas from the Caribbean region at the center of its global discourse.

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UCSC scientists obtain hydrogen from water with aluminum

By: Dr. Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, March 11, 2022.
Researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC, USA) demonstrated that an easily produced compound of gallium and aluminum creates aluminum nanoparticles that react rapidly with water at room temperature to produce large amounts of hydrogen, without the need for having no power input.

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Scientists investigate how to produce biofuel for jets from alcohol and vegetable oil

By: Dr. Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, March 11, 2022.
A group of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) in Spain, has carried out an analysis on the efficiency of an integrated biorefinery model to produce biofuels for jet aircraft, which has alcohol and vegetable oil (from waste agricultural oilseed plants) as raw materials. The analysis will also be useful to identify innovations capable of making the process technically, economically and environmentally feasible.

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