But Dutch researcher Tymen Tiemersma thinks he has a solution: a reactor that can produce ethene from natural gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 April | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World] Reference

Peak oil signifies disaster for plastics producers — ethene, one of the raw materials used to make plastics, relies on abundant supplies of oil for production.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 April | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World] Reference

Yet natural gas is not only used for the production of ethene.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Is it possible to bond the ethene radical (ethenyl?) with an aldehyde group?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Epoxyethane is produced from ethene and air or oxygen in the presence of a silver catalyst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Using the new catalyst, ethene for the production of plastics can be obtained from natural gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

In the Houston Ship Channel and in Baytown, ethene levels were 12½ times greater than reported to the EPA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas / Fort Worth news, weather, sports, traffic and video from cbs11tv.com] Reference

Each year the world produces about 130 million kilo of ethene, the most important raw material for plastics.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

With his new reactor we can produce ethene from natural gas and, therefore, in the future from biogas as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Its main raw material is ethene, a compound of which some 130 million kilograms are produced every single year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia News - Global] Reference

Describe the procedure to synthesize the ester ethyl ethanoate (ethyl acetate), starting from ethene.? en Español.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

If you want to produce plastics from natural gas then you first of all need to convert the natural gas into ethene.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

On heating bromoethane with a strong base dissolved in ethanol, hydrogen bromide is eliminated and ethene is formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

So, Tiemersma thought that he should combine the two processes together, to obtain syngas and ethene at the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia News - Global] Reference

Tiemersma found an apparently very simple solution for one of the biggest problems in producing ethene from natural gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Researchers in the Netherlands have come up with a solution to this problem, and developed a mechanism of producing ethene using natural gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia News - Global] Reference

The expert managed to find an ingenious solution to a problem that had prevented other researchers from cracking the riddle of using natural gas for ethene production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia News - Global] Reference

The process technologist merged the production of syngas with the production of ethene and developed a method for obtaining both substances efficiently from natural gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Gouw found that the concentrations of ethene and propene -- which both contribute to ozone formation -- dropped by 52 percent and 48 percent respectively between 2000 and 2006.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

In the refinery town of Texas City, the high-tech equipment detected levels of smog-causing ethene - an odorless, flammable hydrocarbon - that were 12 times higher than those recorded by EPA-approved methods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas / Fort Worth news, weather, sports, traffic and video from cbs11tv.com] Reference

The production of ethene generates the heat needed for the production of syngas - which must take place at temperatures around 800 degrees Celsius - and the syngas absorbs the heat from the production of ethene, thus avoiding the need for this process to be cooled down.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Polythene aka poly (ethene).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference