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Getting cleaner
Pollution in our towns and cities is growing as more cars take to the road and more power hungry appliances are bought. In China alone, fourteen thousand new cars hit the road each day. In the United States the the number of homes with central heating doubled in twenty years.
Shell has been developing the technologies required to create cleaner fuels and energy for many years. We pioneered liquefied natural gas (LNG), and gas to liquids (GTL). We now pursue the technologies needed to create second generation biofuels. And we are producing ways to make coal cleaner.
Gas to liquids (GTL)
More vehicles on the road and tighter regulations increase the need for fuels with fewer harmful emissions. One answer is gas-to-liquids technology which produces a cleaner liquid fuel derived from natural gas.
Monotowers
Recovering gas from ever smaller deposits cleanly and cost-effectively is now being made possible by the development of monotowers.
Sulphur
With more sulphur than ever being extracted from oil and gas, Shell technology is developing new ways of putting this left-over product to good use.
Coal gasification
Shell technology can now turn virtually any coal – the world’s most abundant fossil fuel - into synthesis gas, a mix of hydrogen and carbon monoxide that burns as cleanly as natural gas.
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