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Researchers Propose Solar-Driven Biomass Gasification Pathway for Synthetic Fuel Production

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High temperature heat for biomass gasification is obtained from a molten-salt system in a solar concentrating tower. For comparison, they also modeled the production of methanol using only biomass as a fuel and also using coal as source of both carbon and energy. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es802853g.

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Start-up Proposes Ionic Liquid - Amine Systems for Carbon Capture and Natural Gas Processing

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Ionic liquids are molten salts that do not evaporate, and can be used to replace the current aqueous amine technology with proprietary ionic liquid – amine technology. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ie8016237 Sour,” or contaminated natural gas, represents more than half of worldwide reserves. Bara, et al.