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MARCH 3, 2020

In principle, it is possible to produce valuable chemicals such as hydrogen, syngas, hydrocarbons, and alcohols through electrochemical processes using electricity from renewable energy resources. Conventionally, water is considered a cheap and clean source of electrons; 2H 2 O ? Conventional methods require more than 1.5 9b04099.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Global Bioenergies, the developer of a process to convert renewable resources into light olefin hydrocarbons via fermentation (with an initial focus on isobutene) ( earlier post ), signed a contribution agreement with the shareholders of Syngip B.V. to transfer all Syngip shares to Global Bioenergies S.A. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A key concern of many raw materials producing countries is how to leverage resource wealth into more value-add, and attract further downstream investments, like battery manufacturing. Sustainability and carbon emissions associated with the supply chain are of growing importance.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The process uses relatively little energy and a relatively cheap material—iron sulfide with a trace amount of molybdenum as an additive. The team first used chemical looping on coal and shale gas to convert fossil fuels into electricity without emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. —Kalyani Jangam, lead author.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

The approach, described in a paper in the journal Nature Communications , could be an important advance in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). They have significant performance advantages over the carbon-absorbing materials used in current CCS technology. carbon dioxide uptake and release over repeated cycles.

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APRIL 30, 2023

The oxygen could be used to increase the efficiency of power generation with oxy-combustion and to facilitate the capture, use, and storage of carbon (CCUS). The hydrogen is liquefied where electricity is cheap. —Julian Hunt Resources Hunt, J., The Solid Air Hydrogen Liquefaction process © Hunt et al. Montanari, P.,

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, with colleagues at the Université de Toulouse, France, have developed a process for the direct production of levulinates from cheap residual lignocellulosic biomass using an affordable homogeneous catalyst. A paper on their work is published in Fuel. wt%, 83 wt%, and 73 wt% using ?-cellulose,

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Hydrogen is a regional solution, cheap hydrogen even more so. With an abundance of new research and company announcements in the hydrogen truck space, this report offers not only a way for the readers to make sense of the opportunity, but also provides a comprehensive set of resources for those who wish to explore the subject further.

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JULY 14, 2022

Cheap and abundant, sodium is a promising candidate for new battery technology. In addition to the stable SEI on a hard carbon (HC) anode, we also show a stable interphase formation on a NaNi 0.68 However, the limited performance of sodium-ion batteries has hindered large-scale application. O 2 (NaNMC) cathode. 2 in mole or 1.6:8.4

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JULY 25, 2016

Further, the cathode is automatically protected from O 2 gas release and overcharging through the shuttling of self-generated radical species soluble in the carbonate electrolyte. You need large auxiliary systems to remove the carbon dioxide and water, and it’s very hard to do this.” It also displays stable cycling performance (only 1.8%

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JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. The maximum surface area achieved with conventional activated carbon is about 3,000 m 2 g –1. cm –3 ), and hierarchical pore architecture.

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APRIL 3, 2018

Lignosulfonate, a sulfonated carbon waste material, is a major by-product in the papermaking industry. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have now developed a method to use this cheap and abundant waste byproduct to build a components for lithium-sulfur batteries. Lu Li, Liping Huang, Robert J.

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JUNE 23, 2009

Scientists at the University of Delaware are developing a new low-cost material for hydrogen storage—carbonized chicken feathers (CCFF)—that they say could meet the DOE requirements for hydrogen storage and are competitive with carbon nanotubes and metal hydrates at a tiny fraction of their cost. Wool, University of Delaware.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Doped nanostructured carbons are targeted as noble metal-free electrocatalysts for this purpose. Here, we demonstrate a versatile one-pot synthesis of nitrogen-doped carbons that exploits the templating ability of biological polymers. The key is that the gelatin material is not only cheap, but it’s extremely easy to make.

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APRIL 11, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts The challenge was to find a cathode that would reduce carbon monoxide to ethanol instead of reducing water to hydrogen.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Previous studies have shown that allowing the oil flow through porous carbon particles infused with palladium is an effective method, but those carbon particles are not cheap, said Prairie Research Institute researcher B.K. The oil can flow through the palladium-decorated bacteria masses as it does through the carbon particles.

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MAY 29, 2020

Burning increases carbon emissions and dispersants are terribly harmful for marine wildlife. The key is a nanocomposite coating of magnetic nanostructures and a carbon-based substrate that is oleophilic (attracts oil), hydrophobic (resists water), and magnetic. Each approach has its own drawbacks and none are sustainable solutions.

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MARCH 22, 2019

This resulted in a 71% isolated carbon yield—a 5% increase from the product yield in their initial work. They then developed a method of separating the compound 2,5-hexanedione by converting the 5-methylfurfural in hydrogenolysis product to 2,5-hexanedione, while keeping 2,5-hexanedione in the product unchanged. 2019.02.005.

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Researchers led by Shaowei Chen, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz, incorporated ruthenium ions into graphitic carbon nitride/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) hybrids to form Ru?C Carbon-based materials (such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, and amorphous carbon) have also been explored as viable catalysts for HER.

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MAY 13, 2019

The team used a commercial thermal graphite sheet and a mesoporous carbon scaffold to encapsulate metal-halide perovskites (CsPbBr 3 ) as an inexpensive and efficient waterproofing strategy. We use a commercial thermal graphite sheet and a mesoporous carbon scaffold to encapsulate CsPbBr 3 as an inexpensive and efficient protection strategy.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 16, 2021

For this purpose, borate glass, a cheap waste material that also requires processing, was added to it. As a result of several laboratory melts using coke as a carbon reducing agent of iron simultaneously with Portland cement clinker, pig iron was obtained that also meets the requirements of state standards. Sheshukov, O.Y.,

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MAY 8, 2023

Qiang Xu of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) have developed a promising method for carbon capture and storage using a single-crystalline guanidinium sulfate-based clathrate salt. Methane hydrate is studied for its ability to capture and trap gas molecules such as carbon dioxide under high pressure. Xiang et al.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The most effective catalysts have been the noble metal elements such as platinum, palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium, which are a prohibitively expensive resource when required in large quantities. Click to enlarge. The work thus opens the possibility of replacing the normally used noble metal catalysts with cobalt. and Hanson, S.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

A fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon spheres—a component for carbon capture technology and for new ways of storing renewable energy—has been developed by Swansea University researchers. Carbon spheres range in size from nanometers to micrometers. Credit: ESRI, Swansea University.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Existing water-splitting methods rely on highly purified water—a precious resource and costly to produce. However, grid-scale freshwater electrolysis would put a heavy strain on vital water resources. Their findings are published in an open-access paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. —Kuang et al.

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MAY 31, 2015

GO has two important characteristics, noted Pei and Cheng in 2012 paper in the journal Carbon : it can be produced using inexpensive graphite as raw material by cost-effective chemical methods with a high yield; and. Electrochem. 162(8): A1624-A1629; doi: 10.1149/2.0891508jes. 2011.11.010.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Traditional diesel fuel is made up of long, straight chains of carbon atoms, while the molecules that make up gasoline are shorter and branched. It’s a cheap and practical starting point that can be produced from raw biomass with high yield, Mascal said. Mark Mascal, Dr.

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APRIL 8, 2023

Large language models don’t come cheap While the power of large language models, like ChatGPT , has increased dramatically, the price of training such models has increased dramatically as well. And of all machine learning systems, language models are sucking up the most computing resources. resident uses in a year.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

million (US$19 million) in research funding for 28 projects in four key areas of sustainable development: Carbon Capture and Utilization; BioEnergy and BioFuels; Sustainable Construction; and Sustainable Materials. Carbon Capture and Utilization. Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has awarded S$27.5

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This glut could be exacerbated by future carbon taxes and other policy restrictions on fossil fuels, he said. A glut could be exacerbated by future carbon taxes and other policy restrictions on fossil fuels. It might deter Saudi competitors from investing in higher-cost resources, pushing more expensive oil out of the market.

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JUNE 26, 2013

A good candidate for the next generation of batteries has to be abundant, environmentally friendly, cheap and safe; silicon fulfills these conditions. While LiPF 6 presents a high ionic conductivity and good electrochemical stability when it is solved in carbonate solvents, it also presents many problems, the authors noted.

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MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). Their findings were published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. The scientists say this is a major step toward recycling CO 2 for usable energy and chemicals. —Haotian Wang.

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APRIL 22, 2011

The catalyst enables the selective hydrogenolysis of aromatic carbon-oxygen (C-O) bonds under mild conditions. A paper on their work is published in the current issue of Science. This would break down lignin—a recalcitrant biomass polymer that consists of a network of nine hydrocarbon units connected by C-O bonds. Sergeev and John F.

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MAY 26, 2015

Although there has been no public announcement or discussion of what such an Audi/Global Bioenergies development effort might entail, in 2011, Global Bioenergies began a feasibility study to examine whether its artificial isobutene pathway could be functionally transferred into LanzaTech’s carbon monoxide-using organism ( earlier post ).

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JUNE 27, 2014

However, the limited resources of vanadium, the high expense associated with the cell materials, and the toxicity hazard of using large quantities of soluble vanadium, have been the major challenges to the widespread adoption of the vanadium redox flow battery. None of today’s mature battery technologies meet all of these requirements.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

Most of the world’s lithium comes from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Australia and China, but American resources being developed by new entrants into this market have set up the state of Nevada to become the key venue and proving ground for game-changing trade in this everyday mineral. This really is disruptive technology. Albemarle Corp.

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