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Malaysia team finds adding graphene nanoflakes to lubricant improves thermal conductivity 17% with no change in viscosity

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A team of Malaysian scientists from the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and Taylor’s University are examining the effects of adding graphene nanoflakes to various commercially available lubricants. Improved thermal conduction means the lubricant is better able to carry heat away from an engine.

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Lux: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard will become a global phenomenon; carbon intensity, not volume

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California’s approach to transportation fuel policy—its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)—will become a global phenomenon, suggests Lux Research. Not all countries are positioned to support a biofuels industry as it is designed today. Earlier post.). This model does not offer a ubiquitous solution.

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Stellantis signs binding agreement with Element 25 for manganese sulphate supply for EV batteries; sourced in Australia, processed in US

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Sarawak Malaysia remains a favorable location for a second E25 HPMSM facility subject to approval of federal government incentives. Process residues will be either re-purposed in nearby industrial applications or disposed of in an appropriate facility. Stellantis plans to become carbon net-zero by 2038, with a 50% reduction by 2030.

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Startup offers EV firms greener graphite in alternative to China – ET Auto

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An alternative energy startup in Malaysia is ready to help electric-vehicle makers source a key ingredient outside of China — using agriculture waste to create graphite. Synthetic graphite , which accounts for most of global production, is typically made from petroleum coke , in an expensive and carbon-intensive process.

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Petronas and LanzaTech partner on CO2 to chemicals technology

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LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, and Petronas, the national oil company of Malaysia, will work together to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals using CO 2 as the carbon source. —Haida Shenny Hazri, CEO of PTVSB.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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The plant will feature SGH2’s technology, which will gasify recycled mixed paper waste to produce green hydrogen that reduces carbon emissions by two to three times more than green hydrogen produced using electrolysis and renewable energy, and is five to seven times cheaper. But, until now, it has been too expensive to adopt at scale.

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Evonik and LanzaTech working on bio-processed precursors for specialty plastics

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Evonik Industries and LanzaTech have signed a three-year research cooperation agreement which will see Evonik combining its existing biotechnology platforms with LanzaTech’s synthetic biology and gas fermentation expertise for the development of a route to bio-processed precursors for specialty plastics from waste-derived synthesis gas.

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