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JANUARY 30, 2020

Electrification of the global vehicle fleet, which now totals over 1 billion cars and trucks, or conversion of vehicles to use novel fuels like hydrogen, cannot proceed quickly enough to address the climate crisis. The separation of ethanol and other fuel products from water. —Rob McGinnis. to C 2 fuel products such as ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2020

The calculations of reaction energetics suggest that Cu and Fe in the binary system can work in synergy to significantly deform the linear configuration of CO 2 and reduce the high energy barrier by stabilizing the reaction intermediates, thus spontaneously favoring CO 2 activation and conversion for methane synthesis. 1 under air mass 1.5

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APRIL 12, 2022

Landsvirkjun , The National Power Company of Iceland, and German investment company PCC SE have agreed to explore the possibility of capturing and utilizing carbon emissions from PCC’s silicon metal plant in northeast Iceland. Carbon emissions will be utilized to produce green methanol that can, for example, replace fossil fuel in ships.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2013

CO can then be reacted with H 2 O via the water?gas As such, development of Bi-based cathodes for conversion of CO 2 to CO would represent an important development for the fields of CO 2 electrocatalysis and renewable energy conversion. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels Power Generation' Tropsch methods.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Bi 0.73 ) achieved 95% methane conversion at 1065°C in a 1.1-meter Under these conditions, the equilibrium conversion is 98%. When the temperature was reduced to 1040 °C, the CH 4 conversion decreased to 86%. Higher conversions, at higher temperatures, were not possible because of Mg evaporation. —Upham et al.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Instead of using H 2 , direct conversion of CO 2 with CH 4 (dry reforming of methane, DRM) to liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g. Moreover, it is a cheap carbon source which can increase the atom utilization of CO 2 hydrogenation due to the stoichiometric ratio of C and O atoms, as well as reducing the formation of water. … Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2012

A joint research project by RWE Power and biotechnology company BRAIN AG has discovered specialist micro-organisms that directly feed on CO 2 -containing flue gases from lignite-fired power stations and that can grow at temperatures of 60 °C (140 °F). Johannes Heithoff, Head of Research and Development at RWE Power.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

billion tons of CO 2 emissions per year and represents one of the hardest-to-abate sectors, since it is technically unfeasible to electrify long-haul planes at scale due to power density challenges. Global aviation produces 1.2 —Twelve Co-Founder and CEO Nicholas Flanders.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

Toshiba Corporation has developed a new technology that uses solar energy directly to generate carbon compounds from carbon dioxide and water, and to deliver a viable chemical feedstock or fuel with potential for use in industry. Mechanism of the technology. Source: Toshiba. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

What we know is that this unique structure provides a beneficial chemical environment for CO2 conversion to multicarbon products,” he said. The cube-like shapes and associated interface may be providing an ideal meeting place where the carbon dioxide, water, and electrons can come together. —Peidong Yang.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The goal is to develop an efficient and powerful test plant that will use carbon dioxide and water as well as electricity from renewable sources and bacteria to produce specialty chemicals. In the future, this platform could be installed anywhere CO 2 is available—for example, at power plants or biogas plants.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at efficiencies far greater than plants. Solar to chemical energy conversion could provide an alternative to mankind's unsustainable use of fossil fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The new catalyst can be used in artificial photosynthesis powered by solar energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into carbon compounds. Most artificial photosynthesis technologies use a two-electron reduction conversion process, producing carbon monoxide and formic acid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. At the Tucson site, they are using electricity from the Arizona grid, which gets an increasing amount of power from local solar panels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

Through the first-of-its-kind agreement, Twelve, Alaska, and Microsoft will work to advance production and use of Twelve’s E-Jet, a low-carbon jet fuel produced by a power-to-liquids process leveraging the company’s carbon transformation technology. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 1, 2016

They also applied this catalyst in a light-harvesting artificial leaf platform that concurrently oxidized water in the absence of any external potential. In the second step, the holes react with water molecules, creating protons and oxygen molecules. per second at a low overpotential of 54 millivolts.

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APRIL 10, 2015

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an artificial photosynthetic scheme for the direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO 2 and water using a two-step process involving a biocompatible light-capturing nanowire array with a direct interface with microbial systems. —Liu et al. coli strain.

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MAY 16, 2018

Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. With a CO2-neutral energy supply of the plants, we are consistently pursuing this approach and are actively driving sustainability in production. The measures are supported by efficient control of the electrical power supply.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Duke University researchers have engineered rhodium nanoparticles that can harness the energy in ultraviolet light and use it to catalyze the conversion of carbon dioxide to methane, a key building block for many types of fuels. An open-access paper on the work is published in Nature Communications.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Now a team led by researchers at Rice University has achieved continuous electrocatalytic conversion of CO 2 to pure liquid fuel solutions in cells that utilize solid electrolytes, in which electrochemically generated cations (such as H + ) and anions (such as HCOO ? ) Illustration by Chuan Xia and Demin Liu. So that stabilizes the catalyst.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

CO 2 is available in abundance in high concentration in many industrial processes and thermal power plants (here CRI focusing on geothermal power and waste to energy). Methanol purification: In distillation column(s) the crude methanol is separated into methanol (at design purity/quality) and water for re-use or disposal.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The pilot facility offers scope for sector coupling, in other words combining the energy sectors power, heat and mobility, and makes it possible to store renewable energy. Audi e-diesel has the potential to make conventional combustion engines operate almost CO2-neutrally. Excellent temperature control. High load-flexibility.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

The photocatalyst material acts as a semiconductor, absorbing the sunlight which excites the electrons in the semiconductor and gives them the electric potential to reduce water and CO 2 into carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which together can be converted to liquid hydrocarbon fuels, said Li. —doctoral student Huilei Zhao.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 12 projects to receive funding through its Crosscutting Research Program’s Transitional Technology Development to Enable Highly Efficient Power Systems with Carbon Management initiative. Alstom Power Inc. Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

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JUNE 9, 2017

The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta. The total installed power is 206.5 Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis is used for hydrogen production. kW solar PV power plant at LUT. Operating temperature of the electrolysis unit is controlled to 70 °C by water cooling.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Researchers from BASF, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are seeking to develop a process for the photocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into methanol for use in fuel cells or internal combustion engines. million) over two years. Dr. Henning Bockhorn.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Snam and Saipem have already started working together, focusing in particular on developing the technology of water electrolysis, a process that makes it possible to reduce CO 2 emissions to zero in the production of green hydrogen.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

The new facility will support the future commercialization of sCO 2 Brayton cycle energy conversion systems by testing and demonstrating the potential energy efficiency and cost benefits of this technology. Today the average efficiency of the US fleet of steam Rankine cycle power plants is in the lower 30% range. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 11, 2014

volts versus the reversible hydrogen electrode) in CO-saturated alkaline water. For the Nature study, Kanan and Li built an electrochemical cell: two electrodes placed in water saturated with carbon monoxide gas. The challenge was to find a cathode that would reduce carbon monoxide to ethanol instead of reducing water to hydrogen.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

reported a major step forward in its development of renewable fuels, achieving direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. In addition, Joule’s process requires just marginal, non-arable land, no crops and no fresh water. Joule Biotechnologies, Inc.

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JULY 10, 2019

Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Integrated Power Block Heat Exchanger/Thermal Energy Storage System for CSP Plants, $348,000 CFOAM LLC, Triadelphia, W. Amesbury, Mass. Petaluma, Calif. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif.

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JULY 25, 2020

This graphic shows the interior of a MOF based on the metal magnesium (green balls), and has added molecules—tetraamines (blue & gray)—added to the pores to more efficiently absorb carbon dioxide from power plant emissions. (UC The entire process consumes about 30% of the power generated. UC Berkeley graphic by Eugene Kim).

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The open-access paper is published in the journal Energy Conversion and Management: X. These projections necessitate finding new approaches to transporting cargo with a lower demand for energy and lower CO2 emissions. This water could be used to increase the weight of the airship and further save energy in its descending trajectory.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The results, suggested the researchers, represent a step towards engineering broadband solar fuels tandem photothermal reactors that enable a three-step process involving: CO 2 capture; gaseous water splitting into H 2 ; and. Hydrogen generated from the water-splitting reaction can be provided to the Ru/SiNW catalysts.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Though mixed with water, the resulting methanol can be easily distilled, Prakash said. Previous efforts have required a slower multistage process with the use of high temperatures and high concentrations of CO 2 , meaning that renewable energy sources would not be able to efficiently power the process, as Olah and Prakash hope.

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MAY 3, 2022

A high-solubility mechanism enriches the concentration of CO 2 in the surface layer hydrated by water vapor naturally present in target gas streams, followed by fast CO 2 transport through a highly permeable (but low-selectivity) polymer substrate. The technology could play a role in reducing power plant emissions. Marius Sandru et al.

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