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MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington are developing a new process for photoelectrosynthesis of methanol—the conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol using sunlight and hybrid CuO–Cu 2 O semiconductor nanorod arrays.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

Just mosey on over to the Republic of Texas where two of America’s biggest polluting oil companies are ponying up millions of dollars to pay for an initiative on the California ballot that would suspend our state’s Global Warming Solutions act, AB 32. They want to take the money and run.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Yuanyue Liu, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. We intend to build an electrochemical modular system as a platform for a continuous conversion process of simulated flue gas to pure liquid fuels.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have been the first to demonstrate that polyaniline (PANI), a member of the organic conducting polymer family, is a promising photocathode material for the conversion of carbon dioxide into alcohol fuels without the need for a co-catalyst.

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MARCH 26, 2014

The new Lobos Pipeline will have an initial capacity of 300 million standard cubic feet per day and will support current and future enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects owned by Kinder Morgan and other operators in the Permian Basin of West Texas and eastern New Mexico.

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MAY 13, 2013

Air Products’ carbon capture project in Port Arthur, Texas captures 90% of the CO 2 via Vacuum Swing Adsorption from 2 steam-methane reformers (SMRs) yielding 1,000,000 tons CO 2 /year. The technology in the demo—the first of its kind operating at such a large scale—has not been accomplished anywhere else in the United States.

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MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. -EOR System. common with CO 2. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 10, 2019

Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Novel thermal process for conversion of CO2 to CO using metal ferrite oxygen carriers, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. Vitriflex Inc.,

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APRIL 23, 2015

in Port Arthur, Texas, is demonstrating a system to capture carbon emissions from two steam methane reformers used to produce hydrogen. The CO 2 , in compressed form, is then delivered by pipeline to enhanced oil recovery projects in eastern Texas. One DOE supported project alone has now captured nearly 2 million metric tons of CO 2.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin will analyze the environmental impacts of the process over its entire life span. The CO 2 will come from a pipeline operated by Texas-based Denbury Resources. The site’s three-kilometer deep reservoir has proven to be an ideal site for carbon sequestration.

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JULY 27, 2015

Researchers at Texas A&M have developed a two-step, one-pot conversion of CO 2 and epoxides (highly reactive compounds with a three-membered ring made of two carbon atoms and one oxygen atom) to polycarbonate block copolymers that contain both water-soluble and hydrophobic regions and can aggregate into nanoparticles or micelles.

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Conversion CO2 Polymer Water 150

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MAY 14, 2013

Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 million tonnes CO 2 ), followed by Texas (194.9 million tonnes in Texas (8.3%). Factors such as size, population density, available fuels, types of businesses, climate, all play a role in both total and per capita emissions, the EIA noted. tonnes/person).

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JULY 14, 2009

A third proposed gasification plant with which Denbury has a CO2 purchase contract, was also selected by the loan guarantee program. The potential pipeline project would likely take from four to five years to complete. Denbury Resources Inc.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

This would be a massive undertaking, involving the conversion of hundreds of thousands of square miles—at its most ambitious, more than the combined land area of Texas and California—to sugarcane fields.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

It will produce enough clean electricity to power around 200,000 households and avoid around 250,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually. Read more: Texas installs another big solar + battery storage project To limit power outages and make your home more resilient, consider going solar with a battery storage system.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity.

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JUNE 21, 2010

The validation phase (2005–2010) generally involves small-scale field tests and includes the Black Warrior Basin CO2 Storage Project. The characterization phase (2003–2005), which defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage, has been completed.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

billion tons of CO2 in the coal seams while increasing natural gas production up to 2.5 The site was selected because it is representative of the Central Appalachian Basin, an area of about 10,000 square miles located in southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. trillion cubic feet.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Fusion Petroleum Technologies , The Woodlands, Texas. University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology , Austin, Texas. The model will be applied to the SACROC field site in Texas and two other known CO 2 geologic storage sites. University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology , Austin, Texas.

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APRIL 22, 2016

24 ] Texas A&M-led team identifies synthetic hydrocarbon pathway in green alga B. | Greentech Media 12 May 2015. [ 20 ] EDI-Drive PHEV Powertrain - Efficient Drivetrains, Inc. [ 21 ] Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave - Union of Concerned Scientists, Nov 2015. [ braunii - Green Car Congress 07 April 2016. [

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Scuderi Group commissioned Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas, to generate a representative average vehicle in this class with technical data from these models and use this as the basis for a comparison simulation according to the new European driving cycle (NEDC).

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JULY 30, 2011

The team includes four other universities, three national laboratories and five private sector companies and has experience with carbon storage projects in Washington, Wyoming, Canada, Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and internationally. Three companies, Vecta Oil and Gas, SR2020 Inc.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Parish Generating Station located in Thompsons, Texas. The University of Texas will contribute their expertise to the project by developing and testing an advanced solvent used to capture the carbon dioxide.

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JULY 22, 2010

cement manufacturing plant in San Antonio, Texas. Alcoa will demonstrate and optimize the process at their Point Comfort, Texas aluminum refining plant. Solid carbonates are ideal for long-term, safe aboveground storage without pipelines, subterranean injection, or concern about CO 2 re-release to the atmosphere.

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APRIL 2, 2016

The team collaborated with Ankit Srivastava, an assistant professor at Texas A&M’s material science and engineering department to develop a simple mathematical model for explaining how the hierarchical nanostructure can result in the exceptionally high strength.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Plano, Texas); the Geological Survey of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.); Project performers include the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, Ala); Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Normal, Ala.); Denbury Resources Inc. Southern Company, (Birmingham, Ala.); the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.);

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JUNE 7, 2012

Other co-authors of the paper are Allison Crimmins of UCSC and the US Environmental Protection Agency; Petra Dekens of UCSC and San Francisco State University; Heather Ford of UCSC; Mitch Lyle of Texas A&M University; and Michael Wara of UCSC and Stanford University. Jonathan P. LaRiviere, A. Christina Ravelo, Allison Crimmins, Petra S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded The University of Texas at El Paso grants totaling nearly $1.3 million for research to improve the efficiency of engines and creating technologies for detecting, capturing and storing carbon emissions. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Chintalapalle V. Ramana, Ph.D.,

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

the “Company”) and will be headquartered in Plano, Texas. Denbury Resources Inc. and Encore Acquisition Company have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Denbury will acquire Encore in a transaction valued at approximately $4.5 The combined company will continue to be known as Denbury Resources Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

When considering GHG reductions alone, this would mean the western US and Texas (where there is high confidence that GHG emissions of the Nissan LEAF are lower than the best gasoline vehicles) and in Florida and New England (where the LEAF also likely has lower GHG emissions). Among the findings were that: delayed charging (i.e., Mili-Ann M.

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Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2009

CO2 production is a function of fuel burned per hour and the CO2 emissions will decrease in the same percentage as mileage increases (i.e. a 22% percent improvement in fuel mileage will result in an approximate 22% reduction of CO2 emissions). Headquartered in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, Ronn Motor Company, Inc.

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MARCH 13, 2010

million tons per year of CO2 will begin in 2015, and the demonstration project will end in 2019. The project consists of four phases: project definition (phase I), design and permitting (phase II), construction and startup (phase III) and operations/demonstration (phase IV). Sequestration of 1.5

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2009

Algenol submitted a formal request for a grant from the US Department of Energy last week with the intention of building a refinery that would be based at Dow’s Freeport site in Texas. The CO2 is supplied to the algae in the photo-bioreactors and serves as a carbon source for the ethanol produced.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

The Woodlands, Texas) This study will evaluate the applicability of the experimental design/response surface method, sensitivity analysis, and optimization method on the many factors that affect the successful characterization, engineering design and operation of a saline formation site. Fusion Petroleum Technologies , Inc.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 1, 2009

These include the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas, Texas, which received $75,000 (£45,500), and the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, which received $50,000. Company records show that ExxonMobil handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds to such lobby groups in 2008.

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