Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2018

World energy consumption projections expect coal to stay one of the world’s main energy sources in the coming decades, and a growing share of it will be used in CT—the conversion of coal to liquid fuels (CTL). By 2020, CTL is expected to account for 15% of the coal use in China. —Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2012

Flow diagram of coal tar hydrogenation process. Researchers in China report the production of gasoline and diesel from coal tar via an optimized catalytic hydrogenation using two serial fixed beds, the first with a hydrofining catalyst of MoNi/?-Al million tons of coal tar was further processed. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2021

reduced by 100% fossil-free hydrogen instead of coal and coke, with good results. The hydrogen gas used in the direct reduction process is produced by electrolysis of water with fossil-free electricity, and can be used directly or stored for later use. We’ll be converting to electric arc furnace in Oxelösund as early as 2025.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2021

The consortium has been collaborating on the project for more than three years, which will consist of 25 gigawatts (GW) of renewable solar and wind energy at full capacity to produce millions of tons of zero-carbon green hydrogen per annum. Green hydrogen is expected by some to grow into a US$2.5-trillion trillion market by.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Two unique features of the steel industry in India are the large-scale use of electric induction furnaces for electric-based steelmaking rather than electric arc furnaces and the reliance on coal, rather than natural gas, to produce DRI. coal-based rotary kiln furnaces (mainly in India), accounting for 17.5% of 2016 production.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Aker Carbon Capture and Haldor Topsoe have signed a memorandum of understanding with the intention to offer a complete solution for low-carbon hydrogen production. This process can be applied on emissions from various sources, from gas, coal, cement, refineries, and waste-to-energy through to hydrogen and other process industries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortescue, will be a key enabler of this target through the development of green electricity, green hydrogen and green ammonia projects in Australia. This will expedite the substitution of green hydrogen and green ammonia for carbon-based fuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

The Australian, Japanese and Victorian governments and a consortium of companies have launched the pilot of an innovative supply chain that will deliver liquefied hydrogen from the Latrobe Valley in Australia to Japan. A liquefaction plant at the Port of Hastings will convert the hydrogen gas into liquefied hydrogen (LH2).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

Air Products will acquire Royal Dutch Shell’s Coal Gasification Technology business as well as Shell’s patent portfolio for Liquids (Residue) Gasification. As a leading industrial gas company, Air Products has extended its onsite supply model to use coal gasification to generate synthesis gas (syngas) for major projects.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Ørsted (formerly DONG Energy), Everfuel Europe A/S, NEL Hydrogen A/S, GreenHydrogen AS, DSV Panalpina A/S, Hydrogen Denmark and Energinet Elsystemansvar A/S have been awarded funding of DKK 34.6 The partners will build a 2MW electrolysis plant with appurtenant hydrogen storage. Avedøre Power Station on Avedøre Holme.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has landed its third technology license for its methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology, which converts methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. China is the world’s largest producer of coal, accounting for nearly half of global production, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

For several months now, 20 teams of Australian high-school students have been designing fuel-cell cars to compete in the country’s inaugural Hydrogen Grand Prix. The task: make the most of a 30-watt fuel cell and 14 grams of hydrogen gas. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

By comparison, 69% of steel today is made at approximately 1,600 degrees Celsius (2,912 degrees Fahrenheit) using coal, emitting about two tons of carbon dioxide for every ton of steel produced. If the steel industry were a country, its carbon emissions would rank third in the world behind China and the United States.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Conventional methanol production involves fossil feedstocks such as natural gas or coal. This can be recovered from either industrial processes or biomass, such as waste and residues, or atmospheric sources. Hydrogen can also be processed from by-product hydrogen available in some industrial waste streams.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The EU Innovation Fund will award a grant of €88 million to Neste’s green hydrogen and CO 2 capture & storage project, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the Porvoo refinery in Finland. SHARC will also scale the production of green hydrogen to help make it a viable transportation fuel itself.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2022

IG Metall, Germany’s largest union as well as Europe’s largest industrial union, warns that at Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM), the switch to climate-neutral steel production is may fail due to the lack of financing. This would be the end of the plant, IG Metall said. With a current production volume of 4.2

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Baua Electric

JULY 14, 2024

How Energy is Stored in Hydrogen Hydrogen is an effective energy carrier, capable of storing large amounts of energy in a compact form. Here’s a detailed look at how energy is stored in hydrogen: 1. Hydrogen Production To store energy in hydrogen, we first need to produce hydrogen gas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The strategy is centred around two main technology routes, as introduced in the first ArcelorMittal Europe climate action report published earlier this year: The use of hydrogen in DRI-EAF (Direct Reduced Iron - Electric Arc Furnace) and, also, the blast furnace. The expansion of its Smart Carbon route, also utilizing hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2019

For the first time thyssenkrupp has produced ammonia from steel mill gases, marking the first time in the world that steel mill gases, including the CO 2 they contain, have been converted into ammonia. Our goal is the large-scale industrial use of the technology. —Reinhold Achatz, head of technology at thyssenkrupp.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hydrogenics Corporation will supply a 1MW electrolyzer and provide engineering expertise to a consortium of companies working on the European project MefCO2 (methanol fuel from CO 2 ) in Germany. The Hydrogenics electrolyzer will produce 200 cubic meters of hydrogen per hour. —Daryl Wilson, CEO of Hydrogenics.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

The MIDREX Process converts iron oxide into direct reduced iron (DRI) inside the shaft furnace using hydrogen-rich gas coming from natural gas or hydrogen as a reducing agent. Kobe Steel owns MIDREX NG as well as MIDREX Flex that can be transitioned to 100% hydrogen and MIDREX H2 using 100% hydrogen as a reducing agent.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. In these clusters, the wind turbines are integrated with electrolyzers that generate hydrogen from desalinated seawater. US $5 PER KILOGRAM Cost of green hydrogen today.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. It is possible to convert it into fuels and a wide variety of chemical products, including those that today are mainly based on fossil resources.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2019

In a major new report on hydrogen, the International Energy Agency says that the time is right to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future. A wide variety of fuels are able to produce hydrogen, including renewables, nuclear, natural gas, coal and oil.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2010

UK-based B9 Coal, established in 2009 with the objective of developing projects combining Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and alkaline hydrogen fuel cells, is bringing together a consortium including WSP Group, AFC Energy and Linc Energy to develop such a project.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2023

France notified the Commission of a €850-million measure to support ArcelorMittal’s project aimed to partially decarbonise its steel production in Dunkirk, where it operates three blast furnaces producing liquid hot metal from a mixture of iron ore, pellets, coke, coal and preheated air.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Project funding: £4,750,429.16.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Initiatives and technologies underway or to be implemented at ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products’ different sites include: Carbalyst – capture waste gases from the blast furnace and biologically convert it into bio-ethanol. An industrial pilot of this technology is being developed at ArcelorMittal Dunkirk in France. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

This program aims to utilize the high performance computing (HPC) of DOE’s national laboratories to help industry develop new or improved materials that can withstand extreme conditions. The Department of Energy (DOE) announced $1.2 FCTO Funding: $300,000; In-Kind Contribution: $60,000; Total Value: $360,000.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2011

has selected Honeywell’s UOP technology to convert methanol into building blocks for chemical products at an existing coal chemical complex in China. China’s Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Company Ltd. UOP and Total announced their partnership on this in 2005. Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2010

Laurus Energy have formed Stone Horn Ridge LLC, a company created to commercialize syngas from underground coal gasification (UCG). The Anchorage, Alaska-based joint venture is developing syngas for power generation, synthetic liquid fuels and other industrial applications.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

The agreement marks the first US purchase by a utility of low-carbon power from a commercial-scale, coal-based power plant utilizing carbon capture. billion plant will receive $450 million in funding from the Clean Coal Power Initiative; of this, $211 million comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 25, 2024

German brands, particularly Porsche, have been stressing the importance of “e-fuels” and Subaru recently announced plans to run the 2024 Super Taikyu Series using a WRX converted to run on synthetic fuels “making internal combustion engines more environmentally friendly.” By 1944, Allied forces had cut the majority of Germany’s supply lines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2009

The US Department of Energy has selected projects by Basin Electric Power Cooperative and Hydrogen Energy International LLC—a joint venture between BP and Rio Tinto ( earlier post )—for up to $408 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Post Combustion CO 2 Capture Project.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

In the new UMass approach, the hydroprocessing increases the intrinsic hydrogen content of the pyrolysis oil, producing polyols and alcohols. The zeolite catalyst then converts these hydrogenated products into light olefins and aromatic hydrocarbons in a yield as much as three times higher than that produced with the pure pyrolysis oil.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Shell Coal Gasification Process. Shell (China) Limited and Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co. Shenhua) have agreed to seek opportunities for conducting joint research and development in advanced coal technology. Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co. Shenhua Group is the world’s largest coal company.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

There has been a growing push from many sides saying that Hydrogen is the answer to all our energy problems. A few weeks ago JCB, the big yellow digger firm was beating the Hydrogen drum as the founder’s son Jo said. “I Jo is just one of many pitching the benefits of Hydrogen. As a gas hydrogen or H2. But it is not.

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