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MAY 30, 2020

Representatives of the Lufthansa Group and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich), with ETH spin-offs Climeworks and Synhelion , have signed a joint Letter of Intent for a possible cooperation to accelerate the market launch of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the IAA Summit in Munich, HIF Global, together with Porsche AG, Volkswagen Group Innovation and MAN Energy Solutions, announced the development and installation of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) unit at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration facility in southern Chile in 2024. Water, a potential by-product, is drained off. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser AS, a division of Nel ASA, has received a purchase order for a 20MW alkaline water electrolyzer from Ovako , a leading European manufacturer of engineering steel. The conversion to hydrogen will enable Ovako to reduce its CO 2 emissions for steel production in Hofors by 50%.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

It also provides an incentive to properly recycle waste oil and also works to prevent behavior such as pouring oil down the sink, which damages household plumbing and water treatment plants. This service is increasingly comprehensive.

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MARCH 26, 2023

The Pilot Plant has undergone validation testing and begun Phase One operation, the results from which demonstrate highly selective, high-yield direct lithium extraction from brine and high water efficiency. A small amount of water is used to wash the SuperLig 285 column. Complete recycling of process water. Water is conserved.

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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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JUNE 26, 2014

One-pot process for conversion of cellulose to hexane, a gasoline component. Even using a high weight ratio of cellulose to water (1:1), a 71% yield of n-hexane could be obtained from ball-milled cellulose. To the best of our knowledge, this conversion process has not yet been reported. Credit: ACS, Liu et al. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Alstom will supply six hydrogen fuel cell trains, with the option for eight more, to FNM (Ferrovie Nord Milano), the main transport and mobility group in the Italian region of Lombardy, for a total amount of approximately €160 million. This zero-emission train emits low levels of noise, with exhaust being only steam and condensed water.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. The output from each catalytic array when cooled is comprised of volatile gases, renewable fuel and water. Earlier post.). Depending on the temperature (300 ?C

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

The Energy Department (DOE) recently announced $10 million, subject to appropriations, to support the launch of the HydroGEN Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium ( HydroGEN ). Chemical Catalysts for Bioenergy (ChemCat Bio) is dedicated to identifying and overcoming catalysis challenges for biomass conversion processes.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The 22 selected projects fall into five topic areas for the “Bioenergy Technologies Office Scale-Up and Conversion” funding opportunity ( earlier post ): Scale-Up of Biotechnologies. Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion. Separations to Enable Biomass Conversion. Residential Wood Heaters.

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JULY 7, 2015

Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the sum total of water lost while the plant is growing, either from evaporation through the plant stem itself (a process called “transpiration”), or from water evaporated off of the plant’s leaves or the ground. —Hamilton et al.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

In the next few years, the company expects the conversion of one blast furnace to result in an annual demand of around 20,000 tonnes of green hydrogen. This demand will increase to some 720,000 tonnes per year by 2050 as a result of the gradual conversion of the plants and equipment.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

The findings could spur progress on developing a variety of materials and designs for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion systems. There are several ways to do such conversions, including electrochemical, thermocatalytic, photothermal, or photochemical processes—each with their own problems or challenges.

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JULY 31, 2019

Australia-based biotechnology company Circa Group, which produces its bio-based solvent Cyrene from waste cellulose, is participating in a project to develop the first UK industrial scale capability to reclaim and reuse the most valuable components of end-of-life electrical vehicle (EV) batteries. straw, bagasse, sawdust).

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OCTOBER 31, 2015

RJ Lee Group has signed an agreement to license an invention developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory that converts waste rubber into a valuable energy storage material. The carbon composite material can be incorporated in batteries, supercapacitors, and catalysis and water filtration technologies.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Novozymes will research, develop, and manufacture enzymes for the conversion process, while Sea6 Energy contributes its offshore seaweed cultivation technology. In addition, Sea6 Energy is also pioneering approaches to fermenting the sugars derived from seaweed to produce fuel in a manner that requires minimal use of fresh water resources.

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Conversion Fuel India Production 246

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APRIL 28, 2011

A team led by the University of Alberta has confirmed that inorganic mercury (Hg) found worldwide in ocean water is transformed into monomethylmercury (MMHg)—a potent and bio-accumulative neurotoxin—in the seawater. Methylation, in this case, is the addition of a methyl group to heavy metals catalyzed by certain enzymes.

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MARCH 10, 2016

A team from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Technische Universität München and Universiteit Leiden has doubled the catalytic activity of electrodes for water electrolysis by applying a monolayer of copper the platinum electrodes. Dr. Aliaksandr Bandarenka from the Department of Physics of Energy Conversion and Storage in Munich and Prof.

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Water Production Hydrogen Polymer 150

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Wood–Ljungdahl pathway is an efficient natural process through which microbes transform CO 2 into methyl and carbonyl groups and subsequently couple them together. The pathway breaks CO 2 molecules down into two different or “asymmetric” chemical groups: a carbonyl group (CO) or a methyl group (CH3).

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JULY 5, 2022

Suncor Energy and Australia-based Hazer Group Limited will use Hazer’s innovative methane pyrolysis technology for the first time in North America to produce hydrogen from natural gas. Hazer Group was founded in 2010 to commercialize technology originally developed at the University of Western Australia.

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JULY 9, 2013

The Thüga Group has now started construction of its Power-to-Gas demonstration plant in Frankfurt. The Thüga plant’s conversion of electricity to hydrogen and the feeding into the local gas distribution network should begin by the end of 2013. The operational data will be shared by the whole Thüga group. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

The pilot plant was designed and tested by researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Research Centre of the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW). —Felix Ortloff, Head of the Process Engineering group of the DVGW Research Centre at KIT’s Engler-Bunte Institute (EBI).

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Enerkem, with a group of strategic partners including major investor Shell, along with Suncor and Proman, and Hydro-Québec supplying green hydrogen and oxygen, and with the support of the Québec and Canadian governments, is proposing the construction of a biofuel plant in Varennes, in the Greater Montréal area.

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MARCH 18, 2012

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

The researchers combined a copper electrocatalyst with an ionomer [polymers that conduct ions and water] assembly that intersperses sulfonate-lined paths for the H 2 O with fluorocarbon channels for the CO 2. —García de Arquer. Resources. Pelayo García de Arquer et al. Science Vol. 367, Issue 6478, pp.

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CO2 Production Polymer Water 414

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Here, two SCR catalytic converters work together to split nitrogen oxides into water and nitrogen using AdBlue urea solution. The catalytic converter installed further away from the engine performs the main share of nitrogen oxide conversion specifically at high loads and correspondingly high exhaust gas temperatures.

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AUGUST 7, 2021

Enel Green Power is committed to the creation and development of projects for the production and use of green or renewable hydrogen, derived from the electrolysis of water powered exclusively by renewable electricity.

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MAY 28, 2019

An international research group has improved graphene’s ability to catalyze the hydrogen evolution reaction, which releases hydrogen as a result of passing an electronic current through water. Their properties can be improved by making multiple simultaneous changes to their structures.

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Hydrogen Design Production Water 291

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

The project is being coordinated by the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group, led by François Maréchal, at EPFL’s School of Engineering. First, the vehicle’s flue gases in the exhaust pipe are cooled down and the water is separated from the gases. In their study, the scientists used the example of a delivery truck.

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JUNE 6, 2012

The research group led by Mark Davis, the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at Caltech, describes the new, four-reaction process in an open access paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). °C that is completely recyclable and does not involve toxic or corrosive intermediates.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

The thermochemical splitting of CO 2 and water in a two-step redox reaction yields carbon-neutral fuels. The thermochemical reaction to turn CO 2 and water into syngas takes place at 1,500 °C. Solar heat is used to convert a mixture of methane, CO 2 , and water into syngas, which is then processed into any type of fuel.

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Solar Fuel Production Carbon 210

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APRIL 22, 2020

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a new electrode material for a protonic ceramic electrochemical cell (PCEC) that can efficiently convert excess electricity and water into hydrogen. Water splitting reaction on oxygen electrode and PNC’s hydration. The triple conducting oxide of PrNi 0.5

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Hydrogen Idaho Water Energy Storage 339

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MARCH 18, 2022

Capacitive deionization (CDI)—first proposed in the 1960s—operates by applying a low voltage to mobilize charged species from water or a solution to electrodes. The group was established in 2016 by DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.). (The

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Batteries Battery Re-Charge Conversion 186

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MAY 18, 2017

A group of Japanese researchers has developed a novel photocatalyst for increased hydrogen production. at 360 nm in overall water splitting and even good durability up to 1 day. at 360 nm in overall water splitting and even good durability up to 1 day. The mesocrystal also exhibits a high quantum yield of 6.7%

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Light Hydrogen Production Conversion 150

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MARCH 29, 2021

Power management company Eaton and Tenneco announced a joint development agreement between Eaton’s Vehicle Group and Tenneco’s Clean Air business group to produce an integrated exhaust thermal management system that will enable commercial truck and light vehicle manufacturers to meet upcoming emissions regulations.

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Eaton Exhaust Standards Emissions 186

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JULY 15, 2022

Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct. Earlier post.).

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