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Penn team proposes liquid-organic hydrogen carriers as endothermic fuels for hypersonic aircraft

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JANUARY 3, 2022

A team at the University of Pennsylvania is proposing the use of a liquid-organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC)—specifically, 1,2,3,4 -tetrahydroquinoline (THQ)—for use as an endothermic fuel for thermal protection of hypersonic aircraft engines. 1 were obtained, with conversions greater than 80% at 600 °C. earlier this year.

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UCLA team proposes non-photosynthetic biological conversion of CO2

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Most of us naturally associate biological CO 2 conversion with photosynthesis in plants and algae. Furthermore, the maximum efficiency of solar energy conversion by photosynthesis is 5%, while typical solar panel efficiency reaches 20%. an and Park (2020) “Light-Independent Biological Conversion of CO 2 ,” Joule doi: 10.1016/ j.joule.2020.08.007.

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GTI partners with Purdue’s CISTAR Center on conversion of shale resources to valuable liquid fuels

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Innovations in catalysts, separation processes, and reactor designs can enhance conversion efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. Industrial and university partners will contribute additional funding and critical resources, augmented with expertise from national laboratories and national and international research organizations.

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New porous coordination polymer captures CO2, converts it to useful organic materials

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

A new material that can selectively capture CO 2 molecules and efficiently convert them into useful organic materials has been developed by researchers at Kyoto University, along with colleagues at the University of Tokyo and Jiangsu Normal University in China. —Wu et al.

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Stanford engineers develop catalyst strategy to improve turnover frequencies for CO2 conversion to hydrocarbons by orders of magnitude

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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Researchers at Stanford University have shown that porous polymer encapsulation of metal-supported catalysts can drive the selectivity of CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons. The research team encapsulated a supported Ru/TiO 2 catalyst within the polymer layers of an imine-based porous organic polymer that controls its selectivity.

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DOE to issue funding opportunity on lithium extraction and conversion from geothermal brines

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intent to issue a funding opportunity (DE-FOA-0002823) that will support research on the extraction and conversion of lithium from geothermal brines for use of lithium batteries in electric vehicles and clean energy storage.

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Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The catalyst shows a carbon dioxide conversion through hydrogenation to hydrocarbons in the aviation jet fuel range of 38.2%, with a yield of 17.2%, and a selectivity of 47.8%, and with an attendant low carbon monoxide (5.6%) and methane selectivity (10.4%). In brief, the Fe–Mn–K catalyst shows a CO 2 conversion of 38.2% Makgae, O.A.

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California Air Resources Board approves sales of XL’s electrified Ford F-250

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AUGUST 21, 2018

XL received approval from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to sell hybrid electric Ford F-250 pickup trucks in California, marking the 14 th CARB executive order achieved by the company. XL has earned the highest number of CARB executive orders for commercial vehicle electrification in the automotive industry. .

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U-M researchers nearly double efficiency of organic thermoelectric materials

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MAY 6, 2013

A research team from the University of Michigan has nearly doubled the efficiency of certain organic thermoelectric materials. These convert heat into electricity more than four times as efficiently as the organic semiconductors created to date. for organic semiconductors. Resources. in a compound known as PEDOT:PSS.

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DOE announces $14M to optimize production of affordable biofuels and biochemicals

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MARCH 23, 2023

The Topic Areas in the 2023 Conversion Research and Development (R&D) funding opportunity seek to address the following R&D needs: R&D on gasification technologies, with an emphasis on syngas contaminant removal approaches that enable effective upgrading of products derived from gasification of renewable resources to liquid transportation fuels.

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U Waterloo team shows four-electron conversion for Li-O2 batteries for high energy density; inorganic molten salt electrolyte, high temperature

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AUGUST 26, 2018

The new work, published in Science , shows that four-electron conversion for lithium-oxygen electrochemistry is highly reversible. The Waterloo team is the first to achieve four-electron conversion, which doubles the electron storage of lithium-oxygen, also known as lithium-air, batteries. Resources. —Linda Nazar.

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DOE to award $35M for bioenergy feedstock and algae R&D

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

DE-FOA-0002423 ) Topic Areas ins the FOA support DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Development of novel methods for rapid/real-time measurements.

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A New One-Stop Resource for IEEE Life Members

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The new IEEE Life Members website is a one-stop resource to keep the most experienced of members connected. Five ways to connect The new website is organized into five sections: Ways to get involved. There are many benefits to being a life member. One is to join a section’s or council’s life member affinity group.

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Researchers discover novel water-assisted approach to double or triple rate of furfural conversion

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APRIL 3, 2019

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma, in collaboration with the University of Tulsa, have a novel approach for the water-assisted upgrading of the renewable chemical furfural, doubling or tripling the rate of conversion. It is known that water plays an important role as an environmentally-friendly solvent, replacing organic solvents.

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Columbia University engineers make breakthrough in understanding electroreduction of CO2 for conversion to electrofuels

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Recent research in electrocatalytic CO 2 conversion points the way to using CO 2 as a feedstock and renewable electricity as an energy supply for the synthesis of different types of fuel and value-added chemicals such as ethylene, ethanol, and propane. —lead author Irina Chernyshova. 1802256115.

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US researchers demo separation-free, IL-based process for conversion of biomass to advanced biofuel

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JUNE 1, 2018

Bisabolene is a chemical precursor to bisabolane—a potential renewable diesel and jet fuel that phase separates readily when released to the fermentation broth, enabling efficient recovery via two-phase extractive fermentation with an organic overlay. —Sundstrom et al.

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Researchers develop thin-layer artificial biofilm technology for green ethylene production

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OCTOBER 25, 2020

2 ethylene at 1.54% light to ethylene conversion efficiency. fold improvement in the light to ethylene conversion efficiency as compared to the cell suspension. Ethylene ( earlier post ) is one of the most important organic commodity chemicals with an annual global demand of more than 150 million tons. —Vajravel et al.

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Chiyoda successfully demonstrates liquid organic chemical hydride hydrogen storage technology

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JUNE 3, 2013

Japan-based Chiyoda Corporation announced that a demonstration plant located in its Koyasu Office and Research Park has successfully achieved expected performance using a liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) technology. Organic Chemical Hydrides (OCH) can store and transport hydrogen under ambient temperature and pressure.

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New catalytic process for direct conversion of fermentation-derived butyric acid to biobutanol

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Researchers from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) and Sungkyunkwan University have developed a hybrid conversion process for the production of biobutanol based on the selective catalytic hydrogenation of butyric acid (C 4 H 8 O 2 ) resulting from the fermentation of glucose. Upare, P.

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Taiwan’s ITRI introduces cellulosic bio-butanol production technology; pathway with highest carbon conversion yield

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

ButyFix uses a three-step process: (1) the hydrolysis of cellulose and hemicellulose to release sugars; (2) fermentation of the sugars to produce butyrate; and (3) the chemical conversion of butyrate via esterification and hydrogenation to butanol. g/g-sugar, which is 94% of carbon conversion yield. total sugar yield. Click to enlarge.

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DARPA EMBER program seeks bioengineering approaches to facilitate rare earths separation and purification

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program— Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource (EMBER) ( HR001121S0035 )—seeks to develop novel, bio-based technologies to overcome key challenges facing domestic supply of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) critical to the US and Department of Defense (DoD).

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Sandia-led team demonstrates two efficient hybrid biochemical routes for lignin conversion to value-added chemicals

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NOVEMBER 11, 2017

A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has demonstrated two new routes to lignin conversion that combine the advantages of earlier methods while minimizing their drawbacks. Conversely, harsh chemicals can deconstruct lignin in hours or even minutes. You want the organisms to make kilogram amounts in less than an hour, ideally.

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NREL modifies organism to produce ethylene via photosynthesis: alternative to fossil-fuel based ethylene for chemicals and transportation fuels

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

PCC 6803—and demonstrated that the organism remained stable through at least four generations, producing ethylene gas that could be easily captured. The organism produced ethylene at a high rate and is still being improved. And it isn’t going to be a food buffet for other organisms. into a cyanobacterium— Synechocystis sp.

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Panasonic develops highly efficient artificial photosynthesis system with gallium nitride semiconductor for conversion of CO2 to formic acid

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JULY 30, 2012

Panasonic partially presented the technology on 30 July at the 19 th International Conference on the Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy ( IPS-19 ) in Pasadena. Panasonic’s artificial photosynthesis system has a simple structure with highly efficient CO 2 conversion, which can utilize direct sunlight or focused light.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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JANUARY 11, 2014

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones.

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UGA-led team engineers bacterium for the direct conversion of unpretreated biomass to ethanol

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JUNE 3, 2014

The UGA research group engineered a synthetic pathway into the organism, introducing genes from other anaerobic bacterium that produce ethanol, and constructed a pathway in the organism to produce ethanol directly. Westpheling spent two and a half years developing genetic methods for manipulating the C. Whereas wild-type C. 1402210111.

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CNRS researchers use boron radicals to convert nitrogen to ammonia in solution; mild ammonia synthesis

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

This conversion takes place in solution, at room temperature, and without the need for metals or hydrogen gas. The researchers produced these boron-centered radicals by adding a strong reducing agent to organic boron halides. Resources. An open-acess paper on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. Rialland, L.

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EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

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JUNE 28, 2021

For the future, it will be important to commercialize advanced biofuel conversion technologies, which utilize a broader and more sustainable feedstock base. Solid particles and process waters, which also evolve during HTL conversion, contain a significant fraction of the carbon and the nutrients from the initial biomass.

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Japan team reports pathway to green ammonia: photocatalytic conversion of nitrogen with water

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JULY 30, 2017

The solar-to-chemical energy conversion efficiency is 0.02%, which is the highest efficiency among the early reported photocatalytic systems. A number of inorganic or organic semiconductors have been tried for NH 3 production, but these suffer from low activity or stability. 7b06634.

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KIST team develops rapid benchmarking platform for LOHCs

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

To overcome these limitations, research efforts to store hydrogen chemically in liquid carriers, such as liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) or ammonia, have been conducted. Various organic compounds have been suggested for LOHCs. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST). 2021.114124. 2021.114124.

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New efficient biphasic catalytic process for conversion of biomass to dense jet-range fuels

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JUNE 13, 2017

In the proposed biTCP for cylcoalkane production, both hydrophilic and hydrophobic catalysts are added into two immiscible solven—an organic phase and an aqueous phase—creating a biphasic environment for a “cascade” of chemical reactions in both phases. —Yang et al.

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Startup New Oil Resources commercializing hydrothermal process for conversion of biomass to gasoline-range hydrocarbons

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Louisiana-based startup New Oil Resources (NOR) is commercializing a near-critical (i.e., New Oil Resources licensed the technology (US Patent 6,180,845 ) in 2009 from Louisiana State University (LSU); the original developers of the process are Drs. New Oil Resources was co-founded by Catallo and Dr. Gary Miller. Gary Miller.

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Chevrolet one of 16 organizations across US recognized by EPA for Climate Action; only automaker

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded 2015 Climate Leadership Awards to 16 organizations and one individual representing a wide array of industries from finance and manufacturing to retail and technology for showing what the agency said was exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climate change.

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International Lithium Association (ILiA) commissions TDi Sustainability to examine ESG and standards in the lithium industry

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MARCH 23, 2022

The global demand for lithium could increase by six times between 2022 and 2040, according to leading natural resources analyst Wood Mackenzie. TDi Sustainability will map the ESG issues in the lithium value chain and start the conversation with our members on best practice going forward. —ILiA Founding Chairman Anand Sheth.

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New one-pot conversion of CO2 to polycarbonate copolymers

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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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Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

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JANUARY 27, 2021

The researchers suggested that market conditions that favor greater adoption of precision agriculture systems, retention of soil organic carbon, and demand for co-products from ethanol production may lower the carbon intensity of corn ethanol further. gCO 2 e/MJ (range of 37.6 gCO 2 e/MJ, 26%), while land use change is a minor contributor (3.9

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DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Meanwhile, wet waste feedstocks, such as animal manure and fats, oils, and greases (FOG), represent another important category of resources that could be utilized to produce MCCI bioblendstocks due to its abundant availability. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016. —Ou et al. 1c06561.

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Calysta Energy engineering organisms to convert methane to low-cost liquid hydrocarbons; BioGTL process

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Start-up Calysta Energy plans to use methane as a feedstock for engineered organisms to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels and high value chemicals that are cost-effective, scalable and reduce environmental impact. Conversion method. Click to enlarge. Comparison of biofuel platform efficiency (source: Calysta Energy). Carbon feedstock.

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Osaka team demonstrates H2 purification using LOHCs

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

They developed a system where hydrogen is separated and stored in liquid organic hydrogen carriers by catalysis of triaryl boranes in one seamless process. In the midterm future, a huge amount of H 2 will be produced from a variety of hydrocarbon sources through conversion and removal of contaminants such as CO and CO 2.

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Ford and Georgia Tech partner on hydraulic hybrid school bus conversion

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MAY 13, 2011

The Ford Motor Company Fund and the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering on the US’ first conversion of a traditional school bus to a hydraulic hybrid vehicle that runs on recycled biofuel. Atlanta Public Schools (APS) donated the bus for the project.

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UCLA researchers develop synthetic biocatalytic pathway for more efficient conversion of methanol to longer-chain fuels

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Biological conversion of methanol to longer carbon chain compounds is feasible; however, the natural biological pathways for methanol utilization involve carbon dioxide loss or ATP expenditure. With a cell-free system, we demonstrated the conversion of methanol to ethanol or n-butanol. Earlier post.).

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UW-Madison team develops novel hydrogen-producing photoelectrochemical cell using solar-driven biomass conversion as anode reaction

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MARCH 11, 2015

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed an innovative hydrogen-producing photoelectrochemical cell (PEC), using solar-driven biomass conversion as the anode reaction. HMF is a key intermediate in biomass conversion that can be derived from cellulose; FDCA is an important molecule for the production of polymers.

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McGill team develops simple system for reversible H2 storage using organic cyclic hydrocarbons; alternative route to solar fuels

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JUNE 15, 2015

A team at McGill University in Canada has developed a reversible hydrogen storage/release system based on the metal-catalyzed hydrogenation and photo-induced dehydrogenation of organic cyclic hydrocarbons at room temperature. The efforts to further reduce the amount of Pt and develop other inexpensive metal catalysts are in progress.

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Osaka researchers find formate dehydrogenase reduces CO2 directly to formic acid

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MAY 18, 2020

Their work, published in a paper in the RSC’s New Journal of Chemistry , points to a catalyst in developing and designing an artificial photosynthesis system that efficiently converts carbon dioxide into organic molecules. © Research Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Osaka City University.

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Penn team proposes liquid-organic hydrogen carriers as endothermic fuels for hypersonic aircraft

UCLA team proposes non-photosynthetic biological conversion of CO2

GTI partners with Purdue’s CISTAR Center on conversion of shale resources to valuable liquid fuels

New porous coordination polymer captures CO2, converts it to useful organic materials

Stanford engineers develop catalyst strategy to improve turnover frequencies for CO2 conversion to hydrocarbons by orders of magnitude

DOE to issue funding opportunity on lithium extraction and conversion from geothermal brines

Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

California Air Resources Board approves sales of XL’s electrified Ford F-250

U-M researchers nearly double efficiency of organic thermoelectric materials

DOE announces $14M to optimize production of affordable biofuels and biochemicals

U Waterloo team shows four-electron conversion for Li-O2 batteries for high energy density; inorganic molten salt electrolyte, high temperature

DOE to award $35M for bioenergy feedstock and algae R&D

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Researchers discover novel water-assisted approach to double or triple rate of furfural conversion

Columbia University engineers make breakthrough in understanding electroreduction of CO2 for conversion to electrofuels

US researchers demo separation-free, IL-based process for conversion of biomass to advanced biofuel

Researchers develop thin-layer artificial biofilm technology for green ethylene production

Chiyoda successfully demonstrates liquid organic chemical hydride hydrogen storage technology

New catalytic process for direct conversion of fermentation-derived butyric acid to biobutanol

Taiwan’s ITRI introduces cellulosic bio-butanol production technology; pathway with highest carbon conversion yield

DARPA EMBER program seeks bioengineering approaches to facilitate rare earths separation and purification

Sandia-led team demonstrates two efficient hybrid biochemical routes for lignin conversion to value-added chemicals

NREL modifies organism to produce ethylene via photosynthesis: alternative to fossil-fuel based ethylene for chemicals and transportation fuels

Panasonic develops highly efficient artificial photosynthesis system with gallium nitride semiconductor for conversion of CO2 to formic acid

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

UGA-led team engineers bacterium for the direct conversion of unpretreated biomass to ethanol

CNRS researchers use boron radicals to convert nitrogen to ammonia in solution; mild ammonia synthesis

EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

Japan team reports pathway to green ammonia: photocatalytic conversion of nitrogen with water

KIST team develops rapid benchmarking platform for LOHCs

New efficient biphasic catalytic process for conversion of biomass to dense jet-range fuels

Startup New Oil Resources commercializing hydrothermal process for conversion of biomass to gasoline-range hydrocarbons

Chevrolet one of 16 organizations across US recognized by EPA for Climate Action; only automaker

International Lithium Association (ILiA) commissions TDi Sustainability to examine ESG and standards in the lithium industry

New one-pot conversion of CO2 to polycarbonate copolymers

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

Calysta Energy engineering organisms to convert methane to low-cost liquid hydrocarbons; BioGTL process

Osaka team demonstrates H2 purification using LOHCs

Ford and Georgia Tech partner on hydraulic hybrid school bus conversion

UCLA researchers develop synthetic biocatalytic pathway for more efficient conversion of methanol to longer-chain fuels

UW-Madison team develops novel hydrogen-producing photoelectrochemical cell using solar-driven biomass conversion as anode reaction

McGill team develops simple system for reversible H2 storage using organic cyclic hydrocarbons; alternative route to solar fuels

Osaka researchers find formate dehydrogenase reduces CO2 directly to formic acid

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