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MAY 25, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Clean Fuels & Products Shot , a new initiative that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from carbon-based fuels and products significantly. Biomass and waste conversion technologies designed to use green electricity and hydrogen to maximize carbon retention in products.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Gang Liu from the Institute of Metal Research, CAS, has now initiated the establishment of international efficiency accreditation and testing protocols for particulate photocatalysts toward solar fuel production. Efficiency accreditation and testing protocols for particulate photocatalysts toward solar fuel production. Credit: DICP.

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MARCH 23, 2023

The Department of Energy announced $14 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002946 ) to support and to optimize the production of affordable biofuels and biochemicals while significantly reducing carbon emissions. R&D on microbial conversion of renewable resources into chemical products, with an emphasis on processes with commercialization potential.

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JUNE 7, 2022

The branched-chain selectivity in C 6+ and nonnecessity of H 2 give this route advantage in high-octane gasoline blendstock production. The highest C 6+ production rate reaches 7.5g ? This study also proposes a strategy to the production of branched carbon chain compounds via the condensation of biomass platform substrates.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

The USDA ARS and BIOF are cooperating to develop production methods which can be used to increase the productivity of land in Florida formerly used for orange production prior to the devastation of the industry by citrus greening. Both the USDA ARS and BIOF will supply resources needed for the project.

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JUNE 17, 2023

Controlled Thermal Resources Holdings Inc. CTR) has engaged Aquatech as its technology partner to deliver the engineering and process plants for the conversion of lithium chloride intermediate product to battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate at the CTR’s Stage 1 Lithium Hydroxide Facility. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 25, 2020

The team optimized the production system by varying different parameters, such as radiance, inorganic carbon level, and periodicity of medium renewal. 2 ethylene at 1.54% light to ethylene conversion efficiency. These figures represent a 2-time enhancement in the duration of ethylene production; a 2.2-fold

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The electrochemical conversion of CO 2 into carbon-based fuels and valuable feedstocks by renewable electricity is an attractive strategy for carbon neutrality. Therefore, CO 2 electroreduction to CO is one of the most promising routes to obtain cost-competitive products, the researchers said. and Sun, Y.

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JUNE 11, 2023

According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), US production of uranium concentrate (U 3 O 8 ) in the first quarter of 2023 totaled 2,511 pounds. This is 75% lower than first quarter 2022 production and a drop of 99% from fourth quarter 2022 as no material was produced this quarter at the White Mesa Mill in Utah.

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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. Such polymer confinement modifies the CO 2 hydrogenation behavior of the Ru surface, significantly enhancing the C 2+ production turnover frequency. Asundi, Emmett D.

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JUNE 12, 2022

A team from Washington State University (WSU) and the Gas Technology Institute have used an ethanol and water mixture and a small amount of electricity in an electrochemical conversion system to produce pure compressed hydrogen. The WSU researchers created a conversion system with an anode and a cathode. —Kee et al. Benjamin L.

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MARCH 28, 2021

A new boron-copper catalyst for the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into chemicals or fuels has been developed by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen. This would not only create useful products, but would also serve as storage for renewable energies. —Wolfgang Schuhmann. 202016898.

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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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AUGUST 19, 2022

A complete ammonia conversion to hydrogen was achieved at an economically feasible 450 ?C and 87.50% NH 3 conversion efficiency at 450 ?C C, the hydrogen production rate (57.75 this is the first Ru-free catalyst that exhibited outstanding performance, approaching complete NH 3 conversion at economically feasible 450 ?C

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This result demonstrates the potential for highly efficient, electrically driven production of hydrogen from an ammonia carrier with earth-abundant transition metals. —Yuan et al. All reaction energy for the catalysis came from LEDs that produced light with a wavelength of 470 nanometers. Courtesy of Syzygy Plasmonics, Inc.

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JUNE 12, 2019

Researchers in China have developed a one-pot process for the direct conversion of cellulose to ethanol with a yield of 43.2 The increasing concerns over global climate change have motivated great interest in the utilization of renewable biomass for the production of fuels and chemicals. Yang et al. 2019.05.020.

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JUNE 10, 2020

The conversion of CO 2 to fuels in these inexpensive water-based systems has shown high faradic efficiencies for reduction of CO 2. to C 2 fuel products such as ethanol. The separation of ethanol and other fuel products from water. Aqueous CO 2 electrolysis with base-metal catalysts. 2020.01.002.

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JUNE 26, 2019

Over the next decade, as we continue the shift to an electric economy, we will see an increase in demand and production for lithium-ion battery technologies. When asked to note the biggest bottlenecks in their workflow, respondents’ answers fell into three main themes: Scarcity of expertise and resources. Time-consuming evaluations.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

mΩ m 2 ) cells in a batch-fed mode, alternating high CO 2 and hydrogen (H 2 ) availability to promote the production of acetic acid and ethanol. Chain elongation resulted in the selective (78% on a carbon basis) production of butyric acid, a valuable chemical used in pharmaceuticals, farming, perfumes, and the chemical industry.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

The US has no domestic production for 14 CMs and is completely dependent on imports to supply its demand. AOI 2: Production of Critical Minerals (CM) (Excluding Rare Earth Elements or REE) from Coal-Based and Alternate Resources. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced $28.35

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Transform Materials breaks down methane and other similar light hydrocarbon gases without oxygen, recombining the resulting fragments into two high-value end products, acetylene and hydrogen. The patented microwave plasma reactor system generates these products from methane efficiently at very high rates of conversion and selectivity.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

The miscanthus biomass was harvested and baled at the INA demonstration site in Croatia in February this year and shipped for processing to Clariant’s pre-commercial sunliquid plant in Straubing, Germany for conversion into lignocellulosic sugars and ethanol.

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APRIL 5, 2021

The lab calculated electricity used in the conversion process would cost about $100 per ton of starting carbon. wt % of graphene sufficed to give both products a strength gain of at least 30%. When flashing shredded rubber tires mixed with plain carbon black to add conductivity, about 47% converted to graphene. After 28 days, 0.1

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AUGUST 16, 2023

The Allison eGen Flex Electric Hybrid System with Vanner’s IAP2 received certification from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) with a Cummins Inc. Vanner began serial production in 2023 of its new 600 ampere Liquid-Cooled DC to DC Converter, incorporating silicon-carbide solid-state devices (SiC).

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

These potential FOAs—“Reducing Agricultural Carbon Intensity and Protecting Algal Crops (RACIPAC)” and the “2023 Conversion R&D”—will enable the sustainable use of domestic biomass and waste resources to produce biofuels and bioproducts.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Global Bioenergies announced the production of ETBE—Ethyl tert-butyl ether, an oxygenate additive for gasoline—purely from renewable resources. The global market for the product is currently valued at more than €2 billion, or more than 3 million tonnes annually.

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JULY 20, 2020

For this reason, lignin waste is typically used by paper mills as a low-grade boiler fuel, rather than as a high-grade fuel or as a raw material for chemical products. In this study, lignin pyrolysis oil was prepared from Kraft lignin using bench-scale fixed-bed batch pyrolysis and then hydrocracked to produce less-viscous liquid products.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting based on solar energy is one promising approach for the production of green hydrogen. The novel photoanodes suppress the undesirable internal and external losses associated with photoelectrochemical water splitting, resulting in an unprecedented photon-to-current conversion efficiency of 12.79%.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The electrocatalytic conversion of CO 2 using renewable energy could establish a climate-neutral, artificial carbon cycle. Excess energy produced by photovoltaics and wind energy could be stored through the electrocatalytic production of fuels from CO 2. In contrast, pure copper foil produces C 1 products but hardly any C 2+ products.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The pilot plant utilizes Prairie Lithium’s Ion Exchange (Plix) material designed to selectively extract lithium from the produced brine water, purposely reducing the amount of contaminants that are carried over into the production stream. The company acknowledges that DLE technologies are not yet ready to be commercially deployed.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, with colleagues at the Université de Toulouse, France, have developed a process for the direct production of levulinates from cheap residual lignocellulosic biomass using an affordable homogeneous catalyst. This optimization led to a total production of levulinates of 78 wt%, 72.5

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

A team at the University of Tokyo has demonstrated steam electrolysis using a solid acid electrolysis cell (SAEC) for the production of hydrogen. The SAEC used a CsH 2 PO 4 /SiP 2 O 7 composite electrolyte and Pt/C electrodes; hydrogen production was successfully demonstrated with Faraday efficiencies around 80%. —Fujiwara et al.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Bringin on new capacity requires extensive time and resources, starting with early exploration and target testing (3-6 years) to engineering and economic studies (6-7 years) to construction and initial production (0.5 to 2 years).

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MARCH 9, 2020

A photocatalytic decarboxylation strategy for the production of alkanes from bio-derived fatty acids. soybean and tall oil fatty acids)—can be transformed into alkane products in high yields (up to 95%). A substantial amount of fatty acids are produced as low-value by-products in fat and oil processing and the pulp industry.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Schematic of the ocean-wave-driven electrochemical CO 2 RR system for liquid fuel production. The team optimized the charging process of the supercapacitor and the operation potential of the electrochemical cells to more effectively utilize the energy harvested from the nanogenerator and maximize the production of formic acid.

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AUGUST 21, 2022

SK E&S and SK Plug Hyverse—a joint venture (JV) formed in January of this year by SK E&S and Plug Power—will work with Korea Southeast Power Generation (KOEN) to cooperate with green hydrogen and green ammonia projects based on renewable energy resources in Korea and abroad.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Bi 0.73 ) achieved 95% methane conversion at 1065°C in a 1.1-meter meter bubble column and produced pure hydrogen without CO 2 or other by-products. Under these conditions, the equilibrium conversion is 98%. When the temperature was reduced to 1040 °C, the CH 4 conversion decreased to 86%. Resources.

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