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JUNE 2, 2021

Haldor Topsoe is determined to take a leading position in the green hydrogen space, and has established a focused green hydrogen organization to accelerate its business. Topsoe offers an end-to-end portfolio within green hydrogen production by electrolysis and the associated downstream production of ammonia, methanol, and e-fuels.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Vopak and Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies will incorporate an equal shared joint venture, named LOHC Logistix, for hydrogen storage, transport and supply based on Hydrogenious’ Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) technology. Earlier post.) The incorporation of the joint venture is subject to customary closing conditions.

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JUNE 21, 2021

As part of the joint work, the parties plan to evaluate the technical and commercial aspects of a potential project for the production of environmentally friendly hydrogen for Metalloinvest factories located in Belgorod and Kursk regions. —Evgeny Pakermanov, President of Rusatom Overseas JSC. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 28, 2021

The production of HTL fuels from three different feedstock classes shows the flexibility of the process. HTL has several key-advantages, of which the most important are: Flexible production potential: The HTL conversion technology taps into a huge global bio-resource with local variety of primary biomasses.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Fulcrum produce biofuel on a commercial scale by chemically converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into transportation fuels. Fulcrum’s process combines gasification technology with a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) fuel process for the efficient, low-cost production of renewable transportation fuels. Founded in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

A team at the University of Idaho has demonstrated that glycerol, a byproduct from biodiesel production, could be used as a substrate for producing drop-in gasoline-range biofuel. The technology of converting methanol into gasoline was discovered and commercialized more than 3 decades ago. Tropsch synthesis (FTS).

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APRIL 11, 2022

Air Products has awarded thyssenkrupp nucera a contract for the supply of alkaline water electrolysis technology for a 10 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen in Casa Grande, Arizona. The gaseous hydrogen will be converted to liquid hydrogen using Air Products’ proprietary technology. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The UK Department for Transport has shortlisted 8 industry-led projects to receive a share of £15 million (US$21 million) in the Green Fuels, Green Skies (GFGS) competition for the development of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) production plants in the UK. Shortlisted organizations: Advanced Biofuel Solutions Ltd. billion (US$2.3

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JANUARY 3, 2022

estimated that with conversion by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) and upgrading, the wet waste resource availability in the United States could be converted to jet fuel that is equivalent to about 24% of the U.S. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016.

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JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals. Ding et al.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have engineered a microbe to convert molecules of industrial waste gases, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, into acetone and isopropanol (IPA). —Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech. In this case of C.

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MAY 15, 2021

Many biofuels, including ethanol, biodiesel and other products derived from organic material (biomass), are almost exclusively produced via fermentation. Carbon-Negative Chemical Production Platform - $4,160,262.57. Acetate as a Platform for Carbon-Negative Production of Renewable Fuels and Chemicals - $3,421,197.10.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In 2014, at KU Leuven’s Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, researchers succeeded in converting sawdust into building blocks for gasoline. A chemical process made it possible to convert the cellulose in the sawdust into hydrocarbon chains. These hydrocarbons can be used as an additive in gasoline. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 24, 2014

An EU-funded project, Biogas2PEM-FC , has developed a system to convert the toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity. The waste from olive oil production—which contains pesticides and toxic organic compounds, is acidic and with a high salinity—is environmentally harmful and costly to discard.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Converting national and regional natural gas networks to hydrogen could be a powerful decarbonization solution by distributing the gas to millions of individual users across the country, where it can be burnt without releasing carbon dioxide.

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APRIL 19, 2020

Scientists have found that coral-inspired biomaterials could lead to efficient biofuel production. Corals are one of the most efficient organisms at using, capturing and converting light to generate energy. 3D-printed intermediate skeleton design. Final bionic skeleton doped with CNC aggregates. Credit: SIO.

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MAY 27, 2022

The technology converts carbon emissions from steel mills or gasified waste biomass directly into MEG. The carbon capture technology uses a proprietary engineered bacterium to convert carbon emissions directly into MEG through fermentation, bypassing the need for an ethanol intermediate, and simplifying the MEG supply chain.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Key to these control mechanisms are enzymes, which speed up chemical reactions involved in biological functions such as growth and energy production. The insight could lead to organisms that are more efficient at converting plants into biofuels. The open-access study appears in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

has developed proprietary, breakthrough processes that convert either low-carbon isobutanol or low-value fusel oils—a mixture of alcohols that are byproducts from fermentation processes such as alcohol production—into renewable diesel. Gevo expects this to open yet another door for Gevo products.

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JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors. In all cases, however, the production of ferroalloys is energy-intensive.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

The product follows the launch earlier this year of an ambitious yeast platform, Innova, and the first product, Drive. Lift targets ethanol plants with long fermentation times—delivering greater tolerance to common stressors such as high temperature and organic acids.

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JUNE 27, 2021

In the US, ethanol production is limited in large part by its reliance on corn, which isn’t grown in large enough quantities to make up a significant portion of US fuel needs. This demonstration suggests that it could be feasible to engineer aldehyde tolerance into strains of yeast that generate other products such as diesel.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

New research led by The University of Manchester has developed a metal-organic framework (MOF) material that provides a selective, fully reversible and repeatable capability to capture nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), a toxic air pollutant produced particularly by diesel and bio-fuel use. 11, 1085–1090 doi: 10.1038/s41557-019-0356-0.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Researchers in Professor José Avalos’s lab at Princeton University have developed a new technique to isolate high-producing strains of yeast, identify mutant enzymes with enhanced activity, and construct biosynthetic pathways for production of isobutanol and isopentanol. KDCs) and alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) convert the ?-ketoacid

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Eni’s proprietary Eni Slurry Technology (EST) is able to convert refining residues entirely into high-quality light products, eliminating both liquid and solid refining residues with significant environmental benefits. The elimination of pet-coke production is part of global efforts to contain CO 2 emissions.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

Biogenic carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide that is released during the decomposition of organic matter such as food waste. All Anaergia plants use organic waste material to produce biogas, which is composed of methane and carbon dioxide. Waste-to-biogas company Anaergia Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

An international research team has now copied this principle, and used nanoparticles to convert carbon dioxide into ethanol and propanol. For example, a single enzyme can produce a complex product from a relatively simple starting material. 2 -products and vii) desorption and diffusion of C ?2 Credit: ACS, O’Mara et al.

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AUGUST 19, 2018

Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have identified an enzyme belonging to the glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (GPAT) family as a promising target for increasing biofuel production from the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. merolae as a model organism for exploring how to improve TAG production.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

million Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) OPEEN+ grant to develop a method to convert natural gas into carbon nanotubes for materials that can replace metals in large-scale applications. The process would also produce valuable hydrogen as a side product. Rice University researchers have won a $3.3-million

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Calysta is using its proprietary BioGTL biological gas-to-liquids platform to convert natural gas to liquid hydrocarbons. 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.

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

Global Bioenergies has succeeded in the production of bio-sourced propylene by direct fermentation. This marks the first time an entirely biological production process—i.e. Global Bioenergies is one of the few companies worldwide developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation.

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MARCH 12, 2019

These insights into how the beetle and its distinct microbiome have co-evolved provide a roadmap for the production of affordable, nature-derived fuels and bioproducts. This wood passes through the beetle’s complex digestive tract and is finally excreted as its waste product, politely termed frass. —Jennifer Pett-Ridge.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

The energy system will power and heat Raven SR’s S-Series hydrogen production facility at a sanitary landfill in Richmond, California. At the site, landfill gas (LFG) will be the primary fuel to provide power for the non-combustion process that converts waste to hydrogen. Earlier post.). Jennbacher Type 4 Ready for H2.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

million in federal funding for cost-shared projects that will develop technologies that utilize CO 2 from coal-fired power plants to produce useful products. Another option is to use the CO 2 as a reagent to create useful products, such as cement, plastics, or liquid fuels. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award approximately $6.7

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Energy Conversion and Coal Research and from the research group Photobiotechnology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered a way of increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production in microalgae by a factor of five by using a combined metabolic engineering approach.

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DECEMBER 23, 2022

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company, and Chart Industries will collaborate globally on the liquefaction, storage, and transportation of hydrogen as well as pure carbon dioxide produced from Raven SR’s non-combustion Steam/CO 2 Reformation process of converting waste to renewable fuel.

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APRIL 26, 2023

This partnership will allow Cap Clean to produce high-quality renewable fuels from various biomass and bio-wastes feedstocks for the difficult-to-abate transportation sector using modular systems capable of rapid production scale-up.

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