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MAY 7, 2023

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and University of Miami has analyzed the implications of California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) for emissions of greenhouse gases and criteria air pollutants, both in aggregate and in their distribution.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a photo-chemo-enzymatic multi-step combination pathway for the highly efficient and environmentally friendly preparation of biogasoline from cheap and sustainable triolein using solar energy and atmospheric O 2 under mild conditions. —Xu et al.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Researchers from Washington State University and Tufts University have “ unambiguously ” shown for the first time that individual Pt atoms on a well-defined Cu 2 O film are able to perform CO oxidation (i.e., Sykes sees this breakthrough influencing the next generation of low-temperature catalytic converters.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Moore, C.E., von Haden, A.C., Burnham, M.B.,

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MARCH 23, 2021

The University of Nebraska’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering recently released results of a study of 50 non-flex fuel vehicles from the State of Nebraska to determine the adaptability, economic feasibility, and environmental impact of using E30 (30% ethanol blend).

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JUNE 25, 2023

A team from Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar has comprehensively reviewed various ammonia decomposition techniques to produce clean hydrogen by recovering the boil-off ammonia while integrating solar energy infrastructures onboard a ship for electricity and heat requirements. The review paper is published in the journal Fuel.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington are developing a new process for photoelectrosynthesis of methanol—the conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol using sunlight and hybrid CuO–Cu 2 O semiconductor nanorod arrays. An attractive option would be to convert greenhouse gases to liquid fuel.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Researchers at The Ohio State University have used a chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas—commonly called “sewer gas”. The team first used chemical looping on coal and shale gas to convert fossil fuels into electricity without emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. —Jangam et al.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

A common farm weed could make a jet fuel with fewer production-related environmental impacts than other biofuels, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at The Ohio State University. The study was published recently in the journal Applied Energy.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

Rice University nanoscientists have demonstrated a new catalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel at ambient pressure using only light energy, mainly due to a plasmonic effect that makes the catalyst more efficient. Photo by LANP/Rice University). To drive it away, more energy must be added to the system.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), with colleagues at Yale University, have developed a photochemical process to convert acetone derived from plants (bio-acetone) into a mixture of polycyclic alkanes, the high energy density of which is appropriate for high-perfomance aviation applications. Ryan et al.

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APRIL 12, 2023

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University with collaborators at the University of Oregon and Manchester Metropolitan University have developed a seawater-resilient bipolar membrane electrolyzer.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —Dr Wang.

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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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JUNE 13, 2022

A team at Chalmers University in Sweden has analyzed the results of the integration of a chemical looping gasification (CLG) process with a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) process and found that this biomass-to-liquids process can produce FT crude with net-negative CO 2 emissions. —Kumar et al.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Molecular photoswitches that can both convert and store energy could be used to make solar energy harvesting more efficient. An open-access paper on the study is published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. They studied molecules known as bicyclic dienes, which switch to a high-energy state when illuminated.

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JULY 4, 2021

A new study focused on the auto industry finds that tightening emissions standards not only fails to curtail on-road emissions, but actually increases the likelihood of non-compliance by automakers. The authors urge policymakers and managers across industries to take note of their study. —Hu et al.

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JULY 29, 2019

In a related new study in the Journal of CO 2 Utilization (Wang et al. ) C2CNT was founded by Dr. Stuart Licht, a Professor at George Washington University, a former Program Director in Chemistry at the National Science Foundation and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Using a novel, reusable carbon material derived from old rubber tires, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)-led research team has developed a simple method to convert used cooking oil into biofuel. —Hood et al.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). —Schnell et al. Winter O 3 increases due to reduced loss via traffic NO x.

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MARCH 12, 2019

A paper on the study is published in the journal Nature Microbiology. We study them because they are a natural model biorefinery. 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. —Jennifer Pett-Ridge.

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JULY 1, 2018

A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. —Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University. Previous studies have found that PM 2.5 Previous studies have found that PM 2.5 Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St.

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APRIL 11, 2023

He is a professor of power systems engineering in the Fulton program at Arizona State University , in Tempe. Vijay Vittal Employer Arizona State University, in Tempe Title Regents professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma mater B.M.S. in EE at Iowa State University , in Ames.

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MAY 1, 2023

Stanford researchers, with a colleague from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, have developed a simple and environmentally sound way to make ammonia with tiny droplets of water and nitrogen from the air. Xiaowei Song, a postdoctoral scholar in chemistry at Stanford, is the lead author of the study. —Song et al.

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MAY 19, 2014

A duo at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) is proposing an approach for the conversion of natural gas at gas-transport-constrained fields to easily transportable, high-octane liquid products. A paper describing their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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APRIL 25, 2018

Establish a consortium for sustained collaborations among university partners in South Dakota, Montana, and Oklahoma in the field of methane regulation in extreme environments. The BuG ReMeDEE consortium includes industrial partners LanzaTech (US) and Bijson Innovations Pvt.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Researchers at Washington University in St. Here we have harnessed the power of microbes to convert carbon dioxide into value-added multi-carbon compounds in a usable biofuel. —Arpita Bose, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, and leader of the study.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

By disrupting normal societal activities such as driving, COVID-19 lockdowns afforded a unique opportunity to study their impacts on the environment. When emitted into the atmosphere, NH 3 is converted into tiny particles of inorganic compounds, including ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. FeO 3-δ membranes: a kinetics study. and Ghoniem, A.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The plant will use gasification and Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology to convert 133,000 tonnes of waste a year into a biocrude that can be upgraded to aviation fuel. Once fully operational, NorthPoint will convert residual waste into around 100 million liters of SAF using gasification and FT technology. alfanar Energy Ltd.

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OCTOBER 8, 2017

Researchers at Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have devised a method of converting a waste product generated by the conversion of algae into bio-crude into a usable and valuable commodity. Converting algae to biofuels can utilize a two-step process. —Fernandez et al.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

High-density polyethylene (HDPE) grocery bags can be successfully pyrolyzed to alternative diesel fuel, according to a new study by a team from the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service ARS.

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MAY 10, 2017

These theoretical studies use calculations that take into account the basic principles of breaking and making chemical bonds, including the energy required, the electronic states of the atoms, and the reaction conditions, allowing scientists to derive the reaction rates and determine which catalyst will give the best rate of conversion.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis.

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MAY 1, 2018

NO x emissions have not been decreasing as expected in recent years (2011–2015) when comparing top-down estimates from satellites and surface NO 2 measurements to the trends predicted from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s emission inventory data, according to a new study by an international team of researchers.

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JUNE 24, 2017

Rodriguez and colleagues were among the team of scientists who helped to characterize the structural and mechanistic details of the catalyst, which was synthesized and tested by collaborators at Peking University in an effort led by Chemistry Professor Ding Ma. —José Rodriguez.

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APRIL 11, 2013

Researchers at the University of Bristol (UK) have developed a new family of catalysts that enables the conversion of ethanol into n-butanol—a higher alcohol with better characteristics for transportation applications than ethanol—with selectivity of more than 95% at good conversion. —Professor Duncan Wass.

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