Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a carbon-supported platinum nanoparticle catalyst that can achieve complete hydrocracking of polypropylene into liquid hydrocarbons (C 5 –C 45 ). Polypropylene constitutes about 30% of all plastic waste.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 28, 2021
The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
The Swiss company Climeworks is building the world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) and storage facility for converting atmospheric CO 2 to rock in Iceland. C using waste heat from a nearby geothermal plant to release the CO 2 molecules. Iceland is one of several places on Earth offering the ideal conditions for this process.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 14, 2021
Due to the high reaction temperatures, a proportion of the water is converted back into hydrogen by the water-gas shift reaction. Both hydrogen production and methanization continuously generate waste heat. Empa researchers see further potential for optimization in the heat required for this CO 2 desorption.
Green Car Congress
MAY 13, 2018
In this second stage, hydrogen from regenerative energy sources is converted into methane (CH 4 ), i.e. synthetic natural gas, using CO 2 from a bio-ethanol plant. Type of CO2 source (biogas; waste water; atmosphere). Local consumers (low consumption; municipal region; rural area).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Together with the partners Ineratec GmbH ( earlier post ) and Energiedienst Holding AG , the company has plans for a new pilot facility for the production of e-diesel in Laufenburg, in Canton Aargau (Switzerland). To produce it, the power-to-liquid plant converts surplus hydropower into synthetic fuel.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 23, 2023
In addition to domestic waste, agricultural pollution and industrial waste are also to blame for the rise of micropollutants in our waterways. Pioneer in the Treatment of Micropollutants In 2016, Switzerland introduced legislation mandating that wastewater treatment plants remove micropollutants from wastewater. Their goal?
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