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Photocatalytic optical fibers convert water into hydrogen

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APRIL 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Southampton have transformed optical fibers into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy. Zepler Institute, University of Southampton. This as an ideal example of chemical engineering for a 21 st century green technology.

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Topsoe to lead FrontFuel project for SAF from CO2 and renewable electricity; DKK 26.9M grant

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JUNE 28, 2023

Topsoe will lead the FrontFuel project to develop highly efficient Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production from CO 2 , water, and renewable electricity. The FrontFuel project will use carbon dioxide and renewable energy to produce a synthetic crude, to demonstrate the value chain of SAF, using Topsoe technology.

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Novel inexpensive cobalt-nickel electrode for efficient water and urea electrolysis; yolk-shell nanoparticles

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Electrolytic hydrogen production powered by renewable energy is seen as an environmentally friendly means to ameliorate global climate and energy problems. Both half reactions of water electrolysis—hydrogen and oxygen evolution—are unfortunately slow and require a lot of power. Zhang, S.L., and Lou, X.W.

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Australian researchers develop new hybrid plasma electrocatalytic process to produce green ammonia

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Chemical engineers at UNSW Sydney and University of Sydney have developed a hybrid plasma electrocatalytic process for the production of sustainable (“green”) ammonia. Hybrid plasma-electrochemical technology for green ammonia production. The way that we did it does not rely on fossil fuel resources, nor emit CO 2.

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Researchers find capillary-fed electrolysis cell can deliver hydrogen at 98% cell energy efficiency

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MARCH 21, 2022

In an open access paper published in Nature Communications , researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia report that their capillary-fed electrolysis cell demonstrates water electrolysis performance exceeding commercial electrolysis cells, with a cell voltage at 0.5 2 and 85 °C of only 1.51 kWh/kg hydrogen (vs.

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Researchers at Korea University develop high-performance textile-based electrodes for watersplitting

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Researchers at Korea University have developed high-performance, textile-based electrodes for watersplitting (WSE); the non-noblemetal-based electrodes can generate a large amount of hydrogen with low overpotentials and high operational stability. 2 for the HER and 186 mV at 50 mA cm ?2 2 and a low cell voltage of 1.70

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Siemens Energy teams up with Duke Energy, Clemson University to study hydrogen use

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DECEMBER 13, 2020

Siemens Energy, Duke Energy and Clemson University have teamed up to study the use of hydrogen for energy storage and as a low- or no-carbon fuel source to produce energy at Duke Energy’s combined heat and power plant located at Clemson University in South Carolina.

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Universal Hydrogen Energy South Carolina

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

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MAY 11, 2020

While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Generation 2 moves the Haber-Bosch process to renewable sources of hydrogen.

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Shell Gamechanger Accelerator Powered by NREL selects two green hydrogen startups for fourth cohort

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APRIL 11, 2021

Applications include green hydrogen production, hydrogen fuel cells and carbon capture and utilization (CCU). Versogen (Wilmington, Del.) – Versogen is developing an electrolyzer technology that uses water and renewable energy to produce green hydrogen at scale in a reliable and affordable way.

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Hydrogen Green Polymer Power

Oxford spin-out OXCCU raises US$22.8M to transform carbon dioxide into sustainable aviation fuel

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JUNE 15, 2023

OXCCU, a company spun-out from the University of Oxford in 2021 that is focused on converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products ( earlier post ), completed an £18-million (US$22.8 million) Series A financing round. Trafigura, TechEnergy Ventures and Doral Energy-Tech Ventures also participated in the financing.

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SunHydrogen extends research agreement with University of Iowa; development of Gen 2 multi-junction nanoparticles for hydrogen production

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JUNE 30, 2020

SunHydrogen , the developer of a technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, has extended its sponsored research agreement with the University of Iowa through 31 August 2020. The University of Iowa has been a key and productive partner in the development of our GEN 1 panels.

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Auburn University leads $2M DOE Co-Optima project to evaluate renewable butyl acetate as diesel fuel additive

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Auburn University researchers are leading a $2-million US Department of Energy Co-Optima project ( earlier post ) that will evaluate renewable butyl acetate (BA) as a bio-based fuel additive that can be blended with diesel fuel to reduce soot and greenhouse gas emissions and yield cleaner engine operation in cold-weather conditions.

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Monash study on solar-driven electrolysis for green hydrogen production cautions on life-cycle emissions and EROI

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have conducted a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a hypothetical large-scale solar-electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. of hydrogen is currently produced via water electrolysis and only a fraction of this production is powered by renewable energy.

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University of Houston team demonstrates new efficient solar water-splitting catalyst for hydrogen production

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

Researchers from the University of Houston (UH) have developed a cobalt(II) oxide (CoO) nanocrystalline catalyst that can carry out overall water splitting with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of around 5%. The generation of hydrogen from water using sunlight could potentially form the basis of a clean and renewable source of energy.

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U of Melbourne team demonstrates direct hydrogen production from air; direct air electrolysis (DAE)

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Researchers at the University of Melbourne (Australia) have demonstrated a method of direct hydrogen production from air— in situ capture of freshwater from the atmosphere using hygroscopic electrolyte and subsequent electrolysis powered by solar or wind with a current density up to 574 mA cm ?2.

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Eagle Graphite and University of British Columbia partner on development of silicon-modified anodes

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MARCH 4, 2021

The University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Advanced Materials for Energy Storage Lab, under the leadership of Dr. Jian Liu, is the project’s research lead during the initial stages. The project includes two mining leases, with a combined area of 300 hectares, valid until June of 2032 and renewable thereafter.

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Rolls-Royce supports power-to-x initiative in Brandenburg; synthetic fuels and chemicals from renewable power

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Rolls-Royce intends to support research into green fuels in the Lausitz region of eastern Germany together with the State of Brandenburg, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus and other industrial partners. Synthetic fuels are a decisive factor in energy transition and the use of renewable energies.

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Power Powered Renewable Fuel

Wärtsilä, Höegh LNG and partners receive funding of €5.9M to develop ammonia as hydrogen carrier

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APRIL 16, 2023

Technology group Wärtsilä, along with Norway-based Höegh LNG and other partners, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), University of South-East Norway, Sustainable Energy and BASF SE have received funding of approximately @5.9 The significant emission reduction impact will reflect this green approach when the energy is consumed.

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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. Energy and water are interconnected in the production of renewable fuels.

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Water Conversion Tulsa Hydrogen

ARENA awards A$22.1M to 16 projects to accelerate exporting renewable hydrogen

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) awarded A$22.1 million (US$16 million) in funding to 16 research projects to propel innovation in exporting renewable hydrogen. Funding recipients are: Australian National University (ANU) Hydrogen Generation by Electro-Catalytic Systems – $615,682.

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New protocol for creating single atom iridium catalysts boosts water-splitting performance

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A new way of anchoring individual iridium atoms to the surface of a catalyst significantly increased its efficiency in splitting water molecules, scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University reported in an open-access paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). …we

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Bloom Energy announces hydrogen-powered energy servers to make always-on renewable electricity a reality

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JUNE 30, 2019

Bloom Energy, a developer of solid oxide fuel cell power generators, announced the ability of its Energy Servers to operate on renewable hydrogen. At peak times, some US states and countries already have more renewable power than their grids can handle.

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Hysata closes $42.5M AUD Series A to commercialize capillary-fed electrolysis

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Australia-based Hysata, which is commercializing capillary-fed electrolysis technology developed at the University of Wollongong ( earlier post ) has closed its oversubscribed Series A funding round of $42.5 The porous, hydrophilic separator sustains the flow rate required for water electrolysis. million AUD (US$30 million).

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Study finds GWP of electrolyzed hydrogen to meet ORD’s fuel needs would be 2.5x that of fossil fuels with 2020 grid mix

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix. Ansell presented his findings at AIAA Aviation 2023 in June.

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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

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).

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Researchers split water by altering photosynthetic machinery in plants; semi-artificial photosynthesis

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

A new study, led by academics at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, has used semi-artificial photosynthesis to explore new ways to produce and store solar energy. They used natural sunlight to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen using a mixture of biological components and manmade technologies. —Katarzyna Sokó?,

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Water splitting using iron oxide nanotruss structures

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JULY 20, 2018

Researchers at Linköping University and Umeå University in Sweden have developed a new and efficient way to use electrocatalysis to produce hydrogen gas from water using electrodes with nanotruss structures of iron oxide. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters. —Sebastian Ekeroth.

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ExxonMobil invests $15M in University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute; renewable energy, battery technologies and power grid modeling

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AUGUST 3, 2016

ExxonMobil will invest $15 million as a leadership member of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change. This research will complement ExxonMobil’s recently announced partnership with FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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UBC thermal methane cracking technology deployed to Alberta in $7M test

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

New hydrogen production technology developed at the University of British Columbia (UBC) will be tested in a $7-million project between UBC, the government of Alberta and Alberta utility company ATCO. SMR still emits a significant amount of carbon dioxide and uses large quantities of water and energy. Image: MéridaLabs.

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Researchers devise seawater-resilient bipolar membrane electrolyzer for turning seawater into hydrogen

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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. Resources D.H. Marin, J.T. Perryman et al. 2023.03.005

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Muradel testing green crude production in South Australia

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Australia-based renewable fuels company Muradel has launched Australia’s first integrated demonstration plant for the sustainable conversion of algae into green crude, as a first step towards a commercial plant with the potential to produce 80 million liters (21 million gallons US, or about 500,000 barrels) of crude oil per year.

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DOE announces finalists of Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize

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JULY 14, 2022

The United States depends on other countries for nearly all its lithium supply and mining the mineral strains water resources and can harm the environment. —Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Rice University – Team LiSED: “Lithium Selective ElectroDialysis”.

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Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Phase 1: Renewable energy. Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis is used for hydrogen production.

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Double-duty catalyst generates hydrogen fuel while cleaning up wastewater

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MARCH 18, 2021

Researchers from Sun-Yat Sen University in China report in an open-access paper in ACS ES&T Engineering the development of a catalyst that destroys medications and other compounds already present in wastewater to generate hydrogen fuel, getting rid of a contaminant while producing something useful. —Wu et al. ACS EST Eng.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Fuel

EPA recognizes Volkswagen Chattanooga with a Green Power Leadership Award for on-site generation

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Volkswagen Chattanooga has received a 2013 Green Power Leadership Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—the only automaker to be so recognized. Volkswagen Chattanooga was one of only four organizations nationwide to receive a Leadership Award in the category of on-site generation of green power. Earlier post.).

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New waste-to-hydrogen plant in Tokyo to convert wastewater sludge into H2 for vehicles and power generation

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APRIL 5, 2021

Renewable hydrogen systems manufacturer Ways2H Inc. announced the completion of a facility in Tokyo that will convert sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen fuel for fuel cell mobility and power generation. A new facility in Tokyo that will convert sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen gas for fuel-cell vehicles is nearing completion.

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Waste Convert Hydrogen Japan

SLAC, Stanford team develops new catalyst for water-splitting for renewable fuels production; 100x more efficient than other acid-stable catalysts

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have developed a new highly active and stable IrO x /SrIrO 3 catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Dickens/Stanford University) Click to enlarge. The team published their results in the journal Science.

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Researchers propose testing standards for particulate photocatalysts in solar fuel production

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Utilization of renewable solar energy is crucial for addressing the global energy and environmental concerns and achieving sustainable development. In this regard, photocatalytic water splitting has attracted significant interest as a cost-effective means to convert sustainable solar energy into valuable chemicals. Credit: DICP.

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Solar Standards Production Fuel

Vulcan to collaborate with DuPont on Zero Carbon Lithium extraction process

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FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Vulcan Energy Resources will collaborate with DuPont Water Solutions,a leader in water filtration and purification, to test and to scale up Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) solutions for Vulcan’s Zero Carbon Lithium extraction process. Earlier post.). Stringfellow and Patrick F.

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HyperSolar reaches 1.25 V for water-splitting with its self-contained low-cost photoelectrochemical nanosystem

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

volts (V) of water-splitting voltage with its novel low-cost electrolysis technology. The theoretical minimum voltage needed to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen is 1.23 Nanosystem for water electrolysis. HyperSolar, Inc. announced that it had reached 1.25 V (at 25 °C at pH 0). Click to enlarge.

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Low Cost Water Hydrogen Solar

Successful demonstration of FlexMethanol conversion of wind power to methanol

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JUNE 11, 2020

In Germany, BSE Engineering and the Institute for Renewable Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have demonstrated the conversion of wind power into renewable methanol. The team uses green electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen in an electrolysis step.

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Wind Conversion Power Powered

UK awards £28M for 5 demonstration-phase low-carbon hydrogen production projects

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The project concerns the production of hydrogen at scale from offshore floating wind in deep water locations. It combines abundant UK offshore wind power with seawater to produce green hydrogen which can be piped directly to shore. Led by Cranfield University. Contract value: £7.5 million (US$9.8 Contract value: £7.44

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Hydrogen Carbon Production Wind

DOE awarding $35M to 11 projects for hydrokinetic turbine development; ARPA-E SHARKS

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Hydrokinetic energy is an abundant renewable resource that can boost grid resiliency and reduce infrastructure vulnerability, but it is currently a cost prohibitive option compared to other energy generating sources. The 11 SHARKS projects are: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The University of Michigan.

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Mariner Universal Grid Water

Duke researchers boost electrolyzer productivity with microfibrous flow-through electrode; 12.5- to 50-times greater than conventional

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JUNE 1, 2020

Ben Wiley, a professor of chemistry at Duke University and his team are investigating how nano- and microstructured porous electrodes can improve the productivity of hydrogen generation in a zero-gap, flow-through alkaline water electrolyzer. Wiley Lab, Duke University). Inset: Electron microscope view of the felt.

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Photocatalytic optical fibers convert water into hydrogen

Topsoe to lead FrontFuel project for SAF from CO2 and renewable electricity; DKK 26.9M grant

Novel inexpensive cobalt-nickel electrode for efficient water and urea electrolysis; yolk-shell nanoparticles

Australian researchers develop new hybrid plasma electrocatalytic process to produce green ammonia

Researchers find capillary-fed electrolysis cell can deliver hydrogen at 98% cell energy efficiency

Researchers at Korea University develop high-performance textile-based electrodes for watersplitting

Siemens Energy teams up with Duke Energy, Clemson University to study hydrogen use

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

Shell Gamechanger Accelerator Powered by NREL selects two green hydrogen startups for fourth cohort

Oxford spin-out OXCCU raises US$22.8M to transform carbon dioxide into sustainable aviation fuel

SunHydrogen extends research agreement with University of Iowa; development of Gen 2 multi-junction nanoparticles for hydrogen production

Auburn University leads $2M DOE Co-Optima project to evaluate renewable butyl acetate as diesel fuel additive

Monash study on solar-driven electrolysis for green hydrogen production cautions on life-cycle emissions and EROI

University of Houston team demonstrates new efficient solar water-splitting catalyst for hydrogen production

U of Melbourne team demonstrates direct hydrogen production from air; direct air electrolysis (DAE)

Eagle Graphite and University of British Columbia partner on development of silicon-modified anodes

Rolls-Royce supports power-to-x initiative in Brandenburg; synthetic fuels and chemicals from renewable power

Wärtsilä, Höegh LNG and partners receive funding of €5.9M to develop ammonia as hydrogen carrier

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

ARENA awards A$22.1M to 16 projects to accelerate exporting renewable hydrogen

New protocol for creating single atom iridium catalysts boosts water-splitting performance

Bloom Energy announces hydrogen-powered energy servers to make always-on renewable electricity a reality

Hysata closes $42.5M AUD Series A to commercialize capillary-fed electrolysis

Study finds GWP of electrolyzed hydrogen to meet ORD’s fuel needs would be 2.5x that of fossil fuels with 2020 grid mix

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

Researchers split water by altering photosynthetic machinery in plants; semi-artificial photosynthesis

Water splitting using iron oxide nanotruss structures

ExxonMobil invests $15M in University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute; renewable energy, battery technologies and power grid modeling

UBC thermal methane cracking technology deployed to Alberta in $7M test

Researchers devise seawater-resilient bipolar membrane electrolyzer for turning seawater into hydrogen

Muradel testing green crude production in South Australia

DOE announces finalists of Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize

Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

Double-duty catalyst generates hydrogen fuel while cleaning up wastewater

EPA recognizes Volkswagen Chattanooga with a Green Power Leadership Award for on-site generation

New waste-to-hydrogen plant in Tokyo to convert wastewater sludge into H2 for vehicles and power generation

SLAC, Stanford team develops new catalyst for water-splitting for renewable fuels production; 100x more efficient than other acid-stable catalysts

Researchers propose testing standards for particulate photocatalysts in solar fuel production

Vulcan to collaborate with DuPont on Zero Carbon Lithium extraction process

HyperSolar reaches 1.25 V for water-splitting with its self-contained low-cost photoelectrochemical nanosystem

Successful demonstration of FlexMethanol conversion of wind power to methanol

UK awards £28M for 5 demonstration-phase low-carbon hydrogen production projects

DOE awarding $35M to 11 projects for hydrokinetic turbine development; ARPA-E SHARKS

Duke researchers boost electrolyzer productivity with microfibrous flow-through electrode; 12.5- to 50-times greater than conventional

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