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Process for Hydrogen Production from Sodium Sulfite Solutions Resulting from Capture of SO2 from Coal Flue Gas

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A typical example is the use of a dilute aqueous sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solution to absorb SO 2 from flue gas, forming an aqueous Na 2 SO 3 solution. Alternatively, oxidation of an aqueous Na 2 SO 3 solution can be carried out for the production of high purity clean hydrogen fuel. Huang et al. Huang et al. Cunping Huang, Clovis A.

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GE to Open Sodium-Metal Halide Battery Plant in New York

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GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt shows a sodium-metal halide battery cell at the press conference announcing the battery plant. GE says the planned facility will produce approximately 10 million sodium-metal halide cells each year—equivalent to 900 MWh of energy storage, or enough to support 1,000 GE hybrid locomotives. Earlier post.).

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BASF Breaks Ground for New Biodiesel Catalyst Plant in Brazil to Meet Demand in South America

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BASF broke ground for its new production plant for sodium methylate in Guaratinguetá, Brazil, its largest site in South America. Sodium methylate is an efficient and reliable catalyst for the production of biodiesel. It is the second BASF plant for this product, in addition to a plant in Ludwigshafen.

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Researchers Develop New Lower-Cost, Efficient Catalyst for Water Gas Shift Reaction for Hydrogen Production

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A team of researchers from Tufts University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University report that alkali ions (sodium or potassium) added in small amounts activate platinum adsorbed on alumina or silica for the low-temperature water-gas shift (WGS) reaction (H 2 O+CO→ H 2 +CO 2 ) used for producing hydrogen.

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Ballard conditionally awarded C$7M by SDTC for fuel cell distributed power generation

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million) by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to extend the operating life and lower the product cost of FCgen(TM)-1300, the fuel cell power plant that powers Ballard’s CLEARgen distributed generation system. In 2010 Ballard announced commissioning of a 1MW CLEARgen system in Ohio for FirstEnergy Generation Corp.,

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Skyonic awards $117M construction contract to Toyo-Thai-USA for commercial-scale carbon capture and utilization plant

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By using this captured CO 2 to make products that would otherwise generate additional CO 2 , the plant will offset an additional 220,000 tons annually, once fully operational in 2014. The captured pollutants are mineralized into solid products, including sodium bicarbonate, which are stored, transported and sold as safe, stable solids.

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Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks Made from Food-Grade Natural Products; Edible MOFs for Gas Storage and Other Applications

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Fraser Stoddart at Northwestern and his colleagues set themselves a challenge to synthesize MOFs from natural products. Suitable candidates include ordinary table salt (sodium chloride), the common salt substitute potassium chloride, or potassium benzoate, an approved preservative. Smaldone et al. Smaldone et al. Smaldone, Ross S.