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OCTOBER 25, 2013

A transparent film of copper nanowires was transformed into an electrocatalyst for water oxidation by electrodeposition of Ni or Co onto the surface of the nanowires. Water oxidation (2H 2 O → O 2 + 4 e- + 4H + ) is a key step for converting solar energy into chemical fuels. Chen et al. Click to enlarge. A team led by Benjamin J.

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APRIL 18, 2013

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) has become one of the first global research centers actively to investigate onshore natural hydrogen emissions after the discovery of offshore sources of the gas in the 1970s. Currently, hydrogen is considered a carrier of energy rather than a source—i.e.,

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JUNE 28, 2013

Hydrogenation—which is used in a wide range of industrial applications, from food products, such as margarine, to petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and biofuels—typically involves the use of heavy metals, such as palladium or platinum, to catalyze the chemical reaction. Iron, however, rusts in the presence of oxygen or water.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed an efficient, autonomous solar water-splitting device based on a gold nanorod array in which essentially all charge carriers involved in the oxidation and reduction steps arise from the hot electrons resulting from the excitation of surface plasmons in the nanostructured gold (plasmonic water-splitter).

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MAY 12, 2013

A pair of researchers at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology have demonstrated homogeneously catalyzed subcritical aqueous phase reforming (APR) of wastepaper to produce biocrude and hydrogen. Richa Tungal and Rajesh Shende (2013) Subcritical Aqueous Phase Reforming of Wastepaper for Biocrude and H 2 Generation.

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MAY 15, 2015

Thermal management for the EC fuel cell stacks removes heat generated during the electrochemical process via the evaporation of injected water. 2013) “Development of an Evaporatively Cooled Hydrogen Fuel Cell System and its Vehicle Application,” SAE Technical Paper 2013-01-0475 doi: 10.4271/2013-01-0475 10.4271/2013-01-0475.

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APRIL 24, 2013

This illustration depicts the synthesis of a new hydrogen-production catalyst from soybean proteins and ammonium molybdate. The hybrid material effectively catalyzes the conversion of liquid water to hydrogen gas while remaining stable in an acidic environment. -Mo One key step is splitting water (water electrolysis).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

UK consumer demand for FCEVs increases as the cost premium diminishes and the network of hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) expands. The forecast was made in an interim report commissioned to evaluate the benefits of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and ensure the UK is well positioned for their commercial roll-out.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Researchers from Germany and Italy have developed an efficient low-temperature catalytic process to produce hydrogen from methanol. Hydrogen generation by this method proceeds at 65–95 °C (149-203 °F) and ambient pressure with excellent catalyst turnover frequencies (4,700 per hour) and turnover numbers (exceeding 350,000).

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JULY 2, 2013

In the first step, an novel high-temperature technology will process natural gas to obtain hydrogen and carbon. In a subsequent catalytic process step, the hydrogen is then reacted with large volumes of CO 2 , also from other industrial processes, to produce syngas. Compared to other processes, this technology produces much less CO 2.

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MAY 17, 2013

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a significant improvement in the performance of solar-powered hydrogen generation by employing a metal–insulator–semiconductor (MIS) photoelectrode architecture that allows for stable and efficient water splitting using narrow bandgap semiconductors.

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MARCH 11, 2013

Fe hydrogenase mimic immobilized on graphite surfaces) for electrocatalytic hydrogen generation in an aqueous medium. V vs NHE (normal hydrogen electrode, an early standard for zero potential). 3 moles) of hydrogen over a period of 8 h in 0.5 In a paper published in the journal ACS Catalysis , they report that. N H 2 SO 4 at ?0.5

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JUNE 17, 2013

In the electrochemical reduction of water to molecular hydrogen, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is facilitated by noble metal catalysts such as platinum (Pt), which generate large cathodic current densities for this reaction at low overpotentials. is a well-known HDS catalyst, and Ni 2 P also produces H(g) via the water?gas

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AUGUST 12, 2013

In the second, tandem metal–acid catalysis step, in water, the furoin intermediates are converted into oxygenated biodiesel by hydrogenation, etherification or esterification; or into premium alkane jet fuels by hydrodeoxygenation. 2013) Diesel and Alkane Fuels From Biomass by Organocatalysis and Metal–Acid Tandem Catalysis.

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DECEMBER 31, 2013

Current heavy oil and bitumen production processes are high-energy and water-intensive and, consequently, have significant environmental footprints because of the production of gaseous emissions such as CO 2 and generating huge amounts of produced water. MPa, temperatures from 320 to 340 °C, and a hydrogen flow rate of 1 cm 3 /min.

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APRIL 19, 2013

Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) report in the journal Angewandte Chemie their development of an enhanced platinum catalyst for the steam reforming of methanol to release hydrogen. One proposed solution is methanol-based hydrogen storage. intermittency). —Kusche et al. Enzenberger, F., Niedermeyer, H.,

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AUGUST 18, 2013

A paper on their work is published in the journal Fuel ; the team had earlier presented their work at 2013 SPE Heavy Oil Conference in Calgary in June. Canada, as is well known, has massive untapped heavy oil and bitumen resources, much of it located in Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Click to enlarge. 2013.07.043. Meyer, R.F.,

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The MEC uses electricity to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. The bacterium uses the hydrogen as an energy source to take in carbon dioxide and convert it to a biofuel, which it then emits. The Berkeley Lab technology encompasses variations of both the host cell and the molecular hydrogen source. Source: Berkeley Lab.

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JULY 25, 2013

A team of researchers at MIT is developing and testing a new silicon carbide (SiC) cladding material for nuclear fuel rods that could reduce the risk of hydrogen production by roughly a thousandfold compared to the common zircaloy cladding. In addition, the material needs to be tested further to determine its response to various stresses.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

Researchers at North Carolina State University and Duke University have shown that a one-atom thick film of molybdenum sulfide (MoS 2 ) may work as an effective catalyst for creating hydrogen. The work, published in the ACS journal Nano Letters , thus opens the door for less expensive hydrogen production.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

SOLVE adds a solvent to the steam in SAGD (basic operation depicted above) to reduce energy input and water consumption. Unlike surface mined oil sands, in-situ recovery involves much less land disturbance, but still requires the use of water and natural gas in the steam production process. Source: StatoilHydro. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Electro-catalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen is a key element of solar-fuels devices; identifying efficient catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is critical to their realization. Credit: ACS, McCrory et al. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. —Robert B.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) has selected 11 projects to receive up to $10 million in funding through the fuel cell technology incubator FOA ( earlier post ) in support of innovations in fuel cell and hydrogen fuel technologies. Source: Slade et al. Click to enlarge. Gas Technology Institute.

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JUNE 10, 2013

This test-bed system has already been used to study schemes for photovoltaic electrolysis of water, and can be readily adapted to study proposed artificial photosynthesis and fuel cell technologies. Segalman (2013) Integrated microfluidic test-bed for energy conversion devices. Source: Berkeley Lab. Click to enlarge. —Joel Ager.

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MARCH 25, 2013

In their paper, they report that water-in-vacuum gas oil microemulsions containing trimetallic (W, Ni, and Mo) ultradispersed colloidal nanoparticles could penetrate inside the porous medium and react with the bitumen, resulting in enhanced recovery. hydrocracking, hydrotreating, etc.) to improve the quality of produced heavy oil and bitumen.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

They determined that one of the electron transport proteins was interacting with oxygen to produce hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ), and the buildup of hydrogen peroxide was poisoning the ADO enzyme, completely inhibiting its activity. Living cells often contain levels of hydrogen peroxide sufficient to cause ADO inhibition.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

The sugar battery combines maltodextrin, a polysaccharide made from partial hydrolysis of starch with air to generate electricity and water as the main byproducts. The fuel sugar solution is neither explosive nor flammable and has a higher energy storage density than hydrogen fuel cells or direct methanol fuel cells.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

HTL uses subcritical water as the chemical driving force to convert biomass to a carbon-rich biocrude. However, for high water content biomass, such as algae, the energy costs of dewatering may offset the energy demand of liquefaction processes. hydrogen, 4.4% The yield of biocrude was 44.5 ± 4.7% carbon, 10.1% nitrogen, and 5.5%

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APRIL 1, 2013

even for small-scale applications using hydrogen as a storage medium for intermittent renewables such as solar and wind. Berlinguette (2013) Photochemical Route for Accessing Amorphous Metal Oxide Materials for Water Oxidation Catalysis. A paper on their work is published in the journal Science. Source: FFC. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 8, 2013

Although several attempts have been made on the anode materials, the main disadvantages is that their energy density is still much lower than that of conventional lithium ion batteries due to the narrow electrochemical window of water. V, much higher than the theoretic stable window of water, 1.229 V. —Wang et al.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Earlier post.) —Grimaud et al.

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MARCH 7, 2014

Vertimass LLC, a California-based start-up company, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) technology that directly converts ethanol under moderate conditions at one atmosphere without the use of hydrogen into a hydrocarbon blend-stock for use in transportation fuels. —Chaitanya Narula.

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MARCH 7, 2013

Because hydrocarbons are insoluble in water, they can be easily separated from the reaction mixture. In this work, we report a new hydrogen-reduction route, a Pt seed method, for the aqueous one-step synthesis of Pt?Co shell structure (both in metallic states) or metal/metal oxide interfaces. Co bimetallic NP catalysts.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

ITM Power is a leading provider of electrolyzers (devices for generating hydrogen from water and electricity) and originally developed their membrane technology for that purpose. Here, the catholyte comes into contact with air and the electron, proton and oxygen from the air react to form water, which exits the regenerator as vapor.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

It finds that California is making good progress in transforming the state’s transportation system to a low carbon, zero emission transportation system with nearly 120,000 plug-in electric vehicles on California’s roads, a growing hydrogen fuel cell market and significant biofuels investments. Plug-in electric vehicles.

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JULY 31, 2010

In addition to the methanol, the plant can deliver district-heating water with a thermal duty of 15 MW. VärmlandsMetanol’s goal is to have the Hagfors plant operational at the end of 2013. The PRENFLO process was selected on the basis of its flexibility in processing a wide variety of biomasses and other resources.

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