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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Bai worked as a research assistant in the Bose lab in Arts & Sciences from 2015-2020. The first author of the study is Wei Bai, a PhD graduate of McKelvey Engineering’s Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering. Bai is now a scientist at Amyris, a manufacturer of sustainable ingredients made with synthetic biology.

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DECEMBER 12, 2015

Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that a metabolic pathway previously only suggested to be functional in photosynthetic organisms is actually a major pathway and can enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds. 2015.187.

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JULY 9, 2015

Results indicate that size-selected Cu 4 clusters are the most active low-pressure catalyst for catalytic CO 2 conversion to CH 3 OH. Density functional theory calculations reveal that Cu 4 clusters have a low activation barrier for conversion of CO 2 to CH 3 OH. …to —Liu et al.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Canada’s National Research Council (CNRC) showcased Canada’s first algal biorefinery demonstration project, a collaborative research effort between CNRC’s Algal Carbon Conversion (ACC) program, Pond Technologies and Votorantim Cimentos’ St Marys Cement.

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APRIL 17, 2014

Operation of the pilot unit is expected to commence in early 2015 with completion of testing expected in the third quarter of 2015. the conversion of carbon dioxyde to bicarbonate and protons. energy aqueous solvents. Carbonic anhydrase is the most powerful catalyst known for the hydration of CO 2 —i.e.,

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Launched in September 2015, the 4.5-year Low-Energy-Consumption CO 2 Capture and Conversion (United States). The semi-finalist teams propose converting CO 2 into products as varied as enhanced concrete, fuels, toothpaste, nanotubes, fish food and fertilizer. Innovator Energy (United States). Coal plant and natural gas plant.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

Stuart Licht at The George Washington University in Washington, DC has developed a low-cost, high-yield and scalable process for the electrolytic conversion of atmospheric CO 2 dissolved in molten carbonates into carbon nanofibers (CNFs.) —Ren et al. —Stuart Licht. 5b02427.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

According to their analysis, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , favorable assumptions for all involved process steps (30% thermochemical energy conversion efficiency; 3000 kWh/(m 2 a) solar irradiation, low CO 2 and heliostat costs) result in jet fuel production costs of €1.28/L kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L. 5b03515.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

LanzaTech and the Centre will leverage each other’s expertise to create a new process for the direct conversion of waste CO 2 into drop-in fuels through an acetates-to-lipids pathway. India is projected to become the world’s second largest steel producer by 2015, providing a significant opportunity to produce biofuel. Earlier post.)

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JULY 10, 2019

OTT was established in 2015 to advance the economic, energy, and national security interests of the United States by expanding the commercial impact of the Department of Energy’s research and development portfolio. Near-Net-Shape Hot Pressing Technologies, $750,000 CoorsTek, Vista, Calif. National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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JULY 17, 2015

Existing zeolites have widespread use in industrial processes that involve gas separation and catalytic conversion. Wright & Xiaodong Zou (2015) “A zeolite family with expanding structural complexity and embedded isoreticular structures” Nature doi: 10.1038/nature14575. A paper on their work is published in Nature.

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JULY 8, 2015

In late April 2015, Geely Auto deployed a first-of-its-kind fleet of 150 methanol-fueled taxis in the southern Chinese city of Guiyang in cooperation with the municipal government. Geely’s Englon SC7 sedan was the first methanol-fueled car to receive approval from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. and Gong, H.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

But these past attempts were limited by issues such as carbon clogging and low conversion rates. This idea was put to the test during a series of experimental campaigns that ran from late 2012 to the spring of 2015 in KIT’s KALLA (KArlsruhe Liquid Metal LAboratory). The final design is a 1.2-meter-high

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MARCH 12, 2019

We will be systematically aligning production and other stages in the value chain to CO2 neutrality in the coming years. The 2025 target is to reduce the CO 2 footprint of the vehicle fleet by 30 percent across the lifecycle compared to 2015. At the same time, CO2 emissions at all plants are to be cut 50% by 2025 compared with 2010.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Bio-M ran from 1 October 2015 to 30 June 2017. —Christian Schweitzer, Managing Director of bse Engineering. bse engineering was part of the German project Bio-M to produced methanol from CO 2 and green hydrogen produced via renewable energy.

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JULY 5, 2023

On longer timeframes, the refrigerant in your air conditioner will leak into the atmosphere where it, too, will absorb sunlight, possibly even more than CO2 2 , and heat the planet long after the blades of your air conditioner’s fan have stopped spinning. This year, the U.S. Still, in the U.S.,

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APRIL 10, 2015

Taking into account the 0.38% efficiency from CO 2 to acetic acid, the researchers calculated a solar energy-conversion efficiency of 0.20% from CO 2 to PHB biopolymer. The results reported here outline a solar-energy conversion process that combines the strengths of semiconductor nano-devices and bacterium-based biocatalysts.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

2015), “Dry Reforming and Reverse Water Gas Shift: Alternatives for Syngas Production?” If the dry reforming pilot proves successful, there are plans to commercialize the process when the funded project comes to an end in 2017 and to build a reference plant for a Linde customer. Milanov, A., Schunk, S. Behrens, A. and Schödel, N.

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MARCH 12, 2009

Using US EPA conversion factors ( earlier post ), 158 g/km is roughly equivalent to 34.8 The adoption of the new car CO 2 regulation in December 2008 set a phase-in target for vehicle manufacturers to ensure their average fleet emissions do not exceed 130 g/km by 2015. g/km in 2008—4.2% less than the 2007 figure and 16.8%

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APRIL 15, 2013

Joule, the developer of a direct, single-step, continuous process for the production of solar hydrocarbon fuels ( earlier post ), has extended its solar CO 2 conversion platform to produce renewable gasoline- and jet fuel-range hydrocarbons. Joule is now commercializing its first product, Sunflow-E, for global availability in early 2015.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. 2015, p127) [1]. . 2015) The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future. 2020) [11].

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The target is a 4% improvement in CO 2 by 2015 potentially rising to 15% by 2025. Lighter vehicles require less energy (and emit less CO2) making aluminium matrix composites (AMCs) especially attractive to a premium vehicle manufacturers. Aluminium Matrix Composite Materials for Vehicle Weight Reduction (AluMatCom).

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APRIL 28, 2015

The solar-to-fuel energy conversion efficiency was 1.72%, without sensible heat recovery. They optimized the duration of the reduction and oxidation steps to maximize the solar-to-fuel energy conversion efficiency. A total of 291 stable redox cycles were performed, yielding 700 standard liters of syngas of composition 33.7%

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JULY 15, 2015

2015 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellows. Methanol Electrosynthesis at Carbon-Supported Molecular Active Sites: to synthesize a selective electrocatalyst for methane to methanol conversion by ligating single site transition metal compounds known to activate methane with graphitic carbon surfaces that allow for facile charge transfer.

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AUGUST 20, 2022

Credit the EV’s advantage to its greater efficiency in the conversion of chemical energy to motion—77 percent, compared with 12 to 30 percent for a gasoline car—along with the potential to generate electricity using low-carbon sources. passenger-vehicle fleet over the period between 2015 and 2050. Next, we turned to our model of the U.S

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APRIL 16, 2009

So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015. In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. The huge hill of used batteries represents a major problem with the toxic acid and lead inside. Lead batts are around 98% recycled.

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