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JULY 10, 2023

Sulfuric acid is an important reagent used in many industries and it is used in the manufacture of everything from paper, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics to batteries, detergents and fertilizers. Such pure high quality sulfuric acid is in high demand in industrial applications and an important step in reducing environmental impact.

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MAY 18, 2015

Australia’s Liquefied National Gas (LNG) industry could become the world’s largest and most technologically advanced, contributing more than AUD$55 billion to Australia’s GDP in 2020, according to a new report from Accenture. out of a possible 1.0, respectively.

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MARCH 22, 2019

However, in 2015, natural gas emissions surpassed coal emissions, and the AEO2019 Reference case projects that natural gas CO 2 emissions will continue increasing as natural gas use increases. Natural gas surpassed coal to become the most prevalent fuel used to generate electricity in the United States in 2016.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

The agreement marks the first US purchase by a utility of low-carbon power from a commercial-scale, coal-based power plant utilizing carbon capture. billion plant will receive $450 million in funding from the Clean Coal Power Initiative; of this, $211 million comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

The Province of Alberta (Canada) has executed a letter of intent with Swan Hills Synfuels to provide a C$285 million (US$273 million) grant in support of a underground coal gasification (UCG) project that will reduce emissions by capturing and sequestering more than 1.3 Swan Hills calls the process in situ coal gasification (ISCG).

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MAY 21, 2012

Overview of the Bluegas catalytic coal methanation process. billion from Wanxiang to finance and construct the first phase of a coal-to-natural gas facility that ultimately will have an annual production capacity of one trillion cubic feet (1 Tcf) (30 billion cubic meters) per year. Click to enlarge. pure methane).

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

BG Group has approved implementation of the first phase of a US$15-billion project to convert coal seam gas (CSG) to LNG—the first major commercial project to do so. Total gross discovered coal seam gas reserves and resources presently amount to an estimated 17.3 Coal seam gas and LNG. Source: QCLNG EIS. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 28, 2023

MRN has annual production capacity of c. MRN started production in 1979. Left: distribution of mining leases and forests in 2015. Mining leases are shown as white polygons overlying Landsat imagery for 1985 and 2015. Alunorte alumina refinery has an annual nameplate capacity of 6.3 million metric tons of bauxite.

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APRIL 11, 2017

In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that US crude oil production, which averaged an estimated 8.9 EIA expects that domestic refinery production, including gasoline blendstock output, will be about 20,000 b/d lower this summer than last summer. million b/d in 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The working group will establish a joint action plan on how to best utilize the parties’ complementary strengths in research and development, technologies, processes, equipment, logistics, industry coordination and policy advisory capacities to combat climate change and improve environmental performance.

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JULY 22, 2011

The TCEP would integrate coal gasification, combined-cycle power generation, CO 2 capture, and. urea production. TCEP will begin delivering CO 2 to Whiting when the plant commences operations in late 2014 or early 2015; construction is scheduled to begin at the end of this year. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 20, 2013

The manufacturing sector comprised more than 11% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2010. Energy for manufacturing can be consumed in two ways: as a fuel or as a feedstock (material input to a final product). Two energy-intensive subsectors (petroleum and coal products, and food) showed 3.5%

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MAY 13, 2013

Air Products heralded the successful operation of a US Department of Energy (DOE) demonstration project that will capture approximately one million tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from hydrogen production for use in an enhanced oil recovery project in which DOE anticipates an additional estimated 1.6-3.1 Click to enlarge.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely Group and CRI intend to collaborate on the deployment of renewable methanol fuel production technology in China and explore the development and deployment of 100% methanol-fueled vehicles in China, Iceland and other countries. Currently the company has a 4,000 metric ton/year production capacity. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office’ (FCTO) 2014 Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report ( earlier post )—an annual summary of results from projects funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program—described progress in the field of hydrogen production. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The 2017 edition of the BP Energy Outlook , published today, forecasts that global demand for energy will increase by around 30% between 2015 and 2035, an average growth of 1.3% billion cars in 2015 to 1.8 Natural gas grows more quickly than either oil or coal over the Outlook, with demand growing an average 1.6% BP Outlook.

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MAY 14, 2018

A new study finds that the growth of carbon production from Chinese exports has slowed or reversed, reflecting a “new phase of globalization” between developing countries that could undermine international efforts to reduce emissions. The paper is published in Nature Communications.

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APRIL 1, 2019

In 2015, more than half the Indian population—about 670 million citizens—were exposed to PM 2.5 In 2015, air pollution emission control costs accounted for about 0.7% of the 2015 to 2050 increase in economic wealth (GDP). concentrations that did not comply with India’s NAAQS for PM 2.5 (40 of GDP, or 1.5%

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MARCH 12, 2019

Further, Volkswagen has signed off a comprehensive decarbonization program aimed at achieving a fully CO 2 -neutral balance in all areas from fleet to production to administration by 2050. We will be systematically aligning production and other stages in the value chain to CO2 neutrality in the coming years. billion) by 2023.

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OCTOBER 3, 2015

The Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Group has released GREET 2015 models and associated reports. shale oil production with operation data from Bakken and Eagle Ford plays. Aluminum for vehicle production: updated the life-cycle inventory for aluminum.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Estimated consumption subsidies, industrial and developing countries, fossil fuels and renewables. Estimates based on 2009 energy production numbers placed renewable energy subsidies between 1.7¢ million barrels per day, natural gas demand would be cut by 330 billion cubic meters, and coal demand would drop by 230 million tons of coal.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. Sasol anticipates that the technology will be commercially ready early in 2015.

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DECEMBER 16, 2017

Cities in the greater BTH region have consistently been reported to have the highest concentration of particulate matter and other air pollutants, following decades of emissions from pollution-intensive industries in the area, as well as the region’s heavy reliance on coal for energy generation. billion ($1.53

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APRIL 5, 2016

In a patent application published 1 December 2015, Altex described the basic approach for its synthetic fuels processes. coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. Carbonaceous materials—e.g., —US 9199889.

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JULY 31, 2009

The goal of the report is to inform policymakers about technology options for transforming energy production, distribution, and use to increase sustainability, support long-term economic prosperity, promote energy security, and reduce adverse environmental impacts. However, maintaining current rates of domestic petroleum production (about 5.1

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Beijing’s poor air quality is the result of emissions from vehicles, manufacturing plants, the use of coal for cooking, and other sources. However, due to high production costs, they remain an insignificant portion of the market, at less than 0.25% of the total global volume of oil products.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Australia’s CSIRO and its equivalent in India, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research ( CSIR ), have launched a three-year, A$6-million (US$5.6-million) million) collaboration focused on improving processes involved in the production of dimethyl ether (DME), a clean-burning synthetic liquid fuel.

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MAY 14, 2020

In February 2020, ASTM International approved and published the sixth annex to D7566, establishing criteria for the production and use of catalytic hydrothermolysis jet fuel (CHJ), a type of synthetic kerosene. Syngas, or its components, can also come from other industrial processes. Earlier post.). Feedstock(s): Sugars.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

I believe that the loss of industry players Solyndra, Evergreen, and SpectraWatt opens the market for more innovative solar companies to succeed with smarter tactics and mainstream products that fit into existing manufacturing models. by Steven Pleging, CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp.

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MARCH 20, 2017

The overarching objective of the study is to analyze the scale and scope of investments in low-carbon technologies in power generation, transport, buildings and industry (including heating and cooling) that are needed to facilitate such a transition in a cost-effective manner, while also working towards other policy goals. trillion in 2015.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Currently, China produces most of its methanol from coal.

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MAY 24, 2022

The company’s founder, IEEE Member Markus Tarin , says the product also can be used in coal stockpiling operations, industrial laundries, scrapyards, and warehouses. to do product design and testing, mostly for medical clients. And he began to discover around 2015 that interest in such custom software had fallen off. “I

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

Other main findings include: In 2016, China, US, EU28, India, Russia and Japan, the world’s largest emitters in decreasing order of CO 2 emissions, accounted for 51% of the population, 65% of global Gross Domestic Product, 67% of the total primary energy supply and emitted 68% of total global CO 2 and circa 65% of total global GHGs.

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MAY 20, 2014

(CI includes all manufacturing and non-manufacturing CO 2 e emissions reported in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Scope 1 & 2 categories ( earlier post ), normalized by vehicle production. One of the challenges we face is that our 2020 renewable energy goal was based on doubling solar capacity by 2015. Energy intensity per vehicle.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

A pilot project by We Energies, Alstom and The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) testing an Alstom advanced chilled ammonia process ( earlier post ) has demonstrated more than 90% capture of carbon dioxide from the flue stream of a coal-fueled power plant in Wisconsin (the Pleasant Prairie Carbon Capture Pilot Plant ).

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

We are beginning to get a sense of regional variation in methane emissions from natural gas production. The gas fields we studied for this paper produced about 20% of the natural gas in the United States, and more than half the shale gas, so this moves us closer to understanding methane leaks from US natural gas production.

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JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. GJ/m 3 , the results shows that on average,on average the SAGD oil sands industry is achieving ∼4.1

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