2017, CO2, Convert and Hydrogen

New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for converting water and CO to hydrogen and CO2

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2017

Scientists in the US and China have developed a new low-temperature catalyst for producing high-purity hydrogen gas while simultaneously using up carbon monoxide (CO) via the water-gas shift (WGS) reaction. This catalyst produces a purer form of hydrogen to feed into the fuel cell. The reaction is favored at a low working temperature.

Water

Water Hydrogen Convert CO2

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. 2017), H 2 -assisted CO 2 thermochemical reduction on La 0.9

MIT

MIT Convert CO2 Carbon

SOLETAIR project produces first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar power and atmospheric CO2

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2017

The mobile chemical pilot plant produces gasoline, diesel, and kerosene from regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. An electrolysis unit developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) uses solar power to produce the required hydrogen. The SOLETAIR project started in 2016.

Solar

Solar Finland Fuel CO2

Brookhaven team identifies active sites on catalysts for converting CO2 to methanol

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2017

The hydrogenation of carbon dioxide is a key step in the production of methanol; catalysts made from copper (Cu) and zinc oxide (ZnO) on alumina supports are often used. Rodriguez, Ping Liu (2017) “Active sites for CO 2 hydrogenation to methanol on Cu/ZnO catalysts” Science Vol. Shyam Kattel, Pedro J. Ramírez, Jingguang G.

Convert

Convert CO2 Venezuela Hydrogen

Photo-activated catalyst converts CO2 to CO for clean fuel technology; no unwanted byproducts

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light-activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.

Convert

Convert Fuel Clean Cleaning

Elemental boron effective photothermocatalyst for the conversion of CO2 for fuels and chemicals

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2017

This could form the basis of a new, more efficient process for converting the greenhouse gas CO 2 into a useful carbon source for the production of fuels and chemical products. Their material of choice is powdered elemental boron, which very strongly absorbs sunlight and efficiently converts it photothermically, heating itself up remarkably.

Conversion

Conversion CO2 Fuel Convert

Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

Green Car Congress

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). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

Iceland

Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable

Daimler Trucks & Buses targets completely CO2-neutral fleet of new vehicles by 2039 in Europe, Japan and NAFTA

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

By the end of the next decade, Daimler Trucks & Buses will extend its range of vehicles with hydrogen-powered series production vehicles. In Tokyo, Daimler Trucks & Buses recently celebrated the world premiere of the FUSO brand fuel-cell prototype “Vision F-Cell”, thus further strengthening its activity in the hydrogen field.

Japan

Japan Fleet Europe Switzerland

German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2018

Construction on the methanation plant began in July 2017. While the current facility feeds pure hydrogen (“WindGas”) directly into the gas grid, the new methanation plant provides for the generation of “green” methane. Type of CO2 source (biogas; waste water; atmosphere). million) STORE&GO research project.

Store

Store Gas Green Power

Report: Toyota to invest ~$165M to triple Japan production capacity for Mirai fuel cell vehicle

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The current sales plan is 400 Mirais in Japan by the end of 2015; 3,000 or more in the US by the end of 2017; and 50-100 units per year in Europe around 2016. The new investment will boost output of fuel cell stacks and hydrogen tanks at the Toyota factory in Aichi Prefecture, adding two lines by the end of 2015.

Japan

Japan Toyota Fuel Production

China team develops efficient multifunctional catalyst for conversion of CO2 to gasoline-range hydrocarbons

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MAY 2, 2017

Qingjie Ge at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China has developed an efficient, stable, and multifunctional Na-Fe 3 O 4 /HZSM-5 catalyst for the direct production of gasoline-range hydrocarbons from CO 2 hydrogenation. The gasoline fractions are mainly isoparaffins and aromatics, thus favoring the octane number.

Conversion

Conversion Gasoline China Range

Light over heat: UV-driven rhodium nanoparticles catalyze conversion of CO2 to methane

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Supported Rh nanoparticles and molecular complexes are widely used as catalysts in automotive catalytic converters to reduce nitrogen oxides, as well as in industrial hydrogenation, hydroformylation, and ammonia oxidation reactions. The black, red, and blue spheres are carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms, respectively.

Light

Light Conversion CO2 Hydrogen

Berkeley Lab solar-to-fuel system for CO2 to ethanol and ethylene; light-powered production of fuel via artificial photosynthesis

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at efficiencies far greater than plants. The achievement marks a significant milestone in the effort to move toward sustainable sources of fuel.

Solar

Solar Light Fuel CO2

GWU team demonstrates one-pot process for optimized synthesis of controlled CNTs from CO2; coupling cement and C2CNT

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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). Licht (2017). —Licht (2017). —Licht (2017). Click to enlarge. Licht et al. Click to enlarge.

CO2

CO2 Carbon Gas-Electric 2017

New plasma synthesis process for one-step conversion of CO2 and methane into higher value fuel and chemicals

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

A particularly significant route currently being developed for CO 2 utilization is catalytic CO 2 hydrogenation. CH 4 is an ideal H-supplier to replace H 2 in CO 2 hydrogenation as CH 4 has a high H density and is available from a range of sources (e.g. natural gas, shale gas, biogas and flared gas). doi: 10.1002/ange.201707131.

Conversion

Conversion Fuel CO2 Gas

Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Petrol Gas-Electric Lithium Ion

Ford researchers: global light-duty CO2 regulatory targets broadly consistent with 450 ppm stabilization

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MAY 15, 2014

They converted from an absolute amount to scale relative to 2000. While the proposed China regulation for 2020 is more stringent than the glide path, the 2017 Brazil regulation is less stringent. They assumed that all sectors of the economy follow the same proportional reduction. 2025) vehicle CO 2 reduction task from 4.5

Light

Light Global CO2 Ford

List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

Bioethanol is being produced converting carbon-based agricultural feedstock such as sugar cane, bagasse, grain, barley, potatoes. A pneumatic motor which works on expanding compressed air is used to convert the energy to mechanical energy – either linear motion or rotation. Hydrogen fuel is expensive and highly inflammable.

Alternative Fuels

Alternative Fuels Gasoline Fuel Gasoline-Electric

Researchers develop bi-metallic catalyst for thermocatalytic decomposition of methane: H2 with low or no CO2

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MARCH 19, 2021

The TCD process uses a novel bimetallic catalyst to produce hydrogen. Hu experimented with catalysts and processes that could cleanly convert methane into both hydrogen and carbon using catalytic pyrolysis. The chemical reaction produces hydrogen as solid carbon accumulates on the catalyst. —Xu et al.

CO2

CO2 Hydrogen Carbon West Virginia

UK Awards 24M to 6 Low Carbon Vehicle Projects

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

A hydrogen fuel cell version of the van is due to be launched in 2017. For vehicles to have minimal impact on air quality, catalytic converters have been fitted to modern engines. Under the scheme motorists will receive a grant of up to £5,000 (US$7,800) to purchase electric, plug-in hybrid or hydrogen fuelled cars.

Land Rover

Land Rover Carbon Vehicles Plug-in

EV Driven

New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for converting water and CO to hydrogen and CO2

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

SOLETAIR project produces first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar power and atmospheric CO2

Brookhaven team identifies active sites on catalysts for converting CO2 to methanol

Photo-activated catalyst converts CO2 to CO for clean fuel technology; no unwanted byproducts

Elemental boron effective photothermocatalyst for the conversion of CO2 for fuels and chemicals

Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

Daimler Trucks & Buses targets completely CO2-neutral fleet of new vehicles by 2039 in Europe, Japan and NAFTA

German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

Report: Toyota to invest ~$165M to triple Japan production capacity for Mirai fuel cell vehicle

China team develops efficient multifunctional catalyst for conversion of CO2 to gasoline-range hydrocarbons

Light over heat: UV-driven rhodium nanoparticles catalyze conversion of CO2 to methane

Berkeley Lab solar-to-fuel system for CO2 to ethanol and ethylene; light-powered production of fuel via artificial photosynthesis

GWU team demonstrates one-pot process for optimized synthesis of controlled CNTs from CO2; coupling cement and C2CNT

New plasma synthesis process for one-step conversion of CO2 and methane into higher value fuel and chemicals

Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

Ford researchers: global light-duty CO2 regulatory targets broadly consistent with 450 ppm stabilization

List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

Researchers develop bi-metallic catalyst for thermocatalytic decomposition of methane: H2 with low or no CO2

UK Awards 24M to 6 Low Carbon Vehicle Projects

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