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Rio Tinto and Sumitomo to build Gladstone hydrogen pilot plant to trial lower-carbon alumina refining

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million) program aimed at lowering carbon emissions from the alumina refining process. The trial is expected to produce the equivalent of about 6,000 tonnes of alumina per year while reducing Yarwun’s carbon dioxide emissions by about 3,000 tonnes per year. million (US$74.3-million) million (US$21.5-million) Earlier post.)

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ARPA-E awarding ~$14.4M to four projects for production of hydrogen and carbon products from methane

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These project teams will pursue methods to create high-value carbon and hydrogen from methane (four projects, $14.4 Inspired by the high quality of applications in the agency’s recent OPEN 2018 funding opportunity, ARPA-E created OPEN+ cohorts to focus on targeted, high-value opportunities to innovate technologies and create new communities.

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Study: Catalytic Converter Thefts Are Slowly Declining

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Catalytic converter theft has become a popular pastime for criminals looking to make a quick buck in the United States. regulators seemed absolutely committed to ruining vehicles via the Clean Air Act, catalytic converters would become mandatory hardware on all exhaust systems by 1975. Implemented during the Malaise Era, when the U.S.

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VW’s 1.0 TSI in the new up! GTI wins International Engine of the Year 2018 award in its category; Euro 6d-TEMP

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GTI1 has been named International Engine of the Year 2018 in its category. The 85 kW / 115 PS gasoline-fired engine is the first of its kind to be combined with a four-way catalytic converter and installed in the up! Due to its special coating, it works in parallel as a regular catalytic converter. Volkswagen’s 1.0

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DESY study finds edges and corners increase efficiency of catalytic converters

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Catalytic converters for cleaning exhaust emissions are more efficient when they use nanoparticles with many edges, according to a study carried out at the the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), a research center of the Helmholtz Association, X-ray source PETRA III. Credit: DESY, Lucid Berlin. Click to enlarge.

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Researchers show that single Pt atoms can perform CO oxidation at low temperatures; implications for catalytic converters

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converting CO to CO 2 )—a chemical reaction that is commonly used in catalytic converters to remove CO from car exhaust—at low temperatures. The research, published in the journal Nature Catalysis , could improve catalytic converter design and also has major implications in the field of computational catalysis.

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Enerkem, NREL team develops High Octane Low Carbon Gasoline (HOLCG) hydrocarbon blends

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Researchers from Enerkem and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have succeeded in producing a new high-performance biofuel that could improve the octane rating of fuels sold on the market and reduce their carbon footprint. Catalytic conversion of DME to High Octane Low Carbon Gasoline (HOLCG) hydrocarbon blends.

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