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New porous coordination polymer captures CO2, converts it to useful organic materials

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The new material is a porous coordination polymer (PCP, also known as MOF; metal-organic framework), a framework consisting of zinc metal ions. However, weak gas-binding ability and/or poor sample crystallinity after guest exchange hindered the development of efficient materials for CO 2 incorporation, activation and conversion.

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NSF awards $2M to Rice U collaboration to explore direct conversion of CO2 into fuels

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Since joining the Rice faculty in 2019, Wang has developed a catalytic reactor that uses carbon dioxide as its feedstock. There is still a lack of new redox-active carbon dioxide carriers for effective electrochemical carbon dioxide capture from such point sources as flue gas. —Haotian Wang. —Haotian Wang.

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EU research project IDEALFUEL seeks to develop marine low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from biomass; Bio-HFO

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The concept describes the conversion of lignin—the polymer found in the structural materials of plants and trees—from dry lignocellulosic biomass into renewable fuels. This is cost competitive with Ultra-Low Sulfur Fuel Oil (ULSFO) which current, 2019, price level is €450-550/tonne.

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Cornell team suggests engineered bacteria could address current limitations of energy storage technologies

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If successful, this could allow storage of renewable electricity through electrochemical or enzymatic fixation of carbon dioxide and subsequent storage as carbon-based energy storage molecules including hydrocarbons and non-volatile polymers at high efficiency. The study was supported by Cornell and the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund.

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Researchers develop solid electrolyte for electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to pure liquid fuels

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Now a team led by researchers at Rice University has achieved continuous electrocatalytic conversion of CO 2 to pure liquid fuel solutions in cells that utilize solid electrolytes, in which electrochemically generated cations (such as H + ) and anions (such as HCOO ? ) Schematic illustration of the CO 2 reduction cell with solid electrolyte.

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DOE awards $18M to six projects for algae-based biofuels; targeting <$5/gge

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $18 million in funding to six projects to reduce the modeled price of algae-based biofuels to less than $5 per gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) by 2019. Algal biomass can be converted to advanced biofuels that offer promising alternatives to petroleum-based diesel and jet fuels.

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DOE will award up to $25M to reduce costs of algal biofuels to less than $5/gge by 2019

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $25 million in funding to reduce the cost of algal biofuels to less than $5 per gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) by 2019. Additionally, algae can be used to make a range of other valuable bioproducts, such as industrial chemicals, bio-based polymers, and proteins. Earlier post.).

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