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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

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It’s a capital-light solution that takes advantage of technology that has been commercialized for decades. The KCP winners, announced during a celebration at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Friday, 28 June, were chosen from almost 150 applications from all over the world. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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GM, Honda to collaborate on next-generation fuel cell technologies; targeting commercial feasibility in 2020 time frame

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According to the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index, GM and Honda rank Nº 1 and Nº 2, respectively, in total fuel cell patents filed between 2002 and 2012, with more than 1,200 between them. GM and Honda are both leaders in fuel cell technology, with longstanding fuel cell research and development programs. Fuel Cells Hydrogen'

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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will prepare an initial engineering design study to use commercial-scale membrane CO 2 capture technology at the CEMEX Balcones cement plant in New Braunfels, TX. Praxair will complete an initial engineering design study for a Linde-BASF CO 2 capture system at a commercial steam methane reforming (SMR) hydrogen plant in Convent, LA.

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NREL report estimates gasoline produced from biomass could cost about the same as ethanol

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The cleaned and conditioned syngas is converted to methanol in a fixed bed reactor containing a copper/zinc oxide/alumina catalyst. In the MTG section of the NREL report, a fluidized bed reactor was utilized (proven at the pilot scale) instead of the fixed bed reactor utilized by PNNL (proven at the commercial scale).

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UMass Amherst Licenses Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis Technology to Startup Anellotech to Produce Renewable Biogasoline

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Using Huber’s rapid new catalytic pyrolysis technology, Anellotech has already demonstrated commercially relevant production not only of gasoline and biofuel precursors but of benzene, toluene and xylene in milligram and gram-scale bench-top reactors. Aspen Plus software will be used for process design simulation. Carlson, Tushar P.

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Announcing our Partnership with Wallbox

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Specifically, the Wallbox partnership involves an integration with its Pulsar Plus Level 2 home and commercial charging stations, which communicate with EVmatch software using Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP)—an application protocol for communication between EV charging station hardware and software management systems. A 48A (11.5

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