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PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new method to convert captured CO 2 into methane, the primary component of natural gas. Different methods for converting CO 2 into methane have long been known. —Heldebrant et al.

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Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method to convert CO 2 directly into aviation fuel using a novel, inexpensive iron-based catalyst. 2020) “Transforming carbon dioxide into jet fuel using an organic combustion-synthesized Fe-Mn-K catalyst.” The final product is usually a crystallized material. Makgae, O.A.

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Berkeley Lab team validates bio-analogous technique for converting CO2 into liquid acetate

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a new technique, modeled after a metabolic process found in some bacteria, for converting CO 2 into liquid acetate, a key ingredient in “liquid sunlight” or solar fuels produced through artificial photosynthesis.

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HIF Global partners with Topsoe for eFuels facility in Texas; carbon-neutral gasoline

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The plant will produce carbon-neutral fuel—enough to decarbonize more than 400,000 vehicles annually. eFuels are produced by combining green hydrogen made from renewable power and recycled carbon dioxide. HIF’s facility in Texas will help remove 2 million tonnes of CO2 from the air every year. Earlier post.)

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Carbon Engineering & LanzaTech partner to produce SAF using direct air capture CO2; “air-to-jet”

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AUGUST 1, 2021

LanzaTech UK and direct air capture technology company Carbon Engineering have partnered on a project to create sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ).

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

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

A new material that can selectively capture CO 2 molecules and efficiently convert them into useful organic materials has been developed by researchers at Kyoto University, along with colleagues at the University of Tokyo and Jiangsu Normal University in China. —Wu et al. —Susumu Kitagawa, materials chemist at Kyoto University.

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New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

A team of researchers from Canada and the US has developed a system that quickly and efficiently converts carbon dioxide into simple chemicals via CO 2 electrolysis. The electrode architecture enables production of two-carbon products such as ethylene and ethanol at current densities just over an ampere per square centimeter.

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GTI quantifies opportunity to produce low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) from wood wastes

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

GTI has released a site-specific engineering design titled “ Low-Carbon Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Wood Wastes ”. GTI led a team of engineers and scientists to produce a blueprint for converting an existing biomass facility into an RNG production site, using the wood waste feedstock and some of the existing infrastructure.

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Engineered E. coli could make carbohydrates, renewable fuel, from CO2

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. The research, accepted for publication in Applied and Environmental Microbiology raises the possibility of converting atmospheric CO 2 to commodity chemicals.

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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AUGUST 22, 2022

The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle. Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas. Graphic courtesy Sandia National Laboratories).

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MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Researchers at MIT have identified , quantified, and modeled a major reason for the poor performance of electroreduction processes to convert CO 2 to fuel or other useful chemicals. The findings could spur progress on developing a variety of materials and designs for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion systems. —Soto et al.

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere. Credit: NIST.

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27 teams advancing in $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE; converting CO2 to products

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

XPRIZE announced the 27 teams representing six countries advancing in the $20-million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, a global competition to develop technologies that convert the most carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas and power plant facilities into products with the highest net value. Coal plant and natural gas plant.

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Study finds copper catalysts work better at converting CO2 to renewable fuel when they gain and lose oxygen atoms

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JULY 20, 2020

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Caltech have found that copper that was once bound with oxygen is better at converting carbon dioxide into renewable fuels than copper that was never bound to oxygen. These scanning electron microscopy images show the copper catalyst structure at different stages.

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MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

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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.

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AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

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APRIL 26, 2022

Carbon dioxide capture company AirCapture and carbon dioxide conversion company OCOchem, along with other partners, have won a $2.93-million AirCapture develops on-site, modular technology that captures CO 2 from the air using waste heat from manufacturing plants, enabling customer operations to go carbon neutral and even negative.

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Stable boron-copper catalyst for CO2 conversion; stabilization with zinc

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MARCH 28, 2021

A new boron-copper catalyst for the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into chemicals or fuels has been developed by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen. CO 2 can be converted into larger carbon compounds that can be used as base chemicals for industry or as fuels. Resources.

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WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A team of biologists and engineers modified Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 (TIE-1) so that it can produce a biofuel using only three renewable and naturally abundant source ingredients: carbon dioxide, solar panel-generated electricity and light. The results are reported in an open-access paper in the journal Communications Biology.

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DOE awards $3M for 10 high-performance computing projects to improve energy efficiency and material performance

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JULY 26, 2022

Through the High-Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program, selected teams will help manufacturers shrink their carbon footprint, streamline their processes, and increase innovation—from optimizing the performance of equipment used in chemical manufacturing to improving the fuel efficiency of vehicles. All Selectees.

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ETH Zürich, Total team develops new catalyst to convert CO2 and H2 directly to methanol efficiently

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JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. It is possible to convert it into fuels and a wide variety of chemical products, including those that today are mainly based on fossil resources.

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Evonik and Siemens Energy commission pilot plant for conversion of CO2 to chemicals

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Evonik and Siemens Energy commissioned a pilot plant—sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)—that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. In the electrolyzers, carbon dioxide and water are converted into carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H 2 ) with electricity in a first step.

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BMW invests in company aiming to produce zero net carbon gasoline

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JUNE 10, 2020

BMW is investing in Prometheus Fuels, a company that plans to remove carbon-dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and convert it into gasoline. Prometheus plans to begin selling its fuel at gas stations later this year, at a price comparable to conventional gasoline, BMW said in a press release Tuesday.

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Researchers convert atmospheric CO2 to carbon nanofibers and nanotubes for use as anodes in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. —Stuart Licht. —Licht et al.

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Hydrogenics to supply 1MW electrolyzer to project converting CO2 to methanol; Power-to-Gas

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JANUARY 26, 2015

CO 2 will be captured from the flue gases in a special downstream flue gas scrubber (Post-Combustion Capture, PCC). CO 2 will be captured from the flue gases in a special downstream flue gas scrubber (Post-Combustion Capture, PCC). Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Emissions Hydrogen Methanol Power-to-Gas'

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Lufthansa, ETH Zürich, Climeworks & Synhelion to cooperate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels; CO2 capture & solar thermochemical conversion

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MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel. First, air is drawn into the collector with a fan.

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NUS researchers discover new mechanism for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to ethanol

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MAY 7, 2020

NUS scientists have discovered a new mechanism for selective electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to ethanol using copper-silver (Cu-Ag) composite catalysts. The electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to fuels and chemicals, when powered by renewable electricity, is a step forward in alleviating carbon emissions. —Prof YEO.

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Anaergia to supply CO2 to European Energy A/S for green e-methanol production as fuel for container ships

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AUGUST 19, 2022

Biogenic carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide that is released during the decomposition of organic matter such as food waste. All Anaergia plants use organic waste material to produce biogas, which is composed of methane and carbon dioxide. Moller - Maersk is having built to operate on this carbon-neutral fuel.

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

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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.

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

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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Chalmers study finds chemical looping gasification integrated with FT synthesis delivers net-negative CO2 FT crude

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JUNE 13, 2022

Direct fuel and air mixing is avoided by this measure of cyclic oxidation–reduction of the metal oxide particles in two separate reactors, which results in an oxygen-depleted air stream from the AR and a flue gas concentrated with CO 2 from the FR. Net-negative emissions could be achieved through CLC of biomass with CO 2 storage. Kumar et al.

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GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

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APRIL 9, 2018

Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. Stronger, more stress resistant & cheaper by weight than steel, C2CNT carbon nanotubes avoids > 160 ton CO 2 per ton steel replaced. Click to enlarge.

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Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

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JULY 15, 2022

Through the first-of-its-kind agreement, Twelve, Alaska, and Microsoft will work to advance production and use of Twelve’s E-Jet, a low-carbon jet fuel produced by a power-to-liquids process leveraging the company’s carbon transformation technology. Earlier post.). SAF is a core part of Alaska’s five-part pathway to net zero by 2040.

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United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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JUNE 16, 2022

million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. UAV’s portfolio now includes SAF producers and other technologies including carbon capture, hydrogen-electric engines, electric regional aircraft, and urban air mobility.

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

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AUGUST 8, 2017

The SOLETAIR project ( earlier post ) has produced its first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar energy and the air’s carbon dioxide via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. The mobile chemical pilot plant produces gasoline, diesel, and kerosene from regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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RENK supplies special gear units for compressors for production of green steel

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Germany-based RENK Group, a manufacturer of mission-critical drive technologies, is supplying three high-speed special gear units via RENK-Maag GmbH , a group company, for compressors for the production of green steel to Siemens Energy Compressors GmbH as part of the “SALCOS” (Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking) project of the Salzgitter AG steel group.

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DOE to award up to $6.7M to projects to convert captured CO2 to useful products, including fuels

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AUGUST 26, 2016

DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy is seeking these projects as part of the Department’s Carbon Storage program, which has the goal of developing and advancing technologies to improve the effectiveness of carbon storage, reduce the cost of implementation, and be ready for widespread commercial deployment in the 2025–2035 timeframe.

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Researchers propose CO2 recycling to improve Fischer-Tropsch GTL efficiency and reduce total CO2 emissions

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JUNE 21, 2014

Researchers in South Korea are suggesting two new carbon-dioxide-utilized Gas-to-Liquids processes (CUGP) to increase the overall efficiency of conventional Fischer-Tropsch GTL. In a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , they report that the two CUGP options increase carbon efficiency by 21.1?41.3%

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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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JUNE 25, 2013

Audi’s e-gas plant. Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Click to enlarge.

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New catalyst opens door to CO2 capture in coal-to-liquids process

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OCTOBER 14, 2018

Researchers from the National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy in Beijing and Eindhoven University of Technology have developed iron-based catalysts that substantially reduce operating costs and open the door to capturing the large amounts of CO 2 that are generated by CTL. The feedstock will not be coal or gas, but waste and biomass.

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ClassNK grants Approval in Principle for new H2/CO2 FPSO design; offshore production of H2 and CO2 from associated gas from offshore wells

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

FPSOs are commonly used in the offshore oil and gas industry process and store crude oil and liquefied gas from offshore wells until it can be transported via pipelines to shore or via ship-to-ship transfer.

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Carbon Sciences Successfully Synthesizes Proprietary Raw Catalyst for CO2-Based Gas-to-Liquids (GTL)

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Carbon Sciences Inc. , In June of this year, we filed a landmark patent application for our breakthrough CO 2 -based Gas-to-Liquids technology. In June of this year, we filed a landmark patent application for our breakthrough CO 2 -based Gas-to-Liquids technology. It is a major step forward for us —CEO Byron Elton.

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USC team develops highly efficient catalyst system for converting CO2 to methanol; 79% yield from CO2 captured from air

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , they reported demonstrating for the first time that CO 2 captured from air can be directly converted to CH 3 OH in 79% yield using the new homogeneous catalytic system. They then heated the solution, converting 79% of the CO 2 into methanol. Click to enlarge.

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Audi to introduce natural gas A3 Sportback g-tron at year’s end; CO2-neutral e-gas

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MARCH 1, 2013

Audi will introduce the compact A3 Sportback g-tron—which can be powered by the CO 2 -neutral Audi e-gas, synthetic methane generated from eco-electricity in the Audi e-gas project ( earlier post )—at the end of the year. The e-gas fuel will be produced in the power-to-gas plant in Werlte, Germany.

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ArcelorMittal Europe to produce “green steel” starting in 2020

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The expansion of its Smart Carbon route, also utilizing hydrogen. The project will reduce the volumes of coal needed in the iron ore reduction process, thereby cutting CO2 emissions. Injecting hydrogen-rich coke oven gas is an efficient, cost effective method that allows steelmakers to reduce CO 2 emissions now.

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PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

Berkeley Lab team validates bio-analogous technique for converting CO2 into liquid acetate

HIF Global partners with Topsoe for eFuels facility in Texas; carbon-neutral gasoline

Carbon Engineering & LanzaTech partner to produce SAF using direct air capture CO2; “air-to-jet”

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

New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

GTI quantifies opportunity to produce low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) from wood wastes

Engineered E. coli could make carbohydrates, renewable fuel, from CO2

Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

27 teams advancing in $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE; converting CO2 to products

Study finds copper catalysts work better at converting CO2 to renewable fuel when they gain and lose oxygen atoms

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

Stable boron-copper catalyst for CO2 conversion; stabilization with zinc

WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

DOE awards $3M for 10 high-performance computing projects to improve energy efficiency and material performance

ETH Zürich, Total team develops new catalyst to convert CO2 and H2 directly to methanol efficiently

Evonik and Siemens Energy commission pilot plant for conversion of CO2 to chemicals

BMW invests in company aiming to produce zero net carbon gasoline

Researchers convert atmospheric CO2 to carbon nanofibers and nanotubes for use as anodes in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries

Hydrogenics to supply 1MW electrolyzer to project converting CO2 to methanol; Power-to-Gas

Lufthansa, ETH Zürich, Climeworks & Synhelion to cooperate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels; CO2 capture & solar thermochemical conversion

NUS researchers discover new mechanism for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to ethanol

Anaergia to supply CO2 to European Energy A/S for green e-methanol production as fuel for container ships

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

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

Chalmers study finds chemical looping gasification integrated with FT synthesis delivers net-negative CO2 FT crude

GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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

RENK supplies special gear units for compressors for production of green steel

DOE to award up to $6.7M to projects to convert captured CO2 to useful products, including fuels

Researchers propose CO2 recycling to improve Fischer-Tropsch GTL efficiency and reduce total CO2 emissions

Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

New catalyst opens door to CO2 capture in coal-to-liquids process

ClassNK grants Approval in Principle for new H2/CO2 FPSO design; offshore production of H2 and CO2 from associated gas from offshore wells

Carbon Sciences Successfully Synthesizes Proprietary Raw Catalyst for CO2-Based Gas-to-Liquids (GTL)

USC team develops highly efficient catalyst system for converting CO2 to methanol; 79% yield from CO2 captured from air

Audi to introduce natural gas A3 Sportback g-tron at year’s end; CO2-neutral e-gas

ArcelorMittal Europe to produce “green steel” starting in 2020

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