Carbon, CO2, Industrial and Water

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

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

By using a water-lean post-combustion capture solvent, (N-(2-ethoxyethyl)-3-morpholinopropan-1-amine) (2-EEMPA), they achieved a greater than 90% conversion of captured CO 2 to hydrocarbons—mostly methane—in the presence of a heterogenous Ru catalyst under relatively mild reaction conditions (170 °C and 2 pressure). Heldebrant, D.,

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Low Cost Convert CO2 Conversion

Researchers develop titanium and copper heterostructured photocatalyst for conversion of CO2 into CH4

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Under illumination for 6 hours, the optimized reduced titania-Cu 2 O photocatalyst enables 0.13% photoreduction of highly diluted CO 2 with water vapors to 462 nmol g ?1 What if we drew inspiration from photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to convert CO2 and water into useful chemicals? —Prof In.

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CO2 Conversion Water Climate Change

Molten carbonate electrolysis can produce a range of carbon nanomaterials, including graphene, from CO2 at high yield

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and George Washington University in the US report in a new paper in the ACS journal Accounts of Chemical Research that a range of important carbon nanomaterials can be produced at high yield by molten carbonate electrolysis.

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Carbon CO2 Range Solar

8 Rivers announces 8RH2 CO2 Convective Reformer for ultra-low carbon hydrogen production from natural gas

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MAY 26, 2023

8 Rivers Capital announced the development of the 8RH2 CO 2 Convective Reformer—a technology for the production of ultra-low carbon hydrogen from natural gas. It uses the oxy-combustion of carbon fuels and a high-pressure supercritical CO 2 working fluid in a highly recuperated cycle that captures all emissions by design.

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Hydrogen Carbon Gas Production

ExxonMobil, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab develop new MOF for carbon capture and steam regeneration

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JULY 25, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new material that could capture more than 90% of CO 2 emitted from industrial sources using low-temperature steam, requiring less energy for the overall carbon capture process. UC Berkeley graphic by Eugene Kim).

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Carbon F-150 Emissions Water

SLB introduces low-carbon alternative for well construction cement that eliminates up to 85% of embodied CO2

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MARCH 7, 2023

Decarbonizing the well construction process while ensuring safety and performance standards is critical to our industry’s pathway to net zero. The cement-free EcoShield system is a breakthrough that delivers industry-standard zonal isolation capabilities while significantly minimizing impact from upstream oil and gas production.

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Portland CO2 Carbon North America

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

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The catalyst shows a carbon dioxide conversion through hydrogenation to hydrocarbons in the aviation jet fuel range of 38.2%, with a yield of 17.2%, and a selectivity of 47.8%, and with an attendant low carbon monoxide (5.6%) and methane selectivity (10.4%). Fe 5 C 2 by CO 2 /water in the first hours of the catalytic reaction.

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Convert Fuel CO2 Conversion

PCC SE and Landsvirkjun to convert silicon metal plant CO2 emissions to methanol

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APRIL 12, 2022

Landsvirkjun , The National Power Company of Iceland, and German investment company PCC SE have agreed to explore the possibility of capturing and utilizing carbon emissions from PCC’s silicon metal plant in northeast Iceland. Carbon emissions will be utilized to produce green methanol that can, for example, replace fossil fuel in ships.

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Iceland Emissions Convert CO2

Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

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MARCH 4, 2022

Carbon transformation company Twelve and biotechnology company LanzaTech have transformed CO 2 emissions into ethanol as a part of an ongoing research and development partnership. This approach is highly scalable and could ultimately produce ethanol at an industrial scale, while simultaneously eliminating CO 2 emissions.

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Convert CO2 Carbon Polymer

GWU team demonstrates highly scalable, low-cost process for making carbon nanotube wools directly from CO2

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JULY 19, 2017

Stuart Licht have demonstrated the first facile high-yield, low-energy synthesis of macroscopic length carbon nanotubes (CNTs)—carbon nanotube wool—from CO 2 using molten carbonate electrolysis ( earlier post ). The most compact form of captured carbon is through its transformation to solid carbon.

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Low Cost Carbon CO2 Solar

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The facility will filter 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air and mineralize it underground. With direct air capture technology, carbon dioxide is extracted from the ambient air and air free of CO 2 is returned to the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is thus permanently removed from the atmosphere.

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Audi Iceland CO2 Carbon

New highly efficient catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction toward methane

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JANUARY 15, 2020

2 using industry-ready silicon photoelectrodes with an impressive methane Faradaic efficiency of up to 51%, leading to a distinct turnover frequency of 2,176 h ?1 The researchers think that it could be recycling smokestack carbon dioxide into clean-burning fuel within 5-10 years. 1 under air mass 1.5 —lead author Baowen Zhou.

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CO2 Carbon Solar Hydrogen

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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Conversion Grant Waste CO2

New polymer membrane efficiently removes carbon dioxide from mixed gases; high permeability and selectivity

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MAY 3, 2022

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University, SINTEF in Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, has developed a polymer membrane technology that removes carbon dioxide from mixed gases with both high permeability and high selectivity. A paper on their work is published in the journal Science.

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Polymer Carbon North Carolina Norway

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. Our industry partners are targeting 1- to 5-megawatt systems.

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Grid Power Powered CO2

H2 Green Steel and BMW Group sign final agreement on delivery of CO2-reduced steel

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AUGUST 29, 2022

The company has a gross embodied carbon emission intensity obligation per tonne of steel, included in its customer contracts. H2 Green Steel (H2GS AB) was founded in 2020 with the ambition to accelerate the decarbonization of the steel industry, using green hydrogen. This limits the amount of energy used, storage and material handling.

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BMW Green CO2 Sweden

MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

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JANUARY 14, 2022

The findings could spur progress on developing a variety of materials and designs for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion systems. Depending on the material choice for the electrocatalysis, a certain variety of products is expected from the carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO 2 RR). Credits: Image: Courtesy of the Varanasi Lab.

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MIT CO2 Carbon Conversion

BMW Group to source lower CO2 aluminum from Rio Tinto in Canada from 2024

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

ELYSIS ( earlier post ) is the first carbon-free smelting technology for aluminum as it enables the production of aluminum metal without direct carbon dioxide emissions during the smelting process, instead emitting pure oxygen. The BMW Group intends to become one of the first customers to use this technology in standard production.

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BMW Canada South Carolina CO2

Audi in new e-fuels project: synthetic diesel from water, air-captured CO2 and green electricity; “Blue Crude”

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. Audi is the exclusive partner in the automotive industry. The hydrogen is then reacted with the carbon dioxide in two chemical processes conducted at 220 ?C fuels is possible.

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Audi Water Diesel Fuel

Twelve produces first batch of E-Jet fuel from CO2 electrolysis; partnership with USAF; electrifying fuel, not planes

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Carbon transformation company Twelve (formerly Opus 12, earlier post ) has produced the first fossil-free jet fuel—called E-Jet—from CO 2 electrolysis, demonstrating a scalable, energy-efficient path to the de-fossilization of global aviation. Global aviation produces 1.2 —Twelve Co-Founder and CEO Nicholas Flanders.

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Fuel CO2 Carbon Conversion

Toyota a winner as CO2 reduction plan introduced to parliament with less pressure on SUVs and utes

EV Central

MARCH 26, 2024

Australia is on schedule to have a CO2 reduction scheme for motor vehicle in place by January 1 2025. Hyundai calls for more EV support under Labor’s new CO2 reduction scheme READ MORE: It’s a green light for electric vehicles! Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes READ MORE: Get out of the way diesel!

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CO2 Toyota SUV Isuzu

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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Carbon Climate Change CO2 Climate

DOE selects 2 projects to demonstrate feasibility of enhanced water recovery; producing usable water from CO2 storage sites

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JUNE 5, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects that will test emerging enhanced water recovery (EWR) technologies for their potential to produce useable water from CO 2 storage sites. Once treated, the clean water could be re-used for beneficial purposes, including supplemental cooling water at a power station.

Water

Water North Dakota CO2 Panama

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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Commercial Energy Tucson CO2

Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

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JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel

Volvo Cars first car maker to join SteelZero initiative in support of fossil-free steel ambitions

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JUNE 1, 2022

Volvo Cars is the first car maker to sign up to the SteelZero initiative , which aims to increase demand for fossil-free steel and accelerate a transition to carbon neutrality in the global steel industry. ResponsibleSteel -certified steel, or equivalent. Earlier post.).

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Volvo Cars Carbon Emissions

Liquid Wind to partner with Sundsvall Energi on second electrofuel facility; eMethanol for shipping

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JUNE 28, 2022

Sundsvall Energi will partner with Liquid Wind to be the host and provide carbon dioxide for the second commercial-scale—100,000 t—electrofuel facility in Sweden. Biogenic carbon dioxide from the Sundsvall energy facility will be captured and combined with renewable hydrogen to generate green electrofuel, eMethanol.

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Wind Energy Carbon Hydrogen

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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Solar Conversion Fuel CO2

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

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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. Its synergy with adjacent Mo sites in α-MoC can effectively activate water at low temperature. —Yao et al.

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Water Hydrogen Convert CO2

EPFL team develops on-board system to capture CO2 from trucks; reducing emissions by 90%

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

The project is being coordinated by the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group, led by François Maréchal, at EPFL’s School of Engineering. First, the vehicle’s flue gases in the exhaust pipe are cooled down and the water is separated from the gases. In their study, the scientists used the example of a delivery truck.

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Emissions CO2 Exhaust Carbon

Snam and Saipem sign MoU to work together on green hydrogen development and CO2 capture

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Italy-based Snam, a leading energy infrastructure operator, and Saipem, an Italian multinational oilfield services company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to start working together to define and to develop initiatives for green hydrogen production and transport, and for carbon dioxide capture, transport and reuse or storage (CCS and CCU).

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Hydrogen Green CO2 Oil

Earth-abundant electrocatalysts for the reduction of CO2 to CO

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JANUARY 4, 2021

Also, a spontaneous dissociation of absorbed COOH species to a water molecule and absorbed CO on Mo 2 C promote the CO 2 RR. The name MAX is derived from the composition of the material where “M” denotes an early transition metal, “A” an A-group metal such as aluminium or gallium and “X” denotes carbon and/or nitrogen.

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CO2 Carbon Water Fuel

Biofuels- paving the way for low carbon future in mobility – ET Auto

Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Given the biogenic carbon capture of crops, Ethanol as a fuel has a much lower environmental impact than the traditional fossil fuels. If India is able to achieve the ethanol blending targets, then by 2026, ~33 million litres of petrol will be saved alongside a reduction in emission to the tune of ~75 million tonnes of CO2.

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Carbon Future Auto Petrol

What we don’t admit about carbon dioxide

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JUNE 9, 2021

But before consumers assign appropriate value to low carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they must make an accurate judgment about the malevolence of this well-known gas. Unfortunately, our intuitive concepts about CO2 conflict with our scientific appraisal of its harmfulness. Time for a name change?

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Carbon CO2 Pollution Gas-Electric

SOLAR-JET project demonstrates solar-driven thermochemical conversion of CO2 and water to jet fuel

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APRIL 28, 2014

The EU-funded SOLAR-JET project has demonstrated the production of aviation kerosene from concentrated sunlight, CO 2 captured from air, and water. In the next phase of the project, the partners will optimize the solar reactor and assess the techno-economic potential of industrial scale implementation. Click to enlarge. Scheffe J.R.,

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Solar Conversion Water Fuel

CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

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APRIL 11, 2019

Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million CO 2 is available in abundance in high concentration in many industrial processes and thermal power plants (here CRI focusing on geothermal power and waste to energy). million (US$2.0-million) In many ethanol production and biogas processes. CO 2 is readily available.

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Grant CO2 Iceland Waste

Audi Hungaria starts operation of Europe’s biggest solar roof installation

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Audi Hungaria is thus the second of five Audi sites (after Audi Brussels) to achieve a neutral carbon balance, according to the company. We have a clear aim: that all Audi sites will have carbon-neutral operation by 2025. The remaining heat is generated through natural gas, with carbon neutrality assured thanks to bio-gas certificates.

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Audi Installation Solar Hungary

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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Supplies Green Production Hydrogen

MIT researchers advancing development of supercritical water upgrading of heavy crude; lower cost, energy use and CO2

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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MIT Water Energy CO2

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

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At left is a catalyst that selects for carbon dioxide and reduces it to a negatively charged formate, which is pulled through a gas diffusion layer (GDL) and the anion exchange membrane (AEM) into the central electrolyte. The ions recombine into formic acid or other products that are carried out of the system by deionized (DI) water and gas.

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Saudi Arabia CO2 Fuel Water

TotalEnergies and Veolia partner to develop CO2-based microalgae cultivation to produce next-generation biofuels

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JULY 7, 2021

Microalgae use sunlight and CO 2 from the atmosphere or from industrial processes to grow. When mature, they can be transformed into next-generation biofuels with low carbon intensity.

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CO2 2019 France Light

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. —Wang et al.

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Coal CO2 Conversion Convert

Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis is used for hydrogen production. Phase 1: Renewable energy.

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Renewable Fuel CO2 Hydrogen

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

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JUNE 25, 2013

Water and oxygen are the only by-products. Audi notes that its e-gas project transcends the needs of the automobile industry and shows how large amounts of green electricity can be stored efficiently and independently of location by transforming it into methane gas and storing it in the natural gas network.

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Gas-Electric Audi Gas Water

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

Researchers develop titanium and copper heterostructured photocatalyst for conversion of CO2 into CH4

Molten carbonate electrolysis can produce a range of carbon nanomaterials, including graphene, from CO2 at high yield

8 Rivers announces 8RH2 CO2 Convective Reformer for ultra-low carbon hydrogen production from natural gas

ExxonMobil, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab develop new MOF for carbon capture and steam regeneration

SLB introduces low-carbon alternative for well construction cement that eliminates up to 85% of embodied CO2

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

PCC SE and Landsvirkjun to convert silicon metal plant CO2 emissions to methanol

Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

GWU team demonstrates highly scalable, low-cost process for making carbon nanotube wools directly from CO2

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

New highly efficient catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction toward methane

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

New polymer membrane efficiently removes carbon dioxide from mixed gases; high permeability and selectivity

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

H2 Green Steel and BMW Group sign final agreement on delivery of CO2-reduced steel

MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

BMW Group to source lower CO2 aluminum from Rio Tinto in Canada from 2024

Audi in new e-fuels project: synthetic diesel from water, air-captured CO2 and green electricity; “Blue Crude”

Twelve produces first batch of E-Jet fuel from CO2 electrolysis; partnership with USAF; electrifying fuel, not planes

Toyota a winner as CO2 reduction plan introduced to parliament with less pressure on SUVs and utes

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

DOE selects 2 projects to demonstrate feasibility of enhanced water recovery; producing usable water from CO2 storage sites

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

Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

Volvo Cars first car maker to join SteelZero initiative in support of fossil-free steel ambitions

Liquid Wind to partner with Sundsvall Energi on second electrofuel facility; eMethanol for shipping

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

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

EPFL team develops on-board system to capture CO2 from trucks; reducing emissions by 90%

Snam and Saipem sign MoU to work together on green hydrogen development and CO2 capture

Earth-abundant electrocatalysts for the reduction of CO2 to CO

Biofuels- paving the way for low carbon future in mobility – ET Auto

What we don’t admit about carbon dioxide

SOLAR-JET project demonstrates solar-driven thermochemical conversion of CO2 and water to jet fuel

CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

Audi Hungaria starts operation of Europe’s biggest solar roof installation

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

MIT researchers advancing development of supercritical water upgrading of heavy crude; lower cost, energy use and CO2

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

TotalEnergies and Veolia partner to develop CO2-based microalgae cultivation to produce next-generation biofuels

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

Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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

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