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JULY 5, 2022

Suncor Energy and Australia-based Hazer Group Limited will use Hazer’s innovative methane pyrolysis technology for the first time in North America to produce hydrogen from natural gas. If the pilot continues as a full commercial build out, the project would be expected to produce up to 2,500 tonnes of hydrogen per year.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The STEAG power station in Duisburg-Walsum, the site for the construction of a large-scale green hydrogen generation system. ©euroluftbild.de/Hans They endorse the development of a hydrogen economy and infrastructure in Germany and in Europe. At its core, our climate transformation is based on the use of hydrogen.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The decisive factor for the switch to battery-electric vehicles is the energy cost advantage compared to hydrogen and diesel. Electricity and hydrogen are the two key energy carriers for a low-carbon future, and hydrogen will play a vital role in industry, shipping and synthetic aviation fuels. Plötz (2022).

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MARCH 27, 2023

BHP has signed an agreement for piloting of carbon capture and utilization technology with China’s HBIS Group Co., As part of this new project, HBIS and BHP will trial pilot-scale demonstrations of carbon capture and utilization technologies at HBIS’ steel operations in China.

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JUNE 8, 2021

CMAL) to partner in designing a hydrogen fuel-cell sea-going passenger and car ferry—a first for Europe. along with associated hydrogen storage and bunkering arrangements. along with associated hydrogen storage and bunkering arrangements. Hydrogen storage and piping. Source: HYSEAS III. Lithium-ion batteries.

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JULY 11, 2022

The German energy company EWE and its subsidiary swb AG have awarded the contract for the construction of an electrolysis plant for decarbonization of the ArcelorMittal steelworks in Bremen to the APEX Group in Rostock/Laage. The APEX Group will be the heart of the project—a 10 MW electrolysis plant for hydrogen production.

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JUNE 27, 2022

A group of leading German companies along with Australia’s Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) has released a green hydrogen roadmap, outlining a set of recommendations for government and industry, to meet the ambitious target of importing large amounts of green hydrogen from Australia to Germany. Source: RMI analysis).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser AS, a division of Nel ASA, has received a purchase order for a 20MW alkaline water electrolyzer from Ovako , a leading European manufacturer of engineering steel. The fossil-free hydrogen will replace the use of fossil propane gas currently used in the heating furnaces. —Jon André Løkke, CEO at Nel.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. We distinguished ammonium carbamate pairs and a mix of ammonium carbamate and carbamic acid during carbon dioxide chemisorption.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the IAA Summit in Munich, HIF Global, together with Porsche AG, Volkswagen Group Innovation and MAN Energy Solutions, announced the development and installation of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) unit at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration facility in southern Chile in 2024. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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MAY 21, 2020

Energy company SGH2 is bringing the world’s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster, California. SGH2’s gasification process uses a plasma-enhanced thermal catalytic conversion process optimized with oxygen-enriched gas.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

through its subsidiary dedicated to the deployment of technologies for the energy transition, NextChem , signed today a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support the production of green hydrogen via electrolysis in the United States. (EGPNA), and Maire Tecnimont S.p.A., —Salvatore Bernabei, CEO of Enel Green Power.

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MARCH 31, 2019

To permanently reduce CO 2 emissions, steelmaker ArcelorMittal has developed a low-emissions technology strategy, which targets not only the use of alternative feedstocks and the conversion of CO 2 emissions, but also the direct avoidance of carbon (Carbon Direct Avoidance, CDA). A pilot plant is to be built in the coming years.

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APRIL 19, 2022

Mexico-based global construction materials company CEMEX is partnering with integrated chemicals and energy company Sasol ecoFT and renewable energy company ENERTRAG to combine CO 2 with hydrogen to produce sustainable aviation fuel. The consortium will source green hydrogen generated exclusively from wind and solar energy from ENERTRAG.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Groupe Renault is creating the REFACTORY in Flins, the first European circular economy site dedicated to mobility. The ReFactory aims to achieve a negative carbon balance by 2030—an objective in line with the Group’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality in Europe by 2050.

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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).

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MAY 18, 2020

student of the Graduate School of Science, have shown that the catalyst formate dehydrogenase reduces carbon dioxide directly to formic acid. The development of an effective catalyst is an important step in creating an artificial photosynthesis system that uses sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into organic molecules.

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JULY 2, 2017

Department of Energy (DOE) grant to continue their research in developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber. The center’s Carbon Materials Technologies Group received the award for a project titled “Precursor Processing Development for Low Cost, High Strength Carbon Fiber for Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel Applications.”

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

million in funding for projects focused on producing cost-effective, low-carbon biofuels. The 22 selected projects fall into five topic areas for the “Bioenergy Technologies Office Scale-Up and Conversion” funding opportunity ( earlier post ): Scale-Up of Biotechnologies. Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Researchers from Osaka University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept for a novel molecular hydrogen production method that bypasses the need for expensive purification steps. They developed a system where hydrogen is separated and stored in liquid organic hydrogen carriers by catalysis of triaryl boranes in one seamless process.

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JUNE 17, 2021

TotalEnergies R&D program on Carbon Capture and Utilization is developing approaches for the economically viable reuse of CO 2 which is in line with the climate ambition of the company. As a result, the system requires significantly less electricity to produce one kilogram of hydrogen.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Enerkem, with a group of strategic partners including major investor Shell, along with Suncor and Proman, and Hydro-Québec supplying green hydrogen and oxygen, and with the support of the Québec and Canadian governments, is proposing the construction of a biofuel plant in Varennes, in the Greater Montréal area.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

To demonstrate the utility of this synthetic route to prepare catalytically active TMC NPs, we evaluated the thermochemical CO 2 hydrogenation performance of ?-MoC x NPs dispersed on an inert carbon support. Basically we’re turning the carbon dioxide from carbon oxygen bonds to carbon hydrogen bonds.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Project AIR —an industrial concept to produce methanol from a large variety of recovered end-of-life streams and hydrogen from electrolysis—has been awarded approximately €30 million by the Swedish Energy Agency, and is now applying for EU Innovation Fund to realize the project.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Electra has raised $85 million to produce Low-Temperature Iron (LTI) from commercial and low-grade ores using zero-carbon intermittent electricity. Electra’s process emits zero carbon dioxide emissions and carries zero green premium, meaning it will cost the same or less than existing production methods powered by fossil fuels.

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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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APRIL 23, 2022

Infinium electrofuels are classified as ultra-low carbon fuels because they reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 97% when compared to traditional jet and diesel fuels. Infinium utilizes waste CO 2 and hydrogen, which are converted to synthetic gas using Infinium’s proprietary, patented CO2Cat catalyst.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner. —Dr Wang.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Hyundai Motor committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2045 and continues to make efforts to reduce carbon in all areas of the value chain. Hyundai Motor Company is showcasing future technologies from across Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) at CES 2024 in Las Vegas from January 9–12.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Chen’s group developed the process to produce alkanes and aromatics in the jet fuel range by microwave-induced pyrolysis of intact biomass (Douglas fir) integrated with hydrotreating upgrading of pyrolysis oil. However, high hydrogen gas consumption and severe reaction conditions were needed in this process. Biphasic catalysis (i.e.,

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

—Felix Ortloff, Head of the Process Engineering group of the DVGW Research Centre at KIT’s Engler-Bunte Institute (EBI). A synthesis gas consisting mainly of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide is produced by biomass gasification. Then, the hydrogen reacts with carbon dioxide to synthetic methane.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Swiss marine power company WinGD and Belgian shipping and cleantech group CMB.TECH have signed an agreement on the development of ammonia-fueled two-stroke engines. CMB.TECH has significant insight into alternative fuels and builds, designs, owns and operates large marine and industrial applications that run on hydrogen and ammonia.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

reduced by 100% fossil-free hydrogen instead of coal and coke—in July. That steel is now being delivered to the first customer, the Volvo Group. This process virtually eliminates carbon dioxide-emissions in steelmaking. SSAB Oxelösund rolled its first steel produced using HYBRIT technology—i.e.,

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MARCH 14, 2014

Their work, reported in the journal Science , uses main-group metals such as thallium and lead to oxidize methane and the other alkanes contained in natural gas (ethane and propane) to liquid alcohols at about 180 °C instead of the more than 500 °C used in current processes, said SRI Professor Roy Periana, who led the research.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Furthermore, in order to secure leadership in the future mobility industry, it has decided to focus on future businesses, such as autonomous driving, hydrogen, robotics and advanced air mobility (AAM). The aforementioned Hyundai Motor Group-Seoul National University Joint R&D Center is conducting research on next-generation batteries.

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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. The researchers’ calculations show that a truck using 1 kg of conventional fuel could produce 3kg of liquid CO 2 , and that the conversion does not involve any energy penalty.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Energy Conversion and Coal Research and from the research group Photobiotechnology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered a way of increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production in microalgae by a factor of five by using a combined metabolic engineering approach.

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