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DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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The US Department of Energy has selected six projects for funding that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. cement manufacturing plant in San Antonio, Texas. DOE Share: $25,000,000).

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CSIRO joins US sCO2-based power generation project STEP demo

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The STEP project seeks to demonstrate power generation plants enabled by supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2 ) technology that can offer dramatically improved efficiencies, economics, and environmental performance, and can play an important role as low-carbon energy evolves. Operational start-up is anticipated next year.

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DOE awarding up to $80M for supercritical CO2 pilot plant

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $80 million for a six-year project to design, build, and operate a 10-MWe (megawatts electrical) supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2 ) pilot plant test facility in San Antonio, TX. Drawing of sCO 2 plant. Click to enlarge. Higher plant efficiency.

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Ensyn granted EPA Part 79 approval for renewable gasoline

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RFO is the output of Ensyn’s patented RTP (rapid thermal processing) technology—a processing system that uses heat to thermally crack carbon-based non-food solid biomass feedstocks (including wood residues) into high yields of a higher-value liquid product.

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Ensyn receives EPA regulatory approval for its cellulosic renewable diesel RFDiesel

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RFO is the output of Ensyn’s patented RTP (rapid thermal processing) technology—a processing system that uses heat to thermally crack carbon-based feedstocks such as wood biomass (cellulose, lignin) into high yields of a higher-value liquid product.

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SwRI, UTSA seek to combine reverse water-gas shift and Fischer Tropsch synthesis in single reactor to produce low-carbon hydrocarbon fuels

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Southwest Research Institute and The University of Texas at San Antonio (USTA) are collaborating to combine two catalytic processes into a single reactor, with the overall goal of recycling carbon from COCO 2 2 to produce low-cost hydrocarbon fuels.

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