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C2CNT process converts flue gas from natural gas power plant into carbon nanotubes

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JULY 29, 2019

On 26 July, the first flue gas from the natural gas power plant, the Shepard Energy Center in Calgary, Canada, was directly transformed by the C2CNT process ( earlier post ) into carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes grown by C2CNT directly from carbon dioxide (SEM and TEM imaging). Left and center. Earlier post.).

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Transform Materials plasma process converts abundant natural gas into high-value hydrogen and acetylene

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Transform Materials has developed a novel and sustainable microwave plasma reactor process to convert natural gas into high-value hydrogen and acetylene, thereby opening up a new pathway for green chemical manufacturing. Acetylene can be then converted into many derivative chemicals, all possessing high value.

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Raven SR and Chart Industries to collaborate on hydrogen and carbon capture

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DECEMBER 23, 2022

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company, and Chart Industries will collaborate globally on the liquefaction, storage, and transportation of hydrogen as well as pure carbon dioxide produced from Raven SR’s non-combustion Steam/CO 2 Reformation process of converting waste to renewable fuel. —Matt Murdock, CEO of Raven SR.

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Oxford spin-out OXCCU raises US$22.8M to transform carbon dioxide into sustainable aviation fuel

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JUNE 15, 2023

OXCCU, a company spun-out from the University of Oxford in 2021 that is focused on converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products ( earlier post ), completed an £18-million (US$22.8 million) Series A financing round.

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LanzaTech, Northwestern, ORNL engineer microbe to convert industrial waste gases to acetone or isopropanol

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have engineered a microbe to convert molecules of industrial waste gases, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, into acetone and isopropanol (IPA). —Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech.

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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. These are important raw materials for the petrochemical industry and are presently also only obtained from fossil crude oil. The final product is usually a crystallized material.

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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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Carbon Recycling International and Johnson Matthey collaborate on sustainable methanol

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Carbon Recycling International (CRI) and Johnson Matthey (JM) have agreed on a long-term exclusive catalyst supply agreement for the use of JM’s KATALCO methanol catalysts in CRI’s Emissions-To-Liquids (ETL) CO 2 -to-methanol plants. Conventional methanol production involves fossil feedstocks such as natural gas or coal.

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UK to award £54M to 15 projects developing innovative carbon removal technology

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JULY 10, 2022

The UK government is awarding £54 million to 15 projects to develop technologies that remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere. The funding comes under Phase 2 of the Direct Air Capture and Greenhouse Gas Removal technologies competition. The carbon dioxide can then be permanently stored or used in various products or applications.

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Researchers use chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Researchers at The Ohio State University have used a chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas—commonly called “sewer gas”. Hydrogen sulfide is emitted from manure piles and sewer pipes and is a key byproduct of industrial activities including refining oil and gas, producing paper and mining.

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Infinium enters strategic alliance with Denbury for ultra-low-carbon electrofuels projects in Texas

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Electrofuels innovator Infinium ( earlier post ) has entered into a strategic alliance with US independent energy company Denbury to collaborate on developing ultra-low carbon electrofuels projects in the state of Texas. Infinium investors include Amazon, NextEra Energy, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and AP Ventures.

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Aemetis signs $3B, 10-year supply agreement for 450M gallons of renewable diesel with industry-leading travel stop company

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DECEMBER 18, 2021

Aemetis, a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products ( earlier post ), has signed a 10-year, 450-million-gallon renewable diesel supply agreement with an industry-leading travel stop company, which is expected to generate more than $3 billion in revenue. The industrial site has 710,000 s.f.

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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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Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction partners with RevoTech on production of hydrogen from waste plastic

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MAY 13, 2021

Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has embarked on the development of technology for producing hydrogen using waste plastic and vinyl. The hydrogenation of waste plastic contributes to resource circulation and carbon neutrality, and the hydrogen produced can be used for fuel cells and hydrogen gas turbines, among other things.

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BASF and RWE proposing 2GW offshore wind farm for green electricity and hydrogen for chemical industry

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MAY 23, 2021

Examples of such technologies are: eCracker: Electrically heated steam cracker furnaces to produce petrochemicals at high temperatures (~850 °C); these temperatures will be reached in the eCracker using electricity instead of natural gas. Methane pyrolysis: Methane pyrolysis uses green electricity to split methane into hydrogen and carbon.

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Haldor Topsoe and Aker Carbon Capture to cooperate on low-carbon hydrogen solutions

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Aker Carbon Capture and Haldor Topsoe have signed a memorandum of understanding with the intention to offer a complete solution for low-carbon hydrogen production. Aker Carbon Capture’s proprietary carbon capture process uses a mixture of water and organic amine solvents to absorb the CO 2.

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European HYFLEXPOWER project to demo first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine

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JUNE 1, 2020

A consortium comprising Engie Solutions, Siemens Gas and Power, Centrax, Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European universities is implementing the HYFLEXPOWER project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement 884229). million, of which €10.5

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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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Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries team up to build ships powered by solid oxide fuel cells running on natural gas

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), a part of Samsung Group, today are collaborating to design and develop ships powered by Bloom Energy’s solid oxide fuel cell technology. SHI aims to be the first shipbuilder to deliver a large cargo ship for ocean operation powered by fuel cells running on natural gas.

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Fraunhofer researchers developing ammonia-based systems for mobile energy in infrastructure, transportation and industry

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM are developing ammonia-based systems for a mobile, decentralized energy supply in the infrastructure, transportation and industry sectors. It can be converted into hydrogen right at the filling station using decentralized plants.

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NNL and DNV partner to explore large-scale nuclear production of hydrogen for UK gas network

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and DNV are partnering to explore the potential of nuclear-derived hydrogen to support the conversion of UK gas networks to hydrogen. This will enable consumers to continue using gas in homes, businesses and industry, in an effective way that is net-zero compliant.

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Bosch to receive €160.7M in funding to support scale-up of solid-oxide fuel cell system production

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JULY 13, 2023

million from the federal government of Germany and the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, and Saarland for its project for the initial industrialization of stationary solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems:“Bosch Power Units”. The heart of the system is the SOFC stack, where chemical energy is converted into electrical energy.

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EU Innovation Fund grants €108M to RWE’s waste-to-hydrogen project FUREC

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JANUARY 21, 2023

As part of the FUREC project, RWE plans to build a pre-treatment plant in Zevenellen, Limburg, to convert non-recyclable municipal solid waste (MSW) into solid recovered fuel pellets. This corresponds to half of the annual domestic gas consumption in Limburg. A final investment decision is to be made in 2024. textiles, paper).

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ARPA-E awarding ~$14.4M to four projects for production of hydrogen and carbon products from methane

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

These project teams will pursue methods to create high-value carbon and hydrogen from methane (four projects, $14.4 The methane cohort teams will focus on industrially scalable ways to produce high quality carbon and hydrogen. High Value, Energy Saving Carbon Products and Clean Hydrogen Gas from Methane, $3,479,624.

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Rio Tinto validates BioIron process for low-carbon iron-making; biomass and microwave energy

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Rio Tinto has shown the effectiveness of a low-carbon iron-making process using ores from its mines in Australia in a small-scale pilot plant in Germany, and is now planning the development of a larger-scale pilot plant to further assess its potential to help decarbonize the steel value chain. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Mitsubishi Heavy and Infinium to collaborate on the production and deployment of electrofuels in Japan

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APRIL 23, 2022

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Infinium, an electrofuels company ( earlier post ). 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.

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DOE BETO to award $61.4M for low-carbon biofuels research to reduce transportation emissions

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APRIL 9, 2021

million for technologies that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. ( BETO is focused on developing technologies that convert domestic biomass and other waste resources (e.g., municipal solid waste, biosolids) into low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts. municipal solid waste, biosolids) into low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts.

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Alcoa outlines technology roadmap to decarbonize aluminum industry

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

outlined a technology roadmap to support its vision to reinvent the aluminum industry for a sustainable future. The Refinery of the Future: Targeting zero-carbon emissions alumina refining. It also allows some specialty aerospace and defense applications to use scrap, which would be a first for those industries. Alcoa Corp.

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BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel production could be made with almost no carbon emissions through $278 billion of extra investment by 2050, according to a new report from research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). Steel is responsible for around 7% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions every year and is one of the world’s most polluting industries.

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A Bamboo Carbon Filter for Diesels Could Reduce Emissions

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Looking to make replacement filters more environmentally friendly and affordable, a team of engineering students from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology , in Dhaka, designed a carbon-based version with bamboo. A carbon-based particulate filter Diesel engines produce more polluting particulate matter than gas engines.

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Aemetis selects Worley to provide engineering for ‘Carbon Zero 1’ renewable jet and diesel production plant

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JUNE 21, 2021

Aemetis awarded an engineering services contract to Worley for the Aemetis ‘Carbon Zero’ renewable jet and diesel plant in Riverbank, California. The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat renewable oils with hydrogen from orchard and forest wood waste. Earlier post.)

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Port of Corpus Christi, Howard announce to convert Javelina refinery services facility to blue hydrogen production

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AUGUST 14, 2021

The Port of Corpus Christi Authority (Port of Corpus Christi) and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC (Howard/HEP) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) stating their intention to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services facility into the region’s first blue hydrogen production facility.

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Mitsubishi Heavy invests in Monolith Materials to support clean hydrogen production

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

has received an investment from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. Olive Creek 1 in Hallam, Nebraska is Monolith Materials’ first commercial-scale emissions-free production facility designed to produce approximately 14,000 metric tons of carbon black annually along with clean hydrogen. Monolith Materials, Inc. Monolith process.

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Steelmaker ArcelorMittal Europe targets 30% cut in carbon emissions by 30% by 2030

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DECEMBER 15, 2019

The target for ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products is in line with an ambition announced in May to be carbon neutral in Europe by 2050. Fossil fuel carbon capture and storage, where the current method of steel production is maintained but the carbon is then captured and stored or re-used rather than emitted into the atmosphere.

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Fraunhofer working on optimized methanol reformers to deliver hydrogen

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MARCH 12, 2022

Methanol reformers convert easy-to-transport methanol into hydrogen. Converting hydrogen into methanol can provide a solution, as not only is methanol much easier to transport than hydrogen, it can also be stored almost unlimited at ambient pressure. The overall carbon footprint is therefore neutral. © Fraunhofer IMM.

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NSF launches $20M engineering research center aimed at converting natural gas into transportation fuels: CISTAR

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing nearly $80 million in four new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) to create novel technology platforms in the fields of living cell-based therapies, personalized heart tissue, point-of-care health systems and fuel derived from shale gas.

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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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LLNL report lays out technology pathways for California to become carbon-neutral and then -negative by 2045; 3 pillars of negative emissions

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have identified a suite of technologies to help California to become carbon-neutral—and ultimately carbon-negative —by 2045. The key finding of this report is that carbon neutrality is achievable. —“Getting to Neutral”.

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Rio Tinto targets low-carbon steel production with new technology; biomass and microwaves

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Rio Tinto is progressing new technology to deliver low-carbon steel, using sustainable biomass in place of coking coal in the steelmaking process, in a potentially cost-effective option to cut industry carbon emissions. —Rio Tinto Iron Ore Chief Executive Simon Trott.

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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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Maritime industry players join forces to realize the decarbonization potential of solid oxide fuel cells

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Alfa Laval, DTU Energy, Haldor Topsoe, Svitzer and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping are entering into a joint project to accelerate the development of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology. Such alternatives are needed in the maritime industry, which must transition to greener power over just a few decades.

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bp plans UK’s largest hydrogen project; 1GW of blue hydrogen

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MARCH 19, 2021

The project would capture and send for storage up to two million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO?) Industries in Teesside account for more than 5% of the UK’s industrial emissions and the region is home to five of the country’s top 25 emitters. —Dev Sanyal, bp’s executive vice president of gas and low carbon energy.

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thyssenkrupp produces ammonia from steel mill gases; Carbon2Chem

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JANUARY 11, 2019

For the first time thyssenkrupp has produced ammonia from steel mill gases, marking the first time in the world that steel mill gases, including the CO 2 they contain, have been converted into ammonia. Our goal is the large-scale industrial use of the technology. —Reinhold Achatz, head of technology at thyssenkrupp.

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bp ventures invests $10M in waste-to-biomethanol company WasteFuel; offtake MoU

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JULY 7, 2023

bp ventures has committed $10 million, leading the Series B investment round, in WasteFuel , a California-based biofuels company that will use proven, scalable technologies to convert bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower carbon fuels, such as biomethanol. billion metric tons by 2050.

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C2CNT process converts flue gas from natural gas power plant into carbon nanotubes

Transform Materials plasma process converts abundant natural gas into high-value hydrogen and acetylene

Raven SR and Chart Industries to collaborate on hydrogen and carbon capture

Oxford spin-out OXCCU raises US$22.8M to transform carbon dioxide into sustainable aviation fuel

LanzaTech, Northwestern, ORNL engineer microbe to convert industrial waste gases to acetone or isopropanol

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

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

Carbon Recycling International and Johnson Matthey collaborate on sustainable methanol

UK to award £54M to 15 projects developing innovative carbon removal technology

Researchers use chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas

Infinium enters strategic alliance with Denbury for ultra-low-carbon electrofuels projects in Texas

Aemetis signs $3B, 10-year supply agreement for 450M gallons of renewable diesel with industry-leading travel stop company

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

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction partners with RevoTech on production of hydrogen from waste plastic

BASF and RWE proposing 2GW offshore wind farm for green electricity and hydrogen for chemical industry

Haldor Topsoe and Aker Carbon Capture to cooperate on low-carbon hydrogen solutions

European HYFLEXPOWER project to demo first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine

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

Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries team up to build ships powered by solid oxide fuel cells running on natural gas

Fraunhofer researchers developing ammonia-based systems for mobile energy in infrastructure, transportation and industry

NNL and DNV partner to explore large-scale nuclear production of hydrogen for UK gas network

Bosch to receive €160.7M in funding to support scale-up of solid-oxide fuel cell system production

EU Innovation Fund grants €108M to RWE’s waste-to-hydrogen project FUREC

ARPA-E awarding ~$14.4M to four projects for production of hydrogen and carbon products from methane

Rio Tinto validates BioIron process for low-carbon iron-making; biomass and microwave energy

Mitsubishi Heavy and Infinium to collaborate on the production and deployment of electrofuels in Japan

DOE BETO to award $61.4M for low-carbon biofuels research to reduce transportation emissions

Alcoa outlines technology roadmap to decarbonize aluminum industry

BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

A Bamboo Carbon Filter for Diesels Could Reduce Emissions

Aemetis selects Worley to provide engineering for ‘Carbon Zero 1’ renewable jet and diesel production plant

Port of Corpus Christi, Howard announce to convert Javelina refinery services facility to blue hydrogen production

Mitsubishi Heavy invests in Monolith Materials to support clean hydrogen production

Steelmaker ArcelorMittal Europe targets 30% cut in carbon emissions by 30% by 2030

Fraunhofer working on optimized methanol reformers to deliver hydrogen

NSF launches $20M engineering research center aimed at converting natural gas into transportation fuels: CISTAR

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

LLNL report lays out technology pathways for California to become carbon-neutral and then -negative by 2045; 3 pillars of negative emissions

Rio Tinto targets low-carbon steel production with new technology; biomass and microwaves

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

Maritime industry players join forces to realize the decarbonization potential of solid oxide fuel cells

bp plans UK’s largest hydrogen project; 1GW of blue hydrogen

thyssenkrupp produces ammonia from steel mill gases; Carbon2Chem

bp ventures invests $10M in waste-to-biomethanol company WasteFuel; offtake MoU

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