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DOE awards $2.2M to Rio Tinto-led team to explore carbon mineralization at Tamarack nickel project

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million of funding to a Rio Tinto-led team to explore carbon storage potential at the Tamarack nickel joint venture in central Minnesota. Rio Tinto has assembled a team of climate innovation and research leaders to explore new approaches in carbon mineralization technology as a way to store carbon as rock safely and permanently.

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Researchers develop dual cellular-heterogeneous catalyst technology to produce olefins from plant sugar

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A team of researchers from the US NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has demonstrated the use of a dual cellular–heterogeneous catalytic strategy to produce olefins from glucose. Wang et al. —Paul Dauenhauer, co-author.

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Sustainable Rail International, U of Minnesota partner to develop most powerful carbon-neutral locomotive, using new steam engine and biocoal

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Biocoal exhibits the same energy density and material handling properties as coal, but unlike coal, it is carbon-neutral, contains no heavy metals, and produces less ash, smoke and volatile off-gases. The locomotive will run on torrefied biomass (biocoal), a biofuel created through an energy-efficient processing of cellulosic biomass.

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New technology for simpler, more efficient production of “stubborn” metal and metal oxide thin films

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“Stubborn” metals, however—which include elements such as platinum, iridium, ruthenium, and tungsten, among others—are very difficult to convert into thin films because they require extremely high temperatures (usually more than 2,000 degrees Celsius) to evaporate. —William Nunn, first author.

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DOE awarding up to $13.4M for 5 projects for advanced biofuels and bioproducts

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These products not only will help reduce carbon emissions, but also advance the department’s work to enable the production of drop-in biofuel at $3 per gallon by 2022. This dicarboxylic acid can be converted into an array of bioproducts, including fuel, plasticizers, and lubricants. Earlier post.).

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Review of approaches to engineer microbes to produce advanced biofuels

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Larry Wackett, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, has a paper in press in the journal Current Opinion in Biotechnology reviewing approaches to engineering microbes to produce advanced biofuels, including renewable hydrocarbons. Earlier post.).

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DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $35 million to 15 research projects through ARPA-E’s “Energy and Carbon Optimized Synthesis for the Bioeconomy” (ECOSynBio) program to decarbonize biorefining processes used across the energy, transportation, and agriculture sectors. Carbon-Negative Chemical Production Platform - $4,160,262.57.

Carbon 303