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

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RWE's FUREC project, which aims to produce circular and green hydrogen from non-recyclable municipal solid waste in Limburg, the Netherlands, received a €108-million grant from the EU’s Innovation Fund. A final investment decision is to be made in 2024. textiles, paper). This will save around 400,000 tonnes of CO 2 per year.

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ABS grants Alfa Laval the marine industry’s first approval in principle (AIP) for firing boilers with methanol

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Maritime classification society the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has granted Alfa Laval the first marine approval for operating boilers on methanol. Methanol, which is liquid at ambient temperatures and carbon-neutral if produced from green sources, is a likely next fuel step in decarbonizing the marine industry.

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RecycLiCo and Nanoramic Laboratories partner for lithium-ion battery recycling

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The collaboration aims to attain mutual recognition of the future integration of Nanoramic and RecycLiCo technologies in commercial operations. Nanoramic Laboratories was spun out of MIT in 2009; Nanoramic’s licensing business model is backed by 14 years of research with more than 200 patents granted and pending.

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DOE awards Texas A&M AgriLife Research $2.2M to investigate ways to market bio waste from biofuel refineries

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million grant to researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife Research to investigate potential discoveries for waste products used in lignocellulosic biofuel production, turning them into valuable agents used in producing commercial products such as biodiesel and asphalt binding agents. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a $2.2-million

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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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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. Source: “Getting to Neutral”. —“Getting to Neutral”.

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

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Given the biogenic carbon capture of crops, Ethanol as a fuel has a much lower environmental impact than the traditional fossil fuels. The emissions further drop to ~70% if we consider 2G ethanol which is produced using farm waste. India has already started setting up 2G plants, which use crop waste for ethanol production.

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Velocys partners with PQ for FT catalyst manufacturing; secures funding for UK waste-to-jet project

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UK waste-to-jet-fuel project. million) of funding has been secured to deliver the next development phase of the waste-to-sustainable jet fuel project that it is developing in the UK. This would contribute to both carbon emissions reductions and local air quality improvements around major airports. million (US$6.5

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