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Stanford researchers make ammonia from air and water microdroplets

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MAY 1, 2023

Stanford researchers, with a colleague from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, have developed a simple and environmentally sound way to make ammonia with tiny droplets of water and nitrogen from the air. This gas–liquid–solid heterogeneous catalytic system synthesizes ammonia in 0.2 —Song et al. Song et al.

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Berkeley researchers propose salted biomass as scalable, economical and stable carbon capture and storage solution

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MAY 7, 2023

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, are proposing burying salted biomass in a dry environment within an engineered biolandfill as a solution to sequester carbon that has been photosynthetically fixed by cultivated plants. This is measured by “water activity,” a quantity similar to relative humidity.

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Carbon Water Climate Gas-Electric

Ontario researchers develop new water plasmolysis method for production of hydrogen

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JANUARY 1, 2020

Researchers at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology are developing a new method to dissociate water vapor into hydrogen gas by microwave-generated plasma (plasmolysis). The generation of pure hydrogen gas requires a great deal of energy. A paper on their work appears in the journal Fuel. (A) 2019.116831.

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Water Hydrogen Production Gas-Electric

Molten carbonate electrolysis can produce a range of carbon nanomaterials, including graphene, from CO2 at high yield

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and George Washington University in the US report in a new paper in the ACS journal Accounts of Chemical Research that a range of important carbon nanomaterials can be produced at high yield by molten carbonate electrolysis. Source: Prof.

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UK awards £28M for 5 demonstration-phase low-carbon hydrogen production projects

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

As part of a larger £90 million (US$117 million) package of awards to cut carbon emissions in industry and homes, the UK is awarding £28 million (US$36.5 million) to five demonstration phase projects for low-carbon hydrogen production. HyNet – low carbon hydrogen plant. Contract value: £3.12 million (US$4.1

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Hydrogen Carbon Production Wind

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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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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JULY 15, 2020

million in funding for 12 projects as part of Phase 1 of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E’s) FLExible Carbon Capture and Storage (FLECCS) program. The team will use gas or liquid buffering tanks and tight thermal integration between the air separation unit and the oxy-combustion turbine. 8 Rivers Capital.

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UBC thermal methane cracking technology deployed to Alberta in $7M test

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

New hydrogen production technology developed at the University of British Columbia (UBC) will be tested in a $7-million project between UBC, the government of Alberta and Alberta utility company ATCO. The team will test their system at a facility in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, run by ATCO, Alberta’s largest natural gas distributor.

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Hydrogen Water Gas-Electric Gas

DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Enabling Production of Low Carbon Emissions Steel Through CO 2 Capture from Blast Furnace Gases.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas

Hyundai Motor Group, Aramco and KAUST collaborate on new e-fuel for novel combustion system

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MARCH 30, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group will collaborate with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) jointly to research and develop an advanced fuel for an ultra lean-burn, spark-ignition engine that aims to lower the overall carbon dioxide emissions of a vehicle.

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WSU, GTI system uses electrochemical reforming of ethanol for compressed hydrogen production; CAPER

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JUNE 12, 2022

A team from Washington State University (WSU) and the Gas Technology Institute have used an ethanol and water mixture and a small amount of electricity in an electrochemical conversion system to produce pure compressed hydrogen. Without using a membrane, the only gas-phase species is H2. —Kee et al.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Production Water Gas-Electric

New highly efficient catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction toward methane

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Researchers at the University of Michigan, McGill University and McMaster University have developed a binary copper?iron The researchers think that it could be recycling smokestack carbon dioxide into clean-burning fuel within 5-10 years. Thirty percent of the energy in the US comes from natural gas.

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CO2 Carbon Solar Hydrogen

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. Activated carbon granules in an absorption chamber and metallic mesh form the filters, Afrin says.

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Carbon Diesel Emissions Bangladesh

FortisBC, Suncor, Hazer to pilot methane pyrolysis for hydrogen production with graphite byproduct

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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. The Fund supports projects that can advance innovative solutions for industry greenhouse gas emissions, like renewable and low carbon gases.

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Researchers propose using AC and ventilation systems for decentralized production of carbon-neutral synthetic fuels

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MAY 5, 2019

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Toronto have proposed a method enabling air conditioning and ventilation systems to produce synthetic fuels from CO 2 and water from the ambient air. This electricity must be CO 2 -free, i.e. it must not come from fossil sources.

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Carbon Fuel Production Kits

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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Successful demonstration of FlexMethanol conversion of wind power to methanol

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JUNE 11, 2020

In Germany, BSE Engineering and the Institute for Renewable Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have demonstrated the conversion of wind power into renewable methanol. The team uses green electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen in an electrolysis step. FlexMethanol.

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Wind Conversion Powered Power

DOE awarding ~$44M to seven carbon capture projects

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FEBRUARY 17, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has selected seven projects to receive approximately $44 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development through the funding opportunity announcement, Design and Testing of Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies. Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

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C-Zero raises $11.5M Series A to produce clean hydrogen from natural gas via methane pyrolysis

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

a pioneer in natural gas decarbonization, recently raised $11.5 C-Zero’s technology, which was initially developed at the University of California, Santa Barbara, uses innovative thermocatalysis to split methane into hydrogen and solid carbon in a process known as methane pyrolysis. C-Zero Inc., cal/mol H 2 ) is slightly (.

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Hydrogen Gas Clean Cleaning

DOE announces approximately $64M in funding for 18 projects to advance H2@Scale

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JULY 21, 2020

The projects will feature collaborations with EERE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office on manufacturing reliable and affordable electrolyzers and with EERE’s Vehicle Technologies Office on developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber for hydrogen storage tanks. Carbon Composite Optimization Reducing Tank Cost. University of Kentucky.

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Carbon Fiber Hydrogen Low Cost Polymer

GWU team demonstrates highly scalable, low-cost process for making carbon nanotube wools directly from CO2

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JULY 19, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht have demonstrated the first facile high-yield, low-energy synthesis of macroscopic length carbon nanotubes (CNTs)—carbon nanotube wool—from CO 2 using molten carbonate electrolysis ( earlier post ). The physical properties, such as the.

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Low Cost Carbon CO2 Solar

UW Madison chemists discover new way to harness energy from ammonia

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels. This process can be harnessed to produce electricity, with protons and nitrogen gas as byproducts.

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Energy Wisconsin Hydrogen Gas-Electric

Researchers provide insight into OER electrocatalyst

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JANUARY 10, 2021

Researchers from Oregon State University College of Engineering, with colleagues from Cornell University and the Argonne National Laboratory, have used advanced experimental tools to provide a clearer understanding of an electrochemical catalytic process that’s cleaner and more sustainable than deriving hydrogen from natural gas.

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Insight Oregon Hydrogen Water

Nanodiamonds enable efficient hydrogen purification

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Graphene oxide (GO), a water-soluble derivative of graphite, can be assembled to form a membrane that can be used for hydrogen purification. Hydrogen gas easily passes through these filters, while larger molecules get stuck. But we need to have the right membrane materials to make it work. —Dr Behnam Ghalei.

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Hydrogen Taiwan Lithium Ion Water

GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

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APRIL 9, 2018

Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. Stronger, more stress resistant & cheaper by weight than steel, C2CNT carbon nanotubes avoids > 160 ton CO 2 per ton steel replaced.

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Insight into benzene formation could help development of cleaner combustion engines

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JUNE 10, 2021

The researchers say that their findings, recently published in an open-access paper in the journal Science Advances , are key to understanding how the universe evolved with the growth of carbon compounds. That insight could also help the car industry make cleaner combustion engines. PAHs have a dark side, too.

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Cleaner Insight Engine Hawaii

U Toronto and Fujitsu team use quantum-inspired computing to discover improved catalyst for hydrogen production

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and Fujitsu have applied quantum-inspired computing to find the promising, previously unexplored chemical family of Ru-Cr-Mn-Sb-O 2 as acidic oxygen evolution reaction catalysts for hydrogen production. —Ted Sargent, senior author.

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Hydrogen Production Store Design

Ethanol-fueled solid oxide fuel cells with HEA internal reforming catalyst for transportation applications

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AUGUST 27, 2023

Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Connecticut have demonstrated high-performance metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells (MS-SOFC) with an integrated high entropy alloy (HEA) internal reforming catalyst (IRC) for transportation applications using ethanol and methanol as fuels.

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Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

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MAY 11, 2020

Researchers at Monash University in Australia are proposing a roadmap to renewable ammonia being produced in the future at a scale that is significant in terms of global fossil fuel use. of global greenhouse gas emissions (or about 1.4% Carbon sequestration adds cost and plant complexity on top of the existing H-B technology.

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Renewable Economy Hydrogen Water

Researchers demonstrate electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from air and water under mild conditions

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Researchers from the University of Strathclyde and the University of St. In addition to providing a less carbon-intensive pathway for ammonia, their process could also reduce the pressure on renewable energy storage, they note. Natural gas or coal is used as the energy source of the ammonia industry. —Lan et al.

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Water 2010 Energy Storage Mariner

U Tokyo team demonstrates H2 production by steam electrolysis in SAECs at intermediate temps

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

A team at the University of Tokyo has demonstrated steam electrolysis using a solid acid electrolysis cell (SAEC) for the production of hydrogen. According to thermodynamics, enthalpy change of the water electrolysis reaction (H 2 O ? H) can be satisfied by electrical energy (?G) Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem.

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New membrane technology for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture begins pilot-scale test

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JANUARY 27, 2015

A new carbon capture technology sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for economically capturing 90% of the carbon dioxide emitted from a coal-burning power plant has begun pilot-scale testing. The Polaris system is 10 times more permeable to CO 2 than conventional gas-separation membranes.

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Carbon Illinois Coal Gas-Electric

Stanford GCEP awards $6.6M to 7 projects; focus on combining energy conversion with carbon-neutral fuel production

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MARCH 13, 2013

million to seven research teams—six from Stanford and one from Carnegie Mellon University—to advance research on technologies for renewable energy conversion to electricity or fuels and for capturing CO 2 emissions and converting CO 2 to fuels. Advanced water-splitting.

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Conversion Carbon Fuel Energy

Researchers develop large-scale, economical method to extract hydrogen from oil sands and oil fields

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AUGUST 20, 2019

This can be used to power hydrogen-powered vehicles, which are already marketed in some countries, as well as to generate electricity. This heat causes the nearby hydrocarbons—and any surrounding water molecules—to break apart (thermolysis).Thermolysis, Eventually, oxidation temperatures exceed 500°C. —Grant Strem.

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Oil-Sands Oil Hydrogen Venezuela

SoCalGas introduces STARS solar hydrogen generation system at California Air Resources Board Symposium

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MAY 18, 2018

Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) introduced an innovative new solar-powered hydrogen generation system during the California Air Resources Board Technology Expo and Symposium at the University of California, Riverside. These chemicals trap and use the carbon that would otherwise be emitted. Earlier post.).

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Hydrogen Solar California San Diego

China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far. Besides being a symbol for President Xi Jinping’s ambitious goal of China being carbon neutral by 2060 , the 2022 games should drive sustainable development in the region.

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Carbon China Wind North America

Rolls-Royce supports power-to-x initiative in Brandenburg; synthetic fuels and chemicals from renewable power

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Rolls-Royce intends to support research into green fuels in the Lausitz region of eastern Germany together with the State of Brandenburg, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus and other industrial partners. Synthetic fuels are a decisive factor in energy transition and the use of renewable energies.

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Power Powered Renewable Fuel

Energy researchers: clean US hydrogen economy is within reach, but needs a game plan

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. Ravi Prasher is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was one of the first program directors at ARPA-E.

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Hydrogen Economy Clean Cleaning

Graz researchers develop cost-effective chemical looping process for decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen

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MAY 28, 2020

Hydrogen researchers at Graz University of Technology (Austria), together with the Graz-based start-up Rouge H2 Engineering , have developed a cost-effective process for the decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen using chemical looping. Hydrogen is produced by converting biogas, biomass or natural gas into a syngas.

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Hydrogen Production Store Gas-Electric

Monash study on solar-driven electrolysis for green hydrogen production cautions on life-cycle emissions and EROI

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have conducted a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a hypothetical large-scale solar-electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. of hydrogen is currently produced via water electrolysis and only a fraction of this production is powered by renewable energy.

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Solar Hydrogen Emissions Production

Researchers convert atmospheric CO2 to carbon nanofibers and nanotubes for use as anodes in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. —Stuart Licht. —Licht et al.

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Li-ion Carbon Convert Sodium

ARPA-E awarding $33M to 10 projects for natural gas pipeline retrofitting: REPAIR

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AUGUST 7, 2020

REPAIR teams will develop natural gas transmission pipeline retrofitting technology to rehabilitate existing cast iron and bare steel pipes by creating new, robust pipes inside of old ones. Natural gas is a crucial energy source for 75 million American households and businesses. University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Gas Gas-Electric Universal Colorado

DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

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JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. Gas Technology Institute. DOE Investment: $988,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $828,000. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.

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Coal Carbon Gas-Electric Gas

Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis is used for hydrogen production. Phase 1: Renewable energy.

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Renewable Fuel CO2 Hydrogen

Stanford researchers make ammonia from air and water microdroplets

Berkeley researchers propose salted biomass as scalable, economical and stable carbon capture and storage solution

Ontario researchers develop new water plasmolysis method for production of hydrogen

Molten carbonate electrolysis can produce a range of carbon nanomaterials, including graphene, from CO2 at high yield

UK awards £28M for 5 demonstration-phase low-carbon hydrogen production projects

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

DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

UBC thermal methane cracking technology deployed to Alberta in $7M test

DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

Hyundai Motor Group, Aramco and KAUST collaborate on new e-fuel for novel combustion system

WSU, GTI system uses electrochemical reforming of ethanol for compressed hydrogen production; CAPER

New highly efficient catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction toward methane

A Bamboo Carbon Filter for Diesels Could Reduce Emissions

FortisBC, Suncor, Hazer to pilot methane pyrolysis for hydrogen production with graphite byproduct

Researchers propose using AC and ventilation systems for decentralized production of carbon-neutral synthetic fuels

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

Successful demonstration of FlexMethanol conversion of wind power to methanol

DOE awarding ~$44M to seven carbon capture projects

C-Zero raises $11.5M Series A to produce clean hydrogen from natural gas via methane pyrolysis

DOE announces approximately $64M in funding for 18 projects to advance H2@Scale

GWU team demonstrates highly scalable, low-cost process for making carbon nanotube wools directly from CO2

UW Madison chemists discover new way to harness energy from ammonia

Researchers provide insight into OER electrocatalyst

Nanodiamonds enable efficient hydrogen purification

GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

Insight into benzene formation could help development of cleaner combustion engines

U Toronto and Fujitsu team use quantum-inspired computing to discover improved catalyst for hydrogen production

Ethanol-fueled solid oxide fuel cells with HEA internal reforming catalyst for transportation applications

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

Researchers demonstrate electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from air and water under mild conditions

U Tokyo team demonstrates H2 production by steam electrolysis in SAECs at intermediate temps

New membrane technology for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture begins pilot-scale test

Stanford GCEP awards $6.6M to 7 projects; focus on combining energy conversion with carbon-neutral fuel production

Researchers develop large-scale, economical method to extract hydrogen from oil sands and oil fields

SoCalGas introduces STARS solar hydrogen generation system at California Air Resources Board Symposium

China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

Rolls-Royce supports power-to-x initiative in Brandenburg; synthetic fuels and chemicals from renewable power

Energy researchers: clean US hydrogen economy is within reach, but needs a game plan

Graz researchers develop cost-effective chemical looping process for decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen

Monash study on solar-driven electrolysis for green hydrogen production cautions on life-cycle emissions and EROI

Researchers convert atmospheric CO2 to carbon nanofibers and nanotubes for use as anodes in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries

ARPA-E awarding $33M to 10 projects for natural gas pipeline retrofitting: REPAIR

DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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