Carbon and San Antonio

UTSA, SwRI collaborate to make more efficient storage materials for hydrogen

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AUGUST 3, 2022

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute are collaborating to improve storage materials for hydrogen fuels with a hybrid metal-carbon microstructure that combines both chemical and physical hydrogen storage mechanisms.

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Hydrogen San Antonio Store Grant

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

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AUGUST 14, 2021

According to the MOU, Howard intends to capture its carbon emissions at Javelina, avoiding atmospheric release which contributes to global warming. The company has corporate offices in San Antonio, Houston and Monterrey, Mexico.

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San Antonio Hydrogen Convert Mexico

Diamond Green Diesel to boost renewable diesel capacity to 1.2B gallons/year; $1.45B expansion project

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We expect low-carbon fuel policies to continue to expand globally and drive demand for renewable fuels, and to that end, we are applying our liquid fuels expertise to continue to expand our long-term competitive advantage in low-carbon transportation fuels with the expansion of DGD. The current estimated construction cost is $1.45

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Diesel Renewable Green San Antonio

Skyonic awards $117M construction contract to Toyo-Thai-USA for commercial-scale carbon capture and utilization plant

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AUGUST 18, 2013

Skyonic Corporation, developer of the SkyMine mineralization process which can serve as a potential replacement for existing scrubber technology ( earlier post ), recently awarded the $117M construction contract for the Capitol SkyMine plant in San Antonio, Texas, to Toyo-Thai-USA Corporation (TTUS).

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USA San Antonio Carbon Commercial

Huntington Ingalls delivers 900-ton carbon composite deckhouse for new destroyer

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

The deckhouse, according to the company, is one of the largest carbon composite structures yet built. The deckhouse and hangar take full advantage of the properties of carbon fiber materials and balsa wood cores. The same facility also builds composite masts for the Navy’s San Antonio (LPD 17) class of amphibious ships.

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Carbon San Antonio Carbon Fiber Mariner

CSIRO joins US sCO2-based power generation project STEP demo

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

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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Power Powered San Antonio Solar

Texas utility signs first US Power Purchase Agreement for low-emissions electricity from commercial-scale coal-fired power plant with carbon capture

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JANUARY 18, 2012

CPS Energy of San Antonio has signed a Power Purchase Agreement for approximately 200 MW of power from the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP), located just west of Midland-Odessa. The agreement marks the first US purchase by a utility of low-carbon power from a commercial-scale, coal-based power plant utilizing carbon capture.

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Coal Texas Purchase Carbon

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

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

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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CO2 San Antonio Carbon Gas-Electric

Juniper GTL to invest $100M to retrofit plant to new small-scale GTL facility in Louisiana

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

The company is in the business of owning and operating mid-scale energy facilities (XTLH refineries) that convert a wide range of low-cost, carbon-rich feedstock into fuels. SGC Energia SA is Portuguese company with its North American headquarters in Houston.

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Louisiana San Antonio Houston 2013

CRC ACES Phase 2 report finds emissions from modern heavy-duty diesels well below required levels

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

Emissions of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons were also significantly below required 2010 levels: 97% and more than 99.9%, respectively. The Phase 2 ACES study was conducted by the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, under the oversight of the CRC.

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Diesel Emissions 2004 San Antonio

Texas study finds PHEV use could increase ozone at night, decrease ozone during the day

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APRIL 22, 2011

The team modeled the air quality impacts of replacing approximately 20% of the gasoline-powered light duty vehicle miles traveled (VMT) with electric VMT by the year 2018 for four major cities in Texas: Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. The results are less clear in Dallas and Houston.

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Ozone PHEV Texas San Antonio

Ensyn granted EPA Part 79 approval for renewable gasoline

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

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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Gasoline Renewable Grant Parts

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

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JULY 22, 2010

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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Conversion CO2 San Antonio Carbon

OnStar and Google demonstrate concept service for managing charging Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Demonstrations are taking place this week at the 2012 DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio. With this in mind, it would be possible for customers to use OnStar’s Smart Grid solutions to further reduce their carbon footprint and save money by charging during these off-peak times.

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Volt Google Renewable Chevrolet

Ensyn receives EPA regulatory approval for its cellulosic renewable diesel RFDiesel

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

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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Renewable Diesel Oil-Sands EPA

Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

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JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

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Coal Texas Oil CO2

Atomic cobalt on nitrogen-doped graphene catalyst shows promise to replace platinum for hydrogen production

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Houston have developed a robust, solid-state catalyst that shows promise to replace expensive platinum for hydrogen generation. No question, [platinum-carbon materials] are the best.

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Hydrogen San Antonio Production Houston

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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AUGUST 12, 2021

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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Water Carbon Gas San Antonio

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UTSA, SwRI collaborate to make more efficient storage materials for hydrogen

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

Diamond Green Diesel to boost renewable diesel capacity to 1.2B gallons/year; $1.45B expansion project

Skyonic awards $117M construction contract to Toyo-Thai-USA for commercial-scale carbon capture and utilization plant

Huntington Ingalls delivers 900-ton carbon composite deckhouse for new destroyer

CSIRO joins US sCO2-based power generation project STEP demo

Texas utility signs first US Power Purchase Agreement for low-emissions electricity from commercial-scale coal-fired power plant with carbon capture

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

Juniper GTL to invest $100M to retrofit plant to new small-scale GTL facility in Louisiana

CRC ACES Phase 2 report finds emissions from modern heavy-duty diesels well below required levels

Texas study finds PHEV use could increase ozone at night, decrease ozone during the day

Ensyn granted EPA Part 79 approval for renewable gasoline

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

OnStar and Google demonstrate concept service for managing charging Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy

Ensyn receives EPA regulatory approval for its cellulosic renewable diesel RFDiesel

Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

Atomic cobalt on nitrogen-doped graphene catalyst shows promise to replace platinum for hydrogen production

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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