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In this regard, photocatalytic water splitting has attracted significant interest as a cost-effective means to convert sustainable solar energy into valuable chemicals. LI Rengui from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. A research team led by Prof.

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JUNE 9, 2012

Flow diagram of coal tar hydrogenation process. Researchers in China report the production of gasoline and diesel from coal tar via an optimized catalytic hydrogenation using two serial fixed beds, the first with a hydrofining catalyst of MoNi/?-Al Credit: ACS, Kan et al. Click to enlarge. —Kan et al. wt % in the feedstock.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

CHEN Wei and WEI Wei from the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a novel method that enables efficient CO 2 electroreduction to CO by virtue of low-coordination chloride ion adsorption on a silver hollow fiber (Ag HF) electrode. A research team led by Profs.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Wärtsilä has more than half a decade’s experience with methanol, having converted the first of four engines on Stena Germanica to use the fuel in 2015. It is made using hydrogen from renewable-sourced electricity and recaptured carbon. Source: Wärtsilä. Green methanol is among the potential and most promising future fuel candidates.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Researchers from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a photocatalyst for the selective decarboxylation of fatty acids to produce diesel- and jet-range molecules under mild conditions (30?°C, C, H 2 pressure ?0.2?MPa). —Huang et al.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The companies aim to install the ammonia dual-fuel X72DF engine on a series of ten x 210,000 DWT bulk carriers to be built at a Chinese shipyard in 2025 and 2026. CMB.TECH has significant insight into alternative fuels and builds, designs, owns and operates large marine and industrial applications that run on hydrogen and ammonia.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

Researchers from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a new route for the synthesis of jet-fuel range C 10 and C 12 cycloalkanes using diacetone alcohol (the self-aldol condensation product of acetone under mild conditions)—which can be derived from lignocellulosic biomass—and hydrogen.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Scientists in China have developed a process for converting cellulose from plant waste from agriculture and timber harvesting into high-density aviation fuel: a polycycloalkane mixture. Li and his team found that cellulose can be selectively converted to. —Ning Li. 2,5-hexanedione using hydrogenolysis. —Ning Li.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences have demonstrated the conversion of levulinic acid (LA) to γ-valerolactone (GVL) by heterogeneous catalysts without using external hydrogen. A paper on their work appeared online 24 September in the journal ChemSusChem.

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MAY 2, 2017

Qingjie Ge at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China has developed an efficient, stable, and multifunctional Na-Fe 3 O 4 /HZSM-5 catalyst for the direct production of gasoline-range hydrocarbons from CO 2 hydrogenation. The gasoline fractions are mainly isoparaffins and aromatics, thus favoring the octane number.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

The new regulations are driving interest in e-fuels, ammonia, and hydrogen as the industry scrambles to find multiple silver bullets. The greatest challenge is the same as that which is plaguing the adoption of fuel cells in the automotive market—the buildout of low-cost green hydrogen infrastructure. GWh annually in 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Shell) also qualified three Chinese companies for the manufacture of key equipment for the Shell Coal Gasification Process (SCGP), in order to make the Shell technology more competitive in the Chinese market. Shell has signed 19 licensing agreements with different Chinese users. Shell and Shenhua. Gasification equipment.

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MARCH 1, 2021

The steel quality gap between Japanese and Chinese material has narrowed; Korea is another strong regional player. The BOF process (Linz-Donawitz-Verfahren steelmaking) converts molten iron—which comes from the blast furnace—and steel scrap into steel through the oxidizing action of oxygen blown into the melt.

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MARCH 21, 2016

In the journal Angewandte Chemie , Chinese scientists report on a new bifunctional catalyst that converts syngas to lower olefins (C 2 -C 4 ) with high selectivity. First the CO and H 2 are converted to methanol. The olefins can also bind hydrogen, which causes them to lose their double bond and thus forms more paraffins.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The process developed by the team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences first selectively converts MIBK to a mixture of C 12 alcohol and ketone over a Pd modified magnesium-aluminium hydrotalcite (Pd-MgAl-HT) catalyst. They obtained a high total carbon yield (73.0%) of C 12 oxygenates under mild conditions: 553 K (280 ˚C) and 0.6

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The methanol-to-olefin (MTO) process, first developed in the 1970s, converts methanol or dimethyl ether into olefins on acidic zeolites. The small molecule consisting of two carbon atoms and four hydrogen atoms is a basic building block in the manufacture of a wide range of basic chemicals, polymers and plasticisers. 5b00226.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Since 2020 Toyota and mining giant BHP have been testing a LandCruiser 70-Series converted to electricity by Tembo e-LV locally. Roev (converted EV Hilux/Ranger) 2023 Roev electric Toyota HiLux Australian manufacturer Roev has big plans to go into manufacturing of its own ute. Expect to see early examples in the second half of 2023.

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JULY 6, 2011

has selected Honeywell’s UOP technology to convert methanol into building blocks for chemical products at an existing coal chemical complex in China. The facility will also employ the Olefin Cracking Process (OCP), which further converts olefins produced during the MTO process to boost the total yield of usable ethylene and propylene.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

SaaBre is a new route for the production of acetic acid from syngas and Hummingbird directly converts ethanol to ethylene through dehydration. BP’s O&D business is focused on serving the Chinese market through SECCO, its joint venture with Sinopec. BP announced two new technologies for the production of key petrochemical feedstocks.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Researchers at the University of Houston (UH), with colleagues from Central China Normal University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, have developed a two-electrode catalyst that relies on one compound to produce hydrogen and oxygen efficiently from both seawater and freshwater. —Ning et al.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Platinum is used to catalyze the key oxygen reduction reaction in the fuel cell’s cathode, directly converting the chemical energy in hydrogen fuel into electricity, with water vapor as the byproduct. The research was supported by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

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OCTOBER 9, 2010

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences report that the addition of FeCl 2 as a catalyst into an ionic liquid [1-(4-sulfonic acid) butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate, (IL-1)] further enhances the hydrolysis of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) and the production of chemicals such as 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) and furfural.

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MARCH 7, 2013

Tropsch synthesis is a well-established catalytic process that converts syngas derived from fossil fuels or biomass to liquid fuel products. In this work, we report a new hydrogen-reduction route, a Pt seed method, for the aqueous one-step synthesis of Pt?Co shell structure (both in metallic states) or metal/metal oxide interfaces.

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JULY 21, 2010

LanzaTech uses proprietary bacteria to convert industrial waste gases into fuels and chemicals. The financing follows LanzaTech’s signing with Baosteel, China’s largest steel and iron conglomerate, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to commercialize its technologies for producing ethanol from steel mill off gases. Köpke et al.

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MAY 15, 2014

They converted from an absolute amount to scale relative to 2000. Chinese regulations are less stringent than the glide path (153 g CO 2 /km) in 2015, but in 2020 the regulation overachieves the glide path target of 128 g CO 2 /km. They assumed that all sectors of the economy follow the same proportional reduction. to 5% YOY to 3.5%

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Toyota , blasting past 10 million hybrid sales worldwide, has dabbled in both plug-in hybrids and all-electric cars, but is focused on fuel cell electric cars, which use hydrogen to produce electricity on board and power the electric motors. The Swedes (with some Chinese help) are bringing more EVs. The winner will be the customer.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy signed an agreement to pursue development of coal-to-gas and coal-to-hydrogen projects in the United States and around the world with carbon capture and storage (CCS) that would achieve near-zero carbon emissions, while increasing the production of stranded oil via enhanced oil recovery. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

In the study, they converted biomass-derived ?-valerolactone Much effort has recently gone into pathways to produce hydrocarbons with extended carbon chains by the hydrogenation of carbohydrate derivatives. A portion of the butenes are hydrogenated and isomerized to produce isobutane.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Avatar E11 – a new brand with big dreams, Avatar has input from Huawei and CATL and is the product of Chinese car maker Changan. BMW X5 FCEV – hydrogen-powered version of large SUV is a pilot program for now, but expect things to grow. It’ll be on sale in 2025, possibly as the A9 e-Tron. Think iX3, but smaller.

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AUGUST 16, 2009

The NRL researchers presented their progress in hydrogenating CO 2 to jet fuel via a two-stage, high-yield and highly selective synthesis process. Robert Dorner and his colleagues are looking at converting CO 2 and hydrogen (both won from sea-water) over catalysts, using the CO 2 as a building block to form synthetic fuel.

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JUNE 30, 2017

V, respectively, vs a reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) in 0.1 Fuel cells, which directly convert the chemical energy from fuel into electricity, have been recognized as electrocatalysts for PEMFCs. The Ru/nitrogen- doped GO catalyst exhibits excellent four-electron ORR activity, offering onset and half-wave potentials of 0.89

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APRIL 17, 2009

Home About Minds in Motion Contact Us Left menu Community People say People do Themes Alternative Fuels Clean Buses Hybrid & Electric Hydrogen for Mobility Sust. Converting Lotuses is expensive, he says, but you have to start somewhere. Established in 2008, it has already converted eight Lotuses, and is working on five VW Golfs.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Indeed, a quick search on the Internet will yield dozens of pictures of huge tracts of lands devastated by toxic wastewater, primitive metallurgical workshops, and Chinese mine workers covered in radioactive mud. Chinese rare earth production route. These articles describe appalling conditions under which rare earths are produced.

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JULY 17, 2015

electric or hydrogen), and all 3,000 double deck buses are hybrid. When fully converted, the electric buses on routes 507 and 521 will deliver a reduction of 408 tonnes of CO 2 and 10 tonnes of NO x per year, when compared to single-deck diesel buses.

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JULY 17, 2015

In contrast, except for the PHEV, the alternative fuel vehicles—such as hydrogen, natural gas and battery electric vehicles—pose problems and limitations due to their single energy source and the lack of infrastructure for high-power energy distribution of their individualized fueling needs. The Hydrogen car and its issues.

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APRIL 19, 2009

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