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GTI quantifies opportunity to produce low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) from wood wastes

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GTI has released a site-specific engineering design titled “ Low-Carbon Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Wood Wastes ”. GTI led a team of engineers and scientists to produce a blueprint for converting an existing biomass facility into an RNG production site, using the wood waste feedstock and some of the existing infrastructure.

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Nauticol Energy & Enhance Energy plan to capture up to 1M tonnes of CO2 annually from blue methanol production and distribution

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Nauticol has partnered with Haldor Topsøe, a company with extensive experience and best-in-class technology that is commercially viable, proven, reliable and used world-wide. The technology is designed to deliver ease of operation, reduced downtime and maximum energy efficiency.

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NSF awards $2M to Rice U collaboration to explore direct conversion of CO2 into fuels

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The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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Cambridge researchers develop standalone device that makes formic acid from sunlight, CO2 and water

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It’s been difficult to achieve artificial photosynthesis with a high degree of selectivity, so that you’re converting as much of the sunlight as possible into the fuel you want, rather than be left with a lot of waste. —first author Dr Qian Wang from Cambridge’s Department of Chemistry. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars aims to cut vehicle CO2 emissions by 50% over lifecycle by end of this decade

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The company plans to assert its leadership in electric mobility among commercial vans, too, through the ongoing electrification of its entire model range. Additional CO2 savings are expected to be achieved through further measures—i.e., The EQS and EQE will even feature cable ducting made with recycled landfill waste.

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CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

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The grant will allow CRI to accelerate efforts to commercialize large scale production plants, expanding the market for ETL technology and use of renewable methanol in Europe. The project is referred to as “CirclEnergy” as CRI’s technology is designed to support and enable the transition to circular economy. million (US$2.0-million)

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Liquid Wind to partner with Sundsvall Energi on second electrofuel facility; eMethanol for shipping

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Sundsvall Energi will partner with Liquid Wind to be the host and provide carbon dioxide for the second commercial-scale—100,000 t—electrofuel facility in Sweden. Sundsvall Energi, biogenic CO2 supplier and host for FlagshipTWO. It is an experienced team that also has worked together on FlagshipONE.

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