Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

The average car stays on the road for over eight years; meaning that even if the whole world switched to buying 100% electric cars tomorrow, it would still take almost a decade for today’s internal combustion engines to be off the road. to C 2 fuel products such as ethanol. The separation of ethanol and other fuel products from water.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

However, to be commercially viable, the process needs to be improved to yield a higher amount of desirable carbon-rich products. Although we know copper is the best catalyst for this reaction, it doesn’t give high selectivity to the desired products. earlier post ). Credit: Berkeley Lab). —Alexis Bell.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2019

If it can be successfully implemented at an industrial scale, the entire production process – from syngas production to pure methanol – will no longer release any carbon dioxide emissions. The basic chemical methanol is an important starting material for many products in different BASF value chains.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

LanzaTech UK and direct air capture technology company Carbon Engineering have partnered on a project to create sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Project AtmosFUEL marks the first integration of these technologies.

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MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) plans to make $8 million in Federal funding available for cost-shared research, development, and testing of technologies that can utilize carbon dioxide from power systems or other industrial sources for bio-mediated uptake by algal systems to create valuable products and services.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Materials Science and Technology Division have demonstrated novel NRL technologies developed for the recovery of CO 2 and hydrogen from seawater and their subsequent conversion to liquid fuels. Bio-hydrocarbons Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels Hydrogen Production'

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Schematic of a new catalyst made of copper nanoparticles that converts carbon dioxide to multicarbon products (ethylene, ethanol, and propanol). All those products contain two to three carbon atoms, and all are considered high-value products in modern life. Credit: Dohyung Kim/Berkeley Lab). Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

The calculations of reaction energetics suggest that Cu and Fe in the binary system can work in synergy to significantly deform the linear configuration of CO 2 and reduce the high energy barrier by stabilizing the reaction intermediates, thus spontaneously favoring CO 2 activation and conversion for methane synthesis.

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JULY 26, 2022

and carbon emissions reduction of products of interest. Efficiency improvements and carbon emissions reduction in energy conversion and storage technologies. Computational modeling of cost-effective carbon capture technologies on industrial gas turbines to reduce CO2 emission. Improvements in the lifecycle energy consumption?and

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JULY 30, 2014

Amin Salehi-Khojin, UIC professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, and his colleagues developed a novel two-step catalytic process for CO 2 reduction that uses molybdenum disulfide and an ionic liquid. In other chemical-reduction systems, the only reaction product is carbon monoxide. —Mohammad Asadi.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2019

Lutianhua) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop a pilot production plant that will significantly reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency in producing dimethyl ether (DME) from syngas compared to the traditional process. BASF and Sichuan Lutianhua Co., The pilot plant is planned to be built in 2020.

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JUNE 10, 2019

But scientists have been finding it difficult to manufacture photocatalysts that produce a large enough yield of hydrocarbon products for their use to be practical. Fuel production efficiency of titanium dioxide photocatalyst with copper-platinum alloy co-catalyst (a) and a photo of photocatalyst observed by HRTEM (b). Credit ©DGIST.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

The results, reported in the journal Nature Energy , represent a new method for the conversion of carbon dioxide into clean fuels. However, it is challenging to produce these clean fuels without unwanted by-products. We were surprised how well it worked in terms of its selectivity—it produced almost no by-products.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

The project is being coordinated by the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group, led by François Maréchal, at EPFL’s School of Engineering. Simple heat and mass flows for CO 2 capture from diesel engine exhaust: exhaust cooling, TSA cycle, product CO 2 compression, and liquefaction. 2019.00143.

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APRIL 4, 2022

The carbon negative chemicals synthesis directly from the air project has been awarded £250,000 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through the Adventurous Energy Research for a Sustainable Net-Zero scheme. —Dr Duyar.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050.

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JUNE 23, 2022

E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing internal combustion engines. The end product is a transportation fuel suited for aircraft, ships as well as heavy and light road vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Researchers from Stanford University and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have engineered and demonstrated a solid-oxide electrochemical cell (SOC) with a porous ceria electrode that achieves stable and selective CO 2 electrolysis beyond the thermodynamic carbon deposition threshold. This could also reduce production costs.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

A team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo (Norway), and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ) (Spain) has developed a new process for the direct, non-oxidative conversion of methane to liquids—reducing cost, eliminating multiple process steps, and avoiding CO 2 emissions. Jose Serra, Professor with ITQ.

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OCTOBER 2, 2010

The EU’s DirectFuel project, which launched on 1 October, intends to develop a photobiological process for the direct conversion of sunlight and CO 2 into engine- and infrastructure-ready transport fuels such as propane. The 4-year project will have funding of up to €3.73 million (US$5.1 theoretical life cycle analysis.

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JUNE 17, 2019

This catalyst, called tetrabutylammonium (TBA) formate, achieved 99% selectivity and produced the desired formate product with a 98% yield. Formate-catalyzed reduction of CO 2 to formate products. The reaction occurred rapidly (within 24 hours) and under mild conditions, at a temperature of 60 ?C. doi: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b02172.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This new work, described in a study published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science , is the first to successfully demonstrate the approach of going from carbon dioxide directly to target products—ethanol and ethylene—at energy conversion efficiencies rivaling natural counterparts. —Gurudayal et al.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Gas phase CO production is observed at an. A team from the University of Illinois and startup Dioxide Materials has developed an electrocatalytic system for the reduction of CO 2 to CO—a key component of artificial photosynthesis and thus an enabler for the conversion of CO 2 to synthetic fuels—at overpotentials below 0.2

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

The combination of plasma and catalyst in this process shows great potential for manipulating the distribution of liquid chemical products in a given process, they concluded. Instead of using H 2 , direct conversion of CO 2 with CH 4 (dry reforming of methane, DRM) to liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

C–C coupling is a critical step of CO 2 fixation in constructing the carbon skeleton of value-added multicarbon products. Enzymes in this reaction pathway enable the carbons in CO and CH 3 to bond or “couple,” which then triggers another catalytic reaction that produces acetate as the final product.

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JUNE 14, 2021

The latest project focuses on the production of synthetic methane from hydrogen and CO 2. Empa researchers hope that this novel process engineering concept will lead to simpler process control, higher efficiency and better suitability for dynamic operation. Both hydrogen production and methanization continuously generate waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Duke University researchers have engineered rhodium nanoparticles that can harness the energy in ultraviolet light and use it to catalyze the conversion of carbon dioxide to methane, a key building block for many types of fuels. An open-access paper on the work is published in Nature Communications.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Researchers from BASF, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are seeking to develop a process for the photocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into methanol for use in fuel cells or internal combustion engines. million) over two years. Dr. Henning Bockhorn.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2014

In comparison to smooth copper electrodes, the faradaic efficiencies of CO, methane, and ethylene are reduced significantly, whereas C 2 and C 3 products such as ethane and propylene are produced in small but detectable quantities—overall, a very different product outcome than obtained from planar electrodes. Hori et al.

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APRIL 8, 2022

United Airlines Ventures (UAV) and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV) announced a collaboration with Houston-based biotech firm Cemvita Factory to commercialize the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) intended to be developed through a new process using carbon dioxide and synthetic microbes.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A team of biologists and engineers modified Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 (TIE-1) so that it can produce a biofuel using only three renewable and naturally abundant source ingredients: carbon dioxide, solar panel-generated electricity and light. We hope that it can be a steppingstone for future sustainable solar fuel production.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2016

A team at the University of California, Irvine has discovered that the iron protein (the reductase component) of the natural enzyme nitrogenase can, independent of its natural catalytic partner, convert CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO)—a syngas used to produce useful biofuels and other chemical products. Further, the engineered A.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Italy-based Snam, a leading energy infrastructure operator, and Saipem, an Italian multinational oilfield services company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to start working together to define and to develop initiatives for green hydrogen production and transport, and for carbon dioxide capture, transport and reuse or storage (CCS and CCU).

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MAY 16, 2018

The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. From 2022, the production of our Mercedes-Benz plants in Germany will operate CO 2 -neutral. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Joule, the developer of a process for the solar conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuels, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with DNV GL, a leading provider of technical assurance and advisory services to the energy industry.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

However, as a result, liquid products that form are in a mixture with the dissolved salts, and require energy-intensive downstream separation. are combined to form pure product solutions without mixing with other ions. The rate at which water flows through the product chamber determines the concentration of the solution.

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