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

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

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The results, reported in the journal Nature Energy , represent a new method for the conversion of carbon dioxide into clean fuels. In addition, storage of gaseous fuels and separation of by-products can be complicated—we want to get to the point where we can cleanly produce a liquid fuel that can also be easily stored and transported.

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. The compressor gets the supercritical CO 2 up to the necessary pressure before it meets up with waste heat in the recuperator and returns to the heater to continue the cycle. The recuperator improves the overall efficiency of the system.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. With a CO2-neutral energy supply of the plants, we are consistently pursuing this approach and are actively driving sustainability in production. The decision also fits with our overall strategy.

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DOE to award up to $6.7M to projects to convert captured CO2 to useful products, including fuels

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Mineralization concepts utilizing CO 2 with industrial wastes. Mineralization concepts utilizing CO 2 with industrial wastes. The objective of this topic area is to support technology development for innovative concepts that utilize CO 2 to react with industrial wastes, such as tailings from mining operations (e.g.,

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Stanford team proposes method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture to provide transportation energy with reduced CO2 emissions

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In a paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , Hiren Mulchandani and Adam Brandt note that oil shale contains large amounts of stored chemical energy—more than 1 trillion barrels of oil equivalent is present in the Green River formation of the United States alone. secondary use of waste heat. Conversion to work via.

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Study suggests that decarbonizing US transport sector by converting waste CO2 to fuels would require economical air-capture of CO2

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Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Emissions Lifecycle analysis.