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PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new method to convert captured CO 2 into methane, the primary component of natural gas. Different methods for converting CO 2 into methane have long been known.

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Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method to convert CO 2 directly into aviation fuel using a novel, inexpensive iron-based catalyst. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Communications. there are few reports of the direct catalytic conversion of CO 2 to jet fuel range hydrocarbons.

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Berkeley Lab team validates bio-analogous technique for converting CO2 into liquid acetate

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a new technique, modeled after a metabolic process found in some bacteria, for converting CO 2 into liquid acetate, a key ingredient in “liquid sunlight” or solar fuels produced through artificial photosynthesis.

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DOE awards $3M for 10 high-performance computing projects to improve energy efficiency and material performance

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JULY 26, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $3 million in funding for 10 high-performance computing projects that will advance cutting-edge manufacturing and clean energy technologies. Improvements in manufacturing processes that result in significant national energy savings and carbon emissions. All Selectees. PROJECT TITLE.

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New porous coordination polymer captures CO2, converts it to useful organic materials

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

A new material that can selectively capture CO 2 molecules and efficiently convert them into useful organic materials has been developed by researchers at Kyoto University, along with colleagues at the University of Tokyo and Jiangsu Normal University in China. —Susumu Kitagawa, materials chemist at Kyoto University.

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Evonik and Siemens Energy commission pilot plant for conversion of CO2 to chemicals

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Evonik and Siemens Energy commissioned a pilot plant—sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)—that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from renewable sources. The pilot plant is located in Marl, in the northern Ruhr area.

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New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

A team of researchers from Canada and the US has developed a system that quickly and efficiently converts carbon dioxide into simple chemicals via CO 2 electrolysis. Here, we present a catalyst:ionomer bulk heterojunction (CIBH) architecture that decouples gas, ion, and electron transport. —García de Arquer et al. Resources.

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Anaergia to supply CO2 to European Energy A/S for green e-methanol production as fuel for container ships

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AUGUST 19, 2022

will supply European Energy A/S with up to 60,000 tonnes per year of liquefied biogenic CO 2 for a period of 10 years. Once this gas is processed, Anaergia produces pipeline quality renewable natural gas (RNG) and a clean stream of carbon dioxide that normally gets released to the atmosphere.

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

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas. This carbon dioxide, which stays within the system and is not released as a greenhouse gas, can get much hotter than steam—1,290 degrees Fahrenheit or 700 Celsius. —Darryn Fleming.

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United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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JUNE 16, 2022

United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy. Dimensional Energy, which recently received a $3.1-million Dimensional has also received grants from the National Science Foundation and both the Department of Energy’s ARPA-e and Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO).

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The chemical process employed by the scientists also could reduce costs and energy requirements for producing liquid hydrocarbons and other chemicals used by industry. The team tapped a novel energy source from the nanoworld to trigger a common chemical reaction that eliminates carbon dioxide. Credit: NIST.

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MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Researchers at MIT have identified , quantified, and modeled a major reason for the poor performance of electroreduction processes to convert CO 2 to fuel or other useful chemicals. For the latter, two main contributions are distinguished: gas depletion due to CO 2 consumption and ion generation in areas close to the electrocatalyst surface.

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Study finds copper catalysts work better at converting CO2 to renewable fuel when they gain and lose oxygen atoms

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JULY 20, 2020

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Caltech have found that copper that was once bound with oxygen is better at converting carbon dioxide into renewable fuels than copper that was never bound to oxygen. This work was supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. 0c01670.

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MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. That stream would produce a second output from the plant: syngas.

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KIT spin-off producing synthetic natural gas from green hydrogen and CO2 from sewage sludge

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JULY 14, 2018

Chemical reactor company INERATEC , a spinoff of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and the Spanish company GAS NATURAL FENOSA have built a plant in Spain that produces synthetic natural gas from CO 2 and renewable hydrogen. The process uses energy from renewable sources and stores it in the chemical energy carrier methane.

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Stable boron-copper catalyst for CO2 conversion; stabilization with zinc

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MARCH 28, 2021

CO 2 can be converted into larger carbon compounds that can be used as base chemicals for industry or as fuels. Researchers are pursuing the idea of converting CO 2 electrochemically with the help of renewable energies. This would not only create useful products, but would also serve as storage for renewable energies.

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ETH Zürich, Total team develops new catalyst to convert CO2 and H2 directly to methanol efficiently

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JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. It is possible to convert it into fuels and a wide variety of chemical products, including those that today are mainly based on fossil resources.

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Hydrogenics to supply 1MW electrolyzer to project converting CO2 to methanol; Power-to-Gas

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JANUARY 26, 2015

CO 2 will be captured from the flue gases in a special downstream flue gas scrubber (Post-Combustion Capture, PCC). CO 2 will be captured from the flue gases in a special downstream flue gas scrubber (Post-Combustion Capture, PCC). Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Emissions Hydrogen Methanol Power-to-Gas' tonnes of CO 2.

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Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

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JULY 15, 2022

E-Jet is produced by Emerging Fuels Technology’s (EFT) technology to convert the syngas from Twelve into drop-in jet fuel. Earlier post.).

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27 teams advancing in $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE; converting CO2 to products

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

XPRIZE announced the 27 teams representing six countries advancing in the $20-million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, a global competition to develop technologies that convert the most carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas and power plant facilities into products with the highest net value. Coal plant and natural gas plant.

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German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

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MAY 13, 2018

A methanation plant expansion to the existing power-to-gas (PtG) facility in Falkenhagen, Germany has officially opened as part of the international €28-million (US$33.5-million) While the current facility feeds pure hydrogen (“WindGas”) directly into the gas grid, the new methanation plant provides for the generation of “green” methane.

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Chalmers study finds chemical looping gasification integrated with FT synthesis delivers net-negative CO2 FT crude

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JUNE 13, 2022

An open-access paper on the study appears in the ACS journal energy & fuels. Direct fuel and air mixing is avoided by this measure of cyclic oxidation–reduction of the metal oxide particles in two separate reactors, which results in an oxygen-depleted air stream from the AR and a flue gas concentrated with CO 2 from the FR.

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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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APRIL 26, 2022

million grant from the US Department of Energy to design and engineer an integrated carbon dioxide capture and conversion plant co-located at Nutrien’s Kennewick Fertilizer Operations plant in Kennewick, Wash. We are converting common industrial waste streams into product streams —Todd Brix.

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

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MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources.

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

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

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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Photo-activated catalyst converts CO2 to CO for clean fuel technology; no unwanted byproducts

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JULY 31, 2017

An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light-activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.

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Lufthansa, ETH Zürich, Climeworks & Synhelion to cooperate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels; CO2 capture & solar thermochemical conversion

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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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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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JUNE 25, 2013

Audi’s e-gas plant. Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Click to enlarge.

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RENK supplies special gear units for compressors for production of green steel

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Germany-based RENK Group, a manufacturer of mission-critical drive technologies, is supplying three high-speed special gear units via RENK-Maag GmbH , a group company, for compressors for the production of green steel to Siemens Energy Compressors GmbH as part of the “SALCOS” (Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking) project of the Salzgitter AG steel group.

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WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Here we have harnessed the power of microbes to convert carbon dioxide into value-added multi-carbon compounds in a usable biofuel. The first author of the study is Wei Bai, a PhD graduate of McKelvey Engineering’s Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering. —Wei Bai. Ranaivoarisoa, T.O.,

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Audi to introduce natural gas A3 Sportback g-tron at year’s end; CO2-neutral e-gas

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MARCH 1, 2013

Audi will introduce the compact A3 Sportback g-tron—which can be powered by the CO 2 -neutral Audi e-gas, synthetic methane generated from eco-electricity in the Audi e-gas project ( earlier post )—at the end of the year. The e-gas fuel will be produced in the power-to-gas plant in Werlte, Germany.

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New catalyst opens door to CO2 capture in coal-to-liquids process

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OCTOBER 14, 2018

World energy consumption projections expect coal to stay one of the world’s main energy sources in the coming decades, and a growing share of it will be used in CT—the conversion of coal to liquid fuels (CTL). Using the Fischer-Tropsch process, these components are converted to liquid fuels. —Wang et al.

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USC team develops highly efficient catalyst system for converting CO2 to methanol; 79% yield from CO2 captured from air

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , they reported demonstrating for the first time that CO 2 captured from air can be directly converted to CH 3 OH in 79% yield using the new homogeneous catalytic system. They then heated the solution, converting 79% of the CO 2 into methanol. Click to enlarge.

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ETH Zürich team developing light-duty natural gas-diesel hybrid electric powertrain; 43 g/km CO2

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Consumption measurements of the dual-fuel natural gas-diesel engine as a function of speed and load. Researchers at ETH Zürich have developed a light-duty hybrid electric vehicle featuring a dual-fuel natural gas-diesel engine. Source: Ott et al. Click to enlarge. The dual-fuel engine can also serve in a non-hybrid application.

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New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for converting water and CO to hydrogen and CO2

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JUNE 24, 2017

Scientists in the US and China have developed a new low-temperature catalyst for producing high-purity hydrogen gas while simultaneously using up carbon monoxide (CO) via the water-gas shift (WGS) reaction. The reaction is favored at a low working temperature. This catalyst produces a purer form of hydrogen to feed into the fuel cell.

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Researchers develop efficient single-atom Ni catalyst for conversion of CO2 to CO

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MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). Their findings were published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. Nickel metal, in bulk, has rarely been selected as a promising candidate for converting CO 2 to CO.

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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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AUGUST 26, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award approximately $6.7 Research has shown that CO 2 can be converted to a variety of commodities, but because of the low energy state of CO 2 , the production costs would be prohibitive in many cases. CO 2 is already a commodity chemical that is used in many commercial applications.

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Alliance Formed to Commercialize Solar Reforming Technologies to Convert Waste CO2 into Synthetic Fuel

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JUNE 1, 2010

An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Earlier post.). In addition, commercial partners have signed on to advance work on the first round of commercial plants. Earlier post.).

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Researchers propose CO2 recycling to improve Fischer-Tropsch GTL efficiency and reduce total CO2 emissions

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JUNE 21, 2014

Researchers in South Korea are suggesting two new carbon-dioxide-utilized Gas-to-Liquids processes (CUGP) to increase the overall efficiency of conventional Fischer-Tropsch GTL. In this case, about 30% CO is converted to CO 2 due to WGS reaction. T catalysts, which can convert CO 2 to CO by not only dry reforming but also RWGS.

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

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Currently, liquid products generated by electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction-reaction systems have been mixed with liquid electrolytes/soluble solutes, which requires energy- and cost-intensive separation processes to recover pure liquid fuel solutions. To address these challenges, our project is interdisciplinary. —Haotian Wang.

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Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Over the past few months, we have converted it to DME together with our partner FPT. In addition, the valves and valve seat inserts were converted to materials suitable for DME. An electrically driven compressor for precise exhaust gas recirculation is also used. This is done via exhaust gas recirculation (EGR).

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SOLETAIR project produces first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar power and atmospheric CO2

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AUGUST 8, 2017

The SOLETAIR project ( earlier post ) has produced its first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar energy and the air’s carbon dioxide via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Afterwards, carbon dioxide and hydrogen are first converted into reactive synthesis gas at high temperature and then into liquid fuels in a microstructured chemical reactor.

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Clean Energy delivers record 50.6M CNG gallons in Q3; acquires controlling interest in NG Advantage

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. reported it delivered for the first time more than 50 million compressed natural gas (CNG) gallons in one quarter. Founded in 2011, NG Advantage transports CNG in high-capacity trailers to large industrial and institutional energy users such as hospitals, food processors, manufacturers and paper mills.

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DGIST-led team improves efficiency of photocatalyst for conversion of atmospheric CO2 to hydrocarbon fuels

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JUNE 10, 2019

The modified photocatalyst converted sunlight to fuel with a maximum efficiency of 3.3% This photoconversion efficiency is an important milestone, the researchers report in their study published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science , as it means that large-scale use of this technology is becoming a more realistic prospect.

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PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

Berkeley Lab team validates bio-analogous technique for converting CO2 into liquid acetate

DOE awards $3M for 10 high-performance computing projects to improve energy efficiency and material performance

New porous coordination polymer captures CO2, converts it to useful organic materials

Evonik and Siemens Energy commission pilot plant for conversion of CO2 to chemicals

New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

Anaergia to supply CO2 to European Energy A/S for green e-methanol production as fuel for container ships

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

United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

Study finds copper catalysts work better at converting CO2 to renewable fuel when they gain and lose oxygen atoms

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

KIT spin-off producing synthetic natural gas from green hydrogen and CO2 from sewage sludge

Stable boron-copper catalyst for CO2 conversion; stabilization with zinc

ETH Zürich, Total team develops new catalyst to convert CO2 and H2 directly to methanol efficiently

Hydrogenics to supply 1MW electrolyzer to project converting CO2 to methanol; Power-to-Gas

Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

27 teams advancing in $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE; converting CO2 to products

German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

Chalmers study finds chemical looping gasification integrated with FT synthesis delivers net-negative CO2 FT crude

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

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

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

Photo-activated catalyst converts CO2 to CO for clean fuel technology; no unwanted byproducts

Lufthansa, ETH Zürich, Climeworks & Synhelion to cooperate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels; CO2 capture & solar thermochemical conversion

Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

RENK supplies special gear units for compressors for production of green steel

WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

Audi to introduce natural gas A3 Sportback g-tron at year’s end; CO2-neutral e-gas

New catalyst opens door to CO2 capture in coal-to-liquids process

USC team develops highly efficient catalyst system for converting CO2 to methanol; 79% yield from CO2 captured from air

ETH Zürich team developing light-duty natural gas-diesel hybrid electric powertrain; 43 g/km CO2

New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for converting water and CO to hydrogen and CO2

Researchers develop efficient single-atom Ni catalyst for conversion of CO2 to CO

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

Alliance Formed to Commercialize Solar Reforming Technologies to Convert Waste CO2 into Synthetic Fuel

Researchers propose CO2 recycling to improve Fischer-Tropsch GTL efficiency and reduce total CO2 emissions

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

Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

SOLETAIR project produces first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar power and atmospheric CO2

Clean Energy delivers record 50.6M CNG gallons in Q3; acquires controlling interest in NG Advantage

DGIST-led team improves efficiency of photocatalyst for conversion of atmospheric CO2 to hydrocarbon fuels

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