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The Kansas Geological Survey based at the University of Kansas has received a nearly $5 million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to study the feasibility of storing carbon dioxide underground. Awarded as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the grant is the largest ever received by the Kansas Geological Survey.
With the support of a grant from the Department of Energy, Miao Yu, the Priti and Mukesh Chatter ’82 Career Development Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will develop a novel porous material capable of capturing even very small concentrations of CO 2 in the air and collecting the gas for further use.
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. Carbon dioxide capture company AirCapture and carbon dioxide conversion company OCOchem, along with other partners, have won a $2.93-million
Implemented in cooperation with South Korea, It was funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement number 727619. The project had a budget of €4.2 million, with a total of nine partners (companies, technology centers and universities).
In Fall 2021, Twelve and LanzaTech also announced plans to develop polypropylene from CO 2 with a grant from Impact Squared. Our process aims to rebalance the overabundance of carbon in our environment and instead reuse it for meaningful applications. —LanzaTech CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren.
the developer of technology for efficient and non-destructive ( earlier post ) extraction of oil from algae, led a consortium in a recently submitted application for a grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 targeting the beneficial use of CO 2. OriginOil, Inc., Carbon Sciences, Inc., The opportunity. Earlier post.)
Saratoga Energy has won a National Science Foundation grant to scale up its breakthrough process for generating low-cost, top quality carbon nanotubes from carbon dioxide for use in making high-performance Li-ion batteries, such as those used in electric vehicles, grid storage, and military and aerospace applications.
Japan-based leading classification society ClassNK has granted Approval in Principle (AIP) to a new H 2 /CO 2 FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) design developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Chiyoda Corporation.
Saratoga Energy , the developer of a process for synthesizing graphite from carbon dioxide, has won a $1-million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Department of Energy to help commercialize its innovation.
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This work was supported by grants from the Packard Foundation and the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. If we can make olefins from CO 2 to make plastics, we have sequestered it into a long-term storable solid. That would be a big deal. —Matteo Cargnello.
Other key measures foreseen by the regulation: The Commission will present by 2025 a methodology to assess and report data on CO 2 emissions throughout the full life-cycle of cars and vans sold on the EU market, accompanied by legislative proposals where appropriate; By December 2026, the Commission will monitor the gap between the emission limit values (..)
million DKK (US$4 million) grant from Denmark’s EUDP (Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program) to fund the project. Topsoe will lead the FrontFuel project to develop highly efficient Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production from CO 2 , water, and renewable electricity. Topsoe will receive a 26.9
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million) grant under the EU Horizon 2020 Research Programme to increase the scale of its CO 2 -to-methanol technology, marketed under the trademark Emissions-to-Liquids (ETL). Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million million (US$2.0-million)
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The study was supported by UIC’s Chancellor Innovation Fund; by the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grant #53062-ND6; and the Herbert E. The proportion of carbon monoxide to hydrogen in the syngas produced in the reaction can also be easily manipulated using the new catalyst, said Salehi-Khojin. Paaren Graduate Fellowship.
The study was supported by a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas and is an exemplary model of the AIST–Tokyo Tech cross-appointment system. —Ken Motokura.
relating to methane pyrolysis was granted the Innovation Award by the German Gas Industry and additionally won the audience award of the ERDGAS 2018 Zukunftswerkstatt, an event staged by the Zukunft ERDGAS industry initiative. —Prof Wetzel. In 2018, the research of KIT and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V.
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The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $149,000 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase 1 grant to GoNano Technologies, Inc., In June 2010, NSF awarded a Phase I SBIR grant in the amount of $147,095 to GoNano to continue developing Carbon Capture & Recycling (CCR) technology. Click to enlarge.
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Two Indiana University chemists have received $525,000 from the National Science Foundation to advance research with applications to the conversion of CO 2 into oxalate as an intermediate for the ultimate production of carbon-neutral materials, plastics and fuel. IU scientists Steven L.
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million) research grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to target the photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to produce useful building block chemicals. A research group led by Dr. Jennifer Strunk in the Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry at Ruhr-Universität-Bochum has been awarded a 5-year, €1.18
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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). The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021.
Despite these large numbers, accurate information about leases is not readily available for public review and oversight, even after the leases are granted. If all of these leases were developed, more than a third of Kalimantan’s lowlands would be planted with oil palm by 2020.
million matching grant in 2009 by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to increase the United States’ capacity to manufacture cost efficient, fuel-efficient commercial-duty hybrid truck propulsion systems. million gallons of diesel fuel resulting in the avoidance of over 116,000 metric tons of CO2 from being dispensed into the atmosphere.
The study was funded by a grant from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA–E). The process integrates electrochemical formate production and biological CO 2 fixation and higher alcohol synthesis, opening the possibility of electricity-driven bioconversion of CO 2 to commercial chemicals.
million in grant funding secured earlier this year. Estonian startup UP Catalyst, a company developing a method to produce sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite from CO 2 , has closed a successful pre-seed round of €500,000, in addition to €1.59
The research, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS), was supported by the Department of Energy as part of the Electrofuels Program of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under Grant DE-AR0000081. Earlier post.).
The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded The University of Texas at El Paso grants totaling nearly $1.3 This research will be supported by a $299,991 DOE grant. million for research to improve the efficiency of engines and creating technologies for detecting, capturing and storing carbon emissions. Ramana, Ph.D.,
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is granting a total of €9.2 A mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, syngas is a key raw material for the chemical industry and is also suitable for producing fuels.
—Professor Ye The study was supported by various funding sources, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund, the Shenzhen Science and Technology Program, and the Hong Kong Research Grant Council. Resources Yu, J.,
In a separate but related letter, EPA is notifying the National Alliance of Forest Owners that it will grant its petition to reconsider the portion of the May 2010 tailoring rule that addresses the same issue.
Testing performed at this site in Brazil is particularly valuable to our development and progress, as it represents a climate, geography and CO2 source that are representative of our anticipated commercial production plant. —Proterro CEO Kef Kasdin.
The project is the supported by the Swedish Research Council (VR) and the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) through Berzelii Center EXSELENT on Porous Materials, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation through the project grant 3DEM-NATUR, and the Röntgen-Ångström Cluster through the project grant MATsynCELL.
It has filed more than 100 national patent applications of which more than twenty have been granted. Spun out from Princeton University in 2008, Liquid Light has invested more than US$35 million on low-energy electrochemistry technologies to convert CO 2 to major chemicals.
The project is a part of a five-year research grant and CAREER Award for Li from the National Science Foundation, and is currently in its third year. —doctoral student Huilei Zhao. By the end of the project, Li hopes to have developed a higher level of conversion efficiency and determine if the process can be commercially viable.
The FREIGHT Act also would create a new competitive grant program for freight-specific infrastructure projects, such as port infrastructure improvements, freight rail capacity expansion projects, and highway projects that improve access to freight facilities.
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