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Novel membrane-free Mg-CO2 battery sequesters CO2 and generates electricity

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Our findings indicate great benefits for the newly-developed MF Mg-CO 2 battery technology to produce various value-added chemicals of practical significance and electricity from CO 2 without any wasted by-products. —Kim et al. 2020.105741.

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New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

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Resources. 2020) “CO2 electrolysis to multicarbon products at activities greater than 1 A cm -2.” The researchers are now working on further increasing the efficiency of the system and its stability, which, although now at about tens of hours, is still far from the thousands of operating hours of the water electrolyzers. Science Vol.

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Researchers develop titanium and copper heterostructured photocatalyst for conversion of CO2 into CH4

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The escalating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the consequent acceleration of climate change are alarming, and it has proven challenging to find feasible ways to actively reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. —Prof In. 2020.119344.

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thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

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The Executive Board of thyssenkrupp AG has released the corresponding capital resources for the construction of the first direct reduction (DR) plant at its Duisburg site. In this way, thyssenkrupp is accelerating the start of low-CO2 steel production. The Supervisory Board of thyssenkrupp AG supports this decision.

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Researchers produce green syngas using CO2, water and sunlight

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A licensing agreement for intellectual property developed in this study is in the process of being negotiated in order to bring the technology to market and make a positive environmental impact. The two companies are NS Nanotech Inc. and NX Fuels Inc, both co-founded by Mi. 2121174119.

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UCLA team proposes non-photosynthetic biological conversion of CO2

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Using various sources of energy and integrated biological-inorganic catalysis may optimize non-photosynthetic CO 2 conversion. Producing both high-margin products and high-volume products will ensure economic and global-scale CO 2 utilization. an and Park. 2020.08.007.

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

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H 2 ) on the catalytically active sites of Fe 3 O 4 , and subsequently by the FTS reactions (CO?+?H C n H m ?+?H H 2 O) on catalytically active sites on ?-Fe The researchers thus refer to the process as a “Tandem Mechanism”. Makgae, O.A. 2020) “Transforming carbon dioxide into jet fuel using an organic combustion-synthesized Fe-Mn-K catalyst.”

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