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EU GRAMOFON project ends after 42 months with promising results on CO2 capture

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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).

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Gwangju team develops process for direct generation of 1-butanol from CO2

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A team of researchers from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea has developed a process that directly generates 1-butanol from CO 2 via the electrochemical reduction reaction (CO 2 RR) with the help of copper phosphide (CuP 2 ) without first undergoing CO dimerization.

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KAIST team shows direct recovery of methane from hydrates using CO2 or CO2/N2 mixture

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Researchers at the KAIST Graduate School of EEWS (Earth, Environment, Water and Sustainability) in South Korea have demonstrated the direct recovery of methane from massive methane hydrates (MHs), artificial MH-bearing clays, and natural MH-bearing sediments using either CO 2 or a CO 2 /N 2 gas mixture (20?mol?% of CO 2 and 80?mol?%

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New zeolites more effective at removal of CO2 from gas mixtures

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Researchers from South Korea, the UK and Sweden have identified and prepared a new family of zeolites—crystalline aluminosilicates with frameworks that contain windows and cavities the size of small molecules—that can separate out carbon dioxide more effectively from fuel gases than those previously known.

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

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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. Overview of the CUGP processes. Credit: ACS, Zhang et al. Click to enlarge.

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South Korea outlines efficiency targets

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Achieve forty miles per gallon or cut carbon dioxide emissions to an average of 140g/km - that’s the target that has been set by the South Korean Presidential Committee on Green Growth. Despite the fact that average CO2 emissions in the country in 2007 stood at 201g/km, the committee has set this ambitious target for 2015.

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IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016

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The overall increase in the world’s nuclear net capacity last year was the highest since 1993, with new reactors coming online in China, the United States, South Korea, India, Russia and Pakistan. In 2016, renewables supplied more than half the global electricity demand growth, with hydro accounting for half of that share.

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