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DECEMBER 17, 2021

A microgrid based on renewable energies with hydrogen-powered fuel cells for emergency and peak power as well as hydrogen combustion engines can meet the special energy requirements of port facilities. It will not only set new standards in cargo handling, but also in climate-friendly energy supply.

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MAY 17, 2021

MP Materials has received a $3-million award from the Department of Energy (DOE) to complete a feasibility study, working with the University of Kentucky (UK), on a system to produce rare earth oxides, metals, and other critical materials recovered from coal by-products. Mountain Pass facility. Source: MP Materials.

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JULY 10, 2022

The UK government is awarding £54 million to 15 projects to develop technologies that remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere. The funding comes under Phase 2 of the Direct Air Capture and Greenhouse Gas Removal technologies competition. The competition is worth a total of £60 million (US$72 million). million (US$6.7

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MAY 21, 2020

Energy company SGH2 is bringing the world’s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster, California. In the gasification island’s catalyst-bed chamber, plasma torches generate such high temperatures (3500 ºC - 4000 ºC), that the waste feedstock disintegrates into its molecular compounds, without combustion ash or toxic fly ash.

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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). By 2020, CTL is expected to account for 15% of the coal use in China. —Wang et al.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Capturing this waste carbon then allows for algae to be cultivated into a variety of biofuels and bioproducts. The deployment of algal technologies in these projects will help lower algal system cost, while decreasing GHG emissions. power, cement, or other industrial sources).

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JULY 26, 2023

The energy transition is causing demand for REEs to grow every year. The International Energy Agency estimates that demand may at least quadruple by 2040. A paper on the work appears in Nature Sustainability. China has been the dominant global supplier of REEs since 1988, providing up to 95% of the global REE market annually.

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MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

Energy Fuels Inc. Energy Fuels expects to process this monazite at its 100%-owned White Mesa Mill starting in Q1-2021, recover the contained uranium, and produce a marketable mixed REE carbonate, representing an important step toward re-establishing a fully-integrated US REE supply chain. Chalmers, President and CEO of Energy Fuels.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

A full-scale test of advanced hyperbaric centrifuge technology at a Jim Walter Resources Inc. coal-cleaning plant in Alabama successfully reduced moisture from ultrafine coal waste. Virginia Tech subsequently sublicensed the technology to Decanter Machine Inc., Coal recovery from the sludge was greater than 97%.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Blastr has entered into a Letter of Intent with Nordic energy company Fortum that provides Blastr exclusive rights to utilize the existing industrial site located in Joddböle, Inkoo in Finland, 55 km west of Helsinki. Fortum has developed the Joddböle area since the dismantling of its Inkoo coal-fired power plant there in 2017-2020.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $36 million ( DE-FOA-0001791 ) to continue the development of carbon capture technologies to either the engineering scale or to a commercial design, with an eye to reducing fossil fuel power plant emissions. hollow-fiber, spiral wound, shell-and-tube, etc.)

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, was awarded a $4-million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as one of the 15 REMOTE projects ( earlier post ) receiving a combined $34 million to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. Located in Henan Province, China, the $250-million coal-to-methanol facility uses SES’ patented and proprietary gasification technologies. Located in Henan Province, China, the $250-million coal-to-methanol facility uses SES’ patented and proprietary gasification technologies.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. based company to assess the feasibility and optimal uses of SES’ gasification technology for the production of valuable green chemicals. The plants being contemplated are expected to have an attractive environmental footprint as they would process these waste streams with a low emissions profile.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award $42 million to 12 projects to strengthen the domestic supply chain for advanced batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs). The EVs4ALL program is managed by DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Award amount: $3,198,085). Award amount: $2,120,120).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. The treatment of GTL-derived effluents is complex and challenging.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has published The Hydrogen Safety Review for Gas Turbines, SOFC, and High Temperature Hydrogen Production to review and summarize the unique safety challenges involved with the production, transportation and storage of hydrogen. The lower ignition energy makes smaller sparks a concern.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

New Zealand-based Lanzatech, the developer of gas fermentation technology for producing ethanol and high value chemicals (e.g.: The research center, supported by multiple research institutes under CAS, will focus on developing important complementary process technologies, like product separation, water conservation and process integration.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Other partners involved in the Steelanol project are Primetals Technologies and E4tech. The €35-million Torero project is designed to process sustainable biomass (initially in the form of waste wood that cannot be used in other applications) for use as a raw material input into the blast furnace, hence lowering the volume of fossil coal used.

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MARCH 12, 2023

Aluminum is a critical element used in thousands of important products, but it can often interfere with quick and effective extraction of valuable rare earth elements (REEs) from coal waste byproducts. The creation of a reliable domestic supply of REEs is needed for US economic, energy and national security. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 10 projects to receive funding for research in support of the lab’s program on Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal Byproducts. Area of Interest 1: Bench-Scale Technology Development. Description.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a Request for Information (RFI) ( DE-FOA-0002686 ) on the design, construction and operation of a new facility to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of a full-scale rare earth element (REE) and critical minerals (CM) extraction and separation refinery using unconventional resources.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Many of these R&D efforts can be applied across both the energy and the industrial sectors.

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APRIL 14, 2015

China’s shift toward alternative fuels in order to cut its reliance on imported oil is creating large opportunities, notably in natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and in the conversion of coal to ethanol, according to a new report from Lux Research. Coal-to-ethanol is on verge of large-scale commercialization. Renewable resources.

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JUNE 1, 2010

Sandia has been working on “Sunshine to Petrol” technologies for a number of years. 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. Source: Sandia. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20%, transforming it to a salable product. During recent prototype tests at Arch Coal Company’s Cardinal plant in Logan County, W.Va., Roe-Hoan Yoon. as part of a license agreement with Virginia Tech.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The basis of DGF’s integrated fuel and energy technology is the proven Fischer-Tropsch process. DGF replaces the coal gasification used by others with biomass gasification and natural gas reforming. Schematic of DGFuels Sustainable Aviation Fuel Process.

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JULY 11, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected eight new projects to further advanced coal research under the University Coal Research Program. The selected projects are intended to improve coal conversion and use and will help propel technologies for future advanced coal power systems. DOE Share: $300,000).

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Synthesis Energy Systems’ (SES) 95%-owned Hai Hua joint venture project in Shandong Province, China, has completed a successful commercial-scale gasification demonstration, converting lignite coal from the Inner Mongolia region of China to syngas. Francis Lau, SES’ Chief Technology Officer. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

China has officially opened a national clean energy research center, the Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy. This plays to the strengths of the DICP, which has developed methanol-to-olefins conversion processes that help to reduce waste in the industrial processing of coal.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Europe’s tire waste production is 3 million tonnes per year; currently 65% to 70% of used tires end up in landfills. Tires have a better heating value than biomass or coal, and they contain a high content of volatile gasses. It will process about 30 kg of tire waste per hour.

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MARCH 27, 2024

The alliance, including India, aims to secure 5 GW of battery energy storage by 2024, aligning with the long-term goal of developing 90 GW of storage capacity worldwide. However, beyond celebrating this achievement lies a broader recognition of the crucial role batteries play in driving clean energy transitions worldwide.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. SES) has executed a revised license agreement with the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) for its U-GAS technology rights. The revised agreement expands the rights and further defines the terms for SES to sub-license U-GAS to third parties for coal, coal and biomass mixtures, or 100% biomass projects.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For the Americas region, the BMW Group has already reached agreements with domestic steel producers Steel Dynamics (SDI) and Big River Steel, a US Steel facility, to use renewable energy sources in their local steel production. The BMW Group has also set up closed-loop material cycles for sheet steel waste with several steel suppliers.

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DECEMBER 15, 2019

This includes a carbon border adjustment complementary to the existing ETS and the Just Transition Fund, to invest in research, innovation and green technology. Once completed, it will capture ~15% of available waste gases and convert those into 80 million liters of ethanol annually. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

The GREET (Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation) tool provides a common, transparent platform for lifecycle analysis (LCA) of of the energy and environmental effects of a wide variety of transportation fuels and vehicle technologies in major transportation sectors (i.e., Green ammonia.

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