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JULY 26, 2023

Unconventional REE sources such as domestic coal and coal waste could yield the materials needed for the strong magnets necessary to turn wind into electricity and operate electric vehicles. We then used market prices to develop well-defined methods for determining diverse product values. Tarka, T.J. Mauter, M.S.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0002654 ) specifically aims to increase the capability of algal systems to capture CO 2 and put it to productive use. Capturing this waste carbon then allows for algae to be cultivated into a variety of biofuels and bioproducts. ethanol production), biogas purification (e.g.,

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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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MARCH 2, 2019

Shell will join a consortium comprising Air Liquide, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam in an effort to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemicals facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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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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JANUARY 7, 2013

Located in Henan Province, China, the $250-million coal-to-methanol facility uses SES’ patented and proprietary gasification technologies. The plant will be ramping up methanol production to full capacity as the Yima Joint Venture completes all remaining commissioning and start-up steps throughout the first half of 2013.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

The €200-million Steelanol project is a first of its kind for the European steel industry. Once production reaches full capacity, the Steelanol plant will produce 80 million liters (21 million gallons US) per year of sustainable ethanol—almost half of the total current ethanol demand for fuel mixing in Belgium.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Conventional methanol production involves fossil feedstocks such as natural gas or coal. This can be recovered from either industrial processes or biomass, such as waste and residues, or atmospheric sources. Hydrogen can also be processed from by-product hydrogen available in some industrial waste streams.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The contract is expected to make Air France KLM DGF’s largest European airline customer and lays the groundwork for expansion of this commercial relationship as DGF scales up production at the Louisiana and additional planned SAF production plants to be located in the United States and beyond. —Christopher J.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Electra’s process emits zero carbon dioxide emissions and carries zero green premium, meaning it will cost the same or less than existing production methods powered by fossil fuels. If the steel industry were a country, its carbon emissions would rank third in the world behind China and the United States.

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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. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Therefore, the detection of impurities such as aluminum is very important during REE processing.

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MARCH 31, 2019

This year, the Group intends to launch a new project in the ArcelorMittal plant in Hamburg to use hydrogen on an industrial scale for the direct reduction of iron ore (H-DR) in the steel production process for the first time. The group runs four large production sites in the country. Valentin Vogl, Max Åhman, Lars J.

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JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Project funding: £4,750,429.16.

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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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AUGUST 26, 2016

million in federal funding for cost-shared projects that will develop technologies that utilize CO 2 from coal-fired power plants to produce useful products. Another option is to use the CO 2 as a reagent to create useful products, such as cement, plastics, or liquid fuels. —DE-FOA-0001622.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Similarly, for at least 30 of the 35 CMs, the United States imports more than half its consumption, with no domestic onshore production of 14 CMs. Unconventional feedstock resources including raw acid mine drainage (AMD) fluids and precipitates, mine wastes (refuse tailings), and/or other deleterious materials.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

.: MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to produce ethanol and chemicals via LanzaTech’s fermentation process using syngas resulting from the gasification of coal.

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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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DECEMBER 15, 2019

The target for ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products is in line with an ambition announced in May to be carbon neutral in Europe by 2050. Fossil fuel carbon capture and storage, where the current method of steel production is maintained but the carbon is then captured and stored or re-used rather than emitted into the atmosphere.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The steel will be used in standard production of cars at the BMW Group’s European plants from 2026 onwards, eventually reducing CO 2 emissions by up to 400,000 tons per year. Side frame production in the press shop at BMW Group Plant Leipzig. In October 2001, the group announced an agreement with Swedish startup H2 Green Steel.

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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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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Aker Carbon Capture and Haldor Topsoe have signed a memorandum of understanding with the intention to offer a complete solution for low-carbon hydrogen production. This process can be applied on emissions from various sources, from gas, coal, cement, refineries, and waste-to-energy through to hydrogen and other process industries.

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JULY 22, 2018

West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. Conventional rare-earth recovery methods require an expensive, difficult and messy extraction process that generates large volumes of contaminated waste. —Paul Ziemkiewicz.

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JUNE 30, 2023

BASF has opened Europe’s first co-located center of battery material production and battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. The new plant is not only the first production facility for high-performance cathode active materials in Germany, but also the first fully automated large-scale cathode active materials production facility in Europe.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

LCAs conducted with the GREET platform permit consideration of a host of different fuel production, and vehicle material and production pathways, as well as alternative vehicle utilization assumptions. Argonne added a new “E-fuel” tab that covers several e-fuel production pathways. Green ammonia.

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JULY 19, 2018

From 2014 to 2017, Celanese operated a 275,000 metric ton per year industrial ethanol unit at the Nanjing, China Chemical Industrial Park. natural gas, coal, pet coke, biomass and waste. Celanese discovered that ethanol can be made on an industrial scale directly from acetic acid with very high selectivity and yield.

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JULY 19, 2012

Celanese TCX production process. TCX builds on Celanese’s acetyl platform and integrates new technologies to produce ethanol using basic hydrocarbon feedstocks—natural gas, coal and pet coke now, with biomass and waste planned for the future. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 24, 2010

LanzaTech has shown 2,3-BD production from waste gas resources in an industrial setting. 2,3-BD can be readily converted to intermediaries like butenes, butadiene and methyl ethyl ketone that are used in the production of hydrocarbon fuels and a variety of chemicals including polymers, synthetic rubbers, plastics and textiles.

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

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Water purification technology company Aquatech has been awarded a contract for a Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) plant for a coal-to-chemicals facility in Hailer in Inner Mongolia. The coal-to-chemicals plant is owned by Hulunbeier New Gold Chemical Co.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Waste Management and Genomatica, an industrial biotech company targeting sustainable chemicals ( earlier post ), have formed a strategic joint development agreement to research and advance Genomatica’s technology and manufacturing processes to enable production of intermediate and basic chemicals from syngas made from municipal solid waste.

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JULY 13, 2010

Enel has inaugurated an industrial-scale hydrogen-fuelled combined cycle power plant at Fusina (Venice, Italy). The industrial-scale plant—the first facility of its kind—has an overall capacity of 16 MW. In addition, Fusina is a leader in waste disposal. That is the equivalent of the waste produced by 300,000 people.

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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. Earlier post.). Francis Lau, SES’ Chief Technology Officer.

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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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JULY 2, 2013

BASF, the Linde Group and ThyssenKrupp plan to develop an environmentally friendly and competitive basis for utilizing carbon dioxide as a raw material on an industrial scale. In a subsequent catalytic process step, the hydrogen is then reacted with large volumes of CO 2 , also from other industrial processes, to produce syngas.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

ArcelorMittal Europe is developing a series of industrial-scale hydrogen projects for use in blast furnace-based steelmaking that will start to deliver substantial CO 2 emissions savings even within the next five years, as well as progressing a project to test the ability of hydrogen to reduce iron ore and form DRI on an industrial scale.

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MAY 8, 2012

In 2011, the company announced its first GaN on Silicon products: power transistors, diodes and modules, based on its patented, high-performance EZ GaN technology. TPH3006PS- 600V, 180 mohm GaN transistor in the industry standard TO-220 package. TPT3044M - 600V, 3-ph GaN Module and related inverter application board TDMD2000E0I.

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