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MARCH 26, 2021

A large-scale demonstration converting biocrude to renewable diesel fuel has passed a significant test, operating for more than 2,000 hours continuously without losing effectiveness. It addresses the need to convert biocrude, a mixture of carbon-based polymers, into biofuels. Biowaste to biofuel conversion process.

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JULY 18, 2020

With this application in mind, we created spirocyclic polymers with N-aryl bonds that demonstrated noninterconnected microporosity in the absence of ladder linkages. The resulting glassy polymer membranes demonstrated nonthermal membrane fractionation of light crude oil through a combination of class- and size-based “sorting” of molecules.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2021

However, to be commercially viable, the process needs to be improved to yield a higher amount of desirable carbon-rich products. In previous studies, the researchers had established the precise conditions that gave the best electrical and chemical environment for creating commercially interesting carbon-rich products. earlier post ).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK have developed a novel reference electrode for polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolyzers (PEMWEs) and used it to measure the electrochemical surface area (ECSA) of Pt catalysts in situ for the first time. 2015.01.005. Brightman et al.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Financing for novel biorefinery process systems can be a barrier to commercializing advanced biofuels, and this funding will reduce technological uncertainties and enable industry deployment. The ethanol will be converted to sustainable aviation fuel at LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Fuels facility, in Soperton, Georgia. Comstock Inc.,

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JUNE 9, 2011

million) to advance its YXY technology, which converts carbohydrates into furanic building blocks for making renewable materials and fuels. This will facilitate the development and commercialization of Avantium’s next-generation polyester: PEF. YXY can be implemented in existing chemical production assets.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Louisiana-based startup New Oil Resources (NOR) is commercializing a near-critical (i.e., 320-390 °C, 200-420 bar) aqueous phase process which converts biomass containing cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin into a high-octane gasoline fraction. The process has a small footprint, produces renewable energy and is water friendly.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Mascoma will then convert the feedstock to cellulosic ethanol through its proprietary process, which produces lignin as a by-product. Chevron has filed applications for two patents on processes to convert lignin to a hydrocarbon feedstock via hydroprocessing; both applications were published on 3 September 2009. Earlier post.)

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MAY 16, 2016

This project will engineer cyanobacteria for the production of ethyl laurate, which is easily converted to “drop-in” ready biofuels or bioproducts. This uses carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), water, and light as the main inputs, and does not waste carbon and energy by limiting the amount of biomass produced. Duke University. LanzaTech Inc.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Ecolectro’s AEIs would be resilient to the harsh operating conditions present in existing alkaline exchange membranes that prevent their widespread adoption in commercial applications. Novel Polymer-enhanced Rechargeable Aluminum-Alkaline Battery Technology – $2,000,000. Ionic Materials, Inc.

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JULY 10, 2009

Ignite Energy Resources supercritical water process diagram. IER’s proprietary supercritical water technology (SCW) transforms low-ranked coals, including lignite, directly into higher-valued oils and cleaner coal products. Source: IER. Click to enlarge. not via an indirect pathway (gasification) as in Fischer-Tropsch processes.

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DECEMBER 3, 2016

Researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities have been awarded a $50,000 National Science Foundation I-Corps grant to explore the commercialization potential of their new pathway for biojet from biomass waste. Earlier post.). Yang currently holds a patent on the process.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

SOLVE adds a solvent to the steam in SAGD (basic operation depicted above) to reduce energy input and water consumption. Unlike surface mined oil sands, in-situ recovery involves much less land disturbance, but still requires the use of water and natural gas in the steam production process. Source: StatoilHydro. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, and Petronas, the national oil company of Malaysia, will work together to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals using CO 2 as the carbon source. LanzaTech conceptual gas-to-liquids platform.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed an inexpensive and simple prototype of a triboelectric nanogenerator that could be used to produce energy from ocean waves by making use of contact electrification between a patterned plastic nanoarray and water. The tank is filled with deionized water. Or a surface charge density of 4.5

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MAY 3, 2012

The syrup was then processed by Amyris at its California pilot facility using its proprietary yeast fermentation system that converts plant sugars into its trademarked product, Biofene, a renewable hydrocarbon commonly known as farnesene. We look forward to utilizing Ceres’ sweet sorghum in our commercial-scale production facilities.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical production process for fermenting methane into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo , lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials.

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APRIL 7, 2013

Photosynthetic processes used by plants or algae use sunlight to convert atmospheric CO 2 to energy-rich metabolites (carbohydrates, lipids, or hydrocarbons) which can be processed into transportation fuels. Solar photovoltaic (PV) devices harvest and convert sunlight directly to electricity. Photovoltaic Solar Energy.

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MARCH 11, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected 33 small businesses to work directly with DOE national labs to accelerate the commercialization of new clean energy technologies. Amsen will characterize its new polymer electrolyte membranes and evaluate against DOE targets for fuel cell applications. Amsen Technologies, working with LANL.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

Laser-induced graphene, created by James Tour and his colleagues last year, is a flexible film with a surface of porous graphene made by exposing polyimide to a commercial laser-scribing beam. Initially, the researchers made laser-induced graphene with commercially available polyimide sheets. —James Tour.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Avantium uses a catalytic process to convert carbohydrates into furanics building blocks. The pilot plant is expected to become operational in the first quarter of 2011 and marks a major milestone in the commercialization of Avantium’s technology. Click to enlarge. —Tom van Aken, CEO Avantium.

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JUNE 29, 2009

Upon approval of the grant, Dow and the other collaborators will work with Algenol to demonstrate the technology at a level to sufficiently prove that it can be implemented on a commercial scale. The result is a CO 2 capture process which converts industrially derived CO 2 into more sustainable fuels and chemicals.

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MARCH 30, 2014

Past themes have included topics as diverse as the role of big data and the energy-water nexus. These novel materials will unite the well-controlled physical properties of polymers with the promising functional properties of metal-facilitated self-assembly. MITEI received a total of 49 proposals from across the Institute.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo has a low capital cost retrofit strategy for ethanol plants to produce isobutanol for direct use; for use in the production of plastics, materials, rubber and other polymers; and for use in the production of hydrocarbon fuels. Isobutanol for the production of plastics, fibers, rubber and other polymers. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 11, 2010

To release the sugars locked into the cellulose polymers in biomass, producers use both physical and chemical methods, with physical chemical pretreatment processes followed by enzymatic hydrolysis being the most common, note Raines and Binder. Furthermore, the hydrolysate products are readily converted into ethanol by microorganisms.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Water will be the primary byproduct. Engineering E.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The new superjunction structure will surpass the theoretical trade-off between on- resistance and breakdown voltage observed in conventional unipolar GaN, leading to more efficient and cheaper power converters. The system takes three main inputs: ambient air, water, and a sustainable energy source, and produces butanol with high selectivity.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production. megawatt hours to form 50 metric tons of oxygen.

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MAY 15, 2021

At commercial scale, the inputs to the proposed “carbon refinery” process are carbon-free renewable energy, water, and CO 2. If successful, it will be the first biological platform to convert carboxylic acids into a broad range of fuels and commodities with greater than 100% carbon efficiency. INvizyne Technologies, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated solar water splitting by photovoltaic-electrolysis with a solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency of more than 30%—a new record. The maximum power-point voltage (VMPP) of a typical commercial triple-junction solar cell is in the range of 2.0–3.5 V The prior record was 24.4%.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

In the second step, the electrolytic splitting of carbon dioxide and water vapor takes place simultaneously. This co-electrolysis technology commercialized by the technology venture Sunfire produces hydrogen and carbon monoxide in a single process step. P2X Kopernikus Project.

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MARCH 10, 2018

The paper is a characterization study of commercial prototype carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes consisting of sub–1.27-nm-diameter Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. Images of the membranes tested in the study. (A) Mattershift.

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JULY 14, 2015

The algae uses CO 2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks. A single 2,000-acre commercial Algenol module is the equivalent of planting 40 million trees or removing 36,000 cars from the road.

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APRIL 29, 2015

The papers provide technical details on the high performance fuel-cell (FC) stack; specific insights into FC separator, and stack manifold; the newly developed boost converter; and the new high-pressure hydrogen storage system with innovative carbon fiber windings. Conventional flow field structure. Konno et al. Click to enlarge. Konno et al.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

Researchers from Germany and Switzerland have manufactured and characterized a novel aerogel catalyst that could significantly increase the efficiency and life of low-temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cells as well as reduce material costs by reducing the platinum loading required. Source: PSI. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 12, 2015

This area currently has three areas of focus: Intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells; Polymer electrolyte fuel cells; and. One way is to generate hydrogen by splitting water and storing the hydrogen, as in the power-to-gas schemes under examination (e.g., Reversible fuel-electrolysis cells. earlier post ). —Harry Tuller.

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DECEMBER 17, 2016

The 16 REFUEL projects seek to develop scalable technologies for converting water and molecules from the air into energy-dense, carbon-neutral liquid fuels (CNLFs) using electrical energy from renewable sources. High-Efficiency Ammonia Production from Water and Nitrogen (Category 1). Earlier post.) hydrogen or electricity).

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