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JULY 29, 2019

On 26 July, the first flue gas from the natural gas power plant, the Shepard Energy Center in Calgary, Canada, was directly transformed by the C2CNT process ( earlier post ) into carbon nanotubes. The process is self-heating and the carbonate electrolyte is continuously renewed by the addition of carbon dioxide. —Prof.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

GTI has released a site-specific engineering design titled “ Low-Carbon Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Wood Wastes ”. GTI led a team of engineers and scientists to produce a blueprint for converting an existing biomass facility into an RNG production site, using the wood waste feedstock and some of the existing infrastructure.

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MARCH 28, 2021

A new boron-copper catalyst for the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into chemicals or fuels has been developed by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen. CO 2 can be converted into larger carbon compounds that can be used as base chemicals for industry or as fuels. —Wolfgang Schuhmann.

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JUNE 1, 2020

A consortium comprising Engie Solutions, Siemens Gas and Power, Centrax, Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European universities is implementing the HYFLEXPOWER project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement 884229).

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

The union called on the shareholders of HKM to commit themselves clearly to the future of the traditional steel mill and to invest now in its conversion. There are currently 3,100 steel workers employed there. The French pipe manufacturer Vallourec SA wants to give up its 20% stake in HKM and withdraw from Germany.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. The research, accepted for publication in Applied and Environmental Microbiology raises the possibility of converting atmospheric CO 2 to commodity chemicals.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

million tranche to subsidiary Aemetis Biogas to build, own and operate dairy biomethane digesters, pipelines and gas cleanup/compression facilities primarily under 20-year agreements with dairy farms in California. and funded the first $8.3-million Aemetis’ senior lender, Third Eye Capital, is a major investor in Protair-X Technologies.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have successfully produced renewable methane from a biomass-based synthesis gas mixture in their pilot plant for methanation using a new honeycomb catalyst. Biogas facilities produce renewable gas mainly by fermenting biological waste.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The 22 selected projects fall into five topic areas for the “Bioenergy Technologies Office Scale-Up and Conversion” funding opportunity ( earlier post ): Scale-Up of Biotechnologies. Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion. Separations to Enable Biomass Conversion. Renewable Natural Gas.

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AUGUST 17, 2019

The technologies work as a system that converts organic waste into renewable hydrogen gas for use as a biofuel. There are usually thousands of microbes that are required to convert a complex organic mixture from biomass into electrons.

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APRIL 2, 2021

Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, together with the major industrial companies in the North Sea Port cluster, have launched the SeaH2Land vision for a gigawatt scale project to reduce carbon emissions in the Dutch-Flemish industrial cluster with renewable hydrogen.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Hyzon Motors, a leading supplier of heavy-duty hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles, announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Transform Materials, a provider of renewable hydrogen through its proprietary microwave reactor technology ( earlier post ).

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Wrightspeed and Matthews Specialty Vehicles are teaming up to develop, convert, and deliver battery-powered and range-extended electric buses, trucks, and specialty vehicles with industry-leading performance, efficiency, and total cost of ownership. The Matthews vehicles will be designed to have gross vehicle weight (GVW) up to 53,000 lbs.,

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have engineered a microbe to convert molecules of industrial waste gases, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, into acetone and isopropanol (IPA). Abdalla, T. Nat Biotechnol doi: 10.1038/s41587-021-01195-w.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The NSF grant will address challenges that remain before the renewable strategy can be applied practically on a commercial scale. There is still a lack of new redox-active carbon dioxide carriers for effective electrochemical carbon dioxide capture from such point sources as flue gas. —Haotian Wang.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

million Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) OPEEN+ grant to develop a method to convert natural gas into carbon nanotubes for materials that can replace metals in large-scale applications. With our new concept, we will convert directly natural gas into materials made of carbon nanotubes.

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JULY 20, 2020

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Caltech have found that copper that was once bound with oxygen is better at converting carbon dioxide into renewable fuels than copper that was never bound to oxygen. These scanning electron microscopy images show the copper catalyst structure at different stages.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from renewable sources. Just as plants use solar energy to produce sugar, for example, from carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and water in several steps, artificial photosynthesis uses renewable energies to produce valuable chemicals from CO 2 and water through electrolysis with the help of bacteria.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

LG Energy Solution (LGES)—the company’s dedicated cell subsidiary—plans to use 100% renewable energy in all its battery manufacturing plants worldwide by 2025. The initiative is called RE100 or “Renewable Electricity 100%”. In 2020, LGES reported a conversion rate of 33% across its business sites. Global Operations of LGES.

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JUNE 15, 2023

OXCCU, a company spun-out from the University of Oxford in 2021 that is focused on converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products ( earlier post ), completed an £18-million (US$22.8 million) Series A financing round.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) announced that new research on power-to-gas technology shows the technique holds the ability to significantly increase the use of intermittent renewable energy. to 35% by implementing a power-to-gas strategy. to 35% by implementing a power-to-gas strategy.

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MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel.

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JULY 11, 2018

A “well-to-wheel” life cycle assessment (LCA) by a team from synthetic fuels producer Greyrock ( earlier post ), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has determined the potential reduction of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutant emissions from the use of synthetic fuels directly converted from flare gas.

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JUNE 23, 2013

carbon monoxide evolving catalyst (Bi-CMEC) that can be used in conjunction with ionic liquids to convert CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO) using electricity. gas shift to generate H 2 , and this CO/H 2 mixture (syngas) can be used to generate synthetic petroleum and liquid fuels using Fischer? —DiMeglio and Joel Rosenthal.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

11,078,433 titled “ Conversion of Mixtures of C 2 -C 8 Olefins to Jet Fuel and/or Diesel Fuel in High Yield from Bio-Based Alcohols.”. This creates an opportunity for Gevo to diversify ethanol production to help meet increasing demand for renewable diesel and jet fuel. The USPTO has awarded Gevo US Patent No.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

McDonald describe their study of converting methanol (MTG) and a mixture of methanol and glycerol (MGTG) into gasoline-range hydrocarbons using a bench-top, fixed-bed microreactor. The technology of converting methanol into gasoline was discovered and commercialized more than 3 decades ago. Tropsch synthesis (FTS).

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JUNE 25, 2015

North American Repower (NAR)—a California-based natural gas engine management and conversion technology company—and Efficient Drivetrains, Inc. The Sectran Security trucks make frequent stops as part of their highly congested urban routes.

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JULY 14, 2018

Chemical reactor company INERATEC , a spinoff of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and the Spanish company GAS NATURAL FENOSA have built a plant in Spain that produces synthetic natural gas from CO 2 and renewable hydrogen. For the time being, the pilot plant at Sabadell is to produce 100 m 3 gas per day.

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JULY 12, 2011

a provider of licensable commercial micro-crop technology globally, has entered into an agreement with CRI Catalyst Company LP (CRI) to use Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion technology (IH 2 ) for the conversion of PetroAlgae’s micro-crop residues into renewable fuels. PetroAlgae Inc., Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 7, 2022

The conversion of biogenic CO 2 , a co-product of the anaerobic digestion, along with renewable hydrogen into synthetic methane via power-to-methane. For MAN Energy Solutions, this project involves converting a mixture of biogenic CO 2 and green hydrogen into synthetic natural gas by catalytic methanation.

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JULY 15, 2022

Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 26, 2011

a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, signed an engineering and consulting agreement with Mustang Engineering, LP for the conversion of Gevo’s renewable isobutanol to biojet fuel. The process technology for converting isobutanol to hydrocarbons is low-energy input and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 85%.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

CO 2 will be captured from the flue gases in a special downstream flue gas scrubber (Post-Combustion Capture, PCC). The hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide will then be catalytically converted into methanol, with a daily yield of approximately one ton of methanol using approximately 1.4 tonnes of CO 2.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. Maximizing solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency in photo-electrochemical cells. Electrochemical conversion of carbon gases to sustainable fuels and chemicals.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Conventional methanol production involves fossil feedstocks such as natural gas or coal. The CRI process takes waste gases captured from the points of emission at the stack and transfers them to a gas conditioning system where impurities are removed to produce carbon dioxide suitable for downstream methanol synthesis.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). Seasons and times of day. Winter O 3 increases due to reduced loss via traffic NO x.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Researchers from Japan and Mexico have developed a one-step hydrotreatment process over catalysts containing Ni-Mo and solid acids for the conversion of vegetable oils (Jatropha, palm and canola) to renewable diesel and LPG fuels. Jatropha oil produced the highest yield (wt %) of renewable diesel (83.5%), with 4.9%

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