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DOE awards $22.1M to 10 nuclear technology projects including clean hydrogen production

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million to 10 industry-led projects to advance nuclear technologies, including two aimed at expanding clean hydrogen production with nuclear energy. A well-established downstream syngas-to-synfuel conversion process, such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, converts the syngas to liquid synfuel for a total projected cost of less than $4/gallon.

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Researchers develop earth-abundant photocatalyst for conversion of ammonia into hydrogen

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This result demonstrates the potential for highly efficient, electrically driven production of hydrogen from an ammonia carrier with earth-abundant transition metals. This discovery paves the way for sustainable, low-cost hydrogen that could be produced locally rather than in massive centralized plants. —Yuan et al.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award some $118 million in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels. Topic Area 1: Pre-Pilot Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries Algenesis Corporation, “Pre-Pilot Scale Production of Algae-based Jet Fuel and Polyurethane Monomers”, $4,987,974.

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UGA-led team engineers bacterium for the direct conversion of unpretreated biomass to ethanol

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A team led by Dr. Janet Westpheling at the University of Georgia has engineered the thermophilic, anaerobic, cellulolytic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii , which in the wild efficiently uses un-pretreated biomass—to produce ethanol from biomass without pre-treatment of the feedstock. Earlier post.). Whereas wild-type C.

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Calysta Energy engineering organisms to convert methane to low-cost liquid hydrocarbons; BioGTL process

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Start-up Calysta Energy plans to use methane as a feedstock for engineered organisms to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels and high value chemicals that are cost-effective, scalable and reduce environmental impact. Conversion method. Click to enlarge. Comparison of biofuel platform efficiency (source: Calysta Energy). ProteinGPS.

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Aqua Metals and 6K Energy partner to develop low-carbon CAM precursors for Li-ion batteries

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The companies have initiated the partnership with a non-recurring engineering (NRE) agreement to develop low-carbon technology for the conversion of critical metals—first virgin and later recycled material—into battery-grade cathode active material (CAM) precursors, which are essential to 6K Energy’s advanced cathode manufacturing.

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Researchers use chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas

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The process is detailed in a paper in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemical Engineering. Herein, we demonstrate a sulfur looping scheme in a one-reactor system using a low-cost and environmentally safe iron-based sulfur carrier. But what we are doing is adjusting this decomposition process and making a valuable product from that.

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