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JANUARY 26, 2021

Infinium’s proprietary Electrofuels process converts renewable power into green hydrogen, then uses this green hydrogen and waste carbon dioxide to produce net-zero carbon fuels. Infinium Electrofuels have the potential to help investor Amazon and other companies to decarbonize their operations and meet their net-zero carbon goals.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Tenneco and Gentherm (formerly BSST/Amerigon) are part of a US Department of Energy (DOE) consortium actively developing a thermoelectric generator (TEG) for capturing waste exhaust heat in vehicles and converting it to electrical energy to be used to power electrical systems within the vehicle. Source: Crane (2013).Click Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Researchers from BASF, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), Heidelberg University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are seeking to develop a process for the photocatalytic conversion of CO 2 into methanol for use in fuel cells or internal combustion engines. million) over two years.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

These runs were part of OPTISOCHEM (OPTimized conversion of residual wheat straw to bio-ISObutene for bio based CHEMicals), a project which started in June 2017 and was granted €9.8 million by the Bio Based Industry- Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU) as part of the H2020 program.

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APRIL 17, 2018

The first batches of the bio-isobutene-based SAF were produced by Global Bioenergies in Leuna (Germany) and sent to SkyNRG for preliminary analysis, laying the basis for Tier 1 of the ASTM evaluation process. Global Bioenergies’ high-quality SAF can be produced from forestry or agricultural wastes.

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JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. The third one will process non-recyclable solid waste streams and transform them primarily into hydrogen. Other selection criteria included the projects’ potential for scalability and cost effectiveness.

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MARCH 31, 2019

To permanently reduce CO 2 emissions, steelmaker ArcelorMittal has developed a low-emissions technology strategy, which targets not only the use of alternative feedstocks and the conversion of CO 2 emissions, but also the direct avoidance of carbon (Carbon Direct Avoidance, CDA). —Frank Schulz, CEO of ArcelorMittal Germany.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Global Bioenergies has developed a conversion process based on fermentation for renewable resources (residual sugars, agricultural and forestry waste) into isobutene, one of the petrochemical building blocks that can be converted into ingredients for cosmetics, gasoline, kerosene, LPG and plastics.

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MAY 9, 2017

million (US$18-million) project to convert currently poorly valorized residual wheat straw into second-generation renewable isobutene for subsequent conversion into oligomers usable in lubricants, rubbers, solvents, plastics, or fuels. Global Bioenergies is partnering with Clariant, INEOS, IPSB, TechnipFMC and Linz University in a €16.4-million

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MARCH 15, 2017

Alstom successfully performed the first test run at 80 km/h (50 mph) of the fuel cell passenger train Coradia iLint ( earlier post ) on its own test track in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony (Germany). The hydrogen used for the test runs is the by-product of an industrial process, which is reasonably reused as a waste product.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, a company developing a processes to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has joined aireg (Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.) Thanks to the leadership of Global Bioenergies, we will witness the production of renewable jet fuel for the first time in Germany.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

O-Flexx specializes in thermoelectric generators; its R&D center and production facilities for both low- and high-temperature modules are based in Duisburg, Germany. Thermoelectrics can be utilized to convert heat into electrical energy, turning previously unused waste heat into a valuable source of energy.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

In a presentation at the 1 st Conference on CO 2 as Feedstock , held last week in Essen, Germany, LanzaTech CSO Dr. Sean Simpson described the company’s progress on developing a CO 2 pathway. Part of the challenge is locating sufficient quantities of hydrogen to enable large scale use of the CO 2 in waste gases. Earlier post.).

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MAY 23, 2012

As a key element to this first facility, Sundrop Fuels will deploy ThyssenKrupp Uhde’s High Temperature Winkler (HTW) gasification process, coupled with other well-established technologies for gas cleanup, methanol synthesis, and the ExxonMobil methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) conversion.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

Hydrogenics Corporation will supply a 1MW electrolyzer and provide engineering expertise to a consortium of companies working on the European project MefCO2 (methanol fuel from CO 2 ) in Germany. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Emissions Hydrogen Methanol Power-to-Gas'

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MARCH 29, 2010

Plant waste is available in large amounts and contains a mixture of complex sugars including hexoses and pentoses that can be fermented to alcohol. As these feedstocks represent the biggest portion of processing costs, we need rapid and efficient conversion of all sugars present. Earlier post.).

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JULY 2, 2015

Fraunhofer researchers in Germany have developed a process for the conversion of CO-rich exhaust gases from steel plants into fuels and specialty chemicals. In addition to the exhaust gases, syngas—similar gas mixtures from home and industrial waste incineration—can also be used for the engineered process.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The CO 2 can be obtained from the atmosphere or from biogenous waste gases and, as with all Audi e-fuels, is the only source of carbon. High syngas conversion per reactor pass and unique reactor productivity. The Fischer-Tropsch products are free of aromatics and sulfur compounds. Excellent temperature control. High load-flexibility.

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JUNE 3, 2015

Even in today’s modern electric vehicles, a lot of energy is wasted on heating or cooling, in turn limiting the already relatively short range by further draining the battery capacity. The aim of the €6.7-million million (US$7.5-million) The aim of the €6.7-million million (US$7.5-million)

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JUNE 9, 2017

In Hinwil the DAC plant has been installed on the roof of a waste recovery facility—operated by the municipal administration union KEZO—with its waste heat powering the Climeworks DAC plant. This technology is exemplified by Climeworks and Germany-based Sunfire.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Power-to-gas technology takes excess renewable electricity which would otherwise go to waste and converts it to hydrogen, which can then be blended with natural gas and utilized in everything from home appliances to power plants. Power-to-gas systems are currently in place in Germany and Canada.

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million) from the EU’s FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme), is aimed at developing technologies to produce cellulosic ethanol from agricultural and forestry waste, such as straws and wood chips, via a fermentation pathway. Source: Universita Degli Studi di Milano. Click to enlarge. The NEMO project, which has received funding of €5.9

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AUGUST 19, 2023

And Germany isn’t the only country investing in hydrogen technologies. In contrast, electricity produced by offshore wind power typically requires multiple conversions and transmission across long distances before it’s fed into the grid or an electrolyzer onshore, processes that siphon off power and reduce efficiency.

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JULY 5, 2011

Major investments will be needed worldwide in the developing and scaling up of clean energy technologies; sustainable farming and forestry techniques; climate-proofing of infrastructure; and in technologies reducing non-biological degradable waste production, according to the report.

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JULY 17, 2013

The primary goal of this funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0000949 ) is to provide disruptive new solar conversion and storage technology options to enable a much higher penetration of solar energy generation into the US energy mix. Novel approaches to high T solar conversion. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Value (units).

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AUGUST 31, 2023

A team from Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (Leipzig, Germany) has shown the scale-up of the production of aviation drop-in fuel-like mixtures (mainly n -decane) that are obtained by Kolbe electrolysis of medium-chain carboxylic acids ( n -hexanoic acid), which can be derived from biomass.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group (REG) signed a joint research agreement with Clariant to evaluate the potential use of cellulosic sugars from sources such as agricultural waste and residues to produce biofuel. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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APRIL 3, 2009

In general, biofuels made from organic waste are environmentally more benign than those from energy crops. On the production side, options exist for improving technologies in terms of new feedstocks and conversion technologies as well as more efficient use of biomass. Menichetti and Otto. Ravindranath et al. Ravindranath et al.

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MARCH 16, 2011

So when we bring the V to a product, recycled oil, we start to change the conversation. While this approach produced lubrication stocks, it also produced large volumes of petroleum-contaminated acid clay sludge, which became classified as a hazardous waste requiring proper management and disposal—hence increasing the host.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Electrochaea GmbH (Munich, Germany). Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000.

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MAY 22, 2019

The climate control system uses a heat pump that pools the waste heat from the high-voltage components. Depending on the situation, the system chooses predictively between freewheeling with the engine switched off and coasting recuperation, i.e. the recovery of kinetic energy and its conversion into electrical energy.

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MAY 25, 2022

Ninety years ago in places like England and Germany, broadcasters transmitted to commercially produced black-and-white electromechanical television sets, such as the Baird Televisor , that used these disks to produce moving images. Frames printed in 3D hold everything together, mounted on a wooden base.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

Companies and research organisations from Estonia, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and the UK were involved. The third, DEMOSOFC, is studying the implementation of a 50 kWe SOFC system with NELLHI-based stacks fed with biogas from a municipal waste water-treatment plant. NELLHI received €1.6 million (US$1.9

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

They also produce little or no radioactive waste. TAE’s power-plant design would deposit heat in the containment vessel’s walls and convert it to steam to drive a turbine using a conventional thermal-conversion system. These beams also heat the plasma and supply it with fresh fuel. It’s a superelegant beast,” says Binderbauer. “In

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

In order to further increase energy efficiency, the standard four-zone deluxe automatic air conditioning works with the heat pump, which uses the waste heat of the high-voltage components. Orders are now being accepted for the Audi A8 L 60 TFSI e quattro at a base price in Germany of €109,000 (US$120,700). just above idle speed.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

Walter Leitner at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, has developed a new concept that can be used to produce pure formic acid from CO 2 in a continuous process using catalytic hydrogenation. However, a homogeneous metal complex that is able to catalyze the multistep conversion of CO 2 and hydrogen into methanol has not yet been reported.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The vehicles were part of the ALABC display at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC Europe 2015) held at the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz, Germany. The cars, two of which were produced in association with major OEMs (Ford and Hyundai/Kia), exhibit substantial environmental and fuel-efficient benefits through low-cost hybridization.

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