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NCSU team develops catalyst for thermal hybrid water-splitting and syngas generation with exceptional conversion; H2 gas and liquid fuels

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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a highly effective new perovskite-promoted iron oxide redox catalyst for a hybrid solar-redox scheme they had proposed earlier for partial oxidation and water-splitting of methane. Schematic of the hybrid process for liquid fuel and hydrogen generation.

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Lux Research: cost of electrofuels remains far from viable

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The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Hydrogen-to-fuels. Source: Lux Research. Click to enlarge.

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Stanford’s GCEP awards $10.5M for research on renewable energy; solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy

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The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 The goal of this project is to develop a hybrid perovskite-silicon solar cell that significantly improves the light-to-energy conversion efficiency of conventional cells. Maximizing solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency in photo-electrochemical cells.

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DOE BETO awards $10M to 7 advanced biofuels projects

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Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. The Ohio State University in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Green Biologics. The University of California, Riverside in collaboration with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and CogniTek. BETO awards. Organizations.

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DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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UGA/NCSU team engineers hyperthermophilic bacterium to produce industrial chemical building blocks from CO2 and H2; ARPA-E project

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Researchers at the University of Georgia and North Carolina State University have used a unique temperature-dependent approach in engineering a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus to be able to use CO 2 and hydrogen to produce 3-hydroxypropionic acid, one of the top 12 industrial chemical building blocks.

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Start-up commercializing NC State technology for drop-in biofuels; full commercial production targeted for 2016

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Avjet Biotech will sell stock and use the funds raised to reimburse the university for its investment in patent applications, as well as allocate development capital to create a continuous production model for the biofuel refining system. The free fatty acid (FFA) and low concentrations of hydrogen are fed into a deoxygenation reactor.