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Ariel researchers develop new type of hydrogen generator with sodium borohydride for on-demand use

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Researchers at Ariel University in Israel have developed a new type of hydrogen generator for “on-demand” use with fuel cells. hours of their experiment, 110 L of hydrogen was generated with an average flow rate of 290 mL/min and 98% conversion efficiency. —Zakhvatkin et al. 1c00367.

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TU/ecomotive develops waste-free car with UBQ: Luca

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During the UBQ conversion process, the unsorted residual waste stream is reduced into its more basic natural components. A certified B-Corp, Israel-based UBQ Materials envisions a world where finite resources are infinitely reused. UBQ Materials was founded in 2012 by entrepreneurs Rabbi Yehuda Pearl and Jack (Tato) Bigio.

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Israeli company reports successful stage 1 testing of solar CO2-to-fuels technology

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Israel-based NewCO2Fuels (NCF), a subsidiary of GreenEarth Energy Limited in Australia, reported completion of stage 1 testing of its proof-of-concept system for the conversion of CO 2 into fuels using solar energy. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels Solar Solar fuels' Concept of the NCF process. Click to enlarge.

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One-step process for production of renewable diesel blendstock from soybean oil

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in Israel report the development of a comercially-viable, one-step catalytic hydrotreating process for the conversion of soybean oil to renewable diesel-type fuel in a paper in the journal Fuel. The conversion of soybean oil to green diesel was carried out on Pt/SAPO-11-Al 2 O 3 catalyst in a trickle-bed reactor. 2013.04.044.

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Researchers develop two-step method for efficient decoupled water splitting

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A team of researchers in Israel has developed a two-step electrochemical-chemical cycle for decoupled water splitting with high efficiency. The method is described in a paper in the journal Nature Energy. 2 in a membrane-free, two-electrode cell. Hen Dotan, Avigail Landman, Stafford W. Sheehan, Kirtiman Deo Malviya, Gennady E.

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Weizmann Institute team engineers E. coli to eat carbon dioxide

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Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel have created a strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli that grows by consuming carbon dioxide instead of sugars or other organic molecules. The findings point to means of developing, in the future, carbon-neutral fuels. Shmuel Gleizer, Roee Ben-Nissan, Yinon M.

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Weizmann Institute solar technology to convert CO2 into fuel; targeted for brown coal use in Australia

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An Israeli-Australian venture will use solar technology developed at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of brown coal. The venture has been recently launched in Israel by NewCO2Fuels Ltd., is now building a solar reactor for the conversion of CO 2 on an industrial scale.

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