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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The first Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck pre-production units have begun leaving the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center; the all-electric F-150 Lightning goes on sale next spring. The investment and 450 added jobs will help increase production capacity to 80,000 trucks a year. Ford has invested $7.7

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

through its subsidiary dedicated to the deployment of technologies for the energy transition, NextChem , signed today a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support the production of green hydrogen via electrolysis in the United States. (EGPNA), and Maire Tecnimont S.p.A.,

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As part of a White House roundtable to launch the Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) Grand Challenge to decarbonize the aviation sector by 2050 ( earlier post ), the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $64.7 Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion. Separations to Enable Biomass Conversion.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

million metric tons of electronic waste in 2019, up more than 21% over five years, according to the United Nations’ most recent assessment. Only about 17% of that e-waste was recycled, and what happens to the rest can be detrimental for both human health and privacy. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

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MAY 4, 2023

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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JUNE 8, 2012

a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, has begun initial production of cellulosic ethanol from waste materials at its demonstration facility in Westbury, Québec. The start of ethanol production at our Westbury facility is a significant milestone. Enerkem Inc., Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Global Bioenergies reported that runs using wheat straw hydrolysate provided by its partner Clariant were successfully performed in its Leuna demo plant, leading to the production of cellulosic isobutene for the first time at this scale. million by the Bio Based Industry- Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU) as part of the H2020 program.

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MAY 12, 2011

Waste Management has made a strategic investment in Agnion Energy , Inc. Waste Management joins other investors in Agnion including,Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Munich Venture Partners and Wellington Partners. Waste Management wants to maximize the value of the materials it manages. Agnion’s Heatpipe-Reformer.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In Australia, QUT researchers and Mercurius Australia are partnering on a pilot plant to prove the economic viability of turning sugarcane waste into either jet and diesel fuel or chemicals that could be used to make plastic soft drink and beer bottles. Does not use enzymes or microbes therefore it is not sensitive to feedstock impurities.

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JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors. during steel manufacturing.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

The products in red would be produced by synthetic biocatalysts, while those in black—ethanol, acetic acid, and 2,3 BDO—can be produced by the LanzaTech native microorganisms. Part of the challenge is locating sufficient quantities of hydrogen to enable large scale use of the CO 2 in waste gases. Source: LanzaTech.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The Enerkem process has four steps: feedstock pre-treatment; gasification; syngas conditioning; and conversion. million (US$51 million) comes from Enerkem’s existing institutional investors—Rho Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures and BDR Capital—as well as from new investors Waste Management and Cycle Capital. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 27, 2023

As part of this new project, HBIS and BHP will trial pilot-scale demonstrations of carbon capture and utilization technologies at HBIS’ steel operations in China. The trial will develop and test technologies that can be integrated into steel production processes to reduce the CO 2 emissions.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Once production reaches full capacity, the Steelanol plant will produce 80 million liters (21 million gallons US) per year of sustainable ethanol—almost half of the total current ethanol demand for fuel mixing in Belgium. The ethanol will be jointly marketed by ArcelorMittal and LanzaTech under the Carbalyst brand name.

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JULY 11, 2017

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil), India’s flagship national oil company and LanzaTech signed a Statement of Intent to construct the world’s first refinery offgas-to-bioethanol production facility in India. The basic engineering for the 40-million liter per year (10.6

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DECEMBER 12, 2020

Tianqi, one of the world’s top producers of lithium used in EV batteries, said it would use the proceeds from the stake sale to repay part of its $1.88 Waste material is trucked to designated areas within the site where it is contoured and replanted as part of an ongoing rehabilitation plan.

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JUNE 23, 2022

The end product is a transportation fuel suited for aircraft, ships as well as heavy and light road vehicles. Establishing the infrastructure for Power-to-Liquids production contributes to the strengthening of co-operation between Neste and VTT in e-fuel production development from pilot to commercial scale.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Experimental setup of the solar heated solid oxide electrolyzer system for hydrogen production. 2 a steam conversion rate of 70% at 93% electrical electrolyzer efficiency was achieved. Water electrolysis is considered as a promising pathway for the production of sustainable hydrogen to be used as such an energy carrier.

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APRIL 23, 2014

The Dearman project is to deliver a production-feasible waste-heat recovery system for urban commercial vehicles, which offers life-cycle CO 2 savings of up to 40%; fuel savings of 25%, with the potential of up to almost 50%; and potential payback in less than three years. Earlier post. ). The IDP10-funded project will cost £3.25

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation. —Eduard Kerkhoven. Zhou et al.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Lamborghini unveiled the Lanzador electric concept at Monterey Car Week—a vision of a future purely-electric fourth series production Lamborghini. The Lanzador is a preview of the production vehicle that Lamborghini will present in 2028. Compared to plastic parts made of petroleum, this is 80% more environmentally friendly.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

million in federal funding for cost-shared projects that will develop technologies that utilize CO 2 from coal-fired power plants to produce useful products. Another option is to use the CO 2 as a reagent to create useful products, such as cement, plastics, or liquid fuels. Mineralization concepts utilizing CO 2 with industrial wastes.

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JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects cover a wide range of sectors contributing to the EU's decarbonization efforts such as production, distribution and use of green hydrogen, waste-to-hydrogen, offshore wind, manufacturing of photovoltaic (PV) modules, battery storage and recycling, carbon capture and storage, sustainable aviation fuels, and advanced biofuels.

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MAY 3, 2021

The Russian nuclear industry has technological and scientific potential in developing hydrogen production—both by electrolysis and from methane conversion with associated CO 2 capture and storage technologies. Rosatom employs over 260,000 people in more than 400 enterprises and organizations.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Advancements that improve the yield and achievable product purity. Advancements that minimize and/or monetize waste products. Developing new absorbents, precipitants, catalysts, or new processing conditions that can efficiently and selectively extract lithium directly from geothermal brines.

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JULY 28, 2009

Using electrolyzed water rather than harsh chemicals could be a more effective and environmentally friendly method in the pretreatment of ethanol waste products to produce an acetone-butanol-ethanol fuel mix, according to research conducted at the University of Illinois. Hao Feng. —Hao Resources. Transactions of the ASABE.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

The BMW Group is involved in several projects, each with different approaches to recovering dissipated heat energy, and at various levels: in research, pre-production and series development. The gas turbine process is the first phase of the energy conversion and serves as the source of heat for the downstream steam cycle in the second phase.

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

Six research institutions and seven industrial partners from Europe will participate in the new BioBoost project, aimed at converting residual biomass into energy carriers for the production of high-quality and engine-compatible fuels and chemicals as well as for the generation of electricity and heat. above 1000 °C.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Waste gas is one example of a source of syngas. Both the chemically-produced and biotech-produced products can be converted to methyl methacrylate (MMA). In addition to 2-HIBA for the plastics industry, other products could include their derivatives for the cosmetics industry, or C 4 alcohols for the paints and varnishes industry.

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MARCH 4, 2022

Carbon transformation company Twelve and biotechnology company LanzaTech have transformed CO 2 emissions into ethanol as a part of an ongoing research and development partnership. Ethanol is typically produced using biological processes or as a petrochemical, through ethylene hydration, using fossil fuels.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

With its ability to produce synthetic and renewable-fuels and chemicals from feedstocks such as natural gas, flared gas, biogas, biomass, municipal solid waste, carbon dioxide (CO?) EFT’s offering is open to both accredited and non-accredited investors. Both of our configurations are highly integrated, modular and repeatable.

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MAY 30, 2020

Waste into X (WiX); $5.0 The global demand for critical materials (CMs) and other metals continues to grow while their production from primary ore resources is limited. Schematic showing the solid streams in ARPA-E’s conceptualization of zero waste going to landfill. million; 1-5 awards. million; 1-5 awards. million; 1-5 awards.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

Stanford engineers have developed a process—photon-enhanced thermionic emission, PETE—that simultaneously uses the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity in a way that could make solar power production more than twice as efficient as existing methods. (a) a) Energy diagram of the PETE process. Nick Melosh. Nick Melosh.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The complete Blue World system includes the fuel cell stack, the methanol reformer, heat-exchanger, power conversion units and a set of power and operation controllers, and balance of plant. A closed thermal integration enables reuse of fuel cell waste heat for fuel evaporation thereby increasing efficiency.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Involving 16 further partners, the project, which is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), has over the past four years gathered fundamental insights into the conversion of steel mill process gases into chemical products. In addition to the CO 2 from these gases, Carbon2Chem also uses hydrogen.

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MARCH 18, 2022

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have turned to a process called capacitive deionization that uses the electric charges of nickel, manganese and cobalt to select them out from the waste stream. At some point there is a conversion step followed by a separations process. 2018.02.024.

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APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. Liquids production EPICC. secondary use of waste heat.

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