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JUNE 1, 2012

Electrolysis company Hydrogenics Corporation has received an order from E.ON for a “Power-to-Gas” project in Germany. The 2 MW energy storage facility, to be located in Falkenhagen in northeast Germany, will use surplus renewable energy sources to produce hydrogen for storage in the country’s existing natural gas pipeline network.

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JUNE 17, 2021

e-CO 2 Met is the first pilot project for TotalEnergies to convert CO 2 with renewable electric energy to methanol. e-CO 2 Met is the first pilot project for TotalEnergies to convert CO 2 with renewable electric energy to methanol. As a result, the system requires significantly less electricity to produce one kilogram of hydrogen.

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APRIL 2, 2021

Germany and Europe are on their way to a hydrogen future. The German federal government approved its hydrogen strategy in June of last year. The strategy aims to build electrolysis plants for hydrogen production with a total output of 10 GW in Germany by the year 2040. Fraunhofer IPT. —Christopher Baum.

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JUNE 11, 2020

In Germany, BSE Engineering and the Institute for Renewable Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have demonstrated the conversion of wind power into renewable methanol. The team uses green electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen in an electrolysis step. FlexMethanol.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Germany-based RENK Group, a manufacturer of mission-critical drive technologies, is supplying three high-speed special gear units via RENK-Maag GmbH , a group company, for compressors for the production of green steel to Siemens Energy Compressors GmbH as part of the “SALCOS” (Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking) project of the Salzgitter AG steel group.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A new TOTAL hydrogen filling station on Karlsruhe’s Südtangente ring-road was commissioned on Wednesday. million) for the hydrogen facility under its National Innovation Program for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP). Steam electrolyzers ( earlier post ) are excellent for converting electrical energy into chemical energy.

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

The goal is to develop an efficient and powerful test plant that will use carbon dioxide and water as well as electricity from renewable sources and bacteria to produce specialty chemicals. Evonik and Siemens are now combining these two, previously separate, plants in a test facility at Evonik’s site in Marl (Germany).

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AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. In these clusters, the wind turbines are integrated with electrolyzers that generate hydrogen from desalinated seawater. US $5 PER KILOGRAM Cost of green hydrogen today.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. The sunfire plant, which operates according to the “power-to-liquid” (PtL) principle, requires carbon dioxide, water and electricity as raw materials. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

From QUANTRON’s point of view, this combination, which has so far been rather rare in Europe, represents the optimal team for converting the energy on board into propulsion as safely and efficiently as possible. This range is fully sufficient for most transport operators, saving them greater expense on charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Because there is not yet a widespread hydrogen infrastructure, the hydrogen is reacted with CO 2 in a methanation unit to generate renewable synthetic methane, or Audi e-gas.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

This enabled Bosch to start initial low-volume production of pilot fuel-cell systems in autumn 2019 in Germany. Solid oxide electrolysis (SOEC) is essentially the process of reversing fuel cells to produce hydrogen and e-fuels from renewable energy.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Sales in Germany and other European countries begin in fall 2020 at a base price of €30,705.88. The cylinder head, injection system, turbocharger and catalytic converter were modified accordingly for the CNG engine. There are currently some 850 CNG gas stations in Germany. Audi first introduced an A3 Sportback g-tron in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2018

A methanation plant expansion to the existing power-to-gas (PtG) facility in Falkenhagen, Germany has officially opened as part of the international €28-million (US$33.5-million) While the current facility feeds pure hydrogen (“WindGas”) directly into the gas grid, the new methanation plant provides for the generation of “green” methane.

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MAY 9, 2010

Researchers in Austria and Germany are developing a process to store renewable electricity as synthetic natural through a combination of electrolysis to produce hydrogen combined with methanation using CO 2. Our demonstration system in Stuttgart splits water using surplus renewable energy using electrolysis.

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JUNE 14, 2011

Reversible hydrogen storage cycle based on the redox system bicarbonate/formate. Researchers at the Leibnitz Institute for Catalysis (Rostock, Germany) have introduced a new approach to hydrogen storage that is based on simple salts of formic acid and carbonic acid. Source: Boddien et al. Click to enlarge. wt % (FA) and 2.35

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

To produce it, the power-to-liquid plant converts surplus hydropower into synthetic fuel. The green power generated on site in the hydroelectric power station produces hydrogen and oxygen from water by means of electrolysis. This hydrogen, together with carbon dioxide, is converted in a two-step power-to-liquid process.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Instead, the excess electricity can be used to make hydrogen that can be integrated into existing natural gas pipeline infrastructure and stored for later use. The hydrogen is mixed with natural gas and burned in the gas turbine power plant to generate electricity and heat for the campus. to 35%.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

More ambitiously, some are developing hydrogen-powered trains, which rather than emitting greenhouse gases, only produce water vapor and droplets. But, producing electricity from hydrogen comes with its own challenges. For example, the fuel cells require additional heavy converters to manage their wide voltage range.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

First, apply electricity generated from renewable sources to obtain hydrogen from water. A compact electric car charged in Germany with renewable electricity from Germany converts around 60% to 70% of that grid power into road performance. Renewable synthetic fuels have long since left the basic research phase.

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MAY 13, 2011

Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. achieving a neutral CO 2 balance across the entire mobility chain.

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MAY 5, 2019

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Toronto have proposed a method enabling air conditioning and ventilation systems to produce synthetic fuels from CO 2 and water from the ambient air. hydrocracking) allowing to further increase product yield and quality. —Professor Dittmeyer.

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MARCH 3, 2015

European launch markets in 2015 will be the UK, Denmark and Germany; more markets will be added in 2017. Initial price is €66,000 (US$73,735) + VAT (Germany). The system uses Toyota-developed components including the Toyota FC Stack, FC boost converter, and high-pressure hydrogen tanks. Toyota Mirai at Geneva 2015.

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MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

and the FRMII BioDiff (Diffractometer for large unit cells) instrument in Munich, Germany, they determined the structure of xylanase, an enzyme used to digest hemicellulose during biofuel production, at unprecedented detail. Direct information on the location of hydrogen atoms can be obtained using neutron crystallography.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

The isobutene was then shipped to Germany and converted into isooctane. Isobutene is a four-carbon branched alkene and one of four isomers of butylene (C 4 H 8 ); isobutene dimerization (putting two isobutene molecules together) and subsequent hydrogenation produces the eight-carbon molecule isooctane (C 8 H 18 ). Earlier post.)

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MARCH 1, 2013

The e-gas fuel will be produced in the power-to-gas plant in Werlte, Germany. Key modifications relate to the cylinder head, turbocharging, injection system, and the catalytic converter. The start of the chain has electricity produced from renewable energy sources; the end products are hydrogen and the synthetic Audi e-gas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

One example would be for the device to be coupled to a variable renewable generator such as a wind turbine or solar panel, similar in concept to the power-to-gas systems emerging in Germany. The final performance metrics must be met with the use of a non-hydrogen gas or liquid fuel. ITFCs with fuel production capability.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

A team from Bauhaus Luftfahrt in Germany has analyzed the climate impact and economic performance of solar thermochemical jet fuel production. The syngas is stored and finally converted into jet fuel via the FT process. Solar syngas is then converted into liquid hydrocarbon fuels by the Fischer−Tropsch process. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

company, which was founded in 2010 by three Stanford grads, is producing a machine that generates 230 to 430 kilowatts using almost any kind of fuel, including ammonia, hydrogen, biogas, or natural gas. Mainspring calls its machine a linear generator, because it converts linear motion into electricity. The Menlo Park, Calif.,

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APRIL 4, 2010

Researchers from the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) in Germany have shown that hydrocarbon yield and energy efficiency can be increased in a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) biomass-to-liquids (BTL) process through the use of a hydrophilic membrane enabling the in situ removal of water from the catalyst bed. hydrogenation.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Western Hydrogen Limited reported first production of hydrogen from its Molten Salt Gasification (MSG) pilot plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. The technology allows the production of high-pressure hydrogen without the need for compression and can use a variety of feedstocks, including renewables.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The thermochemical process does not require enzymes or microorganisms; instead, the biomass is gasified under certain heat and pressure conditions producing synthesis gas, a carbon monoxide and hydrogen-rich gas that can be converted into high quality synthetic fuels, intermediate chemicals or electricity.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Physicists first suspected more than a century ago that the fusing of hydrogen into helium powers the sun. Fission in uranium was discovered in 1938, in Germany, and it was only four years until the first nuclear “pile” was constructed in Chicago, in 1942. But these generators convert heat to electricity at roughly 7.5

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Low-Thermal-Budget Hydrogen and Chemical Co-Production via an Electrochemical Activation of Propane, $100,000. NEL Hydrogen (Wallingford, Connecticut). Electrochaea GmbH (Munich, Germany). DME as a Renewable Hydrogen Carrier: Innovative Approach to Renewable Hydrogen Production, $1,500,000.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

Pure formic acid can be obtained continuously by hydrogenation of CO 2 in a single processing unit. 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. Wesselbaum et al. Click to enlarge.

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