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Scottish Enterprise project converting train to hydrogen power

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

Scottish Enterprise, Transport Scotland and the Hydrogen Accelerator, based at the University of St Andrews, have appointed Arcola Energy and a consortium of industry leaders in hydrogen fuel cell integration, rail engineering and functional safety to deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen powered train.

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PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new method to convert captured CO 2 into methane, the primary component of natural gas. Different methods for converting CO 2 into methane have long been known. —Heldebrant et al. Heldebrant, D., Kothandaraman, J., Lopez, J.S.,

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Low Cost Convert CO2 Conversion

Graforce plasma electrolysis for efficient generation of hydrogen from industrial waste water; partnering with Audi

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

Berlin-based Graforce Hydro GmbH, the developer of a plasma electrolyzer—the Plasmalyzer —is applying its technology for the highly efficient generation of hydrogen from industrial waste water. The current Plasmalyzer offers highly efficient water splitting. Only purified water and oxygen remain as waste products.

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Water Waste Audi Hydrogen

DOE awards $27.5M to 16 water infrastructure projects

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MARCH 23, 2021

million to 16 water infrastructure projects. Modern technology has the potential to reduce energy use in aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater treatment, which demands up to 2% of domestic electricity use each year. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $27.5

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thyssenkrupp’s water electrolysis technology qualified as primary control reserve in Germany; hydrogen production for the electricity market

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JULY 6, 2020

thyssenkrupp’s proprietary water electrolysis technology for the production of. In the future thyssenkrupp’s electrolysis plants will be able to act as large-scale buffers to stabilize the power grid and compensate fluctuations quickly and flexibly. With this we have achieved a further important goal. thyssenkrupp and E.ON

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Water Hydrogen Market Production

Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. Because so much energy is lost turning steam back into water in the Rankine cycle, at most a third of the power in the steam can be converted into electricity.

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Raven SR waste-to-hydrogen plant in California to be powered by INNIO Jenbacher’s Ready-for-H2 engines

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AUGUST 12, 2022

The energy system will power and heat Raven SR’s S-Series hydrogen production facility at a sanitary landfill in Richmond, California. At the site, landfill gas (LFG) will be the primary fuel to provide power for the non-combustion process that converts waste to hydrogen. Earlier post.). —Matt Murdock, CEO of Raven SR.

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Waste Hydrogen California Engine

Raven SR and Chart Industries to collaborate on hydrogen and carbon capture

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DECEMBER 23, 2022

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company, and Chart Industries will collaborate globally on the liquefaction, storage, and transportation of hydrogen as well as pure carbon dioxide produced from Raven SR’s non-combustion Steam/CO 2 Reformation process of converting waste to renewable fuel. —Matt Murdock, CEO of Raven SR.

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PCC SE and Landsvirkjun to convert silicon metal plant CO2 emissions to methanol

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APRIL 12, 2022

Landsvirkjun , The National Power Company of Iceland, and German investment company PCC SE have agreed to explore the possibility of capturing and utilizing carbon emissions from PCC’s silicon metal plant in northeast Iceland. The company generates most of Iceland’s energy (70%) and delivers energy to industry, services and homes in Iceland.

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Successful demonstration of FlexMethanol conversion of wind power to methanol

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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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Wind Conversion Power Powered

Lawrence Livermore publishes state-by-state energy/water Sankey diagrams

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APRIL 20, 2018

For the first time, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has published state-by-state energy and water Sankey diagrams in one location so that analysts and policymakers can find all the information they need in one place. General location of energy and water categories. Energy and water generally “flows” from left to right.

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DOE awards $22.1M to 10 nuclear technology projects including clean hydrogen production

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MAY 10, 2023

million to 10 industry-led projects to advance nuclear technologies, including two aimed at expanding clean hydrogen production with nuclear energy. A well-established downstream syngas-to-synfuel conversion process, such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, converts the syngas to liquid synfuel for a total projected cost of less than $4/gallon.

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Hydrogen Molten Salt Clean Cleaning

Alcoa outlines technology roadmap to decarbonize aluminum industry

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

outlined a technology roadmap to support its vision to reinvent the aluminum industry for a sustainable future. The technology also retains all the water from the original feedstock. The process reduces water consumption by up to 35%. Alcoa Corp. Earlier post.)

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Industrial Industry Carbon Emissions

University of Utah engineers develop fast method to convert algae to biocrude

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MARCH 18, 2019

bacteria, fungi, and algae) may be grown on non-arable land and with saline water, wastewater or/and produced water from mineral and petroleum extraction. Technological and economic barriers to industrial scale up remain, with microorganisms (e.g., corn), microorganisms (e.g., algae) harvesting ranking among the main challenges.

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New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for converting water and CO to hydrogen and CO2

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JUNE 24, 2017

Scientists in the US and China have developed a new low-temperature catalyst for producing high-purity hydrogen gas while simultaneously using up carbon monoxide (CO) via the water-gas shift (WGS) reaction. Its synergy with adjacent Mo sites in α-MoC can effectively activate water at low temperature. —Yao et al.

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Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

million) ammonia cracker prototype designed to produce green hydrogen at industrial scale. The prototype will use ammonia to deliver 200kg of hydrogen a day—enough to power around 5-10 hydrogen fuel cell-electric buses. GeoPura plans to use this hydrogen to supply Hydrogen Power Units (HPUs). million (US$4.24

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Bosch boosts stake in SOFC expert Ceres Power to around 18%; possible expansion into SO electrolysis

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Bosch has increased its stake in solid-oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) developer Ceres Power from 3.9% The stake increase is achieved through a subscription by Bosch for new Ceres Power shares, as well as the purchase of further shares from existing shareholders. to around 18%. Picture: Bosch.

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Power Powered Hydrogen Fuel

Bloom Energy and Idaho National Laboratory to test use of nuclear generation to power solid-oxide electrolyzer for H2 production

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MAY 19, 2021

This carbon-free hydrogen is obtained through electrolysis that is powered by nuclear generation. When the electric grid has ample power, rather than ramping down power generation, the electricity generated by nuclear plants can be used to produce cost-effective hydrogen in support of the burgeoning hydrogen economy.

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Idaho Power Powered Energy

Ørsted and partners secure funding for H2RES project; offshore wind power to produce renewable hydrogen for road transport

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

The daily hydrogen production is expected to total around 600kg, enough to power 20-30 buses, while also making testing its use in trucks and taxis possible. Hydrogen is widely used in heavy industry in Europe, but it is mainly produced by converting fossil fuels in a process which emits large amounts of greenhouse gases.

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Wind Hydrogen Renewable Transportation

Audi in new e-fuels project: synthetic diesel from water, air-captured CO2 and green electricity; “Blue Crude”

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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. Audi is the exclusive partner in the automotive industry. PtL = Power-to-Liquids. Nearly 80% of that can be converted into synthetic diesel. Source: sunfire.

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Audi Water Diesel Fuel

Fraunhofer IFF team designing hydrogen factory of the future

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APRIL 11, 2020

Researchers at the Fraunhofer IFF in Germany are designing the distributed and modular production and distribution of green hydrogen for industry, business and transportation throughout the value chain—a hydrogen factory of the future. We additionally want to supply electricity, gas and heat to industry. © Fraunhofer IFF.

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Hydrogen Future Design Ozone

Synhelion starts construction of DAWN demo plant to produce solar fuels

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

ETH Zurich spin-off Synhelion has started the construction of DAWN—its own industrial plant to produce synthetic fuels using solar heat. Located in Jülich, Germany, the facility will demonstrate the entire process from concentrating sunlight to producing synthetic liquid fuel on an industrial scale. Earlier post.)

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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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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. Water and oxygen are the only by-products. At this facility, microorganisms use water (brackish, salt or wastewater) sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce high-purity fuels.

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Gas-Electric Audi Gas Water

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The Swiss company Climeworks is building the world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) and storage facility for converting atmospheric CO 2 to rock in Iceland. Water from the Hellisheiði power plant then flows through the facility and transports the carbon dioxide roughly 2,000 meters below the surface of the Earth.

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Audi Iceland CO2 Carbon

Maire Tecnimont Group and NTPC to develop green methanol project in India

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Tecnimont Private Limited, Indian subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont Group, has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NTPC, India’s largest power generation company. The Green Methanol Project involves capturing carbon from NTPC power plants and converting it into green fuel.

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India Green Hydrogen Gas-Electric

TotalEnergies, Sunfire and Fraunhofer give the go-ahead for green methanol in Leuna

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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. The system’s efficiency of more than 80% for producing green hydrogen from renewable electricity and water vapor is far higher than that of conventional electrolyzers.

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Green Hydrogen Renewable Convert

Blue World Technologies takes 15% stake in Danish Power Systems; methanol fuel cell vehicles

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Blue World Technologies has acquired 15% of Danish Power Systems , a developer and manufacturer of membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) for high-temperature PEM fuel cells. Blue World Technologies will use the Danish Power Systems technology in their methanol fuel cell systems. CO 2 + 3 H 2.

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Fuel Power Powered Vehicles

German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

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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) In this second stage, hydrogen from regenerative energy sources is converted into methane (CH 4 ), i.e. synthetic natural gas, using CO 2 from a bio-ethanol plant.

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GM expanding into new commercial applications for its HYDROTEC fuel cell systems

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JANUARY 20, 2022

HYDROTEC projects, which are currently in development, from heavy-duty trucks to aerospace and locomotives, are being planned for use beyond vehicles for power generation. A palletized MPG to power military camps and installations quietly and efficiently. Mobile Power Generator.

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ETH Zürich, Total team develops new catalyst to convert CO2 and H2 directly to methanol efficiently

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JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. It is possible to convert it into fuels and a wide variety of chemical products, including those that today are mainly based on fossil resources.

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Topsoe enters agreement with Steeper Energy to introduce complete waste-to-biofuel solution

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JANUARY 27, 2023

The agreement combines Topsoe’s technologies in renewable fuels and hydrogen production as well as decades of experience in engineering with Steeper’s proprietary Hydrofaction technology and industry know-how. The inherent low oxygen content of Hydrofaction Oil supports less secondary upgrading to convert the biocrude oil into finished fuels.

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Waste Energy Oil Conversion

Audi steps up research into carbon-neutral synthetic fuels with new e-diesel pilot plant; power-to-liquids

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The pilot facility offers scope for sector coupling, in other words combining the energy sectors power, heat and mobility, and makes it possible to store renewable energy. To produce it, the power-to-liquid plant converts surplus hydropower into synthetic fuel. synthetic methane—for the g-tron models A3, A4 and A5.

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Audi Diesel Carbon Power

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. Syngas is a widely used industrial fuel and feedstock.

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Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The engine block is derived from a Cursor 11 commercial vehicle engine manufactured by FPT Industrial and has already served us for five years in various research projects. Over the past few months, we have converted it to DME together with our partner FPT. Water is formed as a by-product. We already know this engine very well.

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Ground-breaking on Haru Oni eFuels plant|in Chile; Porsche to use in motor sports from 2022

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Porsche and Siemens Energy have joined forces with a number of international companies to build an industrial plant for the production of nearly CO?-neutral With Haru Oni, we’re bringing our power-to-X technologies to the global market. neutral fuel using low-cost green wind power. neutral fuel (eFuel) in Punta Arenas, Chile.

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Chile Porsche Wind Hydrogen

CSIRO team optimistic about use of nitrogenase in applications such as green ammonia production for carrying H2

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JULY 27, 2020

While one alternative is using green hydrogen produced by renewable power as input to the H-B process, this pathway has several disadvantages, according to the authors. These bacteria use an enzyme known as nitrogenase which converts dinitrogen (N 2 ) and protons (H + ) into NH 3 and H 2. In addition, the H-B process generates some 1.9

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Green Production Hydrogen Renewable

Researchers develop titanium and copper heterostructured photocatalyst for conversion of CO2 into CH4

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Under illumination for 6 hours, the optimized reduced titania-Cu 2 O photocatalyst enables 0.13% photoreduction of highly diluted CO 2 with water vapors to 462 nmol g ?1 What if we drew inspiration from photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to convert CO2 and water into useful chemicals?

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Australian researchers develop new hybrid plasma electrocatalytic process to produce green ammonia

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JANUARY 22, 2021

The method makes green ammonia from air, water and renewable electricity and does not require the high temperatures, high pressure and huge infrastructure currently needed to produce this essential compound. C and pressures greater than 200 atm—and all powered by fossil fuels. —Dr Jalili. kWh/mol NH 3.

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Green Hybrid Store Water

Anaergia to supply RNG to FuelCell Energy to create renewable hydrogen supporting Toyota’s port facility

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MAY 3, 2023

megawatts (MW) of electricity—enough to power Toyota Logistics Services Center—and will add renewable electricity to the grid, as well as produce roughly 1,400 gallons of water a day that will be used for car-washing operations. FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system will produce approximately 1.3

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Renewable Hydrogen Supplies North America

McPhy Energy premieres first industrial system coupling electrolysis and solid state hydrogen storage

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

McPhy Energy, a France-based developer and manufacturer of solid state hydrogen storage, presented the first system coupling an industrial-scale hydrogen generator with a 100 kg solid state hydrogen storage unit. The system inaugurates the first commercial product line for onsite industrial hydrogen users worldwide.

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Hydrogen Industrial Industry Energy

bp plans UK’s largest hydrogen project; 1GW of blue hydrogen

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MARCH 19, 2021

Industries in Teesside account for more than 5% of the UK’s industrial emissions and the region is home to five of the country’s top 25 emitters. Blue hydrogen, integrated with carbon capture and storage, can provide the scale and reliability needed by industrial processes. which is then captured and permanently stored.

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Hydrogen Carbon Clean Cleaning

HyIron opens direct reduction plant for green iron

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AUGUST 23, 2023

HyIron, with the support of the state of Lower Saxony, has commissioned what it says is the world’s largest direct reduction plant for green iron on the site of RWE’s Emsland gas-fired power plant. In the long term, we will be able to produce up to two million tons of iron for the German steel industry, there.

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Namibia Green Climate Protection Hydrogen

Yara and Linde Engineering to build a 24 MW green hydrogen plant in Norway

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JANUARY 29, 2022

ITM Power electrolyzer stack used at Porsgrunn, Norway. The project will be realized by water electrolysis which will produce green hydrogen to partially replace the hydrocarbon-based hydrogen production in Yara’s plant, using proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology. The project, which is supported by a NOK 283 million (US$31.5

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Norway Hydrogen Green Engine

Gevo awarded patent for process to upgrade or convert ethanol and bio-based alcohols to drop-in hydrocarbon fuels

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

water, lower alcohols such as C 2 -C 8 alcohols) in the feed stream. The combination of using decarbonized, plant-based alcohols, with our proprietary innovations to processing techniques known in the chemical industry can be a very powerful approach to dial-in the desired renewable hydrocarbon fuel product mix.

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Fuel Convert Renewable Diesel

Scottish Enterprise project converting train to hydrogen power

PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

Graforce plasma electrolysis for efficient generation of hydrogen from industrial waste water; partnering with Audi

DOE awards $27.5M to 16 water infrastructure projects

thyssenkrupp’s water electrolysis technology qualified as primary control reserve in Germany; hydrogen production for the electricity market

Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

Raven SR waste-to-hydrogen plant in California to be powered by INNIO Jenbacher’s Ready-for-H2 engines

Raven SR and Chart Industries to collaborate on hydrogen and carbon capture

PCC SE and Landsvirkjun to convert silicon metal plant CO2 emissions to methanol

Successful demonstration of FlexMethanol conversion of wind power to methanol

Lawrence Livermore publishes state-by-state energy/water Sankey diagrams

DOE awards $22.1M to 10 nuclear technology projects including clean hydrogen production

Alcoa outlines technology roadmap to decarbonize aluminum industry

University of Utah engineers develop fast method to convert algae to biocrude

New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for converting water and CO to hydrogen and CO2

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

Bosch boosts stake in SOFC expert Ceres Power to around 18%; possible expansion into SO electrolysis

Bloom Energy and Idaho National Laboratory to test use of nuclear generation to power solid-oxide electrolyzer for H2 production

Ørsted and partners secure funding for H2RES project; offshore wind power to produce renewable hydrogen for road transport

Audi in new e-fuels project: synthetic diesel from water, air-captured CO2 and green electricity; “Blue Crude”

Fraunhofer IFF team designing hydrogen factory of the future

Synhelion starts construction of DAWN demo plant to produce solar fuels

Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

Maire Tecnimont Group and NTPC to develop green methanol project in India

TotalEnergies, Sunfire and Fraunhofer give the go-ahead for green methanol in Leuna

Blue World Technologies takes 15% stake in Danish Power Systems; methanol fuel cell vehicles

German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

GM expanding into new commercial applications for its HYDROTEC fuel cell systems

ETH Zürich, Total team develops new catalyst to convert CO2 and H2 directly to methanol efficiently

Topsoe enters agreement with Steeper Energy to introduce complete waste-to-biofuel solution

Audi steps up research into carbon-neutral synthetic fuels with new e-diesel pilot plant; power-to-liquids

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

Ground-breaking on Haru Oni eFuels plant|in Chile; Porsche to use in motor sports from 2022

CSIRO team optimistic about use of nitrogenase in applications such as green ammonia production for carrying H2

Researchers develop titanium and copper heterostructured photocatalyst for conversion of CO2 into CH4

Australian researchers develop new hybrid plasma electrocatalytic process to produce green ammonia

Anaergia to supply RNG to FuelCell Energy to create renewable hydrogen supporting Toyota’s port facility

McPhy Energy premieres first industrial system coupling electrolysis and solid state hydrogen storage

bp plans UK’s largest hydrogen project; 1GW of blue hydrogen

HyIron opens direct reduction plant for green iron

Yara and Linde Engineering to build a 24 MW green hydrogen plant in Norway

Gevo awarded patent for process to upgrade or convert ethanol and bio-based alcohols to drop-in hydrocarbon fuels

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