Cost, Waste and Water

Hatch report finds NOVONIX dry cathode synthesis process offers cost and waste reduction improvements

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

a global engineering consultancy firm, has delivered its report that evaluates NOVONIX’s all-dry, zero-waste cathode synthesis process. The Hatch study found that NOVONIX’s process may potentially reduce power consumption by an estimated 25% and practically eliminate waste byproduct generation over the conventional process.

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Waste Lithium Ion Sodium Water

Alfa Laval introduces E-PowerPack ORC waste heat recovery system for ships

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MARCH 13, 2022

Alfa Laval is introducing the E-PowerPack waste heat recovery system for ships. Able to convert waste heat directly into electrical power, the E-PowerPack uses Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology to reduce ship fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. The basic principle of an ORC system can be thought of as the opposite of a heat pump.

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Waste Mariner Gas-Electric Exhaust

Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

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JUNE 8, 2022

Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses. The method is already being tested in Texas, North Dakota, and most recently in New Stanton, Pa.

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Water North Dakota Oil-Sands Engine

Raven SR & Hyzon Motors to build up to 100 waste-to-hydrogen hubs

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APRIL 28, 2021

At the hubs, which can be built at or near landfills, Raven SR will convert mixed and multiple organic wastes, including municipal solid waste, greenwaste, food waste, medical, paper, etc. This permits the control of the rotary reformer when there is water content or chemical makeup variation in the feedstock, such as in MSW.

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Waste Hydrogen Building Motors

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 technology we’ve developed is capable of cleaning wastewater and producing a low-cost, low-emission fuel from it.

Water

Water Waste Audi Hydrogen

Novel inexpensive cobalt-nickel electrode for efficient water and urea electrolysis; yolk-shell nanoparticles

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Both half reactions of water electrolysis—hydrogen and oxygen evolution—are unfortunately slow and require a lot of power. However, their large-scale use is impeded by high costs, limited abundance, and low stability. Sources of urea could include waste streams from industrial syntheses as well as sanitary sewage.

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Water Hydrogen Singapore Universal

NTNU researchers use reverse electrodialysis and waste heat for hydrogen production: Heat to H2

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

A new approach developed by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) could alleviate that situation a bit by using waste heat from other industrial processes. Energy experts say that the waste heat from Norway’s businesses and industries is the equivalent of 20 TWh of energy. —Krakhella et al.

Waste

Waste Hydrogen Production Water

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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Cambridge researchers develop standalone device that makes formic acid from sunlight, CO2 and water

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner.

Water

Water CO2 Solar Convert

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. Our plants are thus making a significant contribution to ensuring both a stable power supply and the cost-effectiveness of green hydrogen. green hydrogen meets the requirements for participation in the primary control reserve market. thyssenkrupp and E.ON

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Water Hydrogen Market Production

Waste Management and Renmatix to explore conversion of urban waste to low-cost cellulosic sugar via supercritical hydrolysis

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Waste Management, Inc. The strategic investment and alliance aims to expand the feedstock flexibility of Renmatix’s proprietary Plantrose process beyond rural biomass to include materials derived from cost-effective and readily available urban waste material such as that managed by Waste Management. Earlier post.).

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Waste Low Cost Conversion Water

HyperSolar reaches 1.25 V for water-splitting with its self-contained low-cost photoelectrochemical nanosystem

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

volts (V) of water-splitting voltage with its novel low-cost electrolysis technology. The theoretical minimum voltage needed to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen is 1.23 Nanosystem for water electrolysis. This lowers the system cost of what is essentially an electrolysis process. HyperSolar, Inc.

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Low Cost Water Hydrogen Solar

China’s first integrated methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station now in operation

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The new Service Station can save costs on hydrogen production, storage and transportation by more than 20% compared to traditional hydrogen refueling stations; it is intended to become a pilot model to lead the development of China's hydrogen energy industry. As part of Sinopec’s commitment to becoming China’s No.1

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Hydrogen China Waste Oil

PNNL team finds biocrude from kelp and fish waste via hydrothermal liquefaction could be viable fuel for remote Alaskan communities

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Using existing fish processing plants, kelp and fish waste can be turned into a diesel-like fuel to power generators or fishing boats in rural, coastal Alaska, according to a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The waste-to-energy fuel could then be used to power generators or fishing boats.

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Waste Alaska Fuel Mariner

Efficient recovery of lithium from spent LiFePO4 batteries via air oxidation–water leaching at room temperature

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Researchers in China report using air oxidation–water leaching to recover lithium selectively from spent LiFePO 4 (LFP) material, in which the high leaching efficiency of lithium and the good separation effect of lithium and iron were achieved simultaneously. An open-access paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Green Chemistry.

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Water Batteries Battery Cheap

Lithium Australia produces LFP cathode material and Li-ion batteries from mine waste

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NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Lithium Australia NL reported that its wholly owned subsidiary VSPC Ltd has successfully produced Li-ion battery cathode material, and Li-ion batteries (LIBs), from tri-lithium phosphate produced directly from mine waste using the SiLeach process. LFP and batteries from waste. SiLeach background. Reactions occur rapidly at about 90 ?C,

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Li-ion Waste Australia Batteries

DOE to award up to $19M to advance waste carbon utilization for algal biofuels and bioproducts

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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Capturing this waste carbon then allows for algae to be cultivated into a variety of biofuels and bioproducts. Capturing this waste carbon then allows for algae to be cultivated into a variety of biofuels and bioproducts. ethanol production), biogas purification (e.g., ethanol production), biogas purification (e.g.,

Waste

Waste Carbon Coal Gas

SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI. —Zhigang Feng, USTA.

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Water Low Cost Oil-Sands San Antonio

Eni and Hera Group partner on conversion of used vegetable oil to renewable diesel for waste collection vehicles

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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

In Italy, Eni and Hera signed a partnership agreement with the aim of converting used vegetable oil into renewable diesel for Hera’s waste collection vehicles. The agreement revolves around household waste vegetable oil, such as that used for frying, collected by Hera in around 400 roadside containers and about 120 collection centres.

Waste

Waste Oil Renewable Diesel

OSU team develops process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare earth elements

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JANUARY 4, 2023

This work summarizes laboratory-scale experimental results of a trap-extract-precipitate (TEP) process and uses the mass and energy balances to estimate the economic costs and environmental impacts of the TEP. One thing that surprised me was just how well our process cleans up the water. Miranda et al. —Jeff Bielicki.

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Coal Clean Cleaning West Virginia

Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

Energy Vault’s advanced gravity energy storage solutions are based on the proven physics and mechanical engineering fundamentals of pumped hydroelectric energy storage, but replace water with custom-made composite blocks, or “mobile masses”, which do not lose storage capacity over time. barrel per ton of feedstock.

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Energy Storage Energy Fuel Louisiana

EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

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JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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Convert Denmark Waste Conversion

E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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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 world generated a record 53.6 John Shegerian couldn’t agree more.

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Waste Al Gore Gore Mercury

ARPA-E announces $11M for innovations in energy-water processing and agricultural sensing technologies; fourth, fifth OPEN+ cohorts

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JANUARY 18, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $11 million in funding for 7 projects in the fourth and fifth cohorts of the agency’s OPEN+ program: Energy-Water Technologies and Sensors for Bioenergy and Agriculture. Energy-Water Technologies cohort.

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Water Energy Oklahoma Utah

DOE announces $150M cost-share award for first domestic production of HALEU for advanced nuclear reactors

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced an approximately $150-million cost-shared award with American Centrifuge Operating (ACO), a subsidiary of Centrus Energy Corp, to demonstrate the ability to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)—a crucial material needed to develop and deploy advanced reactors in the United States.

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Production Ohio Commercial Available

Thai researchers find waste chicken fat a good low-cost feedstock for renewable diesel

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JANUARY 19, 2015

In a study investigating the effect of the water and free fatty acid (FFA) content in waste chicken fat from poultry processing plants on the production of renewable diesel (not biodiesel), researchers in Thailand have found that both higher FFA and water content improved the biohydrogenated diesel (BHD) yield.

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Low Cost Waste Diesel Renewable

Biogas2PEM-FC project converts waste from olive oil production to electricity

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DECEMBER 24, 2014

An EU-funded project, Biogas2PEM-FC , has developed a system to convert the toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity. The waste from olive oil production—which contains pesticides and toxic organic compounds, is acidic and with a high salinity—is environmentally harmful and costly to discard. Idener, Spain.

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Waste Convert Oil Spain

AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

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APRIL 26, 2022

AirCapture develops on-site, modular technology that captures CO 2 from the air using waste heat from manufacturing plants, enabling customer operations to go carbon neutral and even negative. We are converting common industrial waste streams into product streams —Todd Brix.

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Conversion Grant Waste CO2

Neste, ReNew ELP and Licella to collaborate in utilization of waste plastic as a raw material for fuels and chemicals

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AUGUST 16, 2018

Neste, the leading producer of renewable diesel, UK-based chemical recycling company ReNew ELP, and Australian technology developer Licella are collaborating in a development project to explore the potential of using mixed waste plastic as a raw material for fuels, chemicals, and new plastics. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

Waste

Waste Renewable Fuel Oil

Air France KLM signs 210M gallon SAF offtake agreement with DG Fuels

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These changes eliminate the need for carbon sequestration and reduce the system’s feed-stock handling costs and complexity. The feed-stock reduction is achieved primarily by supplementing the process with oxygen and hydrogen produced by water electrolysis units that are powered by clean wind and solar generated electricity.

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France Fuel Louisiana Water

Velocys receives FONSI from USDA for planned Mississippi biorefinery; wood waste to drop-in fuels

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Velocys is pursuing a USDA loan guarantee that could apply up to $200 million of debut as part of the total installed cost of the project. The site will be home to a biorefinery that will use Velocys’ technology to produce low-carbon transportation fuels from the wood wastes of lumber operations and tree plantations.

Mississippi

Mississippi Waste Fuel Renewable

GE providing produced water handling systems to Blackgold Oil Sands Project; new solidification process for disposal of SAGD waste

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JUNE 28, 2011

GS Engineering & Construction (GS E&C) has selected GE to supply the produced water evaporation and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) system for the Blackgold Oil Sands project, located near Conklin, Alberta. This enables speedy installation and significantly lowers total installed costs.

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Oil-Sands Waste Oil Water

Novozymes launches commercial enzyme technology to convert waste oils into biodiesel

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Biodiesel producers can thereby use cooking oil or other lower grade oils as biodiesel feedstock, reducing their raw material costs. waste oils with high FFAs have not been a viable feedstock option. equivalent MeOH, 35°C/95°F, 2% water and 20 to 24 hours reaction time. free fatty acids (FFA). FFA—i.e., Source: Novozymes.

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Waste Oil Convert Commercial

Researchers propose testing standards for particulate photocatalysts in solar fuel production

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In this regard, photocatalytic water splitting has attracted significant interest as a cost-effective means to convert sustainable solar energy into valuable chemicals. Photocatalytic water splitting has attracted great interest as a means of cost-effective conversion of sustainable solar energy to valuable chemicals.

Solar

Solar Standards Production Fuel

Blue Biofuels achieves full conversion (99%+) of cellulosic material to sugars on repeatable basis

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JANUARY 14, 2022

reports that it has achieved full conversion ( 99% + ) of king grass cellulosic material to water soluble sugars on a repeatable basis. Management believes that this will lead to lower operating and feedstock costs. Blue Biofuels, Inc. This conversion occurs with a reaction time of less than one minute.

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Conversion Waste Convert Fuel

PNNL, Moselle to advance using magnetic nanoparticles to capture lithium, cesium from brines

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MAY 12, 2021

The DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and its licensee Moselle Technologies , have won two Cooperative Research and Development Awards (CRADA) and a 2021 DOE Advanced Manufacturing Office award to advance the process of using magnetic nanoparticles for capturing strategically important elements from water sources.

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New Zealand Water Corporation Canada

Blue Marble Biomaterials launches first zero-waste chemical biorefinery

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JUNE 30, 2011

A photobioreactor and algae perform the “water recycling”; the pelletized solid waste material will be used in the gasifier. has launched the first zero-waste chemical biorefinery in the US in Missoula, Montana. If we have fixed feedstock [such as the waste spent grain], we have price stability.

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Waste Saudi Arabia Montana Price

ABB Develops Cost-Effective Process to Clean Oily Produced Water

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Oily water treatment schematics. ABB has developed a water treatment technology that cleans oily wastewater—by far the largest waste product in oil and gas production—quickly, cost-effectively and energy-efficiently. About seven to ten barrels of produced water are generated for each barrel of oil.

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Water Clean Cleaning Oil

Researchers discover new efficient lithium collection method using MOF membranes; Li from produced water

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FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Monash University (Australia) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia have recently discovered a new, efficient way to extract lithium and other metals and minerals from water. Produced water from shale gas fields in Texas is rich in lithium.

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Water Texas Austin Australia

GM recycles 2M Flint water bottles into fleece for homeless, car parts and air filters

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AUGUST 27, 2016

General Motors is adding 2 million water bottles from Flint, Michigan residents into its Do Your Part water bottle recycling initiative. GM Global Manager of Waste Reduction John Bradburn demonstrates the Chevrolet Equinox engine insulation made from used water bottles from several GM facilities. An estimated 1.2

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Water GM Parts General Motors

BETO report identifies biofuel/bioproducts opportunities from wet and gaseous waste: ~22.2B GGE/year

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JANUARY 11, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office has published a report, titled Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet and Gaseous Waste Streams: Challenges and Opportunities. Spatial distribution and influent range of 14,581 USEPA 2012 Clean Water Needs Survey (CWNS) catalogued treatmenet plants.Click to enlarge.

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DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Leveraged with recipient cost share, this funding will help to provide more than $126 million. Federal Cost share. Advanced Separation and Processing Technologies for Enhanced Product Recovery and Improved Water Utilization, Cost Reduction, and Environmental Impact of an Integrated Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling System.

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Lithium Ion Batteries Battery San Diego

DOE to award ~$96M for bioenergy research and development

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Topic areas within this FOA will advance DOE’s Bioenergy Technology Office’s objectives of reducing the price of drop-in biofuels; lowering the cost of biopower; and enabling high-value products from biomass or waste resources.

Waste

Waste Water Low Cost 2020

Rio Tinto develops new steel powder for 3-D printing

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MAY 11, 2021

The water-atomized steel powder delivers mechanical properties superior to conventional metal manufacturing techniques, paving the way for advances in the use of 3-D printing technology for metal parts. —Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium Managing Director Stéphane Leblanc.

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North America Water Manufacturer Waste

Hatch report finds NOVONIX dry cathode synthesis process offers cost and waste reduction improvements

Alfa Laval introduces E-PowerPack ORC waste heat recovery system for ships

Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

Raven SR & Hyzon Motors to build up to 100 waste-to-hydrogen hubs

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

Novel inexpensive cobalt-nickel electrode for efficient water and urea electrolysis; yolk-shell nanoparticles

NTNU researchers use reverse electrodialysis and waste heat for hydrogen production: Heat to H2

DOE awards $27.5M to 16 water infrastructure projects

Cambridge researchers develop standalone device that makes formic acid from sunlight, CO2 and water

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

Waste Management and Renmatix to explore conversion of urban waste to low-cost cellulosic sugar via supercritical hydrolysis

HyperSolar reaches 1.25 V for water-splitting with its self-contained low-cost photoelectrochemical nanosystem

China’s first integrated methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station now in operation

PNNL team finds biocrude from kelp and fish waste via hydrothermal liquefaction could be viable fuel for remote Alaskan communities

Efficient recovery of lithium from spent LiFePO4 batteries via air oxidation–water leaching at room temperature

Lithium Australia produces LFP cathode material and Li-ion batteries from mine waste

DOE to award up to $19M to advance waste carbon utilization for algal biofuels and bioproducts

SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

Eni and Hera Group partner on conversion of used vegetable oil to renewable diesel for waste collection vehicles

OSU team develops process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare earth elements

Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

ARPA-E announces $11M for innovations in energy-water processing and agricultural sensing technologies; fourth, fifth OPEN+ cohorts

DOE announces $150M cost-share award for first domestic production of HALEU for advanced nuclear reactors

Thai researchers find waste chicken fat a good low-cost feedstock for renewable diesel

Biogas2PEM-FC project converts waste from olive oil production to electricity

AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

Neste, ReNew ELP and Licella to collaborate in utilization of waste plastic as a raw material for fuels and chemicals

Air France KLM signs 210M gallon SAF offtake agreement with DG Fuels

Velocys receives FONSI from USDA for planned Mississippi biorefinery; wood waste to drop-in fuels

GE providing produced water handling systems to Blackgold Oil Sands Project; new solidification process for disposal of SAGD waste

Novozymes launches commercial enzyme technology to convert waste oils into biodiesel

Researchers propose testing standards for particulate photocatalysts in solar fuel production

Blue Biofuels achieves full conversion (99%+) of cellulosic material to sugars on repeatable basis

PNNL, Moselle to advance using magnetic nanoparticles to capture lithium, cesium from brines

Blue Marble Biomaterials launches first zero-waste chemical biorefinery

ABB Develops Cost-Effective Process to Clean Oily Produced Water

Researchers discover new efficient lithium collection method using MOF membranes; Li from produced water

GM recycles 2M Flint water bottles into fleece for homeless, car parts and air filters

BETO report identifies biofuel/bioproducts opportunities from wet and gaseous waste: ~22.2B GGE/year

DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

DOE to award ~$96M for bioenergy research and development

Rio Tinto develops new steel powder for 3-D printing

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