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APRIL 11, 2022

Proterra has been awarded TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) Certification for multiple manufacturing facilities in recognition of its zero-waste efforts. Proterra is now the first electric vehicle manufacturer to earn multiple TRUE Certifications for zero-waste facilities, according to Green Business Certification Inc ( GBCI ).

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MAY 13, 2021

Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has embarked on the development of technology for producing hydrogen using waste plastic and vinyl. The company has signed a business partnership MOU with RevoTech, a company that specializes in the continuous pyrolysis of waste plastic. —Doosan Heavy CSO Yongjin Song.

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MAY 26, 2020

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and collaborators have used an additive manufacturing technique, called cold-spray deposition, to create thermoelectric generators that can harvest waste heat—a huge untapped resource—from previously inaccessible sources, such as pipes with complex geometries.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The carbon found in municipal solid waste, which is piling up in landfills or being incinerated globally, can play a critical role in eliminating the virgin fossil resources used to make fuels and chemicals. It is a testament to the UAE’s leadership and strong sustainability agenda that our technology has found a home here.

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JUNE 18, 2021

As part of the THINKTANK Industrial Resource Strategies, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have been working with Audi on the pilot project “Chemical Recycling of plastics from automotive manufacturing.” The material cycles closed in this way save valuable resources, energy, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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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. 1 (2.6 ± 1.3

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Lithium Australia subsidiary VSPC reports significant progress towards improving the energy density of LFP (lithium ferro phosphate) Li-ion battery cells by adjusting its proprietary manufacturing processes to incorporate manganese into the cathode active material during production.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have engineered a microbe to convert molecules of industrial waste gases, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, into acetone and isopropanol (IPA). —Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech. Abdalla, T.

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MAY 31, 2023

Dow and New Energy Blue announced a long-term supply agreement in North America in which New Energy Blue will create bio-based ethylene from renewable agricultural residues. Through this agreement, Dow would increase its use of renewable yet still recyclable resources, transforming them into products that consumers use every day.

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MARCH 24, 2021

Nauticol Energy and Enhance Energy have entered into an agreement to work collaboratively for the capture and sequestration of up to one million tonnes of CO 2 each year from Nauticol’s planned $2-billion Blue Methanol facility to be built near Grande Prairie, Alberta.

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APRIL 5, 2021

Rice University scientists and their colleagues at C-Crete Technologies have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete. After useful oils are extracted from waste tires, this carbon residue has until now had near-zero value, Tour said. —James Tour.

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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.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

Chevron Corporation made a Series A investment in Zap Energy Inc. , Zap Energy will use the funds raised in this round to continue technology development and grow its development team. Viable fusion energy approaches must confine high-temperature plasmas at sufficient density for long durations.

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MAY 10, 2021

Texas Mineral Resources Corp. The Texas Mineral Resources consortium objective is to install a self-contained, modular and portable pilot plant at a Jeddo Coal Pennsylvania site, capable of producing 1-3 metric tons of rare earth oxides derived from coal waste material from Pennsylvania anthracite coal.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

GTI has released a site-specific engineering design titled “ Low-Carbon Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Wood Wastes ”. GTI led a team of engineers and scientists to produce a blueprint for converting an existing biomass facility into an RNG production site, using the wood waste feedstock and some of the existing infrastructure.

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JULY 22, 2020

Brazilian researchers have demonstrated a new chemical approach for producing biodiesel from domestic cooking oil waste by using lithium hydroxide mixed with either sodium hydroxides or potassium hydroxides as catalysts. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy doi: 10.1063/5.0005625. —Gilberto Maia de Brito.

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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). —“ Kelp Energy Products and Marine Renewable Energy for Coastal Alaska Communities ”.

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JULY 18, 2022

A team from Central South University, Changsha, China and Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi’an, China, has proposed a mechanochemistry-based process to recover metals from waste cathode materials of LiCoO 2 (LCO) and LiFePO 4 (LFP) in spent Li-ion batteries (LIBs). —Jiang et al. of Li and 88.6% M H 2 SO 4.

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

Energy Fuels Inc. Energy Fuels expects to process this monazite at its 100%-owned White Mesa Mill starting in Q1-2021, recover the contained uranium, and produce a marketable mixed REE carbonate, representing an important step toward re-establishing a fully-integrated US REE supply chain. Chalmers, President and CEO of Energy Fuels.

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MAY 4, 2023

Aqua Metals is leading the development of the innovative conversion process, designed to replace chemical catalysts with clean electricity, and enables the sustainable production of cost-effective CAM precursors by eliminating embedded emissions, recurring expenses, and chemical waste byproducts.

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MAY 30, 2020

The program is designed to support early stage, transformative energy technologies. 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. million; 1-5 awards. Mining Incinerated Disposal Ash Streams (MIDAS); $4.04

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JUNE 28, 2022

Sundsvall Energi will partner with Liquid Wind to be the host and provide carbon dioxide for the second commercial-scale—100,000 t—electrofuel facility in Sweden. Biogenic carbon dioxide from the Sundsvall energy facility will be captured and combined with renewable hydrogen to generate green electrofuel, eMethanol.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

ElectraTherm, a leader in distributed, waste heat to power generation, is working with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Creare, and the US Naval Academy (USNA) to demonstrate gas turbine waste heat recovery as part of a Small Business Innovation Research project. Hot water is the only fuel consumed by the Power+.

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MARCH 1, 2020

has been awarded part of The Queensland Waste to Biofutures (W2B) Fund to support the development of waste to biofutures projects in Queensland, Australia. Queensland is rich in renewable biomass resources and has expressed the desire to invest in the future of biofuels.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

UC Riverside (UCR) engineers have developed a way to recycle PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic waste, such as soda or water bottles, into a nanomaterial useful for energy storage. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Energy Storage. Mihri Ozkan & Cengiz Ozkan/UCR). —Professor Cengiz Ozkan.

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MARCH 28, 2022

SHV Energy and LanzaTech are partnering to employ LanzaTech’s Carbon Capture and Transformation (CCT) technology to bring renewable propane and other sustainable fuels to the market via existing and novel pathways. —Bram Gräber, SHV Energy CEO. Additional plants are under construction globally.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Natural Resources Canada is investing $800,000 in G4 Insights Inc. for the development of technology to convert forestry waste into renewable natural gas (RNG) that can be distributed through existing natural gas pipelines in Canada.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Canada-based Euro Manganese (EMN) signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Norwegian state-owned company Statkraft for the long-term supply of carbon-free renewable energy for Euro Manganese’s flagship Chvaletice Manganese Project (CMP) in the Czech Republic. Statkraft is Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy.

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OCTOBER 28, 2017

Researchers in China have developed a novel free-piston linear generator (FPLG) to recover exhaust waste heat efficiently from a vehicle engine. The FPLG can be used in a small-scale organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system and can directly convert the thermodynamic energy of working fluid into electricity. —Tian et al.

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JULY 15, 2023

Coal and coal production waste contain a wide variety of valuable rare earth elements that can be converted into clean energy technology components. The US currently has more than 250 billion tons of coal reserves, more than 4 billion tons of waste coal, and about 2 billion tons of coal ash at various sites across the country.

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APRIL 10, 2018

Mechanical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully used inexpensive materials to produce thermoelectric devices that transform low-level waste heat into electricity. A paper on their results is published in the journal Physica Status Solidi Rapid Research Letters. —Bhardwaj et al. —Sandeep Kumar.

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MARCH 25, 2021

The California Energy Commission has awarded GTI and Sierra Northern Railway nearly $4,000,000 to fund the design, integration, and demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell switching locomotive to support the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstrations in Rail and Marine Applications at Ports (H2RAM) initiative.

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MARCH 17, 2023

Aqua Metals has successfully recovered high-purity nickel from lithium battery black mass using its proprietary Li AquaRefining process, utilizing electricity, and without a polluting smelter or the significant chemical waste typical in recycling. Earlier post.)

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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. For perspective, in 2015, the United States’ total primary energy consumption was about 97.7 quadrillion Btu annually, or about 22.2

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JUNE 24, 2015

Alphabet Energy, founded in 2009 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, announced the availability of its thermoelectric generator PowerModule as a standalone product, available to meet the specific application needs of a range of industries, including transportation. Matthew Scullin, founder and CEO, Alphabet Energy.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Circular Economy Roadmap found innovation is crucial to realizing Australia’s largest economic gains, which will come from designing new products and materials, including through advanced manufacturing, and in embracing new business models that will create domestic and export markets for waste streams. billion by 2036.

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APRIL 12, 2018

From the first full year of production, the plant will be the BMW Group’s most resource-efficient production location worldwide. The use of renewable energy sources will ensure that the plant is supplied with 100% CO 2 -free electricity. Responsible use of water resources is a particular sustainability goal in San Luis Potosí.

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