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JANUARY 5, 2023

Norwegian startup Blastr Green Steel is planning to establish a green steel plant with an integrated hydrogen production facility in Inkoo, Finland. The area has excellent conditions for industrial activities: a deep-water harbor and an excellent electricity transmission network. Finland is an ideal location for our project.

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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.” Additionally, mixed plastic waste is often not available for mechanical recycling.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Now, researchers have detected a broad range of emerging synthetic antioxidants, called hindered phenol and sulfur antioxidants, in dust from electronic waste (e-waste) recycling workshops, possibly posing risks for the workers inside. An open-access paper on the work is published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Topsoe and Steeper Energy , a developer of biomass conversion technologies, signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution. The end-products include Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), marine biofuel, and renewable diesel from waste biomass. Steeper Energy was founded in 2011 and is backed by TOM Capital.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

At the site, landfill gas (LFG) will be the primary fuel to provide power for the non-combustion process that converts waste to hydrogen. This project produces onsite renewable hydrogen from waste, uses a blend of hydrogen to generate energy to power operations, and provides renewable hydrogen for the transportation industry.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Greenergy will invest in Front End Engineering Design (FEED) of a project to produce low-carbon transportation fuels from waste tires. billion tires are discarded each year worldwide, creating significant waste. This project will be the first of its kind to use waste tires as feedstock for low-carbon, low-sulfur fuel production.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

an affiliate of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), and Technip Energies recently signed a Joint Development and Cooperation Agreement to collaborate on the development and realization of a commercial plant which will produce olefins and aromatics from plastic waste. Synova, SABIC Global Technologies B.V., Synova’s process.

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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

HARARE stands for “Hydrogen As the Reducing Agent in the REcovery of metals and minerals from metallurgical waste”. Standard aluminum smelting processes generate about twice as much red mud waste as aluminum metal. Left: In a traditional linear economy, only very minimal volumes of metallurgical waste are used for other applications.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

LanzaTech UK, among other companies, has been shortlisted for funding through The UK Department for Transport’s Green Fuels, Green Skies (GSGF) competition to advance the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). The feedstock for the facility will be waste-based, low-carbon ethanol, procured from a variety of waste sources.

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JULY 16, 2023

Ohmium International, a green hydrogen company that designs, manufactures, and deploys advanced Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzers, announced a strategic collaboration with Aquastill , one of the leaders in modular membrane distillation technology that uses the sustainable power of waste heat for desalination.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Energy company SG H2 Energy; the City of Lancaster, California; and Iwatani, Japan’s leading hydrogen industrial gas company and a developer of hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) in California, are launching California’s first closed-loop green hydrogen ecosystem for transportation.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Fulcrum BioEnergy, a clean energy company pioneering the creation of renewable, drop-in transportation fuels from landfill waste, successfully produced a low-carbon synthetic crude oil using landfill waste as a feedstock at its Sierra BioFuels Plant, the world’s first commercial-scale landfill waste-to-fuels plant.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Raven SR, a US-based renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), plans to build a waste-to-hydrogen production facility in Aragón, Spain, following the opening of its subsidiary Raven SR Iberia in Zaragoza, announced earlier this month. Raven SR plans to bring the modular project online in 2023. C) at the front up to 1,200°F at the exit end.

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AUGUST 17, 2019

The technologies work as a system that converts organic waste into renewable hydrogen gas for use as a biofuel. The system combines biology and electrochemistry to degrade organic waste—such as plant biomass or food waste—to produce hydrogen.

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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. Only purified water and oxygen remain as waste products.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

BMW Group and H2 Green Steel have signed a final contract on the delivery of CO 2 -reduced steel. H2 Green Steel is committed to the Scope 1, 2 and upstream Scope 3 requirements as defined in the GHG Protocol. H2 Green Steel’s work to reduce emissions will impact BMW Group’s material supply chain and its upstream Scope 3 emissions.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

As a result, the real-world laboratory project has taken a significant step forward towards its goal of progressively establishing a regional hydrogen economy on an industrial scale. This will allow the decarbonization of industry, mobility and the heating market to be tested under real conditions.

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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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MAY 19, 2021

Washington State University researchers have developed an innovative way to convert waste polyethylene plastic to ingredients for jet fuel and other valuable products, making it easier and more cost-effective to reuse plastics. In the recycling industry, the cost of recycling is key. —Hongfei Lin.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Diamond Green Diesel facility in Norco, La., Diamond Green Diesel is owned by Valero Energy Corp. Diamond Green Diesel is owned by Valero Energy Corp. The Diamond Green Diesel facility converts inedible oils and other waste fats into a high-quality renewable diesel fuel. and Darling Ingredients Inc.,

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

ArcelorMittal Europe is developing a series of industrial-scale hydrogen projects for use in blast furnace-based steelmaking that will start to deliver substantial CO 2 emissions savings even within the next five years, as well as progressing a project to test the ability of hydrogen to reduce iron ore and form DRI on an industrial scale.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

This milestone took place at Repsol’s Cartagena Industrial Complex, where 10 tons of renewable hydrogen were produced from 500 MWh of biomethane, thus avoiding the emission of about 90 tons of CO 2. The biomethane used as raw material was obtained from urban solid waste. Repsol has had a circular economy strategy in place since 2018.

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JULY 26, 2023

Enerkem, a producer of bio-methanol from mixed waste at commercial scale, and Dimeta, a joint venture between the two of the largest off-grid energy suppliers, are initiating feasibility studies for the development of two large-scale projects that will convert waste into renewable and recycled carbon dimethyl ether (DME).

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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 1, 2021

Darling and Valero jointly announced that their 50/50 joint venture, Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), has received approval from both companies’ Boards of Directors to proceed with the construction of the renewable diesel production facility to be located at Valero’s Port Arthur, Texas refinery. The US restaurant industry generates an estimated 2.3

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) and the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) have published a new guidance document, “ Measuring Recycled Content of Automotive Products.”. R3: Recycled portion of purchased raw material, including materials recovered or generated by other industries.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Sinopec’s hydrogen production plant has the advantages of covering a small area, having a short construction time, and having a green, environmentally friendly production process. China produces the most methanol in the world, accounting for 60% of the global total. Sinopec Fuel Oil Sales Co.,

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MARCH 3, 2023

Ohio University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment was awarded two of the six awards, one that explores how coal waste can be reimagined as energy storage and the second aims to develop ultra-conductive carbon metal composite wire for electric motors. Industry partners include MetalKraft Technologies LLC, Fisk Alloy Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The partnership will begin with a project in the battery anode space with the development of a novel process for the production of hard carbon from bio-waste. Using readily available, sustainable bio-waste material will provide Sparc with a strong environmental value proposition when compared with conventional sources of hard carbon.

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JULY 21, 2021

the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, is partnering with Univar Solutions OnSite Services, a leader in waste management, to provide waste management solutions for lithium-ion batteries. Li-Cycle Corp.,

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

LanzaTech and Sumitomo Riko Company have entered into a joint-development agreement to reuse rubber, resin and urethane waste for the production of a key chemical intermediate, isoprene. In addition, much like other agriculturally based industries, climate change and disease can severely impact production.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Infinium Electrofuels technology converts carbon dioxide waste and renewable power through its proprietary process to create hydrogen-based alternatives to traditional fossil-based fuels. Earlier post.) The investment will support acceleration of Infinium’s commercial developments globally.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

In the Netherlands, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and its partners have developed a new type of aviation fuel produced using bio-based waste streams from the agriculture industry. Although it does not yet meet all industry requirements for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), it is getting close, the researchers say.

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DECEMBER 18, 2021

Aemetis, a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products ( earlier post ), has signed a 10-year, 450-million-gallon renewable diesel supply agreement with an industry-leading travel stop company, which is expected to generate more than $3 billion in revenue. The industrial site has 710,000 s.f.

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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. Burheim, O.S.;

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel. The consortium is led by UBC and NORAM Engineering and Constructors, Ltd.,

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