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Dow and X-energy to deploy first advanced small modular nuclear reactor at industrial site

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Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company entered into a joint development agreement (JDA) to demonstrate the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor for an industrial site in North America. Earlier post.) Built with a high-temperature-tolerant graphite core structure, the Xe-100 is designed for a 60-year operational life.

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IDTechEx: future of the electric ship industry lies with hybrid cargo vessels

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More than 1GWh of batteries are now sailing on waters globally, reflecting 72% industry growth in 2022, according to a new report from IDTechEx. IDTechEx concludes that the future of the electric ship industry lies with hybrid cargo vessels. The potential is huge.

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Sunfire installs 2.6MW high-temp electrolyzer at Neste refinery in Rotterdam; MultiPLHY

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Sunfire has successfully installed what it says is the world’s first multi-megawatt (2.6 MultiPLHY is the first demonstration of an HTE in an industrial refining process, with a nominal power input of 2.6 Over the past few months, Sunfire has installed twelve electrolysis modules at the refinery, which together make up the 2.6

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Alcoa outlines technology roadmap to decarbonize aluminum industry

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outlined a technology roadmap to support its vision to reinvent the aluminum industry for a sustainable future. It also allows some specialty aerospace and defense applications to use scrap, which would be a first for those industries. Alcoa Corp. ELYSIS: Decarbonizing aluminum smelting.

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Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction partners with RevoTech on production of hydrogen from waste plastic

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Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has embarked on the development of technology for producing hydrogen using waste plastic and vinyl. tons of hydrogen per day by 2021 and plans to have this installed for operation at RevoTech, which is located in Mungyeong of North Gyeongsang Province.

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Using Industrial Automation to Monitor Vertical Farms

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To find out about the latest technologies being used by the agricultural industry, I virtually attended the second annual AgTech Innovation Summit , held in February in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The event was hosted by AeroFarms , an indoor vertical farm company based in Newark, N.J, that has an R&D facility.

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BASF and Samsung Heavy Industries collaborate on carbon capture & storage onboard maritime vessels

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BASF and Samsung Heavy Industries Co., SHI will evaluate the feasibility of installing the gas treatment technology onboard maritime vessels. SHI) will carry out a collaborative feasibility assessment of capturing CO 2 onboard maritime vessels using BASF’s OASE blue technology for flue gas applications.

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