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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. This enables Audi’s systems to be used more efficiently.

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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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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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AUGUST 4, 2021

Spain-based global energy company Repsol and Talgo, a manufacturer of intercity, standard, and high speed passenger trains, will promote a renewable-hydrogen-powered train, fostering emission-free rail transport in the Iberian Peninsula. The Vittal One renewable hydrogen-powered train uses electric motors powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

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APRIL 11, 2020

In a three-year Business Finland BioFlex project, VTT—the Finnish state-owned research agency—and partners are exploring how suitable fuel oils made from biomass and waste plastics are for power plants and ship diesel engines. Internal-combustion engine power plants use natural gas or heavy fuel oil in diesel engines.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The feedstock for the facility will be waste-based, low-carbon ethanol, procured from a variety of waste sources. The facility will also have the ability to use ethanol produced from local steel mill waste gases via LanzaTech’s gas fermentation platform.

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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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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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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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JULY 1, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) intends to issue a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) that will support DOE’s efforts to decarbonize the US industrial sector and move the US toward net-zero carbon emissions. The industrial sector currently accounts for one-third of domestic, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions.

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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. power, cement, or other industrial sources). The funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0002654 ) specifically aims to increase the capability of algal systems to capture CO 2 and put it to productive use.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Freudenberg has received Type Approval by the international classification society RINA for its methanol-powered fuel cell system for ocean-going shipping. This is not a sustainable option for the maritime industry, Freudenberg says. The heat required for the reformer can be obtained directly from the waste heat of the fuel cells.

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JULY 13, 2016

Alphabet Energy, a startup commercializing low-cost, efficient thermoelectric materials for power generation leveraging technology initially developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( earlier post , earlier post ), has closed a $23.5-million million Series C round of financing.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The proposed plant would take more than 500,000 tonnes each year of non-recyclable everyday household and commercial solid waste destined for landfill or incineration such as meal packaging, diapers and takeaway coffee cups and convert it into more than 60 million liters (15.85

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AUGUST 11, 2014

Researchers have shown that magnesium industrial wastes of AZ91 alloy and Mg-10 wt.% A paper on their work is published in the Journal of Power Sources. Dornheim (2014) Hydrogen storage systems from waste Mg alloys, Journal of Power Sources , Volume 270 Pages 554-563 doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.07.129.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

Siemens is researching technologies that would allow waste heat from vehicles and industrial facilities to be used efficiently. For example, the gas turbines in natural gas power plants produce exhaust gas that is used to generate steam for the operation of a steam turbine.

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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.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Royal Caribbean Group’s new class of ships known as ‘Project Evolution’, set to debut in summer 2023, will operate using a trio of power sources including a fuel cell system, battery technology and dual fuel engines using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as the main fuel.

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MAY 18, 2019

Since 2010, SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, has improved its production-related environmental footprint by 34% on average with measures to emit less CO 2 and fewer volatile organic compounds, generate less waste and consume less water and energy. less waste. less waste. and 30.9%, respectively. and generated 34.2%

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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 internal combustion engine is the power system of most vehicles. In a paper published in the journal Applied Thermal Engineering , the team from. —Tian et al. 2017.08.031.

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MAY 22, 2014

Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 degrees Celsius. C, which accounts for a large proportion of potentially harvestable waste heat. converting heat to electricity. °C,

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JUNE 4, 2014

Siemens recently introduced an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module for industrial plants or power stations for the conversion of waste heat to electricity. The Siemens system can generate electricity from waste heat of only about 300 ?C. The oil absorbs the waste heat energy by way of a heat exchanger.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Nissan announced a breakthrough in engine efficiency, reaching 50% thermal efficiency with its in-development, next-generation e-POWER system. Nissan’s e-POWER system utilizes an on-board gasoline engine to provide electrical energy to the e-powertrain battery pack. The Nissan e-POWER System. The STARC concept.

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MAY 7, 2021

Solid oxide fuel cell company (SOFC) Bloom Energy and Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, will collaborate on the potential commercialization and deployment of integrated, low-carbon power generation and hydrogen solutions to advance the energy transition.

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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. Infinium electrofuels process.

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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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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science research agency, has 2 -based-power-generation-project/">joined the Joint Industry Partnership (JIP) of the Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) project known as STEP Demo.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Together with eight project partners, it is now seeking public funding to build one of the world’s first hydrogen-powered high-speed vessels. This project will contribute to economic growth and development in Narvik and its surrounding regions and will also be an important contribution to the green transition in the maritime industry.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

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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JANUARY 26, 2021

Infinium, an electrofuels solution provider, announced the close of a funding round bringing together a consortium of investors including Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), AP Ventures, Neuman & Esser, and the Grantham Environmental Trust. —Robert Schuetzle, CEO of Infinium.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2023

Blastr has entered into a Letter of Intent with Nordic energy company Fortum that provides Blastr exclusive rights to utilize the existing industrial site located in Joddböle, Inkoo in Finland, 55 km west of Helsinki. Fortum has developed the Joddböle area since the dismantling of its Inkoo coal-fired power plant there in 2017-2020.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

A joint research project by RWE Power and biotechnology company BRAIN AG has discovered specialist micro-organisms that directly feed on CO 2 -containing flue gases from lignite-fired power stations and that can grow at temperatures of 60 °C (140 °F). Johannes Heithoff, Head of Research and Development at RWE Power.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Power Integrations, a provider of high-voltage integrated circuits (ICs) for energy-efficient power conversion, has added two new AEC-Q100 qualified, 1700-volt rated ICs to its InnoSwitch3-AQ family. —Peter Vaughan, director of automotive business development at Power Integrations.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Air Products has been awarded a contract to supply onsite oxygen, compressed dry air, and nitrogen to INEOS Bio’s joint venture project for its waste to ethanol facility in Vero Beach, Florida. Earlier post.) Oxygen is used primarily for gasification and nitrogen as an inert and fluidizing medium.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies unveiled its scalable waste heat power generator, called WHE/Generation ( earlier post ), in connection with the $200 million GE Ecomagination Challenge. Cyclone’s WHE/Generationsystem comprises its Waste Heat Engine, proprietary heat exchangers and electric generator.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

British Airways has entered a partnership with Velocys to design a series of waste plants that convert household waste into renewable jet fuel to power its fleet. As well as helping the airline industry reduce its carbon emissions this initiative will also significantly reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.

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