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MARCH 3, 2020

Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have developed a novel process for the production of hydrogen using various types of biomass, including lignin, as an efficient alternative to water oxidation as an electron source. Conventionally, water is considered a cheap and clean source of electrons; 2H 2 O ?

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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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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.

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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 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. —Professor Cengiz Ozkan.

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JUNE 19, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a new report that frames an integrated challenge and opportunity space around the water-energy nexus for DOE and its partners and lays the foundation for future efforts. Present day water and energy systems are tightly intertwined. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Audi has put a new service-water supply center into operation at the Ingolstadt site. In this way, Audi will saves up to 500,000 cubic meters of fresh water each year. The heart of the service-water supply center is a membrane bioreactor (MBR). The heart of the service-water supply center is a membrane bioreactor (MBR).

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JULY 3, 2020

Researchers at the University of Oregon have advanced the effectiveness of the catalytic water dissociation reaction in bipolar membranes. The technology behind bipolar membranes, which are layered ion-exchange polymers sandwiching a water dissociation catalyst layer, emerged in the 1950s. —Oener et al. —Shannon Boettcher.

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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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APRIL 12, 2018

From the first full year of production, the plant will be the BMW Group’s most resource-efficient production location worldwide. Responsible use of water resources is a particular sustainability goal in San Luis Potosí. Responsible use of water resources is a particular sustainability goal in San Luis Potosí.

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BMW Mexico Industry Industrial 253

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

Through its venture capital fund BMW i Ventures, the BMW Group has taken a stake in Colorado-based Jetti Resources. Founded in 2014, Jetti Resources has developed a pioneering process for copper extraction that utilizes previously unused ore from existing copper mines. 2022.118111.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

These plants pump hot water from geothermal deposits and use it to generate electricity. The LDH sorbent is made up of layers of the materials, separated by water molecules and hydroxide ions that create space, allowing lithium chloride to enter more readily than other ions such as sodium and potassium. Lili Wu, Samuel F. 9b04340.

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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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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. Credit: DICP.

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JUNE 5, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft assessment on the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing activities on drinking water resources in the United States. The stages of the hydraulic fracturing water cycle. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Seven major European research institutes (Fraunhofer, CEA, TNO, VTT, SINTEF, Tecnalia and SP) have joined forces to invest in a joint program (Value from Waste) aimed at tackling the recycling of rare earth metals from waste. The aim is to extract valuable materials from the waste streams. —Odd Løvhaugen. 2012.12.037.

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MAY 29, 2020

A Northwestern Engineering-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. Currently used solutions include burning the oil, using chemical dispersants to breakdown oil into very small droplets, skimming oil floating on top of water and/or absorbing it with expensive, unrecyclable sorbents.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

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. The enzymatic process uses less energy, and the cost of waste oil as a feedstock is significantly lower than refined oils. free fatty acids (FFA). FFA—i.e., Source: Novozymes.

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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A new way of anchoring individual iridium atoms to the surface of a catalyst significantly increased its efficiency in splitting water molecules, scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University reported in an open-access paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). …we

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JUNE 20, 2019

Using renewable energy resources, the facility produces fuel for hydrogen vehicles, such as the WaiveCar, which only emit water vapor emissions. Styrofoam food service items will be phased out by 2021, and the use of single-use plastic water bottles will end in 2023.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

DE-FOA-0002423 ) Topic Areas ins the FOA support DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Algae Productivity Exceeding Expectations (APEX) (up to $20M).

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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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MARCH 21, 2020

a North-America-based lithium-ion battery resource recovery company, recently completed its first shipment of commercially recycled battery material, containing energy metals concentrate. The process technology is inherently sustainable—it produces no solid waste streams, minimal/no water discharge, nor any harmful air emissions.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This knowledge may open new possibilities for the biohydrogen production from industrial wastes. The potential of the algae-bacteria combination has been proven and opens the doors to its being used in industry since the sugar added for bacteria fermentation in the lab can be transferred to waste in the real world.

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JULY 18, 2021

MIRUM is far less resource-intensive to produce than animal leather and synthetic leather. waste’ cork powder). In addition to having an extremely low carbon footprint, MIRUM requires no water during manufacturing and dyeing. NFW has developed novel technologies to replace incumbent petrochemical-based materials (e.g.

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APRIL 13, 2022

Lithium with Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) to secure lithium produced by the first stage of its Hell’s Kitchen Project in California. The ore is then mixed with water to form a slurry for processing in the HPAL circuit. Rare earth materials with GE, to develop a rare earth value chain.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

The TEP process uses the alkalinity and filtering capacity of stabilized flue gas desulfurization (sFGD) material or water treatment plant (WTP) sludge to remediate CMD waters and extract REEs. According to the study, passive approaches tend to require fewer resources and have fewer environmental impacts. —Jeff Bielicki.

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Coal Cleaning Clean West Virginia 283

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the Agriculture Innovation Agenda, a department-wide initiative to align resources, programs, and research to position American agriculture to better meet future global demands. Water Quality: Reduce nutrient loss by 30 percent nationally by 2050.

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JULY 25, 2012

The extraction system consumes no water in its process. The Utah oil sands are “oil wet”, which allows us to extract the bitumen while neither consuming water in the process nor producing waste water as a byproduct. That company acquired GreenRiver Resources Corp., —Andrew Rosenfeld, company President.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

to convert organic waste to produce green hydrogen at a site in Richmond, California. The Raven SR Steam/CO 2 Reformation process also presents a valid alternative to electrolysis converting waste rather than precious and limited water resources for green hydrogen production.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2020

In the CHJ process (also called hydrothermal liquefaction), clean free fatty acid (FFA) oil from the processing of waste oils or energy oils is combined with preheated feed water and then passed to the CH reactor. Evaluation of ARA Catalytic Hydrothermolysis (CH) Fuel.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

of the online tool Water Assessment for Transportation Energy Resources ( WATER ) this week. This latest version of WATER allows, for the first time, biofuels manufacturers to analyze water consumption associated with use of cellulosic feedstocks such as residue left from lumber production and other wood-based resources.

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JULY 27, 2017

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have developed a novel green route to convert aluminium foil waste into highly active nano-mesoporous alumina (γ-Al 2 O 3 ) (designated as ACFL550). In the UK, around 20,000 tonnes of aluminium foil packaging is wasted each year. 2 O and Al(NO 3 ) 3.9H 2 O) from the contaminated foil.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Masdar, the UAE’s sustainable city, is running a blogging contest ; the 500-600 word entries must address the following question: “How can cities contribute to the advancement of sustainable development and address issues including water, energy and waste?” The International Water Summit (IWS) 2014. EcoWASTE 2014.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

The Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) program ( DE-FOA-0001211 ) seeks to accelerate biomass yield gains (especially energy sorghum) through automated, predictive and systems-level approaches to biofuel crop breeding.

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