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OCTOBER 3, 2016

One way to mitigate high feedstock cost is to maximize conversion into the bioproduct of interest. This maximization, though, is limited because of the production of CO 2 during the conversion of sugar into acetyl-CoA in traditional fermentation processes. Acetogens are anaerobic bacteria, which cannot grow in oxygenated environments.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

billion in Michigan since 2016 and created and retained 7,000 jobs in the state. We knew the F-150 Lightning was special, but the interest from the public has surpassed our highest expectations and changed the conversation around electric vehicles. Ford has invested $7.7

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AUGUST 8, 2017

The mobile chemical pilot plant produces gasoline, diesel, and kerosene from regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The SOLETAIR project started in 2016. An electrolysis unit developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) uses solar power to produce the required hydrogen.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A team led by Professor Jae Sung Lee at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), with colleagues at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), have developed a new pathway for the direct conversion of CO 2 to liquid transportation fuels by reaction with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting.

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APRIL 27, 2016

DLR is presenting the HY4—a four-seater passenger fuel cell hybrid electric aircraft prototype ( earlier post )— at the 2016 Hannover Messe, along with research and development partners Hydrogenics, Pipistrel, H2FLY, the University of Ulm and Stuttgart Airport.

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APRIL 25, 2011

The free fatty acid (FFA) and low concentrations of hydrogen are fed into a deoxygenation reactor. A parallel step to the fuel conversion is the separation of the by-product of hydrolysis, glycerol, from the sweet water. This hydrogen becomes part of the fuel molecule, increasing the energy density of the fuel. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 21, 2016

The first step in such a process would involve the conversion of these materials into syngas through either gasification or steam reforming. An alternative method is the conversion of synthesis gas in two process steps. The olefins can also bind hydrogen, which causes them to lose their double bond and thus forms more paraffins.

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APRIL 30, 2013

We exist to better educate the public, to have the conversations that need to be had with government, corporate executives, NGOs, with all sectors of society, on future alternatives. The organizations are also pushing electric vehicles as an important options, whether battery-based or hydrogen-fuel-cell based. —John Hofmeister.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

A team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo (Norway), and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ) (Spain) has developed a new process for the direct, non-oxidative conversion of methane to liquids—reducing cost, eliminating multiple process steps, and avoiding CO 2 emissions. —Morejudo.

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APRIL 18, 2018

The Australian, Japanese and Victorian governments and a consortium of companies have launched the pilot of an innovative supply chain that will deliver liquefied hydrogen from the Latrobe Valley in Australia to Japan. A liquefaction plant at the Port of Hastings will convert the hydrogen gas into liquefied hydrogen (LH2).

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APRIL 11, 2017

The “self-heating” boron catalyst makes particularly efficient use of sunlight to reduce CO 2 , serving as a light harvester, photothermal converter, hydrogen generator, and catalyst in one. At this temperature it reacts with water, forming hydrogen and boron oxides in situ. The boron oxides act as “traps” for CO 2 molecules.

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JUNE 8, 2016

COPVs designed to store hydrogen gas at pressures up to 700 bar are being deployed in fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) currently available on the market. Waterfall plot of the 2013 700 bar compressed hydrogen storage system cost baseline and 2015 cost status update. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 21, 2016

A team of researchers from the UK’s Cardiff University’s Cardiff Catalysis Institute and Queen’s University Belfast have shown that significant amounts of hydrogen can be unlocked from fescue grass—without significant pre-treatment—using sunlight and a metal-loaded titania photocatalyst. Reaction conditions: 0.36 g Caravaca et al.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

Hydrogen electric powertrains are made up of a number of key components, including the fuel cell module, battery system, and Energy Management System (EMS). The fuel cell module, which is powered by hydrogen stored in tanks on the vehicle, produces electricity which is supplied to the electric powertrain.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

A team from the University of Science & Technology of China in Hefei has developed a three-step process for the conversion of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into cycloparaffinic and aromatic biofuels in jet fuel range. wt% monocyclic cycloparaffins after hydrogenation. wt% of C 8 –C 15 aromatics after alkylation, yielding 84.3

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JULY 9, 2013

The basic concept of power-to-gas (or e-Gas, as Audi calls it), is to “store” excess renewable electricity by producing hydrogen, which can then either be converted to methane; injected into the gas distribution grid directly; or used as a vehicle fuel. The municipal gas distribution networks can manage these quantities in principle.

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MARCH 18, 2013

Projected rates of fuel consumption improvement under different scenarios relative to past experience and the 2016 and 2025 CAFE standards. Vehicles operating on hydrogen. An important caveat to the use of biofuels, electricity and hydrogen is that their GHG benefits depend on their being produced without large GHG emissions.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Recently, c-Si modules have been implemented in solar-hydrogen devices, demonstrating SHE [solar-to-hydrogen efficiency] of 9.7%. Schematic overview of the solar-driven hydrogen generator. In terms of performance, this is a world record for silicon solar cells and for hydrogen production without using rare metals.

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APRIL 1, 2016

The superior performance of the catalyst allows simultaneous conversion of cellulose, hemicellulose and, more significantly, lignin fractions in wood sawdust into hexane, pentane and alkylcyclohexanes, respectively. Parker, Xue Han, Sihai Yang & Yanqin Wang (2016) “Direct hydrodeoxygenation of raw woody biomass into liquid alkanes”.

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MARCH 8, 2016

An alternative approach—decarboxylation and/or decarbonylation of carboxylic acids at high temperature over non-sulfide catalysts—shows low activities towards triglycerides conversion. Total conversions with near quantitative yields for alkane formation from triglycerides can be obtained over this efficient catalyst.

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JUNE 1, 2016

Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. First, a mild Ni-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation/hydrogenolysis using 2-propanol generates a lignin residue in which the ethers, carbonyls, and olefins are reduced. Löfstedt, J.,

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

reduced by 100% fossil-free hydrogen instead of coal and coke—in July. SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall created HYBRIT, Hydrogen Breakthrough Ironmaking Technology, in 2016, with the aim of developing a technology for fossil-free iron- and steelmaking. SSAB Oxelösund rolled its first steel produced using HYBRIT technology—i.e.,

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JUNE 21, 2022

Methanol derived from the gasification of biomass and waste, as well as from lower-carbon hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide (CO?), Methanol to jet technology is scalable and suitable for the conversion of methanol produced from today’s world-scale plants. Only a mild hydrogen treatment is then needed to obtain jet fuel.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have been the first to demonstrate that polyaniline (PANI), a member of the organic conducting polymer family, is a promising photocathode material for the conversion of carbon dioxide into alcohol fuels without the need for a co-catalyst. —principal researcher Krishnan Rajeshwar.

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JUNE 23, 2016

When placed in water, the device immediately began splitting water at a solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of 6.2%—matching The tandem solar cell continued generating hydrogen for more than 10 hours, an indication of good stability, said Cui. —matching the theoretical maximum rate for a bismuth vanadate cell.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

A team of researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea University, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a new type of multilayered (Au NPs/TiO 2 /Au) photoelectrode that could boost the ability of solar water-splitting to produce hydrogen. 2016.01.004.

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MARCH 20, 2012

The combined science team from Cobalt and the NAWCWD focused on scaling and optimizing the dehydration chemistry for the conversion of bio n-butanol to 1-butene, followed by oligomerization of the bio-butene into jet fuel, based on the process developed at NAWCWD in China Lake, CA. Hydrogenation. Earlier post.). Alcohol to Jet.

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Involving 16 further partners, the project, which is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), has over the past four years gathered fundamental insights into the conversion of steel mill process gases into chemical products. In addition to the CO 2 from these gases, Carbon2Chem also uses hydrogen.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

Among the multiple applications for different processing pathways of corn or sorghum ethanol are four pathways from LytEn for hydrogen produced from biomethane; four pathways for renewable gasoline and diesel produced from tree residue from Ensyn; and one application for cellulosic ethanol using corn stover feedstock from POET. gCO 2 e/MJ.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The US Department of Energy has announced the 2016 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Topics, covering eight DOE research program organizations. The second TTO is focused on safety sensors for hydrogen infrastructure applications.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Hybrid conversion of glucose into UPA-6,6. Replacing conventional high-pressure hydrogenation by direct ECH promoted a seamless flow between the processes, allowing the use of the broth water, salts, and impurities as electrolyte and hydrogen source. Their study is published in the 12 Feb. Suastegui et al. mg L −1 in yeast.

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MAY 2, 2016

Dehydrogenation of ammonia borane (AB, H 3 N–BH 3 ) has been studied extensively as an approach for high-capacity hydrogen storage, because AB has high hydrogen density (19.6 The new USC system produces hydrogen, then polymerizes the resultant borazine, producing polyborazylene and more hydrogen. —Zhang et al.

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OCTOBER 23, 2016

is developing a solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) system to convert excess electricity during periods of low power demand into hydrogen efficiently. million cost-share contract to advance SOEC system design that will be added to the Advanced Technology backlog for the fourth quarter of 2016. FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

The conversion of oleic acid in the process was 100%, and the yield of heptadecane (C 17 H 36 , the main product) can reach 71% after 80 min at 350 °C. The results, said the researchers, indicate that their process is a complicated reaction system including in situ hydrogen transfer, aromatization, decarboxylation, and cracking.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The process combines catalytic microwave-assisted degradation of low-density polyethylene (a model compound of plastics waste) followed by hydrogenation. In this regard, plastic waste can potentially serve as ideal feedstock for the production of advanced fuels or valuable chemicals due to its high conversion efficiency.

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APRIL 5, 2018

Typically the steam cracking of ethane has a conversion rate of 70%, with ethylene yields of about 50%. Specifically, the INL team developed a novel, pure proton-conducting electrochemical cell for the co-production of ethylene and hydrogen via electrochemical non-oxidative deprotonation (NDP) of ethane (400-500 ?C). DIng et al.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded more than $20 million to 10 projects to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies, and to enable early adoption of fuel cell applications such as light-duty fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) (DE-FOA-0001224, earlier post ). The hydrogen and fuel cell market continues to grow rapidly.

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