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has selected Honeywell’s UOP technology to convert methanol into building blocks for chemical products at an existing coal chemical complex in China. It is projected to produce 295,000 metric tons per year of ethylene and propylene for conversion to chemical products. China’s Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Company Ltd.

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JUNE 7, 2012

An Israeli-Australian venture will use solar technology developed at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of brown coal. is now building a solar reactor for the conversion of CO 2 on an industrial scale. The venture has been recently launched in Israel by NewCO2Fuels Ltd.,

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Together, the two companies will build a production facility in Shaanxi Fupin in China to produce methanol synthesis catalysts. Forming of the joint venture and building of the catalysts facility will be the first step of a long-term strategic cooperation between Topsoe and Yanchang.

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AUGUST 6, 2013

A Technical Feasibility Study (TFS) for a coal-to-methanol (CTM) plant based on the Arckaringa coal resources in Australia has concluded that CTM could be a viable project capable of augmenting the Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) for Altona Energy’s Arckaringa Clean Energy CTL (coal-to-liquids) and Power Project in South Australia.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 8 research projects for funding that will focus on gasification of coal/biomass to produce synthetic gas (syngas) as a pathway to producing power, hydrogen, fuel or chemicals. will blend coal and biomass to develop a feedstock for co-gasification. Clean Coal Briquette Inc.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Possible applications, now being explored, include building and isolation materials and the production of fine and specialty chemicals. An experimental plant is to be located at RWE Power’s Coal Innovation Centre, at its Niederaussem power plant site. Working with RWE Power, we want to advance into a new era of CO 2 conversion.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Panda Power Funds has financed the 1,124 megawatt Panda “Hummel Station” power plant—one of the largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in the United States. The plant will be located at the site of the retired Sunbury coal-fired power plant near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

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JANUARY 21, 2011

Wison plans to invest in a coal gasification unit to produce syngas per Celanese specs, and Celanese plans to invest approximately US$650 million in an Ethanol Complex using the output from Wison as feedstock and Celanese proprietary technology to produce ethanol for industrial use, and potentially for fuel ethanol. Earlier post.).

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On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow. But in every corner of the globe, political and financial pressures are mounting to bury coal in the past.

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JULY 30, 2009

an energy and petrochemical producer, have signed a memorandum of understanding with the South Korean government to develop coal conversion technologies, including synthetic natural gas (SNG) produced through a coal-to-gas conversion process utilizing low-quality coal. POSCO is planning to invest approximately 7.8

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Synthesis Energy Systems’ (SES) 95%-owned Hai Hua joint venture project in Shandong Province, China, has completed a successful commercial-scale gasification demonstration, converting lignite coal from the Inner Mongolia region of China to syngas. Earlier post.). Francis Lau, SES’ Chief Technology Officer.

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SGH2’s gasification process uses a plasma-enhanced thermal catalytic conversion process optimized with oxygen-enriched gas. Producers of so-called blue, gray and brown hydrogen use either fossil fuels (natural gas or coal) or low-temperature gasification (.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Headwaters direct coal liquefaction process. Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single-source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass. Source: Headwaters. Click to enlarge. Axens DCL process. Source: Axens.

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JULY 22, 2010

Converting captured CO 2 into products such as chemicals, carbonates, plastics, fuels, building materials, and other commodities is an important aspect of carbon capture and storage technology, the DOE said. Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels. Touchstone Research Laboratory Ltd. DOE Share: $18,417,989).

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JULY 7, 2010

Converting captured CO 2 into products such as chemicals, fuels, building materials, and other commodities is an important aspect of carbon capture and storage technology, the DOE said. This integrated capture and conversion process will be used to produce a number of different chemicals that could replace petroleum-derived products.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The key to this transformation is a patented microwave plasma reactor system that generates these new products from methane efficiently at very high rates of conversion and selectivity. Fuel-cell vehicle fleet operators can take advantage of distributed manufacturing and strategic siting of refueling stations.

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JULY 10, 2009

Ignite Energy Resources (IER), developer of a supercritical water technology, and TRUenergy have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a commercial demonstration plant that will apply IER’s direct coal-to-oil and upgraded dry coal process to the brown coal at TRUenergy’s Yallourn mine in Australia.

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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JULY 31, 2009

Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. By 2035, cellulosic ethanol and/or coal-and-biomass-to-liquid (CBTL) fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15% of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (1.7–2.5 emissions, according to the report.

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By comparison, 69% of steel today is made at approximately 1,600 degrees Celsius (2,912 degrees Fahrenheit) using coal, emitting about two tons of carbon dioxide for every ton of steel produced. Conversion of iron ore into iron accounts for 90% of steelmaking emissions that may be eliminated using Electra’s process.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $30 million to help lower the costs of the onshore production of rare earths and other critical minerals and materials from domestic coal-based resources. ( However, rare earth elements occur naturally, including in domestic coal and coal wastes.

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MARCH 21, 2016

The light olefins ethylene, propylene, and butylene—usually made from petroleum—are key building blocks for chemical industry, and are starting materials for making plastics, synthetic fibers, and coatings. This could make it more attractive to make olefins from alternative sources of carbon, such as biomass, natural gas, or coal.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Shell and its affiliates will build two additional small-scale natural gas liquefaction units to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. The Interlake Steamship Company is expected to be the first marine customer in this region, as it begins the conversion of its vessels.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is soliciting (DE-FOA-0000146) applications for the University Coal Research (UCR) Program. Therefore, it is critical to understand and be able to model gas-solids systems for building highly efficient, near-zero emission fossil energy plants.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) and Syntroleum Corporation have opened the Sinopec/Syntroleum Demonstration Facility (SDF), a 80 barrel per day (bpd) coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant located in Zhenhai, China. Earlier post.) Sinopec and Syntroleum entered into a technology transfer agreement in 2009.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Co-sponsored by NRG and COSIA (Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance), the 4-½ year competition will include two tracks, with the new technologies tested at either a coal power plant or a natural gas facility. XPRIZE will appoint a judging panel to evaluate the various technologies and approaches developed by teams during the competition.

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DECEMBER 14, 2013

TIPS has developed a novel method of conversion for gas, biomass and coal to liquid hydrocarbons (XTL) that is more efficient and easier to apply on small scale than the commonly used Fischer-Tropsch process. Kolesnikova, E.; Biryukova, E.; Kolesnichenko, N.; Khadzhiev, S. Petroleum Chemistry Vol.

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JUNE 9, 2014

The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Hydrogen-to-fuels.

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building HVAC exhaust) and from natural fluids (e.g., Most contemporary DAC approaches utilize energy poorly, as evident by second-law efficiencies for CO 2 separation of 1 to 9% (for comparison, post-combustion capture from coal exhaust attains second-law efficiencies greater than 20%). Energy Transfer Mechanisms.

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Generation 3 avoids the need for the Haber-Bosch process entirely by direct electrochemical conversion of N 2 to NH 3. The process generates H 2 from natural gas or coal through steam reforming and combines it with N 2 , which has been separated from air by a cryogenic process, to form NH 3.

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JULY 31, 2010

Subsequently, it intends to build either by itself or in collaboration with other stakeholders, several other forest methanol and / or forest-diesel plants. note that: The composition of syngas derived from biomass is different from that derived from natural gas and coal. Biomass to Methanol.

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JUNE 29, 2009

During the first half of 2009, the Linc Energy Limited Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) to Liquids demonstration plant at Chinchilla ( earlier post ) ran four major production campaigns each of which has seen further improvements in plant performance, according to the company. Peter Bond, Linc Energy CEO.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. primarily produce bio-propane. (JGS)

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Researchers in the Netherlands have demonstrated the direct conversion of synthesis gas through a Fischer-Tropsch process to C 2 through C 4 light olefins with selectivity up to 60 wt.% Lower olefins are key building blocks for plastics, cosmetics, and drugs. alumina or carbon nanofiber supports. alumina or carbon nanofiber supports.

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AUGUST 21, 2022

SK E&S signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SK Plug Hyverse and KOEN regarding cooperation for carbon neutrality and the production of green hydrogen and green ammonia which will be consumed for co-firing at KOEN’s natural gas and coal based thermal power plants, by using electrolyzers to be produced in Korea by SK Plug Hyverse.

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JULY 5, 2011

The past decade was the first in two centuries with increasing CO2 emissions intensities, owing to a “coal revival”, in contrast with the rapid conversion to natural gas in the 1990s. These trends, which are diametrically opposed to declared greenhouse gas mitigation goals and targets, are by no means limited to emerging economies.

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JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University.

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