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Researchers from the University of Michigan and McGill University in Canada report photochemical syngas synthesis using a core/shell Au@Cr 2 O 3 dual cocatalyst in coordination with multistacked InGaN/GaN nanowires (NWs) with the sole inputs of CO 2 , water, and solar light. Image credit: Roksana Rashid, McGill University.
Canada-based Aurora Hydrogen, a company developing emission-free hydrogen production technology, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Energy Innovation Capital. This funding adds to additional funding by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) that the team received earlier this year.
ABB and Canada-based Hydrogen Optimized have signed an agreement to expand the companies’ existing strategic relationship. KEY), the parent company of HOI, as they seek to accelerate the fast-emerging green hydrogen production segment with unique large-scale architecture. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), a US-based vertical integrator of nuclear technologies and services, Hyundai Engineering and SK E&C are teaming up to conduct research and development for carbon-free hydrogen production. It is also participating in a government-led green hydrogen production demonstration project.
Canadian researchers have developed a large-scale economical method to extract hydrogen from oil sands (natural bitumen) and oil fields. This can be used to power hydrogen-powered vehicles, which are already marketed in some countries, as well as to generate electricity. Proton Technologies is commercializing the process.
Canada investing $20M in Terrestrial Energy to support development of Integral Molten Salt SMR. Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Hon. Molten salts are thermally very stable, making them superior coolants compared to water. —Hon. The IMSR uses molten salt as coolant and fuel.
Western Hydrogen Limited reported first production of hydrogen from its Molten Salt Gasification (MSG) pilot plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. The technology allows the production of high-pressure hydrogen without the need for compression and can use a variety of feedstocks, including renewables.
UK-based energy firm SSE is the first UK utility to trial First Hydrogen ’s hydrogen-powered van in a real-life setting, enabling SSE to evaluate the benefits of hydrogen mobility alongside its growing fleet of EV engineering and maintenance vehicles as an alternative to fossil fuels. First Hydrogen Corp.
Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and Fujitsu have applied quantum-inspired computing to find the promising, previously unexplored chemical family of Ru-Cr-Mn-Sb-O 2 as acidic oxygen evolution reaction catalysts for hydrogen production. A paper on their work appears in the journal Matter.
The energy system will power and heat Raven SR’s S-Series hydrogen production facility at a sanitary landfill in Richmond, California. At the site, landfill gas (LFG) will be the primary fuel to provide power for the non-combustion process that converts waste to hydrogen. Earlier post.). Olaf Berlien, President and CEO of INNIO.
These include electricity and heating for remote communities and islands, industrial sites, data centers, universities, defense facilities, marine propulsion, hydrogen generation and water purification. The eVinci microreactor is 100% factory-built, fueled and assembled before it is shipped in a container to any location.
Leclanché SA will provide its proprietary battery technology to Canadian Pacific (CP) for its innovative Hydrogen Locomotive Program. CP operates a 21,000-km (13,000-mile) rail network across Canada and the USthat serves deep-water ports on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Earlier post.) compared with the five-year average.
Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding with Canada-based Next Hydrogen Corporation, a specialist in water electrolysis technology and a subsidiary of Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc., Today it is expensive and time consuming to produce clean hydrogen.
stake in the capital of Canada-based Hydrogenics Corporation , a leader in electrolytic hydrogen production equipment and fuel cells. Water electrolysis is one of the key technologies to accelerate the emergence of hydrogen as a sustainable energy carrier. Air Liquide has acquired an 18.6%
Source: Western Hydrogen. A consortium led by Canada-based Western Hydrogen Ltd. A consortium led by Canada-based Western Hydrogen Ltd. MSG converts natural gas into hydrogen with a 23% reduction in GHG emissions compared to steam methane reforming. GHG scenarios for hydrogen production in Alberta.
SOLVE adds a solvent to the steam in SAGD (basic operation depicted above) to reduce energy input and water consumption. Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) has awarded C$6 million (US$5.6 SAGD is the predominant in-situ recovery method currently used in Canada’s oil sands. Source: StatoilHydro. Click to enlarge.
In these systems, typically a stream of gas containing carbon dioxide passes through water to deliver carbon dioxide for the electrochemical reaction. The movement through water is sluggish, which slows the rate of conversion of the carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, the competing hydrogen evolution was sharply curtailed.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $40 million in funding to advance the development and deployment of clean hydrogen technologies. Areas of interest in support of Hydrogen Shot include: HydroGEN: Solar Fuels from Photoelectrochemical and Solar Thermochemical Water Splitting. DE-FOA-0002792 ).
A team of researchers from Canada and the US has developed a system that quickly and efficiently converts carbon dioxide into simple chemicals via CO 2 electrolysis. —García de Arquer. Resources. Pelayo García de Arquer et al. 2020) “CO2 electrolysis to multicarbon products at activities greater than 1 A cm -2.” Science Vol.
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Hydrogenation—which is used in a wide range of industrial applications, from food products, such as margarine, to petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and biofuels—typically involves the use of heavy metals, such as palladium or platinum, to catalyze the chemical reaction. Iron, however, rusts in the presence of oxygen or water.
Suncor Energy and Australia-based Hazer Group Limited will use Hazer’s innovative methane pyrolysis technology for the first time in North America to produce hydrogen from natural gas. If the pilot continues as a full commercial build out, the project would be expected to produce up to 2,500 tonnes of hydrogen per year.
It’s also especially good at channeling that electricity toward forming methane, with half of the available electrons going toward methane-producing reactions rather than toward by-products such as hydrogen or carbon monoxide. Likewise, H 2 O must be broken down to attach the hydrogen to the carbon. Image credit: Baowen Zhou.
LP will supply the hydrogen fueling infrastructure for a hydrogen fuel cell bus demonstration in Birmingham, Ala. CTE, a non-profit organization that specializes in bringing clean transportation technologies to the market, will manage the hydrogen fuel cell bus demonstration over a two-year period, scheduled to begin in summer 2012.
Canada, as is well known, has massive untapped heavy oil and bitumen resources, much of it located in Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Based on their results, the team suggests that CPCSI could be an alternative optimization production scenario for applying solvent-based in situ EHOR techniques for heavy oil reservoirs in Western Canada.
GM and POSCO Chemical are building a new facility in Quebec, Canada, as part of their joint venture to produce CAM for GM’s Ultium batteries. The ore is then mixed with water to form a slurry for processing in the HPAL circuit. The HPAL circuit consists of four titanium-lined autoclaves, each the size of a small submarine.
Next, these fats are processed into renewable diesel by: Hydrotreating: Using high pressure hydrogen to remove the oxygen (which is converted to water). The petroleum refineries are located in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and the ethanol plants are located in the Mid-Continent region of the US.
Canada-based Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE) CE’s complementary AIR TO FUELS process—which combines CO 2 from DAC with clean hydrogen from water electrolysis—provides a second pathway for reducing transportation emissions by synthesizing ultra-low carbon intensity liquid fuels.
Canada-based Nutrien Ltd. The low-carbon blue ammonia has a range of end-markets suitable for use in agriculture and other industries, such as a fuel or as a hydrogen carrier. is evaluating Geismar, LA as the site to build the world’s largest clean ammonia facility. Source: Nutrien.
The government of the Canadian province of Alberta will launch two hydrogen funding competitions using the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund. 20 million is available through Alberta Innovates’ Hydrogen Centre of Excellence for early-stage innovations.
Raven SR, a renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), and Cap Clean Energy, a clean energy development company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop biofuels facilities in Canada to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) for the heavy duty transport sector.
crude from the oil sands) is no more corrosive in transmission pipelines than other crudes, according to Natural Resources Canada (NRC). In the absence of water, the crude oil is noncorrosive. Crude oils, including bitumen-derived crudes, contain little or no carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) or hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S), noted NRC.
The case for using Power-to-Gas solutions to store renewable energy is compelling for a number of important use cases, according to a new white paper released by the California Hydrogen Business Council (CHBC). Currently, P2G is being deployed in Europe and Canada but is only at the early demonstration phase in California.
The CLEARgen fuel cell system will utilize hydrogen produced by steam-reformation of renewable bio-gas generated at a landfill. Heat created by the fuel cell system will also be utilized to provide hot water and space heating in the Toyota employee activity center and in the Lexus headquarter building within the office campus.
Time average mixing ratio (ppbv) of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) near 13.5 This could explain satellite measurements showing high levels of stratospheric ozone, water vapor and other chemicals over Asia during summer. km during boreal summer (June- August) derived from satellite instrument observations. Source: Randel et al., William Randel.
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Shell has signed agreements with the Governments of Alberta and Canada to secure C$865 million (US$876 million) in funding for its Quest Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project in Canada. CO 2 will be captured from the upgrader’s hydrogen manufacturing units (steam methane reformers) by an absorber vessel using an amine solvent.
The agreement combines Topsoe’s technologies in renewable fuels and hydrogen production as well as decades of experience in engineering with Steeper’s proprietary Hydrofaction technology and industry know-how. Steeper is headquartered in Denmark and has locations in Canada.
The research, published in the journal Science , outlines a potential way to make a future generation of water-splitting catalysts from three abundant metals—iron (Fe), cobalt (Co) and tungsten (W)—rather than the rare, costly metals on which many of today’s catalysts rely. For this study, Edward H. —Edward Sargent.
Enerkem, with a group of strategic partners including major investor Shell, along with Suncor and Proman, and Hydro-Québec supplying green hydrogen and oxygen, and with the support of the Québec and Canadian governments, is proposing the construction of a biofuel plant in Varennes, in the Greater Montréal area.
ATCO Energy Solutions and Praxair Canada Inc. are pursuing the development of hydrogen storage and pipeline infrastructure in Alberta, focusing on opportunities northeast of Edmonton where the growth in heavy-oil processing in Alberta has created an increased demand for hydrogen. Earlier post.).
A team at McGill University in Canada has developed a reversible hydrogen storage/release system based on the metal-catalyzed hydrogenation and photo-induced dehydrogenation of organic cyclic hydrocarbons at room temperature. under visible light illumination (420–600 nm) without any other energy input. —Li et al.
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