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Navigator CO2 to provide ~600k TPA of CO2 as a feedstock for ultra-low carbon Infinium eFuels

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MAY 19, 2023

Electrofuels provider Infinium and comprehensive carbon management company Navigator CO2 entered into a Memorandum of Understanding and long-term relationship for Navigator to deliver 600,000 tons per annum (TPA) of biogenic carbon dioxide from its Heartland Greenway system to a future Infinium facility for the production of electrofuels (eFuels).

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CO2 Carbon Fuel Alternative Cleaner

Carbon Engineering & LanzaTech partner to produce SAF using direct air capture CO2; “air-to-jet”

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AUGUST 1, 2021

LanzaTech UK and direct air capture technology company Carbon Engineering have partnered on a project to create sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ).

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Researchers produce green syngas using CO2, water and sunlight

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JULY 7, 2022

If we can generate syngas from carbon dioxide utilizing only solar energy, we can use this as a precursor for methanol and other chemicals and fuels. —Zetian Mi, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan, who led the study. This will significantly reduce overall CO 2 emissions.

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Water CO2 Green Solar

Stanford engineers develop catalyst strategy to improve turnover frequencies for CO2 conversion to hydrocarbons by orders of magnitude

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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Our findings highlight the promising opportunity of using polymer/metal interfaces for the rational engineering of active sites and as a general tool for controlling selective transformations in supported catalyst systems. To capture as much carbon as possible, you want the longest chain hydrocarbons. —Zhou et al.

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Engineered E. coli could make carbohydrates, renewable fuel, from CO2

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. coli host strain was engineered for the continuous production of formic acid from H 2 and CO 2 during bacterial growth in a pressurised batch bioreactor.

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ExxonMobil, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab develop new MOF for carbon capture and steam regeneration

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JULY 25, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new material that could capture more than 90% of CO 2 emitted from industrial sources using low-temperature steam, requiring less energy for the overall carbon capture process. UC Berkeley graphic by Eugene Kim).

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UD team devises CO2 direct air capture device powered by hydrogen for HEMFCs

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

University of Delaware engineers have demonstrated an effective way to capture 99% of carbon dioxide from the ambient air feed to an hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) air using a novel electrochemical system powered by hydrogen. Source: University of Delaware. The approach involved internally short-circuiting the device.

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Hydrogen CO2 Power Powered

BMW i Ventures invests in Prometheus Fuels; CO2 air-capture and conversion to carbon-neutral gasoline

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JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year. —Greg Smithies, Partner, BMW i Ventures.

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UCLA team proposes non-photosynthetic biological conversion of CO2

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

While engineering photosynthetic hosts to convert CO 2 into high-value products is sensible, dependence on sunlight limits its tractability and scalability. If these are achieved, carbon yield and productivity can be greatly accelerated (e.g., Their paper is published in the journal Joule. each gram of acetogenic M.

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Conversion CO2 Light Solar

Volkswagen LCA highlights carbon benefits of EV vs diesel on Golf: 119 vs 140 g CO2/km; ID. family to reduce footprint

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APRIL 25, 2019

In the vehicle with an internal combustion engine, most of the emissions occur during the use phase—i.e., With the findings from the life cycle assessment, Volkswagen can derive additional emission-reducing measures for life cycle engineering and specifically optimize the CO 2 balance. Here the Diesel reaches 111 g CO 2 /km.

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CO2 Diesel Carbon Emissions

RPI researchers to develop novel porous material for air capture of CO2

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

With the support of a grant from the Department of Energy, Miao Yu, the Priti and Mukesh Chatter ’82 Career Development Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will develop a novel porous material capable of capturing even very small concentrations of CO 2 in the air and collecting the gas for further use.

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CO2 Carbon Grant Gas

New highly efficient catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction toward methane

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JANUARY 15, 2020

The researchers think that it could be recycling smokestack carbon dioxide into clean-burning fuel within 5-10 years. —Zetian Mi, U-M professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who co-led the work with Jun Song, professor of materials engineering at McGill University. —lead author Baowen Zhou.

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CO2 Carbon Solar Hydrogen

Cummins ETHOS 2.8L optimized E-85 engine demonstrates 50-80% reduction in CO2 emissions in medium-duty truck

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JULY 14, 2014

Cummins has developed an E-85-specific engine and powertrain that reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 80% compared with a baseline gasoline-powered medium-duty truck. It delivers the power (up to 250 hp / 186 kW) and peak torque (up to 450 lb-ft / 610 N·m) of gasoline and diesel engines nearly twice its 2.8-liter

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Cambridge researchers develop standalone device that makes formic acid from sunlight, CO2 and water

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner. —Dr Wang.

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Water CO2 Solar Convert

Researchers capture first images of CO2 emissions from commercial aircraft engine using chemical species tomography

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Researchers have used a novel near-infrared light imaging technique to capture the first cross-sectional images of carbon dioxide in the exhaust plume of a commercial jet engine. To image such a large area, the researchers used a 7m-diameter optical mounting frame (red) located just 3 m from the exit nozzle of the engine.

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Commercial Engine Emissions CO2

Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen develop renewable gasoline with 20% lower CO2; rollout of Blue Gasoline this year

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MAY 4, 2021

Following on the introduction of R33 Blue Diesel ( earlier post ), Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen have now developed a low-carbon gasoline. The new fuel, called Blue Gasoline, similarly contains up to 33% renewables, ensuring a well-to-wheel reduction in carbon emissions of at least 20% per kilometer driven.

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Gasoline Renewable CO2 Gasoline-Electric

DOE awarding ~$44M to seven carbon capture projects

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FEBRUARY 17, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has selected seven projects to receive approximately $44 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development through the funding opportunity announcement, Design and Testing of Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies. Description. Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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AUGUST 22, 2022

The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle. The Brayton cycle is named after 19 th century engineer George Brayton, who developed this method of using hot, pressurized fluid to spin a turbine, much like a jet engine.

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Grid Power Powered CO2

Surrey team developing direct-air-capture CO2 to methanol process

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APRIL 4, 2022

Researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) are developing a process to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air and then use dynamic catalysis to create methanol—a valuable chemical that, made this way, could be carbon-negative. Its value could offset the cost of direct air capture.

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CO2 Carbon Universal Store

Black carbon is a much larger cause of climate change than previously assessed; about twice previous estimates, and 2/3 the effect of CO2

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Schematic overview of the primary black-carbon emission sources and the processes that control. the distribution of black carbon in the atmosphere and determine its role in the climate system. Accounting for all of the ways black carbon can affect climate, it is believed to have a warming effect of about 1.1 Source: Bond et al.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon CO2

HIF Global partners with Topsoe for eFuels facility in Texas; carbon-neutral gasoline

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The plant will produce carbon-neutral fuel—enough to decarbonize more than 400,000 vehicles annually. eFuels are produced by combining green hydrogen made from renewable power and recycled carbon dioxide. HIF’s facility in Texas will help remove 2 million tonnes of CO2 from the air every year.

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GTI quantifies opportunity to produce low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) from wood wastes

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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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Waste Carbon Gas Renewable

Maersk sets net zero CO2 emission target by 2050

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, has set a goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. To achieve this goal, carbon neutral vessels must be commercially viable by 2030, and an acceleration in new innovations and adaption of new technology is required. of global CO2 emissions. Moller - Maersk.

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CO2 Emissions Panama Climate Change

Researchers show mixotrophic fermentation process improves carbon conversion, boosting yields and reducing CO2

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

In an open-access paper published in Nature Communications , the researchers report on their engineering of the bacterium Clostridium ljungdahlii to produce acetone with a mass yield 138% of the previous theoretical maximum using a high cell density continuous fermentation process. In this study, researchers tested how C. Jones et al.

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U-Mich researcher’s first-principles analysis challenges conventional carbon accounting for biofuels; implications for climate policy

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

System boundaries (red line) schematic for liquid fuel carbon balance. For biofuels, because biogenic carbon is automatically credited within a product lifecycle, the boundary effectively excludes vehicle end-use CO 2 emissions. DeCicco 2013. Click to enlarge. —DeCicco 2013. A hierarchy for reducing CO 2 from transportation.

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Climate Carbon CO2 Emissions

Audi in new e-fuels project: synthetic diesel from water, air-captured CO2 and green electricity; “Blue Crude”

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Other partners in the project consortium include Lufthansa; Fraunhofer ICT; Universität Stuttgart; Forschungszentrum Jülich; GEWI AG; CVT Chemical Engineering; and HGM. The sunfire plant, which operates according to the “power-to-liquid” (PtL) principle, requires carbon dioxide, water and electricity as raw materials.

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Audi Water Diesel Fuel

Israeli company reports successful stage 1 testing of solar CO2-to-fuels technology

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JANUARY 26, 2014

The second technology involves a new method of using very high temperatures for the dissociation of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and oxygen. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels Solar Solar fuels' Simultaneously, the same device can dissociate water (H 2 O) to hydrogen (H 2 ) and oxygen (O 2 ).

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Solar Fuel Companies CO2

DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

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MAY 15, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $35 million to 15 research projects through ARPA-E’s “Energy and Carbon Optimized Synthesis for the Bioeconomy” (ECOSynBio) program to decarbonize biorefining processes used across the energy, transportation, and agriculture sectors. Carbon-Negative Chemical Production Platform - $4,160,262.57.

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Carbon Production Conversion Universal

Project HyTime demonstrates potential for major CO2 savings from hydrogen dual fuel

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JULY 22, 2020

If deployed full time, the vehicles would not only save carbon but also provide improvements to local air quality. At least 96% of the hydrogen used in the trial came from on-site electrolysis from renewable electricity.

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Hydrogen Fuel CO2 Emissions

EPFL team develops on-board system to capture CO2 from trucks; reducing emissions by 90%

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

The project is being coordinated by the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group, led by François Maréchal, at EPFL’s School of Engineering. Simple heat and mass flows for CO 2 capture from diesel engine exhaust: exhaust cooling, TSA cycle, product CO 2 compression, and liquefaction. 2019.00143.

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Study: 2/3 of aviation climate impact due to emissions other than CO2

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Tronstad Lund emphasizes that the growth in aviation emissions is only partly offset by technological and operational improvements, such as more efficient engines and better landing routines. Seen together, the climate impact of these two factors is bigger than that of the sector’s carbon emissions.

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Cummins and Tula study of Diesel Dynamic Skip Fire (dDSF) shows 74% reduction in NOx, 5% in CO2 on low load cycle

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APRIL 14, 2021

a leader in propulsion efficiency, announced at SAE International’s WCX the results of their collaborative study on the effectiveness of Tula’s diesel Dynamic Skip Fire (dDSF) in reducing nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions on a Cummins X15 HD Efficiency Series diesel engine. Cummins Inc. Earlier post.).

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Diesel CO2 Emissions Engine

DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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JULY 15, 2020

million in funding for 12 projects as part of Phase 1 of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E’s) FLExible Carbon Capture and Storage (FLECCS) program. Synergistic Heat Pumped Thermal Storage and Flexible Carbon Capture System - $1,000,000. The US Department of Energy announced $11.5 Colorado State University.

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GWU team develops cost-effective solar process to produce lime for cement without CO2 emission

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APRIL 11, 2012

Conventional thermal decomposition production of lime (left) versus STEP direct solar conversion of calcium carbonate to calcium oxide (right). Surprisingly, this situation is reversed at high temperatures in molten carbonates, which allows the endothermic, electrolytic one pot synthesis, and precipitation of CaO. Click to enlarge.

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Solar Emissions CO2 Carbon

WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A team of biologists and engineers modified Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 (TIE-1) so that it can produce a biofuel using only three renewable and naturally abundant source ingredients: carbon dioxide, solar panel-generated electricity and light. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make n -butanol. —Wei Bai.

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Light-powered nano-bio hybrid organisms consume CO2, create plastics and fuels

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JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals.

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Light CO2 Fuel Power

Wärtsilä to supply a major LNG/bioLNG production plant for CO2-neutral transport fuels

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

The plant will liquefy gas from the natural gas grid to produce carbon-neutral LNG. The use of LNG as an emissions-reducing fuel in the marine and transportation industries is already well established, and to introduce bioLNG which can be mixed with LNG is the next obvious step in enabling a CO2-neutral transportation fuel.

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CO2 Transportation Supplies Fuel

First snapshots of CO2 molecules trapped in MOFs shed new light on carbon capture

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JUNE 26, 2019

Scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have taken the first images of carbon dioxide molecules within a molecular cage—part of a metal-organic framework (MOF), with great potential for separating and storing gases and liquids.

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Carbon Light CO2 Climate Change

DOE announces $110M for carbon capture, utilization, and storage projects

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

A recent study by Science of the Total Environment found that DOE is the most productive organization in the world in the carbon capture and storage field. Under the first FOA award, Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) Studies for Carbon Capture Systems on Coal and Natural Gas Power Plants, DOE has selected nine projects to receive $55.4

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Probing the effect of CO2 on Li-air batteries

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JUNE 21, 2013

Challenges facing the commercialization of Li-air batteries are both scientific and engineering, and include a lack of understanding of major limitations in the reaction mechanism, electrolyte instability, poor cycle life and rate capability, and low round-trip efficiencies largely resulting from high over-potentials on charge. Batteries'

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Li-ion CO2 Batteries Battery

Stellantis finalizing eFuel testing on 28 engine families to support decarbonization of ICE fleet on the road

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APRIL 21, 2023

As part of the toolbox available to reduce carbon emissions and fight against climate change, eFuel is a drop-in replacement synthetic fuel made from captured atmospheric CO 2 and renewable energy. It is also another action we are taking that is well aligned with our commitment to be carbon neutral by 2038. billion existing ICE cars.

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Engine Fleet CO2 2014

Univ. of Surrey researchers to develop Li-CO2 battery technology

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) are to begin work on a new lithium-ion battery technology that is capable of capturing CO 2 emissions, following a £243,689 award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

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Li-ion CO2 Batteries Battery

DOE awards $3M for 10 high-performance computing projects to improve energy efficiency and material performance

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JULY 26, 2022

Through the High-Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program, selected teams will help manufacturers shrink their carbon footprint, streamline their processes, and increase innovation—from optimizing the performance of equipment used in chemical manufacturing to improving the fuel efficiency of vehicles. All Selectees.

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Energy CO2 Hydrogen Carbon

BASF develops zero-CO2 production process for methanol

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MAY 25, 2019

If it can be successfully implemented at an industrial scale, the entire production process – from syngas production to pure methanol – will no longer release any carbon dioxide emissions. This results in a small volume of flue gas with a maximum carbon dioxide content.

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CO2 Production Carbon Waste

Navigator CO2 to provide ~600k TPA of CO2 as a feedstock for ultra-low carbon Infinium eFuels

Carbon Engineering & LanzaTech partner to produce SAF using direct air capture CO2; “air-to-jet”

Researchers produce green syngas using CO2, water and sunlight

Stanford engineers develop catalyst strategy to improve turnover frequencies for CO2 conversion to hydrocarbons by orders of magnitude

Engineered E. coli could make carbohydrates, renewable fuel, from CO2

ExxonMobil, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab develop new MOF for carbon capture and steam regeneration

UD team devises CO2 direct air capture device powered by hydrogen for HEMFCs

BMW i Ventures invests in Prometheus Fuels; CO2 air-capture and conversion to carbon-neutral gasoline

UCLA team proposes non-photosynthetic biological conversion of CO2

Volkswagen LCA highlights carbon benefits of EV vs diesel on Golf: 119 vs 140 g CO2/km; ID. family to reduce footprint

RPI researchers to develop novel porous material for air capture of CO2

New highly efficient catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction toward methane

Cummins ETHOS 2.8L optimized E-85 engine demonstrates 50-80% reduction in CO2 emissions in medium-duty truck

Cambridge researchers develop standalone device that makes formic acid from sunlight, CO2 and water

Researchers capture first images of CO2 emissions from commercial aircraft engine using chemical species tomography

Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen develop renewable gasoline with 20% lower CO2; rollout of Blue Gasoline this year

DOE awarding ~$44M to seven carbon capture projects

Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

Surrey team developing direct-air-capture CO2 to methanol process

Black carbon is a much larger cause of climate change than previously assessed; about twice previous estimates, and 2/3 the effect of CO2

HIF Global partners with Topsoe for eFuels facility in Texas; carbon-neutral gasoline

GTI quantifies opportunity to produce low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) from wood wastes

Maersk sets net zero CO2 emission target by 2050

Researchers show mixotrophic fermentation process improves carbon conversion, boosting yields and reducing CO2

U-Mich researcher’s first-principles analysis challenges conventional carbon accounting for biofuels; implications for climate policy

Audi in new e-fuels project: synthetic diesel from water, air-captured CO2 and green electricity; “Blue Crude”

Israeli company reports successful stage 1 testing of solar CO2-to-fuels technology

DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

Project HyTime demonstrates potential for major CO2 savings from hydrogen dual fuel

EPFL team develops on-board system to capture CO2 from trucks; reducing emissions by 90%

Study: 2/3 of aviation climate impact due to emissions other than CO2

Cummins and Tula study of Diesel Dynamic Skip Fire (dDSF) shows 74% reduction in NOx, 5% in CO2 on low load cycle

DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

GWU team develops cost-effective solar process to produce lime for cement without CO2 emission

WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

Light-powered nano-bio hybrid organisms consume CO2, create plastics and fuels

Wärtsilä to supply a major LNG/bioLNG production plant for CO2-neutral transport fuels

First snapshots of CO2 molecules trapped in MOFs shed new light on carbon capture

DOE announces $110M for carbon capture, utilization, and storage projects

Probing the effect of CO2 on Li-air batteries

Stellantis finalizing eFuel testing on 28 engine families to support decarbonization of ICE fleet on the road

Univ. of Surrey researchers to develop Li-CO2 battery technology

DOE awards $3M for 10 high-performance computing projects to improve energy efficiency and material performance

BASF develops zero-CO2 production process for methanol

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