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Multicomponent catalytic system efficiently converts carbon dioxide to methanol

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JULY 26, 2020

Inspired by naturally occurring processes, a team of Boston College chemists used a multi-catalyst system to convert carbon dioxide to methanol at the lowest temperatures reported with high activity and selectivity. A paper on the work is published in the journal Chem.

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Aberdeen awards ULEMCo contract for 35 hydrogen dual-fuel utility vehicle conversions

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

ULEMCo has been awarded a major fleet-wide contract by Aberdeen City Council (ACC) for its hydrogen dual-fuel utility vehicle conversions. This gives a direct tailpipe CO 2 emission savings based on the comparative use of zero carbon hydrogen instead of diesel. Earlier post.)

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HaaS company Hydra Energy delivers first converted hydrogen-diesel co-combustion heavy-duty truck; up to 40% hydrogen

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Hydra Energy, the Hydrogen-as-a-Service (HaaS) provider for commercial fleets looking to reduce emissions and costs with limited risk and no up-front investment ( earlier post ), has delivered its first hydrogen-converted, heavy-duty truck to paying fleet customer Lodgewood Enterprises. And we've lowered our fuel costs in the process.

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C2CNT process converts flue gas from natural gas power plant into carbon nanotubes

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JULY 29, 2019

On 26 July, the first flue gas from the natural gas power plant, the Shepard Energy Center in Calgary, Canada, was directly transformed by the C2CNT process ( earlier post ) into carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes grown by C2CNT directly from carbon dioxide (SEM and TEM imaging). Left and center. Earlier post.).

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Brown team develops new catalyst for highly efficient conversion of CO2 into C2+ products

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AUGUST 15, 2020

By converting CO 2 into products of higher value, a closed-loop carbon economy begins to emerge. Among the metals studied, copper is the only metal known for its intrinsic ability to convert CO 2 into hydrocarbons and alcohols via electrochemical CO 2 RR. student Taehee Kim. —Kim and Palmore (2020). Palmore, G.T.R.

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ArcelorMittal and LanzaTech break ground on €150M project to convert blast furnace carbon emissions to ethanol

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JUNE 11, 2018

Leading steel and mining company ArcelorMittal has begun construction of new premises at its site in Ghent, Belgium, to house a new installation which will convert carbon-containing gas from its blast furnaces into bioethanol. This is the first application of a viable new business case where re-use of carbon is possible at large scale.

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Rice team awarded $3.3M ARPA-E OPEN+ grant to convert methane into carbon nanotubes and hydrogen

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JANUARY 29, 2019

million Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) OPEEN+ grant to develop a method to convert natural gas into carbon nanotubes for materials that can replace metals in large-scale applications. For most of the history of civilization, we used carbon primarily as source of materials, clothing and food.

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Carbon Recycling International and Johnson Matthey collaborate on sustainable methanol

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Carbon Recycling International (CRI) and Johnson Matthey (JM) have agreed on a long-term exclusive catalyst supply agreement for the use of JM’s KATALCO methanol catalysts in CRI’s Emissions-To-Liquids (ETL) CO 2 -to-methanol plants. Conventional methanol production involves fossil feedstocks such as natural gas or coal.

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ETH Zurich catalyst can convert polypropylene directly into motor oil with high selectivity

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a carbon-supported platinum nanoparticle catalyst that can achieve complete hydrocracking of polypropylene into liquid hydrocarbons (C 5 –C 45 ). The platinum phase controls the activity, while the carbon carrier regulates selectivity.

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EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

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JUNE 28, 2021

For the future, it will be important to commercialize advanced biofuel conversion technologies, which utilize a broader and more sustainable feedstock base. Sustainability: The HTL technology has the potential to produce fuels with a low carbon footprint over the entire life cycle, without competing with food and feed production.

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Sasol and UCT researchers collaborate on the use of commercial iron catalysts to convert hydrogen and CO2 into green jet fuel and chemicals

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

For decades, Sasol has been using its Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology to convert low-grade coal and gas into synthetic fuels and chemicals. There are two ways to convert CO 2 into a useful range of products using FT chemistry. The synthesis gas is then reacted over a suitable FT catalyst, to produce hydrocarbons and water.

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DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

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JANUARY 3, 2022

estimated that with conversion by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) and upgrading, the wet waste resource availability in the United States could be converted to jet fuel that is equivalent to about 24% of the U.S. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016. GLE and $0.9/GLE. Meanwhile, the plant size has a great impact on the MFSP.

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CPKC orders 3.6MW of Ballard fuel cells for expansion of hydrogen locomotive program

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JULY 28, 2023

Our hydrogen locomotive program has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from locomotive operations, supporting the transition to a lower-carbon future in the freight rail sector. The conversion work will be done at CSX’s Huntington, West Virginia locomotive shop.

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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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ArcelorMittal launches XCarb; commitment to producing carbon-neutral steel

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MARCH 18, 2021

XCarb will ultimately bring together all of ArcelorMittal’s reduced, low and zero-carbon products and steelmaking activities, as well as wider initiatives and green innovation projects, into a single effort focused on achieving demonstrable progress towards carbon-neutral steel. —Aditya Mittal, CEO, ArcelorMittal.

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Groupe Renault creating first European factory dedicated to the circular economy of mobility in Flins

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Groupe Renault is creating the REFACTORY in Flins, the first European circular economy site dedicated to mobility. It will be based on a wide network of partners from all sectors and will revolve around 4 poles of activity, putting into practice the principles of the circular economy at each stage of the vehicle life cycle and mobility.

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Coltura: Federal & state EV policy & incentives must target gasoline superusers to achieve carbon emissions goals

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JULY 21, 2021

Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion.

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UW Madison chemists discover new way to harness energy from ammonia

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels. This technology could enable a carbon-free fuel economy, but it’s one half of the puzzle.

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DOE BETO to award $61.4M for low-carbon biofuels research to reduce transportation emissions

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APRIL 9, 2021

million for technologies that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. ( BETO is focused on developing technologies that convert domestic biomass and other waste resources (e.g., municipal solid waste, biosolids) into low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts. million for technologies that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. (

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Researchers propose using AC and ventilation systems for decentralized production of carbon-neutral synthetic fuels

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MAY 5, 2019

Via electro-, photo- or thermocatalytic processes, synthesis gas is generated which is further converted to hydrocarbon fuels by miniaturized chemical processes such as the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis plus integrated upgrading processes (e.g. In addition, they expect carbon efficiency—i.e. —Professor Dittmeyer.

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Sinopec Capital to invest in and partner with LanzaTech; direct production of chemicals from wastes and residues

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APRIL 17, 2021

Sinopec Capital, as the industrial investment arm of Sinopec Group—one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies—announced an investment in LanzaTech with a focus on promoting direct production of chemicals from waste carbon. LanzaTech represents the world-leading carbon recycling company.

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Amazon invests in electrofuels company Infinium

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JANUARY 26, 2021

The funding round was led by AP Ventures, a leader in venture capital related to the hydrogen economy. Infinium Electrofuels have the potential to help investor Amazon and other companies to decarbonize their operations and meet their net-zero carbon goals. —Robert Schuetzle, CEO of Infinium.

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New catalytic process turns renewable and waste carbon into cleaner, high-performance diesel biofuel blendstock

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Researchers used reductive etherification chemistry to convert alcohol and ketone substrates derived from microbial carboxylic acids into an ether bioblendstock for use when blended into conventional diesel fuel. Production of renewable diesel bioblendstocks through reductive etherification of alcohols and ketones. Hafenstine et al.

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Waste Renewable Diesel Cleaner

Infinium partners with ENGIE for one of largest announced commercial-scale e-fuels plants in Europe; Reuze project

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Infinium, an electrofuels company, is partnering with ENGIE to develop a facility that will produce ultra-low carbon Infinium electrofuels at scale for the local transportation industry. Infinium electrofuels technology converts renewable power into green hydrogen, then uses the green hydrogen and waste CO 2 to produce ultra-low carbon fuels.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. Comstock Inc., per GGE, with lifecycle emissions reductions exceeding 80% over petroleum.

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USC researchers outline their proposed anthropogenic chemical carbon cycle; the Methanol Economy

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JULY 8, 2011

Anthropogenic chemical carbon cycle. In a Perspective published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , researchers from the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California describe their work on developing the feasible anthropogenic recycling of carbon dioxide.

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LeMond Composites licenses ORNL low-cost carbon fiber manufacturing process; transportation, renewable energy, & infrastructure

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AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.)

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DOE to award up to $12M for technologies to produce renewable carbon fiber from biomass

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award ( DE-FOA-0000996 ) up to $12 million in funding to advance the development of a cost-competitive pathway to produce high-performance carbon fiber for vehicle lightweighting from renewable non-food biomass. Reducing a vehicle’s weight by just 10% can improve fuel economy by 6% to 8%.

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WSU, GTI system uses electrochemical reforming of ethanol for compressed hydrogen production; CAPER

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JUNE 12, 2022

A team from Washington State University (WSU) and the Gas Technology Institute have used an ethanol and water mixture and a small amount of electricity in an electrochemical conversion system to produce pure compressed hydrogen. The WSU researchers created a conversion system with an anode and a cathode. —Kee et al. Benjamin L.

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Hydra Energy partners with Chemtrade to provide commercial truck fleets with green hydrogen below the cost of diesel

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In exchange for long-term, discounted fuel contracts with fleets, Hydra installs hydrogen-diesel co-combustion conversion kits into existing semi-trucks and provides the fueling infrastructure for green hydrogen sourced from chemical producers such as Chemtrade. Hydra pays for the truck conversion and the on-site fueling infrastructure.

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Hydrogen Fleet Commercial Green

Rice team demonstrates more efficient photocatalyst for converting ammonia to hydrogen

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

Rice University nanoscientists have demonstrated a new catalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel at ambient pressure using only light energy, mainly due to a plasmonic effect that makes the catalyst more efficient. But the researchers say the plasmonic effect could have implications beyond the “ammonia economy.”.

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NNL and DNV partner to explore large-scale nuclear production of hydrogen for UK gas network

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and DNV are partnering to explore the potential of nuclear-derived hydrogen to support the conversion of UK gas networks to hydrogen. ANTs have the potential to play a major role in delivering net zero, and this scheme would consequently de-risk a future hydrogen gas network conversion programme.

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Hydrogen Gas Production Ireland

LanzaTech China JV reports 9M gallons of ethanol made from steel flue gas; new JV for PET

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

a joint venture between carbon recycler, LanzaTech, Shougang Group, a leading Chinese iron and steel producer, and its New Zealand partner, TangMing, have successfully produced more than 9 million gallons of ethanol from recycled steel mill emissions in their first year of operation. Single use carbon must rapidly become a thing of the past.

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ETH Zürich, Total team develops new catalyst to convert CO2 and H2 directly to methanol efficiently

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JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. It is possible to convert it into fuels and a wide variety of chemical products, including those that today are mainly based on fossil resources.

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Enerkem proposes CAD$875-million biofuel plant in Varennes, Québec; 33 million gallons per year

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Varennes Carbon Recycling (VCR) will produce biofuels and renewable chemicals made from non-recyclable residual materials as well as wood waste. Enerkem’s technology enables the recycling of the carbon and hydrogen contained in non-recyclable waste and wood waste currently landfilled and burned.

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Waste Hydrogen Alternative Fuels Renewable

Hyzon Motors to collaborate with Transform Materials on renewable hydrogen production

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Together, Hyzon and Transform Materials will evaluate proposals to develop facilities to produce low-to-negative carbon intensity hydrogen from various forms of methane, prioritizing biogas and renewable natural gas.

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Hydrogen Renewable Production Motor

Researchers improve efficiency of ethanol-to-butanol conversion with new bifunctional catalyst

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DECEMBER 4, 2015

Researchers at the University of Rochester and the University of Ottawa (Canada) have developed a highly selective (>99%) tandem catalytic system—a bifunctional iridium catalyst coupled with bulky nickel or copper hydroxides—for the conversion of ethanol (up to 37%) to n-butanol, through the Guerbet process. —Prof.

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MIT researchers devise simple catalytic system for fixation and conversion of CO2

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MARCH 5, 2014

More work is needed to understand and to optimize the reaction, but this approach could offer an easy and inexpensive way to recapture some of the carbon dioxide emitted by vehicles and power plants, says Christopher Cummins, an MIT professor of chemistry and leader of the research team. —Christopher Cummins.

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Three coming DOE funding opportunities for sustainable transportation technologies

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MARCH 11, 2021

The three Notices of Intent (NOI) are for the following potential FOAs: Notice of Intent - SuperTruck 3: ( DE-FOA-0002464 ) Improving the vehicle efficiency and safety of freight transportation while minimizing environmental impact is critical to helping the country decrease its petroleum use and reduce emissions as the economy grows.

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NSF launches $20M engineering research center aimed at converting natural gas into transportation fuels: CISTAR

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The NSF Engineering Research Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources ( CISTAR ) will develop technologies for responsible conversion of alkanes—light hydrocarbons including methane, ethane and propane—into more valuable liquid fuels, including gasoline and diesel fuels.

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thyssenkrupp produces ammonia from steel mill gases; Carbon2Chem

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JANUARY 11, 2019

For the first time thyssenkrupp has produced ammonia from steel mill gases, marking the first time in the world that steel mill gases, including the CO 2 they contain, have been converted into ammonia. Steel mill gas comprises 44% nitrogen, 23% carbon monoxide, 21% carbon dioxide, 10% hydrogen and 2% methane.

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Saskatchewan awarding $31M to create Canada’s first rare earth processing facility at SRC

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AUGUST 30, 2020

REE metals are naturally occurring minerals that are essential to the modern global economy and economic development. The conversion of REE ore to individual REE products is done in two main stages. The first is the concentration of ore to mixed REE Carbonate. —Minister Responsible for SRC Jeremy Harrison.

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Greyrock, NREL study determines reduction in GHG and criteria pollutant emissions from using synthetic fuels produced from flare gas

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JULY 11, 2018

A “well-to-wheel” life cycle assessment (LCA) by a team from synthetic fuels producer Greyrock ( earlier post ), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has determined the potential reduction of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutant emissions from the use of synthetic fuels directly converted from flare gas. 0.37, 42.4,

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Pollution Gas Emissions Fuel

New plasma synthesis process for one-step conversion of CO2 and methane into higher value fuel and chemicals

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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Conversion Fuel CO2 Gas

Multicomponent catalytic system efficiently converts carbon dioxide to methanol

Aberdeen awards ULEMCo contract for 35 hydrogen dual-fuel utility vehicle conversions

HaaS company Hydra Energy delivers first converted hydrogen-diesel co-combustion heavy-duty truck; up to 40% hydrogen

C2CNT process converts flue gas from natural gas power plant into carbon nanotubes

Brown team develops new catalyst for highly efficient conversion of CO2 into C2+ products

ArcelorMittal and LanzaTech break ground on €150M project to convert blast furnace carbon emissions to ethanol

Rice team awarded $3.3M ARPA-E OPEN+ grant to convert methane into carbon nanotubes and hydrogen

Carbon Recycling International and Johnson Matthey collaborate on sustainable methanol

ETH Zurich catalyst can convert polypropylene directly into motor oil with high selectivity

EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

Sasol and UCT researchers collaborate on the use of commercial iron catalysts to convert hydrogen and CO2 into green jet fuel and chemicals

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

CPKC orders 3.6MW of Ballard fuel cells for expansion of hydrogen locomotive program

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

ArcelorMittal launches XCarb; commitment to producing carbon-neutral steel

Groupe Renault creating first European factory dedicated to the circular economy of mobility in Flins

Coltura: Federal & state EV policy & incentives must target gasoline superusers to achieve carbon emissions goals

UW Madison chemists discover new way to harness energy from ammonia

DOE BETO to award $61.4M for low-carbon biofuels research to reduce transportation emissions

Researchers propose using AC and ventilation systems for decentralized production of carbon-neutral synthetic fuels

Sinopec Capital to invest in and partner with LanzaTech; direct production of chemicals from wastes and residues

Amazon invests in electrofuels company Infinium

New catalytic process turns renewable and waste carbon into cleaner, high-performance diesel biofuel blendstock

Infinium partners with ENGIE for one of largest announced commercial-scale e-fuels plants in Europe; Reuze project

DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

USC researchers outline their proposed anthropogenic chemical carbon cycle; the Methanol Economy

LeMond Composites licenses ORNL low-cost carbon fiber manufacturing process; transportation, renewable energy, & infrastructure

DOE to award up to $12M for technologies to produce renewable carbon fiber from biomass

WSU, GTI system uses electrochemical reforming of ethanol for compressed hydrogen production; CAPER

Hydra Energy partners with Chemtrade to provide commercial truck fleets with green hydrogen below the cost of diesel

Rice team demonstrates more efficient photocatalyst for converting ammonia to hydrogen

NNL and DNV partner to explore large-scale nuclear production of hydrogen for UK gas network

LanzaTech China JV reports 9M gallons of ethanol made from steel flue gas; new JV for PET

ETH Zürich, Total team develops new catalyst to convert CO2 and H2 directly to methanol efficiently

Enerkem proposes CAD$875-million biofuel plant in Varennes, Québec; 33 million gallons per year

Hyzon Motors to collaborate with Transform Materials on renewable hydrogen production

Researchers improve efficiency of ethanol-to-butanol conversion with new bifunctional catalyst

MIT researchers devise simple catalytic system for fixation and conversion of CO2

Three coming DOE funding opportunities for sustainable transportation technologies

NSF launches $20M engineering research center aimed at converting natural gas into transportation fuels: CISTAR

thyssenkrupp produces ammonia from steel mill gases; Carbon2Chem

Saskatchewan awarding $31M to create Canada’s first rare earth processing facility at SRC

Greyrock, NREL study determines reduction in GHG and criteria pollutant emissions from using synthetic fuels produced from flare gas

New plasma synthesis process for one-step conversion of CO2 and methane into higher value fuel and chemicals

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