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MAY 22, 2013

has completed the first successful large-scale production of a polypropylene carbonate (PPC) polymer using waste CO 2 as a key raw material. The PPC polymer production run, conducted by Novomer in collaboration with specialty chemical manufacturer Albemarle Corporation, tested scale-up of Novomer’s novel catalyst technology.

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Waste CO2 Polymer Production 220

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JANUARY 27, 2014

Researchers in India have developed a relatively low-temperature process to convert low-density polyethylene (LDPE)—a common polymer used to make many types of container, medical and laboratory equipment, computer components and plastic bags—into liquid fuel over a kaolin catalyst. of Environment and Waste Management Vol.

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Waste Convert Fuel Polymer 218

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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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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The ultra high-strength outer shell comprises two layers: an inner layer of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) and an outer layer of glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP). Due to the fuel’s high hydrogen content, a CNG automobile emits approximately 20% less carbon dioxide than a comparable gasoline model.

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Audi Gas Gas-Electric Gasoline-Electric 504

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AUGUST 14, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, has partnered with the Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy, a joint venture between Indian Oil Corporation, Ltd. LanzaTech has developed gas fermentation technology that can directly convert waste CO 2 gases into acetates. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Waste Fuel Energy India 199

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

The approach, described in a paper in the journal Nature Communications , could be an important advance in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). They have significant performance advantages over the carbon-absorbing materials used in current CCS technology. carbon dioxide uptake and release over repeated cycles.

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Polymer Carbon Universal Gas-Electric 150

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MARCH 15, 2023

As well as a monocoque made entirely of multi-technology carbon fiber, it features a front structure in Forged Composites; a special material made of short carbon fibers soaked in resin. The LB744 is also the first super sports car to be fitted with a 100% carbon fiber front structure.

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Concept Polymer 243

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

EnerG2 , a manufacturer of advanced carbon materials for next-generation energy storage (generally for batteries and ultracapacitors), has leveraged its polymer chemistry technologies to develop materials for adsorbed natural gas (ANG) applications.

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Gas Carbon Polymer 2012 271

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AUGUST 21, 2012

When under nutrient stress and in the presence of excess carbon, wild-type Ralstonia eutropha H16 stops growing and begins producing polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)—a complex carbon compound—as an intracellular carbon storage material during nutrient stress in the presence of excess carbon.

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MIT Carbon Waste Polymer 225

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The parties are willing to discuss collaboration opportunities in low-carbon products and renewable energies development. The Memorandum of Understanding also includes opportunities for collaboration in the research and technology development for waste valorization, CO 2 biofixaton and its re-use for sustainable mobility.

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Renewable Indonesia Carbon Production 230

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JULY 29, 2024

TUS is developing low-carbon, industrial-grade plastic packaging solutions to address the increasing issue of plastic waste. The post TUS pioneers industrial-grade, sustainable polymer solutions appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Polymer Industry Industrial Waste 122

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MARCH 4, 2022

Carbon transformation company Twelve and biotechnology company LanzaTech have transformed CO 2 emissions into ethanol as a part of an ongoing research and development partnership. Our process aims to rebalance the overabundance of carbon in our environment and instead reuse it for meaningful applications.

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Convert CO2 Carbon Polymer 324

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APRIL 29, 2021

million for projects that support the recovery, recycling, and reuse of material waste generated by the manufacturing sector. The US industrial sector is responsible for 28% of domestic carbon emissions and consumes roughly one-third of the country’s primary energy—much of which is used to make materials.

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Manufacturer Carbon Emissions Waste 186

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Eastman and Gruppo Maip, a leading international plastics formulator and compound producer based in Turin, Italy, will partner to formulate new sustainable polymer solutions for automotive interior applications. Unlike mechanically recycled plastics, Tritan Renew offers the same high performance as virgin plastics. In addition, Tr?va

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Polymer Renewable Waste Italy 170

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JUNE 3, 2014

Particles of nitrogen-containing porous carbon polymerize CO 2 from natural gas under pressure at a wellhead. Scientists in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour have developed materials that offer a lower cost, less energy-intensive way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads. Courtesy of the Tour Group.

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Carbon Gas Energy Polymer 210

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JUNE 20, 2019

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China report a two-step method for the synthesis of jet-fuel-range high-density polycycloalkanes from polycarbonate waste under mild conditions. Plastics are a family of organic polymers which are widely used in our life. Since 1950s, about 6.3 Tang et al. denotes as Pt/C + H-?)

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Waste Range Fuel Polymer 207

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Jaguar Land Rover is working with ECONYL nylon to develop high-quality interiors made from ocean and landfill waste. The nylon waste is reclaimed by Aquafil from all over the world. The raw nylon material is then turned into the yarn, known as ECONYL.

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Land Rover Waste Polymer Oil 186

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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Conversion Fuel CO2 Polymer 236

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

and LanzaTech Ltd, two industrial biology companies, have begun a feasibility study to examine whether Global Bioenergies’ artificial isobutene pathway ( earlier post ), can be functionally transferred into LanzaTech’s carbon monoxide-using organism ( earlier post ). Global Bioenergies S.A. Jennifer Holmgren, LanzaTech CEO.

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Carbon Global Waste New Zealand 199

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MARCH 26, 2021

The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base. The research showed that essentially any biocrude, regardless of wet-waste sources, could be used in the process and the catalyst remained robust during the entire run.

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Diesel Waste Convert Washington 332

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JUNE 13, 2018

Using special microbes, LanzaTech has developed a technology for gas fermentation that first enables ethanol to be produced from residual gases containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen. By re-using waste streams instead of incinerating them, industrial companies can reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Waste Carbon Polymer Convert 223

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

LanzaTech and Sumitomo Riko Company have entered into a joint-development agreement to reuse rubber, resin and urethane waste for the production of a key chemical intermediate, isoprene. Isoprene is produced by plants, and along with its polymers, is the main component of natural rubber. —Jennifer Holmgren, CEO, LanzaTech.

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Waste Production Climate Change Polymer 186

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The new TRUCIRCLE materials support the automotive industry’s sustainability initiatives by providing an opportunity to extend the life of plastic waste and helping to increase value from post-consumer products. SABIC is launching these three grades to support various new automotive applications.

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Polymer Renewable Emissions Waste 429

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. Rings with 6 carbon atoms (e.g., Using this wood waste will therefore reduce the price of the final fuels.

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Waste Universal 2008 Diesel 218

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APRIL 13, 2021

Traditional PEM fuel cells have a relatively low operating temperature, which makes for a low tolerance to hydrogen fuel impurities and makes waste-heat rejection a challenge for vehicles. A new partnership comprising Los Alamos National Laboratory, Advent Technology Holdings Inc.,

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Fuel Hydrogen Water Polymer 468

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Enabling Production of Low Carbon Emissions Steel Through CO 2 Capture from Blast Furnace Gases. Chevron USA.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas 236

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Earlier post.) Engineering E. per gallon.

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Carbon Li-ion Batteries Battery 249

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, and Petronas, the national oil company of Malaysia, will work together to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals using CO 2 as the carbon source. Click to enlarge.

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Malaysia CO2 Carbon Oil 268

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Winners in the “greener reaction conditions, designing greener chemicals, and greener synthetic pathways,” categories are: Life Technologies for developing a more efficient, much less wasteful way to manufacture the key chemicals used to perform genetic testing. million pounds of hazardous waste a year. Cargill, Inc.

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EPA 2013 Green Delaware 271

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JULY 3, 2020

The three-member team used a membrane-electrode assembly in which the polymer bipolar membrane is compressed between two rigid porous electrodes, allowing them to make a large number of bipolar membranes with different water dissociation catalyst layers. —Sebastian Oener.

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Oregon Water Polymer Hydrogen 284

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JUNE 20, 2011

Also, the biobased BDO pathway consumes carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), resulting in a reduction of 70% in CO 2 emissions. Because the chemical industry uses approximately 8% of the world’s fossil fuels, Genomatica’s technology has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by hundreds of millions of tons percent annually.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, and REMONDIS, one of the world’s largest privately owned recycling, service and water companies, have signed an agreement to collaborate in the development of chemical recycling of plastic waste.

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Waste Climate Protection Renewable Polymer 150

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FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drayson Racing and Aston University (UK) have launched a major partnership to develop and demonstrate low carbon automotive technologies. The partnership will investigate second-generation biofuels—biofuels derived from waste biomass such as straw, wood and sewage sludge—to create high performance cars with reduced CO 2 emissions.

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Universal Waste Cars Polymer 210

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

BASF SE is investing €16 million into Pyrum Innovations AG, a technology company specialized in the pyrolysis of waste tires, headquartered in Dillingen/Saar, Germany. The co-operation will thus serve to close the loop for post-consumer plastic waste. In addition, they have a lower carbon footprint than conventional products.

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Oil Parts Companies Waste 259

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JUNE 18, 2012

Coates of Cornell University in the Academic Category for developing a new family of catalysts that can effectively and economically turn carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide into valuable polymers. Professor Tang discovered a new way to greatly streamline the process of manufacturing simvastatin, thereby reducing waste.

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2012 Green Los Angeles Memphis 236

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Lower rolling resistance means this demonstration tire has the potential to offer better fuel savings and carbon footprint reduction. These carbon black technologies target reduced carbon emissions, circularity and the use of bio-based carbons, while still delivering on performance.

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Oil Carbon Polymer Renewable 293

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MARCH 2, 2011

Thirteen partners in a European research consortium have launched the SOMABAT (SOlid MAterials for high power Li polymer BATteries) project to develop more environmental friendly, safer and better performing high power density Li polymer batteries. Total project cost is €5.04 million (US$5.1

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Li-ion Polymer Batteries Battery 223