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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Converting CO 2 to usable fuels was the topic of a symposium— CO 2 Conversion: Thermo-, Photo- and Electro-Catalytic —on Sunday at the 246 th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society in Indianapolis, Indiana. This suggests that the active site for activation of CO2 is the lanthanum phase of LZ.

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JULY 7, 2022

—Zetian Mi, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan, who led the study. While Rashid used distilled water in this experiment, seawater and other electrolyte solutions are also expected to work, and Mi has used them in related water-splitting studies. The two companies are NS Nanotech Inc.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Projects selected under this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will perform conceptual design studies followed by field validations of cost-effective processes for ocean-based carbon capture and for direct air capture of CO 2 coupled with carbon-free hydrogen and captured CO 2 to create carbon-neutral methanol.

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JULY 30, 2014

The high density of loosely bound, energetic d-electrons in molybdenum disulfide facilitates charge transfer, driving the reduction of the carbon dioxide, said Salehi-Khojin, principal investigator on the study. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Catalysts Fuels' Paaren Graduate Fellowship.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

mA cm −2 , the study achieved an average production rate of 14.5 Despite some limitations due to O 2 and H 2 crossover through the membrane, the study identified optimal operating conditions for energy-efficient butyric acid production from CO 2. At an applied current of 1.0 g m −2 d −1 of butyric acid.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

With scaling and optimization of this CO 2 recovery technology already underway, NRL researchers and others are working on new and improved catalysts for the conversion of CO 2 to useful hydrocarbons. alumina (ASA)-supported Ni catalysts demonstrated high conversion and selectivity toward the jet fuel fraction (C 8 ?C

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AUGUST 16, 2009

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) led off a day-long symposium on advances in CO 2 conversion and utilization being held at the 238 th American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting, which began today in Washington, DC. Earlier post.). Robert Dorner. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. Scott Shaw.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

One way to mitigate high feedstock cost is to maximize conversion into the bioproduct of interest. This maximization, though, is limited because of the production of CO 2 during the conversion of sugar into acetyl-CoA in traditional fermentation processes. In this study, researchers tested how C. Wiedel, Jennifer Au, Maciek R.

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MARCH 2, 2018

A competing reaction, called the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) or “water splitting,” takes precedence over the CO 2 conversion reaction. One reason is that it performs HER very well, and brings down the CO2 reduction selectivity dramatically. This study was supported in part by the Rowland Institute at Harvard University.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Among different metal-CO 2 batteries—which feature the dual characteristics of both effective CO 2 fixation and advanced energy storage/conversion—Li-CO 2 batteries are considered the best candidates due to their high theoretical specific energy density (~1800 Wh/kg) and relatively high discharge potential (~2.8

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

an example of the STEP solar energy efficiency gains, this study focuses on CO 2 splitting potentials.these potentials (black circles in the figure [at right]) decrease more rapidly with temperature than those for water splitting, signifying that the STEP process may be readily applied to CO 2 electrolysis.

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MARCH 28, 2021

A new boron-copper catalyst for the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into chemicals or fuels has been developed by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen. They optimized already available copper catalysts to improve their selectivity and long-term stability.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The utilization of the full spectrum of sunlight in STEP results in a higher solar energy efficiency than other solar conversion processes. This study is intended as a proof of concept demonstration. organic electrosynthesis of benzoic acid from benzene without over-oxidizing into CO 2.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

The results, reported in the journal Nature Energy , represent a new method for the conversion of carbon dioxide into clean fuels. The current results were obtained in collaboration with the team of Professor Kazunari Domen from the University of Tokyo, a co-author of the study.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Accordingly, herein we report the finding that molybdate absorbs not just one but two equivalents of CO 2 (the second, reversibly) together with complete characterization including single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies of the resulting mono- and dicarbonate complexes. Until now, no one had studied its interactions with carbon dioxide.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Moreover, it features a higher wave energy conversion efficiency and power output as compared to previous TENG designs and is able to float on the water’s surface, which minimizes both the environmental impact and simplifies operation and these features are essential for the practical use of TENGs on ocean wave energy harvesting application.

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MAY 25, 2014

A report prepared by ISIS (Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems - Italy) together with Tecnalia (Spain) for the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) discusses the technological, environmental and economic barriers for producing methanol from carbon dioxide, as well as the possible uses of methanol in car transport in Europe.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

His paper, Kreutz noted, is only a preliminary scoping study designed to sketch out the rough outlines of each system’s prospective performance and economics as related primarily to GHG. owned by) a power plant; careful integration between the two plants will reduce costs (not studied in detail here). short, large supplies of CO 2.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

The two studies were published in separate issues of the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Our results with formic acid demonstrate that the systematic implementation of modern solvent techniques in continuous reactor equipment makes it possible to perform conversions that cannot be achieved under conventional conditions.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Although EROI has important limitations as a metric, the study authors noted, it still represents a valuable first estimate of the viability of different fuel production pathways relative to conventional benchmarks.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Recent research in electrocatalytic CO 2 conversion points the way to using CO 2 as a feedstock and renewable electricity as an energy supply for the synthesis of different types of fuel and value-added chemicals such as ethylene, ethanol, and propane. Their paper is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Extending, not shortening, the lifetime of a vehicle helps to reduce life-cycle CO 2 emissions throughout the supply chain, according to a new study based on a case study of Japanese vehicle use during the 1990-2000 period published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Kagawa et al.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

A catalyst made from a foamy form of copper has different electrochemical properties from catalysts made with smooth copper in reactions involving carbon dioxide, according to a new study by a team from Brown University. The work in the study is part of a larger effort by Browns Center for the Capture and Conversion of CO 2.

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JULY 22, 2010

Over the succeeding months, the project teams have performed experiments on novel concepts and produced preliminary designs for pilot plants to study the feasibility of capturing and using CO 2 exhausted from industrial processes. Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels. DOE Share: $18,417,989). Alcoa, Inc.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Reintroducing airships into the world’s transportation mix could contribute to lowering the transport sector’s carbon emissions and can play a role in establishing a sustainable hydrogen based economy, according to a new IIASA-led study. The open-access paper is published in the journal Energy Conversion and Management: X.

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JUNE 11, 2019

Now, exposure to even small amounts of indirect sunlight would activate the microbes’ CO 2 appetite, without a need for any source of energy or food to carry out the energy-intensive biochemical conversions. The focus now, Nagpal said, will shift to optimizing the conversion process and bringing on new undergraduate students.

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AUGUST 25, 2019

In reactor experiments, i.e., at elevated temperatures, pressures, or CO 2 concentrations, these wastes have high silicate to carbonate conversion rates. Legacy iron (Fe) and steel wastes have been identified as a significant source of silicate minerals, which can undergo carbonation reactions and thus sequester carbon dioxide (CO 2 ).

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APRIL 11, 2014

The material’s selectivity for oxygenates, with ethanol as the major product, demonstrates the feasibility of a two-step conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuel that could be powered by renewable electricity, the team suggests in their paper published in the journal Nature. —Matthew Kanan.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

The new PNNL carbon capture and conversion system brings the cost to capture CO 2 down to about $39 per metric ton. This is the first known demonstration of integrated low-temperature thermocatalytic capture and conversion of CO 2 to methanol in an economically viable CO 2 capture solvent. Creating methanol from CO2 is not new.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Bi 0.73 ) achieved 95% methane conversion at 1065°C in a 1.1-meter Under these conditions, the equilibrium conversion is 98%. When the temperature was reduced to 1040 °C, the CH 4 conversion decreased to 86%. Higher conversions, at higher temperatures, were not possible because of Mg evaporation. —Upham et al.

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JUNE 6, 2014

In their study, the researchers evaluated five hypothetical production routes using different sources of CO 2 and energy. Although the importance of a life cycle approach for these questions has been acknowledged, the authors are not aware of any existing LCA studies on CO 2 utilization. —van der Giesen et al. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

In their study, the scientists used the example of a delivery truck. The researchers’ calculations show that a truck using 1 kg of conventional fuel could produce 3kg of liquid CO 2 , and that the conversion does not involve any energy penalty. The process itself uses little energy, because all of its stages have been optimized.

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

That includes mining sites, where studies have shown that about 30% of greenhouse-gas emissions are caused by the use of diesel engines, largely in mining vehicles and power generators. The Australian market for diesel-only power generators is currently estimated to be worth around $765 million.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington et al.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

In the first campaign now completed, about 200 l of fuel were produced in several phases to study the optimum synthesis process, possibilities of using the heat produced, and product properties. The pilot plant has a production capacity of up to 80 liters of gasoline per day.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

The findings could spur progress on developing a variety of materials and designs for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion systems. There are several ways to do such conversions, including electrochemical, thermocatalytic, photothermal, or photochemical processes—each with their own problems or challenges.

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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). This study presents a new chemistry of energy efficient, CO 2 -free lime production, and the challenge of system engineering and scale-up awaits. Click to enlarge. The CO is produced.

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