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Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method to convert CO 2 directly into aviation fuel using a novel, inexpensive iron-based catalyst. These are important raw materials for the petrochemical industry and are presently also only obtained from fossil crude oil.

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IIT researchers develop electrolyzer that converts CO2 to propane

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed an electrolyzer capable of converting carbon dioxide into propane in a manner that is both scalable and economically viable. —Esmaeilirad et al.

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PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new method to convert captured CO 2 into methane, the primary component of natural gas. Different methods for converting CO 2 into methane have long been known. Heldebrant, D., Kothandaraman, J., Lopez, J.S., Walter, E.D., Burton, S.D.

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Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

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MARCH 4, 2022

This work will see Twelve converting CO 2 to CO, which will in turn be converted by LanzaTech’s proprietary microbe to isopropyl alcohol (IPA). This approach is highly scalable and could ultimately produce ethanol at an industrial scale, while simultaneously eliminating CO 2 emissions.

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New electrocatalyst converts CO2 into ethanol, acetone, and n-butanol with high efficiency

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The electrocatalytic conversion of CO 2 using renewable energy could establish a climate-neutral, artificial carbon cycle. Excess energy produced by photovoltaics and wind energy could be stored through the electrocatalytic production of fuels from CO 2. These could then be burned as needed.

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Researchers use efficient microbial electrosynthesis cells to convert CO2 to butyric acid; upgrade to butanol

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Researchers from University of Girona (Spain) successfully used electrically efficient microbial electrosynthesis cells (MES) to convert CO 2 to butyric acid. In an open-access paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Ecotechnology , they reported operating the low ohmic resistance (15.7

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RWTH Aachen researchers report on two methods to convert CO2 to chemicals and fuels

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AUGUST 7, 2012

A number of approaches for converting CO 2 to methanol (CH 3 OH) have been developed. The RWTH Aachen team pursued a new approach to obtain methanol by the hydrogenation of CO2 with elemental hydrogen in an homogeneous process—i.e., the catalyst and the reactants are in the same phase, a solution.

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Osaka researchers find formate dehydrogenase reduces CO2 directly to formic acid

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MAY 18, 2020

Their work, published in a paper in the RSC’s New Journal of Chemistry , points to a catalyst in developing and designing an artificial photosynthesis system that efficiently converts carbon dioxide into organic molecules. Until now, it was not known which of these three forms is reduced and converted into formic acid.

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Researchers develop titanium and copper heterostructured photocatalyst for conversion of CO2 into CH4

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Their cost-effective synthesis procedure, coupled with the high stability of the photocatalyst, provides an economically feasible way to convert waste carbon dioxide and water into useful hydrocarbon fuels using sunlight.

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Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The Swiss company Climeworks is building the world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) and storage facility for converting atmospheric CO 2 to rock in Iceland. The particularly high geothermal energy means that the Earth’s heat can be converted to electricity cost-effectively and virtually CO 2 neutrally.

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New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis

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AUGUST 13, 2023

The new system mimics a natural chloroplast to convert carbon dioxide in water into methane, very efficiently using light. However, it is difficult to convert carbon dioxide in water because many photosensitizers or catalysts degrade in water. 2023) “Artificial spherical chromatophore nanomicelles for selective CO2 reduction in water.”

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New porous coordination polymer captures CO2, converts it to useful organic materials

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

A new material that can selectively capture CO 2 molecules and efficiently convert them into useful organic materials has been developed by researchers at Kyoto University, along with colleagues at the University of Tokyo and Jiangsu Normal University in China. —Susumu Kitagawa, materials chemist at Kyoto University.

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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. —Dr Wang.

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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. Their paper is published in the journal Joule. Most of us naturally associate biological CO 2 conversion with photosynthesis in plants and algae.

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Three-part catalyst study advances conversion of CO2 to ethanol

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

An international collaboration of scientists has taken a significant step toward the realization of a nearly “green” zero-net-carbon technology that can efficiently convert CO 2 and hydrogen into ethanol. The study will drive further research into how to develop a practical industrial catalyst for selectively converting CO 2 into ethanol.

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Berkeley Lab team validates bio-analogous technique for converting CO2 into liquid acetate

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a new technique, modeled after a metabolic process found in some bacteria, for converting CO 2 into liquid acetate, a key ingredient in “liquid sunlight” or solar fuels produced through artificial photosynthesis.

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Researchers use cascade reactions in nanozymes to convert CO2 to ethanol and propanol

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

An international research team has now copied this principle, and used nanoparticles to convert carbon dioxide into ethanol and propanol. Enzymes use cascade reactions to produce complex molecules from comparatively simple raw materials.

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

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JULY 22, 2020

In the trial, ULEMCo—the company pioneering the adoption of ultra-low emission hydrogen fuel with its partners—converted four refuse trucks, a road sweeper, a patient transport vehicle, four panel vans and a refrigerated van to run on hydrogen as a dual fuel.

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US Steel and CarbonFree sign MoU to capture CO2 at Gary Works

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MARCH 13, 2023

CarbonFree’s patented SkyCycle technology captures carbon emissions from hard-to-abate industrial sources before they enter the atmosphere, converts the CO 2 into the specialty chemical precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), and produces hydrochloric acid (HCl) as a co-product. SkyCycle is CarbonFree’s second-generation technology.

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University of Texas researchers develop new solar photoelectrosynthetic process to convert CO2 to methanol

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The process is safer, simpler and less expensive than previous methods to convert CO 2 to a useful product, said Krishnan Rajeshwar, interim associate vice president for research at UT Arlington and one of the authors of a paper recently published in the RSC journal Chemical Communications. —Ghadimkhani et al. —Krishnan Rajeshwar.

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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. The research, accepted for publication in Applied and Environmental Microbiology raises the possibility of converting atmospheric CO 2 to commodity chemicals.

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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. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation (CHE-1240020).

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Vertimass and European Energy to partner on CO2 to hydrocarbons via methanol pathway

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Vertimass and European Energy have completed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to integrate technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and converting it into hydrocarbon products around the world. —Vertimass CEO Charles Wyman. Blue Biofuels expands technology license agreement with Vertimass.

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Researchers develop wave-energy-driven CO2 reduction system for production of carbon-based liquid fuels

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

A team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, and Georgia Tech has developed a a wave-energy-driven electrochemical CO 2 reduction system that converts ocean wave energy to chemical energy in the form of formic acid, a liquid fuel. Leung et al. —Leung et al.

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PCC SE and Landsvirkjun to convert silicon metal plant CO2 emissions to methanol

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APRIL 12, 2022

Landsvirkjun , The National Power Company of Iceland, and German investment company PCC SE have agreed to explore the possibility of capturing and utilizing carbon emissions from PCC’s silicon metal plant in northeast Iceland. Carbon emissions will be utilized to produce green methanol that can, for example, replace fossil fuel in ships.

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

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JUNE 11, 2019

By using light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells, the researchers were able to create “living factories” that eat CO 2 and convert it into products such as biodegradable plastic, gasoline, ammonia and biodiesel. A paper on their work appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Ding et al.

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Illustration of a novel room-temperature process to remove CO 2 by converting the molecule into CO. In the presence of the graphite, aided by the energy derived from the plasmons, carbon dioxide molecules (black dot bonded to two red dots) are converted to carbon monoxide (black dot bonded to one red dot. Credit: NIST.

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UNSW Syndey team develops hydrogen-diesel dual fuel system; 90% H2, more than 85% reduction in CO2

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

Engineers from UNSW Sydney (Australia) have successfully converted a diesel engine to run as a dual-fuel hydrogen-diesel engine, reducing CO 2 emissions by more than 85% compared to conventional diesel.

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ReactWell licenses ORNL catalyst for direct conversion of CO2 to ethanol

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MARCH 8, 2019

ReactWell will bring ORNL’s electrochemical process, which converts carbon dioxide directly into ethanol ( earlier post ), into the company’s existing conversion solution known as the ReactWell process. The ReactWell process is a research and development project involving a reaction that converts organic material to synthetic crude oil.

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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

Because so much energy is lost turning steam back into water in the Rankine cycle, at most a third of the power in the steam can be converted into electricity. These elevators use equipment very similar to that used in the Brayton cycle test loop, called a permanent magnet rotor, to convert this energy, Fleming said.

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Brown and Yale chemists demonstrate technology to convert CO2 to acrylate

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MARCH 25, 2013

Researchers at Brown and Yale have demonstrated a new enabling technology that could use excess carbon dioxide to produce acrylate, an important commodity chemical used to make materials from polyester fabrics to diapers. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Organometallics.

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SOLETAIR project produces first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar power and atmospheric CO2

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Afterwards, carbon dioxide and hydrogen are first converted into reactive synthesis gas at high temperature and then into liquid fuels in a microstructured chemical reactor. An electrolysis unit developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) uses solar power to produce the required hydrogen.

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Probing the effect of CO2 on Li-air batteries

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JUNE 21, 2013

The difference in chemical stability implies that there is always a thermodynamic driving force to convert Li 2 O 2 , the desired discharge product of a Li?air Goddard, III, Hyungjun Kim, and Kisuk Kang (2013) Toward a Lithium–“Air” Battery: The Effect of CO2 on the Chemistry of a Lithium–Oxygen Cell. Batteries'

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Weizmann Institute solar technology to convert CO2 into fuel; targeted for brown coal use in Australia

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JUNE 7, 2012

Carbon monoxide (CO), or its mixture with hydrogen called syngas, can then be used as gaseous fuel, for example, in power plants, or converted to liquid fuel such as methanol, which can be stored, transported or used to power motor vehicles. The method has proved successful in laboratory trials. NewCO2Fuels Ltd.

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MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products.

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Panasonic develops highly efficient artificial photosynthesis system with gallium nitride semiconductor for conversion of CO2 to formic acid

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JULY 30, 2012

Panasonic has developed an artificial photosynthesis system using a gallium nitride photoelectrode and a metal catalyst which uses sunlight to convert CO 2 mainly to formic acid (an important intermediate in chemical synthesis) at an efficiency (solar energy to chemical energy) of 0.2%—a Click to enlarge.

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Montauk Renewables signs LOI with European Energy to provide CO2 for e-methanol production in Texas

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Montauk Renewables captures methane, preventing it from being released into the atmosphere, and converts it into either RNG or electrical power for the electrical grid. The planned delivery would prevent biogenic CO 2 from entering the atmosphere and put it to beneficial use, creating a new fixed-price commodity revenue stream for Montauk.

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Nissan establishes Zero Emission Fund; CO2 offset credits for LEAF owners in Japan

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JUNE 11, 2012

launched the Nissan Zero Emission Fund, a new fund for individual Nissan electric vehicle (EV) owners in Japan which converts the amount of CO 2 emissions that are offset by driving the 100% electric Nissan LEAF to generate credits. Flows for the Zero Emission Fund. Click to enlarge. Nissan Motor Co.,

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

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JANUARY 26, 2014

in power plants), or converted to liquid fuel (e.g., Simultaneously, the same device can dissociate water (H 2 O) to hydrogen (H 2 ) and oxygen (O 2 ). The mixture of CO and H 2 —i.e., syngas—can then be used as gaseous fuel (e.g., methanol or other synthetic fuels).

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246th ACS National Meeting symposium on CO2 conversion to fuels

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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. H 0 act ) for concerted PCET to convert HCOOH to PyH + •CH(OH) 2 0 is 10.5

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Researchers propose CO2 recycling to improve Fischer-Tropsch GTL efficiency and reduce total CO2 emissions

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JUNE 21, 2014

At this moment, it is very important to render the GTL technology more efficient because we do not need to disturb ourselves to change the energy-related infrastructure and the transportation vehicles already fitted to petroleum if we can effectively convert natural gas to the clean liquid fuels and useful basic chemicals. —Zhang et al.

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Kopernikus Project P2X integrated container-scale test facility produces first fuels from air-captured CO2 and green power

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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Researchers develop co-catalyst system for lower cost conversion of CO2 to CO; syngas for synfuels

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

high overpotentials are needed to convert CO 2 because the first step in CO 2 conversion is the formation of a “CO 2 ? for formation of the “CO2 ? The company’s patent-pending Dual-Electrocat (DuElCat) process converts a mixture of carbon dioxide and water back to synthesis gas for subsequent processing into synthetic fuels.

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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

Nearly 80% of that can be converted into synthetic diesel. Click to enlarge. As currently built, the pilot plant on the sunfire grounds in Dresden-Reick can produce approximately 160 liters of Blue Crude per day. This fuel—Audi e?diesel—is diesel—is free of sulfur and aromatics, and features a high cetane number.

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Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

IIT researchers develop electrolyzer that converts CO2 to propane

PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

New electrocatalyst converts CO2 into ethanol, acetone, and n-butanol with high efficiency

Researchers use efficient microbial electrosynthesis cells to convert CO2 to butyric acid; upgrade to butanol

RWTH Aachen researchers report on two methods to convert CO2 to chemicals and fuels

Osaka researchers find formate dehydrogenase reduces CO2 directly to formic acid

Researchers develop titanium and copper heterostructured photocatalyst for conversion of CO2 into CH4

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis

New porous coordination polymer captures CO2, converts it to useful organic materials

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

UCLA team proposes non-photosynthetic biological conversion of CO2

Three-part catalyst study advances conversion of CO2 to ethanol

Berkeley Lab team validates bio-analogous technique for converting CO2 into liquid acetate

Researchers use cascade reactions in nanozymes to convert CO2 to ethanol and propanol

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

US Steel and CarbonFree sign MoU to capture CO2 at Gary Works

University of Texas researchers develop new solar photoelectrosynthetic process to convert CO2 to methanol

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

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

Vertimass and European Energy to partner on CO2 to hydrocarbons via methanol pathway

Researchers develop wave-energy-driven CO2 reduction system for production of carbon-based liquid fuels

PCC SE and Landsvirkjun to convert silicon metal plant CO2 emissions to methanol

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

New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

UNSW Syndey team develops hydrogen-diesel dual fuel system; 90% H2, more than 85% reduction in CO2

ReactWell licenses ORNL catalyst for direct conversion of CO2 to ethanol

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

Brown and Yale chemists demonstrate technology to convert CO2 to acrylate

SOLETAIR project produces first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar power and atmospheric CO2

Probing the effect of CO2 on Li-air batteries

Weizmann Institute solar technology to convert CO2 into fuel; targeted for brown coal use in Australia

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

Panasonic develops highly efficient artificial photosynthesis system with gallium nitride semiconductor for conversion of CO2 to formic acid

Montauk Renewables signs LOI with European Energy to provide CO2 for e-methanol production in Texas

Nissan establishes Zero Emission Fund; CO2 offset credits for LEAF owners in Japan

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

246th ACS National Meeting symposium on CO2 conversion to fuels

Researchers propose CO2 recycling to improve Fischer-Tropsch GTL efficiency and reduce total CO2 emissions

Kopernikus Project P2X integrated container-scale test facility produces first fuels from air-captured CO2 and green power

Researchers develop co-catalyst system for lower cost conversion of CO2 to CO; syngas for synfuels

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

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