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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. Using EEMPA instead reduces the energy needed to fuel such a reaction.

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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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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. Fe 5 C 2 by CO 2 /water in the first hours of the catalytic reaction. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Communications. Fe 5 C 2 respectively.

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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. Photosynthesis is the process by which chloroplasts in plants and some organisms use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to create food or energy.

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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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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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Johnson Matthey launches HyCOgen; converting CO2 and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuel

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JANUARY 6, 2022

HyCOgen, Johnson Matthey’s Reverse Water Gas Shift technology, is a catalyzed process to convert green hydrogen and CO 2 into carbon monoxide (CO), which is combined with additional hydrogen to form synthesis gas (syngas), a crucial building block in the manufacture of fuels and chemicals.

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

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Under illumination for 6 hours, the optimized reduced titania-Cu 2 O photocatalyst enables 0.13% photoreduction of highly diluted CO 2 with water vapors to 462 nmol g ?1 What if we drew inspiration from photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to convert CO2 and water into useful chemicals?

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

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APRIL 12, 2022

The process of methanol synthesis requires the input of pure carbon dioxide and hydrogen from water electrolysis, with the only by-product being oxygen and water. The production of green methanol requires a renewable carbon source from PCC’s silicon metal plant in Iceland and renewable power from Landsvirkjun´s power stations.

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New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for converting water and CO to hydrogen and CO2

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JUNE 24, 2017

Scientists in the US and China have developed a new low-temperature catalyst for producing high-purity hydrogen gas while simultaneously using up carbon monoxide (CO) via the water-gas shift (WGS) reaction. Its synergy with adjacent Mo sites in α-MoC can effectively activate water at low temperature. —Yao et al.

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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. Water from the Hellisheiði power plant then flows through the facility and transports the carbon dioxide roughly 2,000 meters below the surface of the Earth.

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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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Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to formic acid using an alumina-supported, iron-based compound; 80-90% selectivity

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MAY 17, 2022

A research team from Tokyo Tech has used an alumina-supported, iron-based compound to develop a catalyst that can efficiently convert CO 2 into formic acid (HCOOH) with ~90% selectivity. The rising CO2 levels in our atmosphere and their contribution to global warming is now common news.

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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. For this test, the engineers heated up the CO 2 using an electrical heater, fairly similar to a home water heater. Importance of advanced power electronics.

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Evonik and Siemens launch phase 2 of Rheticus: butanol, hexanol from CO2 and water using renewable electricity and bacteria

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

The goal is to develop an efficient and powerful test plant that will use carbon dioxide and water as well as electricity from renewable sources and bacteria to produce specialty chemicals. The first unit comprises two electrolyzers which convert H 2 O and CO 2 to H 2 and CO.

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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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Researchers develop new stable artificial photosynthesis device to produce ethylene and hydrogen from sunlight and CO2

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DECEMBER 25, 2021

A research team has developed a new artificial photosynthesis device component with remarkable stability and longevity as it selectively converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into two promising sources of renewable fuels: ethylene and hydrogen. We knew it was unstable—but we were surprised to learn just how unstable it really is.

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Hydrogen CO2 Li-ion Solar

AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

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APRIL 26, 2022

OCOchem transforms recycled CO 2 , water and zero-carbon electricity to produce formic acid, a globally traded commodity chemical and emerging electro-fuel. We are converting common industrial waste streams into product streams —Todd Brix.

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Evonik and Siemens Energy commission pilot plant for conversion of CO2 to chemicals

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Evonik and Siemens Energy commissioned a pilot plant—sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)—that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. It consists of a CO electrolyzer, developed by Siemens Energy, a water electrolyzer and the bioreactor with Evonik’s know-how.

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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. Ghoniem’s lab is exploring some of these options.

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MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Researchers at MIT have identified , quantified, and modeled a major reason for the poor performance of electroreduction processes to convert CO 2 to fuel or other useful chemicals. The findings could spur progress on developing a variety of materials and designs for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion systems.

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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

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. The sunfire plant, which operates according to the “power-to-liquid” (PtL) principle, requires carbon dioxide, water and electricity as raw materials. Click to enlarge.

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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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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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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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Lufthansa, ETH Zürich, Climeworks & Synhelion to cooperate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels; CO2 capture & solar thermochemical conversion

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MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel.

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Researchers develop efficient single-atom Ni catalyst for conversion of CO2 to CO

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MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). The anion membrane electrode assembly prevented the direct contact between the catalyst and liquid water, maximally suppressing the H 2 evolution side reaction and facilitating the CO 2 mass transport.

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Electrochemical Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production; 50% the CO2 and 25% the energy

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In ammonia plants, hydrogen is generated by steam-methane reforming (SMR) and water-gas shift (WGS) and, subsequently, is purified for the high-pressure ammonia synthesis. Ammonia, produced via the Haber-Bosch (HB) process, is globally the leading chemical in energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.

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BMW Plant Dingolfing will use locally produced heat from regional biomass to reduce CO2

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JULY 10, 2023

BMW Group Plant Dingolfing will use heat produced from regional biomass and its own waste wood to meet about 50% of its process hot water requirements from 2025 onwards. Largely coniferous stands must be converted to climate-stable mixed forests by planting more deciduous trees and changing tree species.

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SOLAR-JET project demonstrates solar-driven thermochemical conversion of CO2 and water to jet fuel

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APRIL 28, 2014

The EU-funded SOLAR-JET project has demonstrated the production of aviation kerosene from concentrated sunlight, CO 2 captured from air, and water. Red arrow indicates ceria reduction (oxygen evolution); blue arrow indicates oxidation (fuel production). Click to enlarge.

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Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

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JULY 15, 2022

Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct.

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United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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JUNE 16, 2022

million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy.

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Photo-activated catalyst converts CO2 to CO for clean fuel technology; no unwanted byproducts

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JULY 31, 2017

An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light-activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.

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Researchers tailor catalyst microenvironments to enhance CO2 electroreduction to multicarbon products

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NOVEMBER 20, 2021

But those conditions are contrary to those that naturally occur in a typical fuel cell, which uses a water-based conductive material. In previous studies, the researchers had established the precise conditions that gave the best electrical and chemical environment for creating commercially interesting carbon-rich products.

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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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USC team develops highly efficient catalyst system for converting CO2 to methanol; 79% yield from CO2 captured from air

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , they reported demonstrating for the first time that CO 2 captured from air can be directly converted to CH 3 OH in 79% yield using the new homogeneous catalytic system. They then heated the solution, converting 79% of the CO 2 into methanol. Click to enlarge.

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Elemental boron effective photothermocatalyst for the conversion of CO2 for fuels and chemicals

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APRIL 11, 2017

Researchers in Japan and China developed an efficient method for CO 2 reduction over elemental boron catalysts in the presence of only water and light irradiation through a photothermocatalytic process. At this temperature it reacts with water, forming hydrogen and boron oxides in situ.

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

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

First, the vehicle’s flue gases in the exhaust pipe are cooled down and the water is separated from the gases. That liquid is stored in a tank and can then be converted back into conventional fuel at the service stations using renewable electricity. In their study, the scientists used the example of a delivery truck.

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New catalyst opens door to CO2 capture in coal-to-liquids process

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OCTOBER 14, 2018

Accordingly, there is a large incentive to improve current CTL technology, which can convert coal into liquid fuels and valuable chemicals. Using the Fischer-Tropsch process, these components are converted to liquid fuels. The CO 2 that was previously released in this stage can now be removed in the preceding water-gas shift stage.

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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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JUNE 25, 2013

The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Water and oxygen are the only by-products. At this facility, microorganisms use water (brackish, salt or wastewater) sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce high-purity fuels. Earlier post.).

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MIT researchers advancing development of supercritical water upgrading of heavy crude; lower cost, energy use and CO2

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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EPFL team develops low-cost catalyst for splitting CO2

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JUNE 7, 2017

The system uses the same catalyst for the cathode that reduces CO 2 to CO and for the anode that oxidizes water to oxygen through the oxygen evolution reaction. The system was able to selectively convert CO2 to CO with an efficiency of 13.4% The gases are separated with a bipolar membrane. using solar energy.

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DGIST-led team improves efficiency of photocatalyst for conversion of atmospheric CO2 to hydrocarbon fuels

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JUNE 10, 2019

The modified photocatalyst converted sunlight to fuel with a maximum efficiency of 3.3% Carbon dioxide gas and water vapor moved through the chamber, passing over the catalyst. over 30-minute periods. The team developed a novel set-up to measure accurately the catalyst’s photoconversion efficiency. Credit ©DGIST. Grimes, Craig A.

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

Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

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

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

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

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

Johnson Matthey launches HyCOgen; converting CO2 and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuel

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

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

New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for converting water and CO to hydrogen and CO2

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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

Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to formic acid using an alumina-supported, iron-based compound; 80-90% selectivity

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

Evonik and Siemens launch phase 2 of Rheticus: butanol, hexanol from CO2 and water using renewable electricity and bacteria

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

Researchers develop new stable artificial photosynthesis device to produce ethylene and hydrogen from sunlight and CO2

AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

Evonik and Siemens Energy commission pilot plant for conversion of CO2 to chemicals

MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

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

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

ReactWell licenses ORNL catalyst for direct conversion of CO2 to ethanol

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

Lufthansa, ETH Zürich, Climeworks & Synhelion to cooperate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels; CO2 capture & solar thermochemical conversion

Researchers develop efficient single-atom Ni catalyst for conversion of CO2 to CO

Electrochemical Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production; 50% the CO2 and 25% the energy

BMW Plant Dingolfing will use locally produced heat from regional biomass to reduce CO2

SOLAR-JET project demonstrates solar-driven thermochemical conversion of CO2 and water to jet fuel

Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

Photo-activated catalyst converts CO2 to CO for clean fuel technology; no unwanted byproducts

Researchers tailor catalyst microenvironments to enhance CO2 electroreduction to multicarbon products

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

USC team develops highly efficient catalyst system for converting CO2 to methanol; 79% yield from CO2 captured from air

Elemental boron effective photothermocatalyst for the conversion of CO2 for fuels and chemicals

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

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

New catalyst opens door to CO2 capture in coal-to-liquids process

Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

MIT researchers advancing development of supercritical water upgrading of heavy crude; lower cost, energy use and CO2

EPFL team develops low-cost catalyst for splitting CO2

DGIST-led team improves efficiency of photocatalyst for conversion of atmospheric CO2 to hydrocarbon fuels

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