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EIA: California drought will decrease hydropower, increase natural gas use and CO2 emissions

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EIA expects that level of decrease in hydropower generation would lead to an 8% increase in California’s electricity generation from natural gas, a 6% increase in energy-related carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions in the state, and an average 5% increase in wholesale electricity prices throughout the West given the current system configuration.

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First Supercritical CO2 Circuit Breaker Debuts

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The first-of-its-kind device could replace conventional high-voltage breakers, which use the potent greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride, or SF 6. SF 6 is a fantastic insulator, but its very bad for the environmentprobably the worst greenhouse gas you can think of, says Johan Enslin , a program director at U.S.

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New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

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Electrolysis offers an attractive route to upgrade greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to valuable fuels and feedstocks; however, productivity is often limited by gas diffusion through a liquid electrolyte to the surface of the catalyst. 2020) “CO2 electrolysis to multicarbon products at activities greater than 1 A cm -2.”

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

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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. Conventionally, plant operators can capture CO 2 by using special solvents that douse flue gas before it’s emitted from plant chimneys. Heldebrant, D.,

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Researchers create salts for cheap and efficient CO2 capture; mimicking methane hydrate

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Methane hydrate is studied for its ability to capture and trap gas molecules such as carbon dioxide under high pressure. B) A clathrate from guanidinium sulfate and CO 2 , CO 2 @Gua 2 SO 4 , where CO 2 can be captured at pressures as low as 32 kPa and temperatures at flue gas conditions (35°C and below). Xiang et al.

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

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The CO 2 hydrogenation to jet fuel range hydrocarbons process through a Tandem Mechanism in which the Reverse-Water Gas Shift reaction (RWGS) and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) reaction are catalyzed by Fe 3 O 4 and ?-Fe The final product is usually a crystallized material. Fe 5 C 2 respectively.

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thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

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That is already five percent of the Ruhr region’s greenhouse gas emissions. In this way, thyssenkrupp is accelerating the start of low-CO2 steel production. In addition, we are fulfilling our social responsibility and will already be reducing the CO 2 emissions of our production by just under 20 percent in the first step.

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