CO2, Industrial and Waste

Alliance Formed to Commercialize Solar Reforming Technologies to Convert Waste CO2 into Synthetic Fuel

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Sandia has been working on “Sunshine to Petrol” technologies for a number of years. Source: Sandia. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

Waste

Waste Solar Commercial CO2

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

Green Car Congress

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.

CO2

CO2 Conversion Water Climate Change

GTI quantifies opportunity to produce low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) from wood wastes

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

GTI has released a site-specific engineering design titled “ Low-Carbon Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Wood Wastes ”. GTI led a team of engineers and scientists to produce a blueprint for converting an existing biomass facility into an RNG production site, using the wood waste feedstock and some of the existing infrastructure.

Waste

Waste Carbon Gas Renewable

BMW Group secures CO2-reduced steel for global production network

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This will reduce the carbon footprint of our supply chain by 900,000 tonnes per year, while at the same time driving the transformation of the steel industry. The BMW Group has also set up closed-loop material cycles for sheet steel waste with several steel suppliers.

BMW

BMW Global CO2 Production

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

C using waste heat from a nearby geothermal plant to release the CO 2 molecules. Two years ago the two companies built a facility in Hinwil, Switzerland, that filters CO 2 from the air and provides it to the beverage industry, where it is converted to carbonic acid. This uses a specially developed adsorbent to bind the CO 2 in the air.

Audi

Audi Iceland CO2 Carbon

RWE Power/BRAIN expanding work on waste gas CO2 microbial conversion project

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2012

RWE Power intends to go beyond the current project focus as the utility company plans to examine other carbon-rich waste streams—e.g. by sewage water, the production of food or refinery processes.

Waste

Waste Conversion Gas Powered

Wärtsilä to supply a major LNG/bioLNG production plant for CO2-neutral transport fuels

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The use of LNG as an emissions-reducing fuel in the marine and transportation industries is already well established, and to introduce bioLNG which can be mixed with LNG is the next obvious step in enabling a CO2-neutral transportation fuel. The feedstock for bioLNG is based on biological waste material—e.g.

CO2

CO2 Transportation Supplies Fuel

Yamaha and Sumitomo demo on-board thermoelectric generator for CO2 reduction

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2022

a Sumitomo Corporation Group company, jointly demonstrated a new waste heat recovery system based on a thermoelectric generator (TEG), which generates electrical power via exhaust gas heat. The automotive industry has undertaken various development efforts over the years to create thermoelectric technology to reduce CO 2 emissions.

CO2

CO2 Exhaust Waste Gas-Electric

LanzaTech and India’s Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy Research developing novel waste CO2 to fuels process

Green Car Congress

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. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

Waste

Waste Fuel Energy India

Steep increase in global CO2 emissions despite reductions by industrialized countries; driven by power generation and road transport

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Global emissions of CO 2 have increased by 45% between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes in 2010 despite emission reductions in industrialized countries during the same period. Throughout the Kyoto Protocol period, industrialized countries have made efforts to change their energy sources mix.

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Emissions Global Transportation Industrial

Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

It’s also often produced using corn and other crop feedstocks, but this approach is dependent on crops that otherwise could be used to grow food or waste feedstocks. This approach is highly scalable and could ultimately produce ethanol at an industrial scale, while simultaneously eliminating CO 2 emissions.

Convert

Convert CO2 Carbon Polymer

Europe Risks Wasting €27 Billion Battery Opportunity with Weak CO2 Targets — Study

CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 12, 2021

By Paul Bell The EU and the UK risk wasting €27bn in battery investments if they fail to strengthen car and van CO2 emission standards, analysis from Transport & Environment (T&E) shows. While investors have poured billions into the battery industry, and Europe is set to have enough batteries to […].

Waste

Waste CO2 Europe Battery

EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

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NOVEMBER 26, 2011

—Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe. The recognized benefits of industrial facilities, including manufacturing products, employment and tax revenues, are not addressed in the report. Half of the total damage cost (between €51–85 billion) was caused by just 191 facilities.

Pollution

Pollution 2009 Europe Industrial

New Mærsk Triple-E ships worlds largest and most efficient; waste heat recovery and ultra long stroke engines contribute to up to 50% reduction in CO2/container moved

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Triple-E will produce 20% less CO 2 per container moved compared to Emma Mærsk and 50% less than the industry average on the Asia-Europe trade lane. Two ‘ultra-long stroke’ engines turn two propellers, and specially optimized hull and bow forms guide the vessel through the water at the speeds typical in the industry today.

Waste

Waste Engine Asia CO2

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

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JANUARY 26, 2014

In passing the Stage 1 testing, NCF demonstrated technology that successfully dissociates CO 2 into CO and oxygen in a heating environment, simulating the industrial waste heat sources that will be used as one of two energy sources in the commercial product. Jacob Karni’s laboratory at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Solar

Solar Fuel Companies CO2

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

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2022

AirCapture develops on-site, modular technology that captures CO 2 from the air using waste heat from manufacturing plants, enabling customer operations to go carbon neutral and even negative. We are converting common industrial waste streams into product streams —Todd Brix.

Conversion

Conversion Grant Waste CO2

BASF develops zero-CO2 production process for methanol

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2019

If it can be successfully implemented at an industrial scale, the entire production process – from syngas production to pure methanol – will no longer release any carbon dioxide emissions. Vicari expects it will be around 10 years before this new process is carried out in an industrial-scale plant.

CO2

CO2 Production Carbon Waste

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

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2012

Formic acid is an important product in the chemical industry and has many applications, including agriculture, food technology, and the leather industry. Methanol and its products can not only be used as a fuel or for driving fuel cells, they are also a versatile feedstock for chemical industry. Production of methanol.

Convert

Convert CO2 Fuel Hydrogen

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

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

The compressor gets the supercritical CO 2 up to the necessary pressure before it meets up with waste heat in the recuperator and returns to the heater to continue the cycle. Our industry partners are targeting 1- to 5-megawatt systems. After the CO 2 exits the turbine, it is cooled in a recuperator before entering a compressor.

Grid

Grid Powered Power CO2

Petronas and LanzaTech partner on CO2 to chemicals technology

Green Car Congress

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.

Malaysia

Malaysia CO2 Carbon Oil

Joule expands solar CO2 conversion platform to produce renewable gasoline and jet hydrocarbons

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

Joule has engineered photosynthetic biocatalysts that convert waste CO 2 into hydrocarbons through a patented, continuous process. Waste CO 2 is pumped in from an industrial emitter or pipeline; the CO 2 keeps the microorganisms in motion, maximizing their exposure to sunlight to drive photosynthesis. Earlier post.).

Gasoline

Gasoline Conversion Solar Renewable

WWF Reports Finds Industrial Biotechnology Could Reduce CO2 Emissions Between 1-2.5 Billion Tonnes per Year by 2030

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Industrial biotechnology has the potential to save the planet between 1 billion and 2.5 The question is to what extent industrial biotechnology can transform a fundamentally unsustainable system into a sustainable bio-based economy—or just provide a streak of green in a dirty system. Industrial biotechnology”. Click to enlarge.

Industrial

Industrial Industry Emissions CO2

Carbon Engineering & LanzaTech partner to produce SAF using direct air capture CO2; “air-to-jet”

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AUGUST 1, 2021

LanzaTech’s first commercial gas fermentation plant has produced more than 20 million gallons of ethanol, and the company has been working with the UK government and several industrial partners to build the world’s first commercial-scale, waste-ethanol-based Alcohol-to-Jet production facility in South Wales.

Carbon

Carbon Engine CO2 Fuel

Joule Awarded Patent on Renewable Diesel Production Directly from Sunlight and CO2

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

has been awarded a US patent covering its conversion of sunlight and waste carbon dioxide directly into liquid hydrocarbons that are fungible with conventional diesel fuel. Joule Unlimited, Inc., Earlier post.).

Diesel

Diesel Renewable Production CO2

Researchers find product-specific active sites on copper catalysts for CO2 reduction

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

These active sites are where electrocatalysis takes place: electrons from the copper surface interact with carbon dioxide and water in a sequence of steps that transform them into products such as ethanol, ethylene, and propanol, an alcohol commonly used in the pharmaceutical industry. —Joel Ager, a researcher at JCAP who led the study.

Production

Production CO2 Carbon Fuel

EPA proposes deferring GHG permitting requirements for industries that use biomass

Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

Seeking advice of federal partners, states, a diverse group of expert scientists including industry and other stakeholders, and an independent scientific panel, will help to determine how these emissions should be treated under the EPA’s air permitting program. In July 2010, EPA issued a call for information seeking public comment.

EPA

EPA Industry Industrial 2011

Climeworks launches world’s first commercial plant to capture CO2 from air; potential for CO2-neutral fuels

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

In Hinwil the DAC plant has been installed on the roof of a waste recovery facility—operated by the municipal administration union KEZO—with its waste heat powering the Climeworks DAC plant. Switzerland moving to accept CO 2 -neutral synthetic fuels to reduce fleet emissions.

Commercial

Commercial CO2 Fuel Switzerland

Measurements of CO2 and CO in China’s Air Indicate Sharply Improved Combustion Efficiency

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The measurements provide the most detailed look at carbon emissions for a specific urbanized and industrialized region of China to date. Inefficient processes like wood- and coal-burning in domestic stoves convert less than 90 percent of the carbon fuel to CO 2 , releasing the remainder as CO and wasting some of the energy. Munger, J.

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CO2 Climate Change Universal China

SLB introduces low-carbon alternative for well construction cement that eliminates up to 85% of embodied CO2

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2023

Decarbonizing the well construction process while ensuring safety and performance standards is critical to our industry’s pathway to net zero. The cement-free EcoShield system is a breakthrough that delivers industry-standard zonal isolation capabilities while significantly minimizing impact from upstream oil and gas production.

Portland

Portland CO2 Carbon North America

Solar2fuel Project in Germany Pursuing Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2 to Methanol for Engines or Fuel Cells

Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2010

The experts at EnBW are investigating the energy, emission and cost balances of the overall process—from the power plant waste gas through the actual photocatalysis up to the utilization of the products. Photocatalysis is used to convert the carbon dioxide together with water into methanol. BASF serves as coordinator for the consortium.

Conversion

Conversion Engine Germany CO2

H2 Green Steel and BMW Group sign final agreement on delivery of CO2-reduced steel

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

H2 Green Steel (H2GS AB) was founded in 2020 with the ambition to accelerate the decarbonization of the steel industry, using green hydrogen. The total CO 2 emissions in such a process must be more than 90% lower than that of traditional steelmaking in a blast furnace process. The plant will also maximize circularity.

BMW

BMW Green CO2 Sweden

ETH team develops catalytic process to make lactic acid from glycerol biodiesel byproduct; 20% lower CO2 than fermentation pathway

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

Researchers at ETH Zürich developed an eco-friendly cascade process to make large amounts of lactic acid from glycerol, a waste by-product in the production of biodiesel. The new method’s greatest advantage is that it makes use of a waste feedstock: glycerol. Nobody knows what to do with this amount of waste glycerol.

Waste

Waste CO2 2014 2020

DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected six projects for funding that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. billion effort to capture CO 2 from industrial sources for storage or beneficial use.

Conversion

Conversion CO2 San Antonio Carbon

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

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The waste heat given off during methanation is used as process energy in the adjacent biogas plant, significantly increasing overall efficiency. Ground was broken in September 2012, and the topping-out ceremony was celebrated in December. The efficient use of energy flows is the top priority in the production sequence of the plant.

Gas-Electric

Gas-Electric Gas Audi Water

Solar fuels company Joule teams with DNV GL for commercial validation of CO2-to-fuels production process

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Joule, the developer of a process for the solar conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuels, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with DNV GL, a leading provider of technical assurance and advisory services to the energy industry.

Commercial

Commercial Fuel Solar Production

Audi to introduce natural gas A3 Sportback g-tron at year’s end; CO2-neutral e-gas

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

Construction of the world’s first industrial plant to produce synthetic methane (e-gas) from CO 2 and renewable electricity is almost complete in Werlte (Emsland district of Lower Saxony), Germany. The CO 2 used in Audi’s e-gas plant is a waste product from a nearby biogas plant, operated by power utility EWE.

Gas

Gas Audi CO2 Gas-Electric

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

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The phase-pure epsilon iron carbide they developed is, by contrast, stable and remains functional, even under typical industrial processing conditions of 23 bar and 250 ?C. Hensen expects that the newly developed catalysts will also play an import role in the future energy and basic chemicals industry. Resources.

Coal

Coal CO2 Conversion Convert

BMW Group to source lower CO2 aluminum from Rio Tinto in Canada from 2024

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The innovative method uses carbon-free anodes to eliminate all process-related CO 2 emissions and was successfully tested at industrial level for the first time in 2021. In 2021, Rio Tinto launched START, a new standard in transparency, traceability and provenance for the aluminum industry.

BMW

BMW Canada CO2 South Carolina

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

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

It is the common goal of the signatories to prepare these promising technologies for later production on an industrial scale. Climeworks direct air capture machines are powered solely by renewable energy or energy-from-waste. Such a fuel releases only as much CO 2 as was previously extracted from the atmosphere.

Solar

Solar Conversion Fuel CO2

China and India Nullify Global Reduction in CO2 Emissions in 2009

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

Despite the continued economic crisis, global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, have remained constant in 2009 as strong increases in CO 2 emissions from fast-growing developing countries such as China and India, have completely nullified CO 2 emission reductions in the industrialized world. Source: PBL. Click to enlarge.

2009

2009 India Emissions Global

LanzaTech produces 1,500 gallons of alcohol-to-jet fuel from waste gases for Virgin Atlantic

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In a milestone for the low-carbon fuel project, LanzaTech has produced 1,500 gallons of jet fuel from waste industrial gases from steel mills via a fermentation process for Virgin Atlantic. Virgin Atlantic and LanzaTech have been working together on the project since 2011. HSBC joined the partnership in 2014. The process.

Waste

Waste Fuel Commercial Carbon

Ford cuts manufacturing energy use 22% in 6 years; targeting additional 25% Drop by 2016

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

2016

2016 Ford Manufacturer Energy

ArcelorMittal Europe to produce “green steel” starting in 2020

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

ArcelorMittal Europe is developing a series of industrial-scale hydrogen projects for use in blast furnace-based steelmaking that will start to deliver substantial CO 2 emissions savings even within the next five years, as well as progressing a project to test the ability of hydrogen to reduce iron ore and form DRI on an industrial scale.

Europe

Europe Green 2020 Hydrogen

Bath team develops simpler to prepare and effective catalyst for conversion of CO and CO2 to longer chain hydrocarbons

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

This makes our process scaleable to a level where it could be used in industry and have a significant impact on the environment. Looking to the future, the team hopes to explore the use of waste heat from power plants to run the process. Matthew Jones, co-author.

Conversion

Conversion CO2 Carbon Waste

Alliance Formed to Commercialize Solar Reforming Technologies to Convert Waste CO2 into Synthetic Fuel

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

GTI quantifies opportunity to produce low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) from wood wastes

BMW Group secures CO2-reduced steel for global production network

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

RWE Power/BRAIN expanding work on waste gas CO2 microbial conversion project

Wärtsilä to supply a major LNG/bioLNG production plant for CO2-neutral transport fuels

Yamaha and Sumitomo demo on-board thermoelectric generator for CO2 reduction

LanzaTech and India’s Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy Research developing novel waste CO2 to fuels process

Steep increase in global CO2 emissions despite reductions by industrialized countries; driven by power generation and road transport

Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

Europe Risks Wasting €27 Billion Battery Opportunity with Weak CO2 Targets — Study

EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

New Mærsk Triple-E ships worlds largest and most efficient; waste heat recovery and ultra long stroke engines contribute to up to 50% reduction in CO2/container moved

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

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

BASF develops zero-CO2 production process for methanol

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

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

Petronas and LanzaTech partner on CO2 to chemicals technology

Joule expands solar CO2 conversion platform to produce renewable gasoline and jet hydrocarbons

WWF Reports Finds Industrial Biotechnology Could Reduce CO2 Emissions Between 1-2.5 Billion Tonnes per Year by 2030

Carbon Engineering & LanzaTech partner to produce SAF using direct air capture CO2; “air-to-jet”

Joule Awarded Patent on Renewable Diesel Production Directly from Sunlight and CO2

Researchers find product-specific active sites on copper catalysts for CO2 reduction

EPA proposes deferring GHG permitting requirements for industries that use biomass

Climeworks launches world’s first commercial plant to capture CO2 from air; potential for CO2-neutral fuels

Measurements of CO2 and CO in China’s Air Indicate Sharply Improved Combustion Efficiency

SLB introduces low-carbon alternative for well construction cement that eliminates up to 85% of embodied CO2

Solar2fuel Project in Germany Pursuing Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2 to Methanol for Engines or Fuel Cells

H2 Green Steel and BMW Group sign final agreement on delivery of CO2-reduced steel

ETH team develops catalytic process to make lactic acid from glycerol biodiesel byproduct; 20% lower CO2 than fermentation pathway

DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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

Solar fuels company Joule teams with DNV GL for commercial validation of CO2-to-fuels production process

Audi to introduce natural gas A3 Sportback g-tron at year’s end; CO2-neutral e-gas

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

BMW Group to source lower CO2 aluminum from Rio Tinto in Canada from 2024

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

China and India Nullify Global Reduction in CO2 Emissions in 2009

LanzaTech produces 1,500 gallons of alcohol-to-jet fuel from waste gases for Virgin Atlantic

Ford cuts manufacturing energy use 22% in 6 years; targeting additional 25% Drop by 2016

ArcelorMittal Europe to produce “green steel” starting in 2020

Bath team develops simpler to prepare and effective catalyst for conversion of CO and CO2 to longer chain hydrocarbons

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