CO2, Waste and Water

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. Qian Wang et al.

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Water CO2 Solar Convert

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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CO2 Conversion Water Climate Change

Novomer demonstrates large-scale production of polypropylene using waste CO2

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MAY 22, 2013

has completed the first successful large-scale production of a polypropylene carbonate (PPC) polymer using waste CO 2 as a key raw material. The Novomer process reduces the use of these fuels by replacing up to half of the mass of the petroleum-based product with CO2.

Waste

Waste CO2 Polymer Production

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

C using waste heat from a nearby geothermal plant to release the CO 2 molecules. 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. The water returns to the cycle of the geothermal power plant.

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Audi Iceland CO2 Carbon

Innovative water treatment at Audi Ingolstadt saves up to 500,000 cubic meters of fresh water a year; heading to ZLD

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MARCH 22, 2019

Audi has put a new service-water supply center into operation at the Ingolstadt site. In this way, Audi will saves up to 500,000 cubic meters of fresh water each year. The heart of the service-water supply center is a membrane bioreactor (MBR). The heart of the service-water supply center is a membrane bioreactor (MBR).

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Water Audi Automobile Supplies

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

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JUNE 25, 2013

Water and oxygen are the only by-products. The waste heat given off during methanation is used as process energy in the adjacent biogas plant, significantly increasing overall efficiency. At this facility, microorganisms use water (brackish, salt or wastewater) sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce high-purity fuels.

Gas-Electric

Gas-Electric Gas Audi Water

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

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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 existing water pump on the vehicle was used to supply coolant to TEG unit. Yamaha Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation Power & Mobility Co.,

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CO2 Exhaust Waste Gas-Electric

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

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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

Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

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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.

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Convert CO2 Carbon Polymer

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

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Four-hundred metres long, 59 meters wide and 73 meters high, the Triple-E is the largest vessel of any type on the water today, according to Mærsk. 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

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

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APRIL 15, 2013

Joule has engineered photosynthetic biocatalysts that convert waste CO 2 into hydrocarbons through a patented, continuous process. The entire process takes place in a modular SolarConverter system, from photon capture to product creation and initial separation, with no requirement for arable land, fresh water or crops.

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Gasoline Conversion Solar Renewable

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

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.

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Conversion Grant Waste 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.

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Solar Fuel Companies CO2

ReactWell licenses ORNL catalyst for direct conversion of CO2 to ethanol

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MARCH 8, 2019

ReactWell , LLC, has licensed a novel waste-to-fuel technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to improve energy conversion methods for cleaner, more efficient oil and gas, chemical and bioenergy production. —Brandon Iglesias, inventor of the ReactWell process.

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Conversion CO2 Carbon Convert

Petronas and LanzaTech partner on CO2 to chemicals technology

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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.

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Malaysia CO2 Carbon Oil

Study finds that steel slag heaps could absorb significant amounts of CO2

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AUGUST 25, 2019

Slag is rich in calcium silicates that dissolve in water; when atmospheric CO 2 dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, it reacts with the dissolved silicates to form stable carbonate minerals such as calcite, which nearly permanently sequesters the carbon. —Pullin et al. while average calcium (Ca) levels exceeded 30%.

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CO2 Carbon Waste Water

BMW outlines iFACTORY production strategy; transformation to e-mobility; Plant Debrecen first CO2-free plant

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MAY 1, 2022

By 2030 we aim to reduce CO2 emissions from production by 80 percent compared to 2019, — Milan Nedeljkovi?. Metal offcuts and filings from milling, for example, will be recycled and reused, while waste heat from cooling will be fed into a circuit to heat indoor spaces and water.

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BMW CO2 Production Climate Protection

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. 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.

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Grid Powered Power CO2

Nornickel investigating using mining tailings to capture and store CO2

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Ore mining and concentration results in waste rock, or tailings—fine-grained rock (less than 0.4 As a waste, tailings are stored in designated storage facilities called tailing dams. Silica and magnesium oxide contained in waste rock can absorb carbon dioxide during weathering (long-term exposure to air).

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Store CO2 Waste Carbon

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

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DECEMBER 25, 2021

By understanding how materials and devices transform under operation, we can design approaches that are more durable and thus reduce waste. Electron microscopy experiments at the Molecular Foundry confirmed that cuprous oxide quickly oxidizes or corrodes within minutes of exposure to light and water.

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Hydrogen CO2 Li-ion Solar

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

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AUGUST 7, 2012

The hydrogenation of CO 2 to formic acid (HCO 2 H) is a subject of intensive research because it offers direct access to chemical products based on waste products from the use of fossil fuels for energy. It subsequently connects a molecule of CO 2 in a stepwise fashion with three molecules of hydrogen to produce methanol and water.

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Convert CO2 Fuel Hydrogen

Ford hits CO2 manufacturing emissions reduction target of 30% per vehicle 8 years early

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JUNE 27, 2018

In MQL, a machining tool is lubricated with a very small amount of oil sprayed directly on the tip of the tool in a finely atomized mist, instead of with a large quantity of coolant/water mixture. Ford now is working on setting a new goal focused on increasing it use of renewable energy while maintaining its energy efficiencies.

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Manufacturer Emissions Ford CO2

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

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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.

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2016 Ford Manufacturer Energy

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.).

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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. Credit: Ager and Lum/Berkeley Lab).

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Production CO2 Carbon Fuel

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

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MARCH 7, 2023

Cement provides structural support; functions as a barrier that helps prevent corrosion of the steel casing; and blocks oil, gas, or water from traveling through the annulus (the space between the wellbore and the casing). This barrier also protects fresh water aquifers and helps prevent the inflow of undesirable hydrocarbons.

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Portland CO2 Carbon North America

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

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AUGUST 29, 2022

In a natural gas feed reactor, the iron ore reduction takes place with both carbon monoxide to produce sponge iron and carbon dioxide and hydrogen to produce sponge iron and water. H2 Green Steel will replace the natural gas with green hydrogen to only allow for sponge iron and water to be produced.

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BMW Green CO2 Sweden

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

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APRIL 8, 2010

Photocatalysis is used to convert the carbon dioxide together with water into methanol. 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.

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Conversion Engine Germany CO2

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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Solar Conversion Fuel CO2

BMW’s “CO2 Champion” Performance Concept is a Plug-in Diesel Hybrid; 50 km/31 mile All-Electric Range; Thermo-electric Generator for Waste Heat Recovery

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AUGUST 30, 2009

A water-cooled Thermo-Electrical Generator (TEG) is integrated in the exhaust system of BMW Vision EfficientDynamics, serving to convert a lot of the thermal energy contained in the exhaust emissions into electric power. Thermo-electric generator. Earlier post.).

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All-Electric Plug-in Concept Plug

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.

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Waste CO2 2014 2020

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

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OCTOBER 14, 2018

Some of the CO is taken out of the syngas (rejected) by converting it to CO 2 , in a process called the water-gas shift. The CO 2 that was previously released in this stage can now be removed in the preceding water-gas shift stage. The feedstock will not be coal or gas, but waste and biomass.

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Coal CO2 Conversion Convert

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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MIT Water Energy CO2

Thai researchers find waste chicken fat a good low-cost feedstock for renewable diesel

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JANUARY 19, 2015

In a study investigating the effect of the water and free fatty acid (FFA) content in waste chicken fat from poultry processing plants on the production of renewable diesel (not biodiesel), researchers in Thailand have found that both higher FFA and water content improved the biohydrogenated diesel (BHD) yield.

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Low Cost Waste Diesel Renewable

Co-Electrolysis of CO2 and H2O for the Production of Liquid Fuels

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JULY 23, 2010

There is no need for a separate reverse water-gas shift reactor to produce syngas, and the waste heat from exothermic fuel synthesis is useful in the process. Fischer-Tropsch). An analysis of the system energy balance presented by Christopher Graves at the May conference showed a 70% electricity to hydrocarbon fuel efficiency.

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Fuel CO2 Production Conversion

Volkswagen’s 1.0L eco up! natural gas vehicle offers 79g CO2/km

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

The engine’s dual-circuit cooling system and integrated water-cooled exhaust manifold enable short engine warm-up times. Volkswagen points to technology leader Verbio AG , which has developed a new type of bio-refinery that produces biomethane exclusively from stillage (a waste product of bioethanol production), and straw.

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Gas CO2 Vehicles Gas-Electric

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

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MARCH 1, 2013

The Audi e-gas plant uses the renewable electricity in the first stage for electrolysis—splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen (Audi e-hydrogen), which could one day power fuel-cell vehicles. The CO 2 used in Audi’s e-gas plant is a waste product from a nearby biogas plant, operated by power utility EWE.

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Gas Audi CO2 Gas-Electric

BMW Outlines Intelligent Heat Management Applications for Reducing Fuel Consumption and CO2; New Thermoelectric Generator Unit Integrated with EGR

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Among the projects discussed were reducing cold starts; using waste heat for different heating applications in the car; and a new implementation of a thermoelectric generator (TEG) for waste heat recovery. Heating with waste heat. Encapsulating the engine for heat retention. Click to enlarge. No more cold starts.

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BMW Fuel Exhaust CO2

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. The heating plant will have three boilers operating year-round, as well as its own pallet and waste-wood shredder. Rendering of the biomass heating plant.

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BMW CO2 Waste Climate

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

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2021, Rio Tinto launched START, a new standard in transparency, traceability and provenance for the aluminum industry.

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BMW Canada CO2 South Carolina

Anaergia to supply CO2 to European Energy A/S for green e-methanol production as fuel for container ships

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AUGUST 19, 2022

Waste-to-biogas company Anaergia Inc. Biogenic carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide that is released during the decomposition of organic matter such as food waste. All Anaergia plants use organic waste material to produce biogas, which is composed of methane and carbon dioxide. —Andrew Benedek, Chairman and CEO of Anaergia.

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Green Supplies Energy Fuel

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

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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. LanzaTech captures the waste gas from refineries and manufacturing plants and feeds the CO-rich gas to microbes that consume the gas and produce ethanol.

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Waste Fuel Commercial Carbon

Audi produces new e-fuels with waste water and CO2

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

Audi has developed two new e-fuels using different waste materials. These combine salt or waste water with waste CO2, sunlight and special genetically modified microorganisms suspended in pipes. The German manufacturer has buddied up with US-based fuels specialist Joule to produce e-ethanol and e-diesel.

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Waste Audi CO2 Water

CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

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APRIL 11, 2019

CO 2 capture and clean-up: Waste gases are captured from the points of emission at the stack and transferred to the gas conditioning system where impurities are removed to produce CO 2 suitable for downstream methanol synthesis. CRI’s ETL technology consist of five process modules. In many ethanol production and biogas processes.

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Grant CO2 Iceland Waste

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

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

Novomer demonstrates large-scale production of polypropylene using waste CO2

Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

Innovative water treatment at Audi Ingolstadt saves up to 500,000 cubic meters of fresh water a year; heading to ZLD

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

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

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

Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

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

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

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

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

ReactWell licenses ORNL catalyst for direct conversion of CO2 to ethanol

Petronas and LanzaTech partner on CO2 to chemicals technology

Study finds that steel slag heaps could absorb significant amounts of CO2

BMW outlines iFACTORY production strategy; transformation to e-mobility; Plant Debrecen first CO2-free plant

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

Nornickel investigating using mining tailings to capture and store CO2

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

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

Ford hits CO2 manufacturing emissions reduction target of 30% per vehicle 8 years early

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BMW’s “CO2 Champion” Performance Concept is a Plug-in Diesel Hybrid; 50 km/31 mile All-Electric Range; Thermo-electric Generator for Waste Heat Recovery

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

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

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

Thai researchers find waste chicken fat a good low-cost feedstock for renewable diesel

Co-Electrolysis of CO2 and H2O for the Production of Liquid Fuels

Volkswagen’s 1.0L eco up! natural gas vehicle offers 79g CO2/km

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

BMW Outlines Intelligent Heat Management Applications for Reducing Fuel Consumption and CO2; New Thermoelectric Generator Unit Integrated with EGR

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

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

Anaergia to supply CO2 to European Energy A/S for green e-methanol production as fuel for container ships

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

Audi produces new e-fuels with waste water and CO2

CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

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