CCU News

25 April 2025

Artificial Photosynthesis: Researchers Mimic Plants

With artificial photosynthesis, mankind could utilise solar energy to bind carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen. Würzburg chemists have taken this one step further

25 April 2025

Künstliche Photosynthese: Forscher ahmen Pflanzen nach

Mit künstlicher Photosynthese könnte die Menschheit die Sonnenenergie nutzen, um Kohlendioxid zu binden und Wasserstoff zu produzieren. Würzburger Chemiker sind hier einen Schritt weitergekommen

22 April 2025

CCU Pioneers – Keeping Carbon Circular: Holcim

Interviewpartner: Florian Kleinwächter (Senior Business Development Manager CCU/S)

22 April 2025

ABO Energy explores hydrogen and synthetic fuel production in Oulu

In addition to hydrogen production, the company is exploring the possibility of producing methanol and sustainable aviation fuel (E‑SAF) in Oulu

16 April 2025

How to Defossilise the Chemical Industry: RCI’s new policy proposals for a Renewable Carbon Future

New report presents policy proposals to facilitate the transition from fossil carbon to renewable carbon from biomass, CO2 and recycling in Europe

16 April 2025

Econic Signs Strategic Licensing Agreement with Saudi Aramco Technologies Company (SATC) for CO2 Polyols

Econic expands its technology portfolio to bring renewable carbon solutions to new markets with a strategic global license agreement

15 April 2025

Is CO₂ the Key to a More Sustainable Chemical and Fuel Industry?

Innovative Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) technologies can convert captured CO₂ from industrial point sources and direct air capture into chemical base materials such as methanol, ethanol, ethylene or even polyols and other polymer building blocks

15 April 2025

Clariant’s MegaMax™ 900 catalyst: Powerful start at European Energy’s e-methanol plant

The facility is one of the world’s first and largest commercial e-methanol plant, using biogenic CO2 and green hydrogen to produce up to 42,000 tons of green methanol annually

11 April 2025

SwRI develops process to produce graphene from CO2

The internally funded project advances the lab-scale conversion of CO2 into graphene which is both valuable and useful for a variety of applications

11 April 2025

Research project discovers ways to convert forest industry’s carbon dioxide emissions into raw material for plastics – results pave way for new sustainable industry

The Forest CUMP research project of VTT and LUT University investigated how biogenic carbon dioxide from forest industry and waste incineration can be captured and converted into high-value-added products

04 April 2025

BASF and Forestal collaborate on advanced e-methanol production using OASE® technology

BASF has been selected to share its proprietary OASE® blue technology - designed for the efficient removal of CO2 from flue gases, for use in Forestal’s pioneering Triskelion project in Galicia, Spain

04 April 2025

BASF und Forestal kooperieren bei der Herstellung von e-Methanol unter Einsatz der OASE-Technology

Die patentrechtlich geschützte OASE blue-Technologie von BASF wird zur effizienten Abtrennung von CO2 aus Rauchgasen für das Pionierprojekt Triskelion in Galicien, Spanien eingesetzt

04 April 2025

Wie ein deutsches Deep-Tech-Startup die Kraftstoffzukunft neu definieren will

ICODOS im Interview zur e-Methanol-Produktion für klimaneutrale Industrien

04 April 2025

A novel path to sustainable hydrogen storage

EU-backed researchers’ innovative materials and cutting-edge methods promise to provide Europe with cheap, efficient and environmentally friendly hydrogen storage solutions

04 April 2025

Neuartiger Weg zur nachhaltigen Wasserstoffspeicherung

EU-unterstützte Forscherinnen und Forscher versprechen, Europa mithilfe ihrer innovativen Materialien und modernsten Verfahren mit kostengünstigen, effizienten und umweltfreundlichen Lösungen zur Wasserstoffspeicherung zu versorgen

28 March 2025

Monthly news from the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), March 2025

Let's take a look at what happened in March 2025 at RCI:

28 March 2025

First biogenic CO2 delivered from Tønder Biogas to Kassø Power-to-X facility

Ammongas has delivering its first truckload of biogenic CO₂ from Tønder Biogas. The CO₂ will be used for European Energy’s Power-to-X facility in Kassø, where it will play a key role in the production of e-methanol

27 March 2025

CDOP: New Carbon Data Standards Initiative to Aid and Scale Carbon Markets

Lack of standardization fragments market and impedes markets’ potential as driver of Climate Action

27 March 2025

Solar-powered device captures carbon dioxide from air to make sustainable fuel

Researchers have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, using sunlight as the power source

26 March 2025

Homeostasis raises $1.2M to synthesize American-made graphite from waste CO2

Funds will enable reactor development and key technical hires in 2025