CCU News

31 August 2026

13 compelling reasons to join the Renewable Materials Conference (RMC)

Three evening events, interactive workshops and the exhibition will provide plenty of opportunities, and six innovations will compete for the “Renewable Material of the Year 2026” Innovation Award

31 August 2026

Energy conversion and energy storage for a climate-neutral industry

Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Fraunhofer IAP and SGC Energy agree to collaborate on CO2 electrolysis, hydrogen and batteries

31 August 2026

Energieumwandlung und Energiespeicherung für eine klimaneutrale Industrie

Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Fraunhofer IAP und SGC Energy vereinbaren Zusammenarbeit bei CO₂-Elektrolyse, Wasserstoff und Batterien

31 August 2026

Rhinoflux and Swing Launch Sewage Sludge-to-Power and CO2 Capture PoC Trial in Japan

The PoC will test Hydro Chemical Looping as a new pathway to convert sewage sludge into power and 99.9%+ pure CO2 without combustion

31 August 2026

Edmonton cement plant’s carbon capture project on hold

Three years after the pilot of Edmonton cement plant’s carbon capture project Heidelberg Materials paused the plan

31 August 2026

Edmonton cement plant’s carbon capture project on hold

Three years after the pilot of Edmonton cement plant’s carbon capture project Heidelberg Materials paused the plan

28 August 2026

nova-Experts (re)introduced: Niels de Beus (M.Sc. Biotechnology)

Supporting sustainable decision making through production process evaluation and value chain analysis

28 August 2026

Cities need robust carbon dioxide removal strategies to meet net-zero targets

Without a more rigorous, transparent framework for defining and compensating residual emissions, net-zero targets could entrench inequities and undermine long-term climate integrity

27 August 2026

How cement plants can remove CO₂ from the atmosphere

The production of cement ranks as one of the world’s largest industrial sources of CO₂. A new study now shows how cement production could in future be used to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere – based on a technology utilising lime

27 August 2026

Wie Zementwerke der Atmosphäre CO₂ entziehen können

Die Herstellung von Zement gehört weltweit zu den grössten industriellen CO₂-Verursachern. Eine neue Studie zeigt nun, wie sich die Zementproduktion künftig nutzen liesse, um CO₂ aus der Atmosphäre zu entfernen. Grundlage dafür ist eine Technologie auf der Basis von Kalk

27 August 2026

China repurposing pharma mega-factories to make novel foods, GFI report reveals

Some major manufacturers to explore novel foods by leveraging their existing fermentation capacity to produce mycoprotein, yeast proteins, and precision-fermented fats

27 August 2026

Mitsubishi Electric develops CCU disaster-resilience evaluation with University of Tokyo

Method supports municipal and corporate CCU adoption as Japan pursues decarbonization

26 August 2026

Pilot-scale production of leucine from CO2

The fed-batch bioprocess for leucine production with M. marburgensis mutant strains in bioreactors has proven to be scalable to 150 L pilot-plant scale without substantial losses in leucine quality

24 August 2026

Opinion: Europe’s climate-elephant in the room: What to do with left-over emissions when we get to net zero?

If we treat some emissions as “unavoidable” too early, without properly examining whether they truly are, we risk following a more costly and less efficient path to climate neutrality

21 August 2026

Green Lime: Reducing Carbon Emissions in the Construction Materials Industry

A membrane reactor that enables climate-neutral lime production while also recovering new raw materials, is being developed by Fraunhofer-IKTS-researchers

21 August 2026

Grüner Kalk: CO2-Emissionen in der Baustoffindustrie senken

Ein Membranreaktor, der eine klimaneutrale Kalkproduktion ermöglicht und gleichzeitig neue Rohstoffe schafft, wird von Fraunhofer-IKTS-Forschenden entwickelt

18 August 2026

KIST team converts captured carbon dioxide directly into formic acid without purification

New electrochemical process turns triethylamine-based CO2 capture solution into 98% pure formic acid at lower cost and emissions

13 August 2026

Hitachi, MOL, and JAL Sign MOU to Conduct Japan’s First Pilot Test of Carbon Dioxide Removal Technology on Kume Island, Okinawa

Direct Ocean Capture (DOC): a technology for recovering CO2 directly from the ocean

12 August 2026

Transforming carbon dioxide into a new kind of recyclable plastics

CSU and Northwestern University researchers developed a closed-loop platform for producing a class of new materials from inexpensive carbon dioxide

12 August 2026

New technology could turn dirty factory exhaust directly into useful fuel

Researchers from the Université de Montpellier and Adelaide University have developed a special organic liquid to efficiently convert CO₂ from industrial emissions into carbon monoxide (CO), a key building block used to manufacture fuels and chemicals