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Coty to Partner with LanzaTech to Pioneer New Sustainable Fragrance Production
Coty Inc., one of the world’s largest beauty companies and the global leader in fragrances, today announced it has signed a letter of intent to partner with LanzaTech to introduce sustainable ethanol made from captured-carbon emissions into its fragran...
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Neste’s acquisition of Bunge’s refinery plant in Rotterdam completed
On 3 November 2020, Neste announced that it would acquire Bunge Loders Croklaan’s refinery plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The refinery plant is located next to Neste’s existing biorefinery and it consists of a pretreatment facility, tank fa...
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The return of Electrofuels: Amazon, Mitsubishi, AP Ventures invest in Infinium’s bid to make fuels from CO<sub>2</sub>, water
What is it?The Infinium Electrofuels process converts renewable power into green hydrogen, then uses this green hydrogen and waste carbon dioxide to produce net-zero carbon fuels. These fuels may be used in today’s plane, ship and truck fleets without ...
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Renewable Materials Conference 2021 – A unique concept that covers all renewable materials solutions in one event
Which renewable materials are solutions that meet the needs of future societies? As a response to this challenging question, nova-Institute has decided to unite all relevant industries in the new “Renewable Materials Conference”, May 18–20, 2021 (www.r...
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Novel Catalysts Improve Efficiency of Urea Synthesis at Ambient Conditions
Converting both nitrogen (N2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added urea molecules via C-N coupling reaction is a promising method to solve the problem of excessive CO2 emissions. Compared with huge energy consumption industrial processes, the elec...
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National Coalition Releases Federal Policy Blueprint for Carbon Capture for the 117th Session of Congress
The Carbon Capture Coalition today released a national policy blueprint outlining an expanded, comprehensive federal policy portfolio to promote economywide deployment of carbon capture technologies for consideration by the administration and the 117th...
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Gevo and HCS Group Sign Strategic Agreement to Produce Renewable Low-Carbon Chemicals and Sustainable Aviation Fuel in Europe
Gevo, Inc. (“Gevo”), announced today that Gevo and HCS Group GmbH, a long-time customer of Gevo, have signed a project memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) to develop and build a renewable hydrocarbon facility at HCS Group’s site located in Speyer, Germ...
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Major milestones reached in the first commercial CO<sub>2</sub> to Methanol plant
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has delivered the complete process design package for the first-of-its-kind 110.000 ton per year CO2-to-methanol plant, that recycles industrial waste gases. Ground preparations and foundation work is already under...
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New EU project funded to develop cost-effective sustainable aviation fuel using CO<sub>2 </sub>emissions and renewable energy
Aviation is one of the most challenging sectors when it comes to reducing CO2 emissions. One of the reasons is that common alternatives such as electrification or hydrogen propulsion, are not expected to be a suitable substitute to kerosene for long ha...
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Groundbreaking Research into White-Rot Fungi Proves Its Value in Carbon Sequestration from Lignin
A foundational study conducted by scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) shows for the first time that white-rot fungi are able to use carbon captured from lignin as a carbon source.Davinia Salvachúa Rodriguez holds a petri dish ...
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