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Solar-powered system converts plastic and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, developed the system, which can convert two waste streams into two chemical products at the same time – the first time this has been achieved in a solar-powered reactor. The reactor converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and plastics into different products that are useful in a range of industries.

Electrochemistry converts carbon to useful molecules

In the process, the team made an innovative discovery. By changing the type of electrochemical reactor, they could produce two completely different products, both of which are useful in medicinal chemistry. The team’s paper, “Electrochemical Reactor Dictates Site Selectivity in N-Heteroarene Carboxylations,” published Jan 5 in Nature. The paper’s co-lead authors are postdoctoral researchers Peng

Elektrochemie wandelt Kohlenstoff in nützliche Moleküle um

Eine Zusammenarbeit in der Chemie führte zu einem kreativen Weg, Kohlendioxid für einen guten – und sogar gesunden – Zweck zu nutzen: indem es mittels Elektrosynthese in eine Reihe organischer Moleküle eingebaut wird, die für die pharmazeutische Entwicklung von entscheidender Bedeutung sind. Dabei machte das Team eine innovative Entdeckung. Indem sie den Typ des elektrochemischen

Forschende stellen Bioökonomie-Roadmap für Deutschland vor

Nachwachsende Rohstoffe und biobasierte Verfahren können in entscheidendem Maß zum Ersatz fossiler Materialien beitragen. Dies geht aus einer Roadmap hervor, welche die Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft am 2. Dezember der Politik und Öffentlichkeit präsentiert hat. In ihren Handlungsempfehlungen an die Politik skizzieren die Expertinnen und Experten einen Weg, wie die Leistungsfähigkeit der deutschen Industrie auch in Zeiten multipler

Old Christmas trees could be saved from landfill to make renewable fuels

Seven million Christmas trees end up in landfill in the UK each year, releasing an estimated 100,000 tonnes of harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere New research has found a more efficient, simplified process for using pine needles to produce formic acid, for use in hydrogen fuel cells, as a food preservative and in agricultural

Producing fertiliser without carbon emissions

Intensive agriculture is possible only if the soil is fertilised with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. While phosphorus and potassium can be mined as salts, nitrogen fertiliser has to be produced laboriously from nitrogen in the air and from hydrogen. And, the production of hydrogen is extremely energy-intensive, currently requiring large quantities of natural gas or

Dünger klimafreundlicher produzieren

Eine intensive Landwirtschaft ist nur möglich, wenn die Böden mit Stickstoff, Phosphor und Kalium gedüngt werden. Während Phosphor und Kalium als Salze abgebaut werden können, muss Stickstoffdünger aufwändig aus Stickstoff aus der Luft und aus Wasserstoff hergestellt werden, wobei die Produktion von Wasserstoff äusserst energieintensiv ist. Es werden dazu grosse Mengen an Erdgas oder –

LanzaTech’s Waste Gas-to-SAF Facility receives £25M Grant from UK Department for Transport Advanced Fuels Fund

LanzaTech UK Ltd., a subsidiary of LanzaTech NZ, Inc. (“LanzaTech”), an innovative Carbon Capture and Transformation (“CCT”) company, has announced that its DRAGON facility project has received a £25M (~$31M) grant from the UK Department for Transport’s Advanced Fuels Fund Competition. LanzaTech’s Project DRAGON, which stands for Decarbonizing and Reimagining Aviation for the Goal Of Netzero, will convert waste gases into

Plasma technology makes recycling of CO₂ local and 100% circular

In concrete terms, an infrastructure will be built in Antwerp to convert CO2 into CO via plasma technology. The idea is to capture greenhouse gas (CO2) locally and convert it into a high-quality chemical material (CO). This carbon monoxide can then be used in many different industries, such as metallurgy and petrochemistry. CO₂ what do we

Carbon-negative synthetic biology: challenges and emerging trends of cyanobacterial technology

Emerging synthetic biology tools, such as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/cpf1, riboswitch, and metabolic network reprogramming circuits, have accelerated the industrial applications of cyanobacterial cell factories. The synthesis of a range of biochemicals has been demonstrated in cyanobacteria; however, low product titers are the biggest barrier to commercialization of cyanobacterial biotechnology. To further

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