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Calling Startups to join the Carbon-to-Value Initiative
Urban Future Lab, New Yor City’s leading cleantech incubator has partnered with Greentown Labs and Fraunhofer USA to launch ‘Carbon…Full text: https://greenchemicalsblog.com/2020/12/15/calling-startups-to-join-the-carbon-to-value-initiative/
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How clean electricity can upgrade the value of captured carbon
PhD candidate Geonhui Lee works on an electrolyzer in the lab of Professor Ted Sargent (ECE). She is the lead author on a new paper in Nature Energy that outlines an electrochemical method for converting captured carbon into useful products, from fuels...
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Braskem Announces Research Partnership for Sustainable Plastic Production Using CO<sub>2</sub> Capture and Utilization Technology and Use
An example bio-inspired, artificial leaf and an artificial photosystem that captures CO2 from flue gas and convert it to Ethylene using sunlight.Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and a leading producer of biopolymers in the worl...
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Grön Fuels, LLC select Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex™ renewable fuels and H2bridge™ bio-hydrogen technologies with bio-CCS option for a multi-billion low carbon intensity complex in Louisiana
Grön Fuels, LLC’s renewable diesel and jet fuel option facility at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge is based on Topsoe’s proprietary HydroFlex™ hydrotreating and H2bridge™ hydrogen technologies, including an option to capture ~1 million tons per year of...
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Carmeuse, ENGIE and John Cockerill join forces to reduce industrial CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in Wallonia
Carmeuse, ENGIE and John Cockerill have signed a Joint Development Agreement for an innovative Carbon Capture and Utilisation (“CCU”) project in Wallonia. This project will concentrate CO2 from an innovative type of lime kiln, combine it with green hyd...
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IndianOil, DBT and LanzaTech pioneer Technology to convert CO<sub>2</sub> to Bio-Diesel and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
IndianOil and LanzaTech (USA) jointly hosted a virtual global media meet on the theme “Circular Economy Vision – CO2 Valorization” to share details about the collaboration of two companies for a CO2 project and related vision of the f...
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EU taxonomy should be led by science to drive sustainable investment
Meeting the climate target requires rapid realignment and mobilisation of finance at a massive scale. To avoid greenwashing, the EU’s…Full text: https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/opinion/eu-taxonomy-should-be-led-by-science-to-...
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Porsche and Siemens Energy, with partners, advance climate-neutral eFuels development
Porsche, Siemens Energy and a lineup of international companies are developing and implementing a pilot project in Chile that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fue...
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CO<sub>2</sub>: Raus aus der Luft und ab in den Untergrund
Treibhausgase sind schuld am Klimawandel. Ingenieure wollen deshalb CO2 aus der Luft herausfiltern – und für die Produktion von synthetischem…Full text: https://edison.media/umwelt/co2-raus-aus-der-luft-und-ab-in-den-untergrund/25211851/
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The rapid construction of Climeworks’ new direct air capture and storage plant Orca has started
Orca Construction Site © Climeworks AGProject background“Orca” is the name of Climeworks’ new direct air capture plant in Iceland. It will take carbon dioxide removal to the next level: it combines Climeworks’ direct air capture technology with t...
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