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ICO₂NIC Project Kicks Off in Brussels: Transforming CO₂ Waste into Value

Last week, the ICO₂NIC consortium gathered in Brussels for an engaging two-day kick-off meeting. We explored the project’s objectives, milestones, and the innovative work we’ll be doing across various work packages, including CO₂ capture, electrochemical conversion, and formic acid production. Launched in January 2025 within the Process4Planet partnership of the Horizon program, the ICO₂NIC project

Unlocking CCU Potential Through Electrochemistry

Electrochemistry is rapidly emerging as a key technology for Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU), offering a sustainable route to transform CO₂ emissions into a valuable resource for the chemical and materials industry. Many valuable chemicals or fuels can be produced from electrochemistry: CO, methane, methanol, formic acid, ethane, ethanol, ethylene, oxalic acid and other hydrocarbons.

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

Welcome to the February edition of RCI’s monthly news! This month, we highlight the release of a major joint report with BIC on biomass availability for defossilising the chemical and materials industries by 2050. We also cover insights from our latest RCI webinar on sustainable chemistry and transport, RCI member Avantium with Polycotton Textile Recycling breakthrough in

Umweltfreundlicher Wasserstoff aus Kreislaufwirtschaft: Green Hydrogen Technology und Westfalen-Gruppe starten Kooperation

Gemeinsam für mehr Klimaschutz: Wer umweltfreundlichen Wasserstoff nutzen möchte, zahlt heute noch einen hohen Preis. Die Green Hydrogen Technology GmbH (GHT) aus Augsburg und die Westfalen-Gruppe aus Münster wollen das im Rahmen einer strategischen Partnerschaft nun ändern – mit Hilfe von Wasserstoff aus Reststoffen. Eine entsprechende Kooperation ist jetzt von beiden Unternehmen vereinbart worden. Der

New Catalytic Method Converts CO2 Into Valuable β-Alkynyl Acids

Carbon dioxide (CO2) offers remarkable potential as a raw material for green chemistry, providing both abundance and non-toxicity. A recent study led by researchers from Sichuan University introduces a groundbreaking method for carboxylation, termed alkynylcarboxylation, which enables the efficient conversion of readily available alkenes and alkynes using CO2. This innovative approach presents significant advancements, particularly

Green Hydrogen Production – A Key Element for Maximizing Carbon Capture & Utilisation (CCU) Benefits

To realize the full potential of Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU), the industry requires long-term supply of CO2 from persistent biogenic CO2 sources, efficient capture technologies and a consistent supply of renewable energy and green hydrogen. Green hydrogen is essential as it serves as an energy-rich reactant converting inert CO2 into valuable chemicals, polymers, materials, and fuels. To

Mittelstand fordert Rohstoffwende

Unter der Federführung von bvse-Hauptgeschäftsführer Eric Rehbock steht das Konzept der “Rohstoffwende” als einer der zwölf Punkte im Mittelpunkt, das die Vorteile der Kreislaufwirtschaft hervorhebt und konkrete Maßnahmen zur Umsetzung fordert. Deutschland braucht eine Rohstoffwende Die Mittelstandsallianz betont, dass Deutschland eine umfassende Rohstoffwende durch mehr Ressourcenschonung, Recycling sowie eine effiziente Sekundärrohstoffwirtschaft benötigt, um eine ökonomisch

Deadline 16 March: Please Submit Your Abstract to the Renewable Materials Conference (RMC)

The Renewable Materials Conference (RMC), 22-24 September 2025 in Siegburg/Cologne (Germany), is the world’s largest conference on innovative and renewable chemicals, plastics and materials. It presents solutions and innovations for replacing fossil carbon with biomass, CO2 utilisation and advanced recycling – the only alternatives to fossil-based materials. The unique concept of showcasing all renewable materials

SEIL Energy and IIT-Madras collaborate to revolutionize carbon capture technology

SEIL Energy India Limited (SEIL), One of the largest independent power producers (IPP) in India, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, have joined forces to develop a groundbreaking carbon (CO2) capture technology. This innovative project, supported by SEIL’s CSR initiative, has resulted in the creation of ‘Chemogel’, a patented (IIT-Madras) nanoparticle-based solvent that

Tiny copper ‘flowers’ bloom on artificial leaves for clean fuel production

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley, developed a practical way to make hydrocarbons – molecules made of carbon and hydrogen – powered solely by the sun. The device they developed combines a light absorbing ‘leaf’ made from a high-efficiency solar cell material called perovskite, with a copper nanoflower

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