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29 March 202228 March 2022

Engineered bacteria convert CO2 into valuable industrial chemicals

Many industrial chemicals have a large carbon footprint. But scientists have engineered bacteria that ferments carbon dioxide from the air to make industrial chemicals

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28 March 202223 March 2022

Copper-silver-gold nanostructure gives carbon-capture and –utilization a boost

Tsinghua University researchers found combined metals working as a superior catalyst to get an improved performance for carbon-capture and -utilization

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LanzaTech, ReCarbon, Woodside team up on carbon capture and utilization project in Australia

In today’s Digest, the project details, while you may know LanzaTech, exactly who are ReCarbon and Woodside Energy, what does this project mean, reactions from the stakeholders, and more

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25 March 202224 March 2022

Woodside launches carbon capture and utilisation collaboration with ReCarbon and LanzaTech

Together, all collaboration partners are investigating the viability of a proposed Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) pilot facility in Perth, Western Australia

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CO2 Utilization for Cement: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Fortera

A picture gallery of the company's achievements for converting CO2 into cement

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24 March 202222 March 2022

MHIENG and MHIEC to commence demonstration testing of separation, capture and effective use of CO2 from Waste-to-Energy plant

Collaboration with City of Yokohama and Tokyo Gas

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23 March 202221 March 2022

New method could lead to cheaper, more efficient ways to capture carbon

New CU Boulder-led study shows, that using electrochemical methods capturing heat-trapping gases from the atmosphere would allow carbon capture facilities to exist almost anywhere

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22 March 202216 March 2022

Carbon capture: Early days of a $1 trillion industry?

Solutions such as carbon capture, utilization and storage in reducing carbon emissions or even going a step further and removing existing CO2 from the atmosphere are necessary

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LanzaTech files for IPO in a SPAC deal

LanzaTech recently announced its planned initial public offering (IPO) via a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) AMCI Acquisition Corp. II

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21 March 202215 March 2022

Preis des Zukunftsforums für Jose de Jesus Garcia Lima

Hervorragende Masterarbeit zeigt das Potenzial von "Mix-and-Match"-Ansätzen in Verbindung mit dem systematischen Vergleich von Stoffwechselwegen für das Metabolic Engineering

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18 March 202215 March 2022

LanzaTech NZ, Inc., a market-leading innovator in Carbon Capture & Transformation, to go public through business combination with AMCI Acquisition Corp. II

Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company will be renamed LanzaTech Global, Inc. and its common stock is expected to be listed on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “LNZA”

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17 March 202211 March 2022

This startup uses an ancient microbe to turn CO2 into ingredients for food

The result is a protein that is actually carbon-negative, and requires little to no processing before being added to products like veggie burgers

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15 March 202210 March 2022

Sustainable Aviation Fuels I – Policy Landscape

The regulatory landscape surrounding SAF is rapidly evolving and provides the bedrock for the exponential expansion of the SAF market

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Perstorp and Project Air renew EU application for major green chemistry investment

Thanks to an innovative usage of biogas, hydrogen from electrolysis and residue streams, as well as carbon dioxide recovered from Perstorp’s own facilities, to produce the methanol, the project will utilize carbon atoms that otherwise become CO2 emissions

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How NovoNutrients upcycles CO2 into alternative proteins for human and animal food

The company mixes CO2, hydrogen and a naturally occurring microbe, then ferments it to create high-grade protein with several potential uses

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11 March 20228 March 2022

New, nature-inspired concepts for turning CO2 into clean fuels

Some Cambridge researchers, working with a team from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal, have developed a method to improve the efficiency of electrolysis by fine-tuning the solution conditions to alter the local environment of the enzymes

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“Look before you Leap”: European Science Academies Caution against Subsidies for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)

A new Commentary on “BECCS and its role in integrated assessment models”, looks at the latest evidence on the ability of BECCS to deliver substantial net removals of CO2 from the atmosphere

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Twelve and LanzaTech Partner to Create Ethanol From CO2

Collaborative process seeks to eliminate the fossil fuel impact of ethanol production

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9 March 202210 March 2022

Six Carbon Capture and Utilisation technologies for a sustainable chemical and fuel production nominated for the Innovation Award “Best CO2 Utilisation 2022”

Conference on CO2-based Fuels and Chemicals 2022 – Cologne (Germany) and online, hybrid conference, 23-24 March 2022

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8 March 20223 March 2022

Solar fuel breakthrough promises new industrial era

Solar fuel technology could one day turn carbon dioxide – a key greenhouse gas – into a useful industrial feedstock. This could help us to move away from fossil fuels, and towards achieving a truly circular economy

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Durchbruch bei solaren Brennstoffen verspricht ein neues industrielles Zeitalter

Die Technologie für solare Brennstoffe könnte eines Tages in der Lage sein, Kohlendioxid – eines der wichtigsten Treibhausgase – in einen wertvollen industriellen Rohstoff zu verwandeln. Das könnte uns dabei helfen, die Umstellung von fossilen Brennstoffen hin zu einer echten Kreislaufwirtschaft zu bewältigen

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CO2 recycling and efficient drug development – tackling two problems with one reaction

Using electricity, a new method offers the possibility of recycling CO2 while also performing a notoriously difficult reaction, producing compounds potentially useful for drug development

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CO₂-Recycling und effiziente Arzneimittelentwicklung – zwei Probleme mit einer Reaktion angehen

Großer Durchbruch, da CO₂ verwendet wird, um eine traditionell schwierige chemische Reaktion mit noch nie dagewesener Effizienz durchzuführen

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4 March 20222 March 2022

Durchbruch bei der Umwandlung von CO2 in Kraftstoff mithilfe von Sonnenenergie

Wichtiges Puzzlestück für die künftige Verringerung der Treibhausgaskonzentration in der Atmosphäre

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Breakthrough in converting CO2 into fuel using solar energy

A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has shown how solar power can convert carbon dioxide into fuel, by using advanced materials and ultra-fast laser spectroscopy

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3 March 20221 March 2022

Stellenausschreibung: Projektmanager im Bereich Bioökonomie bzw. „Renewable Carbon Economy“ – Ökonomie, Politik, Strategie (m/w/d)

Standort Hürth bei Köln, Vollzeit

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Carbon-negative platform turns waste gases into valuable chemicals

Researchers built on LanzaTech technology to develop a new process that converts emissions from heavy industry or bio-based syngas, into either acetone or IPA, using an engineered bacterium called Clostridium autoethanogenum

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Our first chapter: raising $4.5M to bring planet-positive textiles to the fashion industry

Join us on our mission to build the world’s most sustainable supply chains for people and planet

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CRI’s largest CO2-to-methanol reactor installed in Anyang

The reactor is based on CRI's proprietary technology, developed and first demonstrated in Iceland, and is the key piece of equipment needed to directly hydrogenate CO2 to form methanol

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Light-Blasting Bananas Could Prove to Be Renewable

The team of Swiss-based scientists explain that all of the products from their photo-thermal (light and heat based) technique can be captured, including CO2, making it economical and climate safe

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2 March 20223 March 2022

Conference on CO2-based Fuels and Chemicals

Join our conference and meet forerunners in CO2 utilisation / 23-24 March 2022, hybrid event – Cologne (Germany)

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Bacteria upcycle carbon waste into valuable chemicals

Engineered bacteria convert captured carbon dioxide into chemicals for fuels, fabric and cosmetics

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Klimafreundliches Verfahren: Bakterien bilden Chemikalien aus CO2

Modifizierte Bakterien wandeln CO2 in Additive für Treibstoffe, Stoffe, und Kosmetika um

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Veterans Delta CleanTech on carbon capture: ‘Utilization is the key’

"We have been joined by an amazing transformation and that’s been due to capital markets and investors who are starting to say they want their money put into work that is ESG responsible,” said Kambeitz, one of the company founders

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1 March 202223 February 2022

The Yellow New Deal: Factory 01 will start an era of sustainable protein production

The production process for Solein is disconnected from agriculture, climate and weather - it is a scalable solution for any geography to create all the different proteins that Earth’s rising population will demand

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28 February 202222 February 2022

Stefan Schlüter und Tim Schulzke über nachhaltige Methanolproduktion

Fraunhofer UMSICHT-Interview vom 20.01.2022: "Dank der Simulationen können wir einen technisch möglichen Rahmen definieren"

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25 February 202221 February 2022

Origin Materials Announces Geismar, Louisiana as Location for Second Manufacturing Plant, Origin 2

Construction of companys first world-scale manufacturing facility to produce carbon-negative materials used to make polyethylene terephthalate (“PET”) plastic is expected to be operational mid-2025

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22 February 202217 February 2022

Honeywell Introduces New Technology To Produce Key Feedstock For Plastics

Honeywell UOP Ecofining™ process produces bio-naphtha with reduced CO2 footprint compared to products using petroleum-based feedstocks for use as petrochemical feedstock

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LanzaJet and Marquis Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) partner to build an integrated Sustainable Fuels Plant in Illinois

This partnership will utilize carbon capture and sequestration, renewable energy, and other innovative practices to bring lower-cost, low carbon-intensity sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, and other sustainable hydrocarbons to the global market and help accelerate the decarbonization of various industries, including the tough to decarbonize aviation sector

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17 February 202211 February 2022

Aafko Scheringa joins Electrochaea as Senior Director Sales

His responsibilities at Electrochaea include the development of business with international customers with a focus on contract and transaction closings

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Electrochaea stärkt globalen Vertrieb und holt Aafko Scheringa als neuen Senior Director Sales

Zu seinen Aufgaben bei Electrochaea gehört der Ausbau des internationalen Neukundengeschäftes mit dem Schwerpunkt Vertrags‐ und Transaktionsabschlüsse

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16 February 202217 December 2024

Renewable Carbon as a Guiding Principle for Sustainable Carbon Cycles

Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) publishes a fundamental strategy paper on the defossilisation of the chemical and material industry with eleven policy recommendations

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Linde Expands Agreement with Celanese to Provide Decarbonization Solutions

Under the terms of the expanded agreement, Linde will now also supply captured carbon dioxide, which Celanese will use plus hydrogen as an alternative feedstock to produce methanol

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14 February 202215 February 2022

The stars of Renewable Materials meet in Cologne, May 10-12

46 Speakers from leading companies in bio-based, CO2-based and Recycling already confirmed their participation – preliminary program already available, innovation award submission by 15 March

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11 February 20228 February 2022

Short circuit for big impact

UD researchers report hyper-efficient method for removing carbon dioxide from air

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Bahnbrechende Technologie zur Entfernung von 99% des Kohlendioxids aus der Luft

Fortschritt bei der Kohlenstoffabscheidung könnte umweltfreundliche Brennstoffzellen der Marktreife näher bringen

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CO2-Preis auf Rekordhöhe: Fast 100 Euro pro Tonne

Im Januar 2021 hatte die Tonne noch rund 30 Euro gekostet, bis Dezember war ihr Wert auf 80 Euro gestiegen

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Verdox Captures $80M to Develop Novel Electric Carbon Removal Technology

Company to Commercialize Patented Electrochemical Capture System to Remove Carbon Dioxide from Atmosphere and Industrial Emission Sources

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ReCarbon completes USD 25 million Series B-1 funding round with strategic and financial investors

Silicon Valley decarbonization solutions company announces global partnerships with major industry leaders

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ReCarbon schließt eine weitere Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 25 Mio. USD mit strategischen Investoren ab

Das Unternehmen für Dekarbonisierungslösungen aus dem Silicon Valley kündigt globale Partnerschaften mit wichtigen Branchenführern an