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19 February 20219 September 2021

BASF und Siemens Energy wollen bei Carbon Management zusammenarbeiten

Eine Modernisierung des elektrischen Netzes am Standort Ludwigshafen unter Einbeziehung des digitalen und CO₂-optimierten Produktportfolios wird evaluiert

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18 February 20219 September 2021

VTT, Neste and their partners seek breakthrough in Finnish e-fuel technology

The market for electrolysis technology, which is a key to the production of synthetic fuels, is expected to grow more than 20-fold in the coming five years

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17 February 20219 September 2021

Elon And Exxon Agree: Carbon Capture Is Set To Explode In 2021

Robust research and development portfolio, supported by government initiatives, will be a key to rapid progress in this arena

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Clariant and Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy announce license agreement for sunliquid® cellulosic ethanol technology in China

This agreement marks the second license deal for Clariant’s sunliquid® technology in China and its fifth signed license deal globally

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Clariant und Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy geben Lizenzvereinbarung für die Zellulose-Ethanol-Technologie sunliquid® in China bekannt

Diese Vereinbarung ist das zweite Lizenzabkommen für Clariants sunliquid®-Technologie in China und die fünfte unterzeichnete Lizenzvereinbarung weltweit

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Fintoil gets green light for crude tall oil biorefinery in the Port of HaminaKotka

The 200 000 tonnes-per-annum plant has recently been granted environmental and construction permits

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16 February 20219 September 2021

Synkero builds facility in the port of Amsterdam, producing sustainable aviation fuel from CO2

With this plant, Synkero’s ambition is to produce 50,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel annually

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Neste reports strong results for renewable products segment

Nameplate capacity for renewables increased from 3 million metric tons per year to 3.2 million metric tons per year during the second quarter of 2020

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Novel photocatalyst effectively turns carbon dioxide into methane fuel with light

If carbon dioxide could be converted into energy, it would be killing two birds with one stone in addressing the environmental issues

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Neste’s renewable products helped customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally by 10 million tons in 2020

The amount equals the annual carbon footprint of 1.5 million average EU citizens

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Die erneuerbaren Produkte von Neste halfen unseren Kunden 2020 bei der Reduzierung ihrer Treibhausgasemissionen um 10 Millionen Tonnen

Die Menge entspricht der jährlichen Kohlenstoffbilanz von 1,5 Millionen durchschnittlichen EU-Bürgern

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15 February 20219 September 2021

Wasserstoff-produzierendes Enzym schützt sich selbst vor Sauerstoff

Die Entdeckung könnte es erlauben, sauerstoffstabile Enzyme als Wasserstoff-Produzenten einzusetzen

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12 February 20219 September 2021

The potential for carbon-capture tech is captivating

The biggest breakthrough came with the two-year extension to the 45Q corporate tax credit for carbon removal projects in the last days of the Trump administration

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11 February 20219 September 2021

CO2 removal from the atmosphere using sustainable energy

TU Delft research group together with Wetsus and Caltech analysed sustainable technologies for CO₂ removal, and compared them for the first time

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Carbon capture – climate gain and good business

DTU researchers developed a mobile carbon capture plant which will make carbon capture more profitable and thus upgrade biogas to valuable resources

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Veolia and Carbon Clean announce first carbon capture trials in UK Energy Recovery Facilities

Veolia currently operates ten UK plants that take around 2.3 million tonnes of non-recyclable waste and transform this into electricity for over 430,000 homes

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Commercial CCU Plant using LanzaTech Technology Receives RSB Advanced Products Certification

Carbon Recycling Facility leads the way in production of sustainable materials with world leading certification

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More bio-based naphtha production ahead

The mass balance approach seems to be more popular in Europe at this time but it will probably catch up in the USA and Asia as well

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10 February 20219 September 2021

A mild way to upcycle plastics used in bottles into fuel and other high-value products

The researchers developed a method to react simple hydrocarbon chains with hydrogen in the presence of noble-metal nanoparticles under mild conditions

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Carbon Capture Coalition Submits Key Carbon Capture Priorities to President Biden’s Climate Team

Carbon capture is a critical component for the economywide decarbonization needed to meet midcentury climate goals

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9 February 20219 September 2021

UPM’s growth plans in biofuels progress to the next stage

UPM’s solid wood biomass-based residues and side streams would play a substantial role in the feedstock pool

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UPM treibt die weitere Umsetzung seiner Wachstumspläne bei Biokraftstoffen voran

Einen wichtigen Teil im Rohstoffmix der Raffinerie würden die bei UPM anfallenden Holzreststoffe und Nebenströme ausmachen

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Competitive Edge: Reducing CO2 emissions via next-gen industrial processes – Brimstone Energy

Brimstone Energy’s mission is to globally reduce industrial process emissions by developing innovative next-generation industrial processes

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8 February 20219 September 2021

Nova Pangaea Technologies breakthrough – ‘game-changer’ for biochemicals and advanced biofuels

The UK technologist has proven a new process route which significantly reduces the customer’s capital expenditure and delivers attractive economic returns

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5 February 20219 September 2021

Boeing Commits to Deliver Commercial Airplanes Ready to Fly on 100% Sustainable Fuels

Bold goal this decade to expand a proven, safe approach to reduce emissions

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4 February 20219 September 2021

Houston company could provide answer to Elon Musk’s $100 million question

Karimi's technology can turn carbon dioxide into 30 different molecules, creating substances useful for Musk’s home and his envisioned developments on Mars

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Carbon Capture Utilisation Storage: Revesting The Future Of Energy

CCUS technology can be retrofitted to existing energy and power plants, that is, existing infrastructure can accommodate CCUS technology. These industries will otherwise emit 600 billion tonnes of Carbon-dioxide across the next 50 years, as per International Energy Agency (IEA)

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DuPont Launches SYNERXIA® Gemstone Collection of New High-Performance Yeasts for U.S. Ethanol Market

SYNERXIA^® SAPPHIRE and SYNERXIA^® RUBY, best-in-class yeasts, deliver combination of both yield and robustness to ethanol producers

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3 February 20219 September 2021

Expanded Deadline for the Innovation Award “Best CO2 Utilisation 2021”

The award will be granted at the 9^th Conference on CO₂-based Fuels and Chemicals, 23–24 March 2021, online event

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Sunfire acquires Swiss alkaline electrolysis company IHT

With the expansion of the product portfolio, Sunfire continues to strengthen its position as a leading electrolysis player in the green hydrogen revolution

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Sunfire übernimmt Schweizer Alkali-Elektrolyse-Unternehmen IHT

Mit erweitertem Produktportfolio stärkt Sunfire seine weltweit führende Marktposition als Elektrolyseanbieter für grünen Wasserstoff

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Abbaubare Polymere auf Zuckerbasis als Speicher für nützliche Frachtmoleküle

Möglichkeiten für chemisches Kunststoffrecycling

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2 February 20219 September 2021

Elon Musk will 100 Millionen Dollar an denjenigen zahlen, der die beste Technologie zur CO2-Reduzierung erfindet

Gemeinsam mit anderen Milliardären hatte er versprochen, die Hälfte seines Vermögens zu verschenken

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1 February 20219 September 2021

nova experts introduced: Ferdinand Kähler (M.Sc.)

Mechanical engineering, life cycle assessment, sustainability

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This Amazon-backed startup makes net-zero fuel for planes, ships, and trucks

Infinium uses captured CO₂ to create synthetic gas to power engines

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Bilfinger Tebodin supports Clariant in building first-of-a-kind advanced biofuels plant

Construction continues with over 650 workers on site operating in full compliancewith all COVID-19 pandemic precautionary measures

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CO2 as Feedstock!: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Carbon to Value Initiative

Carbontech — technologies that capture and convert CO₂ into valuable end products

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29 January 20219 September 2021

nova Session: “Renewable Polymers: Production and Trends 2020-2025” – Final Programme available!

Renewable Polymers and Building Blocks: Technologies, Global Capacities, Production and Trends 2020-2025

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Carbon Dioxide (CO2) as Chemical Feedstock for Polymers – already nearly 1 million tonnes production capacity installed!

Completely revised and extended third version of nova’s technology and trend report “Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) as Chemical Feedstock for Polymers – Technologies, Polymers, Developers and Producers” available

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New electrode design more efficiently converts CO2 into fuel

Study: University of Illinois researchers team were able to convert CO₂ to ethylene at a rate of up to 87 percent

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Scientists create coatings from nature

UG and AkzoNobel join forces to develop the green chemistry of the future

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28 January 20219 September 2021

Solar chemicals and fuels in the dark

Recognition and understanding of persistent photocatalysis is an emerging and exciting field

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Microorganism breaks down phenol under extreme conditions

New pathways found for biotechnological degradation of industrial waste

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Mikroorganismus baut Phenol unter extremen Bedingungen ab

Neue Wege für den biotechnologischen Abbau von Industrieabfall

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27 January 20219 September 2021

Net-Zero 1 Project

The concept of a Net-Zero Project is to convert renewable energy from a variety of sources into energy dense liquid hydrocarbons

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26 January 20219 September 2021

Neste and Avfuel create strategic partnership for sustainable aviation fuel

Neste will provide Avfuel with SAF in volumes able to meet the growing demands of Avfuel’s customers

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Neste und Avfuel gehen eine strategische Partnerschaft für nachhaltigen Flugkraftstoff ein

Neste Avfuel mit SAF-Volumen versorgen, die den wachsenden Bedürfnissen der Avfuel-Kunden gerecht werden

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Biocatalysis in Green and Blue: Cyanobacteria

Novel photo-bioreactor concepts and also new, and more efficient strains must be introduced to achieve economically feasible production

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25 January 20219 September 2021

Doctoral student of the BioRECO2VER project wins the Green Talents Award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research!

Laura Rovira Alsina is doctoral student in Water Science and Technology from University of Girona (Spain) and is working in the EU-funded BioRECO₂VER project focusing on bio-electrochemical systems for the conversion of CO₂ into chemical building blocks under thermophilic conditions.

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Oregon State researchers take key step toward cleaner, more sustainable production of hydrogen

The observations led to a deep understanding of what was going on behind strontium iridate’s ability to work so well as a catalyst