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27 January 202324 January 2023

AIR COMPANY Awarded Additional NASA Funding to Continue its Research & Development of Kerosene-Based Rocket Fuel

With this funding, AIR COMPANY will make integral strides towards its carbon-negative rocket fuel for space applications on Earth, Mars, and beyond

26 January 202317 December 2024

New tailwind for renewable carbon plastics in EU policy?

nova-Institute’s take on the recently published EU proposal for a Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation as well as the new policy framework for biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics

HIF Global und seine Partner feiern die ersten Liter synthetischer Kraftstoffe von Haru Oni, Chile

Der chilenische Energieminister Diego Pardow leitete die Zeremonie, bei der ein Porsche 911 mit synthetischem Kraftstoff betankt wurde

HIF Global and its partners celebrate the first liters of synthetic fuels from Haru Oni, Chile

Chile’s Minister of Energy, Diego Pardow, headed the ceremony where a Porsche 911 was loaded with synthetic fuel, starting a new era for the transport sector, in which fuel made with renewable power, green hydrogen, and recycled CO2

25 January 202320 January 2023

Seabound Partners with Crestchic Loadbank to Test Its Carbon Capture Technology for Ships

Seabound’s innovation captures and stores CO2 from fuel exhaust. The company claims the device can capture up to 95% of CO2 emissions per ship

24 January 202319 January 2023

Climeworks delivers third-party certified CDR services to its first corporate customers, based on first and only validated DAC+S methodology

Climeworks hopes to lead as an example for peers, customers and policy makers alike that are committed to climate action

refuel.green receives €1.2m

refuel.green’s "NextGen-PtX Reactor Unit" is currently on the threshold from laboratory to industry and the Dresden company’s first prototype is expected to produce the first liters of e-fuels in a European refinery

Kostengünstigere Produktion von Kraftstoffen aus erneuerbarer Elektroenergie

Start-up erhält 1,2 Mio. € frisches Kapital für besonders innovative Technologie

23 January 202317 January 2023

Biotechnologisches CO2-Recycling

CO2-Recycling für den Klimaschutz und die industrielle Transformation

20 January 202316 January 2023

Melbourne 2023: Brand new Adidas women’s tennis collection

Do not forget that this apparel is equipped with AEROREADY technology that absorbs moisture and makes players feel dry

19 January 202313 January 2023

US-Forscher entwickeln Tinte mit Salz für besseren biologischen Abbau von 3D-Druck-Polymeren

Texas A&M-Wissenschaftler haben einen Prozess entwickelt, der es den Polymeren ermöglicht, sich im Laufe der Zeit auf natürliche Weise abzubauen

18 January 202312 January 2023

Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power

Withstanding high temperatures and the light of 160 suns, a new catalyst is 10 times more efficient than previous sun-powered water-splitting devices of its kind

17 January 202312 January 2023

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

Researchers have developed a system that can transform plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable products – using just the energy from the Sun

Electrochemistry converts carbon to useful molecules

A chemistry collaboration led to a creative way to put carbon dioxide to good – and even healthy – use: by incorporating it, via electrosynthesis, into a series of organic molecules that are vital to pharmaceutical development

Elektrochemie wandelt Kohlenstoff in nützliche Moleküle um

Wie ein Team mithilfe der Elektrosynthese Kohlendioxid in wertvolle pharmazeutische Moleküle verwandelt

16 January 202312 January 2023

bioplastics MAGAZINE will soon rebrand under the new name “Renewable Carbon Plastics”

Editorial focus will include topics of CCU and Advanced Recycling in the context of plastic materials

Aker Carbon Capture signs Letter of Intent for large carbon capture project

Company hails ‘milestone’ in carbon capture unit production

13 January 202317 December 2024

The Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) receives support

ECP is one of the newest partner of the RCI

12 January 20239 January 2023

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

Research at the University of Sheffield and the University of Valladolid has found that pine needles from discarded Christmas trees or other sources could be turned into renewable fuels and new products

10 January 20234 October 2024

Monthly news from the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), December 2022

Let’s take a look at what happened in December 2022 at RCI

6 January 20239 March 2023

Building CO2-neutral, defossilised supply chains for chemicals

Scientists from the Institute of Biotechnology of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and from the Roche Group propose how to reduce the environmental footprint of the pharma industry

5 January 20232 January 2023

The chemical industry can wean itself off fossil raw materials. Here’s how

The substitution of fossil raw materials with renewable biomass-based ones or with recycled materials such as plastics waste, is a viable and attractive method to reduce most emissions from fossil-embedded carbon

4 January 202327 December 2022

Limburg companies replace cement with CO₂ as building block binder

The zero-waste company Orbix from Genk and the building materials producer Masterbloc from Maasmechelen have succeeded in developing circular building blocks that use carbon dioxide instead of cement as a binder

21 December 202219 December 2022

Using CO₂ emissions from industry to make climate-friendly plastics

VTT launches project to manufacture polymers using captured CO2 from forest industry and incinerated waste

19 December 202214 December 2022

Air Liquide, Fluxys Belgium and Port of Antwerp-Bruges awarded EU funding for building the Antwerp@C CO2 Export Hub

The project, named “Antwerp@C CO2 Export Hub”, is set up as an open-access infrastructure to transport, liquefy and load CO2 onto ships for onward permanent offshore storage

6 December 20221 December 2022

SigmaRoc to install carbon capture facility

SigmaRoc and Aqualung will construct Europe’s first industrial scale facility of its type at Nordkalk in Q1 2023

Products Made With Captured Greenhouse Gas Are Reaching Commercial Scale

Startups are taking aim at chemicals, one of the largest industrial sources of global emissions

5 December 202230 November 2022

CEMEX and RTI awarded $3.7 million cooperative agreement to advance carbon capture technology in cement manufacturing

Team to conduct FEED study of post-combustion carbon capture system at Texas cement plant

2 December 202230 November 2022

Electrochaea Joins New European Cleantech Scale-Up Coalition, Supported by Breakthrough Energy and Kadri Simson

The coalition members are companies scaling and industrialising technologies whose products and services range from decarbonising industry and energy with renewable hydrogen to producing scalable low-carbon cement; from electrifying transport to recycling materials and batteries

Electrochaea tritt der neuen europäischen Cleantech Scale-Up-Koalition bei, die von Breakthrough Energy und Kadri Simson unterstützt wird

Die Mitglieder der Koalition sind Unternehmen, die Technologien skalieren und industrialisieren, deren Produkte und Dienstleistungen von der Dekarbonisierung von Industrie und Energie mit erneuerbarem Wasserstoff bis zur Herstellung von skalierbarem kohlenstoffarmem Zement, von der Elektrifizierung des Verkehrs bis zum Recycling von Materialien und Batterien reichen

1 December 202230 November 2022

New Business Directory: Renewable Carbon Companies (ReCaCo)

Find companies that already offer fossil carbon free products, made from biomass, CO2 and recycling

Neues Branchenbuch: Renewable Carbon Companies (ReCaCo)

Finden Sie Unternehmen, die schon heute Produkte ohne fossilen Kohlenstoff anbieten, aus Biomasse, CO2 und Recycling

30 November 202230 November 2022

Countdown for abstracts: Only two weeks left to submit your abstract for the Renewable Materials Conference 2023 (RMC)

The brightest stars of Renewable Materials meet in Siegburg/Cologne (Germany), 23-25 May 2023. The unique concept of presenting all renewable material solutions at one event hits the mark: bio-based, CO2-based and recycled are the only alternatives to fossil-based chemicals and materials www.renewable-materials.eu

Countdown für Abstracts: Nur noch zwei Wochen Zeit, um Ihr Abstract für die Renewable Materials Conference 2023 (RMC) einzureichen

Vom 23. bis 25. Mai 2023 treffen sich in Siegburg bei Köln die Stars der erneuerbaren Materialien. Das einzigartige Konzept, alle erneuerbaren Lösungen auf einer Veranstaltung zu präsentieren, trifft ins Schwarze: Bio-basiert, CO2-basiert und recycelt sind die einzigen Alternativen zu fossil-basierten Chemikalien und Materialien www.renewable-materials.eu

Towards a zero-emission construction trade

The major part of CO2 emission reductions will have to come from radical innovations but the most of them are still in development

29 November 202225 November 2022

Natural CO2 reduction implemented faster and with less risk than high-tech approaches

Helmholtz researchers found, that natural sinks can be expanded in the short term, while high-tech approaches can reduce greenhouse gases only in the medium term and carry potential risks

Natürliche CO2-Reduktion schneller umsetzbar und weniger risikoreich als Hightech-Ansätze

Helmholtz-Forscher haben herausgefunden, dass natürliche Senken kurzfristig erweitert werden können, während Hightech-Ansätze Treibhausgase erst mittelfristig reduzieren und potentielle Risiken bergen

Another carbon capture breakthrough demonstrated

Hanson reports, that recycled concrete paste (RCP) within the plant’s existing wet scrubber allows for a high CO2 uptake within less than 30 minutes, preventing emissions entering the atmosphere

28 November 202223 November 2022

This Simple Material Could Scrub Carbon Dioxide From Power Plant Smokestacks

An easily synthesized chemical filter could stop the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere

25 November 202222 November 2022

Engineered living photosynthetic biocomposites for intensified biological carbon capture

Photosynthesis is nature’s carbon capture technology; however, its capacity to reverse anthropogenic carbon enrichment within a meaningful timescale is equivocal

Center researches e-fuels, carbon capture

The Large Engine Competence Center (LEC) in Graz, Austria, is a company born as a spin-off from the Graz University of Technology and focuses on green energy and transportation systems

24 November 202227 November 2022

‘False solutions’: scepticism over Saudi carbon capture plan

Kingdom’s Cop27 announcement of new storage hub part of pattern of delaying fossil fuel transition, experts say

21 November 202217 November 2022

“Man muss neu denken”

CO2 einzusparen ist das Klimaschutz-Gebot der Stunde - doch reicht das? Ein österreichisch-bayerischer Unternehmer meint: nein - und tüftelt an weitergehenden Methoden

18 November 202215 November 2022

Die 5. Konferenz zur nachhaltigen chemischen Konversion in der Industrie beleuchtete Technologien zur Realisierung einer Circular Economy

Das Fraunhofer UMSICHT, die thyssenkrupp AG und das Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion hatten im Rahmen des Carbon2Chem®-Projektes als Koordinatoren eingeladen

9 November 20224 November 2022

Scaling the CCUS industry to achieve net-zero emissions

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage can help hard-to-abate industries achieve net-zero emissions. Scaling the industry will require action by governments, investors, and industrial players

8 November 20227 November 2022

World’s largest CO2-to-methanol plant starts production

The new facility can capture 160,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, which is equivalent to taking more than 60,000 cars off the road

7 November 202231 October 2022

Climeworks completes the commercial operations of its 1st gen technology in Hinwil, Switzerland, the world’s first commercial DAC facility

In Hinwil, Climeworks’ air-captured CO₂ was provided to customers for utilization — an existing market for CO₂, which enabled the first commercial operation of Climeworks’ DAC technology

3 November 202231 October 2022

Steel Mill Gases Transformed into Bioplastic

Korea-Spain joint research team develops an itaconic acid mass production method using inexpensive raw materials such as byproducts from gas fermentation from steel mills to significantly lower production costs

Renewable ethylene update

There are more and more developments in low-carbon intensity ethylene production and current ethanol producers can also convert their CO2 emission into ethylene

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