17 August 20209 September 2021 Klimaschutz: Norwegen darf CO2-Abscheidung mit 2,1 Mrd. Euro fördern Die Aufsichtsbehörde (ESA) der Europäischen Freihandelsassoziation (EFTA) hat Norwegen gestattet, das CCS-Projekt Northern Lights mit bis zu 2,1 Mrd. Euro zu subventionieren
ESA approves Norwegian Full-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage: up to €2.1bn in aid to meet climate goals Norwegian government together with the European Commission to support the project "Northern Lights"
12 August 20209 September 2021 POET: US CO2 situation returning to normal, but some “ongoing allocation” Companies conditions improve since the low point in April, but ethanol production and consumption remain well below pre-Covid-19 levels
10 August 20209 September 2021 Nextchem and LanzaTech Sign an agreement to promote circular ethanol production NextChem's #CircularDistrict model is enhanced with a new dimension: in addition to hydrogen and methanol derived from the chemical conversion of plasmix and non-recyclable dry waste, it will now be possible to obtain ethanol, an important chemical for sustainable fuels and disinfectant production
6 August 20209 September 2021 ifeu-Studie warnt vor Nebenwirkungen synthetischer PtX-Brennstoffe Aktuelle Studie für das Umweltbundesamt (UBA) hat untersucht, ob die Herstellung dieser synthetischen Energieträger der Umwelt schadet
4 August 202017 December 2024 Renewable Carbon Initiative will be launched in September and the support is already strong! Nearly ten renowned companies have already signed or will sign for the core advisory board. Moreover, 90 experts from industry, science and politics are convinced of the strategy and support the initiative as personal supporter. We are looking for the next 10 to have a strong basis on 100 experts supporting our initiative! The first 100 personal supporter will be shown with their photo and name on our "poster of supporters" launched in September! Take your chance!
Nine companies have started “Ship Carbon Recycling WG” of Japan’s CCR Study Group - Cross-industry initiatives for zero-emission ship fuels through methanation technology -
German Associations Demand Removal of Regulatory Hurdles to Achieve the EU’s Climate Targets Electrochaea supports the demands of the German Energy Storage Systems Association (BVES) for regulatory changes to strengthen the role of energy storage companies. Those are substantial to reach the EU’s climate goals
Energiespeicher: „Deutschland darf sich nicht selbst im Weg stehen“ Electrochaea unterstützt Forderungen des Bundesverbands Energiespeicher nach Abbau regulatorischer Hemmnisse
Aerion Supersonic and Carbon Engineering join forces to deliver carbon neutral supersonic travel The companies will power Aerion’s AS2 supersonic business jet, the world’s first carbon neutral supersonic commercial aircraft
3 August 20209 September 2021 Greener aviation set for end-of-year lift Aviation has an emissions problem but the EU is looking to tackle it by ramping up clean fuel supply and demand
31 July 20209 September 2021 Initiation of “Technology Development for Para-xylene Production from CO2” Japanese firms to begin R&D on PX made from CO2
Reliance to replace auto fuels with electricity, hydrogen; targets carbon-zero co by 2035 Company will use a new technology to convert carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and other material building blocks
27 July 20209 September 2021 Photanol in strategic partnership with Renolit SE Making polymers out of air
24 July 20209 September 2021 LONGREAD: circling value in CO2 Circular economy opportunities in CCU, waste greenhouse gases can be stored in profitable sustainable products instead of emitting them
23 July 20209 September 2021 Instead of treating CO2 as liability, we can make it raw material: Mukesh Ambani The other participants in the conference included Prince Abdulaziiz bin Salman al-Saud, Minister of Energy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Patrick Pauyanne, CEO, Total and Tanya Beckett, as the moderator
22 July 20209 September 2021 Educational Series Presents Episode 2 about Making Chemicals from Waste CO2 3-minute slide presentation shows examples of technologies used to make chemicals for the cement production, for transportation fuels, or for building block chemicals
AI helps scientists upcycle waste carbon New catalyst is the first one for CO2-to-ethylene conversion to have been designed in part through the use of AI
16 July 20209 September 2021 Carbon capture and reuse gain steam US government and European firms invest in CO₂ capture projects
14 July 20209 September 2021 SoCalGas, PG&E and Opus 12 Announce Advancements in Technology that Converts Carbon Dioxide to Renewable Natural Gas Demonstration shows new electrochemical technology is commercially competitive with other methods of converting the unwanted carbon dioxide in biogas into pipeline-quality renewable natural gas
1 July 202017 December 2024 Renewable carbon is the key to a CO2 neutral circular economy The Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) that will be launched in September will address this core problem. And the support for the initiative is already strong! Renowned companies have already signed up for the core advisory board, and 82 experts from industry, science and politics are convinced of the strategy and support the initiative with their names.
30 June 20209 September 2021 $17m for carbon utilisation projects Each of the selected projects will develop and test technologies that can utilise CO2 from power systems or other industrial sources as the primary feedstock
Renewable fuel from carbon dioxide with the aid of solar energy The photoelectrode developed by the researchers can be combined with cathodes of various metals
25 June 20209 September 2021 Mimicking nature to power the future Dr Rahman Daiyan discusses how the team from UNSW’s Particles and Catalysis Laboratory plan to create a carbon neutral energy loop driven by sunshine
18 June 20209 September 2021 Australian researchers set record for carbon dioxide capture Researchers from Monash University and the CSIRO used Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs), which resembles a sponge filled with tiny magnets to capture CO2
16 June 20209 September 2021 Laser carved copper catalysts unveil secrets of turning CO2 into fuels New scientists approach shows understandings to the mechanism of carbon dioxide reduction and how to produce multi-carbon products selectively
15 June 20209 September 2021 Power-to-X in Deutschland: Diese Projekte laufen zurzeit Interaktive Karten und Tabellen zeigen bestehende Projekte und Anlagen auf einen Blick
10 June 20209 September 2021 Fraunhofer identifiziert Kernpunkte für den Aufbau einer nachhaltigen Wasserstoffwirtschaft Um den Standort Deutschland langfristig zu stärken, wollen Fraunhofer-Experten jetzt alle verfügbaren Potenziale bündeln und synchronisieren
9 June 20209 September 2021 The door is open for ethanol producers and CCS Two exciting developments in 2018 and 2019 will result in many carbon capture projects in the next few years
8 June 20209 September 2021 Hydrogen is Hot in Australia! ARENA’s Funding for Hydrogen Continues The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Hydrogen Deployment
5 June 20209 September 2021 Methane pyrolysis turns a grey resource into a green one Researchers have been experimenting with several methods to scale up methane pyrolysis for some thirty years already. But industry shows virtually no interest
4 June 20209 September 2021 New Lords of Circular Carbon: ArcelorMittal, EU complete financing of Steelanol project New plant is expected to produce up to 80 million liters of recycled-carbon ethanol a year and will create up to 500 construction jobs over the next two years
3 June 202017 December 2024 Update on the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) Michael Carus, CEO of nova-Institute, summarises the focus of the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI):
Wärtsilä and Vantaa Energy Ltd. to cooperate on a carbon neutral synthetic biogas production project in Finland Power-to-Gas facility would produce carbon-neutral synthetic biogas using carbon dioxide emissions and electricity generated at the waste-to-energy plant
29 May 20209 September 2021 Belgium: EU supports ArcelorMittal with EUR 75m EIB loan to scale up breakthrough technology to reduce carbon emissions Two ground-breaking projects at ArcelorMittal plant in Ghent, Belgium, to considerably reduce carbon emissions by converting waste and by-products into valuable new products
Wasserstoff-Fabrik auf hoher See Um überschüssigen Strom sinnvoll zu nutzen, sollen in der Nähe von Offshore-Windparks sogenannte Elektrolyseure installiert werden. Der dort produzierte Wasserstoff wird in bestehende Erdgaspipelines eingespeist
Fuelling the industry with a clean gas Industrial gas companies need to identify a suitable CO2 emission source to give it a second life by purifying it to food or industrial grade for commercial use
28 May 20209 September 2021 Millions in Australian government funding for renewable methane, hydrogen, solar hydropower projects Today’s Digest will report everything you need to know about the 3 new ARENA projects
27 May 20209 September 2021 French government sets green conditions for Air France bailout Air France has to halve its overall carbon-dioxide emissions per passenger-kilometre by 2030, to renew its fleet with more efficient aircraft, and to commit to sourcing 2% of its fuel requirements from sustainable sources by 2025
20 May 20209 September 2021 Anthesis Partners with CO2 Conversion Technology Provider, Remediiate Remediiate and Anthesis partner to drive advancements in the conversion of CO2 gases into sustainable food sources
18 May 20209 September 2021 A Glimpse into Real-Time Methanol Synthesis: Dynamic Operation of a Miniplant at Fraunhofer ISE Examination of the feasibility of a methanol synthesis using renewable electricity and biogenic CO2 from a biorefinery that produces renewable ethanol
Echtzeit-Einblicke in die Methanolsynthese: Dynamischer Betrieb einer Miniplant-Anlage am Fraunhofer ISE Betrachtung der Machbarkeit einer Methanolsynthese aus erneuerbaren Energien und biogenem CO2 aus einer Bioraffinerie zur Herstellung von erneuerbarem Ethanol
15 May 20209 September 2021 Hafen von Antwerpen: Konsortium treibt Projekt für Power-to-Methanol voran Geplante Demonstrationsanlage soll 8.000 tpa grünes Methanol produzieren und dabei ebenso viel an Treibhausgasen einsparen
INOVYN plays role in ambitious ‘Power to Methanol’ project in Antwerp A planned industrial-scale demonstration unit would produce 8,000tpa of sustainable methanol and would save at least 8,000tpa of CO2 emissions every year
13 May 20208 May 2020 Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to ethanol Influx of CO molecules, provided by silver (Ag) co-catalysts, activates an otherwise-locked mechanistic pathway on Cu which converts CO2 gas to ethanol
12 May 20209 September 2021 New materials for capturing CO2 could be used to reduce industrial emissions and as catalysts The European GRAMOFON Project, coordinated by AIMPLAS, developed an innovative CO2 capture process based on novel nanomaterials and microwave energy
8 May 20209 September 2021 Neue sich selbst bildende Membran zum Schutz unserer Umwelt Eine neue Klasse sich selbst bildender Membranen zur Trennung von Kohlendioxid aus einem Gasgemisch wurde von Forschern der Universität Newcastle entwickelt
7 May 20209 September 2021 New self-forming membrane to protect our environment A new class of self-forming membrane to separate carbon dioxide from a mixture of gases has been developed by Newcastle University researchers
21 April 20209 September 2021 MULTIPLHY – Green hydrogen for Renewable products refinery in rotterdam CEA, Neste, Paul Wurth, ENGIE and Sunfire announce a project-partnership to build and operate the world’s first multi-megawatt scale high-temperature electrolyser for highly efficient hydrogen production
MULTIPLHY – Grüner Wasserstoff für Raffinerie erneuerbarer Produkte in Rotterdam CEA, Neste, Paul Wurth, ENGIE und Sunfire haben eine Projektpartnerschaft zum Bau und Betrieb des weltweit ersten Multi-Megawatt Hochtemperatur-Elektrolyseurs zur hocheffizienten Wasserstoffproduktion angekündigt