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ARPA-E funding supports research on carbon dioxide removal from flue gases
24-08-2010
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy – also known as ARPA-E – to pursue two different, but related, approaches for removing carbon dioxide from the flue gases of coal-burning power plants. Power plants ...
Air Products Building World Class ASU Trains for PCEC in China
23-07-2010
Air Products announced a contract signing with Pucheng Clean Energy Co., Ltd. (PCEC) for the largest single air separation unit (ASU) on-site order ever committed to an industrial gas company. Air Products, under a long-term supply agreement, will build, own and operate three ASU trains ...
Carbon sequestration: Boon or burden
30-06-2010
The idea to sequester carbon is gaining support as a way to avoid global warming. For example, the European Union plans to invest billions of Euros within the next ten years to develop carbon capture and storage whereby CO2 will be extracted at power plants and other combustion sites and ...
Nanowires for the electronics and optoelectronics of the future
Process for manufacturing nanoelectronic 'mini-circuits' developed
25-06-2010
Organic semiconductors are very promising candidates as starting materials for the manufacture of cheap, large area and flexible electronic components such as transistors, diodes and sensors on a scale ranging from micro to nano. A condition for success in achieving this goal is the ability ...
UCLA's James Liao receives Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from EPA
23-06-2010
James C. Liao, the Chancellor's Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been awarded the 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The award promotes ...
Air Products Building World Class Hydrogen Plant in China
14-06-2010
Air Products announced that its joint venture company based in Sichuan, China has signed a long-term agreement to build a hydrogen production facility for PetroChina Company Limited, one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. It is the first time that a state-owned refinery in ...
Biofuel chemistry more complex than petroleum, say Sandia and Lawrence Livermore researchers
18-05-2010
Understanding the key elements of biofuel combustion is an important step toward insightful selection of next-generation alternative fuels. And that's exactly what researchers at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are doing. The journal Angewandte Chemie devotes its May 10 ...
Energy-autonomous sensors in logistics: continuous control of perishable goods
14-05-2010
The safety and quality in the food supply of today’s globally organized and networked supply chain is everything else than warranted. More than 50% of all foodstuffs are spoiled in the transport routes; alone in Great Britain this makes up 17 million tons and approximately 20 billion Euros. ...
LLNL receives Recovery Act funding for carbon capture technology
12-05-2010
New and existing coal-fired power plants could more easily capture carbon dioxide emissions with help from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers. With more than $3.6 million in Recovery Act funding, LLNL researchers, in partnership with the University of Illinois and Babcock & ...
Chemical engineers plot low carbon transport path
10-05-2010
Julia King, Vice Chancellor at Aston University, UK says that politicians must select ‘winners’ if targets to cut carbon emissions are to be realised. King, who was appointed the UK government’s low-carbon ambassador last year and headed up a government review into low-carbon cars, spoke to ...
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