What if we could revive waste carbon dioxide?

KIMS and KAIST developed catalyst synthesis process and precision control technology to maximize carbon dioxide conversion efficiency

26-Feb-2025 - As the severity of climate change and carbon emissions becomes a global concern, technologies to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) into resources such as chemical fuels and compounds are urgently needed. Dr. Dahee Park’s research team from the Nano Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of ...

Chemists pioneer work to reduce carbon emissions

“My team and I have been hard at work trying to find more sustainable ways to separate, purify and trap ethylene..."

17-Apr-2024 - Production of ethylene is one of the most important chemical processes used today, with about 300 million metric tons of the tiny chemical produced each year. Ethylene gas is used to create everyday items like shopping bags and plastic film packaging. However, ethylene production consumes massive ...

Catalytic combo converts CO2 to solid carbon nanofibers

Tandem electrocatalytic-thermocatalytic conversion could help offset emissions of potent greenhouse gas by locking carbon away in a useful material

16-Jan-2024 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Columbia University have developed a way to convert carbon dioxide (CO2), a potent greenhouse gas, into carbon nanofibers, materials with a wide range of unique properties and many potential long-term uses. ...

Start-up develops software for companies to easily record carbon footprint for products

19-May-2022 - To be able to design products more sustainably in the future, companies need to know the corresponding carbon footprint. However, it is not easy to balance it. Software currently being developed by the start-up greenable, a spin-off of the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, aims to remedy ...

Finding the missing piece in global oil life-cycle assessment

New research models the relationship between carbon impacts and market factors in the oil industry

18-Nov-2021 - Predicting the behavior of any market is a slippery thing. Energy markets are changing especially quickly, and this is most clearly seen in the oil industry. With decreasing demand during the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of electric vehicles, the market has experienced a shock, and it probably ...

The new alchemy in carbon neutrality: turning water into ammonia with only renewable energy!

Producing ‘green ammonia’ with zero carbon emissions

24-Aug-2021 - The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), an institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and ICT, has developed an innovative process that uses renewable energy to produce ammonia at room temperature and normal pressure. This innovative technology is expected to ...

Carbon-loving materials designed to reduce industrial emissions

Novel fabrication method for affordable gas membranes

06-Jul-2020 - Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are advancing gas membrane materials to expand practical technology options for reducing industrial carbon emissions. Results published in Chem demonstrate a fabrication method for ...

BioMCN to produce renewable methanol with green hydrogen

27-Feb-2019 - Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) and Gasunie have agreed to supply green hydrogen to BioMCN for the production of renewable methanol from CO2. The companies say it marks the next step in the sustainability of processes in the industry. Nouryon and Gasunie are currently ...

A data visualization of carbon footprints

Carbon Catalogue, breaks down the carbon footprint of a product during its entire life cycle

21-Feb-2019 - A Columbia researcher affiliated with the Data Science Institute has created a data-visualization tool that shows the carbon footprints of hundreds of consumer products. The tool makes it easy for everyone to explore the products' carbon-emission levels and the various strategies that companies ...

Don’t wait for a unicorn: investing in low-carbon tech now will save money

22-May-2018 - Waiting for a ‘unicorn technology’ that provides green energy at low cost could be more expensive than adopting low-carbon energy technologies now. Researchers from Imperial College London say if Britain invested more in today’s low-carbon energy technologies, it would save more money in the long ...