BASF and Forestal collaborate on advanced e-methanol production

Forestal will utilize BASF's proprietary OASE® technology for efficient CO2 removal in the production of e-methanol

31-Mar-2025 - BASF and Forestal de Atlántico S.A. (Forestal) have signed an early disclosure agreement (EDA) aimed at advancing the production of e-methanol (eMeOH) through carbon capture solutions. Under this strategic partnership, BASF has been selected to share its proprietary OASE® blue technology, ...

World premiere: "Mannheim 001" production plant produces marine fuel from wastewater and electricity

e-Methanol is a climate-neutral fuel alternative and therefore key to the sustainable transformation of the shipping industry

25-Mar-2025 - A pioneering innovation from Mannheim is setting new standards in the production of sustainable fuel. In a globally unique plant, sustainable marine fuel is being produced from wastewater and electricity for the first time. Behind it is a consortium consisting of the climate technology start-up ...

C1 raised €20 million in fresh capital to replace fossil resources in the shipping, aviation and chemical industries

Green methanol: Commercialisation of the circular raw material of the future

20-Mar-2025 - Cleantech company C1 Green Chemicals AG has successfully secured €20 million in fresh capital to bring its groundbreaking green methanol catalysis technology to market. Green methanol can be used to defossilize three key industries: shipping, aviation and carbon-based chemical production. At the ...

New process to enable the conversion of CO2 into sustainable basic chemicals

13-Mar-2025 - The sustainable production of chemical base materials using CO2 as a carbon source is the goal of the "PKat4Chem" project. The project partners involved aim at further developing the process of low-temperature plasma catalysis so that gases produced from biomass can be converted into methanol or ...

Inorganic and biocatalysts work together to reduce CO2

In a hybrid cascade, climate-damaging CO2 is turned back into valuable methanol

15-Jan-2025 - In order to recover valuable substances from CO2, it must be reduced in many individual steps. If electrocatalysis is used for this, many potentially different potential molecules are formed, which cannot necessarily be used. Biocatalysts, on the other hand, are selective and only produce one ...

A new catalyst can turn methane into something useful

MIT chemical engineers have devised a way to capture methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and convert it into polymers

09-Dec-2024 - Although it is less abundant than carbon dioxide, methane gas contributes disproportionately to global warming because it traps more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, due to its molecular structure. MIT chemical engineers have now designed a new catalyst that can convert methane into ...

BASF partners with Acies Bio to drive sustainable production of Personal and Home Care ingredients

Partnership on biotechnology supports the further development of fermentation technology

07-Nov-2024 - BASF and Acies Bio, one of Europe’s leading biotechnology companies, have entered into a transformative partnership to further develop a platform for fermentation technology from methanol for the production of fatty alcohols. Fatty alcohols are essential building blocks for several ingredients in ...

Alcohol as a storage medium

Power-to-methanol could become a mainstay of the energy transition

26-Aug-2024 - Efficient storage technologies are a key pillar of a renewable energy system for temporarily storing surplus electricity. Methanol could play an important role in this context. The big question here is how such power-to-methanol systems can be integrated into a future renewables infrastructure ...

Pioneering plasma-catalytic process for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol under ambient conditions

14-Aug-2024 - Researchers at the University of Liverpool have achieved a significant milestone in the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable fuels and chemicals, marking an important step towards a sustainable net-zero economy. In a paper, the team reports a pioneering plasma-catalytic process for ...

Bacteria for climate-neutral chemicals of the future

Biotechnological production of a variety of chemical substances possible

25-Apr-2024 - Researchers at ETH Zurich have engineered bacteria in the laboratory to efficiently use methanol. The metabolism of these bacteria can now be tapped into to produce valuable products currently made by the chemical industry from fossil fuels. To produce various chemicals such as plastics, dyes or ...