New bar for water-splitting, CO2-splitting techniques set

01-Sep-2017 - Researchers from North Carolina State University have significantly boosted the efficiency of two techniques, for splitting water to create hydrogen gas and splitting carbon dioxide (CO2) to create carbon monoxide (CO). The products are valuable feedstock for clean energy and chemical ...

Clariant Catalysts expands in China with opening of new office in Yinchuan

Expansion will enable direct cooperation with coal-to-chemicals producers in the region

19-Jul-2017 - Clariant announced the opening of a new office for its Catalysts business in Yinchuan city, capital of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in China. With the new branch, Clariant becomes the first multinational catalyst provider based in northwest China, a region that is home to a majority of the ...

Fuel and chemicals from steel plant exhaust gases

03-Jul-2015 - Carbon monoxide-rich exhaust gases from steel plants are only being reclaimed to a minor extent as power or heat. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a new recycling process for this materially unused carbon resource: They successfully produced fuel and specialty chemicals from these exhaust ...

Waste-to-chemicals consortium boosted by new partners

08-Jun-2015 - A major Dutch initiative designed to investigate how waste can be used as a raw material to produce chemicals has more than doubled in size since being launched late last year. Initially formed by AkzoNobel, Enerkem and four regional partners, the collaboration has since attracted eight more ...

Sunlight to jet fuel

30-Apr-2014 - A European consortium with the participation of ETH Zurich has experimentally demonstrated the first ever production of jet fuel via a thermochemical process using concentrated solar energy. Researchers from ETH Zurich conducted the EU funded project Solarjet together with the German Aerospace ...

Process holds promise for production of synthetic gasoline

04-Dec-2013 - A chemical system developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago can efficiently perform the first step in the process of creating syngas, gasoline and other energy-rich products out of carbon dioxide. A novel "co-catalyst" system using inexpensive, easy to fabricate ...

A milestone for new carbon-dioxide capture/clean coal technology

22-Mar-2013 - An innovative new process that releases the energy in coal without burning — while capturing carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas — has passed a milestone on the route to possible commercial use, scientists are reporting. Their study in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels describes results of a ...

bioliq pilot plant: Successful operation of high-pressure entrained flow gasification

05-Mar-2013 - On the way to the production of environment-friendly fuels from biomass residue, the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), in cooperation with the technology partner Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions has realized another important milestone: the second process stage of the bioliq® pilot plant ...

New coal technology harnesses energy without burning, nears pilot-scale development

08-Feb-2013 - A new form of clean coal technology reached an important milestone recently, with the successful operation of a research-scale combustion system at Ohio State University. The technology is now ready for testing at a larger scale. For 203 continuous hours, the Ohio State combustion unit produced ...

Oxea conducts feasibility study for further plant expansion projects in Bay City, Texas

08-Nov-2012 - Following the capacity increase of its syngas production facility in Bay City, Texas, USA, the chemical company Oxea is in the last stages of completion of a feasibility study of additional downstream plant expansion projects. The project is examining various scenarios to boost the plant’s ...