Europe’s largest e-Fuel production plant goes into operation

INERATEC opens ERA ONE

11-Jun-2025 - The German cleantech company INERATEC officially inaugurated ERA ONE, a Power-to-Liquid plant for the production of e-Fuels and e-Chemicals that will usher in a new era of sustainable mobility. The plant in Frankfurt-Höchst is the largest of its kind in Europe and will produce up to 2,500 tonnes ...

Witchcraft with small data: AI Revolutionizes CO2 Recycling with "Small Data" Models

Doctoral student conjures precise AI models for environmentally friendly Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using minimal data

06-May-2025 - At the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Rostock, LIKAT, a doctoral student working with Dr David Linke developed AI models for the Fischer-Tropsch process based on CO2. The process was originally developed in the 1920s to produce liquid hydrocarbons from carbon monoxide and hydrogen obtained ...

Synthetic fuels and more thanks to machine learning

Converting carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals more efficiently: Empa researcher wants to develop better electrodes for CO2 electrolysis

28-Mar-2025 - Turning carbon dioxide into valuable substances: That is the goal of Empa researcher Carlota Bozal-Ginesta. In her research project, she wants to combine machine learning and high-throughput experiments to develop better electrodes for CO2 electrolysis. For this, she has now been awarded the ...

Important technological milestone: production of sustainable aviation fuel becomes more efficient

KIT and Sunfire succeed in Kopernikus project P2X technology upgrade for CO2-neutral production of fuels

10-Mar-2025 - Fuels such as kerosene can be produced in a climate-friendly way fromCO2, water and green electricity using power-to-liquid processes. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have already demonstrated this with plants in real operation. Researchers in the Kopernikus project P2X ...

From soot particle filters to renewable fuels

Unravelling the chemical processes in soot particle filters reveals new ways to produce synthetic fuels

23-Jan-2025 - Carbon particles are present in many aspects of our daily lives. Soot, which consists of tiny carbon particles, is generated when energy sources such as oil or wood are not completely burned. Soot particle filters, in turn, remove the nanometer- to micrometer-sized particles from car exhaust ...

Start-up aims to revolutionise CO₂ capture and conversion technology

Aerleum raises $6M in seed round

16-Oct-2024 - Aerleum, a pioneering climate tech company specializing in CO₂ capture and utilization, announces the successful close of its $6M seed round, led by 360 Capital and HTGF, with participation from Norrsken, Bpifrance, and Marble. The funding will accelerate the industrialization of Aerleum’s ...

Production of solar fuels: Storing the sun's heat at 1200 degrees

23-Sep-2024 - The ETH spin-off Synhelion has recently inaugurated the world's first industrial plant for the production of solar fuels in Germany. The heart of the plant contains a piece of Empa technology: Together with Synhelion, Empa researchers have developed a material for the high-temperature thermal ...

Unveiling a new class of synthetic fuels

Will they revolutionize the clean transport of the future?

11-Jul-2024 - Researchers from RWTH, the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, and ETH Zurich have now presented groundbreaking advancements in synthetic fuels. Their study, which has the potential to revolutionize clean transportation, has been published in Nature Energy under the following ...

Why do just one experiment at a time when you can do ten?

Synthetic fuels and chemicals from CO₂: Ten experiments in parallel

28-Jun-2024 - Empa researchers have developed an automated system, which allows them to research catalysts, electrodes, and reaction conditions for CO₂ electrolysis up to ten times faster. The system is complemented by an open-source software for data analysis. If you mix fossil fuel with a little oxygen and ...

CAPHENIA and Emerging Fuels Technology cooperate for more sustainable aviation

Companies announce MOU to optimize scalable Sustainable Aviation Fuel production

27-May-2024 - To capitalize on the fast growing demand for SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel), CAPHENIA GmbH, a pioneer in the development of sustainable synthesis gas technologies, and US based Emerging Fuels Technology, Inc. (EFT), a leader in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, are pleased to announce they have signed ...