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BASF, SGL Collaboration Aims to Make Car Components More Cost-Effective

March 12, 2015March 12, 2015 by Jennifer Hermes

BASF and Germany-based carbon company SGL Group say they have concluded joint research of a new composite material system which aims at enhancing the cost-effectiveness of manufacturing thermoplastic carbon-fiber composites, for example in injection procedures and reaction injection molding. The composite is based on a reactive polyamide system and compatible carbon ... Read more »

BioMass Module Reduces Plant CO2 Emissions 85%

March 11, 2015March 10, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

MARG Energy, which converts CO2 emissions into algae that can then be used by the fuel, food and pharmaceutical industries, says its technology can help power plants, smokestacks, businesses and schools reduce CO2 emissions by 85 percent. The company says the US algae marketplace is estimated at $400 billion, and ... Read more »

Shell, DOE Collaborate on Carbon Capture Project

February 6, 2015February 6, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US Department of Energy and Shell Canada will collaborate in field tests to validate advanced monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA) technologies for underground storage of carbon dioxide. The tests will take place at Shell’s Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Alberta, Canada. The project will reduce CO2 ... Read more »

GE Joins Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium

January 26, 2015January 23, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric is the newest member of a research consortium working to develop sustainable alternative fuels. The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium was founded by the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, together with Etihad Airways, Boeing, and Honeywell UOP to develop a clean, alternative fuel supply for the ... Read more »

DOE Project Captures, Stores 1 Million Metric Tons of Carbon

January 12, 2015January 9, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Department of Energy’s Illinois Basin-Decatur Project has captured and stored 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and injected it into a deep saline formation. The project is part of the development phase of the DOE’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships initiative, which is helping develop and deploy carbon capture ... Read more »

Market-Based Water Quality Trading Program Curbs Pollution

December 16, 2014December 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A market-based nutrient trading program in Virginia has encouraged economic investments and reduced phosphorus pollution to local waterways, helping to meet water quality goals for the Chesapeake Bay, the EPA says. By offsetting increases in phosphorus loads, nutrient trading provides economic incentives for farmers, including cost savings, new income and ... Read more »

NRG to Slash CO2 Emissions 90% by 2050

November 21, 2014November 20, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

NRG Energy has set a goal to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions 50 percent by 2030 and 90 percent by 2050 below a 2014 baseline. The energy company announced the new goals yesterday, in conjunction with a groundbreaking ceremony of its new “ultra-green” corporate headquarters (pictured) in Princeton, New Jersey, ... Read more »

CO2 Solutions Develops New Carbon Capture Enzyme

November 20, 2014November 19, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

CO2 Solutions says it has completed the internal development of a high-performance carbonic anhydrase enzyme. In extensive bench testing, the new enzyme, named 1T1, has demonstrated longevity and catalytic performance, surpassing that of the best third-party enzymes used by CO2 Solutions to date, the company says. As such, 1T1 is expected ... Read more »

Carbon Capture Projects Doubled Since 2011

November 10, 2014November 9, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Twenty-two carbon capture and storage projects are under construction or in operation worldwide, up 50 percent since 2011, according to a report by the Global CCS Institute. Eight major CCS projects are expected go live in a range of industries across the globe by 2016, according to Brad Page, CEO of ... Read more »

HECLOT Achieves CO2 Capture Rate up to 90%, ITRI Says

October 24, 2014October 23, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan’s largest high-tech applied research institutions, says its high efficiency calcium looping technology (HECLOT), a calcium looping technology, can achieve a carbon capture rate of up to 90 percent. ITRI says this is an industry first. The technology reduces energy consumption using a cycling of calcination ... Read more »

Facility Captures Carbon, Turns it into Products

October 20, 2014October 17, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A Texas company on Tuesday will open a carbon capture and utilization facility that will capture up to 90 percent of CO2 emissions at an existing cement plant and turn them into usable products like baking soda, bleach and hydrochloric acid. Skyonic’s Capitol SkyMine is a first-of-its-kind project, the company ... Read more »

‘First-of-a-Kind’ Clean Power Plant Moves Forward

October 16, 2014October 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

NET Power says it has secured funding and agreements for its $140 million demonstration power plant, which it says produces no greenhouse gas emissions and includes full carbon capture without requiring expensive, efficiency-reducing carbon capture equipment. The company says the 50 MWt natural gas generation system is the first of ... Read more »

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