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A biological solution to carbon capture and recycling?
E. coli bacteria shown to be excellent at CO2 conversion
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Will aniline be the next ‘green’ bulk chemical?
Direct amination of benzene promises to reduce the carbon footprint of the production of aniline compared with present production methods. But it would still be based on oil.
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Conversion of Municipal Waste into Butanol and Hydrogen
The application of high pressure and steam is a proven method for the mobilisation of valuable components from biomass. Wageningen Food & Biobased Research is contributing to the project "Production of butanol and hydrogen by fermentation techniques using steam treated municipal solid waste (MSWBH)" with its expertise on fermentation and the use of anaerobic bacteria for the production of biobased chemicals.
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More on hydrogen
Our previous post “A return from the background” mentioned methane reforming as basically the only near-term alternative to water electrolysis to produce hydrogen.
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Breathing space for Elestor
The HBr redox flow-battery is coming closer.
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A return from the background
The hydrogen economy was yesterday’s solution to stop releasing CO2. Then electrification seemed to take over in prominence, thanks to wind and solar and Elon Musk, pushing hydrogen into the background. Now it seems that hydrogen is making a comeback. Here are a few recent items (they all reach similar conclusions: electrolysis of water using ‘green’ electricity as long-term solution and reforming gas - preferentially LNG - combined with CCS as interim solution.)
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Shell vows to cut Carbon Footprint 50% by 2050 to Achieve Paris Goals
Shell wants to transform itself from an oil company to an energy company.
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Absorb, don’t distill
Ethylene is big. Over 150 million metric tons of it was produced worldwide in 2016.
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Call for papers
The 6th International Congress on Green Process Engineering will be held from 3 to 6 June 2018 in Toulouse, France.
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Project focus: Extracting high value products from sugar beet pulp.
PULP2VALUE, based in Roosendaal, the Netherlands, aims to provide added value for producers of sugar beet pulp by creating processes that extract far higher value products from sugar beet side-streams.