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 ...

C1 proves continuous green methanol production process in record time, confirming predictions from quantum chemistry

Start-up sets a new standard in green methanol production while tripling innovation speed with the predictive power of quantum chemistry

19-Mar-2024 - Climate tech start-up C1 just completed its first fully autonomous, fully continuous methanol production cycle at its “C1 alpha” miniplant in Berlin Adlershof. For the first time worldwide, the company has run a homogeneous methanol catalysis process continuously without operator intervention for ...

A sustainable fuel and chemical from the robotic lab

A new fully automated research infrastructure with AI is accelerating the development of chemical catalysts

21-Feb-2024 - Artificial intelligence and automated laboratory infrastructure are massively accelerating the development of new chemical catalysts. With these tools, researchers at ETH Zurich are developing catalysts for efficiently and cost-​effectively synthesising the energy source methanol from ...

Green methanol for the circular economy

New catalyst developed

02-Feb-2024 - This is the vision: to produce the raw material methanol at the edge of the field or on the farm using renewable energies. In addition to wind or sun, water and CO2 would be needed to produce the raw materials for the green methanol process: Carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2), which react ...

BASF and Envision Energy enter a collaboration to drive sustainable energy solutions

Collaboration to accelerate conversion of green hydrogen and CO2 to e-methanol

30-Jan-2024 - BASF process catalysts, a leading provider of innovative catalyst technology, announced a new collaboration with Envision Energy, a leading green technology provider of comprehensive net zero solutions. The collaboration aims to further develop the conversion of green hydrogen and CO2 into ...

Hy2gen Germany acquires plant and project pipeline of kiwi AG

Production plant in Werlte, Germany, is currently the world’s largest operating Power-to-eMethane plant

12-Dec-2023 - Hy2gen announced the successful acquisition of kiwi AG in Werlte, Lower Saxony, Germany. The acquisition includes what is currently the world’s largest operating power-to-eMethane plant in Werlte. The integration of kiwi AG marks an important milestone for Hy2gen, as it means the internationally ...

Inauguration of the world’s first pilot plant for the cost-efficient production of green methanol

Start-up C1 Green Chemicals AG and research partners develop fundamentally new production process

22-Nov-2023 - The world’s first pilot plant for the cost-efficient production of green methanol was inaugurated in the Leuna Chemical Park as part of the Leuna100 project. Behind it is a research consortium made up of the climate-tech start-up C1 Green Chemicals AG and its partners, Fraunhofer Institute for ...