Combating climate change: Recyclable batteries remove CO2 from the atmosphere

Female scientists at Paderborn University awarded research prize

26-Nov-2024 - With the new Climate Protection Act, Germany has committed to achieving greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. To achieve this, emissions must be avoided, CO2 removed from the atmosphere and fossil fuels replaced with renewable energy sources. According to experts, however, it will still be necessary ...

Support for carbon pricing higher than expected

Study shows that a majority of Germans would be willing to accept carbon pricing in return for a direct climate premium

25-Nov-2024 - Viewed by many experts as one of the most effective tools of climate policy, carbon pricing seeks to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Currently, however, only 23% of global greenhouse gas emissions are subject to this climate tax, as it is seen as unpopular. A study by LMU Munich, featuring a ...

Breakthrough in capturing 'hot' CO2 from industrial exhaust

A metal-organic framework is capable of capturing CO2 at extreme temperatures

19-Nov-2024 - Industrial plants, such as those that make cement or steel, emit copious amounts of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, but the exhaust is too hot for state-of-the-art carbon removal technology. Lots of energy and water are needed to cool the exhaust streams, a requirement that has limited ...

Carbon Capture on Board Ships as a Valuable Transition Technology

28-Oct-2024 - Researchers at TU Graz have evaluated various carbon capture technologies for use in shipping. These technologies will be necessary to achieve the climate targets, but they will realistically not enable complete capturing of greenhouse gases on board. By 2050, maritime shipping should be ...

Cobalt-copper tandem successfully converts carbon dioxide to ethanol

Sustainability in the focus of chemical research

14-Oct-2024 - The continuing release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is a major contributor to global warming and climate change with increased extreme weather events. Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now presented a method for effectively converting carbon dioxide into ...

Innovative catalyst produces methane using electricity

A study opens up new ways to produce important chemical compounds

08-Oct-2024 - Researchers at the University of Bonn and University of Montreal have developed a new type of catalyst and used it in their study to produce methane out of carbon dioxide and water in a highly efficient way using electricity. Methane can be used, for example, to heat apartments or as a starting ...

Chemical production in Germany: Soda Manufacturing with Double Climate Bonus

Clean process: bipolar electrodialysis

04-Oct-2024 - Fraunhofer researchers and their partners have developed an innovative and eco-friendly method of producing soda, essential for a wide range of industries, in the Green Soda project. The process is based on bipolar electrodialysis of brine. Ion exchange processes and the addition of carbon ...

Sustainably producible covalent organic networks capture carbon dioxide

"For the first time, a solid-phase synthesis of COFs has been developed that works completely without solvents"

01-Oct-2024 - An international research team led by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the University of Siegen has synthesized a new compound that forms a so-called covalent organic network. The phosphonic acid-based compound is stable and can be used, for example, to store carbon dioxide (CO2), ...

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 ...

Breakthrough Study Unveils Key Steps for Turning CO2 into Valuable Chemicals

These findings can have significant implications for the chemical industry

16-Sep-2024 - A groundbreaking study by the Interface Science Department at the Fritz Haber Institute and the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia has been published in the journal Nature Energy. The paper, entitled „Key intermediates and Cu active sites for CO2 electroreduction to ethylene and ...