BASF receives funding approval for the construction of the world’s largest industrial heat pump for CO2-free steam generation

Greenhouse gas emissions from formic acid production at the Ludwigshafen site reduced by up to 98 percent

17-Oct-2024 - BASF has received funding approval from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action for the construction of the world’s most powerful industrial heat pump. In the coming months, the company will therefore be able to start the preparatory construction work for the project ...

How a carbon central bank can turn Europe into a CO2 “eater”

Carbon removal can become a game changer

19-Sep-2024 - The EU has decided to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. From then on, for every tonne of CO2 still emitted, one tonne would have to be taken out of the atmosphere. A European Carbon Central Bank could play a key role on the way there - and use market-based incentives to set the course for a ...

Person with the World's Largest Negative Carbon Footprint Wins the €1 Million Millennium Technology Prize

Innovation has revolutionized the power industry

06-Sep-2024 - The 2024 Millennium Technology Prize has been awarded to Professor Bantval Jayant Baliga of North Carolina State University, United States, for his innovation that has enabled dramatic reduction in worldwide electrical energy and petrol consumption. The €1 million global award for technology ...

thyssenkrupp Uhde and Johnson Matthey join forces to offer an integrated solution for blue ammonia technology

Demand for ammonia is growing because it’s easier to store and transport than pure hydrogen and is key to decarbonising the world’s power, shipping, and industrial processes

22-May-2024 - thyssenkrupp Uhde and Johnson Matthey (JM) announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly offer a fully integrated low carbon (blue) ammonia solution, building on a nearly 25-year ammonia relationship between the companies. In the drive to reduce CO2 emissions, the role of ...

How green cities could remove CO2 from the atmosphere

One gigatonne per year by mid-century: An study determines the potentials, various co-benefits and possible barriers to implementation

06-May-2024 - More than a thousand cities around the world now have “net zero” pledges: they want to emit only as much CO2 into the atmosphere as they can simultaneously recapture. An elaborate meta-study has now summarised the state of knowledge on which methods might be useful and what they could achieve. ...

BASF, SABIC, and Linde celebrate the start-up of the world's first large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnace

Technology with the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 90% compared to conventional steam crackers

19-Apr-2024 - BASF, SABIC, and Linde have inaugurated the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnaces. Following three years of development, engineering, and construction work, the regular operation of the demonstration plant is now ready to start at BASF’s ...

How to Enable the Transition From Fossil to Renewable Carbon in the Chemical and Material Sector?

In a comprehensive member survey, the Renewable Carbon Initiative collected ideas and opinions

15-Apr-2024 - The European chemicals and materials sector is under pressure. Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) members, representing a wide range of these sectors, see many common elements in the key challenges and how to address them. High energy and raw material prices, as well as the need to defossilise ...

Runway to net zero: Climeworks partners with SWISS and Lufthansa Group

11-Mar-2024 - Climeworks, Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS), and the Lufthansa Group enter a partnership to jointly accelerate the scale-up of high-quality carbon removal. As part of the agreement, the parties signed a catalytic carbon removal agreement, making SWISS and the Lufthansa Group key first ...

Cost of direct air carbon capture to remain higher than hoped

Three technologies and their costs

05-Mar-2024 - The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped. This is the conclusion reached by ETH researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace, says the research ...

World first: The first CO2-negative biofuel comes from Germany

Start-up Carbon Farming Germany revolutionizes fuel production with BeyondZero

18-Jan-2024 - Carbon Farming Germany has made groundbreaking progress in sustainable fuel production and developed BeyondZero, the world's first CO2-negative biofuel. BeyondZero is the result of an innovative combination of biogas production and carbon storage in biochar. External laboratory results confirm ...