Argonne scientists use AI to identify new materials for carbon capture

Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials can be used in many different applications, from catalysts to energy converters

16-Feb-2024 - GenerativeAItechniques, machine learning and simulations give researchers new opportunities to identify environmentally friendly metal-organic framework materials. Carbon capture is a critical technology in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other industrial facilities. But ...

Climeworks and Svante collaborate in development and supply for direct air capture

Both companies agree to collaborate on three major CO₂ removal projects

01-Feb-2024 - Climeworks has signed a collaboration and supply agreement with Svante Technologies Inc. (Svante), a leading carbon capture and removal solutions provider. The companies agreed to jointly plan the supply of Svante’s contactor blocks for three major Climeworks projects, intending to lead to a ...

Proman, Mitsubishi sign MoU to develop world-scale ultra low-carbon ammonia plant

19-Oct-2023 - Proman has signed an MoU with Mitsubishi Corporation to explore building a world-scale ultra low-carbon ammonia facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The proposed plant would produce approximately 1.2 million tonnes per year of clean ammonia by incorporating state-of-the-art carbon capture and ...

Carbon capture method plucks CO2 straight from the air

Using humidity-powered technology, researchers found several new ions that facilitate low-energy carbon sequestration

10-Oct-2023 - Even as the world slowly begins to decarbonize industrial processes, achieving lower concentrations of atmospheric carbon requires technologies that remove existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — rather than just prevent the creation of it. Typical carbon capture catches CO2 directly from ...

A new way to capture and recycle carbon dioxide from industrial emissions

A new electrochemical cell could help industrial processes emit less carbon dioxide

07-Sep-2023 - Carbon capture is a promising method to help slow climate change. With this approach, carbon dioxide (CO­­2) is trapped before it escapes into the atmosphere, but the process requires a large amount of energy and equipment. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have designed a capture ...

New catalyst transforms carbon dioxide into sustainable byproduct

Researchers create acetic acid out of carbon monoxide derived from captured carbon

05-May-2023 - The need to capture CO2 and transport it for permanent storage or conversion into valued end uses is a national priority recently identified in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to move toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Now, Northwestern University researchers have worked with an ...

A simple, cheap material for carbon capture, perhaps from tailpipes

Porous material from melamine efficiently captures CO₂ from flue gases

15-Aug-2022 - Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine — the main component of Formica — chemists have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks, a key goal for the United States and other nations as they seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The process ...

Treated plastic waste good at grabbing carbon dioxide

Rice University lab turns hard-to-process trash into carbon-capture master

07-Apr-2022 - Here’s another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up excess carbon dioxide. What seems like a win-win for a pair of pressing environmental problems describes a Rice University lab’s newly discovered chemical technique to turn waste plastic into an effective carbon ...

Making methane from CO2: Carbon capture grows more affordable

“This study offers a cost-effective pathway toward making something valuable out of waste CO2”

07-Sep-2021 - In their ongoing effort to make carbon capture more affordable, researchers at the Department of Energy’sPacific Northwest National Laboratoryhave developed a method to convert captured carbon dioxide (CO2) into methane, the primary component of natural gas. By streamlining a longstanding ...

Carbon-loving materials designed to reduce industrial emissions

Novel fabrication method for affordable gas membranes

06-Jul-2020 - Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are advancing gas membrane materials to expand practical technology options for reducing industrial carbon emissions. Results published in Chem demonstrate a fabrication method for ...