Fighting microplastics for a cleaner future

Dr. Manish Shetty is working to break down microplastics to create usable fuel

13-Nov-2024 - Microplastics, plastics smaller than 5 millimeters, are littered across the world, contributing to global warming, disrupting food chains, and harming ecosystems with toxic chemicals. This is why Dr. Manish Shetty is working to break down plastics before they can get into the ...

Start-up aims to revolutionise CO₂ capture and conversion technology

Aerleum raises $6M in seed round

16-Oct-2024 - Aerleum, a pioneering climate tech company specializing in CO₂ capture and utilization, announces the successful close of its $6M seed round, led by 360 Capital and HTGF, with participation from Norrsken, Bpifrance, and Marble. The funding will accelerate the industrialization of Aerleum’s ...

Bubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs

A new study of bubbles on electrode surfaces could help improve the efficiency of electrochemical processes that produce fuels, chemicals, and materials

14-Oct-2024 - Industrial electrochemical processes that use electrodes to produce fuels and chemical products are hampered by the formation of bubbles that block parts of the electrode surface, reducing the area available for the active reaction. Such blockage reduces the performance of the electrodes by ...

E-fuels for climate-compatible aviation

Construction begins on Technology Platform for Power-to-Liquid Fuels (TPP)

08-Oct-2024 - The German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is currently building the world's largest research facility for the production of electricity-based fuels, also known as electrofuels or e-fuels. The Technology Platform for Power-to-Liquid Fuels, or TPP for short, in ...

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 ...

A recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine

MIT engineers have developed a fast and sustainable method for producing hydrogen fuel using aluminum, saltwater, and coffee grounds

01-Aug-2024 - A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have found that when the aluminum in soda cans is exposed in its pure form and mixed with seawater, the solution bubbles up and naturally produces hydrogen — a gas that can be subsequently used to power an ...

Are sustainable aviation fuels truly sustainable?

24-Jul-2024 - A new IIASA-led study offers the first detailed estimates of land use change emissions for six sustainable aviation fuel production pathways. The authors focused on both food and non-food raw materials used to produce biofuels, using trusted global data sources to provide fine-scale emissions ...

Evonik expands sodium methylate production in Argentina to meet growing demand for biofuels

Annual production capacity increased by 50% to 90,000 tons

16-Jul-2024 - Evonik has announced the expansion of its sodium methylate production capacity at its Rosario plant, located in the Sante Fé Province in Argentina. With this expansion, the company strengthens its position as a leader in the biofuels industry, driving innovation and sustainability across South ...

GIDARA Energy and Black & Veatch collaborate to convert more waste into syngas

16-Jul-2024 - GIDARA Energy, a pioneer in technology that converts waste into syngas (synthesis gas), announces its collaboration with Black & Veatch to convert biomass and non-recyclable waste into renewable syngas, a key component of sustainable fuels and chemicals repurposed for other products. Looking to ...

Unveiling a new class of synthetic fuels

Will they revolutionize the clean transport of the future?

11-Jul-2024 - Researchers from RWTH, the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, and ETH Zurich have now presented groundbreaking advancements in synthetic fuels. Their study, which has the potential to revolutionize clean transportation, has been published in Nature Energy under the following ...