New battery technology could boost renewable energy storage

Columbia Engineers develop new powerful battery "fuel" -- an electrolyte that not only lasts longer but is also cheaper to produce

24-Sep-2024 - Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are critical to sustaining our planet, but they come with a big challenge: they don't always generate power when it's needed. To make the most of them, we need efficient and affordable ways to store the energy they produce, so we have power even when ...

Researchers can now accurately measure the emergence and damping of a plasmonic field

This is crucial for renewable energy and other technologies

13-May-2024 - An international research team led by Universität Hamburg, DESY, and Stanford University has developed a new approach to characterize the electric field of arbitrary plasmonic samples, like e.g. gold nanoparticles. Plasmonic materials are of particular interest due to their extraordinary ...

Germany’s hydrogen strategy: More consistent focus on green hydrogen needed

Now is the time to establish viable hydrogen supply chains

06-May-2024 - Germany aims to become a global leader in hydrogen technologies. In contrast to other countries, its hydrogen strategy places a strong focus on promoting “green hydrogen” based on renewable energies, supported by cooperation with partners in distant regions. While this approach is likely to ...

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 ...

Electrification or hydrogen?

Both have distinct roles in the European energy transition

20-Feb-2024 - A key step to achieving climate neutrality in the European Union is to rapidly shift from fossil fuels to electric technologies powered by renewable energies, a new study shows. At the same time, hydrogen produced from electricity will also be indispensable in hard-to-electrify sectors such as ...

Industrial areas become industrial hubs for the Circular Economy

The European Union wants to be the first digitally-led, climate-neutral and sustainable Circular Economy

19-Feb-2024 - In a functioning circular economy, different sectors must work together and symbioses between different technologies are a key prerequisite. To achieve this, systemic change is necessary. A consortium of 35 organizations from various countries in Europe is working on this in the Horizon Europe ...

HIMA Group acquires Origo Solutions

Expansion of Process Safety in Scandinavia

07-Feb-2024 - The HIMA Group has acquired the Norwegian technology company Origo Solutions. The agreement was signed on 8 January and is effective as of 31 January. With this transaction, both companies intend to continue their growth strategies and expand their range of solutions for the process industry and ...

The ‘one-pot’ nanosheet method catalyzing a green energy revolution

13-Dec-2023 - A research group from the Institute for Future Materials and Systems at Nagoya University in Japan has developed a new “one-pot” method to make nanosheets using less rare metals. Their discovery should allow for the energy-making process to be more eco-friendly. The journal ACS Nano published the ...

Hydrogen production of 110 million tons per year expected for 2030

The 2030s will be a crucial decade

07-Dec-2023 - Hydrogen is an important building block for decarbonization worldwide. By 2030, global hydrogen production will increase to 110 million metric tons (Mt) per year, and probably to 240 Mt by 2040, according to the recent study by Roland Berger "The Roaring '30s – A clean hydrogen acceleration ...

Vulcan officially opened its Lithium Extraction Optimisation Plant

Europe’s first plant for fully domestic lithium chemicals production, to secure Europe’s lithium supply chain for Battery Electric Vehicle manufacturers

28-Nov-2023 - Vulcan officially opened its Lithium Extraction Optimisation Plant (LEOP) in Landau, Germany, in a ceremony attended by local community, shareholders, politicians, strategic partners and industry. The start of operations at LEOP will signify the first lithium chemicals which will be produced in ...