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KBR's Blue Ammonia Technology Selected For Shell Blue Horizons Project In Oman
7/22/2024
KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today its blue ammonia technology has been selected by Shell for its Blue Horizons low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia project in Duqm, Oman. The facility will utilize KBR's leading ammonia synthesis loop technology to deliver cost-competitive and low-carbon intensity ammonia.
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A New Method For Sustainable Synthesis Of Acetylene From Carbon Dioxide
7/22/2024
Researchers, including Yuta Suzuki, Assistant Professor at the Harris Science Research Institute, have developed a novel method for synthesizing acetylene from carbon dioxide without using fossil fuels.
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Petrobras And Braskem Complete Tests On Chemical Product With Renewable Content
7/19/2024
Petrobras has successfully completed a series of industrial-scale tests to produce a stream of Light Refinery Hydrocarbons (LHR) rich in ethylene with renewable content. The project, in partnership with Braskem, has developed, over the past twelve months, a potential renewable raw material for the chemical industry.
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King's Scientists Make Breakthrough Replicating Enzyme That Captures Carbon
7/18/2024
Scientists from King’s College London have recreated the active site of Acetyl-CoA Synthase, an enzyme involved in capturing carbon from the atmosphere. The research, carried out in collaboration with Imperial College London, advances our understanding of this important enzyme, and offers a potential new solution to capture CO2 from the atmosphere in the fight against climate change.
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Montana State Researcher Studies Nano-Scale Materials That Mimic Enzymes To Convert CO2 Into Chemical Building Blocks
7/17/2024
Montana State University researcher James Crawford recently published a collaborative paper with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory that marks a step forward in their quest for what he calls a “holy grail” of chemistry: converting the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into chemical building blocks which could be used to create myriad other materials.
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Air Liquide Innovative CO2 Liquefaction Technology Selected By Stockholm Exergi For A World-Scale Carbon Capture And Storage Project
7/17/2024
Air Liquide's innovative large scale COâ‚‚ liquefaction technology, Cryocap LQ, has been selected by Stockholm Exergi, Stockholm’s energy company, to contribute to its Bio-Energy Carbon Capture & Storage (BECCS) project.
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Methanex And Entropy Partner To Reduce Emissions In Methanol Production
7/17/2024
Methanex Corporation (“Methanex”) (TSX:MX) (NASDAQ:MEOH), one of the world’s largest methanol producers and suppliers and Entropy Inc. (“Entropy”), a leader in carbon capture and storage solutions, have entered into an agreement to invest in a Preliminary Front-End Engineering and Design (“Pre-FEED”) study for carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (“CCUS”) deployment at Methanex’s Medicine Hat, Alberta facility.
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Modular Assembly Of Ethylene, Arenes And Heteroarenes
7/17/2024
Chemists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a modular approach to create 1,2-arylheteroaryl ethanes, a class of compounds important for drug discovery and pharmaceutical development, using fundamental feedstock chemicals such as ethylene, arenes and heteroarenes.
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Capturing Carbon With Energy-Efficient Sodium Carbonate−Nanocarbon Hybrid Material
7/16/2024
Carbon capture is a promising approach for mitigating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Different materials have been used to capture CO2 from industrial exhaust gases.
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Defect Engineering Leads To Designer Catalyst For Production Of Green Hydrogen
7/16/2024
Efficient technology for splitting the hydrogen-oxygen bond in water could be the key to producing low-cost, green hydrogen for energy storage at an industrial scale. Green hydrogen is expected to play a significant role in achieving the U.S. Department of Energy’s target of net zero carbon dioxide emissions.