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Sunlight to Syngas: Revolutionizing Methane Reforming

PNAS Nexus — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:23:44 +0000

A new solar-driven photocatalysis method for syngas production from methane steam reforming promises a more sustainable and efficient approach to syngas generation. Recent research reveals...

Breakthrough Discovery Could Help Improve Fuel Production

Washington State University — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 02:06:11 +0000

Researchers at Washington State University have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the Fischer Tropsch process, a key industrial method for converting coal, natural gas,...

Revolutionizing Fuel Safety: Scientists Develop Liquid Fuel That Can’t Start Fires

University of California - Riverside — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:29:50 +0000

Chemical engineers at UC Riverside have developed a unique liquid fuel that requires an electric current to ignite. Unlike conventional fuels, this innovative fuel doesn’t...

Green Genius: MIT and Harvard Engineers Transform CO2 Into Formate Fuel

David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:50:33 +0000

The approach directly converts the greenhouse gas into formate, a solid fuel that can be stored indefinitely and could be used to heat homes or...

MIT’s Biomass Breakthrough: 100% Sustainable Jet Fuel From Plant Waste

Nancy W. Stauffer, MIT Energy Initiative — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:42:58 +0000

MIT researchers are converting the plant material lignin into hydrocarbon molecules that could help make jet fuel 100 percent sustainable. An MIT research team is...

New Innovative System Can Turn Seawater Into Fuel

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory — Tue, 30 May 2023 12:05:51 +0000

The cocktail of elements in seawater, including hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, and others, is essential for life on Earth. However, this intricate chemical makeup poses a...

Scientists Develop Next-Gen Fuel Cell Membrane With Unmatched Conductivity

Nagoya University — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:08:57 +0000

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan, under a project commissioned by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), have created poly(styrenesulfonic acid)-based PEMs...

Biofuel Research: Full Decarbonization of U.S. Aviation Sector Is Within Grasp

Arizona State University — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:00:26 +0000

Research demonstrates a pathway to sustainably produce biojet fuel domestically and meet the country’s growing aviation fuel demand. Every day in the United States, 45,000...

New Method Converts Greenhouse Gas Into Fuel

São Paulo Research Foundation — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 14:10:38 +0000

The new method converts methane gas into liquid methanol. A team of researchers has successfully converted methane into methanol using light and scattered transition metals...

New Plastic Upcycling Technology: From Waste To Fuel for Less

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:40:32 +0000

New technology could divert problem plastics from landfills and convert them into fuel sources. A plastics recycling innovation that does more with less simultaneously increases...

Floating “Artificial Leaves” Generate Clean Fuels From Sunlight and Water

University of Cambridge — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:00:39 +0000

Scientists have developed floating ‘artificial leaves’ that generate clean fuels from sunlight and water. They could eventually operate on a large scale at sea. The...

New Way Invented To Produce Oxygen on Mars for Future Explorers

American Institute of Physics — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 08:22:36 +0000

Converting carbon dioxide into oxygen and producing fuels, fertilizers on the red planet using a plasma-based method. A plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen...

Not Just Bread and Beer: Microbes Can Ferment Carbon Dioxide To Make Fuel

National Renewable Energy Laboratory — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 22:03:21 +0000

Scientists Mapped Out a “Bicyclic Carbon Fixation” Pathway for Speeding Up Gas Fermentation in Specialized Bacteria Bakers ferment the dough for a well-risen loaf of...

Decades in the Making – New Catalyst Could Make Hydrogen Fuel Cells Affordable

University at Buffalo — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 17:09:58 +0000

The commercialization of eco-friendly fuel has been stalled for decades by the high cost of platinum, but a study indicates that the low-cost catalyst may...

Lights, Catalyst, Reaction! Photoreduction of CO2 Into Transportable Fuel

Tokyo Institute of Technology — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:48:51 +0000

Converting CO2 to Formic Acid Using an Alumina-Supported, Iron-Based Compound Photoreduction of CO2 into transportable fuel like formic acid (HCOOH) is a great way of...

Patent-Pending Technology Converts “Waste” Carbon Into Valuable Chemicals and Useful Elements

Karyn Hede, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — Wed, 11 May 2022 21:47:55 +0000

Patent-pending process removes biofuel contaminants from wastewater using an additive-free process that generates hydrogen to fuel its own operation The holy grail of biofuel researchers...

Using Sunlight To Turn Astronaut Waste Into Fuel on Mars

European Space Agency (ESA) — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:26:41 +0000

To survive on Mars will mean maximizing use of all available resources. A team from Spanish technological center Tekniker is working on a system that uses sunlight to...

Methane-Eating Bacteria Convert Potent Greenhouse Gas Into Usable Fuel

Northwestern University — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 02:47:35 +0000

State-of-the-art method reveals never-before-seen atomic structures controlling the process. Methanotrophic bacteria consume 30 million metric tons of methane per year and have captivated researchers for...

Scientists Discover a New, Sustainable Way To Make Hydrogen for Fuel Cells and Fertilizers

RIKEN — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:19:36 +0000

A new sustainable and practical method for producing hydrogen from water has been discovered by a team of researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable...

New Nature-Inspired Concepts for Efficiently Turning CO2 Into Clean, Sustainable Fuels

University of Cambridge — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:10:12 +0000

Researchers have developed an efficient concept to turn carbon dioxide into clean, sustainable fuels, without any unwanted by-products or waste. The researchers, from the University...

Game-Changing Carbon Capture Technology To Remove 99% of CO2 From Air

University of Delaware — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:15:35 +0000

University of Delaware researchers’ carbon capture advance could bring environmentally friendly fuel cells closer to market. University of Delaware engineers have demonstrated a way to...

Gold Solution to Catalysis Grand Challenge: Converting Natural Gas Into Useful Chemicals and Fuels

Cardiff University — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 22:32:11 +0000

Cardiff University researchers demonstrate the suitability of gold as a catalyst to produce methanol and acetic acid from the methane in natural gas. A simple,...

Scientific Detective Work on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Vienna University of Technology — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:06:25 +0000

Researchers at TU Wien are investigating new materials that can be used to reduce the operation temperature of solid oxide fuel cells. To do so,...

Carbon Dioxide Reactor Synthesizes Martian Fuel

University of Cincinnati — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 19:51:03 +0000

A gas station on Mars? Chemical engineers envision the possibilities. Engineers at the University of Cincinnati are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to...