Electrochemically converting carbon dioxide into useful chemicals or fuels is a promising CO2-utilization strategy, but scaling up the process is a challenge. One reason is that the gas-diffusion electrodes (GDEs) used to facilitate contact between gaseous CO2, solid catalyst and…
Dry reforming of methane (DRM), in which carbon dioxide and methane are combined to form synthesis gas (H2 and CO), is an attractive route to making syngas because it does not require consumption of water and does not produce CO2…
Meeting climate-change goals requires steep reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions from existing power plants and hard-to-abate industry operations. However, the energy required to release captured CO2 from sorbent material is a challenge for the economic viability of these efforts. Also, retrofitting…
Shell Catalysts & Technologies (Houston, Tex.; www.shell.com) is pleased to announce that the CANSOLV CO2 Capture System will play a key role in Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power), after the landmark U.K. project took its final investment decision (FID)…
KBR Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) announced today that its ammonia technology has been selected by KazAzot for Kazakhstan's first world-scale fertilizer complex. KBR will provide a technology license, proprietary engineering design, equipment, and catalyst solutions for KazAzot's 2,000 metric tons per…
Australia’s two largest iron-ore miners and its biggest steelmaker have selected the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, as the location to develop Australia’s largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace (ESF) pilot plant. The groundbreaking project combines the expertise of BlueScope…
Power2X (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.power2x.com) has announced a strategic collaboration with Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) to implement Honeywell UOP’s eFiningTM methanol-to-jet processing technology in Power2X’s eFuels Rotterdam project -- a large-scale production and storage hub for sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) and synthetic,…
Westlake Innovations, Inc., a subsidiary of Westlake Corporation (Houston, Tex.; www.westlake.com), today announced the company has invested in Universal Matter Inc. (Burlington, Ont.; www.universalmatter.com), a company seeking to become the leading supplier of high-quality and sustainable graphene and advanced materials…
Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Innventure (Orlando, Fla.; www.innventure.com), a technology commercialization platform, today announced plans to collaborate to develop and commercialize new waste-to-value technologies. The collaboration aims to enable globally scalable, cost-effective conversion of mixed wastes to…
On this episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, CE senior editor Scott Jenkins talks with American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) chief economist Martha Gilchrist-Moore about the ACC's recent 2024 Year-End Situation and Outlook, a recently published collection of economic…