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Drax and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to construct combined bioenergy and carbon-capture pilot plant

Drax Group and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd., part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group (MHI), have agreed a new bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) pilot project at Drax Power Station which will get underway this autumn. The pilot…

BP Ventures invests $5 million in geospatial methane-monitoring

BP plc (London) announced that bp ventures has invested $5 million in Satelytics, a cloud-based geospatial analytics software company that uses advanced spectral imagery and machine learning to monitor environmental changes, including methane emissions. Satelytics collects high resolution spectral imagery…

Austrian consortium unveils major decarbonization project focused on CO2 capture, green hydrogen

In Austria, a consortium of Lafarge Zementwerke, a member of LafargeHolcim Group, OMV, VERBUND and Borealis have co-signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the joint planning and construction of a full-scale plant by 2030 to capture CO2 and process…

Agilyx and TechnipFMC to collaborate on pathways for polystyrene re-use

Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.) announced an exclusive collaboration with TechnipFMC to jointly develop a process to purify Agilyx Styrene Oil to high-purity styrene. This collaboration has been the result of over a year of evaluation, and their desire to expand…

Eleven regional projects to receive funding from E.U.’s Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Joint Undertaking

Europe’s Fuel Cell and Hydrogen (FCH) Joint Undertaking has announced the 11 regional projects that will receive funds for Project Development Assistance (PDA). Project plans include deployment of hydrogen production from wind and solar power and as an industrial by-product.…

New collaboration focuses on biogas-to-hydrogen plants in Australia

ReCarbon, Inc., (Santa Clara, Calif.), the developer of the patented Plasma Carbon Conversion Unit (PCCU), a greenhouse gas utilization technology, announced the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with leading Australian bioenergy developer, Utilitas Group towards building biogas-to-hydrogen plants across…

Tokuyama and Toyota begin verification tests on new hydrogen-generator technology

Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo) and Toyota Motor Corp. (Toyota) have commenced verification tests, using by- product hydrogen, of a stationary fuel cell generator (FC generator) that makes use of the fuel cell system (FC system) installed in the Mirai Fuel Cell…

New E.U. project aims to make ‘green hydrogen’ more affordable

Green hydrogen is a key for the energy transition, both as a carbon-free fuel for industry and transportation, and as a key raw material for the chemical process industries (CPI). Green hydrogen is produced from water by electrolysis using electricity…

Praj and Lygos to co-develop advanced lactic acid technology

Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India) and Lygos, Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to co-develop Lygos’s proprietary yeast for the production of lactic acid. As part of this MOU, Lygos will provide its proprietary yeast platform…

Mitsui invests $25 million in California-based hydrogen startup

Mitsui & Co. (Tokyo) has invested a total of $25 million in FirstElement Fuel, Inc. (FEF.), the biggest developer and operator of hydrogen stations in California. FEF is a start-up established in 2013. Mitsui first began to collaborate with FEF…