Feb

27

Reverse Fuel Cell Turns CO2 Back Into Valuable Chemicals

February 27, 2020 | Leave a Comment

University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering’s engineering team has adapted technology from fuel cells to do the reverse: harness electricity to make valuable chemicals from waste carbon (CO2). Usual fuel cells turn chemicals into electricity, now the technology has been reversed. Professor Ted Sargent, one of the senior authors of the paper […]

May

22

New Process Makes CO2 Back Into Hydrocarbon

May 22, 2018 | Leave a Comment

University of Toronto engineers have designed a most efficient and stable process for recycling carbon dioxide into a key chemical building block for plastics – all powered using renewable electricity. The new technology takes a substantial step towards enabling manufacturers to create plastics out of two key ingredients: sunshine and pollution. Today, non-renewable fossil fuels […]

Jul

5

Breakthrough Catalyst Makes CO2 Back Into a Hydrocarbon

July 5, 2016 | 1 Comment

Researchers at Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum have discovered a catalyst that performs the highly selective conversion and recycling of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into ethylene. Ethylene, commonly found with natural gas, or distilled or cracked from crude oil, is an important source material for the chemical industry. The team headed by Professor Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya from […]

Dec

24

A Strong Hint on Building Synthetic Hydrocarbons

December 24, 2012 | 2 Comments

Colleagues at Northwestern University and the University of Virginia are working to invent novel ways and catalytic materials to activate methane to produce ethylene.  The collaborating team published a paper in the online edition of the journal Nature Chemistry detailing the use of sulfur as a possible “soft” oxidant for catalytically converting methane into ethylene, […]

Jul

6

Catalysts Built With The Smallest Life Form

July 6, 2010 | 1 Comment

Siluria Technologies, a Silicon Valley startup is reporting progress with a New York Times story in commercializing a nanoscience-based approach to ethylene production using a virus for the catalyst construction scaffold. The technique is focused on the ability of a genetically engineered virus to coat itself with a metal that serves as a catalyst for […]

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