Dr. Aaron Appel, who is leading the efforts to rationally design catalysts for carbon dioxide conversion PNNL's Institute for Integrated Catalysis, shared his team's work on two groups of catalysts that are involved in the first step of turning carbon dioxide
into liquid transportation fuels.
Not exact matches
Ultimately, this facility may be able to convert as much as 1,000 metric tons of biomass per day
into liquid fuel; the goal is to build a commercial - scale facility that would churn out 50 million gallons (189.2 million liters) of
transportation fuels per year.
Nor does it apparently intend to directly, materially * reduce * the CO2 in the atmosphere (i.e. the reason for «creating»
liquid hydrocarbon
fuels would primarily be for
transportation, so burning them would re-release the CO2, uncaptured, back
into the atmosphere).
We are conducting our own research efforts
into alternative energy, such as through sponsorship of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University and research
into liquid products from algae and biomass that can be further converted to
transportation fuels.
Primus Green Energy Inc., an alternative
fuel company that converts natural gas and other feedstocks directly
into drop - in
transportation fuels and solvents (earlier post), announced that its patent application covering its STG +
liquid fuel synthesis technology has been allowed by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Southern Research Institute has entered
into a $ 1.5 - million cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy to test an innovative method for producing
liquid transportation fuels from coal and biomass, thereby improving the economics and lifecycle impacts of coal - to -
liquid (CTL) and coal - biomass - to -
liquid (CBTL) processes.