NREL CO2 to Formate

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Researchers at NREL have developed a new way of converting CO2 to a more usable product- formate.

UCB CO2, Sunlight Hybrid Process

Atmospheric Capture, Technology, Direct Air Capture, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

A hybrid system of bacteria and nanowire that has the ability to harness sunlight and use it to convert CO2 and water into chemicals that can be used to create organic molecules.

OSAKI CoolGen IGCC Plant

Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Project, Short-term Recycling, Demonstration, Commercial, ALL

OSAKI CoolGen is using Honeywell’s UOP SeparALL technology during coal gasification processes.

Solvay Chemicals India (Solvay-Vishnu)

Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, ALL, Complete

Industrial plant.

Erdos Project

Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, ALL, In Planning

Demonstration site for Shenhua’s coal-to-chemicals process.

Chongqing Hechuan Shuanghuai Project

Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL

Post-combustion capture from coal-fired power plant.

Tuticorin Alkali Chemical & Fertilizers

Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL

Commercial operations at a chemical/ fertilizer plant.

Kedah CO2 Recovery Plant

Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL

Natural gas fired steam reformer using MHI’s KM CDR process to remove CO2 from flue gas.

Carbon2Chem

Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL

16 partners from industry and science to convert CO2 emissions into chemical components.

Lianyungang IGCC with CCS Project

Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Pre-combustion, ALL, In Planning

IGCC plant with CCS.

Capital Aggregates Cement

Atmospheric Capture, Mineralization, Process chemicals, Commercial, ALL

Using Skyonic mineralization technology for capturing CO2; CO2 used for sodium bicarbonate.

SABIC Project

Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL

Captures 1,500 tons/day of CO2 from two ethylene glycol plants.

Searles Valley Minerals Plant

Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL

Capturing CO2 using amine scrubbing technology from one of their coal-fired power plant.

Engro Fertilizers

Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Commercial, ALL

Chemical production facility capturing CO2 increase urea production.

Invista Nylon Intermediates

Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL

Using CO₂ and hydrogen for the direct production of industrial chemicals including nylon intermediates.

Valorisation Carbone Quebec Project

Industrial Capture, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Long-term Storage, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Permanent Sequestration, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL

Supported by a $15 M grant from the Quebec government, led by CO₂ Solutions; The objective of the VCQ project is to develop and demonstrate commercially viable end-to-end solutions to capture and utilize CO₂ in various applications while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

Earth Energy (EE) & American Green Gasoline (AGG) Project

Synthetic hydrocarbons, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL

Organized to develop profitable commercial ventures that add value to alcohol production, bioprocessing, and/or use CO₂ and other waste streams as inputs into production of biofuels, chemicals, and high value products.

CO2toMethanol.com

Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, ALL

Planning to build a plant that will convert natural gas and CO2 to methanol.

Rheticus II

Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, ALL

Plans to develop a test plant that will use CO2, water, and electricity from renewable sources and bacteria to produce specialty chemicals.

MefCO2

Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL

Project to build a plant that could demonstrate the economic feasibility of using captured CO2 and turning it into chemicals such as methanol.

Soletair- Finland

Atmospheric Capture, Direct Air Capture, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Process chemicals, Demonstration, ALL

100% renewable energy powers direct air capture.

TerraCOH

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL

Next generation geothermal for emissions free power, using CO₂ as a subsurface working fluid which can be used at 50% more locations than traditional geothermal; Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) Plume Geothermal – CPG™.

The Georgia Tech Research Corporations

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Design of transition-metal/zeolite catalysts for direct conversion of coal-derived CO₂ to aromatics; New catalytic process to produce valuable aromatic chemicals directly from CO₂ in coal-fired power plant flue gas; Will enable a single-reactor process for conversion of CO₂ to aromatics that can be deployed onsite at coal-fired power plants.

Thyssenkrupp – Carbon2Chem

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL

Uses gases from steelmaking process as raw materials for chemical production.

University of Iowa

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Selective and efficient electrochemical production of neat formic acid from CO₂ using novel PGM-free catalysts: abiotic electrolyzer cost-effectively convert CO₂ to formic acid; The project will design a process where CO₂ is collected from the flue gas of coal or fossil fuel combustion and fed to the electrolyzer; The supercritical CO₂ phase will be used for reduction and a liquid water phase will be used for oxidation.

West Virginia University

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Converts CO₂ from power plant flue gas into commercial-quality sodium bicarbonate, aiming to lower the cost of carbon capture technology.

White Dog Labs – MixoFerm

Food and beverage, Technology, Process chemicals, Project, Short-term Recycling, ALL

Anaerobic, non-photosynthetic mixotrophy (or Mixotrophic Fermentation).

Mainstream Engineering Corporation

Technology, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Developing an electrosynthesis process that utilizes CO₂ from coal flue gas to produce fuels or chemical precursors, including carboxylic acids. Carboxylic acids are valuable and important precursors used in polymers, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and cosmetics.

E3TEC Service, LLC

Technology, Industrial Capture, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Converting captured carbon dioxide (CO2) into high-value industrial chemicals, specifically dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and monoethylene glycol (MEG), using their patented heat-integrated reactive distillation (HIRD) process.

University of Delaware – CO2 to Alcohols

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Novel integrated electrolysis system to produce C2-C3 alcohols, such as ethanol and propanol, using carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plant flue gas.

University of Kentucky Research Foundation

Atmospheric Capture, BECCS, Biodegradable plastics, Technology, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Microalgae-based process to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired flue gas to value-added products utilizing a dual photobioreactor (PBR)/pond cultivation strategy.

Faraday Technology Inc.

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL

Faraday Technology Inc. with MIT is developing an electrochemical process that incorporates gas diffusion electrode technology to make formic acid.

Southern Research Institute

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL

Thermocatalytic ethylene production process using ethane and actual coal-fired flue gas CO2

Aramco Performance Materials

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL

Uses a catalyst to combine CO2 and hydrocarbons to create polyols

RTI CO2 to Acrylonirile

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Novel catalytic process technology for utilization of CO2 for acrylonitrile production

RTI CO2 to CO

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Catalyst technology for oxygen abstraction from CO2

RTI Dry Methane

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Dry methane reforming

Rice University- the Wang Group

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Converts CO2 into carbon monoxide (CO) and formic acid products using high-performance catalysts

Global CO2 Initiative (University of Michigan)

Carbon fibers, Cement, Technology, Industrial Capture, Plastics, Synthetic hydrocarbons, Long-term Storage, Polymers, Process chemicals, Post-combustion, Synthetic materials, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

The Global CO2 Initiative at the University of Michigan aims to identify and pursue commercially sustainable approaches that reduce atmospheric CO2 levels by 4 gigatons/year.

Air Co.

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, ALL

A process that uses electricity and a catalyst (heat) in water to turn CO₂ into ethanol; Carbon negative alcohol is produced.

Phytonix Corporation

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Photosynthetic conversion of industrial CO2 emissions into low cost industrial chemicals

Opus 12

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Demonstration, ALL

Combines new catalysts with a novel drop-in component that reprograms existing hardware to split CO2

bse Engineering

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Enables the sustainable use of current and CO2 with small-scale, delocalized production units built where the two components are generated, i.e. near power plants using renewable sources of energy as well as large-scale industrial plants producing CO2.

Electrochaea GmbH

Enhanced oil recovery, Technology, Process chemicals, Permanent Sequestration, Short-term Recycling, Demonstration, ALL

Stranded electricity and CO₂ is converted into renewable gas for EOR.

OCO Corporation OCOfoam

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Commercial, ALL

Electro-catalytic conversation of CO2, water, and electric energy into liquid formic acid

Enobraq

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

CO2 as an industrial fermentation feedstock.

Oakbio

Biodegradable plastics, Food and beverage, Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Pilot, ALL

CO2 to food and feed products, bioplastics, and chemicals

b.fab GmbH

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, ALL

Using CO₂ and water from renewable sources a process produces formic acid; Then the liquid feedstock (formic acid) is used as substrate in the bioprocess using b.fab formatothropic strains and directed into a desired product.

North Carolina State University

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Sustainable conversion of CO2/Shale gas to green acetic acid via a thermochemical cyclic redox scheme

CO2ElectroRefinery – CO2 to Chemicals

Technology, Process chemicals, Short-term Recycling, Lab, ALL

Aiming to develop a bio/electrochemical system that can convert waste CO₂ into hydrocarbons or higher organics; Then that system would be developed into a modular system which is linked to renewable energy sources.