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