Carbon capture utilization encompasses technologies that separate carbon dioxide from air, flue gas, or aqueous streams and convert it into fuels, chemicals, and materials. Approaches span sorbent- and solvent-based capture, moisture- and pressure-swing processes, chemical looping, and direct air capture, often integrated with solar, electrochemical, and bio-based systems. Captured CO2 and biogenic carbon are transformed via catalysis, photoelectrochemistry, microbial and thermochemical pathways into products such as methane, methanol, formic acid, plastics, bio-oil, and solid carbon, frequently using waste biomass, wastewater, and plastics as feedstocks.
Energy & Green Tech
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which use microorganisms to generate electricity from organic waste, are emerging as a tool in the transition to cleaner energy systems and for the treatment of wastewater, according to a review ...
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A waste-to-energy system designed for palm oil mills could turn agricultural waste into electricity, industrial fuels and carbon-storing materials while generating commercially viable returns, according to an Industry Note ...
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Energy & Green Tech
The dyes used in the clothing industry almost always come from fossil-fuel-based chemicals. In the long term, this will not be sustainable. In Sweden, scientists in the EU research project Locality are exploring whether algae ...
Jun 8, 2026
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Engineering
The Catalysis Engineering Group at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has developed a new robust process for the recycling of mixed plastics waste. A newly developed pilot plant aims to demonstrate how this can be transformed ...
Jun 6, 2026
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Engineering
Aviation is one of the sectors that contributes most to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on Earth. One proposed strategy for mitigating or counterbalancing the effects of these emissions is to substitute existing ...
Energy & Green Tech
Carbon capture is an important climate change mitigation strategy, but it faces technological barriers and can be energy-intensive and expensive. To help make necessary advances in this area, a team of MIT researchers, with ...
Jun 4, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
A Yale-led research team has developed the first standalone device that produces the liquid fuel methanol using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide as the ingredients. The artificial "leaf," like its namesake in nature, ...
Jun 4, 2026
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For the first time, researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, have found out how to determine how much carbon dioxide (CO2) from either natural or anthropogenic sources can be absorbed by special concrete ...
Jun 4, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Huge amounts of clothing are simply discarded, and almost nothing goes to reuse or recycling. But with sensors and artificial intelligence, textile waste can be sorted so carefully that far more could be recycled—and turned ...
Jun 4, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
A pioneering technology capable of converting lignin, one of the world's most abundant organic compounds, into vanillin and biodegradable materials has been unveiled by the University of Alicante (UA), in collaboration with ...
Jun 3, 2026
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