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Coventry University and Severn Trent partner to convert waste ammonia into hydrogen

Envirotec Magazine

Researchers from Coventry University are collaborating with Severn Trent and the Organics Group to turn sewage waste into a clean fuel for tankers and other vehicles. The project will look to capture waste ammonia from the utility’s sewage treatment facility and turn it into hydrogen.

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Baker Hughes 2021 Corporate Responsibility Report Highlights Actions Taken To Fulfill Its Net-Zero Ambitions

3BL Media

As an energy technology company with a portfolio of low-carbon solutions across the energy value chain, Baker Hughes’ purpose is to take energy forward – making it safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet. In 2021, 45% of Baker Hughes Foundation’s strategic giving benefited diverse communities. link] via @ReportAlert.

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Aussie innovation turns waste into energy 'gold'

Sustainability Matters

The Australian-made innovation uses high temperatures without oxygen to make a carbon-rich product called biochar, which can be used in carbon electrodes for batteries and other advanced energy storage devices, or can act as a fertiliser or soil amendment.

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Landmark emissions deal for the shipping sector may not push transition to e-fuels fast enough

Envirotec Magazine

below energy, land transport, and heavy industry, but above waste). This is intended to push the industry towards putative low- or zero-carbon fuels such as e-ammonia and e-methanol. Another key ingredient of the new framework is the introduction of financial penalties.

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Study shows most promising well-to-tank routes for hydrogen

Envirotec Magazine

The work identifies the greenhouse gas emissions associated with each hydrogen supply chain pathway, based on technologies available today, as well as those expected to be commercialised in the medium-term such as offshore electrolysis, gas reformation with carbon capture and storage (CCS) and waste gasification with CCS.

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Can we curb COVID’s ocean waste crisis?

Corporate Knights

More than eight million tons of COVID-associated plastic waste, including throwaway personal protective equipment (PPE), have been generated globally during the pandemic, with more than 25,000 tons contaminating oceans, according to some estimates. When plastic [material] is incinerated as clinical waste, it releases carbon.”.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. There’s a lot of work to be done to advance the circular economy and ensure that we are moving away from a linear ‘take-make-waste’ system.”

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