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Environmentally Friendly Polycarbonates Made from Limonene and Carbon Dioxide

Polycarbonates can be found in numerous products from phone cases to airplane windows. Globally, several million tons of polycarbonate are manufactured annually.

18 Jul 2017

New Material Uses Solar Energy to Remove Synthetic Dye Pollutants from Water

Researchers in the Energy Safety Research Institute at Swansea University have developed a novel composite material that has potential as a catalyst for the degradation of environmentally-harmful artificial dye pollutants, which are released at a rate of closely 300,000 tons annually into the world’s water.

30 Jun 2017

Researchers Aim to Create Environmentally Friendly Catalysts for Plastics Production

A team of Researchers at the University of Illinois are working towards developing more environmentally friendly catalysts for the manufacture of resin and plastic precursors that are regularly derived from fossil fuels.

6 Jun 2017

Research on Converting Carbon Dioxide to Methanol

Pollution and mankind’s dependence on petroleum products can both be reduced by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and converting it to methanol and other useful chemicals. Therefore, scientists are extremely interested in catalysts that help in such chemical conversions.

24 Mar 2017

Researchers Discover Photoanodes that help in Extracting Hydrogen Gas from Water

In a time span of just two years, scientists from Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, have almost doubled the number of materials that can be potentially used in solar fuels.

7 Mar 2017

ORNL Researchers Offer New Alternative for Carbon Capture from Ambient Air

A team of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered a simple, reliable method to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from ambient air, providing a new alternative for carbon capture and storage strategies to tackle global warming.

10 Jan 2017

Cementsizer Helping Reduce Carbon Footprint

Worcestershire based Xoptix Ltd, have seen an increase in demand for their CementSizer due to its unique way of ensuring process efficiency targets are met, while reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint.

From Xoptix 7 Dec 2016

Industrial CT Helps Research into Green Energy Solutions

DTU Energy, the department of energy conversion and storage that is part of the Technical University of Denmark, has purchased high flux CT (computed tomography) equipment from Nikon Metrology to investigate energy-related materials non-destructively, such as those found in batteries, electrolysis cells and fuel cells.

From Nikon Metrology 6 Dec 2016

Study on Phase-Change Materials to Make Power Generation Cleaner

A competitive award was given to Joshua Charles, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering for his research into the application of phase change materials to help enhance the efficiency of power plants and decrease the amount of pollutants they discharge.

29 Nov 2016

New Energy-Efficient Mobile and Stationary SOMOS® Resin Dryers

ProTec Polymer Processing, the international system supplier to the plastics industry, presents the new energy-efficient SOMOS® RDT and RDM resin dryers.

From ProTec Polymer Processing 16 Nov 2016

Clean Technology News

Environmentally Friendly Polycarbonates Made from Limonene and Carbon Dioxide

New Material Uses Solar Energy to Remove Synthetic Dye Pollutants from Water

Researchers Aim to Create Environmentally Friendly Catalysts for Plastics Production

Research on Converting Carbon Dioxide to Methanol

Researchers Discover Photoanodes that help in Extracting Hydrogen Gas from Water

ORNL Researchers Offer New Alternative for Carbon Capture from Ambient Air

Cementsizer Helping Reduce Carbon Footprint

Industrial CT Helps Research into Green Energy Solutions

Study on Phase-Change Materials to Make Power Generation Cleaner

New Energy-Efficient Mobile and Stationary SOMOS® Resin Dryers

Testing Medical Device Connections In-Line with ISO 80369

The Evolution of Plasma Treatment

Hardness Testing and Direct Certification

Isostatically Pressed Alumina Crucibles

Producing of Fuel Cell Electrodes with Nafion®-Powder

Testing Food Ingredients with the QUASIR 3000 Integrating Sphere FT-NIR

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