Hydrogen

Keeping water awaySyngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen, allows nonpetroleum resources such as biomass and natural gas to be converted to chemical products through Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. However, for the production of olefins, a key feedstock for other chemicals, about 50% of the CO is transformed to carbon…

Double C–H aminationThe conversion of C–H bonds into C–N bonds is broadly useful in producing pharmaceutically important compounds from simple, readily available feedstocks. Shen and Lambert report a method to induce this reaction twice in a row at benzylic and neighboring alkyl carbon centers, using acetonitrile solvent as a convenient…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Catalysts are key materials in modern society, enabling selective conversion of raw materials into valuable products while reducing waste and saving energy. In case of industrially relevant oxidative dehydrogenation reactions, most known catalyst systems are based on transition metals such as iron, vanadium, molybdenum or silver.…

Cars and heavy vehicles are two very different businesses GOTTLIEB DAIMLER and Carl Benz built the world’s first motor cars at the same time in 1886, not far apart in Germany. Their names have been tied together since a merger of their firms in 1926. Daimler is the parent company…

Fis­ter­ra En­er­gy SLU has an­nounced a part­ner­ship with Ke­nes­jay Green Lim­it­ed (KGL) to pur­sue a po­ten­tial de­vel­op­ment of KGL’s first ma­jor hy­dro­gen project, New­Gen. The project is ex­pect­ed to pro­duce car­bon neu­tral and green hy­dro­gen as feed­stock for the Trinidad Ni­tro­gen Com­pa­ny’s (Trin­gen) am­mo­nia com­plex, which is co-owned by Yara…

Seawater makes up about 96% of all water on earth, making it a tempting resource to meet the world's growing need for clean drinking water and carbon-free energy. And scientists already have the technical ability to both desalinate seawater and split it to produce hydrogen, which is in demand as…

Representative image SynopsisCBG is derived from agri-waste and other forms of organic waste — a hi-tech version of gobar gas. Unlike the latter, though, a CBG plant produces sulphur stripped of methane of automotive-grade, producing high-quality solid and liquid organic fertilisers as byproducts. Petroleum and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan…

On Tuesday, an otherwise fairly boring confirmation hearing heralded a remarkable victory for climate policy. In response to several questions about climate, 74-year-old former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, now poised to become Joe Biden’s treasury secretary, called climate change an “existential threat” and said she would appoint someone at…

University of New South Wales Ammonia has sustained humanity since the early 20th century, but its production leaves a huge carbon footprint. Now researchers have found a way to make it 100 per cent renewable. Chemical engineers at UNSW Sydney have found a way to make ‘green’ ammonia from air,…

An artistic rendering of the quarks and gluons that make up a proton.Illustration by D. Dominguez / CERN In a recent experiment done at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, in Germany, physicist Alexey Grinin and his colleagues came a step closer to resolving one of the more significant…