Solar-heated cement calcining - aided by the greenhouse gas effect?
Solar-heated cement calcining: This is the key point: not only are we addressing carbon emissions from the heat input, which is traditionally supplied by fossil fuels, were also addressing the CO ₂ naturally liberated from calcining the c...
1000-hour thermal energy storage to get test in California’s abandoned oil wells
1000-hour thermal energy storage in abandoned oil wells has been studied in these regions in California and Texas, and a demo project is now starting in California A demo of 1000-hour thermal energy storage in depleted oil wells is one of t...
HDF Energy plans 800 MW green hydrogen project in Tunisia
Hydrogene de France SA ( EPA:EDF ), or HDF Energy, plans to build an 800-MW electrolysis plant to produce green hydrogen in Tunisia to serve the local market and export to Europe. Denys Prykhodov/Shutterstock.com The French company has sign...
ACWA Power to commission 2.6 GW of Saudi solar projects by end-2024
Saudi Arabias ACWA Power Co ( TADAWUL:2082 ) will commence operations in the second half of 2024 for four domestic solar projects with a combined capacity of 2,620 MW and a total investment of SAR 11.5 billion (USD 3.06bn/EUR 2.81bn). Solar...
US DOE allocates USD 2.2bn to 8 grid improvement projects
The US Department of Energy (DOE) on Tuesday announced USD 2.2 billion (EUR 2bn) of grid investments across eight projects spanning 18 states, which are expected to add almost 13 GW of grid capacity, including 4.8 GW of offshore wind. Trans...
DOE announces CST winners of $33 million for industrial decarbonization
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ANNOUNCES $33 MILLION TO DEPLOY SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES TO DECARBONIZE AMERICAS INDUSTRIAL SECTOR Nine Projects Across Seven States Will Support Solar-Powered Production of Hydrogen and Lower Emissions from the Aviation...
How to help invent the transition to a decarbonized world
How to help invent the transition to a decarbonized world research work in concentrated solar. Lina Hockaday and colleagues at Stellenbosch University attending the 2017 SolarPACES Conference Work in concentrated solar research is one rewar...
China’s Three Gorges has begun commissioning their dual-tower CSP project
Located in Guazhou County of northwest Chinas Gansu Province, a novel dual tower/ dual solar field concentrated solar power (CSP) plant has started commissioning and testing and is expected to officially generate power by the end of this ye...
IEA SHC: Broadening the range of research topics and the membership base
The IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme has strengthened its worldwide presence and broadened its range of research topics. During its Executive Committee meeting in Norway in June 2023 it welcomed Poland as a new member. Poland was amo...
China's cumulative turnover of the carbon market reaches nearly 27b yuan
The cumulative turnover of Chinas carbon market has reached nearly 27 billion yuan ($3.71 billion) by July 15. [Photo/IC] The cumulative turnover of Chinas carbon market has reached nearly 27 billion yuan ($3.71 billion) by July 15, Xinhua ...
Developing new quality productive forces
SONG CHEN/CHINA DAILY The resolution on further deepening reform to advance Chinese modernization, which was adopted at the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, reiterated the significance of ...
China's national carbon trading market records big growth
The file photo shows a wind power plant in Zhangjiakou, North Chinas Hebei province. [Photo/Xinhua] Chinas national carbon trading market has witnessed significant growth since it was launched in July 2021, with trading volume and value bot...
Optimal Design of an Absorbent-Enhanced Ammonia Synthesis Process for Solar Thermochemical Energy Storage
Published at ACS Sustainable Chemistry Engineering Optimal Design of an Absorbent-Enhanced Ammonia Synthesis Process for Solar Thermochemical Energy Storage Abstract: Concentrating solar power systems are crucial for capturing solar energy....
Experts show different metal reduces thermal energy storage tank failures
Storage tank failure has long bedeviled the oil and gas industry. But there the liquids are not stored at such high temperatures as for concentrated solar thermal energy, with its daily cycling form hot to hotter Todays commercial Concentra...
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Carbon sequestration in mining waste over the past 50 years can be seen at BPH Groups Australian nickel mine at Mt Keith. The mineral wastes have weathered and become bluer and then whiter, indicating the changed chemical composition as it ...