27 Aug 2024
CO2 Utilization Market to Grow To US$240 Billion by 2045
Carbon capture technologies capable of removing CO2 from industrial emissions have been around for over 50 years, but widescale deployment of CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage) has been too slow for global net-zero ambitions. While governments are beginning to implement carbon pricing mechanisms or tax credits to motivate permanent storage of CO2 deep underground, a profitable business model exists beyond CO2 sequestration via emerging CO2 utilization applications.
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9 Jul 2024
Asahi Kasei: Fire Protection for Electric Vehicles
Asahi Kasei is a multinational Japanese chemical company founded in 1931 with headquarters in Chiyoda City, Tokyo. IDTechEx spoke to Asahi Kasei about its LASTAN material with potential for use in electric vehicle (EV) batteries as fire protection.
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11 Apr 2024
Can Greener CO2-derived Chemicals Accelerate CCUS Uptake?
The chemical sector alone is responsible for 2% of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions, and the industry depends heavily on finite fossil fuel feedstocks. The new IDTechEx report, "Carbon Dioxide Utilization 2024-2044: Technologies, Market Forecasts, and Players", explores how captured CO2 could be utilized as a feedstock for hundreds of different chemicals instead.
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9 Apr 2024
Hitachi Zosen Corporation: PEMEL & Methanation Technologies
Hitachi Zosen Corporation (HITZ) is a major Japanese industrial and engineering corporation. HITZ has developed a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer (PEMEL) technology called HydroSpring. This profile covers HITZ's hydrogen and methanation technologies as well as the alkaline water electrolyzer (AWE) and methanation technologies of its Swiss subsidiary, Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI).