Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2025

Levidians patented LOOP technology captures carbon from methane before combustion, enabling heavy emitters and hard-to-abate industries to decarbonise gas flows while producing clean hydrogen and high-quality graphene. by 2050, meaning that an infrastructure scale-up and technology advancements are needed to meet demand.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Methane update reveals that reduced demand for oil and gas during the pandemic's shutdown of industry and travel saw methane emissions drop 10 per cent in 2020. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

By the end of this year, says Grolsch, more than two-thirds of its heat demand will be met by sustainable heat from waste management company Twence , delivered through a new underground pipeline. With this heat supply, not all of Grolsch’s biogas can be used directly for its own heat demand anymore. Biogas upgrading.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

At the heart of LOOP is a patented ‘nozzle’ where microwave energy is applied to crack methane into its component parts, creating clean hydrogen and capturing carbon in the form of high purity graphene. This unlocks decarbonisation projects that might not otherwise happen due to cost. Table: Graphene use case examples (credit: Levidian).

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EDF + Business

MARCH 6, 2023

ESG By EDF: Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Plugging the Leaks: An Investor Guide to Oil and Gas Methane Risk Oil and gas companies must curb methane emissions to limit warming this decade, and address urgent risks. The last few years have seen notable improvements in the methane-related performance of some companies.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

By leveraging Modern Hydrogen’s methane pyrolysis technology, the two entities seek to reduce carbon emissions for industries such as steel production, cement manufacturing, and pulp-and-paper facilities. How Methane Pyrolysis Works and Why It Matters Modern Hydrogens methane pyrolysis technology is at the heart of this partnership.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Meeting AIs Energy Demands with Innovative Solutions Artificial intelligence has seen explosive growth over the past few years, with generative AI tools like ChatGPT igniting the demand for powerful computing infrastructure. More than just meeting demand, however, is the need to address the environmental impact of AIs growth.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The climate impact of methane emissions from hundreds of new coal mines currently planned worldwide could strike a major blow to efforts to avoid catastrophic levels of global warming, according to the startling results of a first-of-its-kind study released today. million tonnes of methane each year.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) Methane, often from natural gas, is heated with steam to release hydrogen. This setup enables facilities to scale production based on demand, offering flexibility and cost efficiency. coal or oil reserves), hydrogen can be produced almost anywhereusing water, methane, or biomass.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Researchers have developed a new photocatalyst that could render steam methane reforming entirely emissions-free and extend catalyst lifetimes.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

The document highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain. Methane emissions have a lifetime in the atmosphere of only about 10 years, which is ten times shorter than that of carbon dioxide. We can’t argue our way out of drastic changes.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2022

With immediate government backing, this gas demand could be directly replaced with home-grown biomethane within the next four years. Finally, biomethane is generated by recycling methane emitting organic wastes. Therefore, the AD sector alone could deliver 20% of the UK’s commitment to the Global Methane Pledge.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Fossil fuel companies confirm plan to review collective methane targets for 2025 and onwards in light of new goal. They have also pointed out that methane's relatively short atmospheric lifetime means action taken now would have a far more rapid impact than action on carbon.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The companys valves and regulators can handle gas and liquid applications with remarkable precision, delivering a solution tailor-made for both today’s energy challenges and the demands of tomorrows infrastructure. Oxford Flows valves minimize the risks associated with leakage and deterioration, making them ideal for this purpose.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. That’s equivalent to about 5% of the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

A cohesive value chain is essential for realizing hydrogen’s potential, encompassing low-carbon hydrogen production, storage, and distribution infrastructure, which align with end-user demand. The most prevalent is steam methane reforming (SMR). Each segment poses unique technical and socio-economic challenges. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As COP29 gets underway this week , we are reflecting on the progress made since COP28, where six pioneering companies – Bel, Danone, General Mills, Kraft Heinz, Lactalis USA and Nestlé — joined forces with Environmental Defense Fund to launch the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, joined in the spring by Clover Sonoma and Starbucks.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It also means industries like utilities and auto manufacturers that make up the bulk of demand for oil and gas. That means midstream and downstream infrastructure like pipelines, liquefied natural gas terminals and a wave of ethane crackers driving a global plastic pollution crisis.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

New report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) highlights the need to control methane slips on ships that have switched to using LNG as fuel. The researchers comes amidst predictions demand for LNG fuel for ships trading within the European Union could triple between 2019 and 2030.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Hydrogen derived from methane — usually from natural gas, but also coal and biomass — was pioneered in World War II by Germany, which has no petroleum deposits. But CO2 is emitted in manufacturing hydrogen from methane and so it’s not climate friendly; hydrogen manufactured this way is known as gray hydrogen.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Collaborative levers for methane abatement in national oil companies National oil companies dominate industry methane emissions; enlisting them to clean up requires understanding the governments that manage them.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A Dutch carbon tax, that would cover emissions from producing hydrogen using methane, is expected to reach €125 ($137) per ton of CO2 equivalent emissions by 2030. Dutch research organization TNO estimates that one ton of hydrogen produced from methane leads to 10 tons of CO2 equivalent.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Even if they perform as hoped, the power plants would likely burn imported liquified natural gas (LNG) from the United States, Qatar, and other suppliers — a fuel source that emits high levels of climate-heating methane when it’s being extracted, transported and stored. An LNG tanker loads in Freeport, Texas Credit: ©Edward Donnelly.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Pioneering Emissions-Free Hydrogen Production: A Rice University Breakthrough In a significant stride towards sustainable energy solutions, researchers at Rice University have unveiled a groundbreaking photocatalyst capable of rendering steam methane reforming (SMR) entirely emissions-free.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 6, 2025

Slow Progress : Despite previous projections, the pace of station rollouts has fallen well short of expectations, with infrastructure development lagging significantly behind demand. Element 1’s Modular Generators Element 1 offers modular, scalable hydrogen generators designed for on-demand production.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

As consumer and corporate demand for renewables grew, the value of the RECs rose, thereby incenting new wind and solar projects. Costs add up quickly: equipment to collect biogas (the unprocessed methane-rich vapor given off by waste); upgrade the gas to pipeline quality; and connect to existing gas pipelines. . Covering the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

But discussions of natural gas’ negative aspects — namely excessive, typically underreported methane emissions that are considerably worse for the climate than carbon emissions — did not take place. In Canada, methane leaks are underreported and generally unacknowledged.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Furthermore, because it is consistently produced through natural reactions, hydrogen avoids the greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy-intensive hydrogen production methods like steam methane reforming. If exploration efforts succeed, accessible hydrogen reserves could sustain global energy needs for centuries. For example, a U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 24, 2025

These findings, if fully tapped into, could meet global hydrogen demand for several years, signifying a major step toward energy independence and decarbonization. The March 2025 announcement expanded excitement further, uncovering an additional deposit of equal scale nearby in the Moselle area, valued at approximately $92 billion.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

But that means bringing in the right investment and incentives to boost demand for hydrogen – while supercharging production to meet this increased need. Our advanced gasification process uses waste products to generate low-carbon syngas – a mix of hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide and monoxide.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

of the global fertilizer nutrient demand could be supplemented by full nutrient recovery from wastewater. of global agricultural demand for them. billion m3 methane – enough to provide electricity for up to 158 million households, or 474 million to 632 million people, assuming an average of three to four persons per household.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We tend to blame cows’ methane-filled burps for these gases, but around a quarter of livestock emissions come from fertilizer used to grow animal feed. But demand for beef is the primary driver of deforestation in the Amazon, where the trade-off is indeed clear: We’re destroying the lungs of the planet to sustain our beef habit.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

As the global warming potential of methane is 84 times that of CO2 over a twenty-year period – and the UK has a goal of reducing methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels – this is an issue that needs to be addressed. The most cost-effective way of doing this is by optimising the pressure in the network.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2023

Responding to a growing demand for portable, ATEX-certified environmental monitoring equipment, Ashtead Technology has announced a new partnership with Gas Data. Methane is the main component of natural gas and biogas, so it is essential for leaks to be identified and prevented.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

1 With agriculture estimated to have been the source of 48% of the UK’s methane emissions in 2020 – an increase of 1.3% Digestate biofertiliser demand, either alone or in partnership with neighbouring farms. on 2019 2 – the trend towards on-farm AD is set to continue. Potential energy use, either on-site or locally.

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