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Decarbonization of the economy is a primary goal of nations worldwide to reduce the effects of global warming. Efforts so far have focused on reducing the burning of fossil fuels through alternates like hydrogen, solar, wind and nuclear energy. But demand for oil and gas are still increasing, and will do so for some years before new technologies render them obsolete. And oil and gas production themselves are large carbon emitters. Paris-based Technip Energies, an oil industry process engineering firm has partnered with Vancouver-based Svante, a CO2 remediation technology company, to develop carbon sequestration systems for the oil industry in turnkey packages. The Svante technology uses a proprietary adsorbent with mechanical CO2 extraction and recycling system to pull CO2 out of flue gas to be compressed and stored or reused. A candidate project is a new, very large gas field near Abu Dhabi.
Toyota has been notably quiet during one of the most revolutionary periods in the automotive industry: the switch to electrification. Many analysts attribute this to Toyota’s very public experiments with hydrogen fuel cells, notably the Mirai series of small sedans, but in fact the company has funded significant research into battery technology, notably solid-state batteries with Panasonic. But a new announcement this week suggests that Toyota may be moving in a new direction. The company will create a $1.3 billion lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility near Greensboro North Carolina, with an initial production capacity sufficient to support 200,000 vehicles, rising to 1.2 million vehicles per year when fully completed. The operation is in close proximity to Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky assembly complex, and the company has not ruled out selling batteries as a Tier 1 supplier to other companies. Does this mean that Toyota is shifting away from fuel cell technology? The company has not announced any slowdown in hydrogen technology development and may now pursue both carbon free technologies simultaneously.
Access all episodes of This Week in Engineering on engineering.com TV along with all of our other series.
Decarbonization of the economy is a primary goal of nations worldwide to reduce the effects of global warming. Efforts so far have focused on reducing the burning of fossil fuels through alternates like hydrogen, solar, wind and nuclear energy. But demand for oil and gas are still increasing, and will do so for some years before new technologies render them obsolete. And oil and gas production themselves are large carbon emitters. Paris-based Technip Energies, an oil industry process engineering firm has partnered with Vancouver-based Svante, a CO2 remediation technology company, to develop carbon sequestration systems for the oil industry in turnkey packages. The Svante technology uses a proprietary adsorbent with mechanical CO2 extraction and recycling system to pull CO2 out of flue gas to be compressed and stored or reused. A candidate project is a new, very large gas field near Abu Dhabi.
Toyota has been notably quiet during one of the most revolutionary periods in the automotive industry: the switch to electrification. Many analysts attribute this to Toyota’s very public experiments with hydrogen fuel cells, notably the Mirai series of small sedans, but in fact the company has funded significant research into battery technology, notably solid-state batteries with Panasonic. But a new announcement this week suggests that Toyota may be moving in a new direction. The company will create a $1.3 billion lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility near Greensboro North Carolina, with an initial production capacity sufficient to support 200,000 vehicles, rising to 1.2 million vehicles per year when fully completed. The operation is in close proximity to Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky assembly complex, and the company has not ruled out selling batteries as a Tier 1 supplier to other companies. Does this mean that Toyota is shifting away from fuel cell technology? The company has not announced any slowdown in hydrogen technology development and may now pursue both carbon free technologies simultaneously.
Access all episodes of This Week in Engineering on engineering.com TV along with all of our other series.