Environmental Solutions
Japan’s NEDO launches 6 industrial demonstrators for bio-manufactured products
https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101562.html The products and the project coordinators are Oil and fat production technology from inedible biomass using yeast, Idemitsu Kosan…
University team creates nano-semiconductors derived from wood with customizable electrical properties and 3D structure
https://www.jst.go.jp/pr/announce/20220427/index.html
NEDO roadmap for fuel-cell heavy duty vehicles
https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101524.html
Green Earth Institute and NEDO inaugurate “Kanto Biofoundry Base” for bioprocess optimization
As part of NEDO’s “Development of Production Technologies for Bio-based Products to Accelerate the Realization of Carbon Recycling, The Green Earth…
Guidelines for the Introduction of Biomass Energy Local Self-Sustaining Systems, NEDO
https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101522.html
“Act for Sky” consortium to cooperate on sustainable aviation fuel
https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/03/02/09220/
Japan starts 1 billion € program on “green power” semiconductors and data centers
https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101513.html
Hydrogen generation from electrolysis: enhancing catalyst lifetime by Co2MnO4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-021-00732-9
CO2 to plastic raw materials – Japan starts 10 years program
https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101517.html
Cement from carbon recycling – Japan starts 8 years program
https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101510.html
NEDO awards 13 industrial programs on energy conservation
https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101509.html
NEDO initiates program for using hydrogen in steelmaking
The steel industry emits as much as 40% of Japan’s industrial sector’s CO2 during the manufacturing process. The blast furnace…
Japan’s NEDO initiates program on fuel ammonia supply chain
As ammonia, like hydrogen, does not emit CO2 when burned, it is expected to be used as a decarbonized fuel…
Japan starts 8 years program to secure cheap ammonia production for hydrogen generation
https://www.nedo.go.jp/koubo/EV3_100238.html
Japan starts 8 years program to use hydrogen in steel-making
https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101503.html
NEDO will reduce CO2 emissions in the concrete and cement industries
https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101510.html The Japanese Ministry of Economy is financing a ten-year joint project with JP¥ 55 billion (approx. € 390 million)…
Mitsui Chemicals begins manufacturing bio-polypropylene (bio-PP) from biomass naphtha
The biomass naphtha prepared from vegetable oil waste and residual oil is supplied from Finland’s Neste. Mitsui Chemicals studies since…
18-11 Green Earth Institute uses Corynebacterium resting cells to prepare green chemicals from formaldehyde
In an artificial metabolic system, the formaldehyde is added via aldolase, to appropriate cosubstrates forming 2,4-dihydroxybutyric acid (DHB), homoserine (hSer),…
5-11 NEDO launches R&D program for hydrogen aircrafts
The project aims to increase the ratio of participation in international joint development of airframes and engines (currently about 20-30%)…
15-10 NEDO adds projects on use of CO2 as raw material
The project house NEDO of the Japanese Ministry of Economy and Trade METI is funding further topics on the use…
2021/08 Japanese consortium achieves solar hydrogen production on 100 m2 scale
A consortium of ARPChem, Fujifilm, TOTO, Mitsubishi Chemicals and the University of Tokyo, supported by NEDO, has installed and operated,…
2021/07 Demonstration plant for materials from PEG-modified lignin
Based on technology of the Forest Research Institute, the plant will be operated by a consortium consisting of seven companies,…
