Environmental solutions
CAS DICP develops improved zeolite catalyst for selective conversion of syngas to hydrocarbons, 150 kt/y pilot plant in Yulin
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-disentanglement-activity-selectivity-tradeoff-effect-catalytic.html https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/research_news/chem/202205/t20220520_305597.shtml Researchers have reported a strategy to disentangle the activity-selectivity tradeoff for direct conversion of syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, into desirable ethylene,…
Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong will become model cities for fuel cell vehicles
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0529/c95952-20025019.html China has designated Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangdong as the nation’s first fuel cell vehicle metropolitan areas since August 2021, and a “Medium- and Long-Term Plan for…
Zhuanshang, a “zero-carbon energy demonstration village” in Shanxi
https://english.news.cn/20230508/e39534ab1f844f51ac7a29393c9d0235/c.html At the photovoltaic charging station in Zhuangshang Village, where dozens of agricultural vehicles are parked, farmer Chen Jiuhong is charging his electric tricycle. “A full charge, enabling…
China Sinocar introduces China’s first hydrogen-powered commuter train
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0511/c95952-20017445.html The train has a maximum speed of 160 km/h and an ultra-long range of over 600 km. The streamlined lead car has excellent aerodynamic performance. The…
Rooftop photovoltaics could mitigate up to one quarter of China’s CO2 emissions by 2020 – study
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202305/04/WS64531acba310b6054fad0fdc.html#:~:text=BEIJING%20%2D%2D%20Chinese%20scientists%20and,billion%20tonnes%20CO2%20in%202030. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38079-3#Fig1 Chinese scientists and their international counterparts have published an assessment of the carbon mitigation potential of rooftop photovoltaics (RPVs) in China, noting that they could…
China’s biomass power capacity tops the world
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0418/c95952-20007379.html Wang Dapeng, Deputy Director General of the Department of New and Renewable Energy of China’s State Energy Administration, said on April 17 at the 4th Global…
Reversible capture and release of CO2 by guanidine sulfate
http://www.cas.ac.cn/cm/202304/t20230425_4885214.shtml Prof. Bo Liu and Prof. Qiang Xu from the Southern University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with an international research team, for the first time…
A new biosensor measures 38 soil analytes in minutes
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0421/c95952-20009039.html China’s Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences has begun using a speed precision low-cost soil in-situ monitoring sensor, “Chi-Do”. It provides precise measurements of 38…
China operates 54 nuclear reactors and is currently building 24 more
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0427/c95952-20012088.html According to the “China Nuclear Development Report 2023” Blue Book, China is currently building 24 nuclear power units, maintaining the world’s top level in terms of…
528 million Chinese eat plastic-packaged take-out food, green plastics in high demand
https://www.cas.cn/cm/202304/t20230417_4884139.shtml The packaging cost of two packs of snacks is nearly 10 yuan, the take-out packaging cost of 18 yuan of spicy hotpot is 6 yuan, and…
China among leading countries in nuclear power technologies
http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0414/c90000-20006004.html (People’s Daily Online) 13:54, April 14, 2023 China is now among the leading countries in nuclear power technologies, highlighted by the successful connection of the country’s…
China connects solid hydrogen storage to grid
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0410/c95952-20003482.html The Solid Hydrogen Storage Development Project of China’s National Key R&D Program recently achieved simultaneous grid connections in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province and Kunming, Yunnan Province. The…
China plans 400 km green hydrogen pipeline from Inner Mongolia to Beijing
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0411/c95952-20004042.html China Petrochemical Corporation plans for a “West-to-East” hydrogen pipeline. The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is rich in wind and solar resources and has a favorable advantage…
China launches ecological environment satellite monitoring system
http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0412/c90000-20004693.html BEIJING, April 12 (Xinhua) — China has launched its ecological environment satellite monitoring system, according to the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST). The system is…
Near-zero energy consumption skyscraper in Guangdong
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0404/c95952-20001361.html The Guangzhou Financial City project in the East Area of International Financial City, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, achieved plus-minus zero energy consumption on March 29. The project,…
Discovery of alkaline-resistance gene in sorghum might help the development of saline- and alkaline-resistant crops
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade8416 https://english.cas.cn/head/202303/t20230324_328672.shtml XIE Qi’s team from the CAS Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with seven other institutions, has…
First Immersion-type liquid-cooled energy storage power station starts operation in Meizhou, Guangdong Province
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0320/c95952-10224598.html Nanfang Grid Meizhou Baohu Storage Power Plant, the world’s first submerged liquid-cooled power storage power plant, has officially started operation. The scale of the power plant…
“China’s Water Tower” in Qinghai Province improves in water recharge capacity
https://spc.jst.go.jp/news/230305/topic_3_05.html Qinghai Province is the source of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, and the Lancang River (the upper reaches of the Mekong River), and is called…
Amino acids and peptides may provide biodegradable glasses through a heating-quenching procedure
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add8105 https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202303/19/WS6416a55da31057c47ebb5467.html Researchers led by YAN Xuehai from the CAS Institute of Process Engineering have fabricated a family of eco-friendly glasses of biological origin, using biologically-derived amino acids or…
Peroxisome engineering provides pathway from methanol to fatty alcohols
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220816120 https://www.cas.cn/syky/202303/t20230316_4880333.shtml Zhou Yongjin and team at the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have coupled methanol utilization with fatty alcohol biosynthesis through metabolic pathway compartmentalization in…
China’s capacity for renewable energies enough to fuel all 27 EU member states
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0314/c95952-10221971.html According to Song Kailiang, Chairman of the China Energy Construction group, China’s total installed capacity of renewable energy generation in 2022 exceeded that of coal power…
CAS DICP achieves improved photocatalytic production of hydrogen peroxide
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202213173 https://www.cas.cn/syky/202303/t20230314_4880040.shtml Two teams from CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and the University of Queensland, Australia, have made progress on artificial photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)…
Integrated biochar solutions can achieve carbon-neutral staple crop production
http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0221/c90000-10210644.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00694-0 Chinese, United States and Germa scientists have proposed an agricultural carbon reduction solution that could help China achieve carbon neutrality in its food production. According…
National Engineering Research Center reports progress on satellite-based CO2 emission inventories
The National Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Satellite Applications, Institute of Space and Space Information Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made progress in the research…
Shanxi Province completes first fifteen “Virtual Power Plant”
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0217/c95952-10209313.html https://36kr.jp/200103/ Shanxi Province completed the construction of its first batch of 15 virtual power plants (VPPs), which were applied for by the first nine power sellers.…
Sinopec pioneers hydrogen made from methanol on site at a filling station
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0216/c94476-10208681.html Sinopec is China’s leading petrochemical corporation and operates petrol stations country-wide. At one of its gas stations in Dalian, Liaoning Province, it has now integrated a…
China sees remarkable progress in cyclic utilization of industrial wastewater
http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0130/c90000-10200813.html By Han Xin (People’s Daily) 10:19, January 30, 2023 A manufacturing base of Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., known as Baosteel, in Shanghai, upgrades its industrial…
Biosynthesis of starch and protein from corn stalks by yeast displaying cellulolytic enzymes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095927323000221 Researchers at the CAS Institute of Industrial Biotechnology have developed a highly efficient biosynthesis of artificial starch and microbial proteins from available and abundant agricultural residues.…
Shenzhen/Sichuan group develops stable electrolyser for hydrogen generation from seawater
https://www.sohu.com/a/612416318_726570 https://www.sustainability-times.com/low-carbon-energy/hydrogen-for-clean-energy-could-be-produced-from-seawater/ Academician Xie Heping and his doctoral team from Shenzhen University/Sichuan University published their research results entitled “A membrane-based seawater electrolyser for hydrogen generation” in Nature.…
Chengdu opens hydrogen train city line
http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2022/1229/c95952-10189825.html The four-car train, with a maximum speed of 160 km/h, is powered by a built-in hydrogen fuel cell that provides a powerful and sustainable power source…
