{"id":585807,"date":"2023-06-21T09:49:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=585807"},"modified":"2023-06-21T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T05:00:11","slug":"2-iit-alumni-develop-sustainable-fuel-from-thin-air-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/2-iit-alumni-develop-sustainable-fuel-from-thin-air-plastic-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"2 IIT alumni develop sustainable fuel from &#8216;thin air&#8217;, plastic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two UK researchers, who are alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), have developed a new method to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from industrial processes &#8212; or even directly from the air &#8212; to clean, sustainable fuels, using just the energy from the sun. <\/p>\n<p>The researchers currently working at the Department of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, UK, developed a solar-powered reactor that converts captured CO2 and plastic waste into sustainable fuels and other valuable chemical products. <\/p>\n<p>In tests, CO2 was converted into syngas &#8212; a key building block for sustainable liquid fuels &#8211;, and plastic bottles were converted into glycolic acid, which is widely used in the cosmetics industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two UK researchers, who are alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), have developed a new method to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from industrial processes &#8212; or even directly from the air &#8212; to clean, sustainable fuels, using just the energy from the sun. The researchers currently working at the Department of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, UK, developed a solar-powered reactor that converts captured CO2 and plastic waste into sustainable fuels and other valuable chemical products. In tests, CO2 was converted into syngas &#8212; a key building block for sustainable liquid fuels &#8211;, and plastic bottles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}