Latest Formic acid Stories
SEATTLE, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCBB: MVTG) (FRANKFURT: 5MV) today announced that its Mantra Energy Alternatives Ltd. subsidiary has been granted a patent for its Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide (ERC) process by the Government of India's Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM). Mantra's ERC process is a form of carbon capture and recycling (CCR) that aims to capture CO2 from industrial activities such -- as...
Imagine being able to use electricity to power your car — even if it's not an electric vehicle. Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time demonstrated a method for converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuel isobutanol using electricity. Today, electrical energy generated by various methods is still difficult to store efficiently. Chemical batteries, hydraulic pumping and water splitting suffer from low energy-density storage...
Chemists at Brown University have created a triple-headed metallic nanoparticle that reportedly performs better and lasts longer than any other nanoparticle catalyst studied in fuel-cell reactions. The key is the addition of gold: It yields a more uniform crystal structure while removing carbon monoxide from the reaction. Results published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Advances in fuel-cell technology have been stymied by the inadequacy of metals studied as catalysts....
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has developed a highly efficient, environmentally friendly process that selectively converts gamma-valerolactone, a biomass derivative, into the chemical equivalent of jet fuel.The simple process preserves about 95 percent of the energy from the original biomass, requires little hydrogen input, and captures carbon dioxide under high pressure for future beneficial use.With James Dumesic, Steenbock Professor of Chemical and Biological...
SEATTLE, WA, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Mantra Venture Group Ltd. ('Mantra', OTCBB: MVTG, FSE: 5MV) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Collaboration Agreement with Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's (EPFL) Laboratory of Organometallic and Medicinal Chemistry (LCOM) and Granit Green Networks Ltd. (GGN) of Switzerland to engage in a collaborative project to convert CO2 into hydrogen fuel - using formic acid as the carrier. The purpose of the collaboration is to combine...
NEW YORK, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Formic Acid - A World Market Review http://www.reportlinker.com/p0164432/Formic-Acid---A-World-Market-Review.html Formic acid is primarily used in preservation of animal feed and in tanning of leather in the leather industry. Over the years, formic acid has gradually replaced certain mineral acids in several industrial applications, mainly due to its strong acidic and...
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. Feed Acidifiers - Global Market Trends http://www.reportlinker.com/p0164438/Feed-Acidifiers---Global-Market-Trends.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=prnewswire Global potential for animal feed acidifiers and other health products for animals are on rise due to higher demand for top quality poultry, pork and beef. Stable demand from...
SEATTLE, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Mantra Venture Group Ltd. ('Mantra', OTCBB: MVTG, FSE: 5MV) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) based out of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Under the terms of the LOI, Mantra and KFUPM's Center for Refining and Petrochemicals (CRP) have expressed a mutual interest to explore and research new processes that would use Mantra's Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide (ERC)...
VANCOUVER, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Mantra is pleased to announce that it has achieved enhanced cathode stability through the use of a new proprietary technique. Management will review the patentability of this technical breakthrough in the weeks that follow. John Russell, Vice President of Technology Evaluation at Mantra, explained: "We are happy with the latest advancements made on the ERC technology and Mantra will be looking at the patentability of this latest discovery to...
VANCOUVER, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Mantra Venture Group Ltd. ('Mantra', OTCBB: MVTG, FSE: 5MV) is pleased to announce that it has just signed its second Contribution Agreement with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) in support of its Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide (ERC) technology. Mantra received its first contribution from NRC-IRAP in April 2009 with the purpose of establishing the technical basis for electro-reduction...
