ENERGY
DFRobot | April 11, 2022
DFRobot has launched a series of sensors for air, environmental, and gas detection. The Air Quality Sensor utilizes cutting-edge TrueVOC technology in conjunction with Metal Oxide (MOX) technology, ensuring the sensor's high accuracy, rapid response, and robust anti-interference performance. The Multifunctional Environmental Sensor utilizes a more simplified and appropriate layout design and heat conduction, thereby ensuring data accuracy; The Gas Detection Sensor Series detects 12 different types of gas, including carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and other harmful gases. They contribute critical data to environmental and industrial protection.
Gravity: Air Quality Sensor
Gravity: ENS160 Air Quality Sensor is based on ScioSense's new ENS160 sensor chip and is optimized for indoor air quality monitoring. It detects a variety of IAQ parameters (TVOC, eCO2, AQI). TrueVOCTM technology is an innovative combination of metal oxide (MOX) technology, which provides this sensor with superior accuracy, rapid response, and anti-interference properties. The ENS160's intelligent on-chip algorithms enable it to output rich and easy-to-understand environmental data directly. The sensor's preheating time is less than three minutes, allowing for faster acquisition of accurate data. The sensor's long-term stability is ensured by the sensor's integrated automatic baseline calibration algorithm.
Gravity: Multifunctional Environmental Sensor
Gravity: Multifunctional Environmental Sensor is a 5-in-1 sensor that combines a temperature and humidity sensor, a pressure sensor, a light sensor, and a UV sensor. It supports communication via UART and I2C, comes in two flavors: Gravity and Fermion (breakout), and includes complete Arduino and Python libraries. It is exquisite and compact, making it ideal for environmental monitoring systems both indoors and outdoors, as well as for other applications.
Gravity: Gas Detection Sensor Series
The Gravity: Gas Detection Sensor Series is capable of detecting twelve different gases, including oxygen, hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen fluoride, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, chlorine, ammonia, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon monoxide. It has a high level of immunity to interference, stability, and sensitivity, and supports three output modes: analog, I2C, and UART. The probe has been calibrated in the factory and is capable of measuring the concentration of gases in the environment quickly and accurately. It is widely applicable for gas detection in industrial and environmental applications.
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ENERGY
Daimler | April 07, 2021
Through these agreements with renewables, an increasing number of major industrial players are seeking to decarbonize their activities. Daimler has also signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) with wind farms in Germany and Poland. However, this new agreement will provide them with 100% renewable energy 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as it combines wind and solar power, with hydro capacity in Norway providing backup.
Wind power will be generated by 200 wind turbines located across 24 different wind farms in Germany. There are existing wind farms that are no longer receiving public funding. As a result, the deal keeps them operational and aims to stop premature and needless decommissioning of the turbines.
Furthermore, by combining wind, solar, and hydro Daimler and Statkraft show that renewables can provide stable and reliable electricity to industry, in this case to a critical part of Europe's manufacturing base.
The German government, as well as other governments, should continue to endorse these types of PPA deals. They are an excellent way to boost market-driven renewable energy demand. However, many countries continue to face challenges to PPAs. Energy-intensive industries in Germany, are now penalized unnecessarily if they sign a corporate renewable PPA. Besides that, some governments refuse to have the necessary origin guarantees that underpin PPAs by ensuring the traceability of renewable energy.
“This is a fantastic deal”, said WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson. Daimler gets clean energy. Europe's biggest industry has made significant progress in reducing pollution. 24 wind farms get a new customer and will continue to operate without public assistance. The wind is combined with solar and hydro to provide consistent electricity 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And Europe gains a prime example of how affordable and dependable renewables can decarbonize the economy.”
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ECONOMY
Bushmills Ethanol | April 18, 2022
Summit Carbon Solutions is happy to announce a new cooperation with Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. to help the company decarbonize its Atwater, Minnesota, ethanol plant.
Bushmills Ethanol joins Summit Carbon Solutions' revolutionary carbon capture and storage project as the 32nd ethanol facility. The plant commenced production in 2005 and now generates 85 million gallons of gasoline-ethanol annually.
Summit Carbon Solutions is creating the world's most significant carbon capture and storage project, permanently capturing and storing up to 12 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. The project will span Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota, and will result in a 50 percent reduction in the carbon footprint of associated ethanol units.
"We are thrilled to have a progressive company such as Bushmills Ethanol as our newest partner, We share a shared vision of supporting the long-term sustainability of U.S. agriculture by decarbonizing the supply chain and produced products. Bushmills is an excellent operator and has continually improved its plant through investments to reduce energy consumption and improve yields."
-Jim Pirolli, Chief Commercial Officer of Summit Carbon Solutions.
Summit Carbon Solutions and Bushmills Ethanol will capture and compress more than 230,000 metric tons of CO2 per year, transported to North Dakota for permanent geologic storage.
Summit Carbon Solutions recently announced significant project milestones, including submitting pipeline permit applications in Iowa and South Dakota, and has raised more than $600 million in equity capital, including recent investments from Continental Resources and Tiger Infrastructure Partners.
Summit Carbon Solutions' objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by connecting industrial and biogenic carbon dioxide emitters with strategic infrastructure that securely and permanently stores carbon dioxide in the Midwest of the United States.
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