SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run oil company has initiated a project to capture and confine carbon dioxide within the depleted gas field in the East Sea. The Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC) said Thursday it has signed a preliminary FEED (front end engineering and design) contract with Hyundai Engineering & Construction [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A ‘blue hydrogen’ production facility has been established in the southeastern city of Changwon, the first of its kind in South Korea. Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, but emissions are eliminated by capturing and storing the emitted carbon. The Ministry of Environment and the Changwon city government [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in South Korea hit an all-time high last year, with the atmospheric methane level also registering a sharp increase, a meteorological institute said Tuesday. The CO2 level in the air, measured from the country’s longest-running observation station on Anmyeon Island, 124 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The density of carbon dioxide caused by human activities plunged in Seoul’s downtown areas due to the enforcement of social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19, a study showed Thursday. A joint research group from the National Institute of Environmental Research, the National Institute of Forest Science, the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics Inc. has launched a drive to develop a commercial washing machine that can wash clothes using carbon dioxide instead of water. The commercialization of this technology has been virtually impossible in the country due to strict safety regulations. The Ministry of Trade, Industry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state power firm Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) will promote the joint use of its in-house greenhouse gas decomposition technology with the Korea National Railway, a railroad construction and management company, as part of efforts to limit carbon dioxide emissions. The company announced on Wednesday that it [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will invest 1.4 trillion won (US$1.18 billion) by 2030 to develop technologies to capture and store carbon dioxide in a move to achieve its carbon neutrality goal, the industry ministry said Wednesday. The country vowed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 2018 levels by [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new technology that can convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, a material used widely in industrial areas. A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and Seoul National University said Sunday that it had developed a catalyst [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) said Thursday it has developed a technology to store carbon dioxide captured in ship engine emissions. The technology developed in cooperation with a local ship part supplier, HI AIR Korea Co., will help ships in operation reduce their carbon dioxide emissions to [...]
JINJU, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new process that uses the carbon dioxide contained in emissions gases to culture spirulina, a marine micro-algae, has reached the stage of commercialization. Kwon Jong-hee, a professor at Gyeongsang National University, said Wednesday that the new technology can convert the carbon dioxide contained in emissions gases into a [...]