{"id":28276,"date":"2015-12-28T16:34:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T21:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=28276"},"modified":"2016-06-11T12:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T16:17:51","slug":"e50000-challenge-seeks-new-gas-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=28276","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac50,000 Challenge Seeks New Gas Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28278\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GasFactory_AirLiquide.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28278\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28278\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GasFactory_AirLiquide.jpg\" alt=\"Gas factory\" width=\"500\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GasFactory_AirLiquide.jpg 500w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GasFactory_AirLiquide-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GasFactory_AirLiquide-150x68.jpg 150w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GasFactory_AirLiquide-400x181.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Courtesy, Air Liquire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>28 December 2015. A challenge competition from industrial gas developer\u00a0Air\u00a0Liquide asks researchers to devise new solutions for three sustainable applications of gas molecules. Each of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airliquide.com\/media\/air-liquide-launches-scientific-contest-essential-small-molecules\">three challenges<\/a> awards a cash prize of\u00a0\u20ac50,000 ($US 55,000), and an opportunity to earn\u00a0another\u00a0\u20ac500,000 in funding to develop the proposed solution. The competitions\u00a0begin receiving entries on 6 January 2016, and have a deadline of 28 April 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airliquide.com\/investors\/air-liquide-glance\">Air\u00a0Liquide<\/a>, based in Paris, is a 113 year-old global company that produces industrial gases for manufacturing, health care, electronics, and technology enterprises. In the first of its\u00a0Essential Molecules Challenge, Air Liquide is seeking new methods\u00a0for\u00a0three sustainable and commercial-scale gas applications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ninesights.ninesigma.com\/documents\/7160203\/0\/SunnyH2inabottle+FINAL.pdf\/23893502-ea82-46b8-9a21-e89a037268b3\">Producing hydrogen from water<\/a> by using solar energy, where water is the feedstock, large quantities of hydrogen are produced in a safe and efficient process,\u00a0and no carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ninesights.ninesigma.com\/documents\/7160203\/0\/Pocketablesmallmolecules+FINAL.pdf\/8f12e309-41b3-418b-a570-b1ce83e9fdc4\">Compact gas storage<\/a> technologies, with high volume and gravimetric capacities, as well as low-energy and reversible uptake and release, using abundant and non-toxic materials.<\/li>\n<li>Producing <a href=\"https:\/\/ninesights.ninesigma.com\/documents\/7160203\/0\/CO2givebackyourO2+FINAL.pdf\/f3f57fd2-337e-4d9c-8d85-a057902068d5\">oxygen or carbon monoxide<\/a> from carbon dioxide, with abundant or potentially recyclable catalysts, producing high yields of a purified product, and a process that can tolerate\u00a0low-purity carbon dioxide feedstocks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Air Liquide says it wants entries from a wide range of competitors including businesses of all sizes, individual inventors, entrepreneurs, and public or private research institutes. The open-innovation community <a href=\"https:\/\/ninesights.ninesigma.com\/web\/essential-molecules-challenge\">NineSights<\/a> in Cleveland, Ohio is hosting the challenge, and will begin accepting proposals on 6 January 2016, with the deadline set for 28 April 2016. Winners will be announced in September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The company is expected to award up to three cash prizes of\u00a0\u20ac50,000 in each of the three competitions. In addition,\u00a0winners will be eligible\u00a0for a four-year,\u00a0\u20ac500,000 collaboration contract with Air Liquide to develop their ideas into marketable technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Essential Molecules Challenge is the first major activity in Air Liquide&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airliquide.com\/connected-innovation\/essential-small-molecules\">molecules lab<\/a>, or m-lab, that the company\u00a0opened in October 2015. The m-lab aims to host and engage more of the world&#8217;s scientific communities working in relevant chemical disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=28111\">ARPA-E Funding 41 Energy Generation, Efficiency Projects<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=28042\">Start-Up\u2019s Air Quality Technology to Clean City Areas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=27993\">New Design Advances Lithium-Air Battery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=27852\">Jet Fuel Additive Reduces Chance for Crash Explosions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=27819\">Sensor Network, Google Maps to Track California Air Quality<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0 \u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 December 2015. A challenge competition from industrial gas developer\u00a0Air\u00a0Liquide asks researchers to devise new solutions for three sustainable applications of gas molecules. Each of the three challenges awards a cash prize of\u00a0\u20ac50,000 ($US 55,000), and an opportunity to earn\u00a0another\u00a0\u20ac500,000 in funding to develop the proposed solution. The competitions\u00a0begin receiving entries on 6 January 2016, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,96,68,86,45,43,105],"class_list":["post-28276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-challenge","tag-chemistry","tag-energy","tag-engineering","tag-europe","tag-materials-science","tag-physical-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28279,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276\/revisions\/28279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}