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The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat renewable oils with hydrogen from orchard and forest wood waste. Founded in 2006, Aemetis has completed Phase 1 and is expanding a California biogas digester network and pipeline system to convert dairy waste gas into Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).

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MARCH 25, 2014

has teamed up with Waste Services of the Bluegrass to generate power from local landfill waste, marking the region’s first business-to-business landfill gas to energy initiative. As solid waste naturally breaks down in a landfill, it creates biogas. Since 2006, the Kentucky plant has been a zero-landfill facility.

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DECEMBER 12, 2020

Since 2006, batteries and waste batteries have been regulated at EU level under the Batteries Directive (2006/66/EC). With its new battery sustainability standards, the Commission will also promote globally the green transition and establish a blueprint for further initiatives under its sustainable product policy. Background.

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MAY 4, 2009

Researchers at Iowa State University are proposing dissolving waste polystyrene (PS) in biodiesel for use as a diesel engine fuel as a mechanism for energy recovery from the waste plastic. The US generated 251 million tons of municipal solid wastes in 2006, of which plastics accounted for 11.7 Credit: ACS. million tons.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The BMW Group has reduced resource consumption and CO 2 emissions in vehicle production by 50% since 2006. The amount of waste per vehicle is also continuously decreasing, making the BMW Group one of the world’s most sustainable automotive manufacturers. Sustainability in production.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

At the end of January, DOE also issued the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Activities, Progress, and Plans Report to Congress as required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT). Analysis of excess and/or waste hydrogen sources. DOE seeks information on other sources of excess and/or waste hydrogen, including hydrogen-containing waste gases.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Greyrock Energy, a company founded in 2006 to develop technologies for the modular, distributed, production of transportation grade diesel fuel from natural gas, has completed testing of its premium gas-to-liquids (GTL) synthetic diesel fuel at an advanced heavy-duty diesel engine dynamometer laboratory.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

In June, GMZ reported the successful demonstration of a TEG designed for automotive waste heat recapture and built with the TG8 modules. The small size, high power output and reliability of this device make it suited for local, high reliability power generation from waste and primary heat sources. Earlier post.) The TG8 can produce 7.2

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JULY 27, 2013

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley released the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act Plan with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 25% by 2020 from a 2006 baseline. Zero Waste : Maryland is implementing an ambitious strategy that aims to ensure all products in Maryland can be reused, recycled or composted.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Neste Oil has been a member of the RSPO since 2006 and requires all its palm oil suppliers to be members of the organization and commit themselves to strict sustainability requirements. Production currently uses more than 10 different feedstocks, including vegetable oil and various waste and residue inputs.

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JULY 31, 2019

Australia-based biotechnology company Circa Group, which produces its bio-based solvent Cyrene from waste cellulose, is participating in a project to develop the first UK industrial scale capability to reclaim and reuse the most valuable components of end-of-life electrical vehicle (EV) batteries. straw, bagasse, sawdust).

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety.

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MARCH 17, 2017

DRI is particularly interested in studying the multiple benefits of using China’s agricultural waste to generate synthetic fuels, thereby reducing air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning and finding better uses for China’s large stock of agricultural waste. Dennis Schuetzle, Greyrock’s Chief Technology Officer.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

mostly vehicles registered before 2006. Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink. Earlier post.). The £10 (US$13) per day levy applies to vehicles whose main engines do not meet the Euro 4/IV emission standard—i.e.

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JUNE 9, 2014

has received a Certificate of Conformity from the US Environmental Protection Agency applicable for diesel-to-natural gas engine conversions of all Mack E7 electronic engines up to model year 2006. Omnitek Engineering Corp. Omnitek will offer 100% dyno-tested “drop-in” ready converted engines, configured for quick installation.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

The PEM system uses heating from electrically conducting gas (a plasma) to convert the feedstock (usually waste) to valuable products. Founded in 2006, Aemetis owns and operates a 60 million gallon per year ethanol production facility in California’s Central Valley, near Modesto.

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JUNE 2, 2010

That endowment complements Chevron’s ongoing support for UC Davis, which includes a $500,000 gift in 2008 to be a lead sponsor of the Energy Efficiency Center and a $25 million biofuels research collaboration begun in 2006 to develop technology to convert nonfood agricultural waste into next-generation transportation fuels.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

At that level of efficiency, TE materials become useful in practical applications such as waste heat recovery in vehicles, Kaviany noted. Rowe CRC Press 2006. Earlier post.). The basic skutterudite is a cubic structure of the formula MX 3 , where M=CO, Rh, Ir and X=P, As, Sb. Ctirad Uher, Recent Progress in the Development. Chapter 34.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The Land Sink, represented by the outer ring, offset the equivalent of 13% of total US anthropogenic emissions in 2006. The entire pie chart represents total US emissions in 2006; the inner portion of the pie chart represents net emissions. US GHG emissions allocated to systems, and by materials and land management.

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Emissions EPA Climate Change 2006 257

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APRIL 24, 2010

Since the end of 2006, Opel, Robert Bosch, IVK and FKFS have been working on a natural gas hybrid vehicle in a project supported by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and technology. Boost pressure is controlled by a pulse-width-modulated activation of the overpressure actuated turbine bypass (waste gate). is successful.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

One of our 2006 Prius’ pack needed servicing and it only cost a few hundred dollars to fix 7 modules and change the bus bars connecting the modules by a hybrid shop. Some models (2006 models for some reason) can have timing chain issues irrelevant of their mileage. It was changed on our 2004 and one of the 2006’s. Code P0016.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Novozymes started its research in biochemicals in 2006 and has since then initiated a number of projects to enable sustainable and cost-competitive production of biochemicals.

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MAY 9, 2011

Agricultural waste accounts for an estimated 800 million tonnes with forest and wood waste accounting for the remainder. Not included in these totals is municipal solid waste, which totalled an estimated 248 million tonnes in 2010 and of which more than 100 million tonnes was collected and treated. billion tonnes per year.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

The lead emission average at our Shanghai facility is about 1/7 of Chinese national standard; furthermore, our lead discharge through waste water treatment facility average is about 1/10 of Chinese national standard.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

By simply grinding together two cheap precursors in a basic milling machine, the MOF material is produced in a matter of minutes, in a powder form, ready for applications without further treatment, and without generating solvent waste. James (2006) Solvent-free synthesis of a microporous metal–organic framework. —Prof.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Since 2006, UOP has commercialized processes to convert non-edible natural oils to Honeywell Green Diesel and Honeywell Green Jet Fuel. which offers pyrolysis technology for the production of renewable heat, power and transportation fuels from biomass sources such as forest and agricultural waste.

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Conversion Renewable Los Angeles Fuel 207

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The project is the result of a public-private partnership aimed at encouraging the use of renewable bio-methane produced from the waste of food processing and dairies. In June 2006, California’s legislature allotted $25 million dollars in grants to encourage the integration of alternative fuels into California’s market.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

CO 2 emissions by the European new vehicle fleet will be reduced by some 30% during the period from 2006 to 2015—emissions will be below the threshold of 120 grams CO 2 /km for the first time by 2015. 25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions.

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APRIL 19, 2012

Expanding its environmental initiatives to its dealer body is the logical next step in the company’s effort to reduce waste, energy use and CO2 emissions across the full spectrum of its operations and throughout the lifecycle of Honda and Acura products, including at the point of sale.

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DECEMBER 25, 2009

The choice to locate the pilot plant at the site of Bure Saudron was based in part on commitments made in 2006 to support the economic development of territories which are home to the laboratory research on the deep geological storage of nuclear waste.

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JANUARY 21, 2017

These include cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars and zero emission vehicles, low-carbon fuels, renewable energy, waste diversion from landfills, water conservation, improvements to energy efficiency in homes and businesses, and a Cap-and-Trade Program.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The Department had not successfully achieved commercial-scale operations even though the FOAs issued in 2006 and 2007 indicated that the proposed projects should be operational at the commercial scale within 3 to 4 years.

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OCTOBER 15, 2011

In order to prevent pressure from rising too steeply at high engine output, a waste-gate valve conducts the exhaust gases past the turbine. Continental began developing turbochargers for gasoline engines in 2006. This safeguard prevents compressor surge, which could damage the turbocharger.

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DECEMBER 31, 2010

Since it opened in 2006, the CTA has developed two technologies that have been integrated into BRP products: a technology used in manufacturing the hulls of the new generation of Sea-Doo watercraft; and the five-speed semi-automatic transmission available on Can-Am Spyder roadsters.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Traffic went up in every ocean during the 20 years of the study, except off the coast of Somalia, where increasing piracy has almost completely halted commercial shipping since 2006. Ships powered by fossil fuels dump oil, fuel and waste into the water and pump exhaust into the air.

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MARCH 23, 2010

Mitloehner says confusion over meat and milk’s role in climate change stems from a small section printed in the executive summary of a 2006 United Nations report, “Livestock’s Long Shadow.” Effects of dietary monensin on greenhouse gases from lactating dairy cows and waste ” (ACS239, Paper 85). Place, Scott W. Hamilton, Edward J.

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MARCH 12, 2009

The Vaperma solution helps to maintain the viability of ethanol and butanol from first-generation as well as second-generation cellulosic sources, such as corn stalks, switchgrass or other plant wastes that do not compete with the food supply. Amar Anumakonda, manager of business development for UOP Renewable Energy and Chemicals.

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