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JULY 8, 2012

for year 2007. A new black carbon (BC) emissions inventory from China found BC emissions levels in 2007 of 1,957 Gg BC—higher than reported in earlier studies. The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. 2007 were used in this study.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Neste Oil celebrated the official opening of Europe’s first pilot plant for producing microbial oil from waste and residues at its site in Porvoo, Finland. Increasing the use of waste and residues in the production of NExBTL renewable diesel is one of our most important goals. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Neste Oil celebrated the grand opening of its NExBTL renewable diesel refinery in the Port of Rotterdam. The refinery has an annual production capacity of 800,000 metric tons or 1 billion liters (264 million gallons US) of renewable diesel and cost around €670 million (US$873 million) to build. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Audi of America introduced four new TDI clean diesel models for the US market this year—the Audi A8, A7, A6, Q5—along with an updated Q7 TDI, all equipped with a second-generation 3.0L V6 TDI diesel engine. ” One of our primary goals and objectives is to level the playing field for clean diesel vehicles.

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MARCH 15, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report summarizing key trends in carbon dioxide emissions, fuel economy, and CO 2 - and fuel economy-related technology for gasoline- and diesel-fueled personal vehicles sold in the United States, from model years (MY) 1975 through 2012. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 29, 2015

UPS announced agreements for up to 46 million gallons of renewable diesel over the next three years, constituting a 15-fold increase over prior contracts and making UPS one of the largest users of renewable diesel in the world. Neste, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel.

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MAY 9, 2012

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, signed an agreement to license technology to Emerald Biofuels LLC to produce Honeywell Green Diesel at a facility in Louisiana. Honeywell Green Diesel is a drop-in replacement for traditional diesel. Honeywell Green Diesel is a drop-in replacement for traditional diesel.

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MAY 6, 2010

Brazil’s Petrobras is launching two projects to produce biofuels from palm oil (dendê) in Tomé-Açu (state of Pará): a Petrobras-owned biodiesel plant (the Biodiesel Pará project), and a project to produce renewable diesel in partnership with Portuguese outfit Galp Energia (the Belém project) ( earlier post ).

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JUNE 26, 2011

Dynamic Fuels will use Syntroleum’s Bio-Synfining process to hydrotreat the used cooking oil to produce renewable jet. The biofuel will be produced from used cooking oil by Dynamic Fuels at its Geismar plant and supplied by SkyNRG, the consortium launched by KLM and North Sea Group and Spring Associates in 2009. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

UOP LLC’s renewable jet fuel process technology will be used to produce almost 600,000 gallons of renewable jet fuel for the US Navy and Air Force as part of a joint program for the US Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) for alternative fuels testing and certification. Natural oils contain oxygen and have a high molecular weight.

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JANUARY 15, 2012

The researchers also found that some of the high temperature modes resulted in diesel particulate filter (DPF)-out accumulation mode (between 50 and 200 nm) particle concentrations an order of magnitude greater than typical background PM concentrations. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Backed by a $25-million US Department of Energy (DOE) award, the Honeywell UOP Integrated Biorefinery will utilize rapid thermal processing (RTP) technology ( earlier post ) to convert biomass into a pourable, liquid bio-oil (pyrolysis oil). approx 75 wt%) of liquid bio-oil from residual forestry or agricultural biomass.

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MARCH 15, 2009

With its second NExBTL renewable diesel plant coming online in Finland in about six months, Neste Oil plans to increase it purchase of palm oil from Malaysian from about 160,000 tonnes in 2008 to around 250,000 tonnes this year, according to Neste vice-president of business operations of renewable fuels Risto Karppinen.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

a subsidiary of GreenMan Technologies Inc., APG’s dual fuel system displaces 40%-70% of the normal diesel fuel consumption with CNG, LNG, or bio-methane. APG’s system is non-invasive to the OEM engine and operates within all OEM performance controls with the flexibility to return to 100% diesel operation at any time.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. Rolf Reitz, are investigating a blended dual-fuel (gasoline and diesel) concept to extend the operating range of partially premixed charge compression ignition combustion by using the varying fuel reactivity of the charge blend, which is determined in real time. SAE 2007-01-0191).

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JUNE 16, 2014

The Honeywell Green Jet Fuel was made from inedible corn oil and used cooking oil. Blended up to 50% with petroleum-based jet fuel, Honeywell Green Jet Fuel requires no changes to aircraft technology, meets all critical specifications for flight, and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 65 to 85% compared with petroleum-based fuels.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

UOP’s Ecofining process produces drop-in hydrocarbon fuel replacements from natural oils. CNPC) under which the two companies will collaborate on a range of biofuels technologies and projects in China. uses catalytic hydroprocessing technology. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JUNE 16, 2014

The Honeywell Green Jet Fuel was made from inedible corn oil and used cooking oil. Blended up to 50% with petroleum-based jet fuel, Honeywell Green Jet Fuel requires no changes to aircraft technology, meets all critical specifications for flight, and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 65 to 85% compared with petroleum-based fuels.

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JUNE 16, 2014

The Honeywell Green Jet Fuel was made from inedible corn oil and used cooking oil. Blended up to 50% with petroleum-based jet fuel, Honeywell Green Jet Fuel requires no changes to aircraft technology, meets all critical specifications for flight, and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 65 to 85% compared with petroleum-based fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Toyota anticipates a 1/3 full hybrid, 1/3 gasoline, 1/3 diesel engine mix. When the first generation Auris was launched in 2007, the average emissions were 152 g/km. 1 compression ratios, Valvematic, the refinement of intake port and combustion chamber design and piston cooling by oil jet. Powertrains. 1.33l Dual VVT-i.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

The report concludes, and Commissioner Wright emphasizes in an overview of the report, that if biofuels are to play a significant role in New Zealand’s energy future, then drop-in synthetic diesel made from wood is the pathway on which the country should concentrate. The NZ Biodiesel Grants Scheme applies only to FME biodiesel.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Darling International and a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation are taking initial steps towards the formation of a joint venture to build a facility capable of producing more than 10,000 barrels/day or (135 million gallons per year) of renewable diesel on a site adjacent to Valero’s St. In 2007, ConocoPhillips and Tyson Foods Inc.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

It is then isolated and purified, while the algal biomass is processed to extract and produce a bio-oil co-product. The algal bio-oil can be used to produce biodiesel, renewable diesel, or other bio-oil-derived products. The company is working to commercialize this technology and scale production of its products.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Neste Oil and St1 have begun working together on a fuel project as part of the TransEco development program coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Simo Honkanen, Senior Vice President, Sustainability and HSSE, Neste Oil. We believe that Finland needs a range of alternative biofuel solutions as we go forward.

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JULY 27, 2009

Bioscience firm Targeted Growth (TGI) says it has developed a method to increase the lipid content of algae by approximately 400%, thereby increasing oil yield per acre and decreasing the cost of algae production. The company has since licensed this technology to a major seed company.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

in 2007, dropped to a low of 56.9% With the ongoing “Food vs. Fuel” debate, the use of vegetable oils has been capped in regions such as the EU. Waste oils (corn oil, yellow grease, brown grease, and mixed oils), on the other hand, will emerge as a leading feedstock choice and account for 61% of next-generation biofuels with a 3.0

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The approach would not differentiate between crude-oil types produced in or imported into Canada. A clean fuel standard would be flexible, and it would promote the use of clean technology, lower carbon fuels, and promote alternatives such as electricity, biogas, and hydrogen. gasoline, diesel, and heavy-fuel oil); gaseous fuels (e.g.,

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JANUARY 22, 2014

PME= palm oil methyl ester, RME = rapeseed methyl ester, SME = soy methyl ester, WME = waste cooking oil methyl ester, FTD = Fischer-Tropsch diesel, HBD = hydrogenated biodiesel. JAMA bases its postion on the results of study from the Japan Auto-Oil Program subsidized by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

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MARCH 26, 2009

China’s Yitai Group’s 160,000 tonne/year coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has produced qualified diesel oil and naphtha in its trial run. 2007) Synfuels China and its Development in Advanced CTL Process Technologies. billion yuan (US$395 million).

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l/100 km (44 mpg US), a figure that some diesel cars might be jealous of. Power steering is electric and as a result we don’t need to check the power steering oil level as there isn’t any. They had some inverter issues in the 3rd Generation Prius in which the hybrid technology changed, but Toyota issued a recall for that.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

a developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, has received a term sheet for a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program supporting a more than $1-billion biofuels project. The project would convert wood biomass into drop in biofuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel.

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JUNE 7, 2010

In terms of powertrain technologies, Renault focused on the introduction of new technologies for internal combustion engines and conventional transmissions, as well as outlining its commitment to electric powertrains. Reduced transmission friction thanks to the use of low viscosity oils. liter diesel engine of equivalent power.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

As an example, for diesel pricing the short-term recommendation is to progressively decontrol diesel prices by eliminating under-recovery over a period of around one year. For the long term, the recommendation is to liberalize diesel pricing. Oil demand would be reduced by 3.7 in 2020 and 5.8%

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MARCH 3, 2010

In addition to the hybrid model, the Auris 2010 powertrain line-up also offers three gasoline and three diesel engines offering the performance and economy-enhancing benefits of Toyota Optimal Drive. liter diesel or gasoline hatchback. The overall Auris CO 2 average has been reduced from 152 g/km in 2007 to 142 g/km in 2009.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Aeromexico is using a 15% blend of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, produced from camelina using process technology from Honeywell’s UOP, on flights on its Mexico City to San Jose, Costa Rica route, marking one of the first uses of renewable fuels in everyday airplane passenger service.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The diesel-electric full-hybrid vehicle, weighing just 380 kilograms (838 lbs), offers an initial glimpse at how a future production version might appear. In 2007, Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn confirmed that VW was resurrecting the 1-liter car project and would place it in production. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 17, 2011

ASDS is based on Amminex’ solid state ammonia storage technology which offers volumetric capacity comparable to liquid ammonia and about triple that of AdBlue; ammonia is released by controlled thermal desorption from the cartridge. Navistar has also been working with Amminex to industrialize the ASDS technology for commercial vehicles.

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