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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

CatLiq converts biomass and organic wastes in water at near or supercritical conditions (280-350 °C and 180-250 bar). In addition to the bio-oil/methane products, the process can be tuned to produce hydrogen and water soluble fuels such as methanol, ethanol or acetaldehyde. SCF Technologies 2008 Annual Report.

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APRIL 16, 2012

DNV has signed an MOU with Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), South Korea’s state-run gas corporation, to cooperate on research and development in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector. of LNG in global trade), next to Japan (40.7%) (based on 2008 data). Korea is the world’s second-largest LNG importer (imported 16.1%

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MAY 13, 2012

OsComp Systems, a startup formed by MIT alumni, has developed , with support from the US Department of Energy (DOE), a hybrid rotary compressor design that decreases the energy required to compress and transport natural gas, lowers operating costs, improves efficiencies and reduces the environmental footprint of well site operations.

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MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 11, 2010

Recent successful field tests at its Colony Mine with the Electrofrac process for converting the kerogen in oil shale to producible oil and gas is prompting ExxonMobil to try again for a research and development lease from the Interior Department for a larger trial. barrels of water for each barrel of oil produced, he said.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Cobalt uses non-food feedstock, such as forest waste and mill residues, and its technology reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 85% compared to gasoline. It can be used as a standalone fuel; blended with gasoline, diesel and ethanol; converted into jet fuel or plastics, or sold as is for use in paints and coatings.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Unusually high temperatures in the Arctic and heavy rains in the tropics likely drove a global increase in atmospheric methane in 2007 and 2008 after a decade of near-zero growth, according to a new study. Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, albeit a distant second. Earlier post.) Bruhwiler, P.C.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

The vessel BW Pioneer will be turret-moored at a water depth of about 2,600 meters—by far the deepest for an FPSO. BW Pioneer will be the first FPSO to be deployed in the US Gulf of Mexico and turret moored at the deepest waters ever for an FPSO. Source: Keppel. Click to enlarge. meters tall.

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APRIL 27, 2012

‘Business-as-usual’ projections of future conversion rates, based on historical rates over the past two decades, indicate that 6–9 Mha of peatland in insular Southeast Asia may be converted to plantations by the year 2020, unless land use planning policies or markets for products change. —Miettinen et al. Earlier post.). GCB Bioenergy.

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APRIL 12, 2009

UCTL is an in situ process that converts brown coal/lignite to liquid hydrocarbon and gas products within the coal seam. The preferred coal type is lignite; the water and impurities aid the UCTL process. The UCTL process can utilize conventional oil/gas wells and conventional oilfield surface equipment.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2011

The basis for this study was a stand-alone gasification/synthesis process including sub-processes or unit operations for integrated tar reforming, acid gas scrubbing, and synthesis to methanol followed by conversion to gasoline. The biomass is chemically converted to a mixture of syngas components (CO, H 2 , CO 2 , CH 4 , etc.),

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APRIL 16, 2009

Hydrosilane, a combination of silica and hydrogen, is added to the NHC-activated carbon dioxide, and the product of this reaction is transformed into methanol by adding water (hydrolysis). Ying (2008) Imidazolium Salts: A Mild Reducing and Antioxidative Reagent. Yugen Zhang. Earlier post.). 48 (18) pp. 3322-3325 doi: 10.1002/anie.200806058.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

In the report, its first, the panel concludes governments should fit biofuels into an overall energy, climate, land-use, water and agricultural strategy if biofuels deployment is to benefit society, the economy and the environment as a whole. This lack makes it difficult to assess trade-offs between different environmental impact indicators.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

The process also uses less than half the water per gallon than required for the production of gasoline from conventional crude, and about one-third to one-quarter of the water per gallon required for the production of gasoline from oil sands oil, Bolson said. gallons of water are required to produce one gallon of corn ethanol.

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APRIL 21, 2011

The demonstration project to produce cellulosic bioethanol has been under way since 2008 jointly with the Hyogo Prefectural Government, the Hyogo Environmental Advancement Association (HEAA) and other entities. MHI jointly with Hakutsuru Sake Brewing Co., and Kansai Chemical Engineering Co.,

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

The GAO report examined, among other things, (1) the effects of increased biofuels production on US agriculture, environment, and greenhouse gas emissions; (2) federal support for domestic biofuels production; and (3) key challenges in meeting the RFS. However, future movement toward cellulosic feedstocks could reduce some of these effects.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Hydrogen produced by water electrolysis has the potential to be a useful means of storing excess electricity generated using wind, solar, and other intermittent renewable energy. Biogas, including anaerobic digester gas, can be reformed to produce hydrogen and used in a fuel cell to produce significant amounts of electricity and heat.

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MAY 10, 2011

77% is up from just under 13% of the total primary energy supply of around 490 Exajoules in 2008. The upper end of the scenarios assessed, representing a cut of around a third in greenhouse gas emissions from business-as-usual projections, could assist in keeping concentrations of greenhouse gases at 450 parts per million, the report said.

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JULY 29, 2010

That ranks the effects of soot ahead of methane, an important greenhouse gas. Soot could be further reduced by converting vehicles to run on renewable electric power. Black carbon converts sunlight to heat and radiates it back to the air around it. 2008] and methane [Schutz et al., Dessler et al.,

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APRIL 3, 2009

The SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) International Biofuels Project, has published the full proceedings of its Rapid Assessment workshop on the environmental effects of biofuel technologies, 22-25 September 2008. However very few studies include water use impacts.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

natural gas vehicle. natural gas vehicle, previewed in a concept form in 2011 ( earlier post ) and revealed in its production version at the Geneva auto show in March this year, in Europe. The natural gas version produces its 50 kW output at 6,200 rpm and reaches its maximum torque of 90 N·m (66 lb-ft) at 3,000 rpm.

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JULY 13, 2009

Since its launch in the fall of 2008, SAFUG has established a foundation of airlines, environmental organizations, research projects and practices and principles. High conservation value areas and native eco-systems should not be cleared and converted for jet fuel plant source development.

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JANUARY 31, 2009

The reaction chamber is enclosed by a membrane wall, cooled with pressurized water and can accommodate feed with much ash. Furthermore, given the limitations on biomass conversion to biosynfuel, the FZK team sees an ongoing role for coal and natural gas derived synthetic fuels, likely combined with BTL in very large integrated XTL complexes.

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APRIL 1, 2009

Eventually, Hazen said the use of microbes might even result in “oil sweetening,” or converting its chemical structure to a more environmentally friendly and useful form, like methane. The wells will descend more than 6,500 feet, where the gas will be trapped between sandstone and shale in a natural saline reservoir. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 8, 2015

In addition to the direct benefits of storing carbon, wood products have also been shown to have fewer associated greenhouse gas emissions compared with concrete or steel. Additionally, they have treated 644 road sites to reduce erosion and sediment delivery to the streams, helping to improve water quality and fish habitat.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The statute, amended by Assembly Bill 109 (Núñez, Chapter 313, Statutes of 2008), authorizes the Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help achieve the state's climate change policies. Natural gas-powered vehicle fueling. Natural gas will displace 1.5

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APRIL 29, 2015

The papers provide technical details on the high performance fuel-cell (FC) stack; specific insights into FC separator, and stack manifold; the newly developed boost converter; and the new high-pressure hydrogen storage system with innovative carbon fiber windings. Conventional flow field structure. Konno et al. Click to enlarge. Konno et al.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

liter unit introduced in the US in 2008 in the Jetta as Volkswagen’s first Tier 2 Bin 5/CA LEV II-compliant (i.e., Volkswagen engineers redesigned a large number of the base engine components to improve acoustics, fuel consumption, and exhaust gas emissions. The engines at the core of this evolving debacle began with a 2.0-liter

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy signed an agreement to pursue development of coal-to-gas and coal-to-hydrogen projects in the United States and around the world with carbon capture and storage (CCS) that would achieve near-zero carbon emissions, while increasing the production of stranded oil via enhanced oil recovery. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 2, 2009

With the replacement of the engine’s belt-driven water pump, all engine coolant pumps are now electrically operated, reducing mechanical losses and providing engine coolant flow rate control independent of engine RPM at all times. An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system has also been added. The 2010 Prius features a new 1.8-liter

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APRIL 22, 2009

John Waters, the CEO of Bright Automotive, is a veteran of Detroits auto industry, just like most of the Bright team. In the 1990s, Waters led development of the battery pack for General Motors Corp.s Waters, it turns out, learned a lot during his days in Detroit. Waters, like many others, hopes the U.S.

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MARCH 21, 2009

Chew Hwee Hong, Managing Director and Founder of Ecospec, said that results of a CSNOx pilot test, performed on board an ocean-going supertanker in December 2008, showed 92.9%, 82.2% The process water is collected, filtered, and pumped into an aft tank for further processing, and eventually returned to the ocean.

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MARCH 10, 2018

Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. An example of a simplified schematic for converting atmospheric carbon dioxide, water, and solar or wind electricity into ethanol, gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Source: Mattershift.

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students a simple question: “What is the most efficient and practical way possible to convert chemical-bond energy into useful work?” The ammonia reacts with oxygen in air to produce nitrogen gas and water, and the resulting force pushes against the walls of the box. MAINSPRING It works rather like regenerative braking.

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MARCH 18, 2009

Swan Hills Synfuels expects the project to demonstrate the ability to manufacture synthetic gas from Alberta’s coal resources, with the future potential of utilizing the coal seams for carbon capture and storage. The deep formations could also store carbon dioxide after the coal is turned into gas. Start-up is planned for 2012.

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MAY 3, 2009

In this study, BMW focused on Rankine A (exhaust gas only) and Rankine B (exhaust gas and coolant). Test results presented in 2008 showed that in 100 kph (62 miles/hour) constant-speed driving, the use of the Rankine cycle improved the thermal efficiency of the engine by 3.8%. Adapted from Ringler et al. 2009) Click to enlarge.

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He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation. He also designed a virtual world game from the ground up (since 2008, still a work in progress). His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion.

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