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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. The oxygen content of the CatLiq bio-oil is 2-12%.

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Increasing crude processing intensity and energy intensity with worsening oil quality. OQ: Crude feed oil quality. Observations are annual weighted averages for districts 1 (yellow), 2 (blue), 3 (orange), and 5 (black) in 1999-2008. PI: Crude processing intensity. EI: Refinery energy intensity. Credit: ACS, Karras et al.

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and Schlumberger have created Liquid Robotics Oil & Gas , a joint venture to develop services for the oil and gas industry using Wave Gliders, the first wave-powered, autonomous marine vehicles. Initial customer deliveries of the Wave Glider unmanned maritime vehicle (UMV) took place in 2008. Liquid Robotics, Inc. Wave Glider.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. In 2008, UOP received a $1.5 Source: UOP.

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APRIL 1, 2010

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Oil Corp. IOCL and Honeywell’s UOP would also evaluate the viability of pyrolysis oil technology to convert lignocellulosic materials, or plant biomass, into renewable power and heat. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

One of those vehicles is a Mercedes-Benz E-Class powered by unblended renewable diesel produced by UOP’s Ecofining process ( earlier post ), using oil from algae provided by Solazyme. In 2008, UOP formed the joint venture Envergent Technologies LLC with Ensyn Corp. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 28, 2009

Neste Oil has decided to postpone construction of a new gasoline isomerization unit at its Porvoo, Finland refinery. The decision to build a new isomerization unit was taken in summer 2008 and its investment cost was estimated to be approximately €80 million (US$104 million). 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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JUNE 18, 2010

Suncor Energy has received conditional approval for its oil sands fluid tailings management plan from Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board ( ERCB ). Tailings are a mixture of fine clay, sands, water and residual bitumen produced through the oil sands extraction process, and are held in massive “ponds”. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Mascoma will then convert the feedstock to cellulosic ethanol through its proprietary process, which produces lignin as a by-product. Chevron has filed applications for two patents on processes to convert lignin to a hydrocarbon feedstock via hydroprocessing; both applications were published on 3 September 2009. Earlier post.)

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Such an innovation will play a key role in helping the company exceed the 50% emissions reduction target, compared to 2008 levels, that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has mandated all shipbuilders should achieve by 2050. Today, 80% of the world’s shipping fleet runs on heavy fuel oil, or bunker fuel.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

Pacific Ethanol, Stockton LLC has entered into an agreement to install Edeniq’s Cellunators to boost ethanol yields and OilPlus corn oil extraction process to increase corn oil recovery at the company’s Stockton, California ethanol plant. Earlier post.). In June, Edeniq received a $3.9

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MARCH 24, 2009

have launched a joint venture, Envergent Technologies, LLC, to offer technology and equipment to convert second-generation biomass into pyrolysis oil for power generation, heating fuel and for conversion into transportation fuels. Honeywell and Ensyn announced their intention to form the joint venture in September 2008.

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Crude oil processing at La Mède will be halted at the end of 2016. European demand for petroleum products has declined 15% since 2008, shrinking outlets for the continent’s refining industry. Axens’ Vegan process. Click to enlarge.

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Celeroton AG, a leading manufacturer of ultra-high-speed electrical drive systems with speeds up to 1 million rpm, has launched its first turbo compressors with gas bearings—unique in their weight and performance, being wear- and oil-free, and obtaining the highest levels of energy efficiency. GB and CT-17-1000.GB,

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

The two companies have been collaborating since 2008; this agreement opens the door for the first, fully integrated, offshore modular GTL solution for the upstream industry.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

The process takes agricultural feedstocks such as animal fat, crop seed oil and restaurant grease, and converts them into drop-in liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The process also converts the same agricultural feedstocks into solvents and diluents. He ran that company for 12 years. Maher, Kathlyn M. Kirkwood, Murray R.

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Current products include gas oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, and petroleum coke. Although the existing refinery has a maximum rated crude processing capacity of 70,000 bpd, due to a 2008 bankruptcy of the prior owner, crude oil refining was temporarily suspended. the routes over which the crude oil will be transported.

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JUNE 13, 2010

million gallons US) of pyrolysis oil annually. This pyrolysis oil will be used to produce renewable energy in the form of electricity and heat that will be used in Tolko’s sawmill at High Level. The facility will also be capable of producing a renewable resin ingredient that can be used in the manufacture of wood panel products.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

The projects are funded by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative, established in the 2008 Farm Bill. Once harvested and processed, camelina oil and meal will be chemically converted to a variety of adhesives, coatings and composites. Ceramatec, Inc.,

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have created a continuous-flow process that produces useful crude oil less than one hour after receiving harvested algae. HTL converts wet algae slurries into an upgradeable biocrude. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Genifuel Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The extended use of soy foam results from the continued research collaboration between Ford and Lear; Ford first used sustainable soybean oil-derived seating foam on the 2008 Mustang. The biomaterial has helped Ford reduce its annual petroleum oil usage by more than 3 million pounds.

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Otherwise you’ll just be buying a dinosaur that you’ll have to pay to convert or dispose of. That’s EE Solar’s RAV4 and it has gone over 116,000 miles oil free. You can read all about it in my Greenius guide to plug-ins and my coverage of Plug-In 2008. A school teacher owns this car.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

Presently, acrylic acid is produced by the oxidation of propylene derived from the refining of crude oil. Novozymes and Cargill have collaborated on renewable acrylic acid technology since 2008.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has begun construction in Hawaii of a demonstration unit that will convert forest residuals, algae and other cellulosic biomass into renewable drop-in transportation fuels via a rapid pyrolysis process integrated with a catalytic upgrading process. UOP, Ensyn and Envergent. In 2009, UOP and Ensyn Corp.

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UOP notes that isobutanol-derived biofuels will offer new renewable sources for jet fuel production beyond the natural oils and biomass materials that have been introduced for commercial and military flight in the last several years—including those produced by UOP. C 8 –C 16 olefins); and. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Credit: ACS, Boot 2008. Boot and his colleagues discussed the potential role of cyclic oxygenates in a 2008 paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. In this phase the CyclOx will still be produced by an external party from mineral oil. In their 2008 paper, Boot et al. Click to enlarge. —Boot et al.

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Honeywell’s UOP process technology produces Green Jet Fuel from natural oils and wastes. In 2007, UOP commercialized the UOP/Eni Ecofining process to produce Honeywell Green Diesel fuel from natural oils and wastes, and in 2008, Honeywell’s UOP formed the joint venture Envergent Technologies LLC with Ensyn Corp.

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Our agreement with Cetrel is perfectly aligned with our vision to develop a bio-based society, where biorefineries convert agricultural residues and waste into energy, chemicals, and other materials, thereby substituting fossil fuels. The project also offers strong technical and commercial synergy with our efforts on advanced biofuels.

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Since 2008, JetBlue has already offset more than 2.6 Instead of escaping into the air, LFG can be captured, converted and used as a renewable energy resource. Solar/Wind: These projects develop expansive solar and wind farms, generating power that otherwise would have been supplied by fossil fuels such as coal, diesel and furnace oil.

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In 2008, Petrobras, through its research center (Cenpes), signed a cooperation agreement with start-up KiOR—a joint venture between Khosla Ventures and BIOeCON ( earlier post )—to use KiOR’s Biomass Catalytic Cracking (BCC) process to produce second-generation biofuels from sugarcane waste. Earlier post.)

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Emerald is expected to use Honeywell’s UOP/Eni Ecofining ( earlier post ) process technology to produce 85 million gallons per year of Honeywell Green Diesel from non-edible, second-generation oils and animal fats. In 2008, Honeywell’s UOP partnered with Ensyn Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Since 2008 Global Bioenergies has been developing a process to convert renewable resources into isobutene, one of the most important molecules in the chemical industry, which is easily converted into fuels, plastics and elastomers. Accordingly, Synthos now owns a 3.6% stake of Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.).

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The Bio-SPK process converts bio-derived oils (triglycerides and free fatty acids) to Bio-SPKs. First, the oils are cleaned using standard oil cleaning procedures. Virgin Atlantic proved the technical viability of biofuels at high altitude with its test flight in early 2008. IATA 2008 Report on Alternative Fuels.

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APRIL 18, 2009

Announced in August 2008, Many Stars CTL is an energy development project led by AAEC in collaboration with the Crow Nation. Expected to be operational in 2016, the project will convert 38,000 tons per day of Montana coal into 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) of synthetic diesel, jet fuel and naphtha.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Petrobras will be the first company to operate an FPSO (floating oil production, storage and outflow) type platform in the American portion of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), in the Cascade and Chinook fields. The vessel started being converted into an FPSO at the Cosco Shipyard, in Nantong, China, in March 2008. meters tall.

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SoyFoam , made from renewable soybean oil, has been on the Ford Mustang seats since 2008. Converting the annual production of a mid-size sedan program to 100% Lear ECO fabric could save approximately 10 million plastic bottles a year from entering landfills, according to Mandy Sarotte, Director of Global Trim and Foam Advanced Sales.

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