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million to support the production of advanced biofuels, and an opportunity for eligible producers to submit applications. million will be available for Fiscal Year 2013 production and the remainder of approximately $30 million is for payments for production in prior fiscal years. Of the $98.6 million, $68.6

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American Process Incorporated (API) recently launched a waste-to-cellulosic ethanol biorefinery project in Alpena, Michigan. The biorefinery will convert the process waste effluent from the plant into cellulosic ethanol, sodium acetate and clean, warm water. API is one of Michigan’s bioenergy Centers of Energy Excellence (COEE).

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At the Washington Auto Show, Novozymes, in partnership with US-based advanced biofuel manufacturer Fiberight , demonstrated two flex-fuel vehicles—a Chevy HHR and a Ford F150—running on E85, with the ethanol produced from government office waste paper and waste cardboard. million was given in 2008. Finished biofuel and products.

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Each combination of enzymes will be tested on pretreated agricultural waste that can first be converted into sugars and then into bio-based products and advanced biofuels. Novozymes has already reduced the cost of enzyme production for biofuels by 90%. million (2008-2012). million (2001-2005). Earlier post.).

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The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1-million grant to UC Riverside’s College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) to build a process demonstration unit (PDU) to convert waste biosolids to synthetic diesel fuel. 2008)Synthesis gas production using steam hydrogasification and steam reforming.

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MAY 20, 2009

Enerkem GreenField Alberta Biofuels (EGAB) has successfully completed the necessary environmental regulatory process and has been granted a permit to commence construction of a commercial facility to produce biofuels and green chemicals from sorted municipal solid waste in Edmonton, Alberta. Earlier post.)

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In the first phase, BTG-neXt will focus on building a pilot refinery for converting pyrolysis oil into 100% sustainable marine biodiesel for ships, in order to demonstrate that continuous production is feasible. In 2019, Empyro was acquired by the waste processing company Twence.

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Since commencing trial operations in 2008, haul trucks fitted with Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) technology have now moved more than one billion tonnes of both ore and waste material across five sites in the Pilbara including the newly commissioned Silvergrass mine. —Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Chris Salisbury.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will make payments to more than 160 energy producers in 41 states to support and ensure the production and expansion of advanced biofuels. Payments are based on the amount of biofuels a recipient produces from renewable biomass, other than corn kernel starch. A list of the recipients is here.

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MARCH 23, 2010

and Shell have successfully started production at the first demonstration plant converting plant sugars into gasoline and gasoline blend components, rather than ethanol. Moving from lab-scale to a demonstration production plant is an important milestone for biogasoline. Virent Energy Systems, Inc. Earlier post.)

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The Biorefinery Assistance Program (Section 9003 of the 2008 Farm Bill) provides loan guarantees to entrepreneurs seeking to take advantage of the growing opportunities in renewable energy provided by advanced biofuels. Enerkem uses gasification followed by catalytic synthesis to produce synthetic fuels from biomass and waste.

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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. SCF Technologies 2008 Annual Report.

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million in grants to 220 producers (awards of less than $500 not listed) to support the production of advanced biofuels, and is awarding more than $4 million in additional grants that will advance the bioeconomy. These payments have supported the production of more than 5.8 The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making $5.6

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The Biorefinery Assistance Program was created through the 2008 Farm Bill and is administered by USDA Rural Development. The company expects to produce 100 barrels of refined algal oil per day by 2015, and to be at commercial-scale production by 2018. Applications for biorefinery assistance are due by 30 January 2014.

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US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the availability of funds for Fiscal Year 2012 for two key programs to encourage the use of renewable biomass and production of advanced biofuels. About $25 million will be made available through each program. Contract payments will be made quarterly.

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This development model features a plug-in hybrid diesel-electric powertrain that Land Rover expects to make available in future production models, following the scheduled launch of its diesel-electric hybrid in 2013. The Range_e also features regenerative braking to capture energy usually wasted in heat energy via the brakes.

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This acquisition will enable the development of a powerful technology platform on the basis of CO 2 feedstock, meaning it turns waste into valuable products such as chemicals and plastics. —Tom van Aken, CEO of Avantium. The integration of the Liquid Light assets into Avantium is complete and effective immediately.

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MQL reduces oil mist generation; biological contamination of coolant; waste water volume; costs for capital equipment; and regulatory permitting. For a typical production line, MQL can save more than 280,000 gallons (1 million liters) of water per year, Ford says. million liters used in similar high volume production processes.

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MARCH 15, 2011

These three USDA Rural Development renewable energy programs are authorized by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Farm Bill). The Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels works to support and ensure an expanding production of advanced biofuels by providing payments to eligible advanced biofuels producers.

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The new engine will be assembled on the flexible production line that was installed in 2012 and will provide increased power, while improving fuel economy and reducing CO 2 emissions. Production of the Auburn Hills, Mich.-designed When production of the new four-cylinder engine begins next year, it will replace the 3.6-liter

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9003 of the 2008 Farm Bill) to be made by USDA this month. USDA’s Biorefinery Assistance Program was authorized by Congress under the 2008 Farm Bill. The total project cost for the 25 million gallon per year biorefinery is estimated to be $390.5 Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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APRIL 16, 2014

The emissions during the cars’ use-phase (73%); the production of components by suppliers (21%) and Audi’s logistics activities (1.4%) cause a major proportion of the annual emissions. —Board of Management Member for Production Dr. Hubert Waltl. We are making a clear statement by calculating and publishing our CO 2 footprint.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA), through its Rural Development Biorefinery Assistance Program (Section 9003 of the 2008 Farm Bill), approved a $99-million, 80% loan guarantee to Chemtex International, Inc. The PROESA process delivers cost-effective sugars from non-food biomass for use in bioproducts. Source: Beta Renewables.

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Protein production. However, the starting materials, wheat straw, bran and spruce, are found in abundance throughout Europe as waste materials, so it is hoped that the DISCO project will lead to full scale-plants producing biofuels across the continent. million in FP7 funding) began in August 2008, and will conclude in July 2012.

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The ISOPROD project ( earlier post ) aims to validate (i) the production of bio-based isobutene on an industrial scale from beet substrates and (ii) the implementation of bio-based isobutene in industrial processes currently using fossil isobutene. In the GBE process, the product evaporates spontaneously.

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Siemens Metals Technologies and LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, have signed a ten-year co-operation agreement to develop and market integrated environmental solutions for the steel industry worldwide. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Globally, the iron and steel industry contributes 6.7%

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Hycagen was founded in 2008 and has developed a number of fuels using its proprietary enzyme- and catalyst-based processes. A hyper-stabilized reusable enzyme catalyst assimilates the combined feedstocks into the Hycadiesel generating no waste. —Telgenco CEO Simon Albury.

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The Brazil plant, contracted from CompactGTL in 2008, demonstrates a fully integrated small-scale GTL facility, at 200,000 scf/d capacity, incorporating: Gas pre-treatment. Waste heat recovery. A GTL demonstration plant has successfully been commissioned at Petrobras’ Aracaju site in Brazil. Pre-reforming. Syngas compression.

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AUGUST 28, 2010

KiOR, developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, will receive a $75-million state-backed loan from Mississippi to bring the first three of its full-scale production facilities to the state. The first site will be built in Columbus, Mississippi and could open by the end of 2011. Earlier post.).

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In a first for the refining industry, Marathon has agreed to state-of-the-art controls on combustion devices known as flares and to a cap on the volume of waste gas it will send to its flares. A flare is a mechanical device, ordinarily elevated high off the ground, used to combust waste gases.

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Over the past 13 years, Honda plants in North America have reduced waste sent to landfills by 91.9%; and in the most recent full fiscal year, ended March 31, 2013 (FY2013), CO 2 emissions from the production of Honda and Acura vehicles in North America were down 16.2%.

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In September, Gevo received a $5-million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the development of biojet fuel from woody biomass and forest product residues. Honeywell’s UOP has also commercialized the UOP/Eni Ecofining process to produce Honeywell Green Diesel fuel from natural oils and wastes.

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JUNE 12, 2010

An unprecedented scale of Enteromorpha prolifera green tide broke out in China’s Yellow Sea in Qingdao, Shandong province, during May and July, 2008. prolifera flocked to the shore, then became waste, and soon began to decay, resulting in negative effects to the coastal seawater quality and the ecological environment. Zhou et al.

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between 2008 and 2009 due to the global financial crisis, global oil consumption recovered by 3.1% OPEC and non-OPEC countries (excluding the former Soviet Union) each accounted for almost 42% of global oil production in 2010, with the former Soviet Union responsible for 16.8%, up from 10.7% After falling 1.5%

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The plant, which required an overall investment for construction of some €50 million, is located on the site of Enel’s “Andrea Palladio” plant at Fusina, next to the petrochemical facility of Porto Marghera (Venice), from which it will receive the hydrogen produced as a by-product in the manufacturing process.

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The major sources of methane in California are livestock (~30% of the state’s methane emissions), followed by landfills and oil and gas production. The “Kigali Amendment” resulting from the annual Montreal Protocol Meeting of Parties in October 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda targets phasing down the production of HFCs globally.

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emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per region. correction for the leap year 2008), global emissions have. emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per sector (1970 = 100). emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per country (left), per capita (center), and per unit of GDP (right).

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