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At 3%, the 2011 increase in global CO 2 emissions is above the past decade’s average annual increase of 2.7%. combined, where emissions increased by 9% and 6% respectively in 2011. According to the report, the top emitters contributing to the global 34 billion tonnes of CO 2 in 2011 are: China (29%). the United States (16%).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. Agitation evens the temperature and homogenizes the feedstocks.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Calysta is using its proprietary BioGTL biological gas-to-liquids platform to convert natural gas to liquid hydrocarbons. Calysta will use proprietary genetic optimization algorithms to enable the efficient development of bacteria which can convert methane to a variety of alkane fuels. Click to enlarge. Carbon feedstock. Sugar/biomass.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Biomass differs from the other renewable resources, they note, since the energy it contains is stored as chemical bonds. It is also not the most sensible solution to convert biomass into fuels. A wide gap in the effective H/C ratio between a resource and a target chemical implies that a lengthy process is needed for its conversion.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment have created a scalable photocatalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel. Using only inexpensive earth-abundant raw materials, a team from Rice’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Syzygy Plasmonics Inc. The research is published in Science.

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MARCH 6, 2011

These proteins were overlooked as a resource for fuel or for chemicals because people did not know how to utilize them or how to grow them. The challenge in protein-based biorefining, the researchers say, lies in the difficulties of effectively converting protein hydrolysates to fuels and chemicals. We’ve solved these problems.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory are developing a biohybrid photoconversion system based on the interaction of photosynthetic plant proteins with synthetic polymers that can convert visible light into hydrogen fuel. HFIR is supported by the DOE Office of Science. Energy Environ.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Biomass differs from the other renewable resources, they note, since the energy it contains is stored as chemical bonds. It is also not the most sensible solution to convert biomass into fuels. A wide gap in the effective H/C ratio between a resource and a target chemical implies that a lengthy process is needed for its conversion.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

The first new bus will be on the streets of London in 2011, boosting London’s low emission bus fleet, which is already the largest in Europe. In the meantime, TfL will continue the program of converting the fleet to hybrid technology, and retrofitting buses to Euro 4 standard as part of the Mayor’s Air Quality Strategy.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Lehnherr found that the relatively harmless inorganic mercury was converted, through methylation, into the neurotoxin monomethylmercury. Kirk (2011) Methylation of inorganic mercury in polar marine waters. Lehnherr said the group believes the methylation process is happening in oceans all over the world. —Igor Lehnherr.

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AUGUST 28, 2011

The new acid-catalyzed process for converting biomass into furan derivatives uses a biphasic reactor containing a reactive aqueous phase and an organic extracting phase, which includes an alkylphenol. 2011) Production of Biofuels from Cellulose and Corn Stover Using Alkylphenol Solvents. Alonso, D. Wettstein, S. and Dumesic, J.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

European leader in the rubber industry, announced the discovery of a direct biological pathway to convert renewable resources into butadiene, a light olefin core to the petrochemical industry. In July 2011, Global Bioenergies entered into a strategic partnership with Synthos, a $1.2-billion Earlier post.). validation.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The TEG technology, which converts waste heat from gas exhaust into electric energy and has the potential to improve passenger car fuel efficiency by as much as 5%. This follow-on light-duty vehicle project, funded in 2011, has a target of a 5% fuel economy improvement. Resources. ???? That project, which received more than $7.1

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JUNE 9, 2012

of the world’s total, according to a 2011 market research report; 9.94 Coal tars—highly viscous liquids—are byproduct of the carbonization of coal to produce metallurgical coke and/or natural gas. In 2010, China’s coke output reached 387.571 million tons, accounting for 61.6% million tons of coal tar was further processed.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

in 2Q 2011) on total 2Q 2012 revenue of $17.0 million in the second quarter of 2011). The agreement would also include the potential for Wanxiang to invest up to an additional $175 million if it exercises the warrants that would be issued in connection with the Bridge Facility and the Convertible Notes for cash.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

In an 2011 paper in the same journal, the Dumesic team reported that alkylphenol solvents allow a more effective production of biofuels from corn stover by enabling selective extraction and hydrogenation of levulinic acid to GVL, and by increasing the final concentration of GVL through successive extraction/hydrogenation steps. Gürbüz, E.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Codexis’ latest generation of advanced cellulase enzymes, CodeXyme 4 for dilute acid pretreatments and CodeXyme 4X for hydrothermal pretreatments, converts up to 85% of available fermentable sugars at high biomass and low enzyme loads. 2011) Comparative Performance of Precommercial Cellulases Hydrolyzing Pretreated Corn Stover.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

This investment was part of the partnership agreement, signed in July 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. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 25, 2014

IHI and Toshiba, together with the University of Tokyo and Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute, have conducted R&D financed by NEDO’s “R&D of Ocean Energy Technology - R&D of Next-Generation Ocean Energy Power Generation (Underwater Floating Type Ocean Current Turbine System)” since FY 2011.

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MARCH 5, 2009

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released its proposed regulation to implement the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The regulation establishes two performance standards that fuel producers and importers must meet each year beginning in 2011. This determination is made for each year between 2011 and 2020.

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NO x emissions have not been decreasing as expected in recent years (2011–2015) when comparing top-down estimates from satellites and surface NO 2 measurements to the trends predicted from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s emission inventory data, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. Zhe Jiang, Brian C.

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AUGUST 27, 2013

Gevo has been working with The Coca-Cola Company since 2011 ( earlier post ) to deliver a new production technology for renewable paraxylene, a key building block for producing fully renewable PET for beverage bottles. Research and Development support for this plant was provided by The Coca-Cola Company under a Joint Development Agreement.

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AUGUST 16, 2013

However, solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) can oxidize any fuel, because the electrolyte transports an oxygen ion, Wachsman noted in a 2011 paper in Science exploring LT-SOFCs. —Wachsman and Lee (2011). The PowerSERG 2-80, also called “The Cube”, connects to a natural gas line and electrochemically converts methane to electricity.

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As staff engineer from 2007 through 2011, he led, managed, and contributed to the design, development, and deployment of electrification technologies. Inverters allow a machine’s power train to run power between the electrical machines, acting like a generator or motor, and they convert electricity from AC to DC and back again.

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MARCH 14, 2015

In case of microwave based SSPS (M-SSPS), the solar energy must be converted to electricity and then converted to a microwave beam. The on-ground rectifying antenna would collect the microwave beam and convert it to electricity to connect to commercial power grids. 2011.5877136.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Gevo broke ground on the its Luverne, MN retrofit on 31 May 2011 and construction is proceeding on schedule. On June 15, 2011 Gevo and Redfield Energy, LLC (Redfield) entered into a definitive joint venture (JV) to convert Redfield’s 50 mgpy ethanol plant into an isobutanol plant. In June 2011, Lanxess Inc.

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APRIL 14, 2011

GM is exploring the use of an ultracapacitor-based Active Energy Recovery Buffer (AERB) scheme as a low-cost means to improve fuel economy in conventional vehicles; results of a simulation study presented at SAE 2011 World Congress showed improvement of up to 1.3% liter engine and a six-speed transmission. —Gopalakrishnan et al.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

has earned the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials Services Foundation’s (RSB’s) sustainability certification for the joint venture’s facility that converts waste steel mill gases to sustainable biofuels. LanzTech and the Shougang Group signed the joint venture agreement in September 2011. LanzaTech Inc.

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IEEE provides its members with many benefits and resources. For IEEE to remain vital and relevant, we must convert more student members to members and then engage and retain them. We need to convert more of these students to higher-grade members and retain our young professional members longer.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology enables low cost production of sustainable alcohols and chemicals from waste gas resources that are completely outside the food value chain. Kevin Weiss (2011) Alcohol to Jet (ATJ) Emerging Through ASTM (Byogy presentation at ICAO workshop, October 2011). Earlier post.).

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MAY 19, 2011

1/V:V) two-phase system to convert glucose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF), an important green platform chemical with wide applications in the production of fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics and liquid alkanes. Although fructose can be converted to 5-HMF with high yield via acid-catalyzed dehydration, fructose is costly.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

The US Energy Information Administration notes that, according to Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ), Venezuela had 211 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in 2011, the second largest the world. These projects involve converting the extra heavy crude and bitumen to lighter, sweeter crude, known as syncrude. billion barrels. —EIA.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The environmental constraints associated with vehicle weight reduction and the regulations intended to increase the recyclability of materials used in the automotive industry (85% in Europe by 2015) call for increased use of new materials derived from natural resources, which will ultimately replace petroleum-based plastics. billion ($22.5.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

efficient alcohol-mediated reactive extraction strategy by which a hydrophobic mixture of butyl levulinate and formate esters, derived from cellulosic biomass, can be converted to GVL by a simple supported gold catalyst system without need of an external hydrogen source. Researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai report on an. ChemSusChem.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

That process converts 2-methylfuran (2MF) into into diesel-range hydrocarbons through two consecutive catalytic steps that involve hydroxyalkylation/alkylation and hydrodeoxygenation, with an overall yield of 87%. Torre, Michael Renz (2011) High-Quality Diesel from Hexose- and Pentose-Derived Biomass Platform Molecules. Earlier post.).

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Isobutyric acid also can be further converted to methacrylate (i.e., Dhande (2011) A Synthetic Metabolic Pathway for Production of the Platform Chemical Isobutyric Acid. The researchers have filed for a patent on the technology, and the University of Minnesota is seeking commercialization partners. Kechun Zhang, Adam P. 201100045.

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After initial successful tests with a relatively easily converted model alcohol (isopropanol), the researchers turned their attention to ethanol. Ethanol has taken on increasing importance as a renewable resource but is significantly harder to convert. —Matthias Beller. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 50, No.

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