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APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. Credit: ACS, Mulchandani and Brandt. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Phillip Savage at the University of Michigan has found that with appropriate parameters, hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) can convert 65% of wet algae (a Nannochloropsis species) into biocrude in one minute. 2011) Characterization of product fractions from hydrothermal liquefaction of Nannochloropsis sp. Biocrude from Nannochloropsis.

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JANUARY 12, 2013

According to the 12 th Five-Year Plan of the China Coal Industry (2011?2015) Under such circumstances, there will be a battle between coal and NG in many sectors, particularly the on-road transport sector, which is exclusively petroleum-dependent but currently facing a worldwide oil shortage. Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 14, 2020

In FY2017, IHI Group began, in partnership with Kobe University, the NEDO supported R&D project “Development of Production Technologies for Bio jet fuels / Pilot scale test on once through production process” to produce algae-based biofuel, using the hyper-growth Botryococcus braunii. IHI also began work with Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. A paper presenting the results of the group’s latest year-long study on the lifecycle air emissions and oil displacement benefits of plug-in vehicles was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

Michigan Technological University will assess the life cycle benefits of the integration process. As part of that work, the companies will develop these biofuels from sources such as alcohols, sugars, biomass, and pyrolysis oils. at an ICAO sustainable alternative fuels workshop in October. 50,000 for Futurepast, Inc.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Furthermore, oil consumption was measured to be less than 0.1% Historic OP engines, and two-strokes in general, suffer from high oil consumption, on the order of ~1% or more.). Foster (2011) Thermodynamic Benefits of Opposed-Piston Two-Stroke Engines ( SAE 2011-01-2216 ). Thermodynamic analysis. Herold, Michael H.

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JUNE 20, 2011

billion in 2011 to $98.5 The 2011 award winners are: Greener synthetic pathways: Genomatica, San Diego, Calif. Genomatica has been producing BDO at pilot scale in 3,000 liter fermentations since the first half of 2010, and is moving to production at demonstration scale in 2011. billion by 2020. per million Btu.

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JULY 13, 2016

The 2016 Billion-Ton Report , volume 1, updates and expands upon analysis in the 2011 US Billion-Ton Update ( earlier post ), which was preceded by the 2005 US Billion Ton Study ( earlier post ). The report uses scientific modeling systems to project biomass resource availability under specified economic and sustainability constraints.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Approximately $4,500,000 is expected to be available for new awards in FY 2011 and an additional $7,500,000 is expected to be available for awards made under this announcement in years FY 2012 through FY 2013, again, subject to annual appropriations. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 20, 2012

The findings are published as a Jena Economic Research Paper, a joint publication of the Friedrich Schiller University and the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany. Neither the RED typical value for rapeseed oil (45%) nor even the lower default value (38%) can be supported by the analysis, they said.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

—Low Carbon Fuel Standard 2011 Program Review Report. California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff are to present the results of these reviews to the ARB by 1 January 2012, and 1 January 2015. The Advisory Panel has now met officially six times during 2011. —Low Carbon Fuel Standard 2011 Program Review Report.

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Source: Purdue University. Researchers at Purdue University have developed a facility aimed at learning the chemical kinetic processes in coal and biomass gasification to improve thermodynamic efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of the technology. Reactor system process and instrumentation. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Floating NPPs can provide a reliable power supply not only to remote settlements, for example, in the Far North and Far East regions, but also to large industrial facilities such as oil platforms. The 21,500 tonne hull was launched in 2010, although construction work was frozen in mid-2011 amid bankruptcy proceedings against the shipyard.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

A team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has identified a small molecule surrogate for cellulose—?-cyclodextrin—in The resulting vapor products are condensed to form bio-oil which can be upgraded catalytically to renewable liquid fuels or chemicals. Mettler, Samir H.

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OCTOBER 16, 2011

Uncertainty range of the aviation GHG emissions under the High Oil price scenario (the most optimistic for biojet adoption), given in a box plot depicting the minimum, quartile, and maximum values. The model uses three price scenarios: low oil, reference and high oil. Credit: ACS, Agusdinata et al. Click to enlarge.

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Credit: ACS, Ashok 2011. Ashok started the project by first examining the performance of different ethanol/diesel blends: 90D/10E, 80D/20E, 70D/30E, 60D/40E, and 50D/50E, all prepared on the basis of the water-in-oil (W/O)-type emulsion method. —Ashok 2011. Credit: ACS, Ashok 2011. Click to enlarge. kJ m -3 deg -1.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The largest contributors to uncertainty at present, the authors said, are emissions from China and international shipping. Sulfur is ubiquitous in the biosphere and often occurs in relatively high concentrations in fossil fuels, with coal and crude oil deposits commonly containing 1–2% sulfur by weight.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Localized differences in electrical generation, crude oil sources, biomass production practices, refinery efficiencies, and other parameters may cause the fuel carbon intensity (FCI) of specific fuel pathways to differ significantly from the national average. Some might be optimized for conventional oil, some for cellulosic ethanol.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

Research on Jatropha planting in Tanzania found the net present value of a five-year investment in Jatropha plantation was negative with a loss of US$ 65 per ha on lands with yields of 2 tons/ha of seeds and only slightly beneficial at US$9 per ha with yields of 3 tons when the average expected Jatropha seed yield on poor barren soils is only 1.7

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Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

A team from the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, reports on an improved material for capturing carbon dioxide from the air—silica?organic Narayanan (2011) Carbon Dioxide Capture from the Air Using a Polyamine Based Regenerable Solid Adsorbent. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Rather than relying as extensively on oil as the source of energy to power vehicles—most of it imported to the United States and Europe from other countries—we will use increasing amounts of ethanol and other potentially renewable fuels as well as electricity. Helmut Greim, Technical University of Munich. Communication 16.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

A team at Carnegie Mellon University has modeled the net emissions in two regional transmission operators (PJM and NYISO) from PHEVs under different scenarios for future power generation; different size battery packs; charging strategies (home, work and smart); and PHEV fleet percentages between 0.4 —Peterson et al. Peterson, J.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Institute of International Studies, University of. comparable costs, raising the present average cost of. and oil prices at $100/barrel, as well as shifting cash flows. away from foreign oil imports toward domestic purchases of. and oil prices at $100/barrel, as well as shifting cash flows. Laboratory. electricity.

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MARCH 12, 2011

The committee found that even the most moderate current trends in climate, if continued, will present new national security challenges. US security challenges are growing as shipping, oil and gas exploration, and other activities increase in the region, the report says. —Antonio J.

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He also contributed to algorithms enabling autonomous undersea vehicles to inspect offshore oil and gas platforms after hurricanes so that divers don’t have to. The presence of oil and gas installations in his village, which is in the oil-producing part of Nigeria, led him to wonder how they worked and how they were remotely controlled.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

The mandating of any system such as this would only be about looking after the interests of ‘middlemen’: oil and gas invested companies who would invariably transition into this market as both supply and/or demand for oil recede. . Hydrogen ions are highly acidic and thus highly corrosive.

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He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation. About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized. Market Drivers.

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He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation. About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

A University of Toronto research team has developed a process to analyze the behavior of bitumen in reservoirs using a microfluidic chip, a tool commonly associated with the field of medical diagnostics. The process may reduce the cost and time of analyzing bitumen-gas interaction in heavy oil and bitumen reservoirs.

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MAY 4, 2012

A team from Syracuse University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is exploring the use of supercritical (SC) dieseline (a diesel-gasoline blend) as an optimized fuel for advanced diesel engine designs. Advanced Distillation Curve Method (P-01, DEER 2011). Local fuel/air equivalence ratio versus temperature.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

2 ] Rasmussen’s “one agreement, two steps” plan was quickly endorsed by US President Obama, as well as Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd and Russia’s President Medvedev, all of whom were present at the APEC summit.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Achates Power has demonstrated newly increased engine fuel efficiency results in every quarter of 2011, beginning with a 13% efficiency advantage presented at the Symposium on International Automotive Technology (SIAT) in January, a 15.5% fuel-specific oil consumption; and. Earlier post.). Brake thermal efficiency of 45.1%

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APRIL 18, 2011

Achates Power, the developer of a two-stroke, compression-ignition (CI) opposed-piston opposed-cylinder (OPOC) engine ( earlier post ) is now “concept-ready”, David Johnson, Achates Power CEO, told GCC in an interview at SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit. We can present the data that demonstrates that our solution is real.

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I4 / 25 bar BMEP; during the concept evaluation in 2010 and 2011, the research team revised the architecture to 2.3L Integrated variable displacement oil pump / balance shaft module. Resources (DOE will publish Merit Review presentations on its website.). Source: Ford. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). I4 / 20 bar BMEP.

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