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and Jim Jones, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced the winners of the 2012 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. The awardees for 2012 are: Professor Robert M. Waymouth of Stanford University and Dr. James L.

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 66 research projects to receive a total of $130 million in funding through its “OPEN 2012” program. Select projects in OPEN 2012 include: ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Advanced Fuels. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

Neste Oil will build a pilot plant to produce waste-based microbial oil at its Porvoo refinery. It will be the first pilot plant in Europe designed to produce microbial oil for use in manufacturing renewable fuel from waste-based raw materials. The microbes break down waste and residues into sugars to grow and produce oil.

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Researchers from Monash University and Hokkaido University have developed a method to produce dimethoxymethane (DMM)—a diesel blend fuel currently of great research interest—via CO 2 hydrogenation in methanol over a novel ruthenium-based catalyst. Their paper is published in the Journal of Energy Chemistry. 2021.07.026.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

The European Union-funded PowerDriver project—a two-year, €3-million (US$4-million) research project initiated in February 2012 to turn exhaust gas waste heat into electricity using thermoelectric generator (TGEN) technology—has completed simulation work on on a potential automotive application.

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MARCH 22, 2021

The benefits are numerous, as we produce more sustainable fuel, we will also help the circular economy by recycling waste. MOL started co-processing as an R&D project in 2012 based on research at Pannon University. —Gabriel Szabó, Executive Vice President of MOL Group Downstream.

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JUNE 22, 2018

HySeas III, jointly led by the shipyard Ferguson Marine and the University of St Andrews, includes Orkney Islands Council; Kongsberg Maritime (Norway); Ballard Power Systems Europe (Denmark); McPhy (France); DLR - German Aerospace Center; and Interferry (Belgium/US) the global trade association for ferry operators and suppliers.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

of China (COMAC) opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel. HEET) to clean contaminants from waste oils and convert it into jet fuel at a rate of 160 gallons (650 liters) per day. Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Researchers at Rice University have created an inexpensive silicon-based anode material for Li-ion batteries consisting of macroporous silicon particulates (MPSPs) created by crushing porous silicon films they had earlier developed. Thakur et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) Madhuri Thakur, Steve Sinsabaugh, Mark J. Isaacson, Michael S.

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JULY 17, 2012

Researchers at Rice University and Lockheed Martin have developed a method for creating macroporous silicon thin films (MPSF) for use as cost-effective and high-performance anode materials in Li-ion batteries. Credit: ACS, Thankur et al. Click to enlarge. This leads to materials that are significantly lighter.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Neste Oil plans to use yeast and fungi to convert waste into oil for NExBTL feedstock. The technology is designed to produce feedstock for NExBTL renewable diesel by using yeast and fungi to convert sugars from waste and residues into oil highly efficiently. Click to enlarge. Construction of the plant is on-schedule and on-budget.

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MARCH 12, 2013

DIBANET is coordinated by the Carbolea Research Group at the University of Limerick in Ireland. DIBANET focuses on the conversion, by non-biological means, of the lignocellulosic biomass residues and wastes of Europe and Latin America to platform chemicals, such as levulinic acid and furfural, and biofuels. million (US$4.9-million)

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MAY 1, 2013

According to the new report, from 2011 through Q4 2012, cumulative credits generated under the LCFS total 2,835,662 metric tons of CO 2 e, while cumulative deficits total 1,550,698 metric tons CO 2 e, for a net excess of 1.285 million credits (metric tons of CO 2 e). gCO 2 e/MJ, respectively, in Q4 2012. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Prior to opening the Solar Park, the Chattanooga plant became the first auto plant in the world to receive LEED Platinum certification from the US Green Building Council in 2012. 2012 baseline. In 2012, the factory produced more than 152,400 cars. It remains the only auto plant worldwide to earn the LEED Platinum certification.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

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. million (2008-2012). In February, 2012, Novozymes launched its latest enzyme solution, Cellic CTec3 for advanced biofuels. million (2001-2005).

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MARCH 20, 2013

In February, Mærsk signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Progression Industry —a spin-off company of Eindhoven University of Technology—to develop a viable marine fuel from lignin—CyclOx—that meets stringent parameters on price, technical performance, sustainability and emissions. Progression Industry.

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JULY 10, 2012

sulfurreducens removes waste fermentation byproducts that can inhibit ethanol production.) —Speers and Reguera (2012). By removing the waste products of fermentation, the growth and metabolism of the fermentative bacterium also was stimulated. Basically, each step we take is custom-designed to be optimal.

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MARCH 23, 2019

Heat exchangers are critical to efficient thermal energy use in a variety of applications, including electricity generation, nuclear reactors, transportation, petrochemical plants, waste heat recovery, and many more. HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

Mærsk and Wallenius Wilhelmsen have teamed up with the University of Copenhagen and major customers including BMW Group, H&M Group, Levi Strauss & Co. They also observed that Progression Industry in the Netherlands has been collaborating with Mærsk to develop a lignin-based marine fuel—CyclOx—since 2012.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The Boeing-COMAC Technology Center, the companies’ collaborative effort to support commercial aviation industry growth, will work with Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC) to forecast the 30-year capacity of China’s national airspace system. Earlier post.) China is one of the world’s fastest-growing aviation markets.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

RINs are turned into the EPA by fuel producers and importers who use them to demonstrate that they have met their obligation to use biofuels under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), noted Bruce Babcock in a 2012 policy brief from the Center for Agricultural and Rural DEvelopment (CARD) at Iwo State University.

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The program’s 2012-2014 plan calls for investing $330 million between 2014 and 2015 in innovative technologies that provide benefits to electric ratepayers served by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Colony Energy Partners Tulare, LLC: $5 million to construct a digester for processing waste that will produce 2.8

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JANUARY 21, 2013

Fraunhofer and The University of British Columbia UBC in Vancouver, Canada will partner to develop technologies for sustainable energy production and supply; on 21 December 2012, Fraunhofer and the Canadian university signed a framework agreement for a collaboration spanning several years.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

million to a project to develop a high-efficiency engine system that integrates a compact micro-hybrid configuration of a supercharger with an electric waste heat recovery system and employs high rates of recirculated exhaust gases. The project— Split Micro-hybrid Boosting Enabling Highly Diluted Combustion —is headed by Anna G.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

The process uses as its feedstock virtually any kind of nonfood biomass material—including wood, cornstalks and cobs, algae, aquatic plants and municipal solid waste—and produces gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel. For example, municipal solid waste plants may be smaller, and plants converting wood may be larger. Marker, T.

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APRIL 16, 2013

The new agreement, which includes partners from the commercial aviation sector, follows the initial success of the 2010-2012 “Farm to Fly” initiative. Southeast Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems (IBSS) led by the University of Tennessee is using switchgrass and woody biomass to produce butanol and aviation fuel.

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A University of Washington team is trying to make poplar an economically viable biofuel feedstock by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently—after only two or three years—instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle. Chang Dou/University of Washington. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Shell invested in multiple rounds and formed a JV with Iogen, but terminated the JV in 2012. Additionally, the focus on waste feedstock can be reflected by its investments in the ill-fated Terrabon, which was focused on wet waste-to-gasoline. Shell has wide interests in other, non-crop development technologies.

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University of Maryland. The University of Maryland will leverage a newly invented, ultrafast high-temperature sintering (UHS) method to perform fast exploration of new environmental-thermal barrier coatings (ETBCs) for 1300 °C (2372 °F)-capable refractory alloys for harsh turbine environments. University of Virginia.

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A team from the Texas A&M University campus in Qatar (TAMU-Qatar) and Caltech has developed a new way to make synthetic rubber; once this material is discarded, it can be easily degraded back to its chemical building blocks and reused in new tires and other products. Since 2012, the research team led by Hassan S. Bazzi, Ph.D.

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JANUARY 27, 2012

Researchers at the Cardiff Catalysis Institute (Cardiff University, UK) have found a potential catalytic route for upgrading by-products resulting from the production of sulfur-free diesel from natural gas and biomass. We hope our new process will lead to less waste and the creation of more useful chemicals for a range of industries.

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MARCH 26, 2013

This new funding for advanced manufacturing—as well as the $54 million invested in 13 projects during the first round of selections in June of 2012 ( earlier post )—is to serve as a ground floor investment in CEMI. University of Texas at Austin. million to 5 innovative manufacturing research and development projects.

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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. Dyadic (Netherlands).

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applied at the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of. The ARFVT Program Investment Plans from Fiscal Years 2011/2012 and. 2012/2013 dedicated $18.7 Only one hydrogen fueling station will be funded per Station Location Area. polygon, which were generated by a process designed and. California at Irvine (UCI).

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The award is a portion of a $40-million grant presented to the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance ( NARA ), a consortium led by Washington State University (WSU). NARA includes a broad consortium of scientists from universities, government laboratories and private industry. Earlier post.). DLA contract.

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In September 2012, the company had reported that its optimized strain of Deinococcus generated ethanol from wheat-based biomass with a titer of 3%. This makes it necessary to control the reactor temperature resulting in considerable energy cost and waste of time. Earlier post.). The 9% content v/v (volume/volume)—equal to 7.2%

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