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million in its Toledo Machining Plant in Perrysburg, Ohio, to increase capacity of the torque converter the plant is machining for the nine-speed transmission. The new torque converters will be paired with the next generation, fuel efficient nine-speed front-wheel drive transmission being assembled at Chrysler Group’s Indiana (Kokomo, Ind.)

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Eni plans to convert its Venice (Italy) Refinery into a biorefinery producing innovative and high quality biofuels. The project involves an estimated investment of approximately €100 million (US$130 million), and is the first in the world to convert a conventional refinery into bio-refinery. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

This is the first loan guarantee USDA has made for the production of bio jet fuel. Fulcrum will gasify 147,000 tons of municipal solid waste to produce synthesis gas which it then will catalytically convert to synthetic paraffinic kerosene/jet fuel via a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process. Sapphire has already paid off its $54.5-million

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MAY 19, 2014

A duo at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) is proposing an approach for the conversion of natural gas at gas-transport-constrained fields to easily transportable, high-octane liquid products. A paper describing their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. —Hussin and Traa.

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

Badlands NGL, LLC, announced the development of a North Dakota manufacturing plant that will convert ethane (C 2 H 6 ), a byproduct of natural gas processing, into polyethylene, which is used to make a wide variety of end-use consumer and industrial plastics. The facility will convert ethane gas to low density and high density plastics.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Jointly developed by Siluria and Wood, Modus provides a proven and cost-efficient, one-step process to upgrade low-value refinery off gases, otherwise burned for heat, into high-value fungible refinery products such as high-octane, low-sulfur gasoline blendstock. Modus expands revenue sources and ultimately increases profitability.

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million loan guarantee to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project in Delta, Utah (ACES Delta)—marking the first loan guarantee for a new clean energy technology project from DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) since 2014. The US Department of Energy (DOE) closed on a $504.4-million

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

In standard production of ethanol, enzymes are used to break down the biomass and release sugars. The team also developed an additional process that uses another catalyst to convert the two phenol products into the high-octane (RON > 100) hydrocarbon fuel suitable for use as drop-in gasoline. —Prof.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has landed its third technology license for its methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology, which converts methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. China is the world’s largest producer of coal, accounting for nearly half of global production, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

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MARCH 6, 2022

France-based global energy company TotalEnergies’ Normandy platform has successfully started production of sustainable aviation fuel1 (SAF). This new site complements the biojet fuel production capacities of La Mède biorefinery (Bouches-du-Rhône) and the Oudalle plant (Seine-Maritime).

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JULY 24, 2015

A team at South China University of Technology has developed a one-pot process to convert the diesel distillate and residual oil fractions in bio-oil into high-quality fuels by catalytic hydrocracking with combined CoMoS/Al 2 O 3 and HZSM-5 catalysts. of liquid products from the catalytic conversion of the medium and heavy fractions.

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Key outcomes of the project will include a production-ready zero-emission ambulance as a result from the work already completed by ULEMCo under the ZERRO project, alongside a fully working prototype fire pumping appliance and an HGV road sweeper.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have disclosed a new method to convert lignin, an important component of biomass waste, into simple chemicals. We need to find an economical way to convert lignin to value-added materials. —Shannon Stahl. Today, the aromatics are almost exclusively derived from petroleum.

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JANUARY 13, 2014

The current execution plan for 2014 is to focus exclusively on bringing the plant to its nameplate basis, and further to develop yield and process efficiency through R&D. For the 2014 percentage standards, EPA proposed reducing the overall target to 15.21 —Fred Cannon. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) —Fred Cannon.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

The automotive semiconductor market did exceptionally well in 2014, according to new analysis from IHS. Strong growth in vehicle production together with increased semiconductor content in cars resulted in 10% growth year over year to reach $29B. improvement over 2014. in 2015, a 21% increase over 2014.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

Production of Pathfinder’s hybrid engine variant will make the St. Positioned between the gasoline engine and the next-gen Xtronic CVT (where the torque converter would normally be), the motor also functions as a generator, conveying energy from the CVT to the battery upon deceleration. share in the Russian market in 2014.

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APRIL 10, 2014

ACE technology has been shown to significantly increase a plant’s ethanol production while delivering other benefits such as increased corn oil production and higher protein content in Dried Distillers Grains (DDGs), an ethanol by-product used for animal feed.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Ford has begun production of the 2014 F-150 with the gaseous fuel prep option, making Ford the only manufacturer with an available CNG/LPG-capable half-ton pickup. The 2014 Ford F-150 with 3.7-liter In Florida, fleet customers will be eligible for rebates of up to $25,000 beginning in 2014. 2014 F-150 light-duty pickup.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

Researchers in India have developed a relatively low-temperature process to convert low-density polyethylene (LDPE)—a common polymer used to make many types of container, medical and laboratory equipment, computer components and plastic bags—into liquid fuel over a kaolin catalyst. at 500°C in absence of catalyst.

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MARCH 30, 2014

Computational tools for catalyst design: The ability to convert methane gas directly to liquid methanol at often-remote recovery sites would significantly alter the storage, transport, and use of the gas. However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

More than one billion gallons of hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) fuels—renewable, drop-in diesel and jet fuels such as Neste’s NEXBTL—were produced worldwide in 2014, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Finnish Neste is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel.

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A demo flight with the new fuel is planned in 12-18 months, with commercialization targeted for 2014. The new process uses LanzaTech technology to capture and ferment waste gases from industrial steel production into ethanol ( earlier post ), and Swedish Biofuels technology to chemically. The fuel production.

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MAY 23, 2013

billion) modernization project for its Antwerp production facilities, Total’s largest European refining and petrochemical platform. Intended primarily to convert heavy fuel oil into desulfurized diesel and ultra low sulfur heating oil, the planned complex responds to the shift in demand toward products with a lower environmental impact.

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APRIL 29, 2014

a developer of hybrid electric powertrain conversion technology for commercial and municipal fleets, announced that fleet customers employing the XL3 hybrid electric system ( earlier post ) in their service, delivery and cargo fleets have driven a combined total of one million miles within the first six months of commercial production.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

The research, reported in the journal ACS Catalysis , suggests that copper foams could provide a new way of converting excess CO 2 into useful industrial chemicals. The product distribution was unique and very different from what had been reported with planar electrodes, which was a surprise. Hori et al. —Sen et al.

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The research follows work previously done at NREL and published in 2014 in The Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal Green Chemistry. Cost of algal biofuel production is still a major challenge and the Energy Department has made reducing the costs of both algae production and conversion of algal intermediates to fuels significant goals.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

The start-up of the new platform had been scheduled for 6 November 2014. The platform Cidade de Mangaratiba is an FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) type unit and it was contracted in September 2011 from the Schahin-Modec consortium. Production is expected to peak in the first half of 2016. million barrels of oil.

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A traditional solar panel converts between 18 to 20% of the solar energy into electricity. m² that converts 15% of the sunlight straight into hydrogen gas. The hydrogen gas produced in the summer will be stored and converted into electricity and heat in the winter. —Johan Martens.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

Petrobras now operates more floating production platforms (including self-owned and chartered ones) than any other company in the world, according to Petrodata, a consulting firm that specializes in providing information about the global oil industry. First offshore systems. Pioneering FPSOs.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

At the Tokyo Motor Show, Lexus unveiled the new RC 350 and RC 300h hybrid variant sports coupes scheduled for launch in the second half of 2014. In manual (M) mode full torque converter lock up from second to eighth gears allows for down changes in just 0.2 Click to enlarge. seconds while in the M position.

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Global Bioenergies and Clariant announced the first isobutene production from a wheat straw hydrolysate, in the industrial pilot of Pomacle Bazancourt. This hydrolysate was converted into renewable isobutene in Global Bioenergies’ industrial pilot operated by ARD in its Pomacle-Bazancourt facility.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Energy Conversion and Coal Research and from the research group Photobiotechnology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered a way of increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production in microalgae by a factor of five by using a combined metabolic engineering approach.

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This chemical combination is quite different from the oxide-based catalysts used to power the water gas shift reaction in large-scale industrial hydrogen production facilities. The catalyst consists of clusters of gold nanoparticles layered on a molybdenum-carbide substrate.

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The Board of Transport for London (TfL) approved a production order for up to 600 of New Bus for London vehicles over the next four years. The first batch of 30 buses, enough to convert a full route, will enter passenger service in April next year. Another route could be converted by next August. Earlier post.)

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2014 Cadillac ELR Click to enlarge. Cadillac unveiled the anticipated 2014 ELR extended range electric (EREV) vehicle (based on the Converj concept, earlier post ) at the North American International Auto Show. ELR production begins in the US in late 2013 in limited numbers, said Bob Ferguson, Cadillac global vice president.

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Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil), India’s flagship national oil company and LanzaTech signed a Statement of Intent to construct the world’s first refinery offgas-to-bioethanol production facility in India. The basic engineering for the 40-million liter per year (10.6

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MARCH 16, 2015

The industry wants to use these leftover fruit bunches to produce bioethanol and biodegradable plastic, but has stumbled in their efforts to convert the leftovers in a cost-efficient way. The palm oil waste contains cellulose and hemicellulose that can be broken down into sugars for use in fuel and plastic production. Bhaskar, R.

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