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JANUARY 11, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office has published a report, titled Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet and Gaseous Waste Streams: Challenges and Opportunities. These feedstocks can be converted into renewable natural gas, diesel, and aviation fuels, or into valuable bioproducts. quadrillion Btu.

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JUNE 21, 2013

Mack Trucks, part of the Volvo Group, will begin production of dimethyl ether (DME)-powered MACK Pinnacle Axle Back models in 2015. Volvo Trucks had announced earlier this month that it would commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, has partnered with the Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy, a joint venture between Indian Oil Corporation, Ltd. LanzaTech has developed gas fermentation technology that can directly convert waste CO 2 gases into acetates. CO 2 to acetic acid fermentation.

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JULY 17, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued final New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) to reduce emissions of methane-rich landfill gas from new, modified and reconstructed municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, updating standards that were issued in 1996. million metric tons of carbon dioxide.

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JULY 27, 2013

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley released the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act Plan with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 25% by 2020 from a 2006 baseline. EmPOWER Maryland: This program is designed to reduce both Maryland’s per capita total electricity consumption and peak load demand by 15% by 2015.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

RNG is produced from organic materials or waste streams; the lifecycle emissions for RNG have the potential to be lower than the emissions of fossil natural gas. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations for heavy trucks now exist in over a dozen locations around the state of California and continue to expand.

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MARCH 27, 2022

Launched in 2015, ResponsibleSteel sets global standards for sustainability performance and promotes the certification of steel chain companies through a network of independent certification bodies. Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Noise, Emissions, Effluents and Waste. ArcelorMittal Tubarão. Labor Rights.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

Chevrolet offers the 2015 Impala full-size sedan as an all-new bi-fuel model—the only manufacturer-produced full-size sedan in North America that can run on both compressed natural gas (CNG) and gasoline. That works out to 437 grams CO 2 per mile with gasoline, and 343 g CO 2 /mile with natural gas. CNG fuel tank.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

Components of the e-gas plant. Audi is celebrating progress on its e-gas plant under construction in Werlte, Germany with a topping-out ceremony. End products from the plant will be hydrogen and synthetic methane (Audi e-gas), to be used as fuel for vehicles such as the new Audi A3 Sportback TCNG. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 14, 2014

2015 Investment Plan Update for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program”. 2015 Investment Plan Update covers the sixth year of the program and reflects laws, executive orders, and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, petroleum dependence, and criteria emissions. The 2014-2015 plan.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Nature Energy was founded in 1979 as a natural gas distributor. The company established its first biogas plant in Denmark in 2015 and now has 14 operating plants with associated infrastructure, feedstock arrangements, and 2022 production of around 6.5 mln MMBtu/yr (3,000 boe/d).

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JUNE 24, 2015

Compared to other waste heat recovery systems, the E1 requires only minor up front engineering scope and no operation by the customer. It has long been our goal to be known as the ‘Intel Inside,’ or in our case, the ‘Alphabet Inside’ of waste heat recovery. According to TechNavio, 20-50% of global industrial energy is wasted as heat.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The INEOS Bio waste-to-ethanol process, originally developed by BRI. Subsequent expansion could turn the initial plant into a fully integrated bio-refinery by 2015. Converting household organic wastes into bio-fuel and clean energy can deliver very attractive environmental and social benefits to the North East and the UK as a whole.

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JUNE 26, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology ( earlier post ) is at the core of the new Horizon2020 Steelanol project (2015-2018), which seeks to produce bioethanol via an innovative gas fermentation process using exhaust gases emitted by the steel industry. million (US$16.3-million) Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JULY 15, 2015

The Audi e-gas plant in the city of Werlte in Lower Saxony ( earlier post ) produces CO 2 neutral-fuel (synthetic methane from water, renewable electricity and CO 2 ); it now also contributes toward stabilizing the public power grid. This therefore considerably increases the overall efficiency of the Power-to-Gas/biogas plant.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

manufacturing plant will begin generating electricity—1 megawatt per hour—from methane, a byproduct of trash decomposition at the nearby Central Kentucky Landfill on 23 November, 2015. Capturing and burning the methane has been determined by the EPA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Toyota’s Georgetown, Ky.,

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But EMIT has demonstrated another capability: detecting the presence of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Super-emitters are facilities, equipment, and other infrastructure, typically in the fossil-fuel, waste, or agriculture sectors, that emit methane at high rates. kilometers) long, from a major waste-processing complex.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

announced an agreement for Ryder to switch the fuel at their stations in Orange and Fontana, CA, to Clean Energy’s Redeem renewable natural gas (RNG)—i.e., The fuel at the two stations will be available in both compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) to individual and public fleet vehicles. biomethane.

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JUNE 14, 2010

million) construction costs for the first commercial plant in Europe using its waste-to-ethanol BioEnergy Process Technology. million gallons US) of carbon-neutral road transport fuel and generate more than 3MW of electricity for export from over 100,000 tonnes per year of biodegradable household and commercial waste. million (US$10.8

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A study by a team at the University Putra Malaysia concluded that the gasification of empty fruit bunch (EFB), a waste of the palm oil industry, could, if scaled up, produce hydrogen at a supply cost of $2.11/kg The US Department of Energy (DOE) 2015 cost target for hydrogen is $2.00-$3.00/kg The feedstock particle size of 0.3–0.5

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MARCH 3, 2015

million in funding in fiscal year 2015 will be made available through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative ( BRDI ) to support feedstock development, biofuels and biobased products development, or biofuels development analysis. forest resources (forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees, etc.);

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. billion above the FY 2015 Enacted level, sustains DOE’s role as the largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences and develops and operates advanced scientific user facilities at the National Laboratories to maintain the nation’s primacy in science and innovation.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

These figures will be announced during the first quarter of 2015. We then multiplied the sources of electrical energy for power units by adding solar panels and installing an exhaust gas heat energy recovery system based on the Rankine cycle. Waste heat recovery. and distributes it in real time.

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

If the old asphalt is not recycled, the result is large quantities of waste. RheoFalt HP-AM allows lower usage of new materials and leads to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. Since 2015, Ventraco has been conducting research at its Innovation Center to optimize existing solutions and develop new ones.

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JULY 23, 2014

Ninety-seven percent of customers in the US who purchased a 2014 or 2015 Malibu—accounting for about 83,000 vehicles—opted for the 2.5-liter, The 2015 Impala is available for sale now. Vehicle idling also results in Americans wasting approximately 3.8 2014 ECOTEC 2.5L I-4 iVLC DI (LKW) with stop/start. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Neste Oil has applied for patents to cover technology developed to produce microbial oil from waste and residues with the help of various yeasts and molds for use as a feedstock for its NExBTL renewable diesel. Commercial production is likely to be possible by 2015 at the earliest. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. In other words, an economically viable feedstock for X1 is available at any neighborhood gas station.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, with help from Waste Services of the Bluegrass , is converting methane from a local landfill into renewable electricity to power Toyota’s Georgetown assembly plant. Landfill gas is comprised of both methane and carbon dioxide, in addition to varying amounts of other contaminants.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, HFC-23, were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found atmospheric levels growing at record values. This gas has very few industrial applications. —Dr Stanley. Resources. Stanley, D. Krummel, D.

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MARCH 26, 2014

LanzaTech, a leader in gas fermentation technology for novel and economic routes to fuels and high value chemicals, has raised $60 million in a Series D Round. LanzaTech will use the Series D proceeds to extend its core gas fermentation platform and further develop the product portfolio. Led by Mitsui & Co. Led by Mitsui & Co.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University. Environmental considerations.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

For example, Automatic learns about a driver’s driving style and provides subtle audio cues when a driver does things that waste gas, such as: Rough Braking. Stepping hard on the gas pedal decreases fuel efficiency and wastes money. Stepping hard on the gas pedal decreases fuel efficiency and wastes money.

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

The projects will be selected through a competitive process, with funding provided over a three-year period, beginning in 2015. The fuel produced by the chosen technology must show a minimum of 60% greenhouse gas emissions reductions compared with fossil fuels. This £25 million in funding will be made available over 3 years.

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OCTOBER 3, 2015

The Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Group has released GREET 2015 models and associated reports. Waste to energy: expanded and updated waste-to-energy pathways to include renewable natural gas and hydrothermal liquefaction fuels from wastewater treatment plant biosolids and municipal solid waste.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

The company expects to produce 100 barrels of refined algal oil per day by 2015, and to be at commercial-scale production by 2018. In continuous operation since May 2012, the plant is producing renewable algal oil that can be further refined to replace petroleum-derived diesel and jet fuel.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

PM emissions from current vehicles in Beijing could be reduced by approximately 19% by simply blending 20% synthetic diesel with currently available diesel, according to a new study by Tsinghua University, the Desert Research Institute in Nevada and Greyrock Energy, a developer of gas-to-liquids technology.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Despite the decision to de-emphasize microbial oil, Neste Oil emphasized that cellulosic waste will continue to play an important role in its research strategy, adding that it remains committed to its goal of further extending its feedstock base and making greater use of waste and residues in this area in particular. Background.

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