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MARCH 25, 2014

has teamed up with Waste Services of the Bluegrass to generate power from local landfill waste, marking the region’s first business-to-business landfill gas to energy initiative. Toyota estimates the locally-generated landfill gas will supply enough power each year for the production of 10,000 vehicles.

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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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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 kg EFB ($2.11/kg kg = $0.18/Nm

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

Ford plans to cut the amount of water used to make each vehicle 30% globally by 2015, compared with the amount of water used per vehicle in 2009. m 3 (925 gallons US) in 2015. By eliminating the coolant/water mixture, dry-machining eliminates the need to treat and dispose of an oily waste stream.

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

Excluded from the agreement are Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands, where Ventraco will continue to supply the products. If the old asphalt is not recycled, the result is large quantities of waste. Since 2015, Ventraco has been conducting research at its Innovation Center to optimize existing solutions and develop new ones.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

Despite a number of key issues such as land use and competition for feedstocks supplies for traditional food and feed uses, global use of biofuels is excepted to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to a new global analysis released by Hart Energy Publishing’s Global Biofuels Center (GBC). billion gallons).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

These figures will be announced during the first quarter of 2015. Optifuel Lab 2 operates in response to the supply and demand of an energy market. Waste heat recovery. Renault Trucks has developed a system to recover the waste heat contained in exhaust gases. —Claude Covo, project director.

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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. X1) from a biological feedstock, more specifically, from lignocellulosic biomass (also known as plant waste/residue).

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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The PosLX Plant will supply its lithium carbonate to POSCO ESM which produces cathodes for secondary batteries, and LG Chem and Samsung SDI, manufacturers of secondary batteries. POSCO ESM currently supplies high-capacity anode materials to LG Chem. —POSCO CEO Ohjoon Kwon.

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MAY 6, 2011

The Province of Ontario (Canada) has selected Rentech’s proposed Olympiad Renewable Energy Centre (Olympiad Project) in The Township of White River (White River), Ontario, for a proposed supply of up to 1.1 The award would provide Rentech with a reliable long-term supply of biomass for its proposed Olympiad Project.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R-CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

The original target, set in 2009, was that 100% of the raw palm oil used would be certified by the end of 2015. Certification verifies that the sustainability criteria set for biofuels are met throughout the supply chain. Neste Oil requires all its palm oil suppliers to be members of the RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil).

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These initiatives are further steps toward achieving the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050, introduced in 2015. Toyota’s progress on Challenge 2050 in North America is measured across four key areas: reducing carbon emissions, conserving water, fostering a sustainable supply chain including waste reduction, and protecting biodiversity.

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

With a renewable diesel production capacity of 800 million gallons (3 billion liters) in the US, Europe and Asia, the on-road fuel could rapidly supply as much as 1% of global jet fuel demand. Sustainable renewable diesel can be made via the hydrotreating of vegetable oils, waste cooking oil and waste animal fats.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

The switch from petroleum diesel to renewable diesel took place in the beginning of October 2015. The City of Walnut Creek also switched its diesel powered municipal fleet to renewable diesel in August 2015. The company is also the world's largest producer of renewable fuels from waste and residues.

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JULY 27, 2013

Maryland Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS): This establishes a market for new sources of renewable electricity generation by requiring that Maryland power providers supply 18% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020, increasing to 20% by 2022. Waste in landfills is a source of GHG emissions.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

Norsk Titanium’s Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) technology transforms titanium wire into complex components at better than half the time, cost, and waste levels of legacy processes. Production cost is 50% to 75% less than legacy forging and billet manufacturing techniques due to significantly less waste and machining energy.

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OCTOBER 5, 2013

2(b) ) required the commissioners of those agencies to determine whether four statutory conditions had been met before increasing the minimum biodiesel content mandate to a planned B10 in 2012 and to B20 in 2015. State legislation ( Minnesota Statutes § 239.77, Subd.

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JUNE 18, 2015

It explains Abu Dhabi’s potential to produce aviation biofuel locally, in a sustainable way, taking account of all elements of the supply chain from feedstock supplies to biorefining and distribution. Feedstocks including cellulosic biomass and municipal wastes are gasified. Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ).

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JULY 9, 2015

The roadmap explored the use of six feedstocks: municipal waste, microalgae, natural oils, waste food oil, non-edible biomass and woody biomass. The broad timeline for implementation is: Formulation of a business plan during FY 2015 ~ 2016; Design and construction of a plant from FY 2016 ~ 2018; Trial operation in 2019; and.

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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. They incorporated those cost curves into a spatial model by determining the quantity of renewable natural gas that could be supplied under different competitive landscapes.

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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It’s an improvement over traditional processes, which require facilities with a large footprint, high capital and operating costs and a large amount of waste generated. Extracting desirable elements without co-extracting undesirable ones means less waste is created that will need downstream treatment and disposal. —Ramesh Bhave.

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JULY 3, 2012

The project, known as GreenSky London, will convert waste biomass into sustainable jet fuel, and aims to become Europe’s first commercial scale sustainable jet fuel facility. The leading partner in the project is British Airways, which intends to use the low-carbon fuel to power part of its fleet by 2015. the plant’s operation.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

The project launched in July 2015 and consists of six partners including The Crown Estate, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), Queen’s University Belfast and Newcastle University. The UK’s Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is leading a 3-year, £2.78-million

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JULY 17, 2020

USA Rare Earth is currently evaluating options for the location of the plant, which will become the first neo magnet manufacturing plant in North America since the Hitachi facility ceased operations in 2015. Geomega Resources Inc., Earlier post.) Geomega also owns the Montviel rare earth carbonatite deposit and holds over 16.8

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The agency has developed its “Flight Plan towards Sustainable Aviation Biofuels in Mexico,” program which is focused on identifying and analyzing the elements of the supply chain of aviation biofuels in Mexico. According to ASA, the Mexican aviation sector expects biofuels to account for 1% of the fuel used in Mexico by 2015 and 15% by 2020.

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MARCH 20, 2015

At its Annual Account Press Conference 2015, the BMW Group announced that, for the first time in the history of the Group, 51% of its electricity worldwide is being supplied from renewable sources. The gas used is sourced from the waste products created on cattle and chicken farms.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Due to their high operating temperatures of up to 850 °C and the possibility of supplying the required energy in the form of heat, significantly higher electrical efficiencies can be achieved than with low-temperature electrolyzers. The electrolysis system is supplied by Dresden company Sunfire.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

The CO 2 used in Audi’s e-gas plant is a waste product from a nearby biogas plant, operated by energy provider EWE. Audi plans to launch a second TCNG model, based on the A4, in 2015. Waste heat generated during electrolysis and methanation, for example, is used in the adjacent facility.

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By the end of 2016, the company had already improved its five major environmental indicators (energy and water consumption, as well as the generation of waste, volatile compounds and CO 2 ) by 33.6%. less waste and 16.2% SEAT has successfully lowered its CO 2 emissions by 66.2% In addition, the company has generated 41.4%

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AUGUST 8, 2016

The AquaRefining technology extracts lead from LABs with a room temperature, closed-loop, water-based process that results in significant reductions of hazardous waste and direct human contact with the lead itself. million Nasdaq-listed initial public offering in July 2015. Battery Systems Inc., The facility was also financed by a $36.2-million

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to identify issues and countermeasures upon integration of bio jet fuel supply scheme, from shipping to fueling a blended fuel of neat bio jet derived from microalgae and Showa Shell’ Sekiyu K.K.’s Annex A4: Fischer-Tropsch Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene with Aromatics (FT-SPK/A) (2015). IHI also began work with Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

There is less handling, lower cost capital equipment, no waste solvents, 90-95% yield, many fewer failure points, higher safety and flexibility to run different material formulations in a controlled and sealed environment. ASIP was created as part of the Canadian Federal Government’s Economic Action Plan 2015.

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JULY 29, 2015

Neste, Renewable Energy Group (REG) and Solazyme will supply renewable diesel to UPS to help facilitate the company’s shift to move more than 12% of its purchased ground fuel from conventional diesel and gasoline fuel to alternative fuels by the end of 2017.

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JULY 15, 2015

In the German electrical energy mix, the share of renewable energies is growing rapidly, reaching 33% in the first half of 2015. When the Audi e-gas plant runs, it supplies the hygienization and amine scrubbing systems in the biogas plant with heat. Both models can be driven climate-neutrally with Audi e‑gas—i.e.,

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