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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

BIOFOREVER (BIO-based products from FORestry via Economically Viable European Routes)—a consortium of 14 European companies—has started a demonstration project for the conversion of woody biomass to value-adding chemical building blocks such as butanol, ethanol, and 2,5–furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) on an industrial scale.

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MARCH 21, 2016

In the journal Angewandte Chemie , Chinese scientists report on a new bifunctional catalyst that converts syngas to lower olefins (C 2 -C 4 ) with high selectivity. The first step in such a process would involve the conversion of these materials into syngas through either gasification or steam reforming.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

There has been growing interest in the potential for converting glycerol—a relatively large (about 10 wt %) byproduct of the conventional production of biodiesel (fatty acid methyl esters)—into solketal (2,2-dimethyl 1,3-dioxalane-4-methanol) for use as an oxygenated fuel additive or diesel combustion promoter. Nekhaev, Anton L.

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JULY 3, 2016

In their paper, the team investigated an integrated system that converts CO 2 released from fossil fuel-burning power plants to synthetic diesel fuel via a combination of the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to CO and the FT process, which uses CO and H 2 from electrolysis) as feedstocks. Stubbins, and Paul J. 6b00665.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

Rice University nanoscientists have demonstrated a new catalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel at ambient pressure using only light energy, mainly due to a plasmonic effect that makes the catalyst more efficient. —,Rice Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) Director Naomi Halas.

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APRIL 11, 2017

This could form the basis of a new, more efficient process for converting the greenhouse gas CO 2 into a useful carbon source for the production of fuels and chemical products. Their material of choice is powdered elemental boron, which very strongly absorbs sunlight and efficiently converts it photothermically, heating itself up remarkably.

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JULY 18, 2016

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a route to convert oligosaccharides, such as starch, cellulose, and hemicelluloses to C 10 and C 11 hydrocarbons by using depolymerization followed by chain extension. The Los Alamos team used an adaption of the Garcia–Gonzalez (GG) reaction, which converts glucose to furan rings.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

This biorefinery therefore becomes the first ISCC-certified plant in the world to convert municipal solid waste into biomethanol. With the addition of a biomethanol-to-ethanol conversion module in the second half of 2016, this biorefinery will also become the first to sell multiple renewable fuel and chemical products made from waste.

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JUNE 13, 2016

Researchers at Beijing University of Chemical Technology have developed a catalytic process for the selective conversion of ricinoleic acid methyl ester—derived from castor oil—into jet fuel. Methyl 10-undecenoate was converted into branched paraffin with limited carbon loss. —Zhou et al. doi: 10.1039/C6GC00942E.

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APRIL 28, 2016

The converted F-150 will travel across the country from Kansas City to Seattle, WA, and back through the US, stopping along the way, to complete its journey in Jacksonville, FL, on 18 May, followed by a Homecoming event in Asheville, NC, on 23 May. Alliance’s new Engineered Conversion System, installed on a Bi-Fuel 2016 3.5-liter

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JUNE 21, 2022

can be converted into SAF using ExxonMobil’s methanol-to-jet proprietary process technology and catalysts. Methanol to jet technology is scalable and suitable for the conversion of methanol produced from today’s world-scale plants. —Russ Green, ExxonMobil’s lower-emission fuels venture executive.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and alcohols using record-low inputs of energy. At top left are transmission electron microscope images of the copper nanoparticles.

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APRIL 25, 2016

NEC Corporation, NEC TOKIN Corporation and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY have jointly created a thermoelectric (TE) device using the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) with conversion efficiency 10 times higher than a test module that was produced based on a multi-layered SSE technology published by the Tohoku University group in 2015.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

A team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo (Norway), and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ) (Spain) has developed a new process for the direct, non-oxidative conversion of methane to liquids—reducing cost, eliminating multiple process steps, and avoiding CO 2 emissions. —Morejudo. Resources. Morejudo, R.

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OCTOBER 23, 2016

is developing a solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) system to convert excess electricity during periods of low power demand into hydrogen efficiently. million cost-share contract to advance SOEC system design that will be added to the Advanced Technology backlog for the fourth quarter of 2016. FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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JUNE 16, 2016

Researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), China Lake report on a solvent-free process for the conversion of 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD)—a renewable alcohol that can be prepared in high yield from biomass sugars—to a complex mixture of 2-ethyl-2,4,5-trimethyl-1,3-dioxolanes and 4,5-dimethyl-2-isopropyl dioxolanes.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , they reported demonstrating for the first time that CO 2 captured from air can be directly converted to CH 3 OH in 79% yield using the new homogeneous catalytic system. They then heated the solution, converting 79% of the CO 2 into methanol. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology have proposed a new process for the conversion of biomass to gasoline via a one-step DME synthesis (DTG: Dimethyl ether to gasoline). This mixture is converted to gasoline over a ZSM-5 catalyst. kg/h, respectively. 2016.08.108.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. Earlier post.) —Licht et al. 5b00400.

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APRIL 22, 2020

The technology takes energy from the grid and converts it to direct current (DC) voltage. Once the energy is transferred to the secondary coil across the air gap it is converted back to DC, charging the vehicle’s battery pack. —Mike Whitlatch, vice president of Global Energy and Procurement for UPS.

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MARCH 8, 2016

A number of approaches are being developed and commercialized to convert vegetable oils into diesel fuels. An alternative approach—decarboxylation and/or decarbonylation of carboxylic acids at high temperature over non-sulfide catalysts—shows low activities towards triglycerides conversion. —Tsang et al. Resources.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

A team from the University of Science & Technology of China in Hefei has developed a three-step process for the conversion of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into cycloparaffinic and aromatic biofuels in jet fuel range. Nearly all of the aromatics were then converted into the saturated cycloparaffins (containing 84.3 —Wu et al.

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JUNE 1, 2016

Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. The kraft process converts wood into wood pulp for paper production. 2016) “Green Diesel from Kraft Lignin in Three Steps” ChemSusChem doi: 10.1002/cssc.201600172. Löfstedt, J.,

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JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. The ethanol will be converted to sustainable aviation fuel at LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Fuels facility, in Soperton, Georgia. Comstock Inc., RTI International and partners at POET Research, Inc.

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APRIL 18, 2018

The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain ( HESC ) project will convert brown coal from the AGL Loy Yang mine into hydrogen at an adjacent site and then transport the gas by road in high pressure tube trailers to a liquefaction terminal at the Port of Hastings. The liquefaction process will cool the hydrogen gas to ? Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

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APRIL 4, 2019

In 2016, the AVTA board set a goal of becoming the nation’s first all-electric fleet and vowed to convert all of its aging diesel buses. AVTA will achieve that conversion milestone later this year. AVTA was one of BYD’s first customers.

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JULY 31, 2017

The energy produced is assumed to be used internally at the site and the carbon content of the CO subsequently converted to CO 2 in-plant. Any CO emitted to the atmosphere is assumed to be converted to CO 2 within days afterwards. The CO gas produced in open or semi-closed furnaces is burnt to CO 2 above the charge level.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The company has been producing and selling biomethanol since 2016, prior to expanding production to include cellulosic ethanol with the installation of its methanol-to-ethanol conversion unit earlier this year. This syngas is then converted into biofuels and other widely used chemicals using catalysts.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The report estimates consumption to have been more than 500,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2016. Consumption of MTBE and other derivatives in China was estimated at 230,000 b/d in 2016. EIA commissioned the study to better understand China’s consumption of methanol and its derivatives.

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

On the sidelines of the COP21 summit, Carwatt and its partners Renault, Paris City Council, BPI France, the Alès École des Mines Engineering School, and the Bobigny Business Campus are showing a converted Renault Trafic powered by second-life lithium-ion batteries recycled from Renault electric cars.

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JANUARY 12, 2020

China is the world’s largest user of lithium, accounting for 57% of global demand in 2019, and is also the biggest supplier of lithium converted products. However, the combined conversion capacities of these two market leaders is below 30% of total Chinese capacity. The rest of the lithium market is fragmented. Raw material oversupply.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

INTEGRAL is an Innovation Action project coordinated by CEA within the PILOTS-01-2016 call of the European Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. Thermoelectric materials are able to directly convert heat into electricity. The European Commission is provided €7 million of the funding. Fundacion CIDETEC. MBN Nanomaterialia. Matres Scrl.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

Although carbon monoxide is also a greenhouse gas, it is much more reactive than carbon dioxide and scientists already have ways of converting carbon monoxide into usable fuel, such as methanol. Curtiss, Amin Salehi-Khojin (2016) “Nanostructured transition metal dichalcogenide electrocatalysts for CO 2 reduction in ionic liquid” Science Vol.

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MARCH 18, 2022

Valentino leads the Bioprocessing Separations Consortium, a group of researchers from six national laboratories that together research and develop separations processes and technology needed for the conversion of biomass to biofuel. At some point there is a conversion step followed by a separations process. 2018.02.024.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

A team at the University of California, Irvine has discovered that the iron protein (the reductase component) of the natural enzyme nitrogenase can, independent of its natural catalytic partner, convert CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO)—a syngas used to produce useful biofuels and other chemical products. Further, the engineered A.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The vessel will be the first of its kind worldwide to be converted to an LNG-capable propulsion system. Due to the long delivery time of LNG tanks, the engine retrofit will commence in Q4 2016. Full operational usage of LNG as fuel is planned for early December, 2016.

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JULY 26, 2015

The Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST) of the National Research Council (NRC) will host an interactive, multidisciplinary public workshop scheduled for May 2016 that will focus on identifying gaps and opportunities in catalysis research in an era of shifting feedstocks from crude oil to natural gas for chemical production.

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