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Praj, Gevo to enter commercialization phase of Gevo isobutanol technology for sugarcane and molasses feedstocks

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Isobutanol has several direct applications as a gasoline blendstock or as a specialty chemical solvent, or it can be used as an intermediate which can be further converted into other chemical products or hydrocarbons such as Gevo’s alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ) and isooctane. —Pramod Chaudhari, Executive Chairman, Praj.

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Argonne analysis shows greenhouse gas emissions similar for shale, conventional oil

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g CO 2 eq/MJ for gasoline blendstock, 5.0 g CO 2 eq/MJ for gasoline blendstock, 10.2 to Alaska North Slope crude, to 30.98 The total WTW life cycle GHG emissions range from 97.55g-CO2eq/MJ-gasoline derived from Mars crude to 127.74 g-CO 2 eq/MJ-gasoline derived from California’s Kern County heavy oil. for jet fuel.

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Five Dead, Two In Critical Condition From Fire at Tesoro Refinery

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Tesoro’s retail-marketing system includes more than 880 branded retail stations, of which more than 380 are company-operated under the Tesoro, Shell, Mirastar and USA Gasoline brands. It receives crude feedstock via pipeline from western Canada and by tanker from Alaska and foreign sources.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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As gasoline prices fell starting in late 2014, motorists logged an additional 2.7 billion vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in 2015, with a concomitant increase in gasoline consumption. Over the same time period, traditional gasoline vehicle registration increased 1.7%. The state’s charging infrastructure lags badly.

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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

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Methanol-to-gasoline process flow diagram. The resulting methanol would be blended with crude and transported via the trans-Alaska oil pipeline to Valdez, where it would be extracted from the oil and processed via Methanol-to-Gasoline technology into gasoline. Gasoline could be delivered from Valdez at $2.65

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