Belgium, Fuel, Oil and Renewable

Rolls-Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPack approved for renewable diesel

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JULY 6, 2023

Rolls-Royce has approved its mtu Kinetic PowerPacks, based on the mtu Series 4000 and 1600 diesel engines, for use with renewable diesel (HVO/Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) and the other synthetic diesel fuels of the EN15940 standard. The systems performed the same with HVO as with fossil diesel.

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Toyota’s diesel line-up in Western Europe to be made compatible with HVO100 diesel fuel

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JULY 21, 2022

Toyota’s toughest, body-on-frame models in Europe are to be made compatible with HVO100 diesel, a non-fossil fuel made from 100% renewable sources such as waste cooking oil. HVO100 (hydrated vegetable oil) meets the EN 15940 European quality standard for paraffinic diesel.

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Brussels Airlines receives first delivery of Neste SAF to Brussels Airport via CEPS pipeline

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Brussels Airlines, the flag carrier of Belgium and part of the Lufthansa Group, has started the new year by being the first airline receiving a delivery of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel at Brussels Airport for the first time using the NATO Central European Pipeline System (CEPS).

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Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team trial of HVO100 for European land freight reduces CO2 emissions by 89%

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Following this journey, 13 race trucks which spent the summer shutdown in Belgium and three trucks from the UK, used locally sourced biofuel to travel 300km from Spa to Zandvoort and then 1100km from Zandvoort to Monza, with only the final 20km requiring the use of diesel fuel due to supply challenges.

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Neste Jacobs to build SunPine’s Tall Oil Rosin production facility; feedstock for renewable diesel

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Technology, engineering and project management company Neste Jacobs and SunPine, producing biochemicals and feedstock for second-generation renewable fuels, have signed an agreement for Neste Jacobs to perform EPCM services to construct a Tall Oil Rosin production facility in Piteå, Sweden. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Ørsted proposes to develop one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen plants: SeaH2Land

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APRIL 2, 2021

Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, together with the major industrial companies in the North Sea Port cluster, have launched the SeaH2Land vision for a gigawatt scale project to reduce carbon emissions in the Dutch-Flemish industrial cluster with renewable hydrogen.

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Borealis and Neste begin strategic co-operation for production of renewable polypropylene

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Borealis, a leading provider of innovative polyolefin solutions; and Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, are entering into strategic co-operation for the production of renewable polypropylene (PP).

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Daimler Truck and TotalEnergies partner to develop hydrogen ecosystem for transportation in Europe

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In particular, TotalEnergies has the ambition by 2030 to operate directly or indirectly up to 150 hydrogen refueling stations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France. The company is focused on both CO 2 -neutral technologies: batteries and hydrogen fuel-cells. Daimler Truck has a clear preference for liquid hydrogen.

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EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

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JUNE 28, 2021

Biocrudes from three representative feedstocks—Spirulina (micro-algae), sewage sludge, and wheat straw—were further upgraded to a mixture of hydrocarbon fuels at Aalborg University (Denmark). Analyses of the kerosene fractions of the upgraded biocrude show promising compositions for a use as aviation fuel.

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Convert Denmark Waste Universal

New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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APRIL 27, 2012

Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. Slightly more than half of the GHG emissions for these biofuels in the EPA’s analysis came from land use change. Earlier post.).

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Calor introduces Neste BioLPG to the UK market; targeting fully renewable by 2040

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MARCH 30, 2018

Propane-rich off-gas is produced during Neste’s NExBTL renewable diesel process; the gas is usually recovered during the Stabilization and Recycle stages of the process. BioLPG is Calor’s first renewable product offering that sees the company commit to reducing its carbon footprint and to become fully renewable by 2040.

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Catalytic cracking of vegetable oil sludge to produce biohydrocarbons

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Researchers in Viet Nam and Belgium have developed a catalytic cracking process to convert vegetable oil sludge to renewable hydrocarbon fractions. Their paper, in which they compare the results of this process to a pyrolysis process, is in press in the journal Fuel. Fuel , In Press, doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2010.10.060.

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Cummins & Sinopec launch JV to produce and promote green hydrogen technologies in China

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

This will include offering electrolyzers for both small-scale hydrogen production—such as a hydrogen fueling system for on-site hydrogen generation—as well as for large-scale hydrogen generation installations capable of 100 megawatts and beyond. Today, there are more than 10,000 employees working in Cummins China entities.

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OMV says it will stop oil and gas production by 2050 in transformation to net-zero

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MARCH 26, 2022

Austria-based OMV, an international, integrated oil, gas and chemicals company, announced its intention to become a net-zero (Scope 1, 2 and 3) company by no later than 2050. The Refining & Marketing business is to become a leading European provider of sustainable fuels, feedstock, and mobility solutions.

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LanzaTech China JV reports 9M gallons of ethanol made from steel flue gas; new JV for PET

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Currently being sold to the road transport market in a low-carbon fuel blend, ethanol from this facility will now be converted into PET to be used for production of CarbonSmart consumer goods (T-shirts, bottles, packaging). Beijing Shougang LanzaTech New Energy Science & Technology Co., —LanzaTech CEO, Jennifer Holmgren.

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Rolls-Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPack approved for renewable diesel

Toyota’s diesel line-up in Western Europe to be made compatible with HVO100 diesel fuel

Brussels Airlines receives first delivery of Neste SAF to Brussels Airport via CEPS pipeline

Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team trial of HVO100 for European land freight reduces CO2 emissions by 89%

Neste Jacobs to build SunPine’s Tall Oil Rosin production facility; feedstock for renewable diesel

Ørsted proposes to develop one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen plants: SeaH2Land

Borealis and Neste begin strategic co-operation for production of renewable polypropylene

Daimler Truck and TotalEnergies partner to develop hydrogen ecosystem for transportation in Europe

EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

Calor introduces Neste BioLPG to the UK market; targeting fully renewable by 2040

Catalytic cracking of vegetable oil sludge to produce biohydrocarbons

Cummins & Sinopec launch JV to produce and promote green hydrogen technologies in China

OMV says it will stop oil and gas production by 2050 in transformation to net-zero

LanzaTech China JV reports 9M gallons of ethanol made from steel flue gas; new JV for PET

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