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Converted hydrogen fuel cell refuse vehicle on trial in Ruhr region as part of HECTOR

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JUNE 2, 2022

The Abfallentsorgungs-Gesellschaft Ruhrgebiet mbH ( AGR ), a waste management company in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has put a converted DAF CF 340 hydrogen fuel cell truck into operation as part of the EU-funded HECTOR (Hydrogen Waste Collection Vehicles in North West Europe) project.

Convert

Convert Hydrogen Parts Fuel

CSIRO joins US sCO2-based power generation project STEP demo

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science research agency, has 2 -based-power-generation-project/">joined the Joint Industry Partnership (JIP) of the Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) project known as STEP Demo.

Power

Power Powered San Antonio Solar

VTT and Neste to build integrated Power-to-Liquids demo facility; CO2 capture, green hydrogen and e-fuels production

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JUNE 23, 2022

VTT and Neste have agreed to build a technology demonstration facility at VTT Bioruukki Pilot Centre, Espoo. Neste as the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel refined from waste and residues sees Power-to-Liquids as a possible complementing technology for future sustainable fuel production.

Building

Building Power Powered Fuel

ADEME awarding €3.1M to Global Bioenergies and IBN-One plant project

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Global Bioenergies has developed a conversion process based on fermentation for renewable resources (residual sugars, agricultural and forestry waste) into isobutene, one of the petrochemical building blocks that can be converted into ingredients for cosmetics, gasoline, kerosene, LPG and plastics.

Global

Global Financing France Renewable

DOE awards LanzaTech $4M for low-carbon jet & diesel demo plant; 3M gpy; Audi evaluating fuel properties

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

The LanzaTech facility will recycle industrial waste gases from steel manufacturing to produce a low cost ethanol intermediate: “Lanzanol.” LanzaTech captures the waste gas from refineries and manufacturing plants and feeds the CO-rich gas to microbes that consume the gas and produce ethanol. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

Carbon

Carbon Diesel Audi Fuel

California ARB awards $7M for ultra-low NOx heavy-duty diesel truck demo project with Achates opposed-piston engines

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MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. At least 35% of these investments are made in disadvantaged and low-income communities. Zermeno, R.,

California

California Engine Diesel 2017

Partners Target Biomass-to-Liquids Demo Plant for Toledo

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JULY 20, 2009

Renewable Energy Institute International (REII), Toledo’s Red Lion Bio-Energy , the University of Toledo, Midwest Terminals/Port of Toledo, SolarTurbines/Caterpillar, and other partners are working to build a biomass-to-liquids demonstration plant in South Toledo, Ohio.

Mercury

Mercury Nevada Ohio Conversion

Solar fuels company Joule commissions first plant to demo commercial readiness, launches Joule Fuels subsidiary to advance direct solar-to-fuels platform

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has developed a highly modular system using highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 directly to liquid hydrocarbons and ethanol ( earlier post ). gallon without subsidies.

Solar

Solar Fuel Commercial Companies

DOE to Award Honeywells UOP $25M for Pyrolysis Oil to Renewable Fuels Demo Unit

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JANUARY 12, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

Oil

Oil Renewable Oil-Sands Fuel

Global Bioenergies joins aireg to push jet fuel application of its isobutene process; isododecane

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Earlier this year, the company reported the successful conversion of renewable resources first into gaseous isobutene via fermentation, which was then subsequently catalytically oligomerized into a mix of fuel-range liquid hydrocarbons. Earlier post.)

Global

Global Fuel Germany Renewable

Altex & Unitel partner to demonstrate a new technology for making synthetic gasoline from biomass

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APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Method and apparatus for conversion of carbonaceous materials to liquid fuel.

Gasoline

Gasoline Coal Convert Conversion

US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. Solid state thermoelectric energy conversion devices. GMZ Energy, Inc.

Carbon Fiber

Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles

UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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JULY 21, 2012

RIMPAC and Green Fleet demo. The Great Green Fleet demo, part of RIMPAC 2012, is designed to show that the Navy can operate with a reduced reliance on conventional petroleum. Simultaneously, we are building the plant in Hawaii with the help of the DOE grant. —Jim Rekoske.

Renewable

Renewable Fuel Oil Diesel

Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

The 20 PARC employees were housed in a small, rented building, “with rented chairs, rented desks, a telephone with four buttons on it, and no receptionist,” recalled David Thornburg, who joined PARC’s General Science Laboratory fresh out of graduate school in 1971. MAXC set a pattern for PARC: building its own hardware.

Future

Future Engine Personal IDEA

EV Driven

Converted hydrogen fuel cell refuse vehicle on trial in Ruhr region as part of HECTOR

CSIRO joins US sCO2-based power generation project STEP demo

VTT and Neste to build integrated Power-to-Liquids demo facility; CO2 capture, green hydrogen and e-fuels production

ADEME awarding €3.1M to Global Bioenergies and IBN-One plant project

DOE awards LanzaTech $4M for low-carbon jet & diesel demo plant; 3M gpy; Audi evaluating fuel properties

California ARB awards $7M for ultra-low NOx heavy-duty diesel truck demo project with Achates opposed-piston engines

Partners Target Biomass-to-Liquids Demo Plant for Toledo

Solar fuels company Joule commissions first plant to demo commercial readiness, launches Joule Fuels subsidiary to advance direct solar-to-fuels platform

DOE to Award Honeywells UOP $25M for Pyrolysis Oil to Renewable Fuels Demo Unit

Global Bioenergies joins aireg to push jet fuel application of its isobutene process; isododecane

Altex & Unitel partner to demonstrate a new technology for making synthetic gasoline from biomass

US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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