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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Their stability and selectivity can be tuned by thermal crosslinking to separate simple hydrocarbon mixtures and complex crude oil fractions. The polytriazole membrane can enrich up to 80 to 95% of the hydrocarbon content with less than 10 carbon atoms (140 gram mole ?1 A paper on the work is published in Science. —Chisca et al.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing comprehensive new regulations to reduce methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry—including, for the first time, reductions from existing sources nationwide. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 30 times as much heat as carbon dioxide over 100 years.

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APRIL 3, 2022

Liquid organic hydrogen carriers are flexible media for the storage and transportation of renewable energy. Liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) technology is one of the promising solutions for safe transportation of hydrogen. This collaboration comes at a timely moment, on the back of rising oil prices.

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MARCH 20, 2014

Comparison plot showing mass fractions (F m ) of chemically characterized components of lubricating oils and POA. Motor vehicles are major sources of organic carbon emissions, with implications for human health and air quality, especially in urban areas. Credit: ACS, Worton et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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MAY 19, 2022

Together with its partner Nordic Marine Oil, Neste is piloting a new Neste Marine 0.1 The sustainability characteristics of the co-processed marine fuel are certified with International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC PLUS) with a mass balance approach.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory and users from ExxonMobil have developed a new approach to identifying atoms that are neither carbon nor hydrogen within a specific type of molecule in crude oil. Crude oil is one of the most complex molecule mixtures on the planet.

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JULY 18, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Imperial College of London have published in the journal Science joint research on potential breakthroughs in a new membrane technology that could reduce emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil.

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MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. Palm oil represents approximately 20% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage annually. The field work was conducted by Meo Carbon Solutions. Schematic of a belt filter press.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Gold Hydrogen Program , a coalition of organizations seeking to support the scale of this clean energy resource, announced its launch and the debut of a pilot microbial Gold Hydrogen Process. Cemvita scientists have discovered a category of microbes that live in subsurface oil reservoirs and that can produce hydrogen. ?

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JULY 13, 2023

Member States of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), meeting at the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80) earlier this month, adopted the 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships. The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) addresses environmental issues under IMO’s remit.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

has developed proprietary, breakthrough processes that convert either low-carbon isobutanol or low-value fusel oils—a mixture of alcohols that are byproducts from fermentation processes such as alcohol production—into renewable diesel. Gevo expects this to open yet another door for Gevo products.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

A recent study by Science of the Total Environment found that DOE is the most productive organization in the world in the carbon capture and storage field. The selected projects will support FEED studies for commercial-scale carbon capture systems. million in federal funding for cost-shared R&D.

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MARCH 13, 2012

Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration. million metric tons of stored carbon. Converting from units of carbon to CO 2 equivalents, this is between 41.8

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NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) has approved draft new mandatory regulations to cut the carbon intensity of existing ships. The draft amendments to the MARPOL convention would require ships to combine a technical and an operational approach to reduce their carbon intensity.

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MAY 4, 2021

The plant will no longer produce fuels from crude oil, but instead will make fuels from used cooking oil, fats, greases and soybean oils. The Santa Maria facility in San Luis Obispo County that currently provides crude oil feedstocks to the Rodeo facility will be idled and decommissioned. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 21, 2021

Aemetis awarded an engineering services contract to Worley for the Aemetis ‘Carbon Zero’ renewable jet and diesel plant in Riverbank, California. The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat renewable oils with hydrogen from orchard and forest wood waste. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The catalyst shows a carbon dioxide conversion through hydrogenation to hydrocarbons in the aviation jet fuel range of 38.2%, with a yield of 17.2%, and a selectivity of 47.8%, and with an attendant low carbon monoxide (5.6%) and methane selectivity (10.4%). In brief, the Fe–Mn–K catalyst shows a CO 2 conversion of 38.2% Makgae, O.A.

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MAY 19, 2013

The Government of Canada is supporting a three-year project that will result in the construction of a $19-million, demonstration-scale facility in Alberta that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 18, 2012

Confocal image of the algae Chlamydomonas showing the accumulation of oil droplets (golden dots). Although interest in microalgal oils as potential feedstocks for renewable fuels is high, the understanding of the regulatory mechanisms controlling oil biosynthesis and storage in microalgae is rather limited at this point.

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MAY 9, 2020

Alon Bakersfield Refinery is an existing oil refinery located in Bakersfield, California. Historically, the refinery has produced diesel from crude oil and has a capacity of 70,000 barrels per day. GCEH will immediately commence retooling the refinery to produce renewable diesel from organic feedstocks such as vegetable oils.

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APRIL 30, 2013

John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil Company and founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy (CFAE), is joining the Fuel Freedom Foundation (FFF) Advisory Board. There will not be enough oil to stay on the path we’re on globally over the short- and medium-, let alone the long-term. We need a competitor for oil.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Moller - Maersk is accelerating its efforts to decarbonize marine operations with the launch of the first carbon-neutral feeder vessel in 2023—seven years ahead of the initial 2030 ambition. Our ambition to have a carbon-neutral fleet by 2050 was a moonshot when we announced in 2018. —Søren Skou, CEO, A.P. Moller - Maersk.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. per GGE, with lifecycle emissions reductions exceeding 80% over petroleum.

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Production Carbon Conversion Mariner 225

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DECEMBER 12, 2021

Underinvestment in oil and gas development extended into a second year in 2021 even as global energy demand rebounded, raising the prospect of price shocks, scarcity and growing energy poverty, according to a new report by the International Energy Forum (IEF) and IHS Markit. —Joseph McMonigle, secretary general, IEF.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We expect low-carbon fuel policies to continue to expand globally and drive demand for renewable fuels, and to that end, we are applying our liquid fuels expertise to continue to expand our long-term competitive advantage in low-carbon transportation fuels with the expansion of DGD. billion pounds of used cooking oil annually.

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JULY 13, 2012

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation is providing C$46 million (US$45 million) in funding to support six new carbon capture and storage and cleaner technology projects in the Canadian oil sands region. The organizations receiving funding from CCEMC are: Cenovus Energy Inc.: $10

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MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The carbon nanotube sponge is hydrophobic, but can absorb up to 180x its own weight in organic matter. Researchers at Peking University and Tsinghua University have developed a carbon nanotube (CNT)-based sponge that can soak up organic pollutants—such as oils and solvents—from the surface of water.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

At the IAA 2018 exhibition in Hannover, FPT Industrial launched its new e-Powertrain organization. From carbon fiber high-resistance tanks, the hydrogen flows into the fuel cells to generate electricity that powers a 400 kW electric engine. Hydrogen fuel cell powertrain concept.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Enabling Production of Low Carbon Emissions Steel Through CO 2 Capture from Blast Furnace Gases. Chevron USA.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

—Jeff Sexton, Refining Technology Director at Marathon Renewable fuels are low-carbon fuels that are chemically identical to regular petroleum diesel or jet fuel but made from renewable sources. Renewable fuels are made from waste, animal fats, used cooking oils and organic materials such as soybean oils.

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MARCH 24, 2017

The California Air Resources Board approved a new regulation aimed at methane leaks from oil and gas operations. Methane, one of the powerful greenhouse gases called short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and the main component of natural gas, has 72 times the impact on global warming as carbon dioxide.

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MARCH 19, 2018

The biosensor uses exoelectrogenic bacteria in an anode that survive on organic matter and a photo or autotrophic, or sulfur reducing bacterial consortium in the cathode which will enable continuous transfer of electrons from one compartment (anode) to the other (cathode). The electrons then travel across a resistor to a cathode.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Chan School of Public Health, and consulted by dozens of experts in academia, updates ethanol’s carbon intensity score to reflect how continuous improvements in technology and practices have driven further emissions reductions in the lifecycle of ethanol and will lead to net zero renewable fuel in the future. gCO 2 e/MJ (range of 37.6

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

O’Neill, Eastern District of California, ruled on Thursday that the State of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program is in violation of the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution and issued an injunction prohibiting its enforcement. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). These changes streamline the program.

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AUGUST 24, 2015

billion barrels of foreign oil and reduced US transportation-related carbon emissions by 589.33 million metric tons, according to a new analysis released by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). billion barrels of oil over the past decade by replacing fossil fuels with homegrown biofuels. million metric tons.

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MAY 3, 2021

Lithium Ion Transport and Separation (LiTAS) is EnergyX’s proprietary technology that stems from metal organic frameworks (MOFs) nanoparticles capable of selectively separating monovalent ions, such as lithium, from the rest of the ions in mixtures of high salinity solutions while maintaining stability in a myriad of conditions.

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