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Indian Oil signs MOU with LanzaJet on sustainable aviation fuel production in India

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Indian Oil Corporation, India’s leading energy major, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with LanzaJet to explore the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production in India. IndianOil is adopting mitigation efforts such as sustainable fuel alternatives to advance the country’s clean energy goals.

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Continental Aerospace Technologies finalizing HVO testing for use in CD-100 engine series

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Continental, a subsidiary of Continental Aerospace Technologies Holding Limited, is finalizing testing of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as a sustainable fuel option in its CD-100 series of engines. HVO is a renewable and carbon-neutral fuel alternative.

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US Navy researchers demonstrate synthesis of high-density biofuels from myrtenal using cyclopropanation

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A paper describing their work using myrtenal—a naturally occurring molecule (a bicyclic monoterpenoid, C 10 H 14 O)—is published in the journal Fuel. Biology provides a diverse array of structural motifs that can be leveraged for the synthesis of alternative fuels. —Garrison et al.

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California Energy Commission to award up to $3M to support development of bio-oil as intermediate for renewable jet fuel

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The California Energy Commission is issuing a solicitation ( GFO-17-901 ) to provide up to $3 million in funding for innovative, pre-commercial low-carbon fuel production processes that result in the development of bio-oil as an intermediate fuel with wide-scale adoption potential used for renewable jet fuel production.

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Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

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Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. McCollum et al. Click to enlarge.

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CARB releases 2022 draft Scoping Plan update

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It identifies a path to achieve carbon neutrality over the next two decades while also assessing the progress the State is making towards reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Two of those scenarios would achieve carbon neutrality by 2035; the other two by 2045.

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Study finds renewable fuel mandates alone not likely to lower carbon intensity of biofuels; the importance of localized LCAs and optimized low carbon fuel standards

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Ultimately, the authors suggest, states can encourage the reduction of fuel GHG emissions by developing policies, such as a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS), that encourage incremental improvements in corn ethanol in the short term and in the medium term by switching to cellulosic-derived fuels. —Boies et al.

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