Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2023
Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution to urban areas—more so than other freight or passenger trains— according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis. The results indicate coal trains add on average 8.32
Green Car Congress
MAY 8, 2011
BP and Davy Process Technology announced collaborations with three EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contractors to promote the commercialization of the BP/Davy Fischer-Tropsch (FT) Process. The BP/Davy fixed-bed FT process produces diesel, jet fuel (JP8) and naphtha from natural gas, biomass- or coal-derived syngas.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 1, 2011
The contract is one of the first major commercial agreements in the US for the sale of liquid transport fuels made from coal. The Medicine Bow project will use Carbon Basin coal optioned from DKRW partner (and coal mine operator) Arch Coal to produce refined hydrocarbon liquid products.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2013
The LCFS requires oil producers, importers and other fuel providers gradually to reduce, on a full-fuel lifecycle basis, the carbon intensity (CI) of their transportation fuel mix (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) by from 0.25% in 2011 to 10% by 2020. The plant was originally fueled by coal but was converted to natural gas in 2010.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 20, 2013
Neste Oil renewable diesel: 33.46 Neste Oil Singapore Pte Ltd. Endicott Biofuels LLC will soon begin producing biodiesel from used cooking oil at its newly constructed plant in Port Arthur, Texas. This is accomplished via reactive distillation using the Davy process. gCO 2 e/MJ. Earlier post.) gCO 2 e/MJ. thermal and 26.2%
Green Car Congress
JULY 5, 2011
The past decade was the first in two centuries with increasing CO2 emissions intensities, owing to a “coal revival”, in contrast with the rapid conversion to natural gas in the 1990s. These trends, which are diametrically opposed to declared greenhouse gas mitigation goals and targets, are by no means limited to emerging economies.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 27, 2009
World-wide “peak oil” production is expected to occur from 2010 to 2025+ (by some experts estimate that we have already reached peak production since 2004). Fuel independence would alleviate uncertainties in the world market supply of oil along with commercial fluctuations in price. Davis and Heather D. Dorner et al.
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