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In the first phase of development, Praj worked with Gevo’s technology using sugar cane and molasses feedstocks, undertaking test-runs in order to develop a process design package that will now be offered for commercialization to cane juice and molasses-based ethanol plants, as licensees of Gevo’s isobutanol technology.

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AUGUST 11, 2009

Start-up Bright Automotive, which in May unveiled its IDEA concept series plug-in hybrid light commercial van ( earlier post ), will convert VW Transporter vans with the series hybrid Bright powertrain as a bridge between the concept and the production version of the IDEA.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Calysta is using its proprietary BioGTL biological gas-to-liquids platform to convert natural gas to liquid hydrocarbons. Calysta will use proprietary genetic optimization algorithms to enable the efficient development of bacteria which can convert methane to a variety of alkane fuels. Click to enlarge. Carbon feedstock. ProteinGPS.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

a gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology and solutions company that transforms methane and other hydrocarbon gases into gasoline and methanol ( earlier post ), has successfully produced 100-octane gasoline at its commercial demonstration plant in Hillsborough, New Jersey. Primus Green Energy Inc., Syngas-to-Gasoline. Liquid/Gas Separation.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy is seeking these projects as part of the Department’s Carbon Storage program, which has the goal of developing and advancing technologies to improve the effectiveness of carbon storage, reduce the cost of implementation, and be ready for widespread commercial deployment in the 2025–2035 timeframe.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

Intrexon’s proprietary methanotroph bioconversion platform uses optimized microbial cell lines to convert natural gas into higher carbon compounds such as isobutanol and farnesene under ambient temperatures and pressures.

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The e-Bio Fuel Cell system featured an an SOFC stack and an on-board reformer to convert 100% ethanol or ethanol-blended water (55% water, 45% ethanol) to hydrogen. At the time, Nissan said it planned commercialization of the technology in 2020. Comparison of cell performance under ethanol internal reforming conditions.

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APRIL 26, 2012

million this year to demonstrate and to deploy fuel-cell-electric baggage tow tractors (BTT) at major US commercial airports. The target market is commercial airports and air freight distribution centers used by passenger airlines and air freight industries. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $2.5

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MARCH 16, 2015

The industry wants to use these leftover fruit bunches to produce bioethanol and biodegradable plastic, but has stumbled in their efforts to convert the leftovers in a cost-efficient way. The cellulose can be further treated with a mixture of enzymes, but the commercially available mixtures usually do not contain enough of one enzyme—?-glucosidase—to

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MAY 7, 2014

Iveco offers a complete range of light-, medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles as well as buses powered by natural gas. The engine is coupled to a 16-gear manual ZF transmission or 6-speed Allison automatic transmission with hydraulic torque converter.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Codexis’ latest generation of advanced cellulase enzymes, CodeXyme 4 for dilute acid pretreatments and CodeXyme 4X for hydrothermal pretreatments, converts up to 85% of available fermentable sugars at high biomass and low enzyme loads.

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JUNE 30, 2010

announced the successful production of ethanol at a capacity that can be scaled to commercial production. ZeaChem intends to build commercial biorefineries upon successful operations at the Boardman facility. In comparison, traditional yeast fermentation creates one molecule of CO 2 for every molecule of ethanol. ZeaChem Inc.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Coskata’s semi-commercial facility in Madison, Pa. a syngas to ethanol company, officially launched its semi-commercial “Flexethanol” facility located in Madison, PA. By comparison, the theoretical yield of ethanol from a dry ton of corn is 124.4 Click to enlarge. Coskata Inc., A 1,500-gallon bioreactor at the Madison facility.

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Actual (red star) energy density of the LBC-G full cells (with LiBr/LiCl monohydrates), compared with various state-of-the-art commercial and experimental Li-ion chemistries using both non-aqueous (blue circles) and aqueous (green circles) electrolytes.

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This wide bandgap inverter product resulted in a smaller, lighter, higher power density and more efficient system in comparison to Toyota’s present Prius inverter design implementing silicon technology. Our SiC inverter is the first traction drive optimized for wide bandgap devices that utilizes a commercially available SiC power module.

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MARCH 23, 2016

a gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology and commercial solutions company that transforms methane and other hydrocarbon gases into methanol and gasoline, plans to develop and deliver its 160MT/day methanol plant to a manufacturing site in the Marcellus shale region. Primus Green Energy Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

By comparison, realized capacity in a graphite/copper composite anode is only ~ 150 mAh g -1. Eutectic alloys are fusible: upon cooling they convert from liquids to intimately mixed solids. Then, you can reduce the microstructure by rolling it, which is an extraordinarily cheap step to convert a microstructure into a nanostructure.

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JULY 30, 2013

By comparison, the International Energy Agency reports that some 21,500 terawatt-hours of electrical power were generated worldwide in 2010. This is an essential part of the electroactive polymer that converts mechanical energy into electrical power. The energy converter is basically a three-ply sheet. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

The ACO Converter will have a capacity of approximately 200 kta of olefins (ethylene plus propylene). Yan’an Energy & Chemical Company is honored to be the first commercial user for ACO technology in the world. We went through a very strict technical comparison and evaluation before we made the decision to choose ACO technology.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

million) demonstration program to encourage road haulage operators in the UK to buy and use lower carbon commercial vehicles. More than 300 low-carbon commercial vehicles will be involved in the demonstration program. The UK government will provide more than £11 million (US$17.5 million) in support to a £23 million (US$36.6

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JUNE 20, 2016

Grain Fiber to Cellulosic Ethanol Technology ( Gen 1.5 ), which integrates a process for converting corn fiber to cellulosic ethanol with existing ethanol plants. technology, and anticipates construction of the first commercial cellulosic plant utilizing the technology to be built next to an existing grain ethanol plant in the near future.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The IH 2 process converts virtually any type of non-food biomass feedstock—such as wood, agricultural residues, algae, and aquatic plants. The timeline to market is short, and commercial introduction is expected in early 2014. And the process achieves >90% greenhouse gas reductions in comparison to fossil fuels.

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Lifecycle GHG comparison. The coal first decomposes into volatiles and char while CH 4 is converted into CO/H 2 mixtures; the char is converted into CO/H 2 mixtures via steam gasification on longer time scales. Click to enlarge. The cost per gallon for the SRI fuel is higher than F-T fuel, however: a calculated $2.81

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Algae store chemical energy in the form of oils such as neutral lipids or triglycerides; the algal oil can be extracted and converted into biodiesel by transesterification with short-chain alcohols or by hydrogenation of fatty acids into linear hydrocarbons for drop-in fuel components. 3 fatty acids used for food and feed ingredients.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

They also offer greater efficiency in converting AC to DC power and in operating the electric traction drive during vehicle use. Lux Research analysts evaluated system-level benefits WBG materials are bringing to the automotive industry, and predicted a timeline for commercial roll-outs of WBG-based power electronics.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The first plants start commercial production of advanced biofuels this year. With our new product, Cellic CTec3, and the first plants starting commercial production, this is a huge step forward in the transition from an oil-based economy to a bio-based economy. Both plants will convert municipal solid waste into biofuel.

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AUGUST 24, 2011

Virent’s biogasoline was found to cause “no harm” to vehicles in comparison to Shell’s baseline fuel. The Shell road trial results are encouraging and an important step forward in the commercialization of the BioForming process. All ten cars, regardless of the gasoline used, were found to be in the same condition.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Boeing and a team from across the aviation industry today released high-level elements of a study that shows that sustainable biofuels analyzed in a series of test flights performed favorably in comparison to petroleum-based fuel. Well-to-wheels” comparison of Bio-SPK from two different feedstocks compared to petroleum-derived jet fuel.

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MAY 21, 2012

of China, including Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces and Shanghai, The Bluegas catalytic hydromethanation technology, developed and owned by GreatPoint Energy, directly converts coal into pipeline quality natural gas (99.5% pure methane).

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JULY 21, 2010

LanzaTech uses proprietary bacteria to convert industrial waste gases into fuels and chemicals. The financing follows LanzaTech’s signing with Baosteel, China’s largest steel and iron conglomerate, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to commercialize its technologies for producing ethanol from steel mill off gases.

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JUNE 29, 2009

Upon approval of the grant, Dow and the other collaborators will work with Algenol to demonstrate the technology at a level to sufficiently prove that it can be implemented on a commercial scale. The result is a CO 2 capture process which converts industrially derived CO 2 into more sustainable fuels and chemicals.

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JULY 13, 2011

Comparison of O 3. A) mesoporous two-line ferrihydrite (M2LFh), B) MSIO, C) CIO, D) g-Fe 2 O 3 , E) 5 wt % Fe/ZSM-5, and F) commercial MnO 2. In comparison to other iron oxide materials, it has a particularly high proportion of unsaturated and thus reactive iron centers on its surface. Mathew et al. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

Comparison of the yield of oil fractions produced by the distillation process after the HDT process (present study) and conventional methods (HDT process of each fraction separately after the distillation process). HDT employs hydrogen at high reaction temperatures and pressures, along with a high-activity hydrotreating catalyst.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Compared to the commercial carbon-supported Pt electrocatalysts, the Pt/RGO showed an unprecedented CO poisoning tolerance, high electrochemical active surface area, and high catalytic mass activity for methanol oxidation reaction, demonstrated by increases of 110, 134, and 60%, respectively. —Sharma et al.

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The carbon capture fuel cell system will be a modification of the Company’s commercial DFC3000 fuel cell power plant and will be installed next to an existing coal-fired power plant. A secondary benefit is to show that this technology has a reduced footprint in comparison to competing baseline technologies. Source: FuelCell Energy.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Comparison of yields of ethanol vs other reduced products. The biochemical approach uses enzymes to convert pretreated lignocellulosic biomass materials into sugars, which can then be fermented into ethanol. The theoretical yield for ethanol, they note, is 51%; for n-butanol or iso-butanol, 41%; and for octane C 8 -hydrocarbon, 29.7%.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

In four campaigns over the year-long study, the team from the University of Toronto measured emissions 15 meters from the roadway, then converted the measurements to fuel-based emission factors (EFs).

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