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The US Department of Energy will award 73 grants totaling $72 million to 68 small businesses in 24 states. Small businesses that demonstrated technical feasibility for innovations during their Phase I grants competed for funding for prototype or processes development during Phase II. Trash2Cash-Energy LLC. Reaction 35, LLC.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. The project is still in the fundamental research stage. —doctoral student Huilei Zhao.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Hyzon Motors , a global supplier of zero-emissions hydrogen and fuel cell powered commercial vehicles, announced that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has certified Hyzon’s Class 8, 7, and 6 Repowers as exempt from emission requirements, enabling the company to sell fuel cell electric trucks in California.

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

million loan guarantee and a $97-million grant through the Department of Energy to support construction of the Hugoton facility. The facility also features an electricity cogeneration component allowing it to operate as a self-sufficient renewable energy producer. million liters) per year. Abengoa received a $132.4-million

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JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biogas to methanol.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Airbus has revealed three concepts for the world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft which could enter service by 2035. To achieve that 2035 deadline with commercial product, Airbus would have to select the specific technologies by 2025, according to Grazia Vittadini, Chief Technology Officer. —Guillaume Faury, Airbus CEO.

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JUNE 22, 2012

The California Energy Commission CEC is awarding Silicon Valley startup Wrightspeed a $5.789-million grant for Advanced Vehicle Technology Manufacturing. The grant is part of the CEC’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Wrightspeed made its first conversion kit for the Isuzu NPR.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the development of a commercial scale biorefinery facility for the production of renewable jet or diesel fuel. The renewable energy facility will be co-located with Hughes Hardwood’s wood component products manufacturing facility in Collinwood, Tennessee. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

SucreSource, a wholly owned subsidiary of BlueFire Renewables, Inc. Once the initial facility is validated, SucreSource will work with GS Caltex to develop and build larger commercial scale facilities in Korea and throughout the world. BlueFire Renewables, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Global Bioenergies announced the production of ETBE—Ethyl tert-butyl ether, an oxygenate additive for gasoline—purely from renewable resources. Conventionally, partially renewable ETBE is obtained by combining a molecule of renewable ethanol with a molecule of fossil isobutene using a simple and proven process.

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MARCH 30, 2014

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized. Batteries Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Catalysts Fuels Natural Gas'

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JANUARY 30, 2018

The University of Maryland (UMD) Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been award ed a $1.1million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to elucidate the mechanism of rust pathogenesis in poplar in an effort to engineer durable resistance for this important, second-generation biofuel crop.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

the developer of a new approach to electric power conversion ( earlier post ), has priced its initial public offering (IPO) of 3,000,000 shares of common stock at an offering price of $5.00 has developed a novel, patented power conversion technology it calls Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA). Ideal Power Inc., Ideal Power Inc.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have demonstrated a new method for the direct conversion of heat to electricity using a multiferroic alloy, Ni 45 Co 5 Mn 40 Sn 10 , which they had discovered earlier (Srivastava 2010). The research team is looking into possible commercialization of the technology. —Srivastava 2011.

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MAY 3, 2012

into renewable diesel in a US Department of Energy (DOE) funded biorefinery project. The syrup was then processed by Amyris at its California pilot facility using its proprietary yeast fermentation system that converts plant sugars into its trademarked product, Biofene, a renewable hydrocarbon commonly known as farnesene. Amyris, Inc.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

A University of Alberta spinoff company, Forge Hydrocarbons, is commercializing a patented lipids-to-hydrocarbons (LTH) process developed by David Bressler, a researcher in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences. Bressler made his initial discovery in 2004 with funding from an NSERC Discovery grant.

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MAY 28, 2013

has successfully demonstrated the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW)—household garbage—into jet and diesel fuels. For that process, Fulcrum uses a two-stage thermochemical process involving gasification of municipal solid waste (MSW) followed by the catalytic conversion of the syngas to ethanol. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently granted Ensyn Corporation ( earlier post ) Part 79 registration for its renewable diesel product, RFDiesel. The liquid RFO feedstock was produced at one of Ensyn’s commercial facilities and shipped to Brazil. Robert Graham, CEO and Chairman of Ensyn.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

A Navy ship has, for the first time, operated on a 100% drop-in renewable diesel fuel. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s (NSWC PHD) Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS) completed final-phase testing of a 100% drop-in renewable diesel fuel as part of the Navy’s MILSPEC qualification program. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 28, 2014

This is a key milestone toward commercial scale production, with initial results showing comparable system performance in the scale-up from our 4 barrel/day pilot system in Panama City, Florida to the 100 BBL/day demonstration system in St. A US patent was granted to ARA in 2010 on the CH process. — Rob Sues, CEO of ARA.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

1 ) and ammonia conversion (>99%) at a significantly reduced operating temperature (. Although the need to build a global clean energy supply network has been noted worldwide, there are constraints when it comes to transporting renewable energy in the form of electricity across long distances. mol-H 2 g cat ?1 Credit: KIST.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

In contrast, previously reported ferrite materials typically exhibit 20% or lower steam to hydrogen conversion. Their work indicates that a synergistic effect of reduced LSF and metallic iron phases is attributable to the exceptional steam conversion. To further enhance this effect, they proposed a layered reverse-flow reactor concept.

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

million contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) via the US Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center to develop and demonstrate technology that will produce renewable jet fuel from isobutanol supplied by Gevo, Inc. —Jim Rekoske, vice president and general manager for Renewable Energy & Chemicals at Honeywell’s UOP.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The funding will help Sierra Energy further develop and commercialize its FastOx gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. BNP Paribas SA, Twynam Investments Pty Ltd, Formica Ventures AB, and The March Fund I LP. —Mike Hart, Sierra Energy’s CEO.

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MAY 28, 2009

year commercialization grant to apply Velocys’ microchannel reactor technology to hydroprocessing for transportation fuels. Additional hydroprocessing application opportunities include the processing of edible oils, specialty and fine chemicals, and conversion of natural oils and fats to transportation fuels. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Porsche, Siemens Energy and partners are developing and implementing a pilot project—the “Haru Oni” project—in Chile that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels (eFuels). Electrolyzers will use wind power to produce green hydrogen.

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MAY 15, 2018

The aim is to convert currently poorly valorized softwood residues into second-generation renewable isobutene for subsequent conversion into gasoline and jetfuel. Non-refundable grants totalling €13.9 Softwood conversion to hydrolysates by Sekab, using its CelluAPP® technology (Sweden). million (US$24 million).

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JANUARY 19, 2010

has executed a letter of engagement with BNP Paribas to act as financial advisor to assist and support ClearFuels in securing senior secured debt financing for its commercial thermochemical Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) biorefinery projects. These services would be directed, in part, to create financing plans for the commercial projects.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Renewable chemicals company Avantium has acquired the assets of Liquid Light. The acquisition combines the technologies of both Liquid Light and Avantium to develop a world-leading electro-catalysis platform and to commercialize new process technologies using CO 2 as feedstock to produce sustainable chemicals and materials.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Biofuel ISOCONVERSION Process comprises: ARA’s Catalytic Hydrothermolysis (CH) process for the conversion of plant oils into a high quality crude oil intermediate. A US patent was granted to ARA in 2010 on the CH process. ReadiJet Fuel is tailored to meet all commercial and military jet fuel specifications. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Joule, a pioneer in producing liquid fuels from recycled CO 2 , and Red Rock Biofuels, a leading developer of renewable jet and diesel fuel bio-refineries using the Fischer-Tropsch process, announced that they intend to merge. The project is supported by a $70-million grant from the U.S. —Serge Tchuruk.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Jonathan Poggie of Purdue University received 150 million core hours to study turbulent flows as they relate to high-speed aircraft in an effort to make more efficient, safer, high-speed commercial aircraft as well as spacecraft.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

The technologies for shale gas conversion are more cost effective and environmentally benign than those used in commercial processes based on petroleum or other conventional gas-to-liquid technologies. Shell will bring process and reactor modeling capability, engineering scale-up and commercial demonstration expertise to the project.

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JANUARY 6, 2016

The license covers IH 2 technology, a continuous thermal catalytic process which produces liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels from forest residues, and other renewable resources. KBR is CRI’s preferred engineering services provider for commercial IH 2 facilities. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 7, 2010

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations & Environment Jackalyne Pfannenstiel kicked off the first of several energy forums to look at ways to increase biofuels production and meet the Navy’s renewable energy needs. Earlier post.). as part of its biofuel certifications.).

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

a developer of a novel indirect power conversion technology ( earlier post ), and EnerDel, Inc., a developer of a novel indirect power conversion technology ( earlier post ), and EnerDel, Inc., has developed a novel, patented power conversion technology called Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA). Ideal Power Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Australia-based renewable fuels company Muradel has launched Australia’s first integrated demonstration plant for the sustainable conversion of algae into green crude, as a first step towards a commercial plant with the potential to produce 80 million liters (21 million gallons US, or about 500,000 barrels) of crude oil per year.

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