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DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. This program will demonstrate the first diesel engine to comply with the state standard.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale. Establishing the infrastructure for Power-to-Liquids production contributes to the strengthening of co-operation between Neste and VTT in e-fuel production development from pilot to commercial scale.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Rolls-Royce and global towage operator Svitzer have successfully demonstrated the world’s first remotely operated commercial vessel in Copenhagen harbour, Denmark. The vessel is also equipped with a pair of MTU 16V4000 M63 diesel engines from Rolls-Royce, each rated 2000 kW at 1800 rpm.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This project is the culmination of advances not only in our core technology, but in building a commercial-ready system and engineering a scalable process that are now pilot-tested and prepared for deployment. Joule Fuels will initially commercialize Sunflow-E, with Sunflow-D for the global diesel market to follow.

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MAY 11, 2012

natural gas associated with oil production—into synthetic crude or high-quality downstream products, including synthetic diesel, waxes and naphtha (an important petrochemical feedstock). The demo plant will be located at Rosneft’s Angarsk Petrochemical Complex in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and is targeted to be complete by the end of 2014.

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JULY 27, 2021

The demo trucks that Hyundai will bring into the United States are developed based on XCIENT Fuel Cell, the world’s first mass-produced, heavy-duty truck powered by hydrogen. Debuting last year in Switzerland, XCIENT Fuel Cell has proven its commercial viability through more than one million kilometers of driving in real-world conditions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Neste Oil’s and Stora Enso’s joint venture, NSE Biofuels Oy ( earlier post ), will begin environmental impact assessments for a commercial-scale biomass-to-liquids (BTL)biorefinery at Porvoo and at Imatra in Finland. The demo facility is being used to develop technologies and engineering solutions for a commercial-scale plant.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Virent announced that The Coca-Cola Company is making an additional investment in the company’s development and commercialization of its bio-based paraxylene, BioFormPX. This investment will enable Virent to scale up separation and purification of BioFormPX material at its demonstration plant in Madison, WI.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Bisabolene is a chemical precursor to bisabolane—a potential renewable diesel and jet fuel that phase separates readily when released to the fermentation broth, enabling efficient recovery via two-phase extractive fermentation with an organic overlay. —Sundstrom et al.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Redeem was the first commercially available RNG vehicle fuel, derived from capturing biogenic methane that is produced from the decomposition of organic waste from dairies, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. The company has added three new CNG trucks to its 8-truck fleet, which will fuel at Clean Energy’s station in Commerce, CA.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Volvo Car Corporation is postponing its plans to produce a full hybrid based on a diesel engine and instead will introduce a series-produced plug-in diesel hybrid (PHEV) in Europe as early as 2012. For longer distances, the diesel automatically takes over. for the plug-in demo cars. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

Biofuels towards achieving the technical approval required for using new fuel types in commercial aircraft. A demo flight with the new fuel is planned in 12-18 months, with commercialization targeted for 2014. These hydrocarbons are subsequently separated into biological gasoline, kerosene and diesel by rectification.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

are developing for commercialization an improved axial vane type rotary engine known as the Rand Cam/RadMax. The RadMax engine also has multitude capabilities allowing it to operate on fuels including gasoline, natural gas, hydrogen, propane and diesel. At the closing Reg Tech. Reg Technologies Inc. and REGI U.S.,

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Field tests being conducted in Gothenburg show that Volvo Buses’ plug-in hybrid reduces fuel consumption by 81% and total energy consumption (diesel plus electricity) by 61% compared to a comparable Euro 5 diesel bus. The 4-cylinder, 5-liter Volvo D5F diesel engine produces 215 bhp and is installed vertically. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

Continental is not only supplying the hardware and intelligence in the vehicle; it is also developing algorithms, which, on the server side, ensure that information from various sources such as vehicle sensors or commercial traffic data suppliers can be combined to create one overall picture on the digital map.

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MARCH 25, 2015

The California Energy Commissions has selected 9 projects to receive a combined $24,873,512 in proposed funding for cost share in the field demonstration of advanced medium- and heavy-duty on-road vehicle technologies—primarily battery electric and fuel cell technology—that may become commercially available in California.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

miles per diesel gallon equivalent (DGE). The NREL team called this “exceptional for an advanced technology bus in the early stage of commercialization.” The CNG baseline buses achieved an overall bus MBRC that was more than 45,000, which is expected of a new, fully commercial product. miles per DGE.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Battery electric transit buses are increasingly available from a variety of manufacturers and some school buses are commercially available. Commercially available. ~40 3 models commercially available in US. Limited commercial availability. Limited commercial availability. Demo phase. Number in Service.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The process is based on UOP’s Ecofining process, which utilizes conventional refinery hydroprocessing technology and which is commercially available for the production of renewable diesel produced from biofeedstocks.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

The cellulosic feedstock grown in the Central Valley can produce a variety of renewable fuels such as cellulosic ethanol, renewable diesel, renewable gasoline and renewable jet fuel. As of 2015, announced US cellulosic fuels producers’ nameplate capacity is about 85 million gallons. —Eric McAfee, Chairman and CEO of Aemetis.

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MARCH 10, 2016

This engine is scheduled for full production in April of 2016 and is suited for Class 5 through 7 commercial vehicle markets including pickup and delivery trucks, utility trucks, school buses, shuttle buses, yard tractors, and specialized municipal works vehicles such as street sweepers.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The project will demonstrate the production of BioDME using black liquor from the pulp mill as feedstock, and will also demonstrate the use of this fuel in heavy vehicles in commercial service. billion liters) of diesel oil annually, Chemrec says. Earlier post.). billion gallons US, or about 34.8

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JULY 14, 2014

demo truck. To take full advantage of the favorable combustion attributes and potential of E-85, the engine operates at diesel-like cylinder pressures and incorporates advanced spark-ignition technology. version, matching the size of the ultra-efficient ATLAS diesel engine under development with US Department of Energy (DOE) funding.

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MAY 26, 2016

The comprehensive strategy is expected to reduce more than 3,200 tons per year of greenhouse gases and nearly 28 tons annually of diesel particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and other harmful emissions from operations at the nation’s busiest container port. The commercial component followed.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

It is also possible to produce renewable drop-in diesel and jet fuel with performance equal to or better than existing biofuels and oil-based fuels. The initiative can culminate in a demo flight, by early 2012, of an Embraer E-Jet using GE engines and belonging to Azul Linhas Aéreas. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JUNE 29, 2018

In late 2017, Nikola and Nel announced an exclusive partnership aimed at developing low-cost, renewable hydrogen production and fueling sites as part of a nationwide network of hydrogen stations, supporting Nikola’s vision of replacing the current fleet of diesel trucks in America with zero-emission hydrogen trucks.

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JUNE 29, 2009

Linc Energy says it can now use this abundant and relatively cheap gas to make synthetic liquid hydrocarbons (with a focus on diesel). “My The next goal is to refine and capture this knowledge and design and build a 20,000 barrel per day commercial GTL facility and that goal is progressing according to plan.”

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MAY 12, 2015

Isocetane is a heavier fuel that can be used as an additive for diesel engines. Global Bioenergies recently announced the start of the construction in Germany of a 100 tons/year capacity Demo Plant, the last step before large scale commercial exploitation of its isobutene process.

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With commercial vehicles, there is a little bit of sluggishness. All of these have changed the base for commercial vehicles so there is a little bit of sluggishness. But heavy commercial vehicles have recovered. When it comes to H2 for commercial vehicles, we are at a good level of piloting right now.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Micrograph of fermentation fluids from production of Amyris Renewable Diesel (Nov 2007). The initiative can culminate in a demo flight, by early 2012, of an Embraer E-Jet using GE engines and belonging to Azul Linhas Aéreas. Earlier in 2009, Amyris completed its first successful demonstration drive using Amyris renewable diesel.

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APRIL 28, 2009

The study was based on camelina grown in Montana by Sustainable Oils and processed into renewable jet and diesel fuels using UOP hydroprocessing technology. Camelina green diesel (GD) shows a 89.4% GHG reduction compared to petroleum diesel. Biodiesel exhibits savings of GHGs compared to petroleum diesel of 78.5%.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Should the lab and pilot work prove successful and scalable, they will place a demo plant in Malaysia, Burton said. Another challenge is—assuming successful large scale commercialization is possible—what to do with all the resulting acetic acid. Lipids, in turn, are a proven pathway to jet, diesel and gasoline.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As a result of these regulations, up to 145,000 additional charging points will be added each year in the UK and by 2030, the sale of new petrol and diesel cars will cease in the UK. This is up from 2.5% in all of 2018 and 10% in 2020. “As The challenge is to find a place to charge all the vehicles entering the UK fleet.

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JULY 9, 2010

where he worked with Continental Airlines in helping to achieve the first US commercial demo flight using an algae-oil blend.). All routes from algae to ‘drop-in’ fuels such as renewable diesel and jet fuel require hydrogen and hydrotreating.

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JUNE 29, 2011

This effort will focus on the downstream processing of isobutanol to paraffinic kerosene (jet fuel) for jet engine testing, airline suitability flights and advancing commercial deployment. Our kerosene is the same as that produced from butylenes; it’s the same old kind of kerosene, made from C 4 building blocks. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 10, 2011

This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. . $1,500,000. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. valve train vs. bearings).

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