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Envergent Technologies designing RTP plant to convert palm biomass to renewable fuels in Malaysia

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Premium Renewable Energy (Malaysia) Sdn. Envergent will perform a site assessment and identify strategies for integration for the facility into the existing palm oil industry in Malaysia. RTP is currently in use in seven commercial biomass processing plants in the US and Canada.

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Shell selects site for proposed $12.5B GTL project in Louisiana

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Shell’s Gulf Coast GTL facility would be one of the first of its kind built to commercial scale in the United States. Contingent on a final decision to move forward with the Gulf Coast GTL project, Shell would be reimbursed for this total cost from performance-based infrastructure grants provided by the State of Louisiana.

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Shell will not move forward with $12.5B US Gulf Coast GTL project

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Shell built the first commercial GTL facility in Malaysia in 1993. The State of Louisiana had offered Shell a competitive incentive package that would include a performance-based grant of $112 million to reimburse costs associated with necessary public road improvements, land acquisition and other infrastructure costs.

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Turbine Truck Engines Gains Access to Aerospace Mitsubishi Resources for Engineering and Development of Detonation Cycle Gas Turbine Engine

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TTE also granted AMEC the exclusive license to commercialize the engine in China’s automotive and busing markets when the design process is completed. Aerospace Mitsubishi is a joint venture (JV) between five companies from China, Japan, and Malaysia. Earlier post.)

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UNECE Adopts Type Approval for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles’ Electric Safety Requirements; Applies in 41 Countries

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1” is replaced by the distinguishing number of the country which has granted/extended/refused/withdrawn approval. The first two digits of the approval number (01) indicate that the approval was granted in accordance with the requirements of Regulation No. Generic format of the approval mark pursuant to Regulation No. Click to enlarge.

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

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That order was followed over the next couple of years by the DoD’s awarding of well over US $100 million in grants, investments, and initiatives aimed at shoring up U.S. Return to top So the US has a sort of twofold stance or a twofold initiative going, both commercial use of rare earths in electric vehicles and also defense uses.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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UOP is moving faster commercially on the Green Diesel side, with the Diamond Green project with Darling International and Valero Energy nearly complete. Military personnel from Colombia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Republic of Philippines, Thailand, Tonga and the United Kingdom will also participate.

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