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U Delaware team develops chemocatalytic process to convert waste polypropylene to lube oils

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AUGUST 27, 2021

They were able to convert amorphous polypropylene and everyday bags and bottles effectively to lubricants with yields up to 80+%. Quantification of critical properties, including pour point, kinematic viscosity, and viscosity index, indicates that the products are promising alternatives to currently used base or synthetic oils.

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Delaware Waste Oil Convert

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Meanwhile, wet waste feedstocks, such as animal manure and fats, oils, and greases (FOG), represent another important category of resources that could be utilized to produce MCCI bioblendstocks due to its abundant availability. An open-access paper on their results is published in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

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Waste Diesel Renewable Convert

Topsoe enters agreement with Steeper Energy to introduce complete waste-to-biofuel solution

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Topsoe and Steeper Energy , a developer of biomass conversion technologies, signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution. The end-products include Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), marine biofuel, and renewable diesel from waste biomass.

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Waste Energy Oil Conversion

ETH Zurich catalyst can convert polypropylene directly into motor oil with high selectivity

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

With tuning, the catalyst can achieve a selectivity of 80% toward motor oil (C 21 –C 45 ). The recycling of plastic waste plays a large conceptual role in the quesst for the realization of a circular economy. Polypropylene constitutes about 30% of all plastic waste. A paper on their work is published in ChemSusChem.

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Oil Motor Motors Motoring

Rice, C-Crete team optimizes conversion of tire waste into graphene for stronger concrete

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APRIL 5, 2021

Rice University scientists and their colleagues at C-Crete Technologies have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete. After useful oils are extracted from waste tires, this carbon residue has until now had near-zero value, Tour said.

Waste

Waste Conversion Portland Carbon

EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

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JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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Eni and Hera Group partner on conversion of used vegetable oil to renewable diesel for waste collection vehicles

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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

In Italy, Eni and Hera signed a partnership agreement with the aim of converting used vegetable oil into renewable diesel for Hera’s waste collection vehicles. Enidiesel+ will power Hera’s urban waste collection vehicles. This service is increasingly comprehensive.

Waste

Waste Oil Renewable Diesel

ORNL-led team uses carbon material derived from tire waste to convert used cooking oil to biofuel

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Using a novel, reusable carbon material derived from old rubber tires, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)-led research team has developed a simple method to convert used cooking oil into biofuel. The patent-pending, waste oil-to-biofuel conversion adds a new approach to waste tire recycling initiatives.

Waste

Waste Convert Oil Carbon

China researchers hydrotreat waste engine oil and scrap tire oil blend to produce diesel- and jet-range fuel

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APRIL 27, 2019

Researchers at Henan Polytechnic University in China have hydrotreated the oil derived from hydrothermal liquefaction of scrap tires (STO) with waste engine oil (WEO) using five different activated carbon-supported noble metal catalysts—Pd/C, Pt/C, Ru/C, Ir/C, and Rh/C—for the production of liquid fuels.

Oil

Oil Waste Diesel Engine

Virgin Group and Agilyx form strategic partnership to produce lower carbon aviation fuel from plastic waste

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Virgin Group and chemical conversion technology company Agilyx ( earlier post ) are forming a strategic partnership to research and develop lower carbon fuel facilities to help address plastic pollution and the global transition to net zero. Agilyx’s proprietary technology is able to break down plastic waste through a pyrolysis process.

Waste

Waste Carbon Fuel Conversion

QUT, Mercurius Australia partner on pilot plant to convert sugarcane waste to jet and diesel fuel; REACH

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In Australia, QUT researchers and Mercurius Australia are partnering on a pilot plant to prove the economic viability of turning sugarcane waste into either jet and diesel fuel or chemicals that could be used to make plastic soft drink and beer bottles. Does not use enzymes or microbes therefore it is not sensitive to feedstock impurities.

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Convert Australia Waste Diesel

Phillips 66 makes final investment decision for $850M conversion of refinery to renewable fuels facility; commercial operation in 1Q 2024

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MAY 12, 2022

Phillips 66 made a final investment decision Wednesday to move forward with Rodeo Renewed, the project to convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, into one of the world’s largest renewable fuels facilities.

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Renewable Conversion San Francisco Commercial

WSU, PNNL researchers convert algal biofuel waste from hydrothermal liquefaction into commodity using anaerobes; sewage sludge next

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OCTOBER 8, 2017

Researchers at Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have devised a method of converting a waste product generated by the conversion of algae into bio-crude into a usable and valuable commodity. Converting algae to biofuels can utilize a two-step process. —Fernandez et al.

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DOE awarding nearly $65M for biofuels research to reduce airplane and ship emissions

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The 22 selected projects fall into five topic areas for the “Bioenergy Technologies Office Scale-Up and Conversion” funding opportunity ( earlier post ): Scale-Up of Biotechnologies. Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion. Separations to Enable Biomass Conversion. Residential Wood Heaters.

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Emissions Waste Conversion Gas-Electric

Battelle evaluating pilot-scale mobile catalytic pyrolysis unit to convert biomass to bio-oil

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Battelle researchers have developed a mobile catalytic pyrolysis unit that converts biomass materials such as wood chips or agricultural waste into bio-oil. As currently configured, the Battelle-funded unit converts one ton of pine chips, shavings and sawdust into as much as 1,300 gallons of wet bio-oil per day.

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Convert Oil Waste Conversion

HF Sinclair selects Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology to produce renewable diesel at three facilities in US

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JULY 5, 2023

The renewable units in Cheyenne (6,000 BPD) and Sinclair (10,000 BPD) are from the conversion of crude oil refinery assets whereas the Artesia (9,000 BPD) renewable unit is a grassroots renewable facility. These facilities utilize Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology for the conversion of waste and bio-feedstock into renewable diesel.

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Renewable Diesel Wyoming New Mexico

LanzaTech and Sekisui advance conversion of municipal solid waste to ethanol

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Sekisui , a multibillion dollar Japanese diversified chemicals company and LanzaTech report making significant progress on a waste-to-chemicals platform converting municipal solid waste (MSW) to ethanol or other new products. 20,000 liter per year MSW pilot facility. Garbage is an important resource.

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EU research project IDEALFUEL seeks to develop marine low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from biomass; Bio-HFO

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JUNE 26, 2020

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium is aiming to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. IDEALFUEL seeks to develop methods to convert woody residual and waste materials such as sawdust and wood chips into renewable marine fuels.

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Mariner Oil Fuel Cleaner

KIST team develops technology for mass-production of lignin-bio-aviation fuels

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JULY 20, 2020

A Korean research team has developed a technology that can be used to mass-produce aviation-grade fuels from wood wastes. Large volumes of lignin are generated as waste in the pulping processes that are used to produce paper. The pyrolysis of lignin produces an oil which has little industrial utility due to its high viscosity.

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Fuel Production Oil Waste

Neste Oil de-emphasizing microbial oil R&D for renewable diesel; seeking other uses for cellulosic biomass

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Despite the decision to de-emphasize microbial oil, Neste Oil emphasized that cellulosic waste will continue to play an important role in its research strategy, adding that it remains committed to its goal of further extending its feedstock base and making greater use of waste and residues in this area in particular.

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Oil Renewable Diesel Waste

HEET to conduct first Boeing-COMAC Technology Center aviation biofuel research project focused on waste cooking oil

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

HEET, a company with experience developing alternative energy technologies, will focus on ways to convert discarded cooking oil into a component of sustainable aviation biofuel at the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center.

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Waste Oil China Convert

PNNL biocrude-to-diesel demo passes 2,000-hour catalyst stability milestone

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MARCH 26, 2021

A large-scale demonstration converting biocrude to renewable diesel fuel has passed a significant test, operating for more than 2,000 hours continuously without losing effectiveness. The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base.

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Diesel Waste Convert Washington

Siemens introduces new Organic Rankine module for waste heat recovery

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JUNE 4, 2014

Siemens recently introduced an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module for industrial plants or power stations for the conversion of waste heat to electricity. The Siemens system can generate electricity from waste heat of only about 300 ?C. In this case, however, organic silicone oils are used as the work medium.

Waste

Waste Oil Conversion Water

OriginOil and Idaho National Lab to develop direct conversion of algae into renewable crude oil for existing oil refineries

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JANUARY 15, 2012

the developer of a technology to extract oil from algae, plans to co-develop an integrated system with the US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for direct conversion of raw algae into a renewable crude oil that can be used by existing petroleum refineries. OriginOil, Inc., This may well support the U.S.

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Idaho Oil Conversion Renewable

Total and Waste Management invest in waste plastic to synthetic crude startup Agilyx

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APRIL 1, 2011

Agilyx Corporation, a startup commercializing a waste plastic to synthetic crude oil technology, has closed a $22 million Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), and joined by new strategic investors, Waste Management, Inc. Other valuable ancillary petroleum products may be produced as well.

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Waste Oil Convert Exhaust

JBI enters into 10-year agreement for commercially viable conversion of waste plastic to fuel

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AUGUST 9, 2011

has entered into an agreement with Rock-Tenn Company to convert mill by-product waste into fuel using JBI’s Plastic2Oil technology. The products of the P2O process are naphtha, fuel oil, and an off-gas similar to natural gas. JBI’s P2O process converts waste plastic into fuel without the need of further refinement.

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Waste Conversion Fuel Commercial

DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. This project will deliver a demonstrated scalable, deployment-ready oil-extraction system focused on creating a low carbon-intensity pathway to algae-based sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).

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Production Carbon Conversion Mariner

NREL and Ecopetrol in $2.3M CRADA agreement to optimize conversion of waste biomass to ethanol

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AUGUST 14, 2013

The US Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with Ecopetrol, the largest oil company in Colombia, to process the residue from sugar cane and palm oil harvesting into fuel ethanol for blending with gasoline. NREL has a pilot plant at its Golden, Colo.,

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Conversion Colombia Juice Waste

Strategic Biofuels successfully tests carbon capture and storage for renewable diesel plant

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AUGUST 15, 2021

These results enable us to move forward knowing that combining CCS with conversion of sustainable forestry waste to renewable diesel at our project site will enable us to achieve our deeply negative carbon footprint goal. The program used oil field workers and traditional oilfield equipment to advance this green energy project.

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Renewable Carbon Diesel Louisiana

LanzaTech and India’s Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy Research developing novel waste CO2 to fuels process

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AUGUST 14, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, has partnered with the Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy, a joint venture between Indian Oil Corporation, Ltd. LanzaTech has developed gas fermentation technology that can directly convert waste CO 2 gases into acetates. Source: LanzaTech.

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Waste Fuel India Energy

SITA UK and Cynar to build UKs first commercial plants to convert waste plastic to diesel

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. Cynar system. Pyrolysis then commences and the plastic becomes a vapor.

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Waste Convert Diesel Commercial

Honeywell introduces new ethanol-to-jet technology

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Honeywell announced a new ethanol-to-jet fuel (ETJ) processing technology that allows producers to convert corn-based, cellulosic, or sugar-based ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Ethanol offers producers a widely available, economically viable feedstock.

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Conversion Carbon Fuel Oil

DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion.

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Waste Conversion Universal San Diego

Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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Oil Conversion 2020 Oil-Sands

European aviation sector and NGOs agree on sustainability of future fuels

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JANUARY 15, 2021

In the first phase of SAF deployment through 2025, waste oils are the likeliest source of low-carbon fuel due to their low carbon intensity and ease of conversion. Electrofuels offer substantial long-term potential for supplying SAF, as there are fewer constraints to their production volumes.

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Future Fuel Waste Climate

Dutch/Russian effort to commercialize new process to convert flared gas to gasoline via a DME pathway

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JULY 16, 2013

Topchiev Institute for Petrochemical Synthesis ( TIPS ) on marketing a new technology developed by TIPS to convert flared gases into hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline. The TIPS catalytic converter delivers considerably better properties than those currently being used in the industry, TNO said. —Kolesnikova et al.

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Convert Gasoline Gas Commercial

California Energy Commission to award up to $3M to support development of bio-oil as intermediate for renewable jet fuel

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AUGUST 12, 2017

The California Energy Commission is issuing a solicitation ( GFO-17-901 ) to provide up to $3 million in funding for innovative, pre-commercial low-carbon fuel production processes that result in the development of bio-oil as an intermediate fuel with wide-scale adoption potential used for renewable jet fuel production.

Oil

Oil Renewable California Fuel

Stanford team proposes method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture to provide transportation energy with reduced CO2 emissions

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APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. secondary use of waste heat. Conversion to work via.

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Oil Carbon Emissions CO2

Catalytic cracking of vegetable oil sludge to produce biohydrocarbons

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Researchers in Viet Nam and Belgium have developed a catalytic cracking process to convert vegetable oil sludge to renewable hydrocarbon fractions. Vegetable oil sludge is a major byproduct of vegetable oil factories, and consists of triglycerides (61%), free fatty acid (37%) and impurities (2%). 2010.10.060.

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Oil Belgium Gasoline Gas

Waste Management and Genomatica enter strategic joint development agreement to produce chemicals from MSW syngas

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Waste Management and Genomatica, an industrial biotech company targeting sustainable chemicals ( earlier post ), have formed a strategic joint development agreement to research and advance Genomatica’s technology and manufacturing processes to enable production of intermediate and basic chemicals from syngas made from municipal solid waste.

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Waste Gas-Electric Renewable Convert

Emerging Fuels Technology seeks to raise $75M in Regulation A+ offering; BioGTL and FlareBuster plant technology

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

EFT has applied our upgrading technology to a wide range of non-FT feedstocks such as algae oils, plant oils and plastics. With its ability to produce synthetic and renewable-fuels and chemicals from feedstocks such as natural gas, flared gas, biogas, biomass, municipal solid waste, carbon dioxide (CO?)

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Fuel Waste Renewable Carbon

Rice flash Joule heating process recycles plastic from end-of-life F-150 trucks into high-value graphene for new vehicles

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MAY 27, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene. The lab has since adapted the process to convert plastic waste into graphene and to extract precious metals from electronic waste. That’s with only 0.1% by weight or less of graphene.

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F-150 Vehicles Ford Waste

Evonik investigating bacterial conversion of syngas to specialty chemicals; 2-HIBA demo

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Evonik Industries has demonstrated the use of bacteria to convert syngas to pure 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid (2-HIBA) under industrial conditions. Waste gas is one example of a source of syngas. Both the chemically-produced and biotech-produced products can be converted to methyl methacrylate (MMA).

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Conversion Waste Convert Industrial

Vattenfall and Aalborg University Partner with SCF Technologies on Near Supercritical Bio-oil Process

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. SCF Technologies 2008 Annual Report.

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Oil Universal 2008 Waste

U Delaware team develops chemocatalytic process to convert waste polypropylene to lube oils

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

Topsoe enters agreement with Steeper Energy to introduce complete waste-to-biofuel solution

ETH Zurich catalyst can convert polypropylene directly into motor oil with high selectivity

Rice, C-Crete team optimizes conversion of tire waste into graphene for stronger concrete

EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

Eni and Hera Group partner on conversion of used vegetable oil to renewable diesel for waste collection vehicles

ORNL-led team uses carbon material derived from tire waste to convert used cooking oil to biofuel

China researchers hydrotreat waste engine oil and scrap tire oil blend to produce diesel- and jet-range fuel

Virgin Group and Agilyx form strategic partnership to produce lower carbon aviation fuel from plastic waste

QUT, Mercurius Australia partner on pilot plant to convert sugarcane waste to jet and diesel fuel; REACH

Phillips 66 makes final investment decision for $850M conversion of refinery to renewable fuels facility; commercial operation in 1Q 2024

WSU, PNNL researchers convert algal biofuel waste from hydrothermal liquefaction into commodity using anaerobes; sewage sludge next

DOE awarding nearly $65M for biofuels research to reduce airplane and ship emissions

Battelle evaluating pilot-scale mobile catalytic pyrolysis unit to convert biomass to bio-oil

HF Sinclair selects Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology to produce renewable diesel at three facilities in US

LanzaTech and Sekisui advance conversion of municipal solid waste to ethanol

EU research project IDEALFUEL seeks to develop marine low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from biomass; Bio-HFO

KIST team develops technology for mass-production of lignin-bio-aviation fuels

Neste Oil de-emphasizing microbial oil R&D for renewable diesel; seeking other uses for cellulosic biomass

HEET to conduct first Boeing-COMAC Technology Center aviation biofuel research project focused on waste cooking oil

PNNL biocrude-to-diesel demo passes 2,000-hour catalyst stability milestone

Siemens introduces new Organic Rankine module for waste heat recovery

OriginOil and Idaho National Lab to develop direct conversion of algae into renewable crude oil for existing oil refineries

Total and Waste Management invest in waste plastic to synthetic crude startup Agilyx

JBI enters into 10-year agreement for commercially viable conversion of waste plastic to fuel

DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

NREL and Ecopetrol in $2.3M CRADA agreement to optimize conversion of waste biomass to ethanol

Strategic Biofuels successfully tests carbon capture and storage for renewable diesel plant

LanzaTech and India’s Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy Research developing novel waste CO2 to fuels process

SITA UK and Cynar to build UKs first commercial plants to convert waste plastic to diesel

Honeywell introduces new ethanol-to-jet technology

DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

European aviation sector and NGOs agree on sustainability of future fuels

Dutch/Russian effort to commercialize new process to convert flared gas to gasoline via a DME pathway

California Energy Commission to award up to $3M to support development of bio-oil as intermediate for renewable jet fuel

Stanford team proposes method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture to provide transportation energy with reduced CO2 emissions

Catalytic cracking of vegetable oil sludge to produce biohydrocarbons

Waste Management and Genomatica enter strategic joint development agreement to produce chemicals from MSW syngas

Emerging Fuels Technology seeks to raise $75M in Regulation A+ offering; BioGTL and FlareBuster plant technology

Rice flash Joule heating process recycles plastic from end-of-life F-150 trucks into high-value graphene for new vehicles

Evonik investigating bacterial conversion of syngas to specialty chemicals; 2-HIBA demo

Vattenfall and Aalborg University Partner with SCF Technologies on Near Supercritical Bio-oil Process

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