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AUGUST 26, 2009

The production of ethanol by fermentation consists of four stages: the pre-processing of the raw material; the conversion of carbohydrates from polymers into sugar; the fermentation of sugar into ethanol using microbes; and the distillation of ethanol. Source: Universita Degli Studi di Milano. Click to enlarge. million (US$11.7 NEMO (CORDIS).

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APRIL 24, 2017

A team from The Netherlands and the US reports that the sugar-derived levulinic esters methyl levulinate (ML) and ethyl levulinate (EL) and the sugar-derived cyclic ether (furfuryl ethyl ether (FEE) demonstrate superior anti-knock quality (in 10% blends) to a reference Euro95 gasoline. —Tian et al. Miao Tian, Robert L. 2017.04.027.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Business-as-usual’ projections of future conversion rates, based on historical rates over the past two decades, indicate that 6–9 Mha of peatland in insular Southeast Asia may be converted to plantations by the year 2020, unless land use planning policies or markets for products change. —Miettinen et al. Chris Malins. Miettinen, J.,

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Global Bioenergies, the developer of a process to convert renewable resources into light olefin hydrocarbons via fermentation (with an initial focus on isobutene) ( earlier post ), signed a contribution agreement with the shareholders of Syngip B.V. to transfer all Syngip shares to Global Bioenergies S.A. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Researchers in the Netherlands have demonstrated the direct conversion of synthesis gas through a Fischer-Tropsch process to C 2 through C 4 light olefins with selectivity up to 60 wt.% The team formulated and tested their supported and bulk Fe catalysts in the FT reaction initially at 1 bar and 350°C at low CO conversion (0.5

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

NExBTL naphtha is produced as part of the NExBTL renewable diesel refining process at Neste Oil’s sites in Finland, the Netherlands, and Singapore. Conversely, moderate temperatures and catalysts with mild acid sites are needed if middle distillates are the desired product. The yield of green gasoline can also be.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands are developing ceria-based catalysts as candidates for integrating methane combustion and hydrogen generation in power plants. Methane conversion and hydrogen yield at 550 °C. All the catalysts that produce hydrogen do so only at full O 2 conversion—i.e.,

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AUGUST 9, 2010

Researchers at TU Delft (The Netherlands) and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) have developed a new concept to increase the efficiency of the catalytic cracking of unsaturated vegetable oil to greatly increase the production of gasoline and light olefins (propene and butenes). Resources. Credit: Rao et al. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 6, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University, The Netherlands) have concluded that the energy demand and climate impacts of using CO 2 to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels by using existing technologies can be greater than the impacts of existing hydrocarbon fuels. Credit: ACS, van der Giesen et al.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz presented the paper at the 10 th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies ( GHGT-10 ) earlier this fall in The Netherlands. Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Emissions Lifecycle analysis. Kreutz used what he called a bifurcated climate regime—i.e., Alternative CCR [CO 2.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

This productivity is based on a 3% solar energy conversion to biomass (theoretical maximum is 9%) and a biomass oil content of 50%, under the solar conditions of Portugal. The perspective by René H. Wijffels and Maria J. Barbosa on the outlook for microalgal biofuels was published in the 13 August issue of the journal Science. Science Vol.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

If a large fraction of the overflow water comes from the NIJ, then we need to re-think how quickly the warm-to-cold conversion of the AMOC occurs, as well as how this process might be altered under a warming climate. —Robert Pickart. The Research Council of Norway also funded the work. Kjetil Våge, Robert S. Pickart, Michael A.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

A new study on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the conversion and degradation of peatland in palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia has determined that past studies have generally significantly underestimated emissions associated with palm oil grown on peatland. —Dr Chris Malins of the ICCT.

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JULY 20, 2012

Global emissions of CO 2 increased by 3% last year, according to the annual report “Trends in global CO 2 emissions”, released by the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). At 3%, the 2011 increase in global CO 2 emissions is above the past decade’s average annual increase of 2.7%.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Every year, Netherland-based student company TU/ecomotive produces an electric car with a team of 21 BA students from the Eindhoven University of Technology, with the aim of showing the world that a hypothetical, sustainable car of the future can be a reality today.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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MAY 16, 2018

de Vries works at the Experience Center of PwC in the Netherlands and is the founder of Digiconomist (@DigiEconomist), a blog that aims to better inform cryptocurrency users. A single transaction uses as much electricity as an average household in the Netherlands uses in a month. —Alex de Vries. 2018.04.016.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

The new report, jointly prepared by the ICCT, the Netherlands’ Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), and Germany’s Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg (IFEU), unveils the increasing real-world efficiency gap using systematic statistical analysis. United Kingdom); and the car club TCS (Switzerland).

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JULY 2, 2015

In an era of depleting mineral oil resources natural gas is becoming ever more relevant, even though the gas is difficult to transport and not easily integrated in the existing industrial infrastructure. This has spawned many research efforts regarding the chemistry of methane conversion. —Professor Johannes Lercher.

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MARCH 26, 2019

The work was funded by the USDepartment of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences and Netherlands Research Center for Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion. The researchers now plan to study the performance of single-atom catalysts with other organic compounds and pollutants.

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OCTOBER 1, 2011

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is the major conversion process used in oil refineries to produce valuable hydrocarbons from crude oil fractions. A paper on their work was published in the journal Nature Chemistry. Eelco Vogt, R&D Director at Albemarle Corporation. Buurmans, Javier Ruiz-Martínez, William V. Knowles, David van der Beek, Jaap A.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Already the world’s biggest producer and exporter of sugar, farmers reaped the benefits of this new demand.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

This work was supported by the NWO Gravitation program, Netherlands Center for Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion, and a European Research Council Advanced Grant. Other researchers who contributed to this work were SSRL’s Courtney Krest and Samuel Webb. Yijin Liu, Florian Meirer, Courtney M. Krest Samuel Webb & Bert M.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Please send it to webmaster@calcars.org. Jim Tech Ltd. Contact mike@.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is the major conversion process used in oil refineries to produce valuable hydrocarbons from crude oil fractions. This will, among other things, enable the oil industry to continue producing qualitatively good fuels from the dwindling reserves of crude oil that are often of a poor quality, NWO said.

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MAY 19, 2015

Its presence explains the remaining functional activity of the catalyst, as confirmed by a small but quantifiable accessibility index and a measurable catalytic conversion rate, even for particles with the highest metal loading. Resources. The research team also included Sam Kalirai at Utrecht and Darius Morris, Yijin Liu and Joy C.

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JULY 21, 2012

In a review of hydroprocessing technologies published in a new paper in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , Mustafa Al-Sabawi and Jinwen Chen of CanmetENERGY, Natural Resources Canada, note that: “Hydroprocessing of oils, whether petroleum- or biomass- derived, entails hydrotreating and/or hydrocracking technologies. Hydroprocessing.

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This demand will come from a range of drivers associated with decarbonisation and other technologies, including industrial process heat conversions, population growth, data centres, and electric vehicle uptake. 10 There are many countries with more aggressive ratios than this, including China, Korea, and the Netherlands.

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APRIL 16, 2009

This "human resource advantage" is "the most important part" of BYDs strategy, Wang says. Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name. Wang signed an agreement last year with Autobinck, a Dutch dealer group, to distribute its cars in the Netherlands and five Eastern European countries.

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JULY 26, 2023

Giving you access to perks, including Spectrum magazine and many education and career resources. Schneider: And from our earlier conversations, you told me about a class that you were teaching. Plus, you’ll get a cool IEEE-branded Rubik’s Cube when you enter the code CUBE online. Simply go to IEEE.org/join to get started.

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