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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

has agreed to spend more than $161 million on pollution controls, enhanced maintenance and monitoring, and improved internal management practices to resolve Clean Air Act violations at its Texas City, Texas refinery. The Texas City refinery is the third largest in the US, with a production capacity of more than 460,000 barrels per day.

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JULY 22, 2010

cement manufacturing plant in San Antonio, Texas. Novomer will develop a process for converting waste CO 2 into a number of polycarbonate products (plastics) for use in the packaging industry. Alcoa will demonstrate and optimize the process at their Point Comfort, Texas aluminum refining plant. DOE Share: $25,000,000).

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MARCH 2, 2022

The joint venture will produce renewable diesel following a conversion project of Marathon’s refinery in Martinez, California (the Martinez Renewable Fuels project). Neste’s regional headquarters in North America is in Houston, Texas, and the company employs more than 500 people across the US.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Ge 0.25 )—intended to generate electric power from waste heat with greater efficiency and higher output power than currently available materials. It can be used with waste-heat applications and concentrated solar energy conversion at temperatures up to 300 ?C, —Liu et al. C, said Zhifeng Ren, lead author and M.D.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The team will apply atomic layer deposition technology to fabricate and modify the catalyst at the atomic level, with the goal of more than doubling catalyst lifetime, improving selectivity and conversion efficiency at reduced costs. University of Texas at Dallas. Bio2Electric, LLC d.b.a. EcoCatalytic Technologies. 2,417,938. .

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy is awarding up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects in California, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, that will advance the technology improvements and process integration needed to produce drop-in advanced biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals. Genomatica, Inc. (up

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MARCH 26, 2013

The selected projects, announced for negotiations today, cover R&D in computational modeling and simulation for automation and equipment; steel fabrication processing; steel heat treatment processing; high value petrochemicals’ and waste heat minimization manufacturing. University of Texas at Austin. Lead organization. Description.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2010

Researchers at Texas A&M University have concluded that the MixAlco process (developed there) to convert biomass to fuels and chemicals—under a base-case capacity of 40 dry tonne feedstock per hour— requires a total capital investment of $5.54/annual annual gallon of hydrocarbon fuels (US $3.79/annual annual gallon of ethanol equivalent).

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JUNE 23, 2015

IH 2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermochemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks. The IH 2 technology is an efficient conversion route for lignocellulosic biomass. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Central Texas Fuel Independence Project will expand an interagency. gas-fueled school buses and solid waste collection vehicles and develop a. other fleets; create vehicle conversion inspection criteria; and train and. alternative fuel vehicle conversions, equipment safety, and fueling. North Central Texas Council of.

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MAY 19, 2014

This can happen either after removal of most of the carbohydrates by hydrolysis and fermentation operations (top sequence) or by pretreatment before downstream carbohydrate conversion (bottom sequence). Ragauskas et al. courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.] Click to enlarge. —Arthur Ragauskas. Ragauskas, et al.,

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JUNE 24, 2010

USDA’s report identifies numerous biomass feedstocks to be utilized in developing biofuels and calls for the funding of further investments in research and development of: Feedstock; Sustainable production and management systems; Efficient conversion technologies and high-value bioproducts; and. Woody biomass, municipal waste potential.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

North Central Texas Council of Governments’ North Central Texas Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology. Railroad Commission of Texas’ Texas Propane Fleet Pilot Program. A CNG fueling station will be constructed at 2 of the recipient’s, Allied Waste, locations. Total DOE award: $13,195,000.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

BOTTLE Consortium Collaborations to Tackle Challenges in Plastic Waste: Create collaborations with the BOTTLE Laboratory Consortium to further the long-term goals of the Consortium and the Plastics Innovation Challenge. Partners include Argonne National Laboratory, ChemStation, Chevron Phillips, and Texas A&M. LanzaTech, Inc.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

ConocoPhillips will demonstrate new advancements that improve conversion efficiency and economies of scale for carbon capture systems at a petcoke-based 683-megawatt integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant adjacent to its existing refinery in Sweeny, Texas. DOE Share: $1,137,885). Air Products and Chemicals Inc.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

DOE Funding: $1,249,997; Non-DOE Funding: $312,516; Total Value: $1,562,513 Oxygen Integrated Unit for Modular Biomass Conversion to Hydrogen — Palo Alto Research Center Inc., The team intends to address the requirement of advancing modular air separation to support modular gasification-based hydrogen production. approximately 1400 °C).

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APRIL 30, 2010

Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Johnson Matthey will investigate the catalytic conversion of this microbial biodiesel into additional fuel molecules, most importantly jet fuel. Hydrogen-Dependent Conversion of Carbon Dioxide To Liquid Electrofuels By Extremely Thermophilic Archaea.

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MAY 27, 2009

The anaerobic digester is fed the waste from the distillation process and the wastes from 2,000 dairy cattle and 10,000 beef cattle being raised on the site. Madson identified several ethanol plants that were built in industrial settings that were able to use the waste heat, i.e. from an adjacent refinery, to produce their ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Topic Area 2: High-value products from waste and/or other undervalued streams in an integrated biorefinery. The experimentally validated simulation toolkit will be generalized to aid in optimizing and de-risking biomass conversion processes that use these common feed handling and reactor feeding units.

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South Dakota South Carolina Carbon Fiber Baltimore 150

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JUNE 26, 2021

NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Such process intensification could boost manufacturing productivity while cutting costs and reducing waste. Two possible projects highlighted in the application include: Pyrolysis-based Modular Energy Production Systems for conversion of wastes and biomass into fuels, chemicals and other products, with $3.2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000. The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

REEACH projects seek to create innovative, cost-effective, and high-performance energy storage and power generation sub-systems for electric aircraft, with a focus on fuel-to-electric power conversion technologies. Compact Propulsion Engine Optimized with Waste Heat Recovery (CO-POWER); $2,815,760.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Virtually everywhere that alternating current must be transformed to direct current or vice versa, there will be fewer wasted watts. This conversion happens in your phone’s or laptop’s wall charger, in the much larger chargers and inverters that power electric vehicles, and elsewhere. To begin with: Power conversion is everywhere.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. Research Center, University of Maryland, University of Texas at. Arlington).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

has been awarded a US patent covering its conversion of sunlight and waste carbon dioxide directly into liquid hydrocarbons that are fungible with conventional diesel fuel. Joule Unlimited, Inc., Earlier post.).

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JULY 14, 2015

This has led to improved biofuel productivity, higher economic returns, minimal waste production, and a lower carbon footprint. carbon fixation), such that the energy of the excess photons is wasted through non-photosynthetic processes. When they cannot be utilized efficiently they are wasted, normally through venting or flaring.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

The projects selected include: Texas A&M University will receive up to $2.5 million to develop a continuous flow electrochemical reactor that upgrades biorefinery waste lignin to bio-based phenol substitutes with cogeneration of hydrogen. Ohio University will receive up to $1.5

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AUGUST 14, 2014

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. This project will develop a total thermal management solution for electric vehicles using a compact refrigerant loop, a coolant-based thermal energy distribution network and waste heat harvesting from the power electronics. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Chrysler Group LLC. Eaton Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

It can be adapted for the conversion of various resources: sugar cane or sugar beet, glucose from cereal starch or sugars generated by the digestion of lignocellulosic material (agricultural or forestry waste). The process conceptually is essentially a low-temperature, biological analog of the Fischer-Tropsch process. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. This normally wasted energy will be absorbed in the turbine exhaust where it can produce additional electrical power or thrust. Batch-wise Improvement in Reduced Design Space using a Holistic Optimization Technique (BIRDSHOT) - $1,200,000.

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JUNE 19, 2015

Texas A&M AgriLife Research. Compared to conventional electricity generation and transmission, CHP captures the otherwise wasted heat and makes it available for useful application. In addition, this design results in more efficient energy conversion at lower temperatures and increases the lifetime of the system components.

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Transportation Energy West Virginia Engine 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Any system that requires conversion from mechanical energy to electrical and back again, using a generator and then a motor, will lose some of its energy in the process through friction and other processes that produce waste heat. These scaled-up springs need to be large (i.e., This is not easy to do. —Carol Livermore.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. I want to sell power to Texas, because we can. I know these them, I lived in Japan I know these people, I’ve sat and had conversations with them. Oh how it dwarfs the normal sized other homes all around it.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

Taylor’s Alto had a speaker—which played “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You” whenever he received an electronic mail message. The first version of Smalltalk was written as the result of a chance conversation between Kay, Ingalls, and Ted Kaehler, another PARC researcher. Richard Shoup’s Alto had a color display. Alvy Ray Smith. “No

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APRIL 16, 2009

High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (52) ▼ April (6) Waxman-Markey and REDD BlogRoll Review: Space Beams, Leaded Batteries, an.

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