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JULY 11, 2013

Omnitek Engineering has been selected by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency for a pilot project to demonstrate its diesel-to-natural gas engine conversion technology for drayage trucks serving the Port of Seattle, Washington, in support of the Port’s Clean Truck Program.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Logan Bus Company, the largest school bus provider for the New York City Department of Education is converting five of its diesel buses to electric buses to participate in this demonstration project. —Alicia Barton, President and CEO of NYSERDA. Once this is completed, bus routes will be determined.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Audi’s latest e-fuels project is participation in a a pilot plant project in Dresden that produces diesel fuel from water, CO 2 and green electricity. Bottom: 3D model of sunfire SOEC (left) and the demo plant (right). Nearly 80% of that can be converted into synthetic diesel. Source: sunfire. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 23, 2014

So far this year, the team has integrated the T2B2 aftertreatment in the dynamometer environment and is in the process of convert the demonstration vehicle to the T2B2 configuration. The approach that Cummins and partners have taken features: Replacing the aluminium V8 gasoline engine and emission control system with smaller diesel (2.8-liter)

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MAY 11, 2012

Rosneft, an integrated oil company majority-owned by the Russian government, has selected technology from Oxford Catalysts Group PLC for a small-scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facility designed to convert associated gas—i.e., Earlier post.) Rosneft has a stated objective and budget to reduce flaring and make better use of associated gas.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology developed for tactical generators under an Office of Naval Research (ONR) program recently demonstrated the ability to cut fuel use by up to 44% compared to a similar-sized 10 kW diesel generator now being used by the Army and Marine Corps in forward-operating bases.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

In the course of their work with The Coca-Cola Company, Virent has progressed their PX technology to commercial readiness, improved the process economics and produced bio-based PX which has been converted by The Coca-Cola Company into 100% bio-based PET bottles.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Researchers from three US national labs (Berkeley, Pacific Northwest and Sandia) has demonstrated a separation-free, ionic-liquid (IL)-based process to convert biomass to an advanced biofuel (the sesquiterpene bisabolene).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Unlike sugar-based biofuel producers, Joule directly and continuously converts solar energy into liquid fuels, without costly raw materials, pretreatment or downstream processing. Joule Fuels will initially commercialize Sunflow-E, with Sunflow-D for the global diesel market to follow. —Peter Erich, President of Joule Fuels.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

Aemetis’ 60-million gallon per year ethanol plant in California converts sugars to biofuels. 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.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The environmental impact of replacing 143 million gallons of diesel fuel with RNG is the equivalent of reducing 745,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions—also equal to planting 12 million trees, or removing 158,000 cars off the road, or reducing 260,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill, the company said.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

UOP LLC used its renewable jet fuel process technology ( earlier post ) to convert oil from camelina, an inedible plant, to renewable jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 10, 2016

Heavy-duty diesel vehicles were required to implement OBD for model year 2013 vehicles while implementation in alternative fueled heavy duty vehicles was delayed till 2018 due to the development burden of this new level of diagnostics and the comparatively small volume of heavy-duty alternative fueled vehicles being manufactured.

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JUNE 2, 2009

Currently, the town is powered by diesel generators, which emit greenhouse gases, and by a run-of-river facility which, while clean, is not capable of storing energy. Bella Coola, which is 439 kilometers (273 miles) north of Vancouver, is not connected to BC Hydro’s grid. The HARP project will address two challenges.

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MAY 12, 2015

Global Bioenergies has successfully converted renewable resources first into gaseous isobutene via fermentation, which was then subsequently catalytically oligomerized into a mix of fuel-range liquid hydrocarbons, including iso-octane. Isocetane is a heavier fuel that can be used as an additive for diesel engines. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, a company developing a processes to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has joined aireg (Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.) 2010) “Binary Mixtures of Branched and Aromatic Pure Component Fuels as Surrogates for Future Diesel Fuels,” SAE Int.

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

Six research institutions and seven industrial partners from Europe will participate in the new BioBoost project, aimed at converting residual biomass into energy carriers for the production of high-quality and engine-compatible fuels and chemicals as well as for the generation of electricity and heat. above 1000 °C.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

” “We are investing in new projects to convert wind energy into hydrogen, and our net zero strategy is expected to trigger around £90 billion in private sector investment, driving the creation of high-wage, high-skilled jobs as we unite and raise the bar across the country. part of the mission.” This is up from 2.5%

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

A demo flight with the new fuel is planned in 12-18 months, with commercialization targeted for 2014. convert the resulting ethanol into a synthetic jet fuel. These hydrocarbons are subsequently separated into biological gasoline, kerosene and diesel by rectification. The fuel production.

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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 Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is a process through which coal is converted in-situ (i.e., to feed into a Fischer-Tropsch process for the generation of synthetic diesel.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Over the past year, Semcon , a global engineering services company, has been working with Volvo Cars’ development of 3 demo plug-in hybrids in a cooperation project between Volvo Cars, Vattenfall, ETC and Energimyndigheten (The Swedish Energy Agency). Earlier post.). kWh Li-ion battery pack, of which 8 kWh is usable.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

On 3 December Amyris announced that it had entered into an agreement with the São Martinho Group to acquire a 40% stake in the Boa Vista mill and that together the parties would convert this mill to achieve the first production of Amyris products. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Amyris engineers microbes to convert sugar to hydrocarbon fuels. 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. Source: Amyris. Click to enlarge.

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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. Lipids, in turn, are a proven pathway to jet, diesel and gasoline. LanzaTech envisions using partner technology to convert the acetic acid to lipids—i.e.,

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JUNE 29, 2011

Gruber notes that Gevo could deploy pretty quickly because it takes a retrofit approach, converting ethanol plants (with a current global capacity of some 20 billion gallons) to work with Gevo’s microorganisms to produce isobutanol. The fact that it is agreed upon by all the competitors is significant. —Patrick Gruber, Gevo CEO.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

The parties will work together to convert this mill to produce Amyris renewable products with first production targeted for the 2011-2012 harvest season. 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. Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc.

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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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NOVEMBER 9, 2013

an alternative fuel company that converts natural gas and other feedstocks directly into drop-in transportation fuels, announced that its natural gas-to-gasoline demonstration plant ( earlier post ) has achieved 720 hours of continuous operation, indicating the reliability and stability of its STG+ technology. Primus Green Energy, Inc.,

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JUNE 10, 2014

Combining a module approach with a scalable thermoelectric heat exchanger design, GMZ Energy will integrate multiple 200W blocks into a single 1,000W diesel engine waste heat recovery solution.

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JULY 21, 2012

Green Diesel. The hydroprocessing technology used in the Green Diesel process—and also used for Green Jet—is relatively mature, Rekoske noted. UOP is moving faster commercially on the Green Diesel side, with the Diamond Green project with Darling International and Valero Energy nearly complete. —Jim Rekoske.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Motiv will collect data and use patterns, with a goal of proving that electric shuttle buses are a viable alternative to their dirtier traditional counterparts which run on diesel. Motiv’s electric powertrains are expected to decrease total cost of ownership by 8% for initial production vehicles and by over 30% for production vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Three HDGas engine concepts/technology routes are being developed: A low-pressure direct-injection spark ignited engine with a highly efficient EGR system (the IVECO engine with GD Tech injectors); A low-pressure port-injected dual fuel engine; A high-pressure gas direct-injection diesel pilot ignition gas engine.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

The demonstration plant utilizes Primus’ proprietary STG+ technology, which is a four-reactor catalytic process that converts syngas derived from natural gas or other feedstocks to gasoline, jet fuel, diesel or aromatic chemicals directly, without the need for further treatment. Primus Green Energy, Inc. Earlier post.).

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