Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

Bridgestone Americas is partnering with LanzaTech to address end-of-life tire waste. Bridgestone and LanzaTech will work to address this issue by converting end-of-life tires into new materials, including exploring processes to create sustainable synthetic rubber that does not rely on petrochemicals. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO, LanzaTech.

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AUGUST 16, 2018

Neste, the leading producer of renewable diesel, UK-based chemical recycling company ReNew ELP, and Australian technology developer Licella are collaborating in a development project to explore the potential of using mixed waste plastic as a raw material for fuels, chemicals, and new plastics. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

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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JULY 10, 2022

will license Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology to produce biofuels from feedstocks such as used cooking oil and waste animal fat at their refinery in Izmir, Türkiye. The new Ecofining plant is being designed to convert approximately 8,300 barrels per day of waste feeds/feedstocks to SAF, renewable diesel, and other products.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Existing oil suppliers and gas-station operators don’t seem keen to push into the fuel-cell era, especially since there’s barely any hydrogen vehicles on the road now. An alternative to electrolysis is to use organic waste by extracting hydrogen from rotting food or sewage. Tesla Inc.’s

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

HOBO refers to the Heating Oil to Bean Oil spread which in part reflects the margin for converting waste feedstocks into renewable diesel for renewable fuel producers. HOBO Renewable Diesel expects to be in full production at this first site by Q4 2023.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Neste Oil, the world’s largest producer of premium-quality renewable fuels, is working with DONG Energy, one of the leading energy groups in Northern Europe, to develop an integrated process to produce renewable diesel and aviation fuel derived from agricultural residues. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 31, 2023

drop-in fuels and additives are approved for usage in international aviation: synthetic paraffinic kerosene, hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids, alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene, hydroprocessed fermented sugar synthesized iso-paraffins, Fischer-Tropsch synthetic paraffinic kerosene, pyrolysis oils and others.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

Finding ways of recovering this lost heat energy has been one of the major goals being pursued by engineers working on BMW EfficientDynamics for the future. —Jürgen Ringler, Team Leader for Thermal Energy Converters at BMW Group Research and Technology. The thermoelectric generator converts heat directly into electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

As a result, shipbuilders and operators around the world are seeking environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional ship engines powered by fuel oil or diesel. The methanol is mixed with water, then evaporated by applying heat and fed into the preheated reactor, where the mix of methanol and water is converted into hydrogen and CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. It will valorize the economic production of algae-based biofuels and de-risk the mass manufacturing of algae-based polyurethanes, and associated consumer products. Comstock Inc.,

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Lignocellulosic biomass, a renewable and abundant resource, holds great promise for sustainable production of valuable chemicals and fuels, currently derived mainly from oil. Given the current imperative, the primary focus is on biomass-based fuels and chemicals to enable a sustainable future free from carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2023

SAF can be produced from a wide array of renewable sources such as agricultural wastes and used cooking oils and can lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 80% in its neat form when compared to traditional petroleum-based fuels. Shell has announced its ambition to have 10% of its aviation jet fuel sales as SAF by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Non-edible carbohydrates are converted to renewable diesel-range liquids via two consecutive catalytic steps. A team at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) has designed a new simple, energy-efficient process (that also does not require any organic solvents) for the production of renewable diesel from biomass waste.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

has started site construction for Phase 2 of its first waste-to-fuels project, the Sierra BioFuels Plant (Sierra). Sierra will be the nation’s first commercial-scale plant converting a municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstock—i.e., Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. —Jim Macias, Fulcrum’s President and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Scientists in China have developed a process for converting cellulose from plant waste from agriculture and timber harvesting into high-density aviation fuel: a polycycloalkane mixture. Li and his team found that cellulose can be selectively converted to. —Ning Li. 2,5-hexanedione using hydrogenolysis.

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APRIL 27, 2015

The Battelle team has set its sights on achieving the near-commercial standard of 4,000 hours in the near future; 4,000 hours represents about half a year of continuous operation, Abdullah noted. This produces a vapor, which is then condensed to form bio-oil. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We focused on these three countries because they are all at somewhat different points in their economic development, and we reasoned that comparing air pollution patterns among them would give us a good indicator of future trends. —Philip Landrigan.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Maverick Oasis factory-built Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) methanol plants are modular, and can be rapidly deployed onsite to produce thousands of gallons per day of methanol from natural gas or methane-rich waste gas. The plants are designed to be low-cost, highly efficient facilities optimized to generate an attractive project rate of return.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2014

Cathay Pacific Airways has made a strategic equity investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy —a pioneer in the development and commercialization of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into sustainable aviation fuel ( earlier post )—as part of the airlines biofuel strategy and to help it achieve a target of carbon-neutral growth from 2020.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The six Phase 1 projects will utilize thermochemical, biochemical, algal, and hybrid conversion technologies to generate the data required to enable future commercial-scale facilities. Pilot-Scale Waste-to-Energy Projects: Rialto Bioenergy, LLC. Demonstration-Scale Integrated Biorefineries: AVAPCO, LLC. The AVAPCO, LLC ($3.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

Mohammad Masnadi and Adam Brandt used decades-long time-series data from twenty-five globally significant oil fields (>1 billion barrels ultimate recovery) to model greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oil production as a function of time.Depletion requires increased energy expenditures in drilling, oil recovery, and oil processing.

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JUNE 18, 2015

Feedstocks including cellulosic biomass and municipal wastes are gasified. The resulting syngas (CO and H 2 ) is then processed with heat and catalysts to produce olefins or hydrocarbons that can be converted into fuel. bio-oils and fats) are fed into a reactor catalytically de-oxygenated. Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The UW team is the first to try converting the entire young tree—leaves, bark and stems—into bio oil and ethanol using two separate processes. Our findings are significant for the future biofuel industry, and the ultimate goal is to make poplar coppice biofuel a step closer to the pump. That’s the problem.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The conversion of coal to liquid fuels is especially relevant in coal-rich countries that have to import oil for their supply of liquid fuels—such as China. Accordingly, there is a large incentive to improve current CTL technology, which can convert coal into liquid fuels and valuable chemicals. —Wang et al.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

AFS BioOil has recently partnered with a renewable electricity company that has the technology to convert waste heat into electricity at a cost of 6 cents/kWh and potential of reducing the cost to 4 cents/kWh in the future. AFS BioOil was formed in 2010 as a spin out of Algae Floating Systems, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2012

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, and Petronas, the national oil company of Malaysia, will work together to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals using CO 2 as the carbon source. —Haida Shenny Hazri, CEO of PTVSB.

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MARCH 18, 2015

As part of the investment, Flagship will assume a seat on the Red Rock Board of Directors and serve as a strategic advisor for future fundraising efforts. Red Rock takes waste biomass from forests and sawmills, and using a proprietary process, transforms it into domestically produced jet, diesel and naphtha fuels. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2011

In the future, inedible sources, such as corn stover, bagasse and wood residues, could also be used as feedstocks. Honeywell’s UOP is a recognized leader in refining process technologies to convert natural oils, animal fats and biomass to sustainable green fuels. UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, was awarded a $1.1 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

The Pacific Northwest has the diverse feedstocks, fuel-delivery infrastructure and political will needed to create a viable biofuels industry capable of reducing greenhouse gases and meeting the future fuel demands of the aviation industry, according to a newly-released study by Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest (SAFN). —SAFN report.

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

and Marks & Spencer are teaming up to explore LEO—a blend of lignin and ethanol—that could be part of the future solution for sustainable shipping. While bioethanol is not a drop-in fuel, the residual lignin can be converted to a drop-in fuel via thermal treatments such as gasification or solvolysis.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 27, 2022

The organization announced steps recently, along with Shell and Pennzoil, the official fuel, motor oil and lubricant sponsors of the NTT IndyCar series. KERS is where kinetic energy, which is present in the waste heat created by the car’s braking process, is stored and converted into power that can be called upon to boost acceleration.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a new report that frames an integrated challenge and opportunity space around the water-energy nexus for DOE and its partners and lays the foundation for future efforts. Water availability will affect the future of the water-energy nexus, DOE says. Efficient equipment and appliances.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

the future of the economy and the environment. Rising Oil Prices Lead to Investments in Natural Gas. Oil markets are traditionally sensitive to a pick up in economic activity. As the economy continues to slowly improve over the next 12 months, Cascadia predicts that oil will hit $100 per barrel. extraction.

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JULY 21, 2015

and will convert approximately 140,000 dry tons of woody biomass into 15 million gallons per year of renewable jet, diesel and naphtha fuels. The Red Rock process begins with the gasification of woody biomass to produce synthesis gas, which is then is cleaned and sent to a Fischer-Tropsch unit where it is converted to liquid hydrocarbons.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

million to Michelin and SDTech as part of the French government “Investing in the Future” program. Micropowder is transformed from end-of-life tires to create a lower cost, and more sustainable material that replaces oil and rubber-based materials. The goal of this process is to reduce costs and cut waste.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

A team of researchers led by James Dumesic and George Huber, both now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have demonstrated how C 5 sugars derived from hemicellulose can be converted into a high-quality petroleum refinery feedstock via a four-step catalytic process. The new process can be tuned to adjust the size of the liquid alkanes.

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