Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The new process uses LanzaTech technology to capture and ferment waste gases from industrial steel production into ethanol ( earlier post ), and Swedish Biofuels technology to chemically. convert the resulting ethanol into a synthetic jet fuel. The fuel production.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2010

New Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation will collaborate , as a co-funding partner, with the US Gas Technology Institute (GTI) on an advanced biomass conversion technology program worth US$3.1 million that will be part funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE). Terry Marker, Bioenergy Initiatives manager at GTI.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Neste has applied for a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathway covering the RD produced from tallow obtained in New Zealand. This feedstock is rendered in New Zealand and shipped by ocean tanker an estimated 5,780 nautical miles to the Neste plant. Neste’s process generates a propane-rich off-gas as a co-product.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Among four new California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) fuel pathway applications is a used cooking oil (gutter oil) to renewable diesel (NExBTL) pathway from Neste Oil at its Singapore plant. Boeing and COMAC are opening a demonstration facility in China to convert gutter oil to renewable aviation fuel. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2012

The MTG technology was originally developed in the 1970s and was successfully commercialized for a large-scale natural gas to gasoline plant during the 1980s in New Zealand. Sundrop Fuels will use a multi-phase process to convert sustainable forest waste into a bio-based drop-in gasoline for use in today’s combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

LanzaTech’s innovative technology instead re-uses the off-gases from converter, coking plant or blast furnace processes as nutrients and a source of energy. LanzaTech has been operating a pilot plant in Auckland, New Zealand since 2008 utilizing raw steel mill gases.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 22, 2023

Power electronics and electrification of agricultural equipment can help change our world for the better by reducing the equipment’s greenhouse gas footprint, providing food and fiber to feed, house, and clothe the world, and helping farmers stay profitable,” Singh says. government program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

New Zealand-based LanzaTech will work with the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) on converting some of LanzaTech’s products to drop-in jet fuels. LanzaTech has already shown 2,3-BD production from waste gas resources in an industrial setting. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

New Zealand-based LanzaTech has successfully produced 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD), a key building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels, using the company’s gas fermentation technology. LanzaTech has shown 2,3-BD production from waste gas resources in an industrial setting. Jennifer Holmgren.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2010

New Zealand-based waste gas and syngas to fuels company LanzaTech ( earlier post ) has attracted US$18 million in Series B financing from investors led by China-focused venture capital firm Qiming Ventures. LanzaTech uses proprietary bacteria to convert industrial waste gases into fuels and chemicals. Dr Simpson.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Global Biotechnologies’ technology could contribute to this strategy as isobutene can be directly converted to polymers and jet fuel relevant C-12 molecules. In the study with Global Bioenergies, the focus is on the use of carbon monoxide gas for isobutene production. Jennifer Holmgren, LanzaTech CEO.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

Early this year, CRI acquired exclusive global sublicensing rights for the IH 2 technology from Illinois-based Gas Technology Institute (GTI) where the technology was developed. GTI says that renewable gasoline (RG) produced by the IH 2 process results in more than 90% lower greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum-based fuels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction. It is produced via a microbial process called denitrification, which converts nitrogen to nitrous oxide and an inert gas called dinitrogen.

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Green Car Congress

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. UOP’s process technology was also used to produce jet fuel used in previous test flights conducted in the US, Japan and New Zealand.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Beijing Shougang LanzaTech New Energy Science & Technology Co., Currently being sold to the road transport market in a low-carbon fuel blend, ethanol from this facility will now be converted into PET to be used for production of CarbonSmart consumer goods (T-shirts, bottles, packaging).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

The basis for this study was a stand-alone gasification/synthesis process including sub-processes or unit operations for integrated tar reforming, acid gas scrubbing, and synthesis to methanol followed by conversion to gasoline. The biomass is chemically converted to a mixture of syngas components (CO, H 2 , CO 2 , CH 4 , etc.),

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Gasoline Gasoline-Electric Gas-Electric Convert 225

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

The new report states that China is Asia’s main coal-producing force, not only being the largest coal-producing country in the Asia-Pacific region, but also the largest in the world. The region’s coal industry comprises China, India, Australia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Vietnam and New Zealand.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2009

Five new airlines have been accepted as members of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group ( SAFUG ), an airline-led industry working group focused on accelerating the development and commercialization of sustainable aviation fuels: Alaska Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, TUIfly and Virgin Blue.

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Drive Electric

JANUARY 18, 2023

Electric cars are more popular in New Zealand than ever! From the ocean to the skies, here are the other EVs you might spot around New Zealand in 2023. This innovative new ferry will be entirely constructed in New Zealand by Q-West. Electric planes are also in development in New Zealand.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2011

Under van Wijk’s concept, a plant would produce methanol from natural gas on the North Slope using the proposed GigaMethanol technology. If the entire daily output of North Slope gas (4.5 billion cubic feet, bcf) were converted to gasoline, it would produce 450,000 barrels per day, he suggested. billion, he said.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

According to the agreement, INVISTA and LanzaTech will collaborate on projects to develop one-step and two-step technologies to convert industrial waste gas carbon monoxide into butadiene. A direct single step process will also be developed to produce butadiene directly through a process of gas fermentation.

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Drive Electric

MAY 29, 2022

Drive Electric and the Sustainable Business Council have talked to some of the New Zealand businesses who have made successful transitions to low emission vehicles, to understand how they encouraged their people to embrace EVs. There are now thousands of public electric vehicle charging stations across New Zealand.

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

Renewable energy was the main source of energy before the discovery of oil, coal, and natural gas. Iceland, Norway, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, and Austria were the global leaders in hydroelectric as of 2019. The tectonic-plate-related power is generated most in Iceland, El Salvador, New Zealand, Kenya, and the Philippines.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

A team of researchers from the US, Denmark and New Zealand have discovered a process through which a prevalent biogenic nonmethane hydrocarbon compound emitted by trees—isoprene—forms atmospheric particulate matter (i.e., The latest finding can support the development of better models of global gas-aerosol chemistry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. —Al-Sabawi and Chen (2012).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

Honeywell UOP hydroprocessing technology has provided fuel for successful test flights by Air New Zealand, Continental, Japan Airlines, KLM, TAM Interjet, the US Navy, and the US Air Force (USAF A-10C, US Navy Green Hornet, USAF C17, USAF F15 III Strike Eagle and US Navy RCB-X). fractions as propane and naphtha. —SAFN report.

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