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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Global Bioenergies has reached two milestones—the labscale performance and the industrial process scale-up—of its process to produce renewable isobutene, one of them more than 2 months in advance. The BioMA+ project is financed by the ADEME in the context of the French “Investissements d’Avenir” State program. million (US$5.5

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $500,000 grant to researchers at NC State University aimed at finding an energy efficient and environmentally friendly method for breaking down lignin into feedstock for the petrochemical industry. Approximately 1.3 It will be a win-win-win situation if we are successful.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

The expansion is partially supported by a 50/50 C$15 million matching grant from Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) as part of its Shovel-Ready Challenge announced late last year. With the ERA grant, CP is building upon its early program research to convert an additional line-haul locomotive and a yard switcher locomotive.

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DECEMBER 11, 2015

Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities have developed a catalytic process to convert corn stover lignin into hydrocarbons (C 7 –C 18 )—primarily C 12 –C 18 cyclic structure hydrocarbons in the jet fuel range. The work is featured on. the cover of the December issue of the RSC journal Green Chemistry.

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MAY 21, 2015

Global Bioenergies, a developer of one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefins, and Cristal Union, the 4 th largest European beet producer, have formed IBN-One, a joint venture to build and operate the first plant in France converting renewable resources into isobutene.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. One of the challenges with this technology is that the current conversion efficiency of converting CO 2 and water into renewable solar fuels remains low, less than a few percent.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

million) grant, should include a three-year study at the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes (CBP). million grant from the BMBF within the “BioEconomy Cluster” framework. Global Bioenergies will construct its second industrial pilot on the site of the Leuna refinery, close to Leipzig in Germany. million (US$7.7-million)

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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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APRIL 28, 2022

Oberon Fuels announced commercial availability of a blend of propane and Oberon’s renewable DME (dimethyl ether). The plant was upgraded in 2020 with a grant from the California Energy Commission. In June, 2021, Oberon produced the first renewable DME (rDME) in the United States. Oberon partner Suburban Propane Partners, L.P.,

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. This research was funded by a grant from the European Research Council. coli bacteria. Pauli Kallio, András Pásztor, Kati Thiel, M.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Global Bioenergies has developed a conversion process based on fermentation for renewable resources (residual sugars, agricultural and forestry waste) into isobutene, one of the petrochemical building blocks that can be converted into ingredients for cosmetics, gasoline, kerosene, LPG and plastics.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

g/bhp-hr NO x California Air Resources Board (CARB) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified engine for commercial vehicle applications. Many of these vehicles will be able to take advantage of various grant funding opportunities. Landi Renzo USA is the US subsidiary of Landi Renzo Group.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Although the need to build a global clean energy supply network has been noted worldwide, there are constraints when it comes to transporting renewable energy in the form of electricity across long distances. Hydrogen gas, however, cannot be transported in large amounts due to the limitations in the amount that can be stored per unit volume.

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MARCH 10, 2016

The California Energy Commission awarded the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) a $1-million grant to demonstrate a production-intent advanced version of the Cummins Westport Inc. diesel engines and wanting to convert their fleet to natural gas. CWI) ISB6.7 G natural gas engine. g/bhp-hr emissions level.

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APRIL 29, 2014

Global Bioenergies announced that the USPTO has granted a key patent relative to its butadiene process. The company today validated and protected an unprecedented collection of metabolic processes to convert renewable resources into light olefins.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

Australia-based Licella , a wholly owned subsidiary of Ignite Energy , has signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with Virgin Australia and Air New Zealand to examine the development and commercialization of a process to convert woody biomass into sustainable aviation biofuel. Licella has been supported with an A$2.3 Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In the report, “ Getting to Neutral: Options for Negative Carbon Emissions in California ,” funded by the Livermore Lab Foundation (LLF) with grant support from the ClimateWorks Foundation, LLNL focused on three specific pillars of negative emissions: natural and working lands; carbon capture from biomass conversion to fuels; and direct air capture.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. Earlier post.). That could replace 5.5% million tons each year.

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JULY 29, 2010

Gevo, a privately held renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company ( earlier post) , has successfully produced isobutanol from fermentable sugars derived from cellulosic biomass. The company also successfully converted the cellulosic isobutanol into isobutylene and paraffinic kerosene (jet fuel). Gevo’s production process.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

The result is renewable methanol, which can be converted into climate-friendly fuel using an MTG (Methanol To Gasoline) technology to be licensed and supported by ExxonMobil. Part of the e-Methanol will be converted to e-Gasoline (130,000 liters per year).

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Funded by a grant from Danish EUDP (Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program), the partners will pursue a high-efficiency solution with the scalability to support marine industry decarbonization. The research will therefore have ammonia-based SOFCs as its starting point.

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JUNE 11, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, the developer of a one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefins, has obtained new €1.4-million Fifteen million tons of isobutene are derived from oil each year and converted into fuels, plastics and elastomers.

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MAY 6, 2011

The projects are funded through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative and will help increase the availability of alternative renewable fuels and biobased products to diversify the nation’s energy resources. Each award was made through a competitive selection process. Exelus, Inc. Livingston, NJ, $5,185,004.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Scientists from a team spanning Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a scalable, integrated bioelectrochemical system that uses bacteria to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 22, 2018

ISOPROD project will replace isobutene of fossil origin with isobutene of renewable origin with a better environmental and energy balance. This payment from ADEME adds to the grant prepayment of the four new European projects recently announced. The objective is to avoid 2 kg of CO 2 per kg of bio-isobutene.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the development of a commercial scale biorefinery facility for the production of renewable jet or diesel fuel. The renewable energy facility will be co-located with Hughes Hardwood’s wood component products manufacturing facility in Collinwood, Tennessee. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 17, 2019

As the level of catalytic activity can be tuned by the solvent conditions, their findings could open up many new directions for converting CO 2 to industrially useful organic compounds. Silyl formate can be easily converted to formic acid, which can serve as an important hydrogen carrier, for example, in fuel cells.

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MAY 24, 2016

The Sunlight Fuels agreement is the first IH 2 FEL-2 license granted in India for a commercial-scale plant. The plant will be designed with the potential to convert 500 tonnes/day of dry bagasse into approximately 150 tonnes/day of liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuel. CRI has been granted exclusive worldwide licensing rights.

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MAY 15, 2018

The aim is to convert currently poorly valorized softwood residues into second-generation renewable isobutene for subsequent conversion into gasoline and jetfuel. Non-refundable grants totalling €13.9 Global Bioenergies will combine its isobutene process with technologies developed by Sekab and Neste Engineering Solutions.

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AUGUST 28, 2010

The US National Science Foundation has awarded a one-year, $200,000 RAPID Response grant to synthetic biology company Modular Genetics , Inc. Modular has shown that a particular bacterium converts soybean hulls into a surfactant that can potentially be used to replace the toxic chemical dispersants that were used previous in the Gulf.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will award some $25 million to four projects to research and development of next-generation renewable energy and high-value biobased products—such as biofuels—from a variety of biomass sources. The Department of Energy will make additional awards through this program. Ceramatec, Inc.,

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

Researchers at West Virginia University will lead a team that will investigate ways to convert stranded gas resources into value-added liquid products that could reduce the United States’ demand for crude oil by up to 20%. —John Hu, Statler Chair in Engineering for Natural Gas Utilization at WVU.

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APRIL 23, 2016

million Low-No grant from the US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to purchase five New Flyer battery-electric buses. DC power is converted to AC power and is supplied to each of these major systems separately. The bus also as a converter to supply 24-volt DC power for power steering, interior fans, lights, and other accessories.

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For example, states in the western US (WUS) generally produce a larger fraction of their electricity from renewable and/or “emission-free” sources (i.e., However, if we transition more of the Midwest’s power generation to renewables, particulate matter pollution is substantially reduced. coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass).

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MARCH 8, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that AZAA Investments, Inc., included engine programmers, air intake systems and catalytic converters that were not approved by CARB for use on highway vehicles. formerly known as AutoAnything, Inc., Although the former AutoAnything, Inc.

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year commercialization grant to apply Velocys’ microchannel reactor technology to hydroprocessing for transportation fuels. The grant is part of the Ohio Department of Development’s Third Frontier Project, a $1.6-billion, A collaboration led by Velocys , Inc., Earlier post.). billion, 10-year initiative.

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