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DECEMBER 19, 2014

and Methanol Holdings Trinidad Limited (MHTL) announced that MHTL intends to partner with G2X Energy to construct the world-scale methanol-to-gasoline (MTG)-ready, methanol production facility being developed by G2X Energy in Lake Charles, Louisiana. G2X Energy, Inc. Earlier post.). The Big Lake Fuels LLC facility will produce 1.4

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Shale oil production generates greenhouse gas emissions at levels similar to conventional crude oil production, according to a pair of new studies released by the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. These are shale formations with low permeability and must be hydraulically fractured to produce oil and gas.

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MARCH 4, 2021

Rodney Davis (IL-13) led introduction of the Renewable Fuels Infrastructure Investment and Market Expansion Act, which would expand access to higher blends of biofuels. Cindy Axne (IA-03) and Rep. Additionally, Reps.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

bcf/yr (≈ 750 million gasoline gallons). RNG is produced from organic materials or waste streams; the lifecycle emissions for RNG have the potential to be lower than the emissions of fossil natural gas. —“Final Draft Report on The Feasibility of Renewable Natural Gas as a Large-Scale, Low Carbon Substitute”.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

And a new study just released by the University of California--Davis suggests that we are "tantalizingly close to the beginning of a hydrogen.'

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

whereby Vitol would purchase 100% of the gasoline produced from MBFP’s industrial gasification and liquefaction facility located near. The cleaned syngas is conditioned, modified and converted to methanol, which is then converted to gasoline via the licensed ExxonMobil Research and Engineering methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) process.

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JUNE 26, 2015

In a new, comprehensive study, a team from Argonne National Laboratory, Stanford University and UC Davis ITS has estimated the well-to-wheels (WTW) GHG emissions of US production of gasoline and diesel sourced from Canadian oil sands. This finding agrees with previous work. —Cai et al. Hao Cai, Adam R.

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MARCH 28, 2011

The average emissions for an electric vehicle in the UK are 75 gCO 2 /km, when CO 2 emissions at the power station are taken into account, according to an analysis by Gary Davis, Operations Director and chief greenhouse gas (GHG) analyst at Edinburgh-based carbon accounting firm Ecometrica. see figure below). Click to enlarge.

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One program, Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy (REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion. 1,000,000.

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MAY 1, 2013

billion gallons of gasoline and 45 million gasoline gallon equivalents of diesel. The average fuel mix was about 11.5% (by volume) ethanol in the gasoline mix (some fuels are sold as E85, 85% ethanol blended in gasoline) and 0.5% billion gallons of gasoline and 45 million gasoline gallon equivalents of diesel.

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AUGUST 30, 2015

The most extreme case, Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis found through their examination of tax return data from the IRS, is the program aimed at electric vehicles—the top income quintile received about 90% of all these credits. Source: Borenstein and Davis. —Borenstein and Davis (2015). —Borenstein and Davis.

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DECEMBER 29, 2009

The study also concluded that despite the relatively high fuel carbon intensity of marginal electricity in California, alternative vehicle and fuel platforms still reduce emissions compared to conventional gasoline vehicles and hybrids, through improved vehicle efficiency. MJ -1 ) by vehicle pathway and timing profile. Source: McCarthy et al.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Published in The RAND Journal of Economics and funded by the California Air Resources Board, Archsmith collaborated with Kenneth Gillingham of Yale University, Christopher Knittel of MIT, and David Rapson of the UC Davis Department of Economics to examine vehicle purchasing behaviors using California-based data. —David Rapson.

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JUNE 14, 2012

This will divert 100 tons per day of food waste from landfills and use that to produce enough renewable natural gas to replace 566,000 gallons of diesel fuel and generate 3.17 The anaerobic digester system that will be used was developed as a pilot project at the University of California, Davis. tmdgroup, Inc. Aemetis, Inc.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

These blendstocks are best-suited for light-duty (LD) gasoline BSI engines. The blendstocks all have the potential to reduce life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions by at least 60 percent. George, Anthe, Monroe, Eric, Davis, Ryan W., The blendstocks were identified using a fuel property basis using the BSI merit function.

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JUNE 30, 2014

(EDI), a producer of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and continuously variable transmission (CVT) solutions ( earlier post ), is partnering with Greenkraft , CALSTART, and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop a Class-4 vehicle that combines the benefits of compressed natural gas (CNG) and PHEV technology. GM engine.

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transportation system contributes nearly 30 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, making electric vehicles critical to lowering America’s carbon footprint. At the UN climate conference in November 2021, six major automakers, including Ford and General Motors, pledged to stop selling new gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040.

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Contribution of gasoline and diesel exhaust to SOA over 0% to 50% diesel fuel use. The new findings contradict previous research focused on the LA Basin which concluded that gasoline vehicles contributed more to the production of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) than exhaust from diesel vehicles. Gentner et al. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

The federal government’s Cash for Clunkers aims to stimulate the economy, provide relief for automobile manufacturers and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A gallon of gasoline creates roughly 20 pounds of carbon dioxide when combusted. However, the. Christopher Knittel.

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and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Honda next year will offer Californians futuristic sedans that can travel 300 miles (480 km) or more on a tank of hydrogen gas while emitting nothing more toxic than pure water vapor. Myth #2: Hydrogen gas is dangerous to store and use. In fact, hydrogen has a rapid diffusivity (3.8

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MARCH 21, 2013

In addition, CEC awarded $1,815,274 to fund 20 energy research projects in the areas of transportation, electricity, and natural gas. Its benefits include the reduction of an estimated 32,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually—roughly equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions produced by 5,850 gasoline vehicles in a year.

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On the other hand, hybrids that don’t plug in draw their battery power from the engine and when the battery is drained, the car simply switches to gas power. They also often use a system called regenerative braking to stop, which decelerates the car as soon as you remove your foot from the gas pedal. How Does an Electric Vehicle Work?

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OCTOBER 22, 2016

A new analysis from Argonne National Laboratory, funded by the US Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), shows the potential of an algae fractionation process to produce renewable diesel fuel with 63%–68% lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than conventional diesel. The study is published in the journal Algal Research.

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MAY 15, 2021

The LT team will develop a gas fermentation process that leverages affordable, renewable hydrogen to capture and fix CO 2 directly into valuable fuels and chemicals. University of California, Davis. To reach near 100% carbon conversion efficiency, the University of California, Davis, will engineer a novel microbial consortium approach.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted six new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathway applications to the LCFS public comment web site: corn ethanol; molasses ethanol (from Brazil); palm fatty acid distillates (PFAD) to biodiesel; and landfill gas to LNG, L-CNG, and CNG. Earlier post.) gCO 2 e/MJ and 98.03

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AUGUST 6, 2014

The project led by Tang-Wei Kuo from General Motors is focused on optimizing multi-hole injectors for spark-ignited direct-injection (SIDI) gasoline engines. Recently, the most popular SIDI gasoline injectors have been multi-hole type. Davis (UC Davis), R.Sankaran (ORNL).

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Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Set a target of reducing the carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel by 10 to 15 percent by 2030. Create separate fuel pools for gasoline and diesel.

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MARCH 20, 2013

Others are sugarcane molasses ethanol from Guatemala; mixed feedstock to biodiesel from Texas; and a new ARB-staff-developed pathway for North American landfill gas. The CI of a fuel is determined by the sum of all greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, transportation, processing and consumption of a fuel (its pathway).

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Their definition for alternative powertrains/fuels eliminates pure gasoline and diesel powertrains/fuels, but does include hybridization of those fuels. Davis, personal communication, February 20, 2010). hybrid engines that use gasoline or diesel fuel). The governments, the energy companies, and the. evolutionary thinking.

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A study by Jonn Axsen and Ken Kurani from the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, estimates electricity and gasoline use under three recharging scenarios. In this scenario, gasoline use is estimated and aggregated based on the respondents’ anticipated next conventional vehicles and recorded diary days. Plug and play.

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JULY 17, 2015

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. Since it can refuel from a standard household outlet and from a gasoline station, it needs no new infrastructure.

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JANUARY 14, 2010

Louis, MO), NAABB will develop a systems approach for sustainable commercialization of algal biofuel (such as renewable gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel) and bioproducts. University of California, Davis; UOP LLC; Virent Energy Systems; and Washington State University. Ethanol Blend Fueling.

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MAY 26, 2010

Swapping gas guzzlers for electric vehicles will not solve our carbon emissions problem on its own. When most electricity in Britain is still generated by burning gas and coal, the difference between an electric car and a small, low-emission petrol or diesel car is negligible. Davy Thielena, KEMA Consulting. Professor Kemp.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

Diesel engines are attractive because of their higher fuel efficiency than gasoline engines. To evaluate catalytic performance, they exposed the aged sample Mn 7 CeSmSrO 14.83 (labeled MnCe-7:1), to a reactant gas mixture (450 ppm NO and 10% O 2 ) while ramping the temperature up to 350 °C to test for NO conversion. Graham, Burtron H.

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MARCH 2, 2016

In the study, published in the journal Nature Energy , Noel Melton, Jonn Axsen and Daniel Sperling conduct a media analysis to show how society’s attention has skipped among alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) technology between 1980 and 2013, including methanol, natural gas, plug-in electric, hybrid electric, hydrogen and biofuels.

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