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JUNE 2, 2022

The Abfallentsorgungs-Gesellschaft Ruhrgebiet mbH ( AGR ), a waste management company in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has put a converted DAF CF 340 hydrogen fuel cell truck into operation as part of the EU-funded HECTOR (Hydrogen Waste Collection Vehicles in North West Europe) project.

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JUNE 8, 2012

a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, has begun initial production of cellulosic ethanol from waste materials at its demonstration facility in Westbury, Québec. This technology has been developed and tested during the past 11 years, at both the pilot laboratory facility in Sherbrooke, Québec, and the Westbury demonstration plant.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale. Development of high-temperature electrolysis, CO 2 capture, and hydrocarbon synthesis technologies have been completed in a Business Finland-funded Veturi E-fuel research project; the integrated technology is now ready for implementation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2014

The UK’s largest bank, HSBC, is joining Virgin Atlantic and LanzaTech in supporting the preparation for a world-first flight using a low-carbon, synthetic jet fuel kerosene produced from industrial waste gases. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 18, 2011

Ballard Power Systems has partnered with GS Platech, a subsidiary of GS Caltex, one of South Korea’s largest petroleum refiners, to demonstrate waste-to-energy power generation using zero-emission fuel cells and hydrogen produced from processing of municipal solid waste.

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MARCH 9, 2018

In partnership with its key technology providers InEnTec and LanzaTech, Aemetis successfully optimized the integration of an advanced arc furnace and gas fermentation technologies to convert waste biomass into low carbon, renewable cellulosic ethanol and fish meal.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The plant will be used for industrial validation of the newly acquired extraction and separation technology developed by Virdia that enables cellulosic biomass, such as wood or agricultural waste, to be converted into highly refined sugars. It will be used to produce high purity five-carbon sugars and in particular xylose.

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JUNE 26, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology ( earlier post ) is at the core of the new Horizon2020 Steelanol project (2015-2018), which seeks to produce bioethanol via an innovative gas fermentation process using exhaust gases emitted by the steel industry. In 2011, LanzaTech began working with Harsco on a solution for steel mill waste gases.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2017

The plant is India’s first integrated bio-refinery, built to showcase Praj’s proprietary process technology to produce ethanol from agricultural waste. Praj has invested close to US$30 million for the development of cellulosic ethanol technology over the last seven years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Virgin Atlantic announced the development of a low-carbon, synthetic jet fuel kerosene produced from industrial waste gases with half the carbon footprint of the standard fossil fuel alternative in partnership with LanzaTech and Swedish Biofuels. process recycles waste gases that would otherwise be burnt into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

In 2017, engineers from Achates presented a paper (2017-01-0638) at the SAE World Congress (WCX 17) describing the development of a 55% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) commercial heavy-duty opposed-piston engine without the use of a waste heat recovery system or turbocompounding. Zermeno, R.,

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Financing a first of its kind plant, based on an innovative technology is always a challenge. Global Bioenergies continues to improve the performance of its process, conducts trials on its demo plant in Germany and is preparing the first full-sized plant in its JV with Cristal Union. Global Bioenergies will soon be receiving €2.6

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program— Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource (EMBER) ( HR001121S0035 )—seeks to develop novel, bio-based technologies to overcome key challenges facing domestic supply of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) critical to the US and Department of Defense (DoD).

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Moller - Maersk, has invested in Vertoro , a Dutch start-up focused on developing liquid lignin technology which can be used as a marine fuel. Vertoro is a spin-off from a public-private partnership between Brightlands Chemelot Campus, DSM, Chemelot InSciTe, University of Maastricht (UM) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The use of electricity to generate hydrogen is considered potentially to be a key technology for the storage of surplus energy from renewable sources (e.g., This technology could be more efficient than the conventional approach, since electrolysis reactions require a much lower cell voltage at high temperatures. an e-gas system).

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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. Joseph Gallo Farms received a $1-million grant to demonstrate a waste heat recovery system using advanced absorption chiller technology, and ergSol Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). 3-BPD to 1-BPD, and increases the technology readiness level (TRL) from 4 to 5. Carbonaceous materials—e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

G2BioChem’s process design and patents, applied across the three phases of the planned demo plant. The group is committed to making transportation fuel from agricultural waste, energy crops and forest biomass. G2BioChem says it is ready to demonstrate and validate its technology on a pre-commercial, continuous scale.

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MARCH 27, 2011

LanzaTech; Baosteel Group Corporation,China’s largest steel and iron conglomerate; and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have begun the construction of a plant that will use LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology for the production of fuel ethanol from steel mill off-gases. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

The CISS program has just completed the first harvest of grain sorghum at the CSU Fresno International Center for Water Technology. The transition is expected to evolve from corn to grain sorghum and ultimately to biomass sorghum and agricultural wastes available in California. —Eric McAfee, Chairman and CEO of Aemetis.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This project is the culmination of advances not only in our core technology, but in building a commercial-ready system and engineering a scalable process that are now pilot-tested and prepared for deployment. gallon without subsidies.

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JULY 20, 2009

Red Lion’s patented Waste to Energy (W2E) technology involves feedstock pyrolysis, followed by non-catalytic steam reforming which produces syngas with energy content ranging from 300- 450 BTU/SCF. The technology can be manipulated to produce syngas with different H 2 to CO ratios.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

The demonstration unit will employ the RTP rapid thermal processing technology developed by Ensyn Corp. The pyrolysis oil—essentially a bio crude oil—will then be upgraded to green transport fuels using technology developed by UOP working with DOE, the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Lab and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

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MAY 9, 2017

The BBI-JU, a public-private partnership between the European Union and the Bio-Industries Consortium (BIC), is dedicated to realizing the European bio-economy potential, turning biological residues and wastes into greener everyday products through innovative technologies and bio-refineries, expected to become the heart of the bio-economy.

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

BME plans to scale from a 1 ton per day demo facility in Seattle, Washington, to a 33 ton per day (1,000 ton per month) pilot facility in Odessa, WA. gram ($20/kg) at its demo facility, according to Ogilvie. Currently, BME can produce ethyl-butyrate for about $0.02/gram

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MAY 18, 2021

Startup ClearFlame Engine Technologies announced a partnership with Alto Ingredients, a leading producer of specialty alcohols and essential ingredients, to conduct pilot demonstrations of ClearFlame’s solution for diesel engines using low-cost ethanol in Class 8 trucks.

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AUGUST 12, 2017

Applicants must site a demo facility in California that will produce a minimum of 50,000 gallons of bio-oil intermediate fuel over the term of the project. Meet biorefinery specifications in order to produce fungible low-carbon, drop-in biofuels compatible with pipeline and fuel dispensing infrastructure and vehicle technologies.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 3, 2022

Meanwhile, QD (quantum dot) technologies have done a lot to improve the color purity and brightness of the more wallet-friendly LCD TVs. In 2022, these two rival technologies will merge. Unfortunately, as with any new display technology, there are challenges associated with development and commercialization.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology enables low cost production of sustainable alcohols and chemicals from waste gas resources that are completely outside the food value chain. A demo flight with the new fuel is planned in 12-18 months, with commercialization targeted for 2014. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

Global Bioenergies is developing and scaling up a synthetic biology process to produce isobutene from sugar, cereals, and agricultural or forestry waste instead. We have now successfully aligned our isobutene process with a technology leading to a liquid hydrocarbon mix resembling to light oil.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Petronas, which invested in LanzaTech’s C round ( earlier post ), is now committed via the new agreement to help work through the technology with LanzaTech. Should the lab and pilot work prove successful and scalable, they will place a demo plant in Malaysia, Burton said. This is now being developed further, says Burton.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Is it bloated, full of boilerplate and waste—the stuff you do solely because that was the way you always did it? Product development should be about combining state-of-the-art—though proven—technology in new ways. Don’t try to innovate by incorporating technology that hasn’t proven itself yet. Does it still make sense?

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

The project, coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), will start in early 2012. The BioBoost project concentrates on dry and wet residual biomass and wastes as feedstock for de-centralized conversion by fast pyrolysis, catalytic pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization to the intermediate energy carriers oil, coal or slurry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The proprietary technology allows the conversion of sugars into jet fuel, including sugars derived from waste wood and straw. Thanks to the leadership of Global Bioenergies, we will witness the production of renewable jet fuel for the first time in Germany.

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JULY 10, 2010

Unitel Technologies, Inc., a process engineering and design firm ( earlier post ), has filed a patent application for a new technology for making biofuels from microalgae that focuses on the production of fatty acids rather than the extraction of algal oil. Unitel has built up a diversified portfolio technology programs.

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