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JUNE 4, 2020

Further development and testing is needed to adapt DFI to engines for real-world use, but this approach combined with oxygenated fuel could translate into cleaner, more cost-effective MCCI engines that run on diesel with renewable content. Renewable Feedstocks to Produce Commercially Viable Diesel Blends.

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JULY 13, 2017

Analyzing the potential of various OME n as diesel fuels identifies OME 3–5 as the most promising mixture. The researchers reviewed liquid fuel alternatives that could be used in existing vehicles in the transportation sector. Their composition depends on the production process. —Schemme et al. Molecular structure.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Oberon units have the capacity to produce 10,000 gallons of DME per day to service regional fuel markets. Because DME can be produced from natural gas, its use could provider another value-added product from Alberta’s resources. The partners noted that the global DME market is expected to grow to $13.1 billion by 2020.

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JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. —David McCollum.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

(The comparison to the electric vehicle is based on estimates which factor in the CO 2 emissions resulting from fuel production, with the DME-powered vehicle figure calculated from the use of renewable energy to generate the DME fuel, and the electric vehicle figure calculated from electricity generated from renewable resources.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

It takes really long to form fossil fuels They are air pollutants – Combustion of fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases causes air pollution Global warming – as a result of greenhouse gas emission, atmospheric temperature increases ( how? ). Diesel engines can use biodiesel alone or blended with petroleum fuels. #2

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

At the current pace of research and development, replacing gasoline and diesel with renewable fuel alternatives could take some 131 years, according to a new University of California, Davis, study using a new sustainability forecasting approach based on market expectations. The forecast was published online 8 Nov. —Deb Niemeier.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

million announced by the FAA to help advance alternative, environmentally-friendly, sustainable sources for commercial jet fuel. 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.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Brazilian sugarcane ethanol is classified as an advanced biofuel by the US Environmental Protection Agency and by California Air Resources Board, even when ILUC effects are taken into account.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

Getting to the point where biomass could provide 100% of vehicle liquid fuels requires reducing the need for fuel through efficiency and demand management, including deployment of electricity or hydrogen fuel alternatives. 3%), and these costs can be made up for in fuel cost savings of more efficient advanced vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Lower cost operation due to replacing diesel with lower cost fuel alternatives. Reduced reliance on petroleum.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A full lifecycle analysis of Bio-SNG production undertaken by North Energy Associates found that for many types of feedstock, the lifecycle CO 2 e savings of Bio-SNG compared with fossil fuel alternatives are typically ~90%. Cost of carbon abated for transport applications. Click to enlarge. Cost of carbon abated.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

It also explores the role of uncertainty and dynamics in the market, potential issues and implications of market power, interactions of the LCFS with the state’s cap and trade program, and the incentives to innovate and invest in low CI fuel technologies provided by the Standard. —Lade and Lin. Lade, Gabriel E.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

CTL conversion may only be viable in countries with less stringent climate policies or where low-carbon fuel alternatives are not available. —Chen et al. Henry, J.M. Reilly and S. Paltsev (2011) The Prospects for Coal-To-Liquid Conversion: A General Equilibrium Analysis. Report 197, Joint Program Report Series).

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AUGUST 24, 2015

Recently, the Energy Resources Center made headlines by saying the EPA’s shift on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) would equal adding 1 million more passenger vehicles on the road. It’s also a political lightning rod given the stagnation of fuel consumption matched with accelerating ethanol blending. by Doug Williams.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2011

Accordingly, the DON [Department of the Navy] has adopted a goal of, by 2020, replacing one-half of conventional petroleum-based fuel use with domestically sustainable fuel alternatives. Only a handful of production facilities for renewable jet fuel and diesel will operate in the foreseeable future.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

While it is unlikely that policies will be crafted to include uncertainty analysis, these results highlight that FCI point estimates alone do not guarantee accurate accounting of possible GHG reductions from different fuels and will thus hamper effective choices of fuel alternatives. —Boies et al. —Boies et al.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

While fossil fuels will be used for as long as they can be easily and economically produced, it should also be clear that their amounts are finite and that they are increasingly depleted. Alain Goeppert, Miklos Czaun, Robert B. Surya Prakash, George A. Olah, and S.

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APRIL 23, 2009

The ability to economically and easily break cellulose into sugars is desirable because the sugars can be used to create fuel alternatives. Not only are the fibers incredibly strong, but they are incredibly resistant to the action of enzymes (cellulases) that can crack the fibers back into their simple-sugar components.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Examples of topics of interest are new reactor designs and technologies; advanced fuel cycles, including advanced nuclear fuels; alternate aqueous and dry processes, including volatility and ionic liquids; instrumentation and control/human factors; radiochemistry; and fundamental nuclear science. List of selected projects.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The analysis emphasizes the importance of regional alternative fuel strategies. Ethanol should be pursued in areas near feedstock production, while different transportation fuel alternatives, such as plug-in hybrids, should be explored in other areas remote from feedstock sources. Wakeley et al. Wakeley, Chris T.

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Transportation Gasoline 2009 Emissions 191

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

While vehicle efficiency will be the most important and most cost-efficient way to reduce transport-emissions, biofuels will still be needed to provide low-carbon fuel alternatives for planes, marine vessels and other heavy transport modes, and will eventually provide one fifth (2.1

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2011

Canada, Mexico and the United States should consider putting a price on carbon to give everyone a clear signal that they should be investing in efficiency and in low-carbon fuel alternatives. Investments to Improve the Efficiency of the Freight Transportation System.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Associate Professor Akshat Tanksale from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Monash University and co-corresponding author, says OME (oxymethylene ethers) are among a number of fuel alternatives that are attracting increasing attention for their net-zero carbon emitting properties. —Dr G Valavarasu from HPCL.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

However, America’s clean energy transition has been characterized by siloed thinking and inflexibility despite significant advances in low-carbon fuel alternatives. But, there is still more that can be done to incorporate low-carbon fuel alternatives into our national climate strategy. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

For their demonstration, Rogers and Seager used life cycle air emissions for five fuel alternatives: gasoline (GAS), low-sulfur diesel (LSD), 100% soy-biodiesel (BD100), electric vehicle (EV), and 85% corn-based ethanol (EtOH). Central weights box and whisker plots. Rogers and Seager (2009) Click to enlarge. Rogers and Seager (2009).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

For vehicle manufacturers to optimize engine designs to use the combustion advantages of higher-RON, higher-ethanol content fuels, these fuels would have to be readily available nationwide and competitively priced with other liquid fuel alternatives, particularly during a transition to a national high-RON E20 or E30 standard.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Controlled biosynthesis of odd-chain fuels and chemicals via engineered modular metabolic pathways. —Tseng and Prather. Implementing a heterologous pathway that uses nonnatural substrates (in this case, to produce pentanol rather than butanol) presents two challenges, they noted. —Tseng and Prather. Prather (2012).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Critical enablers requiring immediate development are: Flexible economic and engineering models capable of evaluating the wide variety of proposed approaches for alternative fuel facilities and supply chains. Current economic and engineering models were developed with assumptions that do not match those for alternative fuels.

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Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Before greenhouse gasses became a global concern, before we came to terms with the inevitable limits of fossil fuels, natural gas would have been a logical fuel alternative to petroleum. And today natural gas is a critical fuel for electricity generation. Natural gas, like petroleum, is not forever.

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