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SwRI launches new automotive consortium focusing on fuels and lubricants

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is launching the Advanced Engine Fluids (AEF) consortium to better understand fuel and lubricant chemistry and its effects on engine combustion. The AEF consortium will research the impact of fuels and lubricants on engine combustion and the requirements needed for optimizing future engine technologies.

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Ensyn granted EPA Part 79 approval for renewable gasoline

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Ensyn ( earlier post ) has been granted a key regulatory approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its renewable gasoline product, RFGasoline. An FCC system circulates catalyst in a closed loop between two key vessels in order to convert vacuum gas oil to gasoline. Earlier post.).

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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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UPS announced an agreement with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. RNG is a key part of UPS’ strategy to increase alternative fuel consumption to be 40% of total ground fuel purchases by 2025, supporting the logistics leader’s efforts to reduce the absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its ground fleet 12% by 2025. Atlanta, Ga.;

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DOE awards $20M to 10 hydrogen production and delivery technologies projects

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Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio, Texas will receive $1.8 Nuvera Fuel Cells Inc. million to design and demonstrate an integrated, intelligent high pressure hydrogen dispenser for fuel cell electric vehicle fueling. million to demonstrate a hydrogen compression system.

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SwRI to launch 7th clean diesel engine consortium

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The kick-off meeting for the four-year, multi-client cooperative research program, which is open to potential new members, will be 5 November at SwRI headquarters in San Antonio. Consortium members will select research topics related to low-emission, high-efficiency diesel engine technology.

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Juniper GTL to invest $100M to retrofit plant to new small-scale GTL facility in Louisiana

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billion GTL facility at the Port of Lake Charles that will yield chiefly gasoline. The Juniper GTL project, with a design production of 1,100 barrels per day of clean chemicals and transportation fuels, will be a forerunner of smaller commercial GTL plants. In January, G2X Energy announced a $1.3-billion Earlier post.).

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Ensyn receives EPA regulatory approval for its cellulosic renewable diesel RFDiesel

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RFDiesel, a drop-in diesel transportation fuel, is created by processing Ensyn’s renewable crude (RFO), a liquid cellulosic feedstock, with customary petroleum feedstocks in conventional petroleum refineries (RFO Coprocessing). Product vapors are rapidly quenched, or cooled, and recovered as a light liquid product.

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