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T&E study finds EU has replaced Russian oil barrel-for-barrel as continent fails to cut demand

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JULY 31, 2023

Since the EU imposed sanctions on Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, there has been a redrawing of the global oil map, a new study by Transport & Environment (T&E) shows. Instead of cutting demand, Europe has simply replaced imports from Russia with oil from other producing countries. C carbon budget.

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Oil Russia Saudi Arabia Ukraine

Neste studying transitioning Porvoo refinery to a renewable & circular site; ending crude oil refining in mid-2030s

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Building on its capability of proactive transformation, Neste has initiated a strategic study on transitioning its refinery in Porvoo, Finland to non-crude oil refining and into a globally leading renewable and circular solutions site. Neste will also continue to actively study opportunities of green hydrogen at its Porvoo refinery.

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Oil Renewable Finland Mariner

Study finds global oil demand likely to grow despite pandemic, climate policies

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JULY 13, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected both consumer and commercial transportation, but global oil demand will probably continue to grow through 2030, according to a new study. In three of the four scenarios, global oil demand continued to grow through 2030. Lines represent global oil demand by study scenario.

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Oil Climate Global Stimulus Package

T&E study: Europe’s growing use of animal fats in fuels is becoming increasingly unsustainable; 8,800 dead pigs for Paris-NY flight

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JUNE 1, 2023

Europe’s growing use of animal fats to power its cars and planes is becoming increasingly unsustainable, according to a new study by Cerulogy funded by European NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). The green group calls for greater transparency so that consumers know what is going into their tanks and fueling their flights.

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Fuel Oil Waste Transportation

Truck Manufacturers A More Carbon Intensive Investment Than Oil, Steel Or Cars — Study

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MAY 5, 2024

continued] The post Truck Manufacturers A More Carbon Intensive Investment Than Oil, Steel Or Cars — Study appeared first on CleanTechnica. The only sector T&E could find with an average carbon intensity higher than truckmakers is coal mining European truckmakers’ emissions are 50% higher than what.

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Oil Carbon Manufacturer Coal

Study finds carbon emissions benefits of reduction in oil demand depend on size of drop and global oil market structure

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

New research led by Mohammad Masnadi, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, offers a closer look at the relationship between decreasing demand for oil and a resilient, varied oil market—and the carbon footprint associated with both.

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Oil Carbon Global Market

Researchers find carbon-nanotube-based fluids improve enhanced oil recovery methods

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Researchers in India are using multi-wall carbon nanotube-optimized surfactant-polymer flooding for enhanced oil recovery. In an open-access paper in the journal Fuel , they report that their experimental application of carbon nanotube-based fluids yielded an oil recovery factor of approximately 70% of the original oil in place.

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Oil Carbon Polymer India

HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuel combustion, a major source of air pollution, contributed to more than one million deaths globally in 2017, more than 27% of all deaths from outdoor fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), according to a new report published by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). While fossil fuel combustion made up most of the PM 2.5

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Global St. Louis Fuel Pollution

ORNL computational study finds 15% bio-oil mixture in two-stroke marine engines can cut NOx 13% with efficiency parity

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APRIL 15, 2022

A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a new computational model of a two-stroke scaled marine engine, with reduced chemical mechanisms for diesel, biodiesel, bio-oil, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). For the study, the surrogate is based on the bio-oil produced by Dynamotive Energy Systems.

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Mariner Oil Engine Emissions

Lifecycle study finds pennycress could make a greener bio-jet fuel

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AUGUST 3, 2021

A common farm weed could make a jet fuel with fewer production-related environmental impacts than other biofuels, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at The Ohio State University. The study was published recently in the journal Applied Energy. Energy allocation method was used for the analysis.

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Fuel Renewable Oil Ohio

Study suggests microbe produces methane from crude oil all by itself

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Crude oil and gas naturally escape from the seabed in many places known as seeps. This microbe, an archaeon named Methanoliparia , transforms the hydrocarbons by a process called alkane disproportionation: it splits the oil into methane (CH 4) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Their open-access results are published in the journal mBio.

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Oil Mariner Mexico Gas

Study estimates fuel economy improvements to US light-duty vehicles from 1975–2018 saved 2T gallons of fuel, 17B tons of CO2

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MAY 3, 2020

A team from the University of Tennessee and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has the fuel savings due to fuel economy improvements over the past 43 years amount to approximately two trillion gallons of gasoline. Estimated attribution of fuel savings due to fuel economy improvements to light-duty vehicles since 1975.

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SAF company DG Fuels closes investments with two Japanese companies

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JULY 29, 2023

DG Fuels, LLC (DGF), a developer of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facilities ( earlier post ), announced the successful closing of investment transactions with two Japanese companies. The basis of DGF’s integrated fuel and energy technology is the proven Fischer-Tropsch process, in use for more than 60 years.

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TotalEnergies and ENEOS to study sustainable aviation fuel production at ENEOS Negishi Refinery

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APRIL 16, 2022

TotalEnergies and ENEOS Corporation jointly conduct a feasibility study to assess the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in ENEOS Negishi Refinery in Yokohama, Japan. The companies have already started to conduct the study for feedstock procurement and production of SAF related to this project.

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Fuel Production Japan Waste

Renewable hydrogen fuel being studied for the Port of Seattle

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two studies—led by a team from Seattle City Light, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Sandia National Laboratories—are exploring the potential of shifting from fossil fuel to clean hydrogen as fuel to power medium-and heavy-duty vehicles. million DOE award, $150,000 City Light = $1.5 million total).

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Seattle Hydrogen Renewable Fuel

Japanese, Russian companies partner on feasibility study of blue ammonia value chain between eastern Siberia & Japan

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JANUARY 1, 2021

Irkutsk Oil Company (IOC), Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), and Itochu Corporation are partnering on a joint feasibility study of a blue ammonia value chain between eastern Siberia and Japan. Ammonia is expected as fuel for power plants which require huge amount of energy.

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Argonne study finds BEVs can have lowest scheduled maintenance costs, but highest cost of driving

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JUNE 15, 2021

The study considers five different powertrains (internal combustion engine, hybrid-electric, plug-in hybrid-electric, fuel-cell-electric, and battery-electric) and 12 cost components (purchase cost, depreciation, financing, fuel, insurance, maintenance, repair, taxes, registration fees, tolls and parking, payload capacity and labor).

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Maintenance Cost Of Chad Plug-in

China researchers hydrotreat waste engine oil and scrap tire oil blend to produce diesel- and jet-range fuel

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APRIL 27, 2019

Researchers at Henan Polytechnic University in China have hydrotreated the oil derived from hydrothermal liquefaction of scrap tires (STO) with waste engine oil (WEO) using five different activated carbon-supported noble metal catalysts—Pd/C, Pt/C, Ru/C, Ir/C, and Rh/C—for the production of liquid fuels.

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Oil Waste Diesel Engine

KIST team develops technology for mass-production of lignin-bio-aviation fuels

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JULY 20, 2020

A Korean research team has developed a technology that can be used to mass-produce aviation-grade fuels from wood wastes. The pyrolysis of lignin produces an oil which has little industrial utility due to its high viscosity. Suggested continuous-flow HDO of lignin pyrolysis oil dissolved in its HCK oil. —Kim et al.

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Fuel Production Oil Waste

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

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JANUARY 27, 2021

A new study by a team from Environmental Health & Engineering (EH&E) has found that greenhouse gas emissions from corn ethanol are 46% lower than those from gasoline—a decrease in emissions from the estimated 39% done by previous modeling. EH&E) and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard’s T.H. —David MacIntosh.

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Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Gas-Electric

Baker Institute team says fossil fuel subsidies need global reform

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Fossil fuels still receive most of the international government support provided to the energy sector despite their “well-known environmental and public health damage,” according to new research from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. —“Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Since The Pittsburgh G20: A Lost Decade?”.

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Saudi Arabia Global Fuel Oil

ICCT study examines current & projected use of heavy fuel oil in Arctic shipping; growth in BC emissions points to need for policies

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MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. Click to enlarge.

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Oil Panama Emissions Fuel

Itochu and partners launch feasibility study of blue ammonia value chain between Eastern Siberia and Japan

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Itochu Corporation and Irkutsk Oil Company (IOC); Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC); and Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO) have agreed to undertake a detailed study for the commercialization of a blue ammonia value chain between Eastern Siberia and Japan.

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Japan Oil Corporation Carbon

New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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APRIL 27, 2012

Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Earlier post.).

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Climate

UGA study: carinata-based SAF can deliver about 65% relative carbon savings compared to conventional jet fuel

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OCTOBER 17, 2021

A team at yhe Universiy of Georgia has estimated the break-even price and life cycle carbon emissions of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) derived from oil obtained from Brassica carinata—a non-edible oilseed crop—in the Southeastern United States. The open-access study is published in GCB Bioenergy. 1 to $1.28

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Carbon Fuel United States Georgia

California EV adoption driving steady decline in emissions: study

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APRIL 7, 2024

A new study from the University of California (UC) Berkeley shows a steady, albeit modest, decline in carbon emissions with increased electric vehicle (EV) adoption over the last few years. This study, he adds, was the first to look at a larger area and make a connection between a decline in carbon emissions and EV adoption.

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California Emissions San Francisco New Jersey

T&E study claims EU’s biofuels policy has wiped out forests the size of the Netherlands

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JULY 6, 2021

Europe’s demand for biodiesel for cars and trucks has likely wiped out forests the size of the Netherlands since the introduction of the EU’s green fuels law in 2010, according to a new study by Transport & Environment (T&E). Palm oil reached its highest level, capping a decade of growth that has seen palm oil consumption treble.

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Netherlands Oil South America 2010

Woodside, 6 Japanese partners to conduct feasibility study on lower-emissions ammonia supply chain from Australia to Japan

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Woodside Energy; Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC); Marubeni Corporation; Hokuriku Electric Power Company; The Kansai Electric Power Co.; Ammonia does not emit carbon dioxide during combustion and is considered a promising next-generation lower-emission fuel for energy-intensive thermal power plants and marine engines.

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Australia Japan Supplies Emissions

TUAT team develops more efficient method to recover heavy oil using novel chemical flooding

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

By making use of a previously undesired side effect in oil recovery, researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) have developed a method that yields up to 20% more heavy oil than traditional methods. A paper on the work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. —Yuichiro Nagatsu.

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Oil Water Sodium Polymer

Study finds total greenhouse gas footprint of blue hydrogen “quite high” due to fugitive methane

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AUGUST 13, 2021

However, a new lifecycle study by a team from Stanford University and Cornell University has concluded that total greenhouse gas emissions from the production of blue hydrogen are quite high, particularly due to the release of fugitive methane. Carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of fugitive, unburned methane are shown in red.

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Hydrogen Gas Coal Exhaust

Hyundai Motor Group, Aramco and KAUST collaborate on new e-fuel for novel combustion system

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MARCH 30, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group will collaborate with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) jointly to research and develop an advanced fuel for an ultra lean-burn, spark-ignition engine that aims to lower the overall carbon dioxide emissions of a vehicle.

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Hyundai Motor Motors Motoring

Study shows renewable diesel from crude tall oil is a high quality drop-in fuel for off-road engines

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AUGUST 20, 2016

A team from the University of Vaasa (Finland) and UPM-Kymmene Corporation has examined how the blends of fossil and renewable diesel produced from crude tall oil (CTO) affect the performance and exhaust emissions of the modern common-rail off-road diesel engine. UPM BioVerno renewable diesel is produced from wood-based tall oil.

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Renewable Diesel Oil Engine

RSB & Bioledger release biofuels blockchain case study

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MARCH 16, 2021

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) and software company Bioledger released a case study on the potential of a blockchain database to support traceability of biofuel and its feedstocks and overcome the vulnerabilities identified in securing the supply of sustainable renewables.

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Singapore Waste USA Oil

BNL team uses nc-AFM to find sulfur and nitrogen atoms in crude oil molecules

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NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory and users from ExxonMobil have developed a new approach to identifying atoms that are neither carbon nor hydrogen within a specific type of molecule in crude oil. Crude oil is one of the most complex molecule mixtures on the planet.

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Oil Pollution Hydrogen Carbon

U Calgary study finds oil shale most energy intensive upgraded fuel followed by in-situ-produced bitumen from oil sands

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JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. This is not the same as crude oil occurring naturally in shales, as in the Bakken.

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Oil-Sands Oil Energy Fuel

Port of Los Angeles rolls out $82.5M hydrogen fuel cell electric freight demonstration; Toyota fuel cell technology

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JUNE 14, 2021

The Port of Los Angeles and its partners rolled out five new hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) and introduced two hydrogen fueling stations. The Port’s technology development partners are Toyota Motor North America, which designed and built the powertrain’s fuel cell electric power supply system; Kenworth Truck Co.,

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Los Angeles Hydrogen Toyota Fuel

France’s high court rules in favor of ending tax benefits for palm oil diesel

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

France’s Constitutional Council, the highest constitutional authority in the country, ruled in favor of excluding palm oil from the list of biofuels that enjoy tax incentives. Oil company Total has estimated it is worth between €70 million and €80 million per year. The EU is the second largest importer of crude palm oil in the world.

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Oil Tax Diesel Green

Actual fuel economy of cars and light trucks: 1966-2019

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JANUARY 7, 2021

vehicle fuel economy. Specifically, this study examines actual fuel economy of cars and light trucks (pickup trucks, SUVs, and vans) from 1966 through 2019. (My Calculated vehicle fuel economy is available going back to 1923. The graph below shows the changes in actual vehicle fuel economy from 1966 through 2019.

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Fuel Economy 2019 Economy Light

Greyrock, NREL study determines reduction in GHG and criteria pollutant emissions from using synthetic fuels produced from flare gas

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JULY 11, 2018

A “well-to-wheel” life cycle assessment (LCA) by a team from synthetic fuels producer Greyrock ( earlier post ), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has determined the potential reduction of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutant emissions from the use of synthetic fuels directly converted from flare gas.

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Pollution Gas Emissions Fuel

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Fossil fuel combustion has driven an increase in outdoor air pollution that in 2019 killed 29.15 The team studied trends in air pollution in Africa to determine impacts on human health and economic development in 54 African countries. In addition to the toll on human health, air pollution imposes economic costs, the study found.

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Africa Pollution 2019 Ethiopia

Study finds renewable diesel blends deliver fuel consumption and CO2 benefits in Euro 5 engines

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APRIL 24, 2018

Researchers from Istituto Motori - CNR in Italy and Eni report in a paper in the journal Fuel that blends of hydrocracked fossil oil (HCK) and Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as diesel fuels deliver fuel consumption (FC) and CO 2 savings based on the NEDC cycle. All fuels were FAME-free. and 1.46% ± 0.25.

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Diesel Engine Fuel CO2

Study finds using Fe-Ni-TiO2 activated nanoparticles as additive in biodiesel blend can improve performance and decrease emissions

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JULY 5, 2023

A team from Karabuk University in Turkey reports in a paper in the journal Biofuels that using Fe-Ni-TiO 2 /activated carbon (AC) nanoparticles as an additive in a diesel–biodiesel fuel blend can improve engine performance and decrease emissions.

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Emissions Turkey Diesel Alternative Fuels

Nouryon and Gasunie study scale-up of green hydrogen project to meet aviation fuels demand

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MAY 28, 2019

Nouryon and Gasunie are studying an expansion of a planned green hydrogen unit at Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The feasibility study follows a deal to convert sustainable electricity into green hydrogen for SkyNRG. The output of the Delfzijl fuels unit would be equivalent to an annual reduction of 270,000 tons of CO 2.

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Hydrogen Green Fuel Netherlands

Neste Oil signs an algae oil off-take agreement with Cellana for renewable fuel

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JUNE 6, 2013

Neste Oil, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel (NExBTL), has signed a contingent commercial off-take agreement with Cellana, an algae biomass developer based in the United States. The agreement will enable Neste Oil to purchase Cellana’s algae oil for use as a feedstock in the future for producing renewable fuel.

Oil

Oil Renewable Hawaii Fuel

T&E study finds EU has replaced Russian oil barrel-for-barrel as continent fails to cut demand

Neste studying transitioning Porvoo refinery to a renewable & circular site; ending crude oil refining in mid-2030s

Study finds global oil demand likely to grow despite pandemic, climate policies

T&E study: Europe’s growing use of animal fats in fuels is becoming increasingly unsustainable; 8,800 dead pigs for Paris-NY flight

Truck Manufacturers A More Carbon Intensive Investment Than Oil, Steel Or Cars — Study

Study finds carbon emissions benefits of reduction in oil demand depend on size of drop and global oil market structure

Researchers find carbon-nanotube-based fluids improve enhanced oil recovery methods

HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

ORNL computational study finds 15% bio-oil mixture in two-stroke marine engines can cut NOx 13% with efficiency parity

Lifecycle study finds pennycress could make a greener bio-jet fuel

Study suggests microbe produces methane from crude oil all by itself

Study estimates fuel economy improvements to US light-duty vehicles from 1975–2018 saved 2T gallons of fuel, 17B tons of CO2

SAF company DG Fuels closes investments with two Japanese companies

TotalEnergies and ENEOS to study sustainable aviation fuel production at ENEOS Negishi Refinery

Renewable hydrogen fuel being studied for the Port of Seattle

Japanese, Russian companies partner on feasibility study of blue ammonia value chain between eastern Siberia & Japan

Argonne study finds BEVs can have lowest scheduled maintenance costs, but highest cost of driving

China researchers hydrotreat waste engine oil and scrap tire oil blend to produce diesel- and jet-range fuel

KIST team develops technology for mass-production of lignin-bio-aviation fuels

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

Baker Institute team says fossil fuel subsidies need global reform

ICCT study examines current & projected use of heavy fuel oil in Arctic shipping; growth in BC emissions points to need for policies

Itochu and partners launch feasibility study of blue ammonia value chain between Eastern Siberia and Japan

New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

UGA study: carinata-based SAF can deliver about 65% relative carbon savings compared to conventional jet fuel

California EV adoption driving steady decline in emissions: study

T&E study claims EU’s biofuels policy has wiped out forests the size of the Netherlands

Woodside, 6 Japanese partners to conduct feasibility study on lower-emissions ammonia supply chain from Australia to Japan

TUAT team develops more efficient method to recover heavy oil using novel chemical flooding

Study finds total greenhouse gas footprint of blue hydrogen “quite high” due to fugitive methane

Hyundai Motor Group, Aramco and KAUST collaborate on new e-fuel for novel combustion system

Study shows renewable diesel from crude tall oil is a high quality drop-in fuel for off-road engines

RSB & Bioledger release biofuels blockchain case study

BNL team uses nc-AFM to find sulfur and nitrogen atoms in crude oil molecules

U Calgary study finds oil shale most energy intensive upgraded fuel followed by in-situ-produced bitumen from oil sands

Port of Los Angeles rolls out $82.5M hydrogen fuel cell electric freight demonstration; Toyota fuel cell technology

France’s high court rules in favor of ending tax benefits for palm oil diesel

Actual fuel economy of cars and light trucks: 1966-2019

Greyrock, NREL study determines reduction in GHG and criteria pollutant emissions from using synthetic fuels produced from flare gas

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

Study finds renewable diesel blends deliver fuel consumption and CO2 benefits in Euro 5 engines

Study finds using Fe-Ni-TiO2 activated nanoparticles as additive in biodiesel blend can improve performance and decrease emissions

Nouryon and Gasunie study scale-up of green hydrogen project to meet aviation fuels demand

Neste Oil signs an algae oil off-take agreement with Cellana for renewable fuel

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