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Cemvita demonstrates “gold hydrogen” production in situ, sets up subsidiary

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Cemvita Factory announced multiple developments with its Gold Hydrogen business. Cemvita defines Gold Hydrogen as the biological production of hydrogen in the subsurface through the consumption of trapped or abandoned resources. The hydrogen production in this trial exceeded our expectations.

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Hydrogen Production Oil Renewable

China’s first integrated methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station now in operation

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) officially launched China’s first methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station in Dalian, China. The storage and transportation cost of methanol is also much lower than hydrogen, making methanol-to-hydrogen an attractive hydrogen production technology.

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Hydrogen China Waste Oil

Topsoe enters agreement with Steeper Energy to introduce complete waste-to-biofuel solution

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Topsoe and Steeper Energy , a developer of biomass conversion technologies, signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution. The end-products include Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), marine biofuel, and renewable diesel from waste biomass.

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Waste Energy Oil Conversion

Oil sands company Suncor Energy strengthens its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels, divesting wind and solar

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APRIL 6, 2022

Suncor Energy, a Canadian integrated energy company that is one of the top oil sands producers in the country, will strengthen its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels to accelerate progress towards its objective to be a net-zero company by 2050. Suncor also plans to divest its wind and solar assets.

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Oil-Sands Oil Wind Renewable

HyMethShip seeks to fuel ship engines with hydrogen from methanol

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JULY 2, 2022

The EU-funded HyMethShip project developed a system that innovatively combined a membrane reactor, a CO 2 capture system, a storage system for CO 2 and methanol as well as a hydrogen-fueled combustion engine to power ships. The top part of the graphic shows onshore methanol production. © Fraunhofer. © Fraunhofer. © Fraunhofer.

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Hydrogen Engine Fuel Carbon

bp acquires 30% stake in Green Biofuels, UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil fuels

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

bp has acquired a 30% stake in Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), the UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO). GBF’s products are made from renewable feedstocks such as vegetable oils, animal oils and fat. It is fully compatible with gas oil and significantly cleaner than EN590 (automotive diesel fuel).

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Oil Green Hydrogen Fuel

Biogas2PEM-FC project converts waste from olive oil production to electricity

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DECEMBER 24, 2014

An EU-funded project, Biogas2PEM-FC , has developed a system to convert the toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity. The waste from olive oil production—which contains pesticides and toxic organic compounds, is acidic and with a high salinity—is environmentally harmful and costly to discard.

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Waste Convert Oil Spain

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. Large volumes of lignin are generated as waste in the pulping processes that are used to produce paper. The pyrolysis of lignin produces an oil which has little industrial utility due to its high viscosity.

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Fuel Production Oil Waste

DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Gas-Electric

bp begins producing SAF by co-processing used cooking oil at Lingen refinery

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

bp has begun producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from used cooking oil in co-processing process with crude oil at its plant in Lingen, Germany. This is the first industrial production facility in Germany to use this process for SAF production based on biomass waste and residues. Earlier post.).

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Port of Corpus Christi, Howard announce to convert Javelina refinery services facility to blue hydrogen production

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AUGUST 14, 2021

The Port of Corpus Christi Authority (Port of Corpus Christi) and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC (Howard/HEP) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) stating their intention to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services facility into the region’s first blue hydrogen production facility.

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San Antonio Hydrogen Convert Mexico

VTT and Neste to build integrated Power-to-Liquids demo facility; CO2 capture, green hydrogen and e-fuels production

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JUNE 23, 2022

The end product is a transportation fuel suited for aircraft, ships as well as heavy and light road vehicles. Establishing the infrastructure for Power-to-Liquids production contributes to the strengthening of co-operation between Neste and VTT in e-fuel production development from pilot to commercial scale.

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Building Power Powered Fuel

Aemetis finalizes $7B of supply contracts for 100% of Riverbank Plant Production of SAF and RD for up to 10 years

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, announced that $7 billion of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) supply agreements have been signed with 10 airlines for a total of 916 million gallons of blended SAF. Aemetis, Inc.,

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Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

Energy Vault, a company developing grid-scale gravity energy storage solutions, has entered into an energy storage system agreement with DG Fuels, a developer of renewable hydrogen and biogenic-based, synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and diesel fuel. Under the terms of the agreement, Energy Vault agreed to provide 1.6

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Energy Storage Energy Fuel Louisiana

Shell to build one of Europe’s biggest biofuels facilities for SAF and renewable diesel; 820,000 tonnes/year

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Once built, the facility will be among the largest in Europe to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel made from waste. Shell expects the Rotterdam biofuels facility to start production in 2024. Shell will use bio-naphtha and light hydrocarbon gasses created during the formation process to create hydrogen.

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Samsung Ventures makes strategic investment in renewable fuels company Raven SR

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MARCH 15, 2022

Samsung Ventures’ strategic investment illustrates heightened demand for scalable renewable fuel production to respond to climate change concerns, Raven SR says. Raven SR’s non-combustion Steam/CO 2 Reforming process is itself emissions-free and requires minimal waste sorting before processing.

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Aemetis selects Worley to provide engineering for renewable jet and diesel production plant; Axens technology

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JUNE 17, 2021

The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat renewable oils with hydrogen from orchard and forest wood waste. Founded in 2006, Aemetis has completed Phase 1 and is expanding a California biogas digester network and pipeline system to convert dairy waste gas into Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).

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Renewable Diesel Engine Production

Researchers use distillation to improve biocrude oil properties for fuel blending

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MAY 28, 2021

Biocrude oil produced via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of biomass could provide a low-carbon supplement for transportation fuel supply. Product yield and physiochemical properties of HTL are primarily affected by the type of feedstock, processing conditions (primarily reaction temperature and time), and existence of a catalyst.

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€7M German project to develop processes and demand scenarios for the mass production of synthetic fuels; “Refineries for Future”

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MAY 27, 2023

REF4FU covers the use of sustainable hydrogen; pyrolysis oil based on biological residues, such as straw or waste wood; methanol from renewable feedstocks; and Fischer-Tropsch oil that corresponds to green crude oil. This will affect future production capacities.

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Future Fuel Kits Production

Sparc Technologies, QUT partner to develop a hard carbon anode material from bio-waste for Na-ion batteries

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The partnership will begin with a project in the battery anode space with the development of a novel process for the production of hard carbon from bio-waste. Using readily available, sustainable bio-waste material will provide Sparc with a strong environmental value proposition when compared with conventional sources of hard carbon.

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Waste Sodium Carbon Lithium Ion

Raven SR to supply sustainable aviation fuel to ANA and JAL

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JANUARY 18, 2023

ITOCHU is one of several strategic investors in privately held Raven SR, and the two companies maintain a strong partnership, including plans for commercial production and sales of renewable fuels worldwide. Raven SR’s use of waste as feedstock for its SAF production is expected to stabilize both the supply and pricing of SAF.

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Supplies Fuel Waste Hydrogen

Neste Oil de-emphasizing microbial oil R&D for renewable diesel; seeking other uses for cellulosic biomass

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Despite the decision to de-emphasize microbial oil, Neste Oil emphasized that cellulosic waste will continue to play an important role in its research strategy, adding that it remains committed to its goal of further extending its feedstock base and making greater use of waste and residues in this area in particular.

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Oil Renewable Diesel Waste

Haldor Topsoe and Hyundai Oilbank sign MOU to develop green energy solutions

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Hyundai Oilbank refines 520,000 barrels of oil a day and supplies oil products and services through 2,500 gas stations in Korea. Notably, Hyundai Oilbank has completed the vertical integration in the petrochemical aromatic business from crude oil to BTX.

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Hyundai Green Energy Oil

Study finds gasification of palm oil industry waste could yield hydrogen at about $2.11/kg

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A study by a team at the University Putra Malaysia concluded that the gasification of empty fruit bunch (EFB), a waste of the palm oil industry, could, if scaled up, produce hydrogen at a supply cost of $2.11/kg The US Department of Energy (DOE) 2015 cost target for hydrogen is $2.00-$3.00/kg kg EFB ($2.11/kg kg = $0.18/Nm

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Waste Hydrogen Oil Industrial

BMW testing HVO100 renewable diesel for parts delivery in Germany

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APRIL 20, 2023

They commute between the BMW Group Supply Centre in Eching, just north of Munich, to deliver warehouse parts to the plant in the city for production—a round trip of a good 40 km each time. HVO100 (100%, or neat, renewable diesel) is made from various waste products, residues and renewable raw materials, including used cooking oil.

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BMW Renewable Diesel Parts

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. Also for aviation because it is used as feedstock for the production of sustainable kerosene.

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Hydrogen Green Fuel Netherlands

DOE Coal FIRST Initiative invests $80M in net-zero carbon electricity and hydrogen plants

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

DOE’s early stage research for the Coal FIRST Initiative supports the development of electricity and hydrogen energy plants that have net-zero carbon emissions. These plants will be fueled by coal, natural gas, biomass, and waste plastics and incorporate carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies.

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Coal Carbon Hydrogen Nebraska

Tüpra? and Honeywell sign licensing agreement for the use of Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology; renewable diesel and SAF

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JULY 10, 2022

will license Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology to produce biofuels from feedstocks such as used cooking oil and waste animal fat at their refinery in Izmir, Türkiye. The new Ecofining plant is being designed to convert approximately 8,300 barrels per day of waste feeds/feedstocks to SAF, renewable diesel, and other products.

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Renewable Diesel Oil Waste

Goodyear announces first tire to use carbon black produced via methane pyrolysis; Monolith’s carbon black

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MAY 11, 2023

While traditional carbon black commonly comes from the combustion of fossil fuel oils, Monolith’s plasma-based process takes advantage of renewable electricity to complete methane pyrolysis and results in the output of only carbon and hydrogen, with no combustion required.

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Carbon Nebraska Hydrogen Renewable

Dalian team devises two-step method for synthesis of jet-range polycycloalkanes under mild conditions from plastic waste

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JUNE 20, 2019

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China report a two-step method for the synthesis of jet-fuel-range high-density polycycloalkanes from polycarbonate waste under mild conditions. To the best of our knowledge, there is no report about the production of high-density aviation fuel with waste plastics. …

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Waste Range Fuel Convert

EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

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JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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Convert Denmark Waste Conversion

Neste Oil Looking to Waste-based Microbial Oil As Feedstock for NExBTL Renewable Diesel

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Neste Oil has applied for patents to cover technology developed to produce microbial oil from waste and residues with the help of various yeasts and molds for use as a feedstock for its NExBTL renewable diesel. Microbial oil produced in this way has already been successfully refined into NExBTL renewable diesel.

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Oil Waste Renewable Diesel

Shell outlines steps to net-zero business by 2050; to cut production of traditional fuels 55% by 2030

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Global oil and gas major Shell has outlined how it will achieve its target to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, in step with society’s progress towards achieving net zero. This target covers the emissions from its operations and the emissions from the use of all the energy products it sells. Low-carbon fuels.

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Production Fuel Oil Carbon

Sunfire partners with Total on highly efficient hydrogen technology; E-CO2MET

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

The company will also be responsible for the integration at the site as well as the operation and maintenance of the electrolyzer, which will be the first step for the industrial-scale production of synthetic methanol from renewables and industrial concentrated CO 2 from the Total Raffinerie Mitteldeutschland GmbH.

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Hydrogen Renewable Carbon Industrial

LanzaTech and Sekisui advance conversion of municipal solid waste to ethanol

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Sekisui , a multibillion dollar Japanese diversified chemicals company and LanzaTech report making significant progress on a waste-to-chemicals platform converting municipal solid waste (MSW) to ethanol or other new products. 20,000 liter per year MSW pilot facility. Garbage is an important resource.

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British Airways, Phillips 66 sign sustainable aviation fuel supply agreement

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DECEMBER 5, 2021

It will be produced from sustainable waste feedstock at the Humber Refinery, which will deliver its SAF supply to British Airways via existing pipeline infrastructure that feeds directly into UK airports. We’re currently refining almost half a million liters of sustainable waste feedstocks a day, and this is just a start.

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Supplies Fuel Waste Carbon

Aemetis signs $3B, 10-year supply agreement for 450M gallons of renewable diesel with industry-leading travel stop company

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DECEMBER 18, 2021

Aemetis, a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products ( earlier post ), has signed a 10-year, 450-million-gallon renewable diesel supply agreement with an industry-leading travel stop company, which is expected to generate more than $3 billion in revenue. billion miles of heavy truck and cargo transportation.

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Renewable Diesel Supplies Industrial

PNNL biocrude-to-diesel demo passes 2,000-hour catalyst stability milestone

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MARCH 26, 2021

The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base. The research showed that essentially any biocrude, regardless of wet-waste sources, could be used in the process and the catalyst remained robust during the entire run.

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Diesel Waste Convert Washington

Diamond Green Diesel to boost renewable diesel capacity to 1.2B gallons/year; $1.45B expansion project

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Darling and Valero jointly announced that their 50/50 joint venture, Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), has received approval from both companies’ Boards of Directors to proceed with the construction of the renewable diesel production facility to be located at Valero’s Port Arthur, Texas refinery. billion pounds of used cooking oil annually.

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Diesel Renewable Green San Antonio

Refuel Energy to build 3000 bpd RD, SAF plant in Southern Ontario using Topsoe technologies

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APRIL 21, 2022

Refuel YYZ will produce renewable diesel (RD), sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and renewable hydrogen for the domestic market. The plant would utilize Haldor Topsoe’s proprietary HydroFlex and H2bridge technologies for the production of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Refuel Energy Inc.

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Building Energy Renewable Oil

Honeywell and Wood partner on technologies for carbon-neutral sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

When used together, the technologies—based on Honeywell’s UOP Ecofining process technology and Wood’s hydrogen plant technology—could reduce lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 100% using certain feedstocks when compared to traditional petroleum aviation fuel. million Nm 3 /h of hydrogen.

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Carbon Fuel Hydrogen Renewable

Neste Oil adds technical corn oil to the feedstocks used for producing NExBTL renewable diesel

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AUGUST 1, 2013

Neste Oil has added technical corn oil (TCO), a residue generated during ethanol production, to the range of inputs it uses to produce NExBTL renewable diesel. This nonfood input further extends the number of waste and residue-based feedstocks used by Neste Oil.

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Oil Renewable Diesel Waste

Rolls-Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPack approved for renewable diesel

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JULY 6, 2023

Rolls-Royce has approved its mtu Kinetic PowerPacks, based on the mtu Series 4000 and 1600 diesel engines, for use with renewable diesel (HVO/Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) and the other synthetic diesel fuels of the EN15940 standard.

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Diesel Renewable Energy Storage Belgium

DOE awarding nearly $65M for biofuels research to reduce airplane and ship emissions

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Alder Energy will convert miscanthus, a highly promising biomass crop, to SAF through their advanced pyrolysis oil technology, a process that utilizes heat, pressure, and solvents to deconstruct the miscanthus into oils for conversion to SAF. Quasar Energy Group will use an anaerobic digestor to convert food waste to SAF precursors.

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Emissions Waste Conversion Gas-Electric

Cemvita demonstrates “gold hydrogen” production in situ, sets up subsidiary

China’s first integrated methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station now in operation

Topsoe enters agreement with Steeper Energy to introduce complete waste-to-biofuel solution

Oil sands company Suncor Energy strengthens its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels, divesting wind and solar

HyMethShip seeks to fuel ship engines with hydrogen from methanol

bp acquires 30% stake in Green Biofuels, UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil fuels

Biogas2PEM-FC project converts waste from olive oil production to electricity

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

DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

bp begins producing SAF by co-processing used cooking oil at Lingen refinery

Port of Corpus Christi, Howard announce to convert Javelina refinery services facility to blue hydrogen production

VTT and Neste to build integrated Power-to-Liquids demo facility; CO2 capture, green hydrogen and e-fuels production

Aemetis finalizes $7B of supply contracts for 100% of Riverbank Plant Production of SAF and RD for up to 10 years

Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

Shell to build one of Europe’s biggest biofuels facilities for SAF and renewable diesel; 820,000 tonnes/year

Samsung Ventures makes strategic investment in renewable fuels company Raven SR

Aemetis selects Worley to provide engineering for renewable jet and diesel production plant; Axens technology

Researchers use distillation to improve biocrude oil properties for fuel blending

€7M German project to develop processes and demand scenarios for the mass production of synthetic fuels; “Refineries for Future”

Sparc Technologies, QUT partner to develop a hard carbon anode material from bio-waste for Na-ion batteries

Raven SR to supply sustainable aviation fuel to ANA and JAL

Neste Oil de-emphasizing microbial oil R&D for renewable diesel; seeking other uses for cellulosic biomass

Haldor Topsoe and Hyundai Oilbank sign MOU to develop green energy solutions

Study finds gasification of palm oil industry waste could yield hydrogen at about $2.11/kg

BMW testing HVO100 renewable diesel for parts delivery in Germany

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

DOE Coal FIRST Initiative invests $80M in net-zero carbon electricity and hydrogen plants

Tüpra? and Honeywell sign licensing agreement for the use of Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology; renewable diesel and SAF

Goodyear announces first tire to use carbon black produced via methane pyrolysis; Monolith’s carbon black

Dalian team devises two-step method for synthesis of jet-range polycycloalkanes under mild conditions from plastic waste

EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

Neste Oil Looking to Waste-based Microbial Oil As Feedstock for NExBTL Renewable Diesel

Shell outlines steps to net-zero business by 2050; to cut production of traditional fuels 55% by 2030

Sunfire partners with Total on highly efficient hydrogen technology; E-CO2MET

LanzaTech and Sekisui advance conversion of municipal solid waste to ethanol

British Airways, Phillips 66 sign sustainable aviation fuel supply agreement

Aemetis signs $3B, 10-year supply agreement for 450M gallons of renewable diesel with industry-leading travel stop company

PNNL biocrude-to-diesel demo passes 2,000-hour catalyst stability milestone

Diamond Green Diesel to boost renewable diesel capacity to 1.2B gallons/year; $1.45B expansion project

Refuel Energy to build 3000 bpd RD, SAF plant in Southern Ontario using Topsoe technologies

Honeywell and Wood partner on technologies for carbon-neutral sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

Neste Oil adds technical corn oil to the feedstocks used for producing NExBTL renewable diesel

Rolls-Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPack approved for renewable diesel

DOE awarding nearly $65M for biofuels research to reduce airplane and ship emissions

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