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APRIL 23, 2022

Infinium utilizes waste CO 2 and hydrogen, which are converted to synthetic gas using Infinium’s proprietary, patented CO2Cat catalyst. Through this collaboration, MHI will further promote the CCUS value chain, as well as the digital grid it designed with IBM Japan to visualize CO? distribution, CO?NNEX.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The carbon found in municipal solid waste, which is piling up in landfills or being incinerated globally, can play a critical role in eliminating the virgin fossil resources used to make fuels and chemicals. It is a testament to the UAE’s leadership and strong sustainability agenda that our technology has found a home here.

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MAY 21, 2020

The plant will feature SGH2’s technology, which will gasify recycled mixed paper waste to produce green hydrogen that reduces carbon emissions by two to three times more than green hydrogen produced using electrolysis and renewable energy, and is five to seven times cheaper. The facility will process 42,000 tons of recycled waste annually.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Neste and ITOCHU Corporation have expanded their partnership to increase the availability of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Japan. Neste, ITOCHU and All Nippon Airways started cooperating in 2020, establishing a SAF supply chain in Japan enabling Neste’s first SAF delivery into Asia to take place in Japan.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

A team of scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with Tohoku University, Tokyo City University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has proposed a novel, more efficient method to reduce radioactive waste. The team showed that support ratios of more than 1.0

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

JGC Holdings Corporation and Cosmo Oil Company will use Honeywell Ecofining technology ( earlier post ) for the first commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel project in Japan. The project will convert used cooking oil locally collected in Japan into renewable jet fuel meeting ASTM D7566 standards with start-up scheduled in 2025.

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APRIL 26, 2019

A team of researchers in Italy has transformed chars—the least valuable by-product of waste-tire pyrolysis—into highly efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) catalysts for use in alkaline fuel cells and metal air batteries. billion waste tires are produced yearly, including 2.6 Currently, about 1.5 2019.04.067.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The flexibility of the technology to utilize a variety of local waste feedstocks attracted the attention of All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest 5-Star airline for seven consecutive years, resulting in an offtake agreement with LanzaTech signed earlier this year, allowing ANA to purchase sustainable aviation fuel from LanzaTech’s process.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Raven SR signed memoranda of understanding (MOU) to supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to All Nippon Airways (ANA) and to Japan Airlines (JAL) for major global routes. The supply will be produced by Raven SR at facilities planned for major global markets outside Japan to serve specific international routes of each airline.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

The methodology reduces costs and waste, but it leaves the automaker susceptible to disruptions if one or more parts of its supply chain or operations have issues. On average, the automaker builds 13,500 vehicles in Japan daily and was running at capacity before the shutdown, so it will be difficult to add volume to make up for the downtime.

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AUGUST 31, 2012

has begun lease sales of the Fit EV ( earlier post ) to local governments and businesses in Japan. Honda Motor Co., Honda plans to lease approximately 200 units of the Fit EV in the next two years, mostly to local governments and businesses.

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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 proposed unit, the capacity of which would be 300,000 tons per year of SAF, would process waste or residue—mainly used cooking oil and animal fat.

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APRIL 26, 2018

In Japan, Aichi Prefecture, Chita City, Toyota City, Chubu Electric Power, Toho Gas, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Toyota Industries have launched the Chita City and Toyota City Renewable Energy-use Low-carbon Hydrogen Project.

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Hydrogen Carbon Supplies Japan 230

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AUGUST 18, 2011

The facility is the first of a number of advanced gasification energy-from-waste plants that Air Products will be looking to develop in the UK over the next few years. Air Products has secured planning permission from Stockton on Tees Borough Council (UK) for its Tees Valley Renewable Energy Facility.

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Waste Renewable Energy Production 210

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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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Waste South Korea Energy Fuel 186

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

One of the possible applications of the material is in automobiles to utilize waste heat emitted from engines, the research team suggested. Previous work by the research team had investigated Mg 2 Si-based systems as suitable thermoelectric materials for the effective utilization of automotive waste heat.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The agreement, the first of its kind in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, is focused on providing downstream industry with a simple, integrated way to achieve ESG-related goals and requirements, such as reducing carbon footprints, disclosing lifecycle assessment (LCA), and sourcing responsibly.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

PME= palm oil methyl ester, RME = rapeseed methyl ester, SME = soy methyl ester, WME = waste cooking oil methyl ester, FTD = Fischer-Tropsch diesel, HBD = hydrogenated biodiesel. JAMA bases its postion on the results of study from the Japan Auto-Oil Program subsidized by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

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Japan Diesel Oil Fuel 199

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Japan-based biotechnology company euglena ( earlier post ) has completed the construction of its demonstration-scale biorefinery in Yokohama for the production of renewable jet and diesel fuels from algae and waste oil. euglena is partnering with ANA on the aviation side.

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JUNE 11, 2010

A team at the University of Leeds (UK) is investigating hydrogen production from waste tires using a two-stage pyrolysis-gasification reactor and Ni-Mg-Al (1:1:1) catalyst. The generation rate of waste tires is increasing, especially with the continued increase in production of cars and trucks, the authors note.

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Waste Hydrogen Production Gas 220

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Airline customers include Delta Air Lines, Jet Blue Airlines and oneworld Alliance members American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines and Qantas. Aemetis holds a portfolio of patents and exclusive technology licenses to produce renewable fuels and biochemicals.

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JUNE 1, 2024

A decade ago we featured a project at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency that aimed to launch a 1-gigawatt solar station by 2031. A space solar project would “waste capital that could be better spent improving less risky ways to shore up renewable energy, such as batteries, hydrogen, and grid improvements.” For example, U.K.-based

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The eEconic is mainly used as a waste-collection vehicle in urban waste-management. As part of a small series, more than 170 FUSO eCanter light-duty trucks are already in use with numerous customers in Japan, the United States and Europe, and more of them will be handed over successively. The range of the 7.49-ton

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JANUARY 22, 2021

It also promotes the use of materials that don’t rely on newly mined resources, as well as the reduction of waste from factories. The model is built in Kyushu, Japan, and Smyrna, Tennessee. in Japan, and with Arconic Corp. To support the process, Nissan has collaborated with Kobe Steel, Ltd. and UACJ Corp. and Novelis Inc.

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APRIL 22, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation process uses proprietary microbes to capture and reuse carbon rich waste gases, reducing emissions and pollutants from industrial processes such as steel manufacturing, while making fuels and chemicals that displace those made from fossil resources. Earlier post.). Biotech Ethanol'

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JUNE 6, 2018

The Seven & i Group is currently addressing five key issues, one of them being non-wasteful usage of products, ingredients and energy. A newly developed small fuel cell truck (small FC truck) will be introduced in the distribution process, aiming to achieve zero emissions of substances of concern including CO 2.

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JULY 6, 2023

FluoRok’s technology changes this paradigm, enabling for the first time the bypassing of toxic HF production to manufacture fluorinated materials directly from raw minerals (fluorite, CaF 2 ) or fluorinated waste streams. Additionally, intrinsic process safety facilitates the reshoring of fluorochemcial manufacturing to the UK.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

The eEconic will at first be offered in the configuration 6x2/N NLA and will mainly be in demand as a waste-collection vehicle. The E-Mobility Group is set up globally with employees working in various locations throughout the company’s worldwide development network, i.e. in Portland (United States), Stuttgart (Germany) and Kawasaki (Japan).

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Production Batteries Battery Mercedes 248

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MARCH 25, 2009

unit is testing a technology in Japan that generates hydrogen from the fermentation of bakery waste. Sapporo Breweries Ltd. and Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, will collaborate on testing an anaerobic fermentation process for producing biohydrogen from sugar cane dregs and other biomass. The Sapporo Holdings Ltd.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

A level of 50% was achieved by operating the engine at a fixed RPM and load combined with waste heat recovery technologies. e-POWER was first introduced in Japan in 2016 with the Nissan Note. In late December 2020, Nissan launched the all-new Note in the Japan market. 2) with a multi-cylinder engine. The Nissan e-POWER System.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Neste and All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest and a 5-Star airline, are entering a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply agreement. ANA will become the first airline to use SAF on flights departing from Japan; the agreement also represents Neste’s first SAF supply to an Asian airline. million tons of SAF annually by 2023.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

million people in Japan’s important automotive sector currently rely on part production for ICE vehicles. These people support Japan and have the skills to make the Japan of tomorrow strong. the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and Australia, among others still. He said that many of the roughly 5.5

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JUNE 25, 2018

Researchers from Hokkaido University and their colleagues in Japan and Taiwan have more than doubled the ability of a material to transform wasted heat into usable electricity by significantly narrowing the space through which spread electrons move, according to a new open-access study published in the journal Nature Communications.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

Evonik Industries and LanzaTech have signed a three-year research cooperation agreement which will see Evonik combining its existing biotechnology platforms with LanzaTech’s synthetic biology and gas fermentation expertise for the development of a route to bio-processed precursors for specialty plastics from waste-derived synthesis gas.

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Malaysia New Zealand Waste Gas 218

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NOVEMBER 4, 2018

A team led by Kanazawa University in Japan has developed a cleaner method for the recycling of several rare earths (REs) such as yttrium (Y) and europium (Eu) used as phosphors in fluorescent lamps (FLs). These are already used to remove toxic metals from solid waste. Begum, Ryuta Murase, Kento Ishii, Hikaru Sawai, Asami S.

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JULY 9, 2015

INAF said the Olympics and Paralympics are a perfect opportunity for Japan and its airlines to showcase their environmental commitment. As the new aviation biofuel roadmap indicates, Japan is ready to accelerate development and use of sustainable aviation fuels by the 2020 Olympics. Commencement of fuel supplies in FY 2020.

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JUNE 21, 2020

H2One’s lineup includes green hydrogen station H2One Station Unit for fuel cell vehicles, as well as the H2One Multi Station with a combination unit that provides electricity, hot water to buildings and for electric vehicles.

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