Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The project consists of converting vegetable or cooking oil or animal fat into biodiesel. Tags: Brief. Biocardel Québec Inc., located in Richmond, Quebec, will produce about 40 million liters (10.6 million gallons US) of biodiesel a year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

In the report, the livestock emissions included gases produced by growing animal feed; animals’ digestive emissions; and processing meat and milk into foods. Tags: Brief. But he faults the methodology of “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” contending that numbers for the livestock sector were calculated differently from transportation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Operations are underway at the Dynamic Fuels plant, which is successfully converting non-food grade animal fats and greases into high quality renewable fuels. Tags: Brief. Dynamic Fuels is a 50:50 joint venture between Syntroleum and Tyson Foods. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2010

Mitsui intends to apply the technology in the palm oil industry, where wastes from palm oil production can be converted into ethanol, solid biofuel for energy production, and animal feed. The plant converts wheat straw into fuel ethanol, animal feed, and lignin pellets for energy production. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2010

The use of the strains to produce commercial quantities of valuable biomolecules for the nutraceutical and animal health industries to maximize the capital costs of the photobioreactors. Tags: Brief. The continuous bio-production of hydrogen. Gerri Greenham, President and CEO of Solarvest.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Elon Musk emphasizes that Neuralink treats its animal subjects with respect. The company does extensive benchmark tests before implanting a Neuralink device into an animal. Sake spelled out the Neuralink event’s welcome tag: “Welcome to show and tell.” Another Neuralink monkey, Sake, is typing with his brain.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

With these systems working together, this mower can safely traverse around shrubs, trees, fallen branches, garden borders, playing children, animals, and the natural twists and turns of the landscape. Aside from the automated performance of the Navimow i110N, you will have complete smart controls over its actions and settings.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

A Colorado State University professor is developing an anaerobic digester that turns animal waste into methane using much less water than conventional technology, making it more economically feasible and easier for use by feedlots and dairies in Western states. Tags: Brief. Sybil Sharvelle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2009

New calculations made by marine chemists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) suggest that low-oxygen “dead zones” in the ocean will expand significantly over the next century, with severe effects on marine animals. This, in turn, makes it harder for these animals to find food, avoid predators, and reproduce.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The researchers found that the burning of household biofuels—primarily wood and animal dung for home heating and cooking—contribute the second most warming. The on-road transportation total RF is fairly robust with uncertainty in the range 20-40% whereas uncertainties are higher for household biofuel (~160%) and animal husbandry (~90%).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2009

Iogen also develops, manufactures and markets enzymes used to modify and improve the processing of natural fibers within the textile, animal feed and pulp and paper industries. Tags: Brief. Cellulosic ethanol, as an end fuel, is identical to ethanol but it can offer up to 90% less lifecycle CO 2 emissions than gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Metabolix obtained the necessary permits from the US Department of Agriculture Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to perform an open air field trial in March of 2009 and field trial experiments were completed in early October. Tags: Brief. Metabolix , Inc., The trial was performed on 0.8

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

The EERC’s gasification unit can convert a range of fuels, such as forestry, agricultural, and industrial biomass waste; animal waste; waste plastics; and railroad ties or cable poles as well as a range of coals, into clean syngas. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

Iogen’s enzymes are now used in the pulp and paper, grain processing, brewing, textile and animal feed industries. Tags: Brief. Iogen’s line of enzymes for cellulosic ethanol production is currently being used in the demonstration plant.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2009

Currently feather meal is used as animal feed and fertilizer because of its high protein and nitrogen content. In addition, they note that removal of fat content from feather meal results in both a higher-grade animal feed and a better nitrogen source for fertilizer applications. Tags: Brief. Food Chem. ,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Fiat Powertrain has a clever animation on its site demonstrating the progress in number of injections with the evolution of Multijet. Go to the animation , or click to enlarge. Tags: Diesel Engines. The new rear torsion beam (semi-independent) suspension with an anti-roll bar is also making its debut on the Fiat 500 range.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2010

A special feature of this process is that the fermentation residue can be highly concentrated to make animal feed easily, which causes no extra expense for liquid waste treatment. Tags: Brief. Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy Vol. 923-926 doi: 10.3775/jie.88.923.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The partners expect that the proposed facility would principally convert waste grease—primarily animal fats and used cooking oil supplied by Darling—and potentially other feedstocks that become economically and commercially viable into renewable diesel. Tags: Brief. Charles refinery near Norco, Louisiana. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Verenium Corporation is a leading developer of cellulosic ethanol, as well as high-performance specialty enzymes for applications within the biofuels, industrial, and animal health markets. Tags: Brief. Earlier this month, Verenium Corporation extended the initial 18-month joint development program established in August 2008 with BP.

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Corporation 2008 Canada Waste 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

Animation of the Blade compressor. Tags: Engines Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Systems. Designed by Lontra’s Technical Director Steve Lindsey, the Blade Compressor is a rotary device with a wrapped toroidal chamber. The key features are a rotating blade, which passes through a slot in a rotating disc once per cycle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Until now, we have used practically all domestic waste animal fat sourced from food industry at our NExBTL plants. Tags: Brief. With this agreement, rapeseed oil produced in Finland will become a raw material source in the renewable diesel production of the Porvoo refinery.

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Oil Renewable Diesel Finland 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2010

Animal waste has tremendous energy potential. Tags: Brief. Researchers from North Carolina A and T State University have converted swine manure to bio-oils by using ethanol as a solvent in an autoclave in the reaction temperature range of 240-360 °C without any catalyst. Bio-oils can be upgraded to transportation fuels. American J.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2010

After assessing the application, reviewing pertinent scientific information, and considering comments provided by the public, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) concluded that “ these field releases are unlikely to pose a plant pest risk, nor are they likely to have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment. ”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

The UOP/Eni Ecofining process uses catalytic hydroprocessing technology to convert natural oils and animal fats to Honeywell Green Diesel fuel. Tags: Brief. IOCL would also focus on research and development for the production of algal oil for use as a feedstock in the green fuels production.

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India Oil Diesel Convert 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Scientists who had thought diseases were mostly transmitted by people or animals now see dust clouds as possible transmitters of influenza, SARS and foot-and-mouth, and increasingly responsible for respiratory diseases.The scale and spread of the dust storms has also surprised researchers. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The UOP Ecofining process, developed in conjunction with Italian refiner Eni, uses catalytic hydroprocessing technology to convert natural oils and animal fats to green diesel fuel. Tags: Brief. In 2008, UOP formed the joint venture Envergent Technologies LLC with Ensyn Corp. Earlier post.).

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Climate Change Oil Renewable Diesel 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2009

This animation shows the shrinkage from 2006 to 2009. Source: ESA Click to see animation. Tags: Brief. The Aral Sea in Central Asia was once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water, but it has been steadily shrinking over the past 50 years since the rivers that fed it were diverted for irrigation projects.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

The training will include animation and illustrations of the Chevrolet Volt, highlighting locations of high-strength steel, cut points for extrication, first-responder labeling, automatic and manual electrical shut-off and more. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

In its current NExBTL production in Finland, Neste Oil uses palm oil, rapeseed oil and waste animal fat sourced from the food industry as feedstock. Tags: Brief. Most of Neste Oil’s research spending is used in developing new renewable raw materials.

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Oil Netherlands Finland Renewable 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

Tasks include integrating new algal harvesting technologies with pilot-scale cultivation test beds, and developing marine microalgae as animal feed for the aquaculture industry. Tags: Algae Algal Fuels. DOE funding: up to $9 million). National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap.

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San Diego Arizona Hawaii Congress 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2010

Animation of the RNP airport approach at Bradley Airport. Animations of other RNP approaches. Tags: Brief. It’s anticipated that the new RNP approach will improve the utility of Bradley’s Runway 15 and provide pilots and controllers with additional navigation flexibility during periods of adverse weather or winds.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Although bio-based resources such as waste biomass, vegetable oils and animal fats are considered as promising sources for delivering large quantities of non-petroleum liquid fuels, the abundance of oxygen in the form of various aliphatic and aromatic oxygenates decreases the quality of the resulting biofuels. 2010.09.004.

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Oil Hydrogen Florida Convert 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

It is one of the few essential amino acids that humans and animals cannot synthesize, so it must come from plants. Tags: Biomass Biotech Cellulosic ethanol. In plant tissues where we want to lower lignin content, we may be able to block these pathways. Nature Chemical Biology doi: 10.1038/nchembio.485.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

the Roadster is here now, a divine spark, an animating lightning stroke of a whole new kind of car industry." Tags: tesla tesla roadster battery electric car dan neil. What's important is that after a weekend with the Roadster, he can see the future. ".the You can read the full piece in the LA Times here.

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Tesla Electric Cars International Future 100

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Biodiesel produced from both virgin feedstocks (such as soybean oil) and waste feedstocks such as yellow grease and animal fats qualifies for the $1.00 Tags: Brief. The original biodiesel tax credit was passed in 2004 and has been extended twice. per gallon excise tax credit. The study was conducted by economic analyst John M.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Frame from animation of recent sea surface temperature anomalies in the tropical Pacific. Tags: Brief. “El Niño” refers to the warm phase of the oscillation, which occurs every three to eight years and is associated with. disruptions to the global water cycle, such as droughts and floods, in. many parts of the world. Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2010

The process can use a flexible input of any vegetable oil or animal fat to produce a product with characteristics similar to Fischer-Tropsch output. Tags: Bio-hydrocarbons Diesel. The product is a synthetic diesel fuel, free of oxygen and aromatic compounds. Side products include propane and gasoline.

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