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EIA: China’s use of methanol in liquid fuels has grown rapidly since 2000; >500K bpd in 2016

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Annual methanol consumption in China, 2000-16. Following enactment of provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that were interpreted as reducing or eliminating legal defenses available to MTBE blenders, its use was soon phased out in the United States. Source: EIA and Argus Media group, China Methanol to Energy Study , January 2017.

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Researchers demonstrate sustainable integrated process for wastewater algae to biocrude via hydrothermal liquefaction

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Traditional conversion technologies of algal biomass to biofuels have mainly included lipid extraction or pyrolysis for biodiesel, hydrotreated renewable diesel, or bio-oil production. A wet whole cell conversion pathway, hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL), has gained popularity in the past few years. The yield of biocrude was 44.5 ± 4.7%

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Saab Automobile enters agreement with Hawtai Motor Group on strategic partnership

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million) convertible loan, subject to definitive transaction documentation and certain conditions. The remaining €30 million will be in the form of a convertible loan agreement in the amount of €30 million with a 6-month maturity, an interest rate of 7% per annum and a conversion price of €4.88

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SwRI D-EGR gasoline demo vehicle delivers diesel efficiency at lower cost; potential for LEV III/Tier 3 emissions

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The D-EGR demonstrator is a converted 2012 Buick Regal with a 2.0-liter In their paper, the SwRI researchers reported that the conversion to D-EGR improved engine efficiency and fuel consumption at least 10% across the performance map, with some operating conditions seeing substantially higher improvements. The engine conversion.

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New Canada-based cellulosic ethanol company launches; collaboration between Greenfield, Andritz and Novozymes

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G2BioChem’s technology is feedstock agnostic and optimizes next-generation ethanol yields using all available sugars. The demo plant will have a capacity of 5 MT per day and has been designed so that it can be scaled up to 2000 MT per day. —Barry Wortzman. The demonstration plant will be built in three phases: Phase I.

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U Chicago, MIT study suggests ongoing use of fossil fuels absent new carbon taxes

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While renewable energy has made promising gains in just the last few years—the cost of solar dropped by about two-thirds from 2009 to 2014—new drilling and extraction techniques have made fossil fuels cheaper and markedly increased the amount of oil and gas available. F of warming.

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Researchers Propose Solar-Driven Biomass Gasification Pathway for Synthetic Fuel Production

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The concept’s key feature is the use of high-temperature heat from a solar concentrating tower to drive the chemical process of converting biomass to a biofuel, obtaining a near-complete utilization of carbon atoms in the biomass. Energy conversion efficiency (%). The purpose of the concept, said Edgar G.

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