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EPA updates rules to ease commercialization of alternative fuel conversion systems

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated rules making it easier for manufacturers to sell fuel conversion systems—i.e., The updated final rule covers alternative fuel conversion of light-duty vehicles and heavy-duty highway vehicles and engines. Overview of Program Elements. Exhaust, Evap, and OBD testing.

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EPA Proposes to Streamline Approval Process for Fuel Conversion Systems

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to make it easier for manufacturers to gain approval to sell fuel conversion systems. The proposed rule would cover conversions of light-duty vehicles and heavy-duty highway vehicles and engines, and would apply to all clean alternative fuels. Vehicle/Engine Age.

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

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Saracco also contributed to standardizing the company’s telecommunications management network. In 2003 he was promoted to director of long-term research at the lab, focusing on technology’s evolution and its potential impact. In our conversations, Roberto truly shined. He was a man who knew how to listen–truly listen.

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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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Business-as-usual’ projections of future conversion rates, based on historical rates over the past two decades, indicate that 6–9 Mha of peatland in insular Southeast Asia may be converted to plantations by the year 2020, unless land use planning policies or markets for products change. Earlier post.). Chris Malins.

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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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After he retired from the school in 2003 he was appointed as a member of the South Dakota Department of Education. After retiring, he led the conversion of the Homestake gold mine, in Lead, S.D., into a scientific laboratory in 2003 at the request of the U.S.

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Butamax and Highwater Ethanol break ground on biobutanol retrofit project

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Butamax and Highwater have entered into definitive agreements for license of Butamax’s patented corn oil separation technology, which is an integral part of a full retrofit to biobutanol production and can also be installed independently as a first phase of the conversion. This is an important milestone for Butamax and its partners.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Consumption of anhydrous ethanol has grown steadily since the 1990s, peaking in 2003. During the early 1900s, a distillery was a standard piece of farm equipment. 80.28, “applicable standard” means: 9.0