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APRIL 26, 2011

a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, signed an engineering and consulting agreement with Mustang Engineering, LP for the conversion of Gevo’s renewable isobutanol to biojet fuel. Once completed successfully, the company will initiate jet engine testing with engine manufacturers. Gevo was founded in 2005 by Drs.

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APRIL 28, 2009

Oil and gas major Total has invested an undisclosed amount in the series D round of advanced biofuels company Gevo. Gevo was founded in 2005 by Drs. The company is focused on the development of advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals based on isobutanol and its derivatives.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Home improvement products company Lowe’s has launched a dedicated fleet of natural gas-powered trucks at its regional distribution center (RDC) in Mount Vernon, Texas. Lowe’s is working with its truckload carriers to convert their Lowe’s-dedicated fleets.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

The alliance coincided with the release of the Orinoco Belt to participation by foreign companies in 2005. PdVSA began the ‘Magna Reserva’ project in 2005, which involved dividing the Orinoco region into 27 blocks and quantifying the reserves in place.

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It converts manure to R-CNG using a large anaerobic digester, and uses the fuel to power its milk tanker trucks. That’s a 43% reduction in carbon emissions per gallon of milk, a selling point that helped the company negotiate an exclusive supply agreement with the national grocery chain Kroger. Source: “Cow Power” case study.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Clean energy technology company LanzaTech has been awarded funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to perform research focusing on novel, low-cost routes for the production of jet fuel (JP-8) from carbon monoxide (CO) rich sources. —Dr Jennifer Holmgren, LanzaTech’s chief executive.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Each combination of enzymes will be tested on pretreated agricultural waste that can first be converted into sugars and then into bio-based products and advanced biofuels. million (2001-2005). This is the third time Novozymes has partnered with the DOE for bioenergy enzyme development. million (2008-2012). Earlier post.).

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JUNE 23, 2009

billion for Ford Motor Company; $1.6 The Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, first appropriated in the fall of 2008, will provide about $25 billion in loans to companies making cars and components in US factories that increase fuel economy at least 25% above 2005 fuel economy levels.

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JUNE 1, 2011

The facility will convert grease, primarily animal fats and used cooking oil supplied by Darling, and potentially other feedstocks that become economically and commercially viable, into renewable diesel. The company also recovers and converts used cooking oil and commercial bakery waste into feed and fuel ingredients.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

CatLiq converts biomass and organic wastes in water at near or supercritical conditions (280-350 °C and 180-250 bar). Test results showed CatLiq converted 70-90% of the energy in the feedstream into energy in the bio-oil product. 2005) CatLiq—a Disruptive Technology for Biomass Conversion. Iversen, S.

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JUNE 24, 2009

The ClearFuels technology can convert multiple cellulosic biomass feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse and virgin wood waste into clean synthesis gas (syngas) suitable for integration with synthetic gas-to-liquids technologies. Between 1987 and 2004, Pearson Technologies, Inc.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

Worldwide industrial solutions company Harsco Corp. Together, the two companies will jointly develop plans to present the LanzaTech biotechnology to Harsco’s major steel mill customers and explore potential business relationships for installing and operating commercial facilities at selected sites throughout the world.

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JULY 29, 2010

Gevo, a privately held renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company ( earlier post) , has successfully produced isobutanol from fermentable sugars derived from cellulosic biomass. The company also successfully converted the cellulosic isobutanol into isobutylene and paraffinic kerosene (jet fuel). Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

If we produce, refine, and combust fuel equal to 10% of 2005 US gasoline consumption (3.3 Brandt (2009) Converting Oil Shale to Liquid Fuels with the Alberta Taciuk Processor: Energy Inputs and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. The largest stage of the project was proposed to produce 1.8 Mbbl of shale oil from 2.7

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

The Swedish government’s venture capital company for the automotive industry, Fouriertransform, is investing SEK 60 million (US$8.5 Powercell Sweden was formed in 2005 as a joint venture between AB Volvo and Statoil ASA. Powercell Sweden was formed in 2005 as a joint venture between AB Volvo and Statoil ASA. Earlier post.).

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JULY 6, 2011

China’s Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Company Ltd. has selected Honeywell’s UOP technology to convert methanol into building blocks for chemical products at an existing coal chemical complex in China. UOP and Total announced their partnership on this in 2005.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

A gasifier vessel utilizes proprietary plasma torches operating at >10,000 °F (5,538 °C) in order to create a gasification zone of up to 3,000 °F (1,649 °C) to convert solid or liquid wastes into a syngas. Source: AFE. Click to enlarge. Discussions are underway with third parties for the sale of syngas and electricity.

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JULY 8, 2011

a synthetic biology company producing renewable fuels and chemicals directly by microbes, has begun a collaboration with MAN Latin America, a leading Brazilian engineering and vehicles manufacturing company, to test LS9’s renewable diesel in both stationary engines and operational fleet vehicles in Brazil. LS9, Inc.,

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EPA’s newly released voluminous final Clean Power Plan rule ( earlier post ) has established the first national standards to limit CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants (Electric Generating Units, EGUs), with a target of a 32% reduction against a 2005 baseline by 2030. Several commenters also suggested that algae-based CCU (i.e.,

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JULY 31, 2010

VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass-to-methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel-grade methanol from forest-residue biomass. In a 2005 paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , Yin et al.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

a bioenergy and biofuels company based in Washington DC, has signed a letter of intent with Rentech, Inc. The facility will convert more than 500,000 metric tonnes of waste biomass feedstock into synthesis gas (BioSynGas) every year, using Solena’s proprietary plasma gasification technology. The Solena Group, Inc., Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

a California-based biotechnology company researching new treatments and methods of detection for diseases including cancer, HIV/AIDS and others, has launched a subsidiary called VG Energy , Inc. The new brand will help open doors with energy companies. Cells can convert fats to sugars and vice versa, or “burn” sugar for fuel.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

General Motors said that 52% of its worldwide facilities are now landfill-free; i.e., all waste generated from normal operations is reused, recycled or converted to energy. Plastic caps and shipping aids from the Fort Wayne facility are converted into radiator shrouds for the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups built at the plant.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

New Zealand-based LanzaTech has successfully produced 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD), a key building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels, using the company’s gas fermentation technology. LanzaTech has shown 2,3-BD production from waste gas resources in an industrial setting. Holmgren joined LanzaTech in June.).

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JUNE 25, 2010

Under a cost sharing arrangement the companies will match or exceed the FAA’s contribution, bringing the overall value of the program to more than $250 million. CFM International is a 50/50 joint company of GE and Snecma (Safran Group).). Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies company. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) (CFM

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

The components include catalytic converters, diesel particulate filters, diesel oxidation catalysts and selective catalytic reduction units. First appropriated in the fall of 2008, the program provides loans to companies making cars and components in US factories that increase fuel economy at least 25% above 2005 fuel economy levels.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The company will also pay a $12 million civil penalty. As part of the settlement, the company will spend an additional $6 million to reduce air pollution from diesel vehicle emissions in Texas City and the surrounding area. BP Products North America Inc. The plea is still under review by the US.

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MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established. Earlier post.). using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. Earlier post.).

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His contributions enabled the company to release its first Google Home product, a smart speaker, in 2016. The inverse text normalizer, most often used by text-to-speech tools on phones, converts speech into written expressions. He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company.

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JULY 2, 2009

The Volvo Group, through its company Volvo Technology Transfer, will receive investment from the companies Midroc New Technology and OCAS, as well as from the Swedish Energy Agency. Powercell Sweden was formed in 2005 as a joint venture between AB Volvo and Statoil ASA. Midroc is owned by Mohammed H.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

Recent successful field tests at its Colony Mine with the Electrofrac process for converting the kerogen in oil shale to producible oil and gas is prompting ExxonMobil to try again for a research and development lease from the Interior Department for a larger trial. ExxonMobil sought, but was denied, one in the first round in 2005.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

A consortium comprising researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with BioCee , a University of Minnesota start-up company as the commercialization partner, has been awarded $2.2 The goal is to build an integrated reactor system that very efficiently converts CO 2 into biofuel.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

The non-profit Bauhaus Luftfahrt is an internationally-oriented think tank created in November 2005 by the three aerospace companies EADS (today Airbus Group); Liebherr-Aerospace; and MTU Aero Engines as well as the Bavarian Ministry for Economic Affairs. The syngas is stored and finally converted into jet fuel via the FT process.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

and LanzaTech Ltd, two industrial biology companies, have begun a feasibility study to examine whether Global Bioenergies’ artificial isobutene pathway ( earlier post ), can be functionally transferred into LanzaTech’s carbon monoxide-using organism ( earlier post ). Global Bioenergies S.A. Jennifer Holmgren, LanzaTech CEO.

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MAY 7, 2010

In one pathway to the production of cellulosic biofuel, enzymes first convert cellulose and hemicellulose in agricultural waste to sugars which are then fermented into ethanol. Royal Nedalco” is a subsidiary company of the Dutch agro-industrial group Royal Cosun and is a leading producer of ethanol of agricultural origin in Europe.

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Research on hydrogen vehicles dipped until the 1990s when European countries announced plans for more hydrogen-centered car power, such as the 2005-07 bi-fuel BMW 7-Series with a V12 engine that ran on either compressed hydrogen or gasoline. Hydrogen Vehicles in 2022. California is essentially the only place in the U.S.

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In the early 1980s, Goetzberger conducted pioneering research into fluorescent planar collector-concentrators, utilizing photovoltaic (PV) material mixed with fluorescent dyes to separate the various wavelengths of light and convert them using solar cells with different band gaps. government as a telecommunications contractor.

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