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Suncor Energy has received conditional approval for its oil sands fluid tailings management plan from Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board ( ERCB ). Tailings are a mixture of fine clay, sands, water and residual bitumen produced through the oil sands extraction process, and are held in massive “ponds”.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. The oxygen content of the CatLiq bio-oil is 2-12%.

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and Schlumberger have created Liquid Robotics Oil & Gas , a joint venture to develop services for the oil and gas industry using Wave Gliders, the first wave-powered, autonomous marine vehicles. Initial customer deliveries of the Wave Glider unmanned maritime vehicle (UMV) took place in 2008. Liquid Robotics, Inc. Wave Glider.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. In 2008, UOP received a $1.5

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APRIL 1, 2010

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Oil Corp. IOCL and Honeywell’s UOP would also evaluate the viability of pyrolysis oil technology to convert lignocellulosic materials, or plant biomass, into renewable power and heat. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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One of those vehicles is a Mercedes-Benz E-Class powered by unblended renewable diesel produced by UOP’s Ecofining process ( earlier post ), using oil from algae provided by Solazyme. UOP launched its Renewable Energy & Chemicals business in late 2006. Earlier post.).

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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. barrels of water for each barrel of oil produced, he said.

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Mascoma will then convert the feedstock to cellulosic ethanol through its proprietary process, which produces lignin as a by-product. Chevron has filed applications for two patents on processes to convert lignin to a hydrocarbon feedstock via hydroprocessing; both applications were published on 3 September 2009. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 11, 2013

Pacific Ethanol, Stockton LLC has entered into an agreement to install Edeniq’s Cellunators to boost ethanol yields and OilPlus corn oil extraction process to increase corn oil recovery at the company’s Stockton, California ethanol plant. Earlier post.). In June, Edeniq received a $3.9

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have launched a joint venture, Envergent Technologies, LLC, to offer technology and equipment to convert second-generation biomass into pyrolysis oil for power generation, heating fuel and for conversion into transportation fuels. Honeywell and Ensyn announced their intention to form the joint venture in September 2008.

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Crude oil processing at La Mède will be halted at the end of 2016. European demand for petroleum products has declined 15% since 2008, shrinking outlets for the continent’s refining industry. In France, the draft bill on the energy transition toward green growth calls for increasing the share of biofuels to 15% in 2030 from 7.7%

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Celeroton AG, a leading manufacturer of ultra-high-speed electrical drive systems with speeds up to 1 million rpm, has launched its first turbo compressors with gas bearings—unique in their weight and performance, being wear- and oil-free, and obtaining the highest levels of energy efficiency. GB and CT-17-1000.GB,

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JANUARY 11, 2013

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will award some $25 million to four projects to research and development of next-generation renewable energy and high-value biobased products—such as biofuels—from a variety of biomass sources. The Department of Energy will make additional awards through this program. Ceramatec, Inc.,

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have created a continuous-flow process that produces useful crude oil less than one hour after receiving harvested algae. HTL converts wet algae slurries into an upgradeable biocrude. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Alon USA Energy, Inc. Current products include gas oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, and petroleum coke. Although the existing refinery has a maximum rated crude processing capacity of 70,000 bpd, due to a 2008 bankruptcy of the prior owner, crude oil refining was temporarily suspended. Alon USA Energy, Inc.,

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APRIL 1, 2009

A combined effort of all three academic partners in the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) will seek to increase the amount of oil that can be extracted from existing wells by using microbes within their geological habitat to help recover residual oil and enhance production.

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JUNE 13, 2010

million gallons US) of pyrolysis oil annually. This pyrolysis oil will be used to produce renewable energy in the form of electricity and heat that will be used in Tolko’s sawmill at High Level. The facility will also be capable of producing a renewable resin ingredient that can be used in the manufacture of wood panel products.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has begun construction in Hawaii of a demonstration unit that will convert forest residuals, algae and other cellulosic biomass into renewable drop-in transportation fuels via a rapid pyrolysis process integrated with a catalytic upgrading process. UOP, Ensyn and Envergent. In 2009, UOP and Ensyn Corp.

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The extended use of soy foam results from the continued research collaboration between Ford and Lear; Ford first used sustainable soybean oil-derived seating foam on the 2008 Mustang. The biomaterial has helped Ford reduce its annual petroleum oil usage by more than 3 million pounds.

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Since 2008, JetBlue has already offset more than 2.6 Instead of escaping into the air, LFG can be captured, converted and used as a renewable energy resource. In addition, LFG energy projects generate revenue and create jobs in the local community and beyond.

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Our agreement with Cetrel is perfectly aligned with our vision to develop a bio-based society, where biorefineries convert agricultural residues and waste into energy, chemicals, and other materials, thereby substituting fossil fuels. Sugarcane bagasse is a potentially abundant source of energy for Brazil.

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UOP notes that isobutanol-derived biofuels will offer new renewable sources for jet fuel production beyond the natural oils and biomass materials that have been introduced for commercial and military flight in the last several years—including those produced by UOP. C 8 –C 16 olefins); and. Earlier post.).

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Otherwise you’ll just be buying a dinosaur that you’ll have to pay to convert or dispose of. That’s EE Solar’s RAV4 and it has gone over 116,000 miles oil free. You can read all about it in my Greenius guide to plug-ins and my coverage of Plug-In 2008. A school teacher owns this car.

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Emerald is expected to use Honeywell’s UOP/Eni Ecofining ( earlier post ) process technology to produce 85 million gallons per year of Honeywell Green Diesel from non-edible, second-generation oils and animal fats. In 2008, Honeywell’s UOP partnered with Ensyn Corp.

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Credit: ACS, Boot 2008. Boot and his colleagues discussed the potential role of cyclic oxygenates in a 2008 paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. In this phase the CyclOx will still be produced by an external party from mineral oil. In their 2008 paper, Boot et al. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 6, 2010

The new technology, called BiCHEM (Biomass Chemical Conversion), was developed by BIOeCON with high potential for biofuels production for diesel blend content with superior energy density when compared with ethanol. Earlier post.) BiCHEM is BIOeCON’s second technology.

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APRIL 18, 2009

The Crow Tribe and Australian-American Energy Co. Announced in August 2008, Many Stars CTL is an energy development project led by AAEC in collaboration with the Crow Nation. LLC (AAEC) have executed the final project agreements for the Many Stars coal-to-liquids project to be constructed on the Crow Indian Reservation.

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JULY 20, 2012

Weak economic conditions, a mild winter, and energy. savings stimulated by high oil prices led to a decrease of 3% in CO 2 emissions in the European Union and of 2% in both the United States and Japan. tonnes per capita, despite a decline due to the recession in 2008-2009, high oil prices and an increased share of natural gas.

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IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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with technologies such as direct fuel injection, variable valve timing, exhaust-driven turbochargers, brake energy regeneration and Auto Start Stop function—about 60% of the generated energy is still lost, half of it being exhaust heat, with the remaining half as heat absorbed by the engine cooling system.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Bio-SPK blends have greater energy content by mass than typical petroleum-derived jet fuel—which potentially could lower fuel consumption per mile. The Bio-SPK process converts bio-derived oils (triglycerides and free fatty acids) to Bio-SPKs. First, the oils are cleaned using standard oil cleaning procedures.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Petrobras will be the first company to operate an FPSO (floating oil production, storage and outflow) type platform in the American portion of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), in the Cascade and Chinook fields. The vessel started being converted into an FPSO at the Cosco Shipyard, in Nantong, China, in March 2008. meters tall.

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Lear also has developed new automotive fabrics—Lear ECO Fabrics—made from 100% recycled plastic bottles and polyester yarn that reduce landfill waste and conserve energy and natural resources. SoyFoam , made from renewable soybean oil, has been on the Ford Mustang seats since 2008. The Evolution Seat. ECO Fabrics.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Darling International and a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation are taking initial steps towards the formation of a joint venture to build a facility capable of producing more than 10,000 barrels/day or (135 million gallons per year) of renewable diesel on a site adjacent to Valero’s St. Charles refinery near Norco, Louisiana.

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MAY 13, 2012

OsComp Systems, a startup formed by MIT alumni, has developed , with support from the US Department of Energy (DOE), a hybrid rotary compressor design that decreases the energy required to compress and transport natural gas, lowers operating costs, improves efficiencies and reduces the environmental footprint of well site operations.

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Doing so will decrease the industry’s current dependence on foreign oil and help stabilize fuel costs in the long run, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack during a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, DC. BCAP uses a dual approach to support the production of renewable energy.

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Virent Energy Systems, Inc. and Shell have successfully started production at the first demonstration plant converting plant sugars into gasoline and gasoline blend components, rather than ethanol. Luis Scoffone, Vice President of Alternative Energies at Shell. Virent’s BioForming platform technology. Click to enlarge.

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