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An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Ellen Stechel, recycling CO 2 program development lead for Sandia National Laboratories. Earlier post.).

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JULY 1, 2010

an early stage provider of cellulosic biomass feedstock derived from municipal solid waste (MSW) for energy and bio-based chemical production, will install its demonstration vessel at Fiberight LLC’s cellulosic ethanol pilot plant in Lawrenceville, Va. CleanTech Biofuels, Inc.,

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APRIL 14, 2017

With a $2-million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Berkeley Lab is partnering with Alphabet Energy to create a cost-effective thermoelectric waste heat recovery system to reduce both energy use in the industrial sector and electricity-related carbon emissions.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

SGCE) for the demonstration and commercialization of the Group’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology, primarily for Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) and Waste-to-Liquids (WTL) applications. million of further funding directly to the Group over the balance of 2009 and 2010. Earlier post.). Oxford Catalysts’ US subsidiary, Velocys, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

s Rialto Renewable Energy Center for the conversion of biomass to transportation fuels. The unconverted fractionator bottoms product can be fed to an FCC unit or lube oil hydrofinishing unit, or it can be recycled back to the process for full conversion to lighter high-value products.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

reported a major step forward in its development of renewable fuels, achieving direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.) It won’t happen overnight, but this latest milestone opens the door to an industry-changing technology.

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JULY 28, 2009

Using electrolyzed water rather than harsh chemicals could be a more effective and environmentally friendly method in the pretreatment of ethanol waste products to produce an acetone-butanol-ethanol fuel mix, according to research conducted at the University of Illinois. Resources. Transactions of the ASABE. 52(3): 885-892.

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JULY 22, 2010

The six projects were initially selected for a first-phase funding in October 2009 as part of a $1.4 Novomer will develop a process for converting waste CO 2 into a number of polycarbonate products (plastics) for use in the packaging industry. Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels. Alcoa, Inc.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

USDA funding will be used to construct a 55,000 square foot facility that will produce cellulosic ethanol by converting municipal solid waste and other industrial pulps into advanced biofuels, as well as using conventional renewable biofuel derived from seed corn waste. million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

was established to deploy a commercially ready, patented and proven Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis Technology Process for the profitable conversion of cellulosic waste materials to renewable fuel sources, including cellulosic ethanol, biodiesel, biojet fuel, and drop-in fuels. BlueFire Renewables, Inc.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

New Oil Resources licensed the technology (US Patent 6,180,845 ) in 2009 from Louisiana State University (LSU); the original developers of the process are Drs. Immediate applications include processing municipal sewage sludge, processing waste streams from the ethanol industry and converting algae to fuel.

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The catalytic hydrothermal conversion-to-jet (CHCJ) process 100% alternative fuel performed as expected during a ground test 30 August at NAWCAD’s Aircraft Test and Evaluation Facility (ATEF), followed by the first test flight 1 September, said Rick Kamin, energy and fuels lead for Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). Earlier post.)

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JULY 8, 2009

Enerkem, a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals technology company, will jointly form an advanced energy research center with the City of Edmonton and the Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI). Earlier post.). The research center will include laboratory equipment and a well-instrumented pilot plant.

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MAY 14, 2020

The first five alternative jet fuels incorporated as Annexes of D7566 are: Annex A1: Fischer-Tropsch Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (FT-SPK) (2009). Blending: Required to be blended with petroleum-based jet fuel, up to a 50% maximum level. Feedstock(s): Syngas.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

E-Fuel, the developer of a home ethanol system—the Efuel100 MicroFueler —and Sierra Nevada have agreed to house MicroFuelers at the brewery in Chico, California, enabling Sierra Nevada to manufacture its own ethanol using waste from its brewing process. million gallons of unusable “bottom of the barrel” beer yeast waste to farmers each year.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

This is to stimulate the development of alternative, second-generation biofuels from non-food feedstock, such as waste or straw, which emit substantially less greenhouse gases than fossil fuels and do not directly interfere with global food production. Member States then have to transpose the provisions into national law within one year.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

At that level of efficiency, TE materials become useful in practical applications such as waste heat recovery in vehicles, Kaviany noted. But we did not know what features we could manipulate to maximize the conversion of heat into electricity. of N-type Skutterudites , 2009 DoE Thermoelectrics Applications Workshop. 105.265901.

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JULY 8, 2011

The process developed by Global Bioenergies allows the conversion of plant resources such as cane or beet sugar, crop-derived starch or agricultural and forestry lignocellulosic waste (e.g. million) in 2009 to support an earlier development phase of the isobutene process.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel and bionaphtha. The Mayor of London launched the Foodwaste to Fuel Alliance in 2009 to speed up the development of infrastructure to convert London’s food waste into fuel to cut landfill rates and carbon emissions.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

The BioEnergy Center, located near Vero Beach, Florida, is a commercial-scale project that will produce eight million gallons (24kta) of advanced biofuels and six megawatts (gross) of renewable power annually from renewable biomass including local yard, vegetative and household wastes. The INEOS Bio process has three main steps: Gasification.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Under the MOU, Hughes Hardwood will supply 1,000 dry ton per day of wood product for conversion into approximately 16 million gallons of synthetic jet or diesel fuel and 4 million gallons of naphtha per year, as well as approximately 8 MW of excess renewable power. The project is currently expected to be operational by early 2014.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) published 12 January 2009 projects corn production in China for the 2008/2009 season will hit 165.5 China is the second-largest corn producer in the world, behind the US. million metric tons (20.9% of global total). of global total).

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AUGUST 13, 2009

the developer of technology for efficient and non-destructive ( earlier post ) extraction of oil from algae, led a consortium in a recently submitted application for a grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 targeting the beneficial use of CO 2. OriginOil, Inc., mineralization), plastics, and fuels. Carbon Sciences.

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JUNE 26, 2009

The agreement grants AFC exclusive rights to market the Wits conversion technology in the Americas. The agreement follows AFC’s announcement of 13 May 2009 on the agreement with Turtle Island Recycling Corporation for waste material as feedstock for the production of fuels and chemical feedstocks in Sarnia, Ontario.

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JULY 15, 2011

fertilizers, pesticides, farm machinery), energy conversion coefficients among different energy forms and sources, system boundaries, and so on. Because of the same input and output in all cases, an increase in energy conversion efficiency nearly equals impact reductions in carbon and water footprints on the environment. Zhang 2009.

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JULY 24, 2009

2009) Click to enlarge. Direct sources of gaseous HCl include garbage burning, incineration of municipal and medical wastes, burning of biomass, agricultural products and coal, and industrial processes, e.g., semiconductor and petroleum manufacturing. Raff et al. Mark Gordon of Iowa State University also helped with theory. Raff et al.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

These findings foreshadow a new catalytic system available for applications both in academic laboratories and in industry, allowing stoichiometric reductions mediated by Fe or Na 2 S to be performed in a catalytic fashion and greatly reducing subsequent waste production. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja9061097.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

In 2009, UOP and Ensyn Corp. 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. The demonstration plant, which will be built at the Tesoro Corp. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Source: PRO-BIP 2009. —PRO-BIP 2009. The main reasons are economic barriers (especially production costs and capital availability), technical challenges in scale-up, the short-term availability of bio-based feedstocks and the need for the plastics conversion sector to adapt to the new plastics. —PRO-BIP 2009.

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High conversion efficiency NO x after-treatment and particulate filters. Waste heat recovery. Combustion control and optimization technology. Advanced air management system (exhaust gas recirculation, turbocharger, supercharging). Alternative fuel combustion. Engine thermal management. Engine friction reduction. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

RFS2 requires that US transportation fuel contain 36 billion gallons of biofuels in 2022; at least 16 billion of the 36 billion gallons of biofuels required in 2022 are to be made from such cellulosic feedstocks as perennial grasses, crop residue, and wood waste. Significant challenges must be overcome to meet the RFS targets.

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MAY 4, 2009

At SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit last month, Ford Motor Company presented a research paper that detailed the results of an initial investigation, termed a Design of Experiment, into thermoelectric exhaust heat energy recovery in conjunction with a hybrid powertrain. Indirect configurations are also possible. Adapted from Hussain et al.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding 20 grants for FY 2009 in two research areas on natural systems: biosensing and bioactuation (12 awards); and obtaining hydrocarbons from biomass and microorganisms (8 awards). Quick conversion of biomass. Carpita, Maureen C. McCann, and Fabio H. Ribeiro, all from Purdue University.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Diesel Brewing’s process gasifies wood wastes, agricultural residues and manure into a syngas that is cleaned and fed into a catalytic reactor and purification system to generate a suite of alcohols containing butanol, ethanol and methanol. We don’t want to merely make electric power from these waste products.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

2009) Click to enlarge. The non-efficient conversion of starch and its limited supplies would have economically prohibited large-scale hydrogen production through that approach, the researchers concluded. The researchers used cellulosic materials isolated from wood chips, but crop waste or switchgrass could also be used.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

While this mainly depends on the feedstock and conversion technology, other factors including methodological assumptions also have an impact. Another constraint is the way land conversion related impacts are attributed. Life-cycle assessments (LCA) of biofuels show a wide range of net greenhouse gas savings compared to fossil fuels.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

What we found is an astonishing volume of present and projected future greenhouse emissions due to the conversion of biocarbon to carbon dioxide and methane. Findings of the paper include: As of June 1, 2009, 68,574 ha of boreal forest and peatlands had been cleared for oil sands surface mining. Resources. P Lee and R Cheng.

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