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MARCH 11, 2010

POET plans to decrease water use in the production of ethanol by 22% over the next five years in the first goal of its sustainability initiative, Ingreenuity. If successful, it will cut the company’s water used per gallon of ethanol from an average of 3 gallons to 2.33, an annual water savings of one billion gallons. Caro (Mich.)

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APRIL 7, 2010

Basic operation of the Opcon Powerbox ORC waste heat recovery system. Opcon, the Sweden-based energy and environmental technology Group, will install an Opcon Powerbox—an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) waste heat recovery system—on one of Wallenius’ ships. An Opcon Powerbox during delivery to Munksjö Aspa Bruk, Sweden, in June 2009.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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MARCH 27, 2015

These tests resulted in the combined 115% freight efficiency improvement over a 2009 baseline truck. liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. SuperTruck is supported by the US DOE under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. mpg (19.26 Powertrain.

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MARCH 25, 2009

Europe must dramatically cut its water consumption and use water more efficiently if it is to avoid the worst impacts of water shortage, the European Environment Agency ( EEA ) warns in a new report, “Water resources across Europe—confronting water scarcity and drought”. “

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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MAY 30, 2020

The researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed innovative processes that make it possible to extract CO 2 from the atmosphere and, together with water and with the help of concentrated sunlight, convert it into a synthesis gas that can be used to produce jet fuel.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

RNG, also known as biomethane, can be derived from many abundant and renewable sources, including decomposing organic waste in landfills, wastewater treatment and agriculture. Since 2009, UPS has invested more than $750 million in alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles and fueling stations globally. .; Horsham, Pa.

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APRIL 6, 2011

WVO collects and removes water, food particles and other impurities from waste vegetable oil then ships the bio feedstock to a processing company that produces an 80/20 diesel/biodiesel blend (B20) that will be used to fuel hundreds of food delivery trucks at the US Foodservice-Columbia Division in Lexington, SC.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

The REPREVE seat fabric is a polyester fiber made from a hybrid blend of recycled materials, including post-industrial fiber waste and post-consumer waste such as the plastic water bottles made of PET. In 2009, Ford mandated that fabric suppliers use a minimum of 25% recycled content for all 2009 and beyond model year vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Hydrogen production from cellodextrin and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway. 2009) Click to enlarge. In 2007, the researchers had reported the development of a novel method using a combination of 13 enzymes to form an unnatural enzymatic pathway to completely convert starch and water in one reactor into hydrogen.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Since 2009, GMZ has intensified its focus on increasing the productivity and performance levels of thermoelectric material, and adapting different market-based applications for turning otherwise lost heat into electricity. This increases each solar water system’s value with minimal cost and accelerates the payback to customers.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

TMC and Aisin provided equipment for the project’s 2009 test program. They feature higher load efficiency of the power-generating unit during low output (partial load efficiency) and greater hot water tank capacity, resulting in more effective use of waste heat. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Based on a Renault Trucks T, Optifuel Lab 2 is an ongoing version of the Optifuel Lab 1 introduced in 2009. We therefore electrically powered several of the vehicle’s auxiliary items of equipment such as the air-conditioning, water pump, fuel pump and the steering pump. Waste heat recovery. Aerodynamics: the water drop effect.

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2015 Vehicles Solar Waste 247

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AUGUST 15, 2011

between 2008 and 2009 due to the global financial crisis, global oil consumption recovered by 3.1% million barrels per day in 2009. Canadian oil sands now contribute around half of that country’s crude oil production and are expected to provide a growing share, but they are energy- and water-intensive to develop.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. Population Growth: The world population is expected to grow to 8.4

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

RMOTC received funding from GTP in 2009 to develop infrastructure for future geothermal testing at the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. The Tensleep hot water was previously treated as a waste stream. extracted heat from the water to operate a 250 kW generator. million barrels of co-produced hot water. of Reno, Nev.,

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MAY 21, 2010

In addition, oil sands imports could ultimately increase to a range of 20% to 36% of US oil and refined product imports by 2030 from the 2009 level of 8%, according to the Dialogue ’s first report, The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply. barrels of water per barrel of bitumen for in situ production. Conventional oil uses 0.1

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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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JULY 8, 2009

The House Approprations committee also has agreed to a $40 million increase for hydrogen transportation systems ($108 million total) originally added to the DOE FY2010 budget by the House Energy and Water Development Subcommittee. million, the same as in FY 2009 enacted level. Electricity and Energy Reliability would receive $179.6

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Credit: ACS, Kennedy 2009. Tonnes CO 2 e/capita.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Virent Energy Systems is receiving one of five 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards (Small Business Award) for its BioForming process—a water-based, catalytic method to make gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel from the sugar, starch, or cellulose of plants that requires little external energy other than the plant biomass.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

The process also uses less than half the water per gallon than required for the production of gasoline from conventional crude, and about one-third to one-quarter of the water per gallon required for the production of gasoline from oil sands oil, Bolson said. gallons of water are required to produce one gallon of corn ethanol.

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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. New Oil Resources’ process uses near-critical water to treat the biomass in a process commonly referred to as hydrothermal liquefaction or thermal depolymerization.

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JULY 23, 2009

Scientists in Nevada are reporting development of a new and environmentally friendly process for producing biodiesel fuel from chicken feather meal, made from the 11 billion pounds of poultry industry waste that accumulate annually in the United States alone. Schematic representation of biodiesel production from poultry waste.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

to 3-fold to serve as the sole feedstock for ethanol biofuel production, it could easily integrate with other more concentrated feedstocks—either as whole juice or as a waste stream from neutraceutical production—to serve as diluent, supplemental feedstock, and nitrogen supplement for the yeast. The researchers concluded that the 8.4

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JUNE 26, 2009

The Wits COMPS F-T technology, which relies on a combination of a fixed bed catalytic system and an interconnection of units implementing a one-pass process, is modular and scaleable, and offers a 20-30% lower capital cost per barrel than first-generation F-T plants, with lower requirements for water and approximately 30% less CO 2 output.

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JULY 15, 2011

Conducting this BTW analysis is simple and straightforward because it not only avoids uncertainties or debates for (i) biomass production-related issues, (ii) feedstock collection and transport, and (iii) land use change, but also excludes water consumption issues and greenhouse gas emissions in the whole biosystem. Zhang 2009.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Since 1990, GM has decreased its manufacturing emissions by 60%.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

BMW dedicated a portion of its recent Innovation Days 2009 event to the topic of Intelligent Heat management as a mechanism for reducing fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. The remaining two-thirds are lost as waste heat going into the environment through the car’s exhaust emissions and through the radiator. Heating with waste heat.

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DECEMBER 28, 2010

In other words, each batch has a less water and more ethanol, further increasing yield and efficiency. Inbicon has constructed the world’s largest demonstration plant for second generation bioethanol production from straw, which has been operated since November 2009. metric tons of EFB per day.

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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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JULY 31, 2009

The new material is being assessed in a three-year project which started in May 2009. The compound of wood and plastics prevents water absorption and thus increases the material’s durability. The fact that untreated wood, and even wood waste, can be used makes the application environmentally attractive.

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JULY 4, 2010

Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing an ozone-based pre-treatment technique (ozonolysis) to release sugars from the energy grass miscanthus for production into renewable fuels or chemicals with minimal generation of chemical waste streams and degradation of the carbohydrate components. García-Cubero et al.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

For example machining work at the new plant uses a water recovery system similar to that at the BMW Group Plant Steyr (Austria), resulting in completely wastewater-free production. In addition, 90% of the sand used for casting can be recycled to reduce waste to a minimum.

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JULY 24, 2009

The Coyote Gulch Demonstration Facility is expected to be producing the equivalent of 3,000 gal·ac -1 ·yr -1 (11,000 L·ac -1 ·yr -1 ) of algal oil by late 2009. Solix Biofuels has completed the construction of and begun algal oil production at its Coyote Gulch Demonstration Facility. In June, Solix completed its $16.8

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Algae have the potential to produce large volumes of fuel per unit area of production on marginal lands using saline water unsuitable for food crops. Thus, algal biofuels could expand transportation energy supplies, without significantly displacing land and water resources that would otherwise have been used for food production.

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