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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In addition, the RFI requests stakeholders to contribute their views and opinions regarding the draft Conversion Technologies for Advanced Biofuels (CTAB) Roadmap developed as a result of the DOE CTAB road-mapping workshop held in December 2011. gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel) from lignocellulosic materials. Separation Science.

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APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. Conversion to work via. Scale of conversion to work.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $12 million in new funding ( DE-FOA-0000812 ) for projects to drive down the cost of producing drop-in gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass via thermochemical, direct liquefaction pathways (i.e. Thermochemical pathways for producing bioproducts from biomass. Source: DOE.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $12 million in new funding ( DE-FOA-0000812 ) for projects to drive down the cost of producing drop-in gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass via thermochemical, direct liquefaction pathways (i.e. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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MAY 12, 2011

Energy executives expect continued volatility in the price-per-barrel of oil for the remainder of the year, with 64% predicting crude prices to exceed $121 per barrel. Only 35% think current crude prices are near the high they expect for oil this year, predicting the peak will be between $111 and $120 per barrel. —John Kunasek.

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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. Production was achieved at lab scale, with pilot development slated for early 2011. Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. A paper presenting the results of the group’s latest year-long study on the lifecycle air emissions and oil displacement benefits of plug-in vehicles was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The contract was awarded to Foster Wheeler by OJSC Omskneftekhimproekt, the project engineering contractor for the Deep Oil Conversion Complex, a major revamp and modernization of the Atyrau refinery. This reduces fan power consumption by 40-50%, saving operating costs. (It ad by the marketing team.).

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JULY 27, 2012

Ethylene is a highly flexible chemical intermediate that can be converted to lower-cost fuels, chemicals, and materials.The company had closed a $20-million Series B in September 2011. Current catalysts exhibit either high selectivity coupled with low conversion or high conversion with low selectivity. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Specific goals are: 1) through R&D, make cellulosic biofuels competitive with petroleum-based fuels at a modeled cost for mature technology of $3 per gallon of gasoline equivalent (GGE) ($2011) based on EIA projected wholesale prices in 2017; and 2) help create an environment conducive to maximizing the production and use of biofuels by 2022.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

An hydrothermal process is one that involves water at elevated temperatures and pressures; hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is one of a number of methods for converting biomass conversion to biofuels or biofuel precursors. 2011) Characterization of product fractions from hydrothermal liquefaction of Nannochloropsis sp. Phillip Savage.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 3, 2012

My professional life has kept me busy, but I still have made good progress on my conversion. Winter 2011-2012: Engine Bay and Under-car: The car is now completely gas-less. Motor volts, amps, temperature will be showed on 2 inch round dials in the place of oil temp, 12V battery voltage, and fuel level. I have yet to see photos.

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APRIL 11, 2013

PNNL’s thermochemical conversion device is installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. The system converts natural gas into syngas—with higher energy content than natural gas—using a thermochemical conversion device installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. Photo: PNNL. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

The report, “ Developing New Paradigms for Biofuel Separations to Enable an Alternative Fuels Future ”, was released recently and is intended to serve as a research roadmap that will help address the current issues associated with the thermochemical conversion of biomass. The conversion unit. Biomass conversion unit.

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MARCH 29, 2012

INPEX Corporation, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd, Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd, and Chiyoda Corporation established the Nippon GTL Technology Research Association in October 2006 and conducted the project in cooperation with Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation. Ltd, Cosmo Oil Co.,

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Tax credits and gasoline prices necessary for various electric vehicles to be cost-competitive with conventional vehicles at 2011 vehicle prices. That finding takes into account both the higher purchase price of an electric vehicle and the lower fuel costs over the vehicle’s life. Source: CBO. Click to enlarge. Indirect effects.

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JULY 5, 2011

The conventional production of biodiesel relies on a transesterification reaction, catalyzed in either an acidic or preferably a basic medium, between a vegetable oil (90%) and an alcohol (10%). A saponification side reaction (methyl ester conversion into the corresponding acid salt) reduces methyl ester yield. —Brun et al.

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MARCH 5, 2013

This decision follows an investment decision in 2011 on a similar corridor in Alberta, Canada. Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana. Earlier post.) Gulf Coast.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The objective of the new agreement is to build 10 UK plants dealing with 60,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste per year and to commission the first plant in London by end 2011. Suez Environment will commission the first of the plants by the end of 2011 in the greater London area.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

Only if all these factors are taken into account is the cost of heat and electricity reduced and GHG emissions fully mitigated, they suggested. They estimated a yield of 851 GJ/ha/year biodiesel and coproducts in the form of oilcake (689 GJ/ha/year) and glycerol (89 GJ/ha/year), based on the assumption of an initial 30% oil content (22.5

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JULY 13, 2011

It is important that we pursue all practicable and cost-effective options to promote the use of alternative fuel vehicles. Increased use of alternative fuel vehicles holds the potential to help reduce our dependence on foreign oil, support the expansion of private-sector businesses and create new jobs here in the Commonwealth.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Total US oil consumption compared to potential and currently harvested nonfood biomass divided into its main uses. The chemical characteristics of biomass and many bulk chemicals are also very similar, so the processes should be more economical than those for the conversion into fuels. which is close to the ratio of crude oil.

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APRIL 21, 2011

This would represent an increase in biofuel use from 55 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) today (2% of transport fuel) to 750 Mtoe in 2050. However, there are caveats: it is important to reduce the use of fossil energy during cultivation, transport and conversion of biomass to biofuel.

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JUNE 29, 2011

The ATJ task force consists of technical experts from a wide stakeholder group including jet engine manufacturers, governmental bodies, fuel manufacturers, third-party testing laboratories, academics and airframe manufacturers investigating the requirements for a third major pathway to renewable drop-in jet fuel: the conversion of alcohols.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Extractions of products with organic solvents are energy and cost-intensive steps that change, to the worse, the overall energy balance of the process. The first step is the conversion of biomass into furfural—an established industrial process. 2011) Production of High-Quality Diesel from Biomass Waste Products.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

Collectively, these projects will be matched with more than $700 million in private and non-Federal cost-share funds, for total project investments of almost $1.3 The pilot plant will have the capacity to produce up to 890,000 gallons of ethanol and 690,000 gallons of potassium acetate per year starting in 2011. 17,944,902. 10,148,508.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

At the Dongguan TMEP facility, TRIG technology will be added to an existing gas turbine combined cycle plant so that it can use synthetic gas from coal as its fuel for generating electricity, rather than fuel oil. Low-rank coals—which typically have high ash and/or moisture content—account for roughly half of the worldwide coal assets.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Total US oil consumption compared to potential and currently harvested nonfood biomass divided into its main uses. The chemical characteristics of biomass and many bulk chemicals are also very similar, so the processes should be more economical than those for the conversion into fuels. which is close to the ratio of crude oil.

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JULY 26, 2011

The demonstration plant is slated for completion before the end of 2011. South Hampton Resources will complete the final design and engineering package for the demonstration plant from preliminary plans supplied by Gevo and will incur incidental costs related to site preparation and tie-ins. Earlier post.).

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JULY 5, 2011

—The World Economic and Social Survey 2011. The past decade was the first in two centuries with increasing CO2 emissions intensities, owing to a “coal revival”, in contrast with the rapid conversion to natural gas in the 1990s. —The World Economic and Social Survey 2011.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Production capacity must be established, and technology, vehicle cost and infrastructure barriers must be addressed to achieve large-scale market introduction. Estimated US supply of PEVs from 2011-2015. and model 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015. Fisker Karma EREV. Fisker Nina EREV. Ford Focus EV. Earlier post.).

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MAY 13, 2011

In a paper presented at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Coal Liquefaction and Gas Conversion Contractors Review Conference in 1995, Joo et al. In the presentation to investors, Celanese executives said that TCX enables the company to produce ethanol at the equivalent of gasoline produced with $60 per barrel crude oil (around $1.50/gallon).

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AUGUST 21, 2020

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. The cost of platinum makes hydrogen fuel cells an expensive proposition even in comparison to lithium-ion batteries.

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AUGUST 27, 2011

Aqueous phase processing (APP) is an exciting new technology for coupling solubilization of biomass with catalytic conversion of the resulting dissolved carbohydrate compounds into hydrocarbons and a variety of fuels and chemicals. ” Resources. Ning Li, Geoffrey A. Tompsett, Taiying Zhang, Jian Shi, Charles E. Wyman and George W.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

This method is not totally satisfying, the authors note, because of the problem of diesel fuel mixing together with engine oil (the oil dilution problem); this requires increasing the oil changing frequency. trap catalyst. in association with ArvinMeritor and, more recently, by Park et al., trap regeneration.

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Honda S2000 EV Conversion

APRIL 20, 2010

Although it's great to not have given my money to the oil companies or burned the gas, the actual conversion cost vs returns would never pay off before something needs to be replaced (i.e. 2011/2012 will be a huge turn for the auto industry.I batteries). can't wait!

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