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JANUARY 16, 2013

Total toxic air releases in 2011 declined 8% from 2010, mostly because of decreases in hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions, even while total releases of toxic chemicals increased for the second year in a row, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) report published today.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Waste Management and EB Investments are investing C$15 million (US$14.6 Total financing raised by Enerkem in 2011, both at the corporate and project subsidiary levels, now amounts to C$103 million. The Enerkem Alberta Biofuels facility will use the City of Edmonton’s landfill-bound waste to create renewable fuels and chemicals locally.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

has earned the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials Services Foundation’s (RSB’s) sustainability certification for the joint venture’s facility that converts waste steel mill gases to sustainable biofuels. LanzTech and the Shougang Group signed the joint venture agreement in September 2011. to the worldwide CO 2 emissions.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Tenneco and Gentherm (formerly BSST/Amerigon) are part of a US Department of Energy (DOE) consortium actively developing a thermoelectric generator (TEG) for capturing waste exhaust heat in vehicles and converting it to electrical energy to be used to power electrical systems within the vehicle. Source: Crane (2013).Click Click to enlarge.

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JULY 13, 2015

The partners said the project will demonstrate the added value of recycling waste streams, not only by reducing emissions at source, hence reducing ArcelorMittal’s direct carbon footprint, but by keeping fossil fuels in the ground through the production of commodity chemicals and fuels that would otherwise be made from oil. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In a milestone for the low-carbon fuel project, LanzaTech has produced 1,500 gallons of jet fuel from waste industrial gases from steel mills via a fermentation process for Virgin Atlantic. Virgin Atlantic and LanzaTech have been working together on the project since 2011. HSBC joined the partnership in 2014. The process.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

The 2011 Ford Explorer is 85% recyclable. The 2011 Explorer uses 25% recycled fiber in its interior fabrics, including seat upholstery, bolster and carpeting. The new SUV leverages Ford’s use of bio foam and recycled fabric in its interior, as well as recycled steel in select exterior parts.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste and residue raw materials, has agreed to acquire Bunge Loders Croklaan’s refinery plant located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands for a purchase price of €258 million (US$302 million).

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MAY 2, 2011

Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) can be used to recover low-grade waste heat. Defining the operational conditions of the ORC that achieve the maximum utilization of waste heat is important. Mu (2011) Study of working fluid selection of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) for engine waste heat recovery. Zhang, B.Y. Zhao and Q.H.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies has received a purchase order from its licensee Phoenix Power Group (PPG) for two waste oil power generators. The new Phoenix 10kW waste oil generator will be powered by Cyclone’s WHE-25 engine—a compact, scalable waste heat engine—using a specially designed, clean emissions combustion chamber.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Neste Oil celebrated the official opening of Europe’s first pilot plant for producing microbial oil from waste and residues at its site in Porvoo, Finland. Increasing the use of waste and residues in the production of NExBTL renewable diesel is one of our most important goals. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Shell contributed the cellulosic ethanol technology during the formation of Raízen, a joint venture with Cosan SA, in 2011. Since then, Raízen has developed and scaled-up the process for making low-carbon intensity ethanol from sugar-cane waste. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The waste plastics to hydrocarbon fuels liquefaction technology is based on pyrolysis and distillation. 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. Cynar system.

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MAY 8, 2020

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste and residue raw materials, has acquired 100% of the Dutch Count Companies BV’s Count Terminal Rotterdam BV and its supporting entities, part of the First Dutch Group of Peter Goedvolk. The transaction was signed and closed on 7 May 2020.

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JUNE 30, 2011

Panasonic says that its thermoelectric tube is suited for capturing unused or wasted heat from hot springs and factories. This development was partially presented at the Electronic Materials Conference held in Santa Barbara, California on 22 June 2011. Panasonic’s thermoelectric conversion tube. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

Within that, reported methane emissions from the sector decreased by 12% since 2011, with the largest reductions coming from hydraulically fractured natural gas wells, which have decreased by 73% during that period, according to the data. from the previous year.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

A team at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) has designed a new simple, energy-efficient process (that also does not require any organic solvents) for the production of renewable diesel from biomass waste. The process described herein opens new routes for producing high quality diesel from waste biomass. and Villandier, N.

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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. Tags: Ports and Marine Waste Heat Recovery. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

UK-based TMO Renewables Ltd, the developer of a novel thermophilic bacterium and process for converting biomass into fuel ethanol ( earlier post ), has entered into an exclusive contract with Fiberight LLC to design and build waste to bioethanol plants in the US.

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APRIL 9, 2010

MHI) has completed its first unit of the STG (Super Turbo Generating) System, a marine-use, high-efficiency, combined power generation system that utilizes waste heat and the exhaust gas from diesel engines. Møller - Mærsk A/S, a Danish shipping company, in 2011. Tags: Engines Ports and Marine Waste Heat Recovery.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Lufthansa earlier announced that it will begin a six-month trial of NExBTL renewable jet fuel in April 2011 with an Airbus A321 on scheduled commercial flights on the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Hamburg route. Finnair is especially interested in utilizing logging waste from forests at home in Finland, according to the report. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In 2011, after China restricted its exports of rare-earths, the price of neodymium and dysprosium rose by approximately 750% and 2000% respectively. Processing 1 tonne of rare-earths can produce up to 2000 tonnes of toxic waste. While these prices have settled, rare-earths also present environmental concerns.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

energy sector will spur a flurry of M&A and investment activity in 2011 as renewable energy. Sustainable Industries Predictions for 2011 include: Cap and Trade Discarded by Congress in National Energy Policy. Waste to Energy Technology Ready for Prime Time. Cascadia Capital , a diversified, boutique investment.

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environmental program: since 2011, the consumption of resources in vehicle production has been reduced by an average of 24.3% ( Earlier post.) The Volkswagen foundry in Hanover uses waste heat from the cooling system in various applications such as heating offices in winter or to heat up drinking water.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies and its licensee Phoenix Power Group (PPG) have announced positive results of preliminary emissions testing of the combustion system of the Phoenix 10, the first small-scale waste oil power generator. Acceptable emissions of SO 2 and NO x required by many state environmental agencies are below 5 tons per year.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Ford Motor Company’s Oakville Assembly plant in Canada now sends no operational waste-to-landfill, an achievement that gives Ford Motor Company the distinction of becoming landfill-free at all its manufacturing facilities in Canada. A total of 21 Ford facilities around the globe maintain zero waste-to-landfill status.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Waste feedstocks are defined in the enabling legislation specifically as “ previously used or discarded solid, liquid or contained gaseous material with heating value resulting from industrial, commercial or household food service activities that would otherwise be stored, treated, transferred or disposed. The Clean Energy Biofuels Act.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The IBR is anticipated to produce certified renewable fuels in late 2011. The gasifier is designed to produce bio-synthesis gas from various high impact wood waste and sugarcane bagasse feedstocks. Commissioning, validation and start-up of the renewable energy demonstration facility are underway.

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MAY 27, 2010

The new plant comes online in the third quarter of 2011 and will produce three million gallons of bioethanol made from corn stover a year. In 2009, we forged this partnership in China to develop biofuel from agricultural waste; today, we are one step closer to producing commercial quantities. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 24, 2021

Boeing worked with airlines, engine manufacturers and others to conduct biofuel test flights starting in 2008 and gain approval for sustainable fuels in 2011. Sustainability of the fuels is assured through credible sustainability certifications through third-party organizations such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials.

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JUNE 19, 2012

In its landfill-free efforts, GM first reduces waste and then focuses on recycling and reuse. In 2011, it recycled or reused 2.6 GM began tracking its waste 15 years ago, and, armed with this insight, improves its recycling each year. Since 1997, the company has reduced total waste by at least 43%.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The TEG technology, which converts waste heat from gas exhaust into electric energy and has the potential to improve passenger car fuel efficiency by as much as 5%. This follow-on light-duty vehicle project, funded in 2011, has a target of a 5% fuel economy improvement. That project, which received more than $7.1 Resources. ????

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The plant started operations in 2011 to treat portable electronics batteries and the first generations of EV batteries. This newest generation technology will be available for the market in 2022, and ensures minimal waste and impact on the environment, which will be vital for the surge in EV car adoption.

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JUNE 20, 2011

billion in 2011 to $98.5 The 2011 award winners are: Greener synthetic pathways: Genomatica, San Diego, Calif. Genomatica has been producing BDO at pilot scale in 3,000 liter fermentations since the first half of 2010, and is moving to production at demonstration scale in 2011. billion by 2020.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Neste’s sustainable aviation fuel is produced from renewable waste and residue raw materials. As part of the collaboration, Lufthansa will use Neste’s sustainable aviation fuel blended with fossil jet fuel on flights departing from Frankfurt. The first batch of sustainable aviation fuel was delivered to Lufthansa earlier this year.

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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.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Volkswagen Chattanooga announced that, following an independent audit, the factory has met requirements to receive of the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) 14001:2004 and 50001:2011 certifications. Green Building Council in December 2011, and was named the 2012 Edison Green Award recipient earlier this year.

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