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Topsoe and Steeper Energy , a developer of biomass conversion technologies, signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution. The end-products include Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), marine biofuel, and renewable diesel from waste biomass. Steeper Energy was founded in 2011 and is backed by TOM Capital.
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. This requires water and an acid catalyst. 2011) Production of High-Quality Diesel from Biomass Waste Products.
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.
Globally, water demand is threatening to dangerously outpace supply, while in the US, dry states such as Texas and California are suffering from shortages and the future forebodes more suffering. For the North American shale boom, the lack of water is suffocating. How we can turn toilet water into tap water.
Panasonic has developed novel thermoelectric tubes designed for fluid heat sources such as hot water and steam. Panasonic says that its thermoelectric tube is suited for capturing unused or wasted heat from hot springs and factories. W of electricity by running hot water of 90 °C inside, and cold water of 10 °C outside the tube.
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. A hat-tip to Harold!).
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft analysis of data from its Pavillion, Wyoming ground water investigation, indicating that ground water in the aquifer contains compounds likely associated with gas production practices, including hydraulic fracturing. Background.
GE’s system will recycle a portion of the OTSG blowdown, thereby decreasing the volume of liquid waste from the facility and increasing the volume of boiler feed water available for generation of steam and production of bitumen. This project is the fifth to utilize GE’s evaporation technologies for OTSG blowdown treatment.
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.
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.
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. A total of 37 fabrics now meet the requirements and have been incorporated into Ford vehicles.
The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah. Overlay of the proposed plant site on the terrain.
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.
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.
Sundrop Fuels will use a multi-phase process to convert sustainable forest waste into a bio-based drop-in gasoline for use in today’s combustion engines. water is then converted to light olefins (C 2 -C 4 ). MTG reactor product is separated into gas, raw gasoline and water. Water (H 2 O) represents 56% of the feed.
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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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Dresser-Rand will showcase its Guascor biogas engines—with ratings from 140 to 1240 kW—to visitors attending the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) Biennial Conference & Exhibition 2014. a leading supplier of diesel and gas engines, in 2011. Dresser-Rand acquired Grupo Guascor S.L.,
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per gallon, according to the company, while also dealing with the issue of waste nuclear materials. However, other materials including nuclear waste from conventional reactors, or natural uranium can be used to produce energy if additional neutrons can be added. —Bowman and Johnson (2011). —Bowman and Johnson (2011).
The home is also three times more water-efficient than a typical US home. All of the energy for space heating, space cooling, ventilation, lighting, hot water, appliances and consumer loads, in addition to the transportation energy for the Honda Fit EV, is supplied by the solar panels on the home. Water efficiency.
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Since the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, groundwater has been trickling through the damaged facilities at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant , filtering through the melted cores and fuel rods and becoming irradiated with a whole medley of radioisotopes. Others—like cobalt-60 and cerium-144—entered the water later.
Started in April of 2011, a customized production process for DARPA will be engineered, constructed and operated at Terrabon’s Bryan, TX demonstration facility in an effort to yield 6,000 liters of jet fuel through the use of the company’s MixAlco technology in preparation for commercialization of this technology. Houston-based Terrabon, Inc.
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The Volkswagen Group’s Sustainability Report has been published annually since 2011. Since late 2011, “Think Blue. The volume of metallic “waste” increased in absolute terms over the reporting period as a whole due to increased production across the Volkswagen Group and the introduction of new models. By 2018, “Think Blue.
The four-year projet ORCNext , aimed at developing knowledge and design tools for next generation of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs), has concluded that waste heat recovery efficiency can be increased by 20 to 25% through appropriate cycle selection, efficient expanders, appropriate control and less oversizing of the heat exchangers.
First, LanzaTech captures waste carbon from refineries and manufacturing plants and feeds the CO-rich gas to microbes that consume the gas and produce ethanol. The catalyst first removes water from the ethanol (dehydration), leaving behind ethylene. The process works in two stages. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).
MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to produce ethanol and chemicals via LanzaTech’s fermentation process using syngas resulting from the gasification of coal.
NewCO2Fuels was founded in 2011 to commercialize a technology developed by Prof. In passing the Stage 1 testing, NCF demonstrated technology that successfully dissociates CO 2 into CO and oxygen in a heating environment, simulating the industrial waste heat sources that will be used as one of two energy sources in the commercial product.
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.
The 2011 Ford Super Duty. Ford’s all-new 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty trucks are equipped with new diesel and gasoline engine powertrains that deliver improvements in torque, horsepower and fuel economy. Locked converter operation at lower speeds means less wasted heat energy and better fuel economy. Click to enlarge.
Water purification technology company Aquatech has been awarded a contract for a Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) plant for a coal-to-chemicals facility in Hailer in Inner Mongolia. of it, producing 2000 m 3 /day (528,000 gallons US/day) of process water and 220 m 3 /day (58,000 gallons US/day) of distilled water for various end-user applications.
In MQL, a machining tool is lubricated with a very small amount of oil sprayed directly on the tip of the tool in a finely atomized mist, instead of with a large quantity of coolant/water mixture. Ford now is working on setting a new goal focused on increasing it use of renewable energy while maintaining its energy efficiencies.
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.
at Harsco’s world headquarters in Pennsylvania, taps into Harsco’s leadership serving the worldwide steel industry, in combination with LanzaTech’s proprietary bioenergy technologies for reducing the carbon footprint of integrated steelmaking operations by converting waste gas to ethanol and high value chemicals.
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The area has excellent conditions for industrial activities: a deep-water harbor and an excellent electricity transmission network. We will systematically address all parts of the value chain to reduce overall carbon footprint, reduce waste and develop circular solutions. The production is planned to start by end of 2026.
billion convertible issue from waste-to-energy specialist China Everbright International and a $311-million IPO by US fuel cell developer Bloom Energy. billion in the first nine months of 2018, making this year certain to be the strongest since at least 2011. billion, up 11-fold, making investment in 2018 the highest since 2011.
Geologic pumped hydroelectric storage works by pumping water to a reservoir behind a dam when electricity demand is low. When demand is high, the water is released through turbines that generate electricity. These structures would serve both as anchors to moor the floating turbines and as a means of storing the energy they produce.
trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. —The World Economic and Social Survey 2011. —The World Economic and Social Survey 2011.
NPR-3, located near Midwest, Wyoming, produces oil and 45,000 barrels of 190 °F (88 °C) water per day from the Tensleep formation and 28,000 barrels of 210 °F (99 °C) water per day from the Madison formation. The Tensleep hot water was previously treated as a waste stream. of Reno, Nev.,
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