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DECEMBER 25, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting research suggestions for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Annual Research Plan in the form of brief conceptual descriptions that address specified research gaps and support the Board’s ongoing regulatory and policy priorities. The deadline to submit research concepts is 31 January 2012.

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APRIL 19, 2011

API) are partnering to build an industrial-scale cellulosic biorefinery to produce biobutanol. Slated to begin ethanol production in early 2012 with a switch to biobutanol in mid-2012, the API Alpena Biorefinery will produce 470,000 gallons of biobutanol annually, which will be pre-sold to chemical industry partners.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

On 27 June 2012, the Defense Production Act Title III Program published a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for an “Advanced Drop-in Biofuels Production Project.” This blend was successfully demonstrated during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) demonstration in 2012 for ships and planes. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

million loan guarantee to build a refined alga oil commercial facility. In continuous operation since May 2012, the plant is producing renewable algal oil that can be further refined to replace petroleum-derived diesel and jet fuel. Sapphire Energy’s “Green Crude Farm” in Columbus, N.M., is an example of the use of this program.

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JULY 12, 2011

billion venture capital fund over the next 10 years, Chesapeake NG Ventures Corporation (CNGV), dedicated to identifying and investing in companies and technologies that will replace the use of gasoline and diesel with natural gas and natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuels. Chesapeake Energy Corporation plans to create a $1.0-billion

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The award recognizes EPA Green Power Partners who distinguish themselves using on-site renewable energy applications, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) or landfill gas. 2012 baseline. In 2012, the factory produced more than 152,400 cars. (The others were Apple; the County of Santa Clara, CA; and Kaiser Permanete.) Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Neste Oil plans to use yeast and fungi to convert waste into oil for NExBTL feedstock. Neste Oil has completed the first phase of its project to build a pilot plant for producing microbial oil for use as a feedstock for NExBTL renewable diesel. Click to enlarge. Construction of the plant is on-schedule and on-budget. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

With 12 million passengers annually, SJC currently provides on-site shuttle buses to transport passengers and luggage among the airport’s short- and long-term parking lots, consolidated rental car garage and terminals, with a fleet of compressed natural gas (CNG) buses. Funded in part by a $3.8-million

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

Joule, a pioneer in the production of liquid fuels from recycled CO 2 , and HeidelbergCement, a German multinational building material company, are partnering to explore application of Joule’s technology to mitigate carbon emissions in cement manufacturing. of its entire energy consumption in 2012).

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JANUARY 21, 2013

Fraunhofer and The University of British Columbia UBC in Vancouver, Canada will partner to develop technologies for sustainable energy production and supply; on 21 December 2012, Fraunhofer and the Canadian university signed a framework agreement for a collaboration spanning several years.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

The process uses as its feedstock virtually any kind of nonfood biomass material—including wood, cornstalks and cobs, algae, aquatic plants and municipal solid waste—and produces gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel. For example, municipal solid waste plants may be smaller, and plants converting wood may be larger. Marker, T.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The ARFVT Program Investment Plans from Fiscal Years 2011/2012 and. 2012/2013 dedicated $18.7 process); landfill gas; and Renewable Energy Certificates (REC). process); landfill gas; and Renewable Energy Certificates (REC). coverage, which will build the foundation of a functioning network for FCV.

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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 hot synthesis gas is quenched and cleaned.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). It also reduces cost by avoiding the need for hot-gas cleanup and F-T catalysts. Carbonaceous materials—e.g.,

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

increase above the 2012 enacted. Total outlays for FY 2013 are estimated to be $34,963 billion, compared to the estimated $40,561 billion in outlays for FY 2012. nuclear waste that supports the implementation. gas and oil production from hydraulic fracturing. The President’s Budget for FY 2013 provides $27.2 reactors R&D.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. The Federal Transit Administration reviewed more than $2 billion in applications for these funds.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

(MAN showed the Metropolis research truck, a range-extended electric refuse collection truck developed in collaboration with Benteler Engineering Services for use in the city, at IAA 2012, earlier post.) Common Rail injection reduces the generation of particles, while exhaust-gas recirculation (EGR) reduces NO x. MAN TGM CNG.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The Energy Commission also approved almost $16 million in research grants to help develop the next generation of energy efficient technologies for commercial and residential buildings; $11 million for projects to convert feedstock and waste into biofuels; and about $900,000 for natural gas innovations. Charging infrastructure.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

In 2012, 70% of Estonia’s total primary energy supply (TPES) came from oil shale. Just over 85% of mined oil shale was used to produce electricity and heat generation; the rest was turned into shale oil, retort gas and other valuable chemicals. In 2012, Estonia mined 15.86 of global and 17% of European reserves. million tonnes.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The 2011-2012 plan allocates $100 million to encourage this menu of transportation investments: $8 million to increase charging infrastructure and support for full electric and plug-in electric vehicles, which are expected to surpass 20,000 sales in California by 2012. Projects leveraged with California’s investment of $36.5

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JULY 19, 2012

TCX builds on Celanese’s acetyl platform and integrates new technologies to produce ethanol using basic hydrocarbon feedstocks—natural gas, coal and pet coke now, with biomass and waste planned for the future. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Over the last three years, we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I’m directing my administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. And nowhere is the promise of innovation greater than in American-made energy. billion from the nation’s energy bills.

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MARCH 26, 2013

This new funding for advanced manufacturing—as well as the $54 million invested in 13 projects during the first round of selections in June of 2012 ( earlier post )—is to serve as a ground floor investment in CEMI. As a part of its increased focus on manufacturing research and development, DOE also awarded $23.5 Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The steam required is provided in the form of waste heat from the processes of the smelting plant at Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH and supplied to the steam electrolysis unit. Through the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP), the public and private sectors are jointly building a network of filling stations in Germany. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

DME is synthesized from methanol, whether produced from coal, natural gas or biomass such as harvested forestry wastes. Chemrec is currently building BioDME production plants in Sweden. The other, a commercial-scale plant, is to be in production in 2012. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 24, 2013

At the Geneva Motor Show in 2012, we stated specific, ambitious targets for our products, production and the group. At the Geneva show in 2012, Prof. 25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions. 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions associated with production-related energy supplies by 2020.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The Obama Administration’s proposed FY 2013 budget of $8.344 billion for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is $105 million below the EPA’s enacted level for FY 2012. The EPA also will release an Interim Report on the Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources in 2012. FY 2013 budget highlights include: $1.2

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JUNE 20, 2012

Bartis and RAND colleague Lawrence van Bibbe were the authors of a 2011 RAND report concluding that if the US military increased its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there would be no direct benefit to the nation’s armed forces.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

IPAT , a startup company based in Nevada, Iowa, is using gas atomization technology developed at Ames Laboratory to make titanium powder with processes that are ten times more efficient than traditional powder-making methods—significantly lowering the cost of the powder to manufacturers.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books.

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MARCH 27, 2015

liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. Working in conjunction with Daimler Advanced Engineering, the team developed an innovative organic Rankine cycle (ORC) waste heat recovery (WHR) system that converts a portion of the exhaust heat into usable energy. Powertrain.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2012 as a group, partly thanks to large emission reductions from economies in transition in the early nineties and more recent reductions due to the 2008-2009 recession, according to the report. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission’s in-house science service.

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JUNE 22, 2011

The two ecoDemonstrators will build upon the 2005 Quiet Technology Demonstrator (QTD2) program that helped both the Boeing 747-8 and 787 Dreamliner exceed international standards for noise emissions. The program also builds on the CLEEN program foundation.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

Qatar Airways successfully conducted the world’s first commercial flight powered by a Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) fuel blend last October. Synthetic liquid jet fuels can be made from biomass, natural gas or coal. Qatar Petroleum is a state-owned corporation responsible for all phases of the oil and gas industry in Qatar. Earlier post.)

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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 66 research projects to receive a total of $130 million in funding through its “OPEN 2012” program. Select projects in OPEN 2012 include: ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Advanced Fuels. utility of geographically isolated gas reserves.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

model has been lagging in accuracy behind Europe’s version, a problem that first became evident during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The wind part of the project plans a total of 3,000 megawatts from wind farms it will build in three counties in New Mexico. Hurricane-Model Overhaul U.S. Now, the U.S. Several U.S.

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