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JULY 31, 2012

Under the enhanced collaboration, Total reaffirms its commitment to Amyris’ technology and dedicates its $82-million funding budget over the next three years exclusively for the deployment of Biofene, Amyris’ renewable farnesene, for production of renewable diesel and jet fuel. We are appreciative of Total’s ongoing support of Amyris.

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JUNE 4, 2013

AltAir will produce low-carbon, renewable jet fuel and other renewable products. United has collaborated with AltAir Fuels since 2009 and has agreed to buy 15 million gallons of lower-carbon, renewable jet fuel over a three-year period, with the option to purchase more.

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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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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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AUGUST 27, 2013

Cool Planet Energy Systems, a developer of small-scale biorefineries which convert non-food biomass into gasoline, jet fuel, and soil-enhancing biochar, has completed a joint vehicle road test with Ventura County, CA. Officials there ran a 5% blend of Cool Planet’s renewable, low-carbon gasoline for six weeks during their normal operations.

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MAY 28, 2013

Fulcrum’s large development program, backed by secured MSW, will have the capacity to produce more than half a billion gallons of fuel in markets across North America at lower costs compared to conventional petroleum fuel, while reducing carbon emissions by more than 80%. James Macias, Fulcrum President and CEO. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Carbon dioxide is the renewable carbon source, which is converted to sugars by plants, and those plant sugars can be converted to isobutanol using the Gevo Integrated Fermentation Technology, or GIFT. Click to enlarge. Gevo, Inc., Gevo designed its biocatalysts (engineered E. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

A team from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Chevron Corporation has examined the chemical composition and properties of several diesel fuels and blendstocks derived from Fischer?Tropsch All of the renewable and synthetic diesel fuels have significantly lower density than typical for a petroleum-derived diesel fuel.

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MAY 9, 2010

Researchers in Austria and Germany are developing a process to store renewable electricity as synthetic natural through a combination of electrolysis to produce hydrogen combined with methanation using CO 2. The partners plan to launch a substantially larger system—approximately 10 MW—by 2012. Michael Specht of ZSW.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. We need both a policy like a carbon tax and to put more R&D money into renewables.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

As reported in 2012 by Masdar researchers, while halophytes such as Salicornia bigelovii have the potential to produce biofuel feedstocks such as oils from its seeds and sugars from its biomass, the high salinity of the plant have challenged the existing methods for production of cellulosic biofuels. These numbers indicate that S.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

International oil and gas major Total and renewable fuels and chemicals company Amyris, Inc. signed agreements to expand their current R&D partnership ( earlier post ) and to form a joint venture to develop, produce and commercialize a range of renewable fuels and products. Amyris modifies farnesene to become renewable diesel.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

Gevo, a privately held renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, has signed definitive agreements to acquire Agri-Energy’s ethanol production facility in Luverne, Minn. Isobutanol production is expected to begin by the first quarter of 2012. for the production of isobutanol. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 18, 2009

million gallons per year of renewable synthetic diesel (RenDiesel) for ground service equipment operations at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) beginning in late 2012, when the plant that will produce the fuel is scheduled to go into service. The facility is expected to come online in 2012. Rentech, Inc. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The facility will convert more than 500,000 metric tonnes of waste biomass feedstock into synthesis gas (BioSynGas) every year, using Solena’s proprietary plasma gasification technology. The facility will also export more than 20 megawatts of baseload renewable power to the grid after powering the entire facility with clean electricity.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced a trial for a new type of electrolyzer which could see excess renewable energy stored in the gas grid and used to decarbonize Australia’s gas supply. When hydrogen burns, it produces only water vapor and no carbon dioxide. —Ivor Frischknecht.

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JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. —2012 Sustainability Report. Earlier post.). MWh/vehicle.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) will consider at its December 2011 meeting amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation. The LCFS intends to reduce, on a full-fuel lifecycle basis, the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuels (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) used in California by an average of 10% by the year 2020.

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JUNE 8, 2015

In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

British Airways, in partnership with the Solena Group , will establish Europe’s first plant for sustainable jet-fuel and plans to use the low-carbon fuel to power part of its fleet from 2014. The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel and bionaphtha.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

In January 2012, IABG-Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft became the latest member of the institution. The syngas is stored and finally converted into jet fuel via the FT process. Solar syngas is then converted into liquid hydrocarbon fuels by the Fischer−Tropsch process. Schematic of solar thermochemical fuel production path.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Furthermore, additional tests performed on a static engine showed a significant reduction in particles (up to 25%) and in black carbon emissions (up to 49%) compared to conventional fuel. The ReadiJet effort combines ARA’s CH PROCESS technology—a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g.,

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JUNE 19, 2012

At last month’s World Renewable Energy Forum 2012 in Denver, Colorado, researchers from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory presented papers on two different approaches to upgrade pyrolysis oils to hydrocarbon fuels or fuel intermediates. Catalysts, noted Iisa et al.

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JUNE 25, 2009

Amyris Renewable Products Demonstration Facility. opened the Amyris Renewable Products Demonstration Facility in Campinas, Brazil. The facility, located in the midst of the sugarcane processing industry, secures the final development step before full commercial production of Amyris’s renewable fuels and chemicals.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Approximately $4,500,000 is expected to be available for new awards in FY 2011 and an additional $7,500,000 is expected to be available for awards made under this announcement in years FY 2012 through FY 2013, again, subject to annual appropriations. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 11, 2017

The report is the first comprehensive assessment of the resource potential and technology opportunities provided by wet and gaseous feedstocks, including wastewater treatment-derived sludge and biosolids, animal manure, food waste, inedible fats and greases, biogas, and carbon dioxide streams. quadrillion Btu annually, or about 22.2

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

The parties will work together to convert this mill to produce Amyris renewable products with first production targeted for the 2011-2012 harvest season. It is also possible to produce renewable drop-in diesel and jet fuel with performance equal to or better than existing biofuels and oil-based fuels. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 29, 2011

a start-up company developing a technology that converts low-grade biomass into high-grade fuels, including gasoline, and carbon that can be sequestered ( earlier post ) announced that BP Technology Ventures has made an investment in the company’s C Round of financing. CoolPlanet BioFuels, Inc.,

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JANUARY 25, 2013

Linde Engineering Dresden acquired the Carbo-V biomass gasification technology ( earlier post ) of the insolvent ( earlier post ) Choren Industries GmbH from the insolvency administrator in February 2012. The project will be funded by the European Union’s NER300 program for innovative, low-carbon technologies. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 27, 2012

When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. Earlier post.).

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MAY 14, 2012

ARA has developed a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g., crop oils and animal fats) to non-ester biofuels—renewable fuels that are pure hydrocarbons indistinguishable from their petroleum counterparts. Earlier post.). Overview of the ReadiJet process. Click to enlarge.

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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. Lower carbon intensity fuels.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The ReFactory aims to achieve a negative carbon balance by 2030—an objective in line with the Group’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality in Europe by 2050. To meet this demand the division will work on developing new services (renewal, heavy repairs, etc.) The Group is also developing mobile energy storage applications.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Addressing methanol marketers at the conference, LeBlanc noted that converting methanol into DME offers the methanol industry a new market for its product. The other, a commercial-scale plant, is to be in production in 2012. It will produce up to 40 million gallons of BioDME or other renewable motor fuels a year. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 5, 2016

Under California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), crude oil producers may generate credits for oil that has been produced using innovative methods and delivered to California refineries for processing. In 2012, Seneca acquired a portion of assets in the east Coalinga oil field, located in the western Fresno County, Ca.,

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

The aim is to have two prototype chassis based on the Volvo C30 DRIVe Electric ready for testing in everyday traffic in 2012. The reformer converts a liquid fuel, in this case gasoline, to hydrogen reformate, which then fuels the stack. The technology also can be adapted for renewable fuels. a version of the PowerCell Power Pac.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Asymmetric ultracapacitors achieve greater energy density versus today’s Electric Double Layer Capacitors (EDLCs) by combining one activated carbon EDLC ion-adsorption electrode with one ion-insertion (battery-like) electrode. with the double-layer charge storage mechanism in the activated carbon. While emerging new converters.

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