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Transphorm’s solutions cut energy waste by 50% today and simplify the design and manufacturing of a wide variety of electrical systems and devices, including motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles. In the motor segment alone, Transphorm’s innovations create the potential to save 2.5

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s Rialto Renewable Energy Center for the conversion of biomass to transportation fuels. The unconverted fractionator bottoms product can be fed to an FCC unit or lube oil hydrofinishing unit, or it can be recycled back to the process for full conversion to lighter high-value products. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

The development of new second-generation biofeedstock conversion technology is critical to support growing energy needs and speed commercial availability. UOP will deliver 100 gallons of renewable jet fuel derived from isobutanol to the government in 2012. Gevo patent for renewable jet from cellulosic isobutanol.

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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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OCTOBER 21, 2013

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. In 2011, USDA provided Sapphire Energy a $54.5-million

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Despite the decision to de-emphasize microbial oil, Neste Oil emphasized that cellulosic waste will continue to play an important role in its research strategy, adding that it remains committed to its goal of further extending its feedstock base and making greater use of waste and residues in this area in particular.

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MAY 28, 2013

has successfully demonstrated the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW)—household garbage—into jet and diesel fuels. For that process, Fulcrum uses a two-stage thermochemical process involving gasification of municipal solid waste (MSW) followed by the catalytic conversion of the syngas to ethanol.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Each combination of enzymes will be tested on pretreated agricultural waste that can first be converted into sugars and then into bio-based products and advanced biofuels. million (2008-2012). In February, 2012, Novozymes launched its latest enzyme solution, Cellic CTec3 for advanced biofuels. million (2001-2005).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Although many feedstocks, technologies, and conversion pathways are currently sharing the same tent, the current decade is shaping up to be one of shakeouts, as early bets on cellulosic technologies reach commercial production and significant investments from oil majors and multinationals. continue to pour into the industry.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

USDA funding will be used to construct a 55,000 square foot facility that will produce cellulosic ethanol by converting municipal solid waste and other industrial pulps into advanced biofuels, as well as using conventional renewable biofuel derived from seed corn waste. million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The enzyme enables more cost-efficient conversion of biomass to ethanol and performs 1.5 Both plants will convert municipal solid waste into biofuel. Advanced biofuels can be produced from cellulose in biomass such as wheat straw, corn stalks, household waste, or energy crops such as switchgrass. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 12, 2013

DIBANET focuses on the conversion, by non-biological means, of the lignocellulosic biomass residues and wastes of Europe and Latin America to platform chemicals, such as levulinic acid and furfural, and biofuels. More specifically, DIBANET is advancing the art in the production of ethyl-levulinate from organic wastes and residues.

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APRIL 15, 2011

forest resources (forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees, etc.), and urban wood wastes. Other feedstocks that will be considered include oilseed crops, animal waste, other waste streams that are byproducts of alternative energy processes, such as anaerobic digestion and algae.

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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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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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JULY 30, 2012

Although bulk agricultural waste products such as cellulose and lignin are often targeted as feedstocks for the production of renewable fuels, even saturated hydrocarbon fuels which have previously been prepared from the dehydration products of cellulose-derived alcohols have a density of only 0.78 g/mL and 1.08 g/mL, respectively.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Shell invested in multiple rounds and formed a JV with Iogen, but terminated the JV in 2012. It also partnered with Virent on biomass catalytic conversion to produce renewable gasoline, and Cellana (HR BioPetroleum) on algae biofuel. Shell shifted its shares in Codexis to Raizen, its ethanol JV with Cosan.

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APRIL 16, 2013

The new agreement, which includes partners from the commercial aviation sector, follows the initial success of the 2010-2012 “Farm to Fly” initiative. The USDA is extending for five years its agreement to work with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other partners to help develop a viable biofuel for the aviation industry.

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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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DECEMBER 31, 2016

By 2027, demonstrate at least one biofuel and bioproduct production strategy that reduces capital cost by 30% from 2012 cellulosic ethanol baseline. By 2040, enable large-scale biomass production and conversion that allows biofuels to constitute 25% of the US transportation fuel market.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Because the use of natural gas for transportation requires compressing, liquefying, or conversion, it is important to determine the best use of natural gas as a transportation fuel. The baseline for comparison is based on a 2012 2.4 Their open access paper is published in the journal Energy. mpgge (equivalent to 7.6

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With this zero-waste car, the team wants to show that waste can be a valuable material with a multitude of applications. Luca, the world’s first Zero-Waste car. During the UBQ conversion process, the unsorted residual waste stream is reduced into its more basic natural components. Photo by Bart van Overbeeke.

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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). Method and apparatus for conversion of carbonaceous materials to liquid fuel. Carbonaceous materials—e.g.,

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

As part of the agreement, emissions (or offtake gas) from various HeidelbergCement factories could provide Joule with the waste CO 2 required to feed its advanced Helioculture platform that effectively recycles CO 2 back into fuel. This initial relationship fits well with Joule’s strategy of turning waste CO 2 into liquid fuel.

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Additionally, other tree parts go to waste when only the trunk is used, making the process more inefficient and wasteful. For this study, trees in Jefferson, Oregon—one of the four study sites—were planted in rows close together in spring of 2012 and harvested less than two years later before the leaves had fallen.

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APRIL 19, 2011

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. Meanwhile, Cobalt’s technology will demonstrate that these sugars can also produce butanol.

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OCTOBER 21, 2012

Bought most of the bits for the conversion in December 2010. July 2012: Embarrassing mess. Wasted $$ in battery connectors made of tinned steel and copper mesh. 8 Oct 2012: AC55 motor is in. They shipped in and I took delivery in May 2011. Eventually bought good ones and a vacuum pump for the brakes from.

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The same technology being used at a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Crescentino, Italy, expected to start operations in the fall of 2012, and in a series of plants to be built by GraalBio in Brazil. Earlier post. The new USDA loan guarantee is part of a larger effort to produce advanced biofuels in every region of the country.

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JUNE 10, 2012

Although in the literature several works can be found wherein the plastics are directly hydrocracked, in our approach, a previous thermal cracking stage was included because several stages are required with real plastic wastes to avoid catalyst deactivation by the impurities present in the waste feed. —Escola et al. Resources.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The ARFVT Program Investment Plans from Fiscal Years 2011/2012 and. 2012/2013 dedicated $18.7 California’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology (ARFVT) Program, created by Assembly Bill 118, has an annual budget of approximately $100 million. million and $11 million, respectively, for hydrogen. fueling infrastructure.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel and bionaphtha. The Mayor of London launched the Foodwaste to Fuel Alliance in 2009 to speed up the development of infrastructure to convert London’s food waste into fuel to cut landfill rates and carbon emissions.

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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 INEOS Bio process has three main steps: Gasification.

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OCTOBER 2, 2022

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” With such a device, he thought, people could enjoy a long shower without wasting water. You’d waste more water than you saved.

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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. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste.

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JUNE 4, 2012

In this manner, full performance and even ultra-performance renewable fuels can be synthesized from low-value and abundant waste materials. Harvey (2012) Efficient conversion of pure and mixed terpene feedstocks to high density fuels, Fuel , Volume 97 Pages 560-568 doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2012.01.062. —Meylemans et al.

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launched a joint venture, Envergent Technologies , LLC, to offer technology and equipment to convert second-generation biomass into pyrolysis oil for power generation, heating fuel and for conversion into transportation fuels. The facility is projected to start up in 2012. In 2009, UOP and Ensyn Corp. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 11, 2012

These LCAs do not count the CO 2 emitted by combusting biomass, and they nearly always assume a very small conversion rate of nitrogen to N 2 O, the authors note, posing the question as to whether these estimated reductions in emissions are real. 2012), Crop-based biofuels and associated environmental concerns. and Searchinger, T.

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