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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Germanischer Lloyd’s concept hydrogen-fuel cell container feeder vessel is fueled by liquid hydrogen. One possible pathway being explored by the shipping industry is the use of hydrogen fuel cells. Multiple type C tanks hold 920 m 3 of liquid hydrogen to facilitate a roundtrip equivalent to ten full operating days.

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

GE Energy has signed a technology licensing agreement with Hydrogen Energy (HEI) for a proposed 250-megawatt power plant that would use integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) technology. HEI is a joint venture of BP Alternative Energy and multinational mining company Rio Tinto Hydrogen. Earlier post.).

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Total is continuing to adjust its production base in France, following the shutdown of the Flandres refinery (2010), the upgrade to the Normandy refining & petrochemicals platform (2012) with an investment close to €1 billion and the implementation of the project to secure Carling’s future (2015).

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million) award from Europe’s Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) and will run for three years. Dana is developing an optimized design of metallic bipolar plate that delivers the hydrogen and air to the MEA and transmits the electricity generated to power the vehicle. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Separately, Gevo has also been awarded a contract by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to supply biojet fuel to the US Air Force (USAF). The company also successfully converted the cellulosic isobutanol into isobutylene and paraffinic kerosene (jet fuel).( Earlier post.). Earlier post.). without the typical expression of co-products.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have presented a new and more complete view on the way a cyanobacterium— Cyanothece 51142—produces hydrogen. PNNL scientists found that the organism taps into an unexpected source of energy to create hydrogen.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

End products from the plant will be hydrogen and synthetic methane (Audi e-gas), to be used as fuel for vehicles such as the new Audi A3 Sportback TCNG. Because there is not yet a widespread hydrogen infrastructure, however, the hydrogen is reacted with CO 2 in a methanation unit to generate renewable synthetic methane, or Audi e-gas.

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JUNE 25, 2013

The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Because there is not yet a widespread hydrogen infrastructure, the hydrogen is reacted with CO 2 in a methanation unit to generate renewable synthetic methane, or Audi e-gas.

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MARCH 7, 2013

GE’s Power Conversion business will supply Series 9000-RCM large electric motors to drive the reciprocating compressors for a new bitumen refinery under construction in Alberta, Canada, under a $14-million contract that includes related services. The project will not produce coke. —Ian MacGregor, Founder and Chairman of NWU.

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The refinery, the oldest continuously operating one on the east coast, processes 330,000 barrels of oil per day into various refined products and was scheduled for shut down in August of 2012. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2012. Earlier post.). This transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.

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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. Testing of the cars will begin in 2012. a version of the PowerCell Power Pac.

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The cell stack generates power through chemical reaction between hydrogen reformed from utility gas and oxygen in the air. The inverter converts DC generated by the cell stack into AC. The inverter converts DC generated by the cell stack into AC. Click to enlarge. is achieved, with an overall energy efficiency of 90.0% (LHV).

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

(The US Air Force flew its first test flight using ATJ fuel in 2012. This testing is being performed as part of the previously announced contract with Gevo to supply more than 16,000 gallons to the US Army. Three pathways to SPK: FT (left); hydrogenated oil (center); ATJ (right). Earlier post.) —Patrick Gruber, Gevo CEO.

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The new regulations are driving interest in e-fuels, ammonia, and hydrogen as the industry scrambles to find multiple silver bullets. The greatest challenge is the same as that which is plaguing the adoption of fuel cells in the automotive market—the buildout of low-cost green hydrogen infrastructure. GWh annually in 2021.

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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. Plug-in electric vehicles.

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ARA has developed a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g., The cost-efficient CH PROCESS uses water to reduce hydrogen consumption, catalyst consumption, and carbon footprint compared to other alternative fuel conversion processes. Earlier post.). Overview of the ReadiJet process. Click to enlarge.

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The performance of the ReFactory will also relate to the ability to generate closed-loop supply flows with controlled costs (reuse, recycling for repair), and to develop new value-added skills (retrofitting, dismantling, fleet maintenance, preparation of batteries for the second life, etc.)

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In 2012, the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers launched a three-year project on the production of synthetic liquid hydrocarbons from electricity (i.e. The multi-stage process uses renewable power to produce hydrogen using a proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer. A feed of 30 t/h of H 2 generated 56.3

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The process has also the potential to produce any other type of fuel for transport applications, such as diesel, gasoline or pure hydrogen in a more sustainable way. 2012) “Syngas production by simultaneous splitting of H 2 O and CO 2 via ceria redox reactions in a high-temperature solar reactor,” Energy & Environmental Science , Vol.

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Vertimass LLC, a California-based start-up company, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) technology that directly converts ethanol under moderate conditions at one atmosphere without the use of hydrogen into a hydrocarbon blend-stock for use in transportation fuels. Catalytic conversion of to hydrocarbons (2012).

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While bioethanol is not a drop-in fuel, the residual lignin can be converted to a drop-in fuel via thermal treatments such as gasification or solvolysis. They also observed that Progression Industry in the Netherlands has been collaborating with Mærsk to develop a lignin-based marine fuel—CyclOx—since 2012.

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To fund this effort, Chesapeake will redirect approximately 1-2% of its forecasted annual drilling budget away from efforts to increase natural gas supply toward projects that will instead stimulate increased natural gas demand. Chesapeake has agreed to invest $150 million in newly issued convertible debt of Clean Energy Fuels Corp.,

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MARCH 20, 2012

Cobalt converts non-food feedstock such as woody biomass into renewable butanol for both chemicals and fuels, including jet fuel. The ATJ process broadly consists of four main steps: dehydration of the alcohol; oligomerization; distillation; and hydrogenation. Hydrogenation. processing facility. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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million contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) via the US Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center to develop and demonstrate technology that will produce renewable jet fuel from isobutanol supplied by Gevo, Inc. UOP will deliver 100 gallons of renewable jet fuel derived from isobutanol to the government in 2012.

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Fuels made with Siluria’s processes are also compatible with existing vehicles, pipelines and other infrastructure and can be integrated into global supply chains. Partial oxidation, catalyzed partial oxidation, and steam methane reforming are all commonly practiced methods for producing hydrogen-rich syngas. —Weinberger et al.

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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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

This will be achieved through exploiting innovative British technologies in the supply chain partners. Evolution of REEV Technologies – Building a UK Supply Base (REEVolution). The work will accelerate the development of new technologies and key commodities whilst laying the foundations for a globally competitive supply base.

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It adds hydrogen to remove the oxygen from the feedstock and then further refines this product to meet the required specifications. The facility will convert non-edible natural oils and agricultural wastes into approximately 30 million gallons of low-carbon, advanced biofuels and chemicals per year. Earlier post.).

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The rapid commercial expansion of the algae biofuels industry is an excellent example of sustainable product development with dramatic future potential for contributions to fuel supplies, yet many questions regarding algae production remain unanswered. —Menetrez 2012. —Menetrez 2012. —Menetrez 2012.

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The power supply unit can run on biodiesel as well as regular diesel. In trials, a 250-W solid-acid fuel cell stack ran on both pure hydrogen and on hydrogen produced from diesel by the unit’s reformer, with only an insignificant difference in performance. The reformer converts hydrocarbons into hydrogen, CO 2 and heat.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Under the agreement, GBE will supply Audi with isooctane derived from isobutene produced at its new pre-commercial pilot system at the Fraunhofer CBP in Leuna. Light olefins are key chemical building blocks that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Conventionally, light olefins are produced by steam cracking of crude oil–derived naphtha, but, as the authors note in their paper, there is a pressing need for alternative feedstocks and processes in view of supply limitations and of environmental issues. to 1%) to restrict secondary hydrogenation of olefins. —Galvis et al.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Very broadly, the biomass-to-gasoline (BTG) process assessed in the NREL report gasifies biomass to produce a syngas rich in hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This syngas is then converted into methanol, and the methanol is converted to gasoline using the methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) process first developed by Exxon Mobil.

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If we assume about $5 MBtu for coal in China, we could convert those hydrocarbons to ethanol for somewhere between $1.50 More particularly, its invention provides a process for the selective formation of ethanol from acetic acid using a process of hydrogenating acetic acid over a platinum/tin catalyst. The plant could then scale to 1.1

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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. Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel.

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The new superjunction structure will surpass the theoretical trade-off between on- resistance and breakdown voltage observed in conventional unipolar GaN, leading to more efficient and cheaper power converters. A Zero-emission Process for Direct Reduction of Iron by Hydrogen Plasma in a Rotary Kiln Reactor - $1,200,000.

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The hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle re-fuels in 3–5 minutes, travels up to 300 miles (482 km) on a full tank, and will be available to customers in California beginning in fall 2015. Additional markets will follow, tracking the expansion of a convenient hydrogen refueling infrastructure. FC Boost Converter.

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