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MAY 13, 2016

Combing these benefits with a low-cost precursor currently in development, the result can be a carbon fiber product that is 40% less expensive to manufacture than current commercial products. During oxidation, the thermoplastic precursor is converted to a thermoset material that can no longer be melted.

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AUGUST 16, 2013

University of Maryland researchers have partnered with Redox Power Systems LLC to commercialize low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (LT-SOFC) technology for distributed generation—and ultimately transportation—applications at about one-tenth the cost and one-tenth the size of current commercial fuel cell systems.

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MARCH 30, 2014

Computational tools for catalyst design: The ability to convert methane gas directly to liquid methanol at often-remote recovery sites would significantly alter the storage, transport, and use of the gas. However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized.

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JULY 15, 2016

Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and low-cost carrier Mango celebrated Africa’s first passenger flights with sustainable aviation biofuel. Airlines around the world have conducted more than 2,500 passenger flights using various forms of aviation biofuel since it was approved for commercial use in 2011. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 1, 2016

Tier 1 supplier Valeo is adding a new low-cost solid-state LiDAR, developed together with LeddarTech , a specialist in advanced detection and ranging solutions, to its portfolio for driving and parking assistance. The new sensor will be ready for mass production in 2018. This novel Lidar technology delivers the best range-to-power ratio.

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

EFT ) to promote EFT in the commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable fuels for aviation. EFT’s proprietary Advanced Fixed Bed (AFB) Fischer-Tropsch reactor and catalyst system can convert synthesis gas from virtually any carbonaceous feedstock into transportation fuels such as renewable diesel and sustainable jet fuel.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Red Wolf, formed in 2010, is in the process of raising $3 million through an equity offering to commercialize the thermal-chemical catalytic process. This step converts the n-alkanes to the specifications necessary for jet, diesel and gasoline fuels. This mitigates transportation costs of both the feedstock and the produced fuel.

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APRIL 18, 2012

IH 2 technology is a catalytic thermochemical process that promises to be a very cost-effective route to produce liquid transportation fuels from renewable resources. Pilot plant operation is a critical step along the IH 2 technology commercialization pathway, as it provides valuable information to confirm and refine commercial design.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

the largest low-cost and low-fare airline in Latin America, signed a memorandum of understanding that could pave the way for GOL commercial flights to use Amyris renewable jet fuel in 2014. We are committed to working with the aviation industry to bring cleaner skies, starting in Brazil in 2014. Earlier post.)

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MAY 29, 2014

Electric school bus fleets with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities are cost-effective with today’s technology, and could save schools money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving public health, according to a new study by a team at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

million DOE-funded project to integrate wide bandgap (WBG) technology and novel circuit architectures with advanced packaging to reduce cost, improve efficiency, and increase power density. Power inverters convert direct current into the alternating current that powers the vehicle. The prototype stems from a two-year $1.45-million

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APRIL 10, 2012

Alcohol is attractive as a feedstock for the production of renewable jet fuel partly because the steps required are currently in use at commercial scale in the petrochemical industry. Key to the cost-effectiveness of ATJ is reducing the production cost of the alcohol, as well as of the ATJ process itself.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Ford has begun production of the 2014 F-150 with the gaseous fuel prep option, making Ford the only manufacturer with an available CNG/LPG-capable half-ton pickup. The 2014 Ford F-150 with 3.7-liter CNG conversions can provide stability against fluctuating fuel prices as well as lower vehicle operating costs for fleet administrators.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Flagship Ventures is investing in Red Rock Biofuels, which is commercializing a Fischer-Tropsch-based process for the conversion of woody biomass into renewable, drop-in diesel and jet fuels. Red Rock is working to build its first commercial scale refinery in Lakeview, OR. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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MARCH 10, 2014

Dried wood is typically converted to approximately 75% (by weight) liquid with the balance converted to combustible gases and char. This initiative will lower Memorial’s environmental footprint and will provide Memorial with net cost savings. Memorial will be able to use its existing boilers to combust the new fuel.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The plant will convert abundant low-cost natural gas from the Utica and Marcellus shale region into high-value specialty products (solvents, lubricants and waxes), as well as transportation fuels. The company has agreed to commercial license terms with Velocys and made a down payment towards the FT reactors.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

The parties have established a non-binding target date to complete installation and commissioning of the GTL Pilot Plant on or before 31 December 2014. The purpose of the GTL Pilot Plant is to commercially demonstrate converting stranded natural gas resources to synthetic crude oil.

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MAY 11, 2012

Rosneft, an integrated oil company majority-owned by the Russian government, has selected technology from Oxford Catalysts Group PLC for a small-scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facility designed to convert associated gas—i.e., This facility is envisioned as the first of many commercial GTL plants that will make use of associated gas.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Cool Planet’s green fuels are chemically identical to fossil fuels, with one of the lowest capital costs in the industry. Catalytic Conversion: Cool Planet has developed a number of proprietary catalytic conversion processes to convert these useful hydrocarbon components into different types of fuels. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 24, 2015

The company also announced it will partner with Borla jointly to develop and to commercialize a next-generation-exhaust system incorporating PowerModules, with the goal of delivering significant fuel savings for commercial fleet truck fleets. an implied efficiency of about 2.5%—saving 2014.11.002. Saniya LeBlanc, Shannon K.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

KiOR has halted commercial production this year in order to tune up its yield and tune down its costs. Biodiesel, refined from plant-based oils, is already commercially available to run modified diesel engines. Because the process does not rely on fermentation, the cellulose does not have to be converted to sugars first.

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JULY 10, 2014

The bioreactor technology is under development for efficient methane-to-liquids fermentation processes, enabling rapid, cost-effective methane conversion into protein, industrial chemicals and fuels. Calysta’s technology is the only validated, commercial scale process available to directly convert natural gas into biological products.

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DECEMBER 24, 2013

For the 2014 percentage standards, EPA proposed reducing the overall target to 15.21 It continues to demonstrate the progress that we have made in bringing the world’s first cellulosic gasoline and diesel commercial facility to steady-state operations. With the final 2013 overall volumes and standards requiring 16.55 Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, was awarded a $4-million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as one of the 15 REMOTE projects ( earlier post ) receiving a combined $34 million to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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APRIL 15, 2013

Cobalt Technologies announced a strategic relationship with two prominent Asian chemical companies for the development of a complete biomass-to-butadiene solution, to be followed by construction of a commercial-scale biorefinery in Asia. Technology development is expected to be completed in 2014 with construction of the first plant to follow.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

The time is not yet ripe for a commercial-scale microbial oil plant, however. Neste Oil’s microbial oil technology is designed to produce feedstock for Neste’s renewable fuel process by using yeast and fungi efficiently to convert sugars from waste and residues into oil. Background. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The California Energy Commission adopted its 2014 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) Update, which outlines, among many things, how the state is working to transform the transportation system to zero- and near-zero technologies and fuels to meet its climate and clean air goals. Plug-in electric vehicles. Charging infrastructure.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

Volpe Center, to accelerate commercial availability of alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) renewable drop-in aviation fuel. million announced by the FAA to help advance alternative, environmentally-friendly, sustainable sources for commercial jet fuel. Earlier post.). The award was the largest of eight contracts worth a total of $7.7 Earlier post.).

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MARCH 19, 2014

Kior said that if it is unsuccessful in finalizing definitive documentation with Khosla on or before 1 April 2014—i.e., The costs and time involved in operating our Columbus facility have been much higher than we initially anticipated, and we have not reached “steady sate” operations. —KiOR 10-K. —KiOR 10-K.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

The Department Of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) intends to issue, on behalf of its Vehicle Technology Office (VTO), a program-wide Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000991) for fiscal year 2014 on or about January 2014. Reducing the cost of electric drive systems from $30/kW to $8/kW.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

If we assume about $5 MBtu for coal in China, we could convert those hydrocarbons to ethanol for somewhere between $1.50 As we look at greenfield opportunities, or talk to potential refiners as customers, there is more scale and more capital and cost efficiency to do it as a standalone. The plant could then scale to 1.1

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JANUARY 19, 2015

or LSF) supported Fe 3 O 4 —is capable of converting more than 67% steam with high redox stability. The hybrid solar-redox process converts solar energy and methane into separate streams of liquid fuels and hydrogen through the assistance of an oxygen carrier. Image credit: Feng He. Click to enlarge. —Feng He, lead author.

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JUNE 4, 2013

United Airlines executed a definitive purchase agreement with AltAir Fuels ( earlier post ) for cost-competitive, sustainable, bio-synthetic paraffinic kerosene at commercial scale. AltAir has partnered with an existing oil refiner for the operation of its first commercial facility. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The presence of iron oxide enables carbon monoxide to be converted into carbon dioxide and hydrogen via the water–gas shift reaction. Additional benefits of ESR are the commercial advantages stemming from the catalyst being quite stable and having a long active lifetime. Choong, C.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show in January in Las Vegas ( earlier post ), the FCV Concept, which presages the introduction of the series-production vehicle, made its European debut at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. Toyota is also considering integrating a boost converter on the stack itself, McClory said at the SAE conference.

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million gallons US/year) demonstration facility will begin later this year for installation at IndianOil’s Panipat Refinery in Hayrana, India, at an estimated cost of 350 crore rupees (US$55 million). LanzaTech’s first commercial facility converting waste emissions from steel production to ethanol will come online in China in late 2017.

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