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Clean Fleet Report
JUNE 17, 2024
Today, it is a cost-neutral way for fleet owners to achieve their goals by allowing them to convert an entire diesel-powered fleet to alternative fuel overnight. Renewable diesel can be produced using various technologies including those that process solid biomass, liquid biomass, waste gasification and pyrolysis.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. X1) from a biological feedstock, more specifically, from lignocellulosic biomass (also known as plant waste/residue).
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 29, 2012
Neste Oil plans to use yeast and fungi to convert waste into oil for NExBTL feedstock. The technology is designed to produce feedstock for NExBTL renewable diesel by using yeast and fungi to convert sugars from waste and residues into oil highly efficiently. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2012
Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.
Green Car Congress
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.
Green Car Congress
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.
Green Car Congress
JULY 14, 2015
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.” Lanzatech, For Greener Synthetic Pathways.
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