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has purchased 35 Class 8 Volvo trucks that operate on compressed natural gas (CNG). To power the new trucks, Trillium CNG, a provider of compressed natural gas fueling solutions, built and will operate a fast-fill CNG station at SUPERVALU’s Mechanicsville distribution center. SUPERVALU INC.

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Intrexon’s proprietary methanotroph bioconversion platform uses optimized microbial cell lines to convert natural gas into higher carbon compounds such as isobutanol and farnesene under ambient temperatures and pressures. Methanotrophic bacteria oxidize methane as their sole carbon source to support cellular metabolism and growth.

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APRIL 25, 2016

NEC Corporation, NEC TOKIN Corporation and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY have jointly created a thermoelectric (TE) device using the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) with conversion efficiency 10 times higher than a test module that was produced based on a multi-layered SSE technology published by the Tohoku University group in 2015.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

A new study from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) demonstrates the conversion of lignin-derived compounds to adipic acid, an important industrial dicarboxylic acid produced for its use as a precursor to nylon, plasticizers, lubricants, polyesters, and other popular products and chemicals. Vardon, Derek R.,

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Here we have harnessed the power of microbes to convert carbon dioxide into value-added multi-carbon compounds in a usable biofuel. Bai worked as a research assistant in the Bose lab in Arts & Sciences from 2015-2020. The form of the microbe they built was unable to grow when nitrogen gas was its only nitrogen source.

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DECEMBER 12, 2015

Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that a metabolic pathway previously only suggested to be functional in photosynthetic organisms is actually a major pathway and can enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds. —Jianping Yu. 2015.187.

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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. Some fleet owners can achieve sustainability goals overnight by converting an entire diesel-powered fleet to renewable diesel.

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MAY 20, 2015

addressing leakage) and efficiency improvements in the natural gas vehicles themselves. The results, published in an open access paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , suggest that policymakers wishing to address climate change should use caution before promoting fuel switching to natural gas, the authors concluded.

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JANUARY 30, 2015

Researchers from Caltech and UC San Diego have developed a family of ruthenium-based metathesis catalysts that have shown exceptional activity in the conversion of seed oils to linear-chain olefins. Phil Szuromi (2015) “Olefins from seed oils at industrial scales” Science doi: 10.1126/science.347.6221.516-f. —Marx et al.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Pinto Energy LLC (Pinto), a developer of smaller scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facilities, will build a 2,800 barrel per day (bpd) GTL plant at Pinto’s 80-acre industrial site to the east of Ashtabula, Ohio. Mechanical completion of the plant is expected in late 2015, with start-up in early 2016. Fuels Gas-to-Liquids (GTL)'

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APRIL 5, 2016

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). In a patent application published 1 December 2015, Altex described the basic approach for its synthetic fuels processes.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

LanzaTech and the Centre will leverage each other’s expertise to create a new process for the direct conversion of waste CO 2 into drop-in fuels through an acetates-to-lipids pathway. LanzaTech has developed gas fermentation technology that can directly convert waste CO 2 gases into acetates. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The Bioenergy Technologies Office is working to produce cost-competitive ($3/gallon of gasoline equivalent) advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% or more versus petroleum-based alternatives. The Gas Technology Institute in collaboration with W.R. BETO awards. Organizations.

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Syngas is typically produced from the gasification of biomass such as municipal solid waste (MSW), agricultural and forest wastes, and wood and energy crops, as well as non-renewable feedstocks such as coal and natural gas. Annex A4: Fischer-Tropsch Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene with Aromatics (FT-SPK/A) (2015).

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The core of Solena’s three-step solution is its patented Solena Plasma Gasification (SPG) technology, which is capable of producing a synthetic fuel gas (BioSynGas) from the thermal conversion of bio-based hydrocarbons. The third step upgrades the FT products into jet fuel. the plant’s operation.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

Natural gas engine and vehicle company Westport Innovations Inc. Founded in 1986, Prins is a leading developer of high quality alternative fuel systems powered by liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or propane), compressed natural gas (CNG), and liquefied natural gas (LNG) for light-, medium-, and heavy-duty applications.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

According to their analysis, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , favorable assumptions for all involved process steps (30% thermochemical energy conversion efficiency; 3000 kWh/(m 2 a) solar irradiation, low CO 2 and heliostat costs) result in jet fuel production costs of €1.28/L kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L. 5b03515.

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JUNE 8, 2016

COPVs designed to store hydrogen gas at pressures up to 700 bar are being deployed in fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) currently available on the market. Waterfall plot of the 2013 700 bar compressed hydrogen storage system cost baseline and 2015 cost status update. Another cost driver is the polymer resin.

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JULY 2, 2015

Fraunhofer researchers in Germany have developed a process for the conversion of CO-rich exhaust gases from steel plants into fuels and specialty chemicals. In addition to the exhaust gases, syngas—similar gas mixtures from home and industrial waste incineration—can also be used for the engineered process. Breitkreuz, K.,

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JANUARY 13, 2017

The new report, A Life-Cycle Analysis of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Corn-Based Ethanol , found greater lifecycle GHG benefits from corn ethanol than a number of earlier studies, driven by a variety of improvements in ethanol production, from the corn field to the ethanol refinery. —US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Flugge, M.,

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However, the viability of CTL becomes quite limited in regions with climate policy due to the high conversion cost and huge carbon footprint. Converting coal into liquid fuels is known to be more costly than current energy technologies, both in terms of production costs and the amount of greenhouse gases the process emits. Henry, J.M.

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Power electronics and electrification of agricultural equipment can help change our world for the better by reducing the equipment’s greenhouse gas footprint, providing food and fiber to feed, house, and clothe the world, and helping farmers stay profitable,” Singh says. government program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Authorized by Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Advanced Nuclear Energy Projects Solicitation would provide loan guarantees to support the construction of innovative nuclear energy and front-end nuclear projects in the US that reduce, avoid, or sequester greenhouse gas emissions. Of the $12.5

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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. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The D-code (D#) of a RIN identifies the renewable fuel standard category for a particular fuel based on its projected greenhouse gas reduction requirement. In one, the biomass is converted into a biocrude which is further refined into lighter products—i.e., Deliveries are targeted to commence by April, 2015. Earlier post.)

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Schobert (2015) Click to enlarge. Indirect liquefaction processes gasify the coal to produce synthesis gas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen). The synthesis gas is then reacted over a catalyst to produce a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons (Fischer–Tropsch synthesis). —Schobert (2015). EMS Energy Institute process.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The EU NEMESIS 2+ project, which ran until June 2015, was coordinated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The system is equipped with a dual-fuel burner which enables running the burner on off-gas from the PSA as well as on liquid feedstock. The efficiency of the process, from start to finish, is approximately 70%. Source: DLR.

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gasification of the biomass and conversion of the resulting syngas to fuel), the NExBTL process out-of-the-box had no option to utilize cellulosic biomass as a feedstock. However, in 2012, Neste Oil said that commercial-scale production was expected by 2015 at the earliest. However, unlike a biomass-to-liquids technology pathway (e.g.,

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Bloomberg New Energy Finance found that approximately 225 million tonnes of biomass should be annually available by 2020 under the base case scenario for bioproduct conversion. billion gallons US) in 2015 to 75 billion liters (19.8 billion gallons US) in 2015 to 90 billion liters (23.8 billion gallons US) in 2020.

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This new relationship with Sapphire Energy complements other Phillips 66 renewable fuels collaborations in academia and other sectors to convert a range of sustainable feedstocks into transportation fuels. In 2008, the Company successfully produced 91-octane gasoline from algae that fully conformed to ASTM standards. Algae Algal Fuels Oil'

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JULY 20, 2015

The hydrogen from electrolysis and CO 2 , delivered by a pipeline, are fed to a plant where the gases are converted in a reverse water–gas shift (RWGS) reactor to syngas (H 2 and CO). The syngas is then further converted to hydrocarbons using Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis. König et al. A feed of 30 t/h of H 2 generated 56.3

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JULY 24, 2016

In summer 2015, Halas and study co-author Peter Nordlander designed an experiment to test whether a plasmonic antenna could be attached to a catalytic reactor particle. But this catalytic process also produces another gas, ethane, in addition to ethylene.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As the assumed annual growth rates for forecast liquid fuels consumption have remained unchanged for 2015-18, the higher baseline 2014 data raises overall consumption through the forecast period. EIA recently completed a re-assessment of energy use in China. Methanol in China. Most of China’s methanol supply is from domestic production.

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MARCH 27, 2017

In 2015 we introduced the efficient transformation splitting of CO 2 by electrolysis in molten carbonates to form carbon nanotubes and nanofibers at high yield. In 2015 we demonstrated that specific transition metals at the cathode, such as Ni, Co, Cu and Fe, act as nucleation points for high yield carbon nanotube growth in molten carbonates.

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APRIL 10, 2015

Natural photosynthesis, which harvests 130 TW of solar energy to generate up to 115 billion metric tons of biomass annually from the reduction of CO 2 , provides motivation for the development of artificial systems that can capture the energy of the sun to convert CO 2 and H 2 O to value-added chemicals of societal benefit. ovata and E.

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Gevo’s technology platform is high yielding, approaching 94% of the theoretically possible conversion of plant sugars to isobutanol, according to the filing. The straightforward conversion of isobutanol into butenes is a fundamentally important process that enables isobutanol to be used as a building block chemical in multiple markets.

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Wessels Reederei signed a letter of intent with MAN Diesel & Turbo regarding the conversion of three of its fleet to dual-fuel gas operation. The retrofit enables dual-fuel operation and is the first such conversion of its type. TOTE ro-ro conversion in the US. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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