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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Neste Oil produces NExBTL diesel (and its other renewable fuel cousins such as jet fuel) by using a proprietary process to hydrogenate vegetable oil or animal fat feedstocks. The result is a tailored drop-in fuel; with several major NExBTL refineries worldwide, Neste is currently the leading producer of renewable diesel.

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MARCH 18, 2022

Methanol is a widely available fuel that is carbon-neutral when produced from renewable sources and is easier to handle than many other alternative fuels. Wärtsilä will develop an ammonia-fueled engine concept by 2023, and a hydrogen concept by 2025. © Wärtsilä Corporation. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A Sandia National Laboratories project team, including a number of industry partners, is designing and building a cold-ironing fuel cell system that will be deployed in the Port of Honolulu in 2015. Earlier post.). The system will be delivered to and deployed by Young Brothers, Ltd., —Joe Pratt.

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APRIL 17, 2015

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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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. billion above the FY 2015 Enacted level, sustains DOE’s role as the largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences and develops and operates advanced scientific user facilities at the National Laboratories to maintain the nation’s primacy in science and innovation.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Gevo has begun selling renewable isooctene to BCD Chemie, a subsidiary of Brenntag. Initial orders in 2015 are expected to result in revenues to Gevo of more than $1 million. Isobutanol converts readily to isobutylene, which can be dimerized to form isooctene. Isooctene, in turn, can be hydrogenated to form isooctane.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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JULY 25, 2015

Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan, with a colleague at the University of Tsukuba, have devised a process to convert squalane, a C 30 algae-derived branched hydrocarbon, to smaller hydrocarbons—without skeletal isomerization and aromatization—over ruthenium on ceria (Ru/CeO 2 ). Watanabe, H., Nakagawa, Y. and Tomishige, K.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Scientists from a team spanning Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a scalable, integrated bioelectrochemical system that uses bacteria to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel. Earlier post.). 1424872112.

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MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JUNE 19, 2014

The hydrogen shuttle bus. Integrated at US Hybrid’s Honolulu facility, the 25-passenger shuttle bus utilizes a 30 kW fuel cell fueled by a 20 kg hydrogen storage and delivery system. The new H 2 Ride Fuel Cell Plug-In Shuttle Bus is scheduled for deployment with Hawaii MTA in early 2015. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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As the level of catalytic activity can be tuned by the solvent conditions, their findings could open up many new directions for converting CO 2 to industrially useful organic compounds. Silyl formate can be easily converted to formic acid, which can serve as an important hydrogen carrier, for example, in fuel cells.

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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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MARCH 17, 2015

The Cu-Ti-Ti hollow site binds hydrogen too strongly. copper-titanium catalyst provides a large-surface area for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution, and improves the mass transport properties. The two Cu-Cu-Ti hollow sites exhibit HBE values close to that of Pt. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

The plants will be based on BTL’s Fast Pyrolysis Oil (FPO) technology which converts biomass to oil through a rapid pyrolysis process. This oil can be used as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels for the production of renewable energy and chemicals.

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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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DECEMBER 23, 2015

The syngas is stored and finally converted into jet fuel via the FT process. The solar thermochemical fuel path is based on the high-temperature conversion of water and CO 2 into syngas (hydrogen and carbon monoxide) and oxygen mediated by ceria redox reactions. Click to enlarge. —Falter et al. 5b03515.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car.

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JULY 20, 2015

The multi-stage process uses renewable power to produce hydrogen using a proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer. 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). Earlier post.).

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MAY 14, 2020

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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APRIL 7, 2015

Glucose and xylose were simultaneously converted to H 2 with a yield of two H 2 per carbon, the maximum possible yield. The gaseous hydrogen can be separated from aqueous substrates easily, greatly decreasing product separation costs, and avoid reconcentrating sugar solutions. source: Rollins et al. —Joe Rollin.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Ensyn has initiated the generation and sale of its first RINs (Renewable Identification Numbers) under the US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) ( earlier post ); Ensyn’s D7 cellulosic RINs have received QAP certification. non-ester renewable diesel can have EVs ranging from 1.5 Earlier post.) Expanded definition.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Production of bio-based jet and diesel is expected to begin in 2013 and production of bio-based gasoline, part of the C 3 product platform, will follow in 2015. For the ethanol process, the acetic acid is then converted to an ester which is then hydrogenated to make ethanol. ZeaChem Inc., ZeaChem Inc.,

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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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AUGUST 5, 2015

Schobert (2015) Click to enlarge. The recovery of middle-distillate fuels from the hydrotreated and hydrogenated extract is up to 80%. Indirect liquefaction processes gasify the coal to produce synthesis gas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen). Direct liquefaction also requires substantial quantities of hydrogen.

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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. Plug-in electric vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on potential early markets and deployment opportunities for hydrogen and fuel cells. DOE is seeking to facilitate the market penetration of hydrogen and fuel cell products through higher volume purchases (e.g., Market development RFI.

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MARCH 29, 2016

Renewable isobutanol company Gevo announced that the ASTM International Committee D02 on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants and Subcommittee D02.J As previously announced, Alaska Airlines is now poised to fly the first commercial test flight using Gevo’s renewable ATJ-SPJ fuel. October 2015. J Ballot”).

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APRIL 5, 2016

This project is funded by a ~$1-million grant from the California Energy Commission under the auspices of its Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Testing Program. The Altex process does not require the intermediate conversion of the feedstock into synthesis gas or pyrolysis liquids, plus it does not require hydrogen.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The addition of biomass derived ethanol to gasoline in the transportation sector is an important step in the utilization of renewable energy. This has renewed interest in the conversion of ethanol to hydrocarbon blend-stock and other industrial chemicals. An open-access paper on their findings is published in Nature Scientific Reports.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Develop the production of cost-competitive C 8 fatty acid derivatives (which can readily be converted to high-performance lubricants and synthetic oils) from cellulosic sugars via novel metabolic engineering pathways. Kiverdi in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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MAY 15, 2014

They converted from an absolute amount to scale relative to 2000. To meet the cap by 2015 requires an “infeasible” 40% new vehicle fuel consumption (FC) reduction per year in 2011?2015 2015 ( 400 MPG by 2015) to overcome the inertia of the higher-emitting older vehicles in the fleet. to 5% YOY to 3.5%

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

million for hydrogen fuel cell buses. Juneau, the Capital City of Alaska, has a clean, renewable source of energy, local hydropower. This project is unique in that the buses will be charged during the day to take advantage of the renewable energy made available by the abundant solar and wind energy available on the island.

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MARCH 13, 2015

The lamellar-like layered structure can then easily be converted to carbon materials undergoing structural transformation. Our results indicate that the HPNC-NC is promising for next-generation hybrid energy storage and renewable delivery devices with high power and energy density. —Hou et al. Batteries'

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JANUARY 22, 2015

. … We argue that alkenones represent a potentially fruitful and as yet unexplored renewable carbon source with structures particularly well suited for a number of catalytic processes. Specifically, alkenones feature long olefinic carbon-chains, favorable carbon-to-hydrogen ratios, and few heteroatoms (i.e., —O’Neil et al.

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MARCH 19, 2014

In its Form 10-K (annual report) filed with the SEC on 17 March, cellulosic renewable fuels company KiOR said it has “ substantial doubts about [its] ability to continue as a going concern ”. In addition, it must make specified investments within Mississippi by 31 December 2015, including an aggregate $500.0 Earlier post.). million.

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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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