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Excluded from the agreement are Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands, where Ventraco will continue to supply the products. The product improves the properties of weathered and hardened bitumen, rejuvenating old bitumen or reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP). It opens up the opportunity to recycle up to 100% of raw materials.

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JULY 17, 2020

USA Rare Earth is currently evaluating options for the location of the plant, which will become the first neo magnet manufacturing plant in North America since the Hitachi facility ceased operations in 2015. This does not include magnets in finished and semi-finished products that are imported. Geomega Resources Inc., Earlier post.)

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MARCH 25, 2014

has teamed up with Waste Services of the Bluegrass to generate power from local landfill waste, marking the region’s first business-to-business landfill gas to energy initiative. Toyota estimates the locally-generated landfill gas will supply enough power each year for the production of 10,000 vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A study by a team at the University Putra Malaysia concluded that the gasification of empty fruit bunch (EFB), a waste of the palm oil industry, could, if scaled up, produce hydrogen at a supply cost of $2.11/kg The US Department of Energy (DOE) 2015 cost target for hydrogen is $2.00-$3.00/kg The feedstock particle size of 0.3–0.5

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MAY 14, 2014

2015 Investment Plan Update for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program”. 2015 Investment Plan Update covers the sixth year of the program and reflects laws, executive orders, and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, petroleum dependence, and criteria emissions. The 2014-2015 plan.

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

Ford plans to cut the amount of water used to make each vehicle 30% globally by 2015, compared with the amount of water used per vehicle in 2009. m 3 (925 gallons US) in 2015. Production at Hermosillo Stamping and Assembly Plant doubled between 2000 and 2010. m 3 (2,510 gallons US) in 2000 to approximately 3.5

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

Despite a number of key issues such as land use and competition for feedstocks supplies for traditional food and feed uses, global use of biofuels is excepted to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to a new global analysis released by Hart Energy Publishing’s Global Biofuels Center (GBC). billion gallons).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Neste Oil has applied for patents to cover technology developed to produce microbial oil from waste and residues with the help of various yeasts and molds for use as a feedstock for its NExBTL renewable diesel. The product is a synthetic diesel fuel, free of oxygen and aromatic compounds; side products include propane and gasoline.

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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. —Reiner Mangold, Head of Sustainable Product Development at Audi AG. Audi plans to launch a second TCNG model, based on the A4, in 2015. Components of the e-gas plant.

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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. Even more ambitious is the production of cyclic oxygenates (e.g., all of which are ? —Boot et al.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

The funding, made available through the Automotive Supplier Innovation Program ( ASIP ), will support the development and production of electric vehicle battery material in Nano One’s pilot plant. The facility will simulate full-scale production of lithium-ion cathode materials and showcase Nano One’s patented processing technology.

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These initiatives are further steps toward achieving the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050, introduced in 2015. Using the “Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Technologies” (GREET) model, researchers found that the production of a PHEV emits less GHG since it uses a smaller, lighter weight battery.

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Renault Trucks’ heavy-duty Optifuel Lab 2 laboratory vehicle brings together various technologies designed to reduce fuel consumption in heavy-duty trucks and to prepare the way for future production models. These figures will be announced during the first quarter of 2015. Waste heat recovery. and distributes it in real time.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Neste Oil has achieved its long-term target of using only certified palm oil as an input for its renewable diesel (NExBTL) production process. The original target, set in 2009, was that 100% of the raw palm oil used would be certified by the end of 2015.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R-CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste.

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MAY 6, 2011

The Province of Ontario (Canada) has selected Rentech’s proposed Olympiad Renewable Energy Centre (Olympiad Project) in The Township of White River (White River), Ontario, for a proposed supply of up to 1.1 The award would provide Rentech with a reliable long-term supply of biomass for its proposed Olympiad Project.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

The switch from petroleum diesel to renewable diesel took place in the beginning of October 2015. The City of Walnut Creek also switched its diesel powered municipal fleet to renewable diesel in August 2015. Neste is the leading producer of renewable diesel in the world, with an annual production volume of more than 2 million tons.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

Norsk Titanium’s Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) technology transforms titanium wire into complex components at better than half the time, cost, and waste levels of legacy processes. Production cost is 50% to 75% less than legacy forging and billet manufacturing techniques due to significantly less waste and machining energy.

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JULY 27, 2013

Maryland Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS): This establishes a market for new sources of renewable electricity generation by requiring that Maryland power providers supply 18% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020, increasing to 20% by 2022. Waste in landfills is a source of GHG emissions.

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

With a renewable diesel production capacity of 800 million gallons (3 billion liters) in the US, Europe and Asia, the on-road fuel could rapidly supply as much as 1% of global jet fuel demand. Sustainable renewable diesel can be made via the hydrotreating of vegetable oils, waste cooking oil and waste animal fats.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

The new location will produce the latest generation of the BMW TwinPower Turbo three and four-cylinder gasoline engines and forms part of the BBA production network based in Shenyang in Northeastern China. Both the engine plant and the light metal foundry incorporate the latest state-of-the-art production standards.

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OCTOBER 5, 2013

2(b) ) required the commissioners of those agencies to determine whether four statutory conditions had been met before increasing the minimum biodiesel content mandate to a planned B10 in 2012 and to B20 in 2015. State legislation ( Minnesota Statutes § 239.77, Subd.

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JULY 9, 2015

The roadmap explored the use of six feedstocks: municipal waste, microalgae, natural oils, waste food oil, non-edible biomass and woody biomass. The broad timeline for implementation is: Formulation of a business plan during FY 2015 ~ 2016; Design and construction of a plant from FY 2016 ~ 2018; Trial operation in 2019; and.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This hydrogen filling station marks the first time that a steam electrolysis plant in flexible operation is used for the production of hydrogen. The electrolysis system is supplied by Dresden company Sunfire. This is housed in a 20-foot container on the production site.

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JUNE 18, 2015

Etihad Airways, together with Boeing, Total, Takreer and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, launched a joint industry roadmap for the sustainable production of aviation biofuels in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Feedstocks including cellulosic biomass and municipal wastes are gasified. Earlier post , earlier post.).

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MARCH 20, 2015

At its Annual Account Press Conference 2015, the BMW Group announced that, for the first time in the history of the Group, 51% of its electricity worldwide is being supplied from renewable sources. At the Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, a methane gas system provides around 50% of the energy required for production.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

Given the appropriate policy and market measures, the state’s RNG production potential is 90.6 RNG is produced from organic materials or waste streams; the lifecycle emissions for RNG have the potential to be lower than the emissions of fossil natural gas. All costs and prices in the model are in 2015 constant dollars.).

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MAY 14, 2020

In February 2020, ASTM International approved and published the sixth annex to D7566, establishing criteria for the production and use of catalytic hydrothermolysis jet fuel (CHJ), a type of synthetic kerosene. Earlier post.). IHI also began work with Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. s petroleum-based jet. Feedstock(s): Syngas.

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JUNE 5, 2017

By the end of 2016, the company had already improved its five major environmental indicators (energy and water consumption, as well as the generation of waste, volatile compounds and CO 2 ) by 33.6%. Improving these indicators is framed within the ECOMOTIVE FACTORY Plan, SEAT’s environmental strategy in the scope of vehicle production.

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JULY 3, 2012

The third step upgrades the FT products into jet fuel. The project, known as GreenSky London, will convert waste biomass into sustainable jet fuel, and aims to become Europe’s first commercial scale sustainable jet fuel facility. These projects include GreenSky California, GreenSky Rome and GreenSky Stockholm. the plant’s operation.

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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.

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The AquaRefining technology extracts lead from LABs with a room temperature, closed-loop, water-based process that results in significant reductions of hazardous waste and direct human contact with the lead itself. million Nasdaq-listed initial public offering in July 2015. Battery Systems Inc., The facility was also financed by a $36.2-million

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MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. Neste has been exploring ways to contribute to improving palm oil industry’s environmental performance, particularly how to further reduce greenhouse gas emission from palm oil production.

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JUNE 6, 2018

The first global “Full-Flex Plant” of Mercedes-Benz Cars is based on the “Factory 56” principles introduced in February ( earlier post ), and is thus digitized consistently, designed for sustainable production and puts the human at the center of all activities. Thereby we lift the production concept of ‘Factory 56’ to the next level.

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APRIL 18, 2017

The production version will come in 2019 as Audi’s second battery-electric offering, following the introduction of the production version of the Audi e-tron SUV ( earlier post ) in 2018. This is done by siting a charging pad with integral coil on the floor where the car is to be parked, and connecting it to the power supply.

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JULY 15, 2015

In the German electrical energy mix, the share of renewable energies is growing rapidly, reaching 33% in the first half of 2015. When the Audi e-gas plant runs, it supplies the hygienization and amine scrubbing systems in the biogas plant with heat. Both models can be driven climate-neutrally with Audi e‑gas—i.e.,

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Other main findings include: In 2016, China, US, EU28, India, Russia and Japan, the world’s largest emitters in decreasing order of CO 2 emissions, accounted for 51% of the population, 65% of global Gross Domestic Product, 67% of the total primary energy supply and emitted 68% of total global CO 2 and circa 65% of total global GHGs.

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