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JULY 1, 2015

TransAlta Corporation has been awarded $250,000 from Alberta Innovates - Energy & Environment Solutions (AI-EES) to help launch Alberta’s first large-scale commercial energy storage project. The project should be running in late-2016.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Year-over-year, US greenhouse gas emissions were 0.5% lower in 2017 than the prior year (after accounting for sequestration from the land sector), and power sector emissions fell 4.2%, according to the 2019 edition of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) annual report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

That report, authored by group co-chairs, Agriculture and Energy Secretaries Vilsack and Chu, and EPA Administrator Jackson, lays out a strategy to advance the development and commercialization of a sustainable biofuels industry to meet or exceed the nation’s biofuels targets. Percent reduction from 2005 baseline). Renewable fuel.

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MAY 21, 2018

C-Capture uses new amine-free solvent materials for CO 2 capture with superior performance characteristics, whilst maintaining low cost for commercial viability". The first phase of the project, starting this month, will look to see if the solvent C-Capture has developed is compatible with the biomass flue gas at Drax Power Station.

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JULY 29, 2016

The US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2016 (AEO2016) Reference case projects that energy use in the steel industry will further increase by 11% over 2015–2040. Primary production of steel typically uses a blast furnace to produce molten iron from iron ore, coking coal, and limestone.

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APRIL 3, 2012

The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has launched a new competition for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology to drive down costs by supporting practical experience in the design, construction and operation of commercial scale CCS ( CCS Commercialization Programme ) with £1 billion (US$1.6

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This is because of growing demand from commercial transportation and the chemical sector. In the forecast, global transportation-related energy demand grows close to 30% from 2016 to 2040. The share of the world’s electricity generated by coal is expected to fall to less than 30% in 2040 from approximately 40% in 2016.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The report finds that the greenhouse gas emissions of electric vehicles, with the current EU energy mix and over the entire vehicle life cycle, are about 17-30% lower than the emissions of gasoline and diesel cars. According to the briefing, the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing in the EU since 2014.

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JUNE 1, 2016

This makes black liquor the fifth most important fuel in the world, next to coal, oil, natural gas, and gasoline. An organocatalyzed esterification of the lignin residue with an in situ prepared tall oil fatty acid anhydride gives an esterified lignin residue that was soluble in light gas oil. Globally over 1.3 Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The US and China jointly announced greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. US President Barack Obama said the US will cut net greenhouse gas emissions in the US by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. Together, the US and China account for more than one third of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Kawasaki aims to complete development design in 2016, then subsequently move forward with commercialization. According to the report, the partners will produce hydrogen from low-quality brown coal abundant in Australia at low cost and then ship liquefied hydrogen. The company expects demand growth outside of Japan.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

cap and trade legislation—and only include technologies that are commercially available or can reasonably be expected to become commercially available over roughly the next decade. It does include the revised handling of fuel economy standards to reflect the proposal for light-duty vehicles in model years 2012-2016.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

In China in particular, there are abundant coal resources, and the technology of using coal to obtain methanol has been perfected with low cost; methanol fuel from coal has become one of the most popular alternative fuels for vehicles. No additives were used in the fuel blends. 6b01586.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

EIA’s AEO2012 projects a continued decline in US imports of liquid fuels due to increased production of gas liquids and biofuels and greater fuel efficiency. EIA added a premium to the capital cost of CO 2 -intensive technologies to reflect current market behavior regarding possible future policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

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MAY 13, 2010

The American Power Act, released as a discussion draft, targets reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 4.75% compared to 2005 levels by 2013; by at least 17% compared to 2005 levels by 2020; by at least 42% compared to 2005 levels by 2030; and by at least 83% compared to 2005 levels by 2050. Natural Gas.

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MAY 14, 2020

ASTM International has approved and published a seventh annex to D7566 , the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) specification, with support from the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI). Annex A5: Alcohol to Jet Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (ATJ-SPK) (2016). Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 6, 2015

million to advance solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for application in commercial power generation plants. The first ( DE-FOA-0001229 ), is to support research projects that will improve the reliability, robustness and endurance of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC), stack, and system technology that is nearing commercial viability.

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MARCH 30, 2011

This includes almost 24 million inactive leased acres in the Gulf of Mexico, which potentially could hold more than 11 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. We’re also exploring and assessing new frontiers for oil and gas development from Alaska to the Mid- and South Atlantic. And we have to do it quickly.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

The report concludes that while CCS can play an important role in domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions thereby preserving the option of using coal and other abundant domestic fossil energy resources, it faces a key barrier in the lack of a price on carbon. Tags: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Coal.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Among 2016 INCITE award recipients: Martin Berzins of the University of Utah received 351 million core hours to study ultra super critical coal boilers, leading to improved efficiency and new designs for safer next-generation coal boilers.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Compared to the reference case, in which gasoline vehicles (ICEVs) remain dominant through 2050 (BAU), OPT results in 16% and 36% reductions in LDV greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for 2030 and 2050, respectively, corresponding to 5% and 9% reductions in economy-wide emissions. Credit: ACS, Keshavarzmohammadian et al. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Energy consumption by LDVs (including commercial light trucks) declines in the Reference case, from 16.1 Growth in diesel fuel consumption will be moderated by the increased use of natural gas in heavy-duty vehicles. The United States becomes a net exporter of natural gas earlier than estimated a year ago.

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MARCH 13, 2016

Advanced air management system (exhaust gas recirculation, turbocharger, supercharging). Under CERC, 4 pairs of US and Chinese consortia are operating collaboratively on 4 technical tracks: Advanced Coal Technologies with Carbon Capture, Utilization and/or Sequestration. Combustion control and optimization technology. Background.

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MARCH 18, 2013

Projected rates of fuel consumption improvement under different scenarios relative to past experience and the 2016 and 2025 CAFE standards. While natural gas vehicles would reduce petroleum use, they would have limited impact on GHG emissions. Source: NRC. Click to enlarge. —Douglas M. Vehicles operating on biofuels.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Units 3 and 4 are expected to begin commercial operation in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Compared to a similar sized coal plant, the new Vogtle units will avoid significant greenhouse gas emissions each year: 16 million tons of carbon dioxide, 3,900 tons of nitrogen oxides, and 5,500 tons of sulfur dioxide.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

While not the first video game—or even the first to be presented in an upright, arcade-style cabinet—Pong was the first to be commercially successful. The plant will replace an existing coal-fired plant and generate hydrogen—which can be used in fuel cells—using solar photovoltaics. According to the International Energy Agency, only.

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APRIL 5, 2011

mpg by 2016. These companies have sunk costs invested in coal, gas and oil plants and are content in maximizing the return on these investments. Per the EIA, only natural gas is now more competitive than wind generated electricity in terms of cost competitiveness based on capital cost per kilowatt.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. The FCEV takes on hydrogen fuel in a compressed gas cylinder similar to, but much stronger than an LPG cylinder. Basically, [replacing] natural gas for hydrogen, [replacing] gasoline for hydrogen.

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MARCH 31, 2013

On Saturday, Israel’s Ministry of Energy & Water Resources reported that commercial natural gas production had begun from the deepwater Tamar field (c. Tamar was the world’s largest natural gas discovery in 2009, notes Delek Energy, one of the Tamar partners. Israel natural gas demand forecast 2011-2040. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 18, 2015

This award is Honeywell UOP’s 5 th licensing win for its MTO process and comes after the successful start up of its first commercial-scale MTO facility for China’s Wison Clean Energy in September 2013. The process converts methanol from non-crude oil sources such as coal and natural gas into ethylene and propylene.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

The US Department of Energy has selected 16 projects for almost $29 million in funding to develop advanced post-combustion technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from coal–fired power plants. The application of ultrasonic energy forces dissolved CO 2 into gas bubbles. DOE share: $1,620,794; recipient share: $422,269.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

On 22 January 2016, Siemens handed over the combined cycle power plant equipped with a Siemens H-class gas turbine at the Lausward location in the Düsseldorf (Germany) harbor area to the customer and operator, the utility company Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG. To date Siemens has 76 H-class gas turbines under contract worldwide.

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APRIL 4, 2016

Conventional direct reduced iron is produced by the reduction (removal of oxygen) of iron oxide lumps or pellets at 800-1050 °C—below the melting point of iron (1536 °C)—by interaction with reductants (H2+CO) derived from natural gas or coal. Feasibility study-pilot plant trials from 2018-2024.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Examining the role of shale gas, PwC’s report suggests that at current rates of consumption, replacing 10% of global oil and coal consumption with gas could deliver emissions savings of around 3% a year (1gt CO 2 e per annum).

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JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. There are trucks and buses being converted commercially today. Gasoline/diesel fueling stations to replenish the liquid fuel for these engines are readily available.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. unprecedented and deadly winter freeze. Here’s how.

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