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APRIL 25, 2011

Red Wolf, formed in 2010, is in the process of raising $3 million through an equity offering to commercialize the thermal-chemical catalytic process. This is accomplished by separately pumping steam and the feedstock oil at high temperature and pressures into a Colgate-Emery reactor. Hydrolysis. Step 2: deoxygenation. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 13, 2016

Researchers at Beijing University of Chemical Technology have developed a catalytic process for the selective conversion of ricinoleic acid methyl ester—derived from castor oil—into jet fuel. reported the hydro-processing of castor oil into bio-jet fuel for the first time. Recently, Liu et al. —Zhou et al.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. One of the catalytic conversion processes creates the high-octane gasoline blendstock. Earlier post.).

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JULY 14, 2016

for the production of renewable fuel oil (RFO) from forest residues. million gallons US) of renewable fuel oil per year. Production of renewable fuel oil is set to begin in 2017. Production of renewable fuel oil is set to begin in 2017. The Governments of Canada and Québec will provide $76.5

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MAY 31, 2012

to proceed with its Narrows Lake oil sands project, with an ultimate gross production capacity of 130,000 barrels per day. SAP combines steam injection with solvents, such as butane, to help bring the oil to the surface. This would be the industry’s first use of SAP with butane on a commercial scale. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

While from 2010 to 2015, the investment focus was on drop-in replacements for established chemicals, in 2016 VCs’ focus has shifted to disruptive synthetic biology (synbio) and conversion technologies, according to Lux Research. Low oil hits drop-ins, substitutes. —Victor Oh, Lux Research Analyst.

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MARCH 29, 2017

The report provides an overview of the current state of alternative aviation fuels, as reported in findings by recent working groups, and also presents findings from the Alternative Aviation Fuel Workshop hosted by BETO in September 2016. Unlike other liquid fuels (e.g., Catalytic hydrotreating of lipids (catalytic hydrothermolysis [CH]).

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Meanwhile, wet waste feedstocks, such as animal manure and fats, oils, and greases (FOG), represent another important category of resources that could be utilized to produce MCCI bioblendstocks due to its abundant availability. demand in 2016. demand in 2016. Skaggs et al. Skaggs et al. GLE and $0.9/GLE.

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MARCH 17, 2017

million-gallon) nameplate capacity biodiesel production facility at the Sombra site, together with 25 acres of land, in June 2016. Renewable diesel and biodiesel are both produced from fats and oils. BIOX acquired a 50-million-liter (13.2-million-gallon) BIOX’s biodiesel meets North American (ASTM D-6751) quality standards.

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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.). s petroleum-based jet.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Although many feedstocks, technologies, and conversion pathways are currently sharing the same tent, the current decade is shaping up to be one of shakeouts, as early bets on cellulosic technologies reach commercial production and significant investments from oil majors and multinationals. commercialization.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Anellotech’s proprietary thermal catalytic biomass conversion technology (Bio-TCat) cost-competitively produces building-block aromatics, including paraxylene and benzene, from non-food biomass. The development of 100% bio-based aromatics will meet growing consumer demand for products and packaging made from sustainable sources.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 24, 2010

Following a mandate by the USAF to use 50% of its fuel from cleaner and domestic sources by 2016, Accelergy is the first to provide 100% synthetic fuel that can meet the JP-8 standards. The USAF currently uses JP-8 fuel in all of its aircraft and has been looking for a commercially viable 100% synthetic alternative to petroleum-based fuels.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

between 2017 and 2021, as a combination of higher oil prices, emerging mandate. Multiple aims include the reduction of dependence on imported oil, mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and driving economic development. Ultimately, widespread commercialization will depend on whether these ventures can reach price.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Second, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a rule on the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) that would provide financing to increase the conversion of biomass to bioenergy. And we want to get up 10 commercial demonstration projects, get those up and running by 2016. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 8, 2014

To achieve this first objective, DOE intends to pursue parallel strategies: Advance options for diverse energy resources and conversion devices for power. watt commercial, and $3.10/watt It will also work to reduce the risk and enhance the performance of subsurface energy systems, including geothermal energy. watt utility, $2.37/watt

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MARCH 20, 2012

The combined science team from Cobalt and the NAWCWD focused on scaling and optimizing the dehydration chemistry for the conversion of bio n-butanol to 1-butene, followed by oligomerization of the bio-butene into jet fuel, based on the process developed at NAWCWD in China Lake, CA. Earlier post.). Alcohol to Jet. Earlier post.).

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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. The use of petroleum must be greatly reduced, implying retirement of crude oil production and distribution infrastructure. Source: NRC. Click to enlarge. Several advanced battery technologies (e.g.,

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

The average CI for gasoline and gasoline substitutes for 2016 is 96.50 As a co-product, the hydrogen process produces carbon black, which could displace the use of carbon in the commercial production of electrodes. So far, fuel producers are over-complying with the regulation. Earlier post.). gCO 2 e/MJ. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MAY 16, 2016

Novomer is commercializing a proprietary catalyst system that transforms waste CO 2 into high performance, low-cost polymers for a variety of applications, including foam and plastic that are easily recyclable. Plastic manufacturing accounts for nearly 4% of the world’s oil use, according to British Plastic Federation.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

The production costs for most chemicals via microbial fermentation are currently high compared to oil-derived products primarily because of operating costs associated with feedstock and feedstock processing. One way to mitigate high feedstock cost is to maximize conversion into the bioproduct of interest. Jones, Alan G.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The specification was approved and published with support from the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI). In the CHJ process (also called hydrothermal liquefaction), clean free fatty acid (FFA) oil from the processing of waste oils or energy oils is combined with preheated feed water and then passed to the CH reactor.

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JULY 12, 2011

Chesapeake is the second-largest producer of natural gas, a Top 15 producer of oil and natural gas liquids and the most active driller of new wells in the US. conversion premium. Chesapeake considers Sundrop Fuels’ plant a critical strategic development to initiate the commercialization of its novel gasification process.

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JUNE 7, 2017

output of mining or importing technologies) to conversion or process technologies (e.g., power plants and refineries) and in turn to the transportation, residential, industrial, and commercial end-use sectors. The database includes joint Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and GHG emission standards for LDVs.

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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. Every time there is a conversion of energy from one form to another there are efficiency losses – a concept known as ‘energy vector transition’. Again, the hydrogen pathway represents a stupid energy pathway.

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MAY 13, 2010

Decreasing Dependence on Foreign Oil. Significant tax incentives encourage the conversion of trucks and heavy-duty fleets to natural gas vehicles. Industrial sources will not enter the program until 2016. It also provides significant incentives for the commercial deployment of 72 GW of carbon capture and sequestration.

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MAY 4, 2018

lignin, CO 2 , and biosolids), improving organic and inorganic catalysts to increase conversion efficiency and decrease costs, and creating high-value performance-advantaged bioproducts to allow for more profitable biorefineries. Performance advantaged biobased products are bioproducts that do not resemble an existing commercial petroleum?derived

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JUNE 20, 2017

reported a breakthrough in their joint research ( earlier post ) into advanced biofuels involving the modification of an algae strain that more than doubled its oil content without significantly inhibiting the strain’s growth. Slower growth has been an adverse effect of previous attempts to increase algae oil production volume.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Three of the NHTSA scenarios for penetration of technologies for passenger cars for MY 2016. mpg and 250 g CO 2 /km for model year 2016. mpg and 250 g CO 2 /km for model year 2016. Three of the NHTSA scenarios for penetration of technologies for light trucks for MY 2016. Data: Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures. Welch Foundation. Wilaiwan Chanmanee, Mohammad Fakrul Islam, Brian H.

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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. Though this sounds like speculative fiction, these applications are already in use. Conclusions.

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