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MAY 30, 2020

Synhelion was founded in 2016 at ETH Zurich and is working on bringing solar fuels to the market. It is also intended to agree on acceptance quotas of SAF at a later date in order to support future demonstration projects of the partners. Further contents of the cooperation are to be worked out by the end of 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

BIOFOREVER (BIO-based products from FORestry via Economically Viable European Routes)—a consortium of 14 European companies—has started a demonstration project for the conversion of woody biomass to value-adding chemical building blocks such as butanol, ethanol, and 2,5–furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) on an industrial scale.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Lightning Systems announced that its LightningHybrids hydraulic hybrid system has received an Executive Order from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) allowing aftermarket conversions of gasoline-powered 2016 model year Ford E-450 vehicles.

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MARCH 21, 2016

The first step in such a process would involve the conversion of these materials into syngas through either gasification or steam reforming. An alternative method is the conversion of synthesis gas in two process steps. First the CO and H 2 are converted to methanol.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

In a paper in the journal Fuel , they report a continuous, one-step process for the quantitative conversion of glycerol into a mixture of ethers under mild conditions (atmospheric pressure and temperatures of 40–70 °C) over a zeolite BEA catalyst. Samoilov, Dzhamalutdin N. Ramazanov, Andrey I. Nekhaev, Anton L. Maximov, Leonid N.

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APRIL 27, 2016

DLR is presenting the HY4—a four-seater passenger fuel cell hybrid electric aircraft prototype ( earlier post )— at the 2016 Hannover Messe, along with research and development partners Hydrogenics, Pipistrel, H2FLY, the University of Ulm and Stuttgart Airport. Der Stuttgart Airport is supporting the project as a home airport.

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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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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Panda Power Funds has financed the 1,124 megawatt Panda “Hummel Station” power plant—one of the largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in the United States. The 829 megawatt “Liberty” power plant, located in Towanda, Pennsylvania, is expected to enter commercial operations in the first quarter of 2016.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

A team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo (Norway), and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ) (Spain) has developed a new process for the direct, non-oxidative conversion of methane to liquids—reducing cost, eliminating multiple process steps, and avoiding CO 2 emissions. Resources. Morejudo, R. Escolástico, I.

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APRIL 11, 2017

Our study confirms the highly promising potential of a photothermocatalytic strategy for the conversion of CO2 and potentially opens new vistas for the development of other solar-energy-driven reaction systems. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and among the 2016 Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science.

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APRIL 11, 2015

The US Defense Logistics Agency-Energy (DLA-Energy) has posted the Rocky Mountain/West Coast/Offshore (RMW) solicitation ( SPE600-15-R-0711 ) on behalf of the US Navy for fuel deliveries from 1 October 2015 to 30 September 2016. The two approved pathways are FT (Fischer-Tropsch) and HEFA (Hydro-processed esters and fatty acids).

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

What we know is that this unique structure provides a beneficial chemical environment for CO2 conversion to multicarbon products,” he said. For example, in 2016, a hybrid semiconductor-bacteria system was developed for the production of acetate from CO 2 and sunlight.

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MARCH 8, 2016

An alternative approach—decarboxylation and/or decarbonylation of carboxylic acids at high temperature over non-sulfide catalysts—shows low activities towards triglycerides conversion. Total conversions with near quantitative yields for alkane formation from triglycerides can be obtained over this efficient catalyst.

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JUNE 1, 2016

Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. 2016) “Green Diesel from Kraft Lignin in Three Steps” ChemSusChem doi: 10.1002/cssc.201600172. Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem. Löfstedt, J., Dahlstrand, C., Meuzelaar, G.,

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

To date, Hummel Station is expected to be one of the largest coal to natural gas conversion projects in the United States. The 829 megawatt “Liberty” power plant, located in Towanda, Pennsylvania, is expected to enter commercial operations in the first quarter of 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

billion in Michigan since 2016 and created and retained 7,000 jobs in the state. We knew the F-150 Lightning was special, but the interest from the public has surpassed our highest expectations and changed the conversation around electric vehicles. Ford has invested $7.7

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

A team from the University of Science & Technology of China in Hefei has developed a three-step process for the conversion of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into cycloparaffinic and aromatic biofuels in jet fuel range. —Wu et al. 2016.10.030.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The report estimates consumption to have been more than 500,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2016. Consumption of MTBE and other derivatives in China was estimated at 230,000 b/d in 2016. EIA commissioned the study to better understand China’s consumption of methanol and its derivatives.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Through Power to X (PTX), the conversion of renewable energy to other usable forms, green e-methanol is an optimal solution for Denmark to store excess renewable power, stabilize its national power grid, and produce a sustainable carbon neutral renewable fuel.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2026, SSAB plans to supply the market with fossil-free steel at a commercial scale after the conversion of its Oxelösund blast furnaces to an electric arc furnace and by using HYBRIT technology, which replaces coking coal, traditionally needed for iron ore-based steelmaking, with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen.

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APRIL 18, 2018

In 2016, Kawasaki Heavy, Iwatani, Shell Japan and J-Power established a CO 2 -free Hydrogen Energy Supply-Chain Technology Research Association (HySTRA). Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. is designing a liquefied hydrogen carrier in collaboration with Shell for the pilot HESC.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Amazon Air, which formed in 2016, currently operates a fleet of about 70 aircraft, including Boeing 737s and Boeing 767s. The four aircraft purchased from WestJet in March are currently undergoing passenger-to-cargo conversion and will join Amazon Air’s network in 2021.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Methanol to jet technology is scalable and suitable for the conversion of methanol produced from today’s world-scale plants. The current Alcohol to Jet Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene pathway (ATJ-SPK), certified in 2016, currently only allows the individual use of ethanol and isobutanol. Methanol is a 1-carbon compound.

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MARCH 15, 2016

A team at the University of Bristol in the UK has developed an extremely selective (>99%) and productive (>75% conversion) homogeneous ruthenium catalyst for the production of isobutanol from methanol-ethanol mixtures. A paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Chemical Communications. —Wingad et al.

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JUNE 22, 2021

With SSAB’s conversion, we will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent in Sweden and 7 percent in Finland. The HYBRIT initiative was started in 2016 by the three owners SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall. This means that we can meet the climate goals in Sweden, Finland and contribute to reducing emissions throughout Europe.

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APRIL 14, 2015

Westport’s Prins VSI system “plug and play” conversion on the 2016 Ford F650/F-750 requires no intake manifold drilling, cutting, or splicing of wiring. Newly converted 2016 F-650/750 trailer and bobtail with an Alliance Bi-Fuel autogas system. Westport acquired Prins in late 2014. Earlier post.). Source: Alliance Autogas.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The team is presenting two papers on the inverter at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) next week in Milwaukee. Hopkins and Iqbal Husain (2016) “Design Methodology for a Planarized High Power Density EV/HEV Traction Drive using SiC Power Modules” 2016 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an le air-stable amide-derived N,N,N-Ru(II) complex to catalyze the conversion of ethanol to 1-butanol with high selectivity. The researchers report that conversion to upgraded products exceeds 250 turnovers per hour (>50% conversion) with 0.1 doi: 10.1039/C5CC09913G.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

Curtiss, Amin Salehi-Khojin (2016) “Nanostructured transition metal dichalcogenide electrocatalysts for CO 2 reduction in ionic liquid” Science Vol. Mohammad Asadi, Kibum Kim, Cong Liu, Aditya Venkata Addepalli, Pedram Abbasi, Poya Yasaei, Patrick Phillips, Amirhossein Behranginia, José M. Klie, Jeremiah Abiade, Larry A. 353, Issue 6298, pp.

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APRIL 4, 2019

In 2016, the AVTA board set a goal of becoming the nation’s first all-electric fleet and vowed to convert all of its aging diesel buses. AVTA will achieve that conversion milestone later this year. AVTA was one of BYD’s first customers.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The production concept is based on the distributed primary conversion of various kind of biomass residues to intermediate liquid products at small-to-medium scale (10-50 kt/a Fischer-Tropsch products, 30–150 MW biomass) units located close to biomass resources. million) from the EU Horizon 2020 Competitive Low-Carbon Energy call 08-2016.

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MARCH 18, 2022

Valentino leads the Bioprocessing Separations Consortium, a group of researchers from six national laboratories that together research and develop separations processes and technology needed for the conversion of biomass to biofuel. At some point there is a conversion step followed by a separations process.

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JULY 5, 2019

To facilitate the execution of this trial, Sharp modularized its high-efficiency solar battery cells (conversion efficiency of 34%+), previously developed for a NEDO-led project, to create an onboard solar battery panel. Background. Profile of demo car.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Due to the long delivery time of LNG tanks, the engine retrofit will commence in Q4 2016. Full operational usage of LNG as fuel is planned for early December, 2016. This ship therefore facilitates a multiplier effect, with multiple, other conversion-capable vessels also found around the European continent.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Involving 16 further partners, the project, which is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), has over the past four years gathered fundamental insights into the conversion of steel mill process gases into chemical products.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. RenewCO2 Inc, “Integrated Electrocatalytic Conversion of CO 2 from Bio-Ethanol Emissions into Carbon-Negative Chemicals”, $499,953. Viridos, Inc., “Pre-pilot

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