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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. 2017), H 2 -assisted CO 2 thermochemical reduction on La 0.9

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JULY 21, 2022

It relies heavily on kerosene (jet fuel)—a liquid hydrocarbon fuel typically derived from crude oil. (A) In 2017, the team started scaling up the design and built a solar fuel-production plant at IMDEA Energy Institute in Spain. Zoller et al.

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JULY 14, 2016

for the production of renewable fuel oil (RFO) from forest residues. The goal of the project is to convert forest residues into 40 million liters (10.6 million gallons US) of renewable fuel oil per year. 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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MARCH 21, 2014

received approval from the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) for its 100%-owned Grand Rapids thermal oil sands project. Once a decision is made to proceed with Grand Rapids, Cenovus will be able to rely on existing infrastructure, including roads, power and camps at its Pelican Lake conventional heavy oil operation. Cenovus Energy Inc.

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AUGUST 12, 2017

The California Energy Commission is issuing a solicitation ( GFO-17-901 ) to provide up to $3 million in funding for innovative, pre-commercial low-carbon fuel production processes that result in the development of bio-oil as an intermediate fuel with wide-scale adoption potential used for renewable jet fuel production.

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JUNE 23, 2022

He also continued his calls for the oil industry to increase refinery capacity to increase production. That figure is down from 141 refineries in 2017, with 4 idle. Crude oil is always the top contributor to the prices US drivers see at the pump. including refineries in Canada, are being similarly converted.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

The conclusion of the successful open season confirmed strong market support for a pipeline with approximately 900,000 bbl/d of firm, long-term contracts to transport crude oil from the oil sands area in Western Canada to Eastern Canadian refineries and export terminals. The Energy East Pipeline will have a capacity of approximately 1.1

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APRIL 16, 2014

British Airways and its partner Solena Fuels announced that the UK GreenSky facility to convert landfill waste into jet fuel ( earlier post ) will be built in Thames Enterprise Park, part of the site of the former Coryton oil refinery in Thurrock, Essex. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. FT Processing. FT Wax Upgrading.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

BP and Johnson Matthey (JM) have signed an agreement with Fulcrum BioEnergy to license their Fischer Tropsch (FT) technology to support Fulcrum’s drive to convert municipal solid waste into biojet fuel.

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APRIL 2, 2015

The demonstration plant is the final scale-up of the OCM process technology and paves the way for Siluria to deploy commercial-scale plants in the 2017/2018 timeframe. The oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) converts methane into ethane and ethylene (C 2 hydrocarbons). Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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MARCH 6, 2018

This outdoor research follows the companies’ years of fundamental biological research into understanding and improving algae oil production. —Vijay Swarup, vice president for research and development at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. Earlier post.). —Oliver Fetzer, Ph.D., CEO at Synthetic Genomics.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Butagaz, a leading French brand distributing gas in bottles and tanks, is partnering with Global Bioenergies to incorporate batches of bio-isobutene produced at Global Bioenergies’ demo plant as early as 2017 and later by the first commercial bio-isobutene plant once built in France. bio-isobutene.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

November 27, oil consuming countries will celebrate the first anniversary of the Saudi decision to let market forces determine prices. per barrel oil in 2015 and 2016 respectively, while the October projections are based $51.62 by Dalan McEndree for Oilprice.com. — Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. and $65.65 respectively.

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JULY 15, 2014

DOE is targeting the production of cost-competitive drop-in biofuels at $3 per gallon by 2017. million to produce a bio-crude oil from algal biomass that will maximize the amount of renewable carbon recovered for use in fuel and reduce the nitrogen content of the product in order to meet fuel quality standards.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Suncor Energy has received conditional approval for its oil sands fluid tailings management plan from Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board ( ERCB ). Tailings are a mixture of fine clay, sands, water and residual bitumen produced through the oil sands extraction process, and are held in massive “ponds”. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The propulsion package also features a MAN 6L32/44CR common-rail main engine, a MAN Alpha Kappel propeller and a MAN SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) system capable of operating on MGO (marine gas oil), MDO (marine diesel oil) and HFO (heavy fuel oil). A delivery date for the newbuilding has been scheduled for September 2017.

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APRIL 17, 2015

Crude oil processing at La Mède will be halted at the end of 2016. The European market is steadily contracting, a situation aggravated by the shale oil and gas revolution in the United States, which gives the US refining industry an advantage, and competition from refineries in Asia and the Middle East. Axens’ Vegan process.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Sugars, lignins and tall oils produced at the facility will be distributed for testing of integration to more than 40 companies across the US and internationally who have the technologies to convert the sugars to biofuels and bioproducts and have requested to try the sugars, the lignin and the tall oils from the pilot plant.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2020

HTL uses heat and pressure—250–380 °C and 5–28 MPa—to convert a variety of feedstocks to biocrude. 2017) in the book Algal Biofuels. HTL mimics the geological conditions the Earth uses to create crude oil, using high pressure and temperature to achieve in minutes what has typically taken millions of years.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

million people worldwide in 2017, the paper notes. Specific recommendations include: Invest in clean renewable energy, in particular taking advantage of solar and wind power resources and reducing reliance on coal, oil, and gas. Only AIDS causes more deaths. billion IQ points across the continent.

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JULY 1, 2013

In the United States, the transportation sector accounts for two-thirds of total US oil consumption and about one-third of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. DOE is continuing to pursue the development of these renewable biofuels, with the goal of producing cost-competitive drop-in biofuels at $3 per gallon by 2017.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

The plant uses ADM’s Clintozyme enzyme to convert lower value corn fiber, which is typically sold as a feed ingredient, into higher value fuel ethanol through an enzymatic process. per gallon in 2017. We trialed ADM’s Clintozyme cellulase enzyme to increase our ethanol and corn oil yield.

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MAY 23, 2013

Intended primarily to convert heavy fuel oil into desulfurized diesel and ultra low sulfur heating oil, the planned complex responds to the shift in demand toward products with a lower environmental impact. The facility is scheduled to start up in early 2017. The facility is scheduled to start up in early 2016.

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APRIL 6, 2017

Using a juicer, the researchers extracted about 90% of the sugar and 60% of the oil from the plant; the juice was fermented to produce ethanol and later treated with organic solvents to recover the oil. The team has patented the method used to separate the oil and sugar. The team recovered 0.5 Moreau (USDA/ARS); Michael J.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

At the company’s Capital Markets Day 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sasol management said that the company will no longer pursue its proposed ) project in the US ( earlier post ) and furthermore will not invest in additional greenfields gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects. —Stephen Cornell.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The UW team is the first to try converting the entire young tree—leaves, bark and stems—into bio oil and ethanol using two separate processes. We have the environmental incentives to produce fuels and chemicals from renewable resources, but right now, they aren’t enough to compete with low oil prices.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

liter EcoBoost engine paired exclusively with the first volume-production 10-speed automatic transmission available from any automaker, 2017 Ford F-150 sees improvement in all three EPA fuel economy label estimates—city, highway and combined ratings—by 1 mpg over 2016 F-150; the 4x4 model improves by 2 mpg combined. The all-new 3.5-liter

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AUGUST 25, 2017

A team from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, with colleagues from the University of Birmingham and Aarhus University, have developed a nanosized bio-Pd/C catalyst for upgrading algal bio-oil. For the palladium to do its job, the bio-oil needs to flow past it during processing. —B.K. 2017.08.007.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Bio-oil produced from biomass fast pyrolysis technology can be converted into hydrocarbons; however, this process is challenging due to the instability of bio-oil. The bio-oil must be de-oxygenated and additional hydrogen must be added to maximize hydrocarbon production. Zixu Yang, Ajay Kumar, Allen W.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We need to go back to November 2017, to the start of the ‘Prius Revolution’ in the family. Power steering is electric and as a result we don’t need to check the power steering oil level as there isn’t any. Priuses can burn oil. Two out of our four Priuses burn oil. quarts) of oil every 11k kms (~7k miles).

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JULY 11, 2017

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil), India’s flagship national oil company and LanzaTech signed a Statement of Intent to construct the world’s first refinery offgas-to-bioethanol production facility in India. The basic engineering for the 40-million liter per year (10.6

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis. Mb d −1 of crude oil by 2045 under projected climate change while protecting forests under conservation and accounting for future land demand for food and animal feed production. of crude oil consumption and 1.5–5.6%

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Although the pyrolysis vapors contain carbon that can be condensed into an oil, impurities in that condensed oil make it not suitable to be used in an engine or even readily converted into a fuel. The DOE has set a 2017 goal of producing hydrocarbon fuels from biomass for about $3 per gallon. —Mark Nimlos.

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JUNE 5, 2017

The use of a performance-regulated oil pump is also economically beneficial. The recall is likely to start in July 2017. The oil cooler is integrated in the coolant flow of cylinder heads as needed. The first component is a large NOC oxidation catalytic converter (NO x oxidation catalyst). in the moderate rpm range).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Develop a non-genetically modified, non-food feedstock, Camelina sativa , with significantly increased seed yield and oil content to maximize oil yields per acre, thereby enabling the widespread use of a currently underutilized non-food feedstock. Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. OPX Biotechnologies.

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JULY 21, 2015

The agreement runs through 2024, with first delivery expected in 2017. and will convert approximately 140,000 dry tons of woody biomass into 15 million gallons per year of renewable jet, diesel and naphtha fuels. Earlier post.). Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy, is scheduled to break ground this fall in Lakeview, Ore.

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

While bioethanol is not a drop-in fuel, the residual lignin can be converted to a drop-in fuel via thermal treatments such as gasification or solvolysis. Jensen (2017) “Noncatalytic Direct Liquefaction of Biorefinery Lignin by Ethanol” Energy & Fuels 31 (7), 7223-7233 doi: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b00968. Madsen, Flemming H.

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