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bp investing $269M to improve efficiency, reduce emissions and grow renewable diesel production at Cherry Point Refinery

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bp plans to invest $269 million investment in three projects at its Cherry Point Refinery in Washington state, aimed at improving the refinery’s efficiency, reducing its carbon dioxide emissions and increasing its renewable diesel production capability. Renewable Diesel Optimization. million barrels a year.

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US Coast Guard evaluating diesel outboards; final report due June 2018

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The US Coast Guard Research and Development Center ( RDC ) is evaluating the use of available diesel outboard engines on its small boats. Conversion to a single-fuel fleet could improve operational performance, efficiency and resiliency. Among the other identified benefits was the potential for drop-in replacement with renewable fuel.

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USDA announces availability of $181M to support development of advanced biofuels projects

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US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the availability of $181 million via its Biorefinery Assistance Program to develop commercial-scale biorefineries or retrofit existing facilities with appropriate technology to develop advanced biofuels. Other fuel derived from cellulosic biomass.

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Clariant announces 4th license deal for sunliquid technology; first Bulgarian cellulosic ethanol project

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Eta Bio will perform the project development and plant operation at a greenfield site in General Toshevo, the Northeastern region of Bulgaria, utilizing available land, owned by the Pavlovi family, and existing infrastructure. This project will give us the chance to have an additional revenue stream from agricultural leftovers.

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Evonik and Siemens launch phase 2 of Rheticus: butanol, hexanol from CO2 and water using renewable electricity and bacteria

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The goal is to develop an efficient and powerful test plant that will use carbon dioxide and water as well as electricity from renewable sources and bacteria to produce specialty chemicals. From the Supplementary Information for a 2018 paper in Nature Catalysis by the Evonik-Siemens team (Haas et al. describing the approach.

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LeMond Composites licenses ORNL low-cost carbon fiber manufacturing process; transportation, renewable energy, & infrastructure

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The agreement will make Oak Ridge-based LeMond Composites the first company to offer carbon fiber produced by the process to the transportation, renewable energy, and infrastructure markets. The first commercially available product will be ready in Q1 of 2018. Earlier post.)

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Carbon2Chem project completes first phase, receives €75M from German government toward phase 2

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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. In addition to the CO 2 from these gases, Carbon2Chem also uses hydrogen.

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