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Seven STRIA roadmaps have been developed covering various thematic areas: Connected and automated transport (CAT); Transport electrification (ELT); Vehicle design and manufacturing (VDM); Low-emission alternative energy for transport (ALT); Network and traffic management systems (NTM); Smart mobility and services (SMO); and. Stepniak, M.,

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MARCH 10, 2016

The advanced version engine meets the 2018 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Heavy-Duty On-Board Diagnostics (HD-OBD) requirements and will continue to meet California Air Resources Board’s (CARB’s) Optional Low NO x 0.1 diesel engines and wanting to convert their fleet to natural gas. g/bhp-hr emissions level.

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MAY 4, 2009

Researchers at Iowa State University are proposing dissolving waste polystyrene (PS) in biodiesel for use as a diesel engine fuel as a mechanism for energy recovery from the waste plastic. The US generated 251 million tons of municipal solid wastes in 2006, of which plastics accounted for 11.7 Credit: ACS.

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JUNE 1, 2012

The California Energy Commission unanimously approved funding of $35,031,310 to projects that will accelerate the development of green fuels and technology in California. These awards are provided through the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Propel Biofuels, Inc.

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JANUARY 1, 2013

The amended bill, now called the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012” and next to be considered by the House, contains 12 extensions outlined in Title IV of the bill, ranging from extension of production credits for Indian coal facilities to benefits for alternative fuels (including algal biofuels) and plug-in vehicles.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Geysers Power Company: $3 million to investigate if geothermal plants could vary output to balance other intermittent renewable resources to increase the amounted of wind and solar used by the grid. Alternative Fuel and Vehicles.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

will receive $1,211,370 to design and install a new system to pre-process solid food waste for use in two existing anaerobic digesters at a solid waste facility in Chino. The digesters will use the waste to produce biomethane to be converted into renewable compressed natural gas fuel.

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

As part of the agreement, emissions (or offtake gas) from various HeidelbergCement factories could provide Joule with the waste CO 2 required to feed its advanced Helioculture platform that effectively recycles CO 2 back into fuel. This initial relationship fits well with Joule’s strategy of turning waste CO 2 into liquid fuel.

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MARCH 6, 2013

The Energy Department also announced today that three new corporate partners—AMP Americas, Kwik Trip and Waste Management—are joining the National Clean Fleets Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that assists the nation’s largest fleet operators in reducing the amount of gasoline and diesel they use nationwide.

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MARCH 6, 2012

Four new corporate partners—Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia—are joining the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Clean Fleets Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that assists the nation’s largest fleet operators in reducing the amount of gasoline and diesel they use nationwide.

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MARCH 20, 2013

With an annual fuel bill of US$7 billion for vessel operations, the Mærsk Group continually considers ways to reduce its bunker fuel consumption. Greater efficiency is the primary way of achieving this; alternative fuels are another. Emission performance of lignin-derived cyclic oxygenates in a heavy-duty diesel engine.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

(The Department of Food and Agriculture Division of Measurement Standards has the responsibility for establishing and enforcing the quality standards for spark- and compression-ignition engine fuels sold in California. These include gasoline, diesel fuel, and other fuels such as biodiesel and hydrogen.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 18, 2019

The new kind of jet mixer extracts lipids from algae with much less energy than the older extraction method, a key discovery that now puts this form of energy closer to becoming a viable, cost-effective alternative fuel. The new mixer is fast, too, extracting lipids in seconds. Yen-Hsun Tseng, Swomitra K.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

The drop-in alternative fuels can be blended at a 50/50 ratio with traditional fossil fuels. In May 2012, Emerald Biofuels licensed Honeywell’s UOP/Eni Ecofining process technology for the hydroprocessing of non-edible natural oils and animal fats to drop-in fuels. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Hilarides Dairy is converting cow manure to produce bio-methane to fuel trucks and generators while minimizing pollution and diversifying energy sources. The diary earned a $600,000 grant from the California Air Resources Board’s Alternative Fuel Incentive Program, which subsidizes projects facilitating greater use of non-petroleum fuels.

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MAY 14, 2014

Through the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, established by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007), the Energy Commission provides up to $100 million per year toward the development and deployment of low?carbon Furthermore, biofuels derived from waste?based duty hybrid and all?electric

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JUNE 2, 2016

The 5-year deal, worth an estimated $3 million per year, will enable BBB to continue using Clean Energy’s Redeem brand of renewable natural gas (RNG), rated up to 90% cleaner than diesel. LNG derived from biomethane is a low carbon fuel, which, under some conditions, offers a carbon intensity (CI) equal to or lower than that of electricity.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Additionally, other tree parts go to waste when only the trunk is used, making the process more inefficient and wasteful. Alternative fuels must make economic sense, the researchers stress, for biofuels to make a dent in the petroleum-driven market. Chang Dou/University of Washington. Click to enlarge. Chang Dou, Devin S.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

By commissioning the two LNG-powered freighters for the route between Europe and North America, Volkswagen Group Logistics is forging ahead with environmentally compatible, resource-efficient transport. Both ships will feature a 12,600 kW engine developed by MAN Diesel & Turbo. UECC dual-fuel LNG PCTC. —Thomas Zernechel.

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APRIL 23, 2014

has come to an agreement with Lufthansa under which the carrier will evaluate Gevo’s renewable jet fuel with the goal of approving the alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ) for commercial aviation use. Freerks (2014) “Certification of Alternative Aviation Fuels and Blend Components,” Energy & Fuels 27 (2), 962-966 doi: 10.1021/ef301888b.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

year plans and roadmaps, with a concomitant focus of the majority of its resources on a limited number of “highest probability of success” pathways/approaches to ensure that the program initiatives are supported at a critical mass (both in terms of dollars and time) for maximum impact. competitive waste heat recovery technologies.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

alternative fuel vehicle community partner projects, which are new competitively-awarded projects to build strategically-placed, high-impact, community-scale demonstrations of alternative fuel vehicles. In addition, the program is working to reduce the cost of hydrogen from renewable resources to less than $4.00/gge—dispensed

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MARCH 13, 2016

In parallel, and with equivalent resources, Chinese funding will support a collaborative counterpart Chinese Consortium. Specific subtopics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Advanced high efficiency and clean combustion strategies (low temperature combustion, clean diesel). Alternative fuel combustion.

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JUNE 13, 2013

In two packages of awards, the California Energy Commission approved more than $44 million to expand the hydrogen fueling infrastructure and increase the number of alter alternative fuel vehicles on the road in the state. million to build a hydrogen fueling station in Anaheim (Orange County).

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JANUARY 28, 2014

These technologies include, but are not limited to, advanced aftertreatment and waste heat recovery; lean-burn plus lean-NO x emissions traps; integration of zero-emission miles technologies; further refinements in reducing friction and parasitic energy losses; and widespread utilization of renewable and natural gas and hydrogen blends.

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APRIL 30, 2016

Even until 2030 many alternative powertrain technologies such as PHEV, BEV and FCV lack relative cost competitiveness—but are important cornerstones in vehicle manufacturers’ CO 2 emission compliance strategies. PHEVs fueled with advanced biofuels and low carbon, renewable electricity (for PC).

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OCTOBER 18, 2009

Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) spearheaded the submittal of these winning applications which will support the purchase of 638 hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles. The hydraulic hybrid improves fuel economy in three ways: recovered braking energy; improved engine efficiency; and its engine-off feature. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Although “ impressive progress ” has been made in developing renewable replacement fuels for widely used transportation fuels such as gasoline and diesel, the researchers noted, high-density, petroleum-based, tactical fuels such as JP-10 and RJ-5 are difficult to replace given their high densities of 0.94

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FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The standard provides that CHJ fuel, which was developed by Applied Research Associates (ARA), may be blended at up to 50% by volume with conventional jet fuel. The specification was approved and published with support from the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI).

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JULY 18, 2009

For the powertrain theme, the report identifies four main areas of low carbon technologies: engine efficiency, waste heat recovery, alternative powertrains (fuel cells and electric vehicles and hybrids) and transmissions. Fuel Cell: zero tailpipe CO 2. Air compressor: for HD applications. CNG: if dedicated CNG engine.

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MAY 9, 2013

The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted the 2013-2014 Investment Plan Update to support the development and use of green vehicles and alternative fuels. 20 million for hydrogen fueling infrastructure. These incentives help to pay the difference between the cost of alternative-fuel vehicles and conventional vehicles.

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The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Nonetheless, hydrogen fuel cell cars are, like pure battery powered cars, classed as Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV). If taken from such sources, hydrogen is a fossil fuel, and is not a renewable resource.

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JUNE 7, 2013

Volvo also revealed ongoing customer field testing of DME trucks in the US (with Safeway and Martin Transportation), as well as its partnership in the customer trials with startup DME producer Oberon Fuels. Oberon Fuels is the first company to announce plans to commercialize DME fuel production in North America. DME and diesel.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The Energy Commission and Air Resources Board are awaiting the results of a survey of major automakers regarding their anticipated plug-in electric vehicle deployments. The Energy Commission is allocating $8 million to support the installation of new natural gas fueling infrastructure and upgrades to existing infrastructure.

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MAY 10, 2012

The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted a 2012-2013 Investment Plan Update to increase the use of green vehicles and alternative fuels. These include projects that use a wide variety of materials, including waste, algae and crops that can be grown on agriculturally marginal land. $11 million for natural gas. $25

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MAY 13, 2010

designates an existing national laboratory as a nuclear waste reprocessing Center of Excellence. It also improve the efficiency of the licensing process; invests in the research and development of small, modular reactors (SMR) and enhanced proliferation controls; and. Reducing Transportation Emissions. The American Power Act.

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