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FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) and biogas producer Calgren Dairy Fuels announced that renewable natural gas produced at Calgren’s dairy digester facility in Pixley, California is being injected into SoCalGas pipelines. In August 2018, SoCalGas began receiving renewable natural gas into its system from CR&R, Inc.’s

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Lower rolling resistance means this demonstration tire has the potential to offer better fuel savings and carbon footprint reduction. These carbon black technologies target reduced carbon emissions, circularity and the use of bio-based carbons, while still delivering on performance.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Source: Hyundai Kia-owner Hyundai certainly isn’t in a big rush to go carbon neutral. But now it says it will rely heavily on hydrogen fuel cells generated from plastic, food, and organic waste to power a whole new generation of EVs, from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks. It has set its target as the far-away date of 2050.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. The investigators used a special pressurized bioreactor filled with H 2 and CO 2 to make the gases available to the microbes. In this study, an E.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

has earned the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials Services Foundation’s (RSB’s) sustainability certification for the joint venture’s facility that converts waste steel mill gases to sustainable biofuels. These waste gases are usually flared or used to create process heat and electrical energy within the mill. tonnes of CO 2.

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MAY 1, 2022

ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a startup developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), announced the publication of an independent study that finds ClearFlame’s technology could help fleet owners and other heavy-duty truck operators lower total costs while meeting sustainability goals sooner than currently available alternatives.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

manufacturing plant will begin generating electricity—1 megawatt per hour—from methane, a byproduct of trash decomposition at the nearby Central Kentucky Landfill on 23 November, 2015. Capturing and burning the methane has been determined by the EPA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Toyota’s Georgetown, Ky.,

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JUNE 24, 2015

Alphabet Energy, founded in 2009 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, announced the availability of its thermoelectric generator PowerModule as a standalone product, available to meet the specific application needs of a range of industries, including transportation. an implied efficiency of about 2.5%—saving

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JANUARY 4, 2021

The UTSR Program conducts research to increase the efficiency and performance of gas turbines while lowering emissions. There is renewed interest in the use of hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel, for turbine-based electricity generation. AOI 2: Hydrogen Combustion Applications for Gas Turbines.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Clean Energy Fuels Corp delivered 143 million gallons of Redeem Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) last year as robust sales of the carbon-neutral transportation fuel continued in 2019, closing out the year with significant deals throughout North America. The City of Tucson, AZ has signed a multi-year maintenance agreement with Clean Energy.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

One avenue to combat this crisis is a rapid reduction in carbon emissions from our daily transportation, one of the leading contributors of CO 2 emissions. Enter electric vehicles: a practical step toward reducing carbon emissions and reinforcing sustainable practices. EVs are game changers in the reduction of vehicle emissions.

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MARCH 31, 2019

To permanently reduce CO 2 emissions, steelmaker ArcelorMittal has developed a low-emissions technology strategy, which targets not only the use of alternative feedstocks and the conversion of CO 2 emissions, but also the direct avoidance of carbon (Carbon Direct Avoidance, CDA). A pilot plant is to be built in the coming years.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

At the 9 th annual NH 3 Fuel Conference in San Antonia, AHEAD chairman James Grieve outlined the three-step strategy for using associated gas—natural gas found with petroleum—to produce green fuels. As a “waste” byproduct of petroleum production, associated gas has conventionally been released to the atmosphere or flared.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

HP Taxis, Prins Alternative Fuel Systems and SBL-Automotive revealed [link] of the plug-in hybrid range-extended electric LEVC TX taxi and VN5 van allowing the range extender engine to run on LPG and CNG and their renewable counterparts of biopropane and biomethane.

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APRIL 11, 2019

Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million CO 2 capture and clean-up: Waste gases are captured from the points of emission at the stack and transferred to the gas conditioning system where impurities are removed to produce CO 2 suitable for downstream methanol synthesis. CO 2 is readily available.

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Scaling up the production of what we call green hydrogen is a priority for researchers around the world because it offers a carbon-free way to store electricity from any source. Nearly all commercial hydrogen is produced from natural gas. —Ted Sargent, senior author.

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MAY 1, 2013

According to the latest status report on the progress of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (CA-LCFS) ( earlier post ), regulated parties in the LCFS—oil producers, importers and other fuel providers—continued to exceed the required reductions in carbon intensity specified by the standard. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

has set goals to offer Zero-Carbon Redeem renewable natural gas (RNG) at all of its fueling stations by 2025. By transitioning exclusively to Redeem by 2025 and by achieving zero carbon-intensity, Clean Energy would outdistance other alternative fuels, including electricity for EVs, which are not excepted to hit that mark until 2045.

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JULY 9, 2020

For example, this means a system where the electricity that fuels Europe’s cars could come from rooftop solar panels, while buildings are kept warm with heat from a nearby factory, and the factory is fueled by clean hydrogen produced from off-shore wind energy. The Renovation Wave will be an important part of these reforms. Hydrogen strategy.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. However, the authors noted, the power prices required to justify investment in an HFGT to replace a natural gas-fired gas turbine are considerably higher than those seen in the market today.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and Onboard Dynamics, Inc. ObDI) announced the field demonstration of new mobile compressor technology that provides on-site backup and supplemental compression at natural gas fueling stations. school buses, waste haulers, box trucks, etc.)

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JULY 28, 2019

Ethanol produced from sugarcane is one of the most carbon-efficient biofuels available globally, with lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions around 70% lower than conventional hydrocarbon transport fuels. This is another large-scale example of BP’s commitment to play a leading role in a rapid transition to a low carbon future.

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JULY 13, 2017

With funding provided by the California Energy Commission, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) demonstrated its LX1 prototype mid-sized (20 ton) hybrid-electric wheel loader ( earlier post ), a piece of equipment widely used in the construction, refuse, and agricultural industries, that achieved a 50% improvement in fuel efficiency.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1-million grant to UC Riverside’s College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) to build a process demonstration unit (PDU) to convert waste biosolids to synthetic diesel fuel. The fuel gas can also be converted into electric power.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Swiss research intsitute Empa’s future mobility demonstrator, “move”, is investigating three paths for CO 2 reduction in road traffic—electric mobility, hydrogen mobility and synthetic fuels—against the background of a rapidly changing energy system. Both hydrogen production and methanization continuously generate waste heat.

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MARCH 20, 2013

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted four new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways to the LCFS web site. Others are sugarcane molasses ethanol from Guatemala; mixed feedstock to biodiesel from Texas; and a new ARB-staff-developed pathway for North American landfill gas. Earlier post.) g CO 2 e/MJ. gCO 2 e/MJ.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

System boundaries (red line) schematic for liquid fuel carbon balance. For biofuels, because biogenic carbon is automatically credited within a product lifecycle, the boundary effectively excludes vehicle end-use CO 2 emissions. Broadly speaking, two approaches have been used to examine the greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of biofuels.

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APRIL 14, 2017

With a $2-million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Berkeley Lab is partnering with Alphabet Energy to create a cost-effective thermoelectric waste heat recovery system to reduce both energy use in the industrial sector and electricity-related carbon emissions.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The accord involves several areas of action, starting from the collaboration on power-to-gas technology. At the heart of this experimentation is the gas network of Modena. —Marco Alverà, CEO of Snam. — – Stefano Venier, CEO of the Hera Group.

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MAY 31, 2021

Electricity is covered separately in the Transport electrification (ELT) roadmap. LNG: Liquefied natural gas; AF: Alternative Fuel; LNG: Compressed natural gas; FT: Fischer-Tropsch). Main findings of the report include: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) refueling stations (25 projects and €380.8 Bars not in scale. Source: JRC.

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JULY 5, 2012

The HSAD fuel carbon intensity is -15.29 g CO 2 e/MJ, compared to gasoline and diesel carbon intensities of 95.86 The HSAD fuel carbon intensity is -15.29 g CO 2 e/MJ, compared to gasoline and diesel carbon intensities of 95.86 The feedstock for this pathway is 40% food waste and 60% green waste.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). 90%) or to “repower” using lower carbon feedstocks or generation technologies (e.g.

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JULY 23, 2021

Tenneco is putting its 100-plus years of powertrain expertise in improving vehicle fuel efficiency and reducing emissions to work to explore synthetic fuels (e-fuels) as a viable near-term solution to further maximize the efficiency and minimize the carbon footprint of internal combustion engines (ICE).

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

A team from Algenol and Georgia Tech calculated the life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions for three different system scenarios for this proposed ethanol production process, using process simulations and thermodynamic calculations. MJ/MJEtOH, and the net life cycle greenhouse gas emissions range from 29.8 wt % to 5 wt %.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

diesel,” this fuel is synthesized mainly from by-products and waste materials. diesel has yet to be included in the German law on the prevention of airborne pollution, it is not currently available at regular filling stations. This is three times the amount of carbon dioxide Germany emitted in 2016. Known as “C.A.R.E.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

The government of British Columbia recently unveiled its Climate Leadership Plan , targeting the reduction of net annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to 25 million tonnes below current forecasts by 2050 and the creation of up to 66,000 jobs over the next ten years. Carbon pricing mechanisms. Transportation.

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MAY 13, 2010

The American Power Act, released as a discussion draft, targets reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 4.75% compared to 2005 levels by 2013; by at least 17% compared to 2005 levels by 2020; by at least 42% compared to 2005 levels by 2030; and by at least 83% compared to 2005 levels by 2050. compared to 2005 levels.).

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