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EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

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The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech and Primetals to build €87M commercial-scale waste-gas-to-ethanol plant

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It will predominantly be used in gasoline blending, but it can also be further processed into other products such as drop in jet fuel. Today, this waste gas stream is either flared or used to heat and power the steel mill. barrels of gasoline as well as reducing ArcelorMittal’s CO 2 emissions by 2.3 Earlier post.).

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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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This is equivalent to planting 17,000,000 trees, removing 228,000 cars off the road or recycling 374,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill. According to Clean Energy, Redeem RNG yields at least a 70% reduction1 in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions when compared to conventional diesel or gasoline. Atlanta, Ga.;

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DOE awards LanzaTech $4M for low-carbon jet & diesel demo plant; 3M gpy; Audi evaluating fuel properties

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The LanzaTech facility will recycle industrial waste gases from steel manufacturing to produce a low cost ethanol intermediate: “Lanzanol.” LanzaTech captures the waste gas from refineries and manufacturing plants and feeds the CO-rich gas to microbes that consume the gas and produce ethanol. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Catalytic cracking of vegetable oil sludge to produce biohydrocarbons

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Researchers in Viet Nam and Belgium have developed a catalytic cracking process to convert vegetable oil sludge to renewable hydrocarbon fractions. Their paper, in which they compare the results of this process to a pyrolysis process, is in press in the journal Fuel. —Nam et al.

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The importance of considering non-exhaust traffic emissions; the role of EVs

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in Belgium. They reported in an open-access paper in the journal energies on their analysis of non-exhaust emissions of passenger vehicles, both conventional (diesel and gasoline) or electric, on air quality levels in an urban environment in Belgium. Air Waste Manag. Hooftman et al. Hooftman et al. Hooftman et al.

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Testing confirms Torotrak V-Charge variable drive mechanical supercharger enables more ambitious downsizing; 1.0L demo at Aachen

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Following the Aachen Colloquium, the V-Charge demonstrator vehicle will begin a series of test drives with global vehicle manufacturers and Tier One automotive suppliers in Germany, France, Belgium and the UK. Next generation downsizing and downspeeding remain the industry’s best near-term solutions for reducing carbon emissions.