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OCTOBER 6, 2009

The first demonstration of a renewable method for hydrogen production from wastewater using a microbial electrolysis system is underway at the Napa Wine Company in Oakville, California. This is a demonstration to prove we can continuously generate renewable hydrogen and to study the engineering factors affecting the system performance.

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MARCH 6, 2010

The FCHV-adv hydrogen fuel cell hybrid. Its goal is to provide evidence that it is possible for normal customers to use hydrogen for road transportation. billion) to support the development of hydrogen fuel cell and electric vehicle technologies. Tags: Europe Fuel Cells Hydrogen Infrastructure. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 3, 2009

The European Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) has issued a second call for proposals for research. billion) to be invested in hydrogen and fuel cell research and development by 2014. billion) to be invested in hydrogen and fuel cell research and development by 2014. Earlier post. ). million).

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Leading vehicle manufacturers in fuel cell technology—Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation/Opel, Honda Motor Co., These companies have built up extensive expertise in fuel cell technology; the signing marks a major industry step towards the serial production of such locally emission-free vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

.: MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to produce ethanol and chemicals via LanzaTech’s fermentation process using syngas resulting from the gasification of coal.

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OCTOBER 30, 2010

The Toro Company was selected by ATK, an aerospace and defense company, to help design and build two fuel cell powered utility vehicles with advanced hydrogen storage technology. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). The group will also provide technical expertise on end-use applications.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Shell) also qualified three Chinese companies for the manufacture of key equipment for the Shell Coal Gasification Process (SCGP), in order to make the Shell technology more competitive in the Chinese market. is a subsidiary company to Shenhua Group Corporation Limited. Shenhua Group is the world’s largest coal company.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Three organizations representing health, environmental and energy policy interests joined four national trade associations in calling on the US Congress to restore funding for the federal hydrogen and fuel cell research and deployment program to FY 2009 levels. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 8 research projects for funding that will focus on gasification of coal/biomass to produce synthetic gas (syngas) as a pathway to producing power, hydrogen, fuel or chemicals. and Parker Towing Company in Mulga, Ala., GreenFields Coal Company in Beckley, W.Va.; million, with $6.4

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JULY 15, 2023

Surrounding a doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber, a 3-meter-tall stack of high-temperature superconducting magnets will create a powerful magnetic field to squeeze and corral a swirling, superheated mass of hydrogen plasma. The largest by far is Iter , a collaborative international effort to build a massive tokamak in Cadarache, France.

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JUNE 22, 2010

The Dow Chemical Company and BASF received a 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for their jointly developed hydrogen peroxide to propylene oxide (HPPO) technology that vastly improves the production process of a key chemical intermediate, propylene oxide. Tags: Brief. No by-products are produced besides water.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Propel Fuels, a retailer of clean, renewable fuels, announced a $20-million investment in the company. This funding allows us to build on strong consumer demand and bring alternative fuels to more than 2 million alternative fuel vehicles on California roads today. Tags: Brief. A Propel Fuels E85/Biodiesel station.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

This upgrade is aimed at reducing the time taken to develop and optimize electrode materials and to enable the company to rapidly manufacture sufficient electrodes for its initial requirements. The Company now has the capability to manufacture, depending upon the precise process details, up to 1,000 electrodes per day in house.

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MARCH 25, 2009

and Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, will collaborate on testing an anaerobic fermentation process for producing biohydrogen from sugar cane dregs and other biomass. unit is testing a technology in Japan that generates hydrogen from the fermentation of bakery waste. Tags: Brief. Sapporo Breweries Ltd. meter [US$0.41

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JUNE 30, 2010

The company will now demonstrate the integration of its biorefining processes at its 250,000 gallon per year Boardman, Oregon biorefinery. The company will use the grant to build the chemical fractionation on the front end and the hydrogenation process on the back end for making cellulosic ethanol. Earlier post.).

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MAY 12, 2010

This could ultimately form the basis for new storage systems that would allow buildings to be completely independent and self-sustaining in terms of energy. Nocera pictures small-scale systems in which rooftop solar panels would provide electricity, with any excess going to an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen, which would be stored in tanks.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

The MixAlco process converts biomass into organic chemicals and alcohols with a multi-stage anaerobic process that includes lime pretreatment, non-sterile acidogenic digestion, product concentration, thermal conversion to ketones and their subsequent hydrogenation to create mixed alcohol end products. Tags: Brief.

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JULY 14, 2009

DOE and RTI will design, build, and test a warm gas cleanup system—based on RTI’s high-temperature syngas cleanup technology—to remove multiple contaminants from coal-derived syngas. In 2008, RTI International and Eastman Chemical Company agreed to develop and commercialize jointly developed syngas cleanup technology. Background.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

CTTransit is building a new garage to store up to six fuel cell buses, and the agency also plans to install a hydrogen fueling station on-site. Some of the buses will continue to refuel at a hydrogen station at UTC Power’s headquarters in South Windsor, Conn. Tags: Brief. UTC Power is a United Technologies Corp.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

the current annual production capacities of China’s Nickel-hydrogen batteries and lithium-ion battery, the key parts of electric vehicles, will exceed 0.14 Separately, the Nikkei reported that Nissan is considering building the Leaf EV in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.).the billion and 0.9

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JANUARY 26, 2010

The ability to convert electrical energy into hydrogen reducing equivalents is fundamental to an enormous number of processes. Sun Catalytix has formed a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) which will guide the company on technology development. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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APRIL 10, 2009

GE says that its quench gasifiers (the company offers a range of gasifier designs), offer the lowest capital cost and are well suited for hydrogen, chemicals and polygeneration applications. Tags: Brief. Much of the equipment for plants built with GE Energy gasification license technology is fabricated locally in China.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Thanks to a co-operative agreement with the US Department of Energy (DOE), Hydrogen Energy California LLC (HECA) will build a hydrogen powered electric generating facility in Kern County, California, with carbon capture and storage.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

featured California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, General Colin Powell, and early customers including Bank of America; The Coca-Cola Company; Cox Enterprises; eBay; FedEx Express; Google; Staples; and Walmart. Tags: Brief. The event was hosted at eBay Inc., Diagram of a solid oxide fuel cell. The electrolyte is a ceramic.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Korean car manufacturer Kia is the latest carmaker to add their weight behind a joint ‘Letter of Understanding’ being sent out to governments, energy companies and other organisations to develop accessible hydrogen infrastructure for future fuel cell electric vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

A consortium of companies have signed an agreement in Berlin in the presence of German Minister of Transport to introduction of a national network if hydrogen refuelling station in Germany by 2015. But the widespread adoption of fuel cells will only occur when drivers can readily refuel with hydrogen.

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JUNE 25, 2010

The companies intend to cooperate to obtain the necessary European approvals for use of this fuel. Farnesene is an isoprenoid molecule that, when used as a fuel precursor, can be hydrogenated to farnesane, which has a high cetane number (58) (Peralta-Yahya and Keasling, 2010). Earlier post.). Amyris Brasil S.A., Biotechnol.

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Its costs have been projected as high as US $23 trillion in reduced annual global economic output , according to Swiss Re, a reinsurance company. Engineers and computer professionals can use them to help make buildings, energy production, farms, health care, and manufacturing greener.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When used as a fuel precursor, farnesene can be hydrogenated to farnesane, which has a high cetane number (58). The company said it was seeking to improve its strain performance to expand its addressable markets, including additional specialty chemical applications and renewable diesel. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Biotechnol.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Under the MoU both parties will collaborate to build and market a battery-powered commercial vehicle, equipped with a Proton Power PM200 fuel cell system as a range extender. Proton Power Systems is the parent company of Proton Motor Fuel Cell GmbH, an independent fuel cell system developer, based in Germany.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date. About Gas 2.0

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OCTOBER 9, 2010

The company, in partnership with Centro Ricerche Fiat SCpA (Fiat Research Centre) also highlighted the Fiat Panda Hybrid Fuel Cell/Battery vehicle, equipped with a Quallion battery, at the show. Dry air and hydrogen are the only inputs; there is no external humidification. Tags: Batteries Emissions Heavy-duty Hybrids.

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JUNE 12, 2009

US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced an agreement with the FutureGen Alliance that advances the construction of the FutureGen plant: a 275 MW prototype that would co-produce electricity and hydrogen from coal with essentially zero emissions, including carbon dioxide emissions, which would be captured and sequestered. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Dennis Eagle Ltd (lead company), MIRA Ltd, Magnomatics Ltd, MTL Group Ltd. Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Ford Motor Company, IAV (UK), CPT, BP, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London. Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Lotus Cars Ltd, Nissan Motor Co. Intelligent Energy (lead company), Revolve, Caparo.

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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JULY 26, 2009

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle manufacturer Riversimple wants a partnership with a local council as it bids to road-test its new technology. The vehicle, which weighs 350kg and has a top speed of 50mph, along with a range of around 240miles, is made from carbon fibre and uses a hydrogen fuel cell to generate the electricity to power its motors.

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JULY 31, 2010

VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass-to-methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel-grade methanol from forest-residue biomass. Tags: Biomass Gasification Methanol.

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