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JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Scale-up of Hydrothermal Liquefaction with Supercritical Water Oxidation in an Integrated Biorefinery”, $579,673. Comstock Inc., dry ton equivalents of hardwood biomass per day (0.5

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. The output from each catalytic array when cooled is comprised of volatile gases, renewable fuel and water. Earlier post.). Depending on the temperature (300 ?C

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Topic areas within this FOA will advance DOE’s Bioenergy Technology Office’s objectives of reducing the price of drop-in biofuels; lowering the cost of biopower; and enabling high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Efficient Wood Heaters (up to $5M): Developing and testing low-emission, high efficiency residential wood heaters.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

UK-based TMO Renewables Ltd, the developer of a novel thermophilic bacterium and process for converting biomass into fuel ethanol ( earlier post ), has entered into an exclusive contract with Fiberight LLC to design and build waste to bioethanol plants in the US.

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APRIL 23, 2014

The tenth competition under the Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation Platform’s integrated delivery program (IDP), IDP10 is targeting the building of an integrated low-carbon-vehicle innovation chain, from the science base, through collaborative R&D to fleet-level demonstration. The project builds on an earlier TSB-funded project.

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MAY 13, 2022

The investment is expected to reach more than $150M in total, aimed at building a low cost, sustainable domestic supply chain for battery materials. Compared to state-of-the-art CAM (cathode active material) plants today, 6K uses half the footprint, substantially lower CapEx, and half the conversion costs or less.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Researchers at Rice have demonstrated an efficient new way to use solar energy for water splitting. In contrast to past work, the new architecture does not utilize a Schottky junction—the commonly used building block to collect hot carriers. b) Energy schematic of the structure. —Robatjazi et al.

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MARCH 18, 2022

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have turned to a process called capacitive deionization that uses the electric charges of nickel, manganese and cobalt to select them out from the waste stream. Building a battery is like building a tower out of Legos. —Lauren Valentino.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

With its ability to produce synthetic and renewable-fuels and chemicals from feedstocks such as natural gas, flared gas, biogas, biomass, municipal solid waste, carbon dioxide (CO?) EFT’s offering is open to both accredited and non-accredited investors. These projects have attracted more than $450 million of capital for their construction.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

DE-FOA-0002446 ) This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) builds upon existing efforts funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office to reduce cost, improve performance, and strengthen a domestic supply chain for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and applications. This would be coordinated with the H2NEW consortium.

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MAY 19, 2013

The Algal Carbon Conversion (ACC) Pilot Project is a partnership among the National Research Council of Canada (NRC); Canadian Natural Resources Limited, one of the largest independent crude oil and natural gas producers in Canada; and Pond Biofuels. Algae Algal Fuels Biorefinery Canada Oil sands'

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Because so much energy is lost turning steam back into water in the Rankine cycle, at most a third of the power in the steam can be converted into electricity. In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. The recuperator improves the overall efficiency of the system.

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JUNE 6, 2012

The thermochemical production of hydrogen and oxygen from water via a series of chemical reactions is of interest because it directly converts thermal energy into stored chemical energy (hydrogen and oxygen), and thus can take advantage of excess heat given off by other processes. —Xu et al. NaMnO 2 at 850 °C; Na + extraction from ?-NaMnO

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MARCH 31, 2014

The company’s process also produces a biochar-based product called CoolTerra that has the capability of making the fuel “carbon negative,” reversing the consequences of CO 2 build-up from fossil fuels, the company says. This excess carbon is highly porous and has beneficial water and nutrient retaining capabilities.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

has entered into a joint development program with the Energy & Environmental Research Center ( EERC ) at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks for converting a wide variety of biomass and waste into bio-butanol. Syntec Biofuel Inc. This is concerning, as it uses food resources to produce fuel. Michael Jackson, CEO of Syntec.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

Building upon precision agriculture innovations and data-intensive computational approaches, ARPA-E believes that it is now possible to accelerate plant breeding, using robust high-throughput precision phenotyping. ARPA-E Biomass Biotech Power Generation Water' ARID project teams will work to overcome these key barriers to adoption.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical production process for fermenting methane into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo , lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Within the transportation sector, GREET covers road, air, water, and rail transportation sub-sectors. Recently, GREET was expanded to cover the building sector. road, air, marine, and rail) and other end-use sectors, and energy systems. Argonne has expanded and updated the model in various sectors in GREET 2021.

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JUNE 14, 2010

Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil’s carbon footprint. When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor, no one believed we could build 30,000 planes and tanks in just one year. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

It was in service from 1962 to 1972, but its pressurized light-water reactor (LWR) proved too complex and expensive for the ship to operate profitably. Another plus for nuclear-propelled ships is easy access to an endless supply of cooling water. The first was the American NS Savannah , built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9

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MARCH 25, 2014

The home is also three times more water-efficient than a typical US home. Among the technologies and green building concepts showcased in the Honda Smart Home US are: Solar photovoltaics (PV). Sustainable materials & waste management. Water efficiency. Photo by Dorian Toy. Click to enlarge. EPA’s Energy Star.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Audi is systematically building on its e-fuels strategy. The green power generated on site in the hydroelectric power station produces hydrogen and oxygen from water by means of electrolysis. First, the CO 2 and H 2 are converted into syngas in Ineratec’s RWGS (reverse water gas shift) reactor. Earlier post.)

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JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Biohydrogen Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstration”.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

Microvi’s technology is also expected to provide economic advantages such as reduced water usage, waste production and energy use. A diversified energy future based on biobutanol and other low-cost biofuels requires new technologies for maximizing feedstock conversion efficiency and reducing operating costs.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, and Petronas, the national oil company of Malaysia, will work together to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals using CO 2 as the carbon source. —LanzaTech CEO, Jennifer Holmgren.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The pilot plant has been designed, building construction has been completed, and equipment installation is underway on the SwRI campus in San Antonio, TX. Using sCO 2 as a power cycle working fluid instead of steam/water will lower capital expenditures and reduce plant size and footprint. Operational start-up is anticipated next year.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

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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AUGUST 29, 2021

While their work focuses on the most cost-effective solutions for replacing peaker power plants, it also contains insights intended to contribute to the larger conversation about transforming energy systems. They also ran the numbers on retrofitting natural gas plants to burn hydrogen as opposed to building entirely new facilities.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Governor Perry made the announcement in Laredo, where he and city officials announce the benefits of a water treatment project that will purify 50,000 gallons per day of brackish water for potable use in Laredo’s water supply system using Terrabon technology. Two different versions of the MixAlco process are available.

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DECEMBER 25, 2014

EEB is produced from organic waste, including (and initially) sewage treatment bio-solids—the leftover, dirt-like organic material that remains after a community’s wastewater is treated. Data collected with colleagues at the University of Alabama have shown 70-90% conversion of feedstock to SCFAs (short chain fatty acids).

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MARCH 30, 2014

Past themes have included topics as diverse as the role of big data and the energy-water nexus. However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized. Building on novel computation techniques, assistant professor Heather J.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Sweden’s Vattenfall is aiming to build an offshore, hydrogen-producing wind-turbine demonstrator in the same area. But not all of the vehicles, buildings, and industrial processes that now use fossil fuels can run on electricity alone. The technology to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water has been around for more than 200 years.

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JULY 20, 2009

Renewable Energy Institute International (REII), Toledo’s Red Lion Bio-Energy , the University of Toledo, Midwest Terminals/Port of Toledo, SolarTurbines/Caterpillar, and other partners are working to build a biomass-to-liquids demonstration plant in South Toledo, Ohio.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Life cycle analysis showed up to 165% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions relative to fossil jet if the food waste is diverted from landfills to produce VFA-SAF. In the process, anaerobic digestion of west waste is arrested prior to methanogensis to generate VFAs (C 3 -C 8 ). —Huq et al. Following ketonization, ketones ?C8

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Engineering-Scale Test of a Water-Lean Solvent for Post-Combustion Capture. aims to demonstrate the performance of a novel water-lean solvent for post-combustion removal of CO 2 from coal- and natural gas-derived flue gas. A Combined Water and CO 2 Direct Air Capture System. Electric Power Research Institute Inc. Susteon Inc.

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MARCH 1, 2010

The agreement grants Mitsui the right to build a number of biomass refineries in Southeast Asia using Inbicon’s technology. Mitsui intends to apply the technology in the palm oil industry, where wastes from palm oil production can be converted into ethanol, solid biofuel for energy production, and animal feed.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Unlike biomethane produced by anaerobic digestion, Bio-SNG is formed by the conversion of thermally-derived syngas—i.e., via the gasification of biomass waste—into methane. Feedstocks can include more durable material such as woody biomass and wastes that are not broken down in traditional anaerobic digester plants.

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