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DOE VTO awarding $3.6M to 6 projects to commercialize lab-developed clean transportation technologies

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VTO’s six selected TCF projects are: Argonne National Laboratory 5 MT/year Supercritical Hydrothermal Continuous One-Step Manufacturing Processing, $900,000 – ACTion Battery Technologies, Carrollton, Georgia Automotive Magnesium from Domestic Aluminum-Magnesium Scrap, $250,000 – Galvotec Alloys, McAllen, Texas National Renewable Energy Laboratory Energy (..)

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ADM, Gevo sign MoU to produce up to 500M gallons of sustainable aviation fuel

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ADM and Gevo signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other low carbon-footprint hydrocarbon fuels. The isobutanol is expected to be produced at a proposed new facility in Decatur that would employ ADM’s carbon capture and sequestration capabilities.

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KiOR ships first cellulosic diesel

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developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable rude oil from biomass ( earlier post ), has begun initial shipments of cellulosic diesel from its plant in Columbus, Mississippi. KiOR’s renewable gasoline is the first renewable cellulosic gasoline registered by the Environmental Protection Agency for sale in the US.

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Sapphire Energy and Institute Of Systems Biology partner on commercial algae production

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Sapphire Energy produces algae crude oil—“Green Crude”—which is renewable, low carbon and can be refined using typical refinery configurations into naphtha, diesel and kerosene (jet fuel). Sapphire is dealing with one of the most complicated problems known to humans: how to make fuel from a renewable resource.

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Biobutanol companies merge: Green Biologics with butylfuel

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a renewable chemicals and biofuels company. Butanol also has the potential to be upgraded to aviation jet fuel, a $50 billion market driven by increasing global interest on reduction of carbon emissions. GBL’s North American office is in Columbus, Ohio where it maintains a pilot facility, laboratories and offices.

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Sapphire Energy and Phillips 66 parter on co-processing of algae crude oil with conventional crude

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The goal is to complete fuel certifications to ready Sapphire Energy’s renewable crude oil for wide-scale oil refining. This new relationship with Sapphire Energy complements other Phillips 66 renewable fuels collaborations in academia and other sectors to convert a range of sustainable feedstocks into transportation fuels.

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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

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She is a vice president for knowledge enterprise at Ohio State University , in Columbus. During the virtual visioning event in December, experts explored solar and renewable energy, carbon sequestration, water management, and geoengineering. The climate change task force released its report last month.