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Renewable Energy Group collaborates with Iowa State University on hydrotreater pilot plant for renewable diesel

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Biofuels producer Renewable Energy Group joined Iowa State University (ISU) at the BioCentury Research Farm (BCRF) to mark the start of a new hydrotreater pilot plant. REG converts waste and byproduct fats and oils into biodiesel and renewable diesel.

Iowa

Iowa Renewable Diesel Universal

ClearFlame Engine Technologies secures $2.5M to advance diesel-free truck demonstration; ethanol-fueled MCCI

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JUNE 18, 2021

million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. The ClearFlame solution leverages diesel-style mixing-controlled compression ignition (MCCI). The new funding will help ClearFlame deploy pilot Class 8 trucks with its patented technology.

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Diesel Engine Fuel Iowa

EPA awards $6.6M to universities for black carbon research

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

million in grants to eight universities in support of black carbon research. Black carbon is the sooty black material emitted from diesel-powered engines and vehicles, industries like brick kilns and coke ovens, traditional cookstoves, and other sources that burn fossil fuels or biomass.

Universal

Universal Carbon EPA Iowa

ClearFlame Engine Technologies secures $17M in Series A financing

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company’s engine technology enables low-carbon, renewable fuels such as ethanol to be integrated easily into existing diesel engine platforms, offering a lower-emission, lower-cost solution than diesel fuel. Using soot-free fuels also eliminates the need for a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF).

Financing

Financing Engine Iowa Diesel

US DOE to award nearly $18M to 4 biorefinery projects for mil-spec renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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APRIL 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award nearly $18 million to four innovative pilot-scale biorefineries in California, Iowa and Washington that will produce and test drop-in renewable biofuels that meet military specifications for jet fuel and shipboard diesel. Aviation Bio-hydrocarbons Diesel Ports and Marine'

Renewable

Renewable Iowa Fuel Waste

Harmonizing Low Carbon Fuel Standards

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

—Low Carbon Fuel Standard 2011 Program Review Report. The California LCFS regulation, which went in to effect on 15 April 2010, targets a reduction of the carbon intensity (CI), on a full-fuel lifecycle basis, of transportation fuels (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) used in California by an average of 10% by the year 2020.

Carbon

Carbon Standards Fuel Oregon

USDA awarding $136M to five major research projects focused in part on developing cellulosic drop-in aviation fuels

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

University partners from the states of Washington, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Iowa will lead the projects, which focus in part on developing aviation biofuels from tall grasses, crop residues and forest resources. The team will also evaluate a co-product—bio-char—as a soil amendment to increase carbon sequestration.

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Louisiana Seattle Parts Iowa

USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Transitioning the fleet to all electric will eliminate emissions from diesel buses and emissions from shipping diesel fuel by barge 900 miles from Seattle. Alabama A&M University. All of the replacements are diesel powered heavy-duty buses that are past their twelve-year life span. Redding Area Bus Authority.

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Purchase St. Louis Jacksonville Fleet

DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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AUGUST 16, 2016

These trucks haul 80% of goods in the United States and use about 28 billion gallons of fuel per year, accounting for around 22% of total transportation energy usage—presenting a significant opportunity for carbon emissions reduction and energy savings for a key segment of the US transportation sector. Ohio State University.

Vehicles

Vehicles Plug-in Lithium Ion Universal

Belfer Center Study Concludes Reducing Car and Truck GHG Emissions Will Require Substantially Higher Fuel Prices; Income Tax Credits for Advanced Alt Fuel Vehicles Are Essentially Ineffective at Reducing Sector Emissions

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MARCH 8, 2010

Strong income tax credits for the purchase of new diesel, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles are very expensive and essentially ineffective at reducing GHG emissions from transportation. Second, the tax credits give a significant boost to diesel vehicles. —Morrow et al. Adoption of all of the preceding policies.

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Tax Credit Tax Emissions Fuel

3 winners of DOE’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” Challenge: hydrogen-assisted lean-burn engines, graphene for Li-air and -sulfur batteries, and titanium process

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

One negative side effect of a lean burn engine, whether powered by gasoline or diesel fuel, is an increase in the amount of emissions released to the environment. The introduction of hydrogen into the engine virtually eliminates fuel emissions while greatly reducing the emissions of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Engine Energy Batteries

Techno-economic Study of Bio-oil to Naptha and Diesel Finds Calculated Costs Competitive with Other Kinds of Alternative Fuels

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AUGUST 1, 2010

A team from Iowa State University and ConocoPhillips, Biofuels R&D performed a techno-economic study examining the fast pyrolysis of corn stover to bio-oil with subsequent upgrading of the bio-oil to naphtha and diesel range fuels. In 2007, ConocoPhillips established an eight-year, $22.5-million Earlier post.).

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Alternative Fuels Oil Iowa Diesel

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Renewable Energy Group collaborates with Iowa State University on hydrotreater pilot plant for renewable diesel

ClearFlame Engine Technologies secures $2.5M to advance diesel-free truck demonstration; ethanol-fueled MCCI

EPA awards $6.6M to universities for black carbon research

ClearFlame Engine Technologies secures $17M in Series A financing

US DOE to award nearly $18M to 4 biorefinery projects for mil-spec renewable hydrocarbon fuels

Harmonizing Low Carbon Fuel Standards

USDA awarding $136M to five major research projects focused in part on developing cellulosic drop-in aviation fuels

USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

Belfer Center Study Concludes Reducing Car and Truck GHG Emissions Will Require Substantially Higher Fuel Prices; Income Tax Credits for Advanced Alt Fuel Vehicles Are Essentially Ineffective at Reducing Sector Emissions

3 winners of DOE’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” Challenge: hydrogen-assisted lean-burn engines, graphene for Li-air and -sulfur batteries, and titanium process

Techno-economic Study of Bio-oil to Naptha and Diesel Finds Calculated Costs Competitive with Other Kinds of Alternative Fuels

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