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Resource report concludes Galvanic’s lithium prospect among most prolific in North America

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JULY 13, 2022

A recently completed resource report has validated Galvanic Energy’s Smackover prospect as one of the largest lithium brine resources in North America, with sufficient lithium to produce enough batteries for 50 million electric vehicles. Testing also revealed bromine concentrations of 3,700-6,000 mg/L.

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Novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces could reduce steelmaking emissions by 88%; closed-loop carbon recycling

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JANUARY 26, 2023

This reduction is achieved through a closed-loop carbon recycling system, which could replace 90% of the coke typically used in current blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace systems and produces oxygen as a byproduct. A double perovskite, Ba 2 Ca 0.66 The TC-BF-BOF System with mass flows needed to produce 1 Tonne of liquid steel. Kildahl et al.

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Audi introduces longer range and AWD quattro versions of Q4 e-tron compact electric SUV

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JULY 31, 2021

Audi is now adding two new versions to the range—the Q4 Sportback 40 e-tron, the model with the longest range in the series; and an all-wheel-drive version, the Q4 45 e-tron quattro. At up to 534 kilometers (332 miles) (WLTP), the Q4 Sportback 40 e-tron offers the most range out of all of Audi’s electric models.

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First carbon-neutral lithium extraction project to start in Germany

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JULY 17, 2020

EIT InnoEnergy, the European innovation engine for sustainable energy, announced a partnership with Vulcan Energy Resources Limited (Vulcan), a start-up lithium exploration company, to produce the world’s first completely carbon-neutral lithium in Germany. Earlier post.). —CEO of EIT InnoEnergy Germany, Christian Müller.

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DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Meanwhile, wet waste feedstocks, such as animal manure and fats, oils, and greases (FOG), represent another important category of resources that could be utilized to produce MCCI bioblendstocks due to its abundant availability. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016. GLE and $0.9/GLE.

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KAUST researchers show blending ammonia with DME yields low-carbon fuel with combustion properties similar to gasoline

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APRIL 6, 2022

A paper on their work is published in the journal Renewable Energy. Ammonia as a fuel provides a promising outlook to reach zero-carbon emissions, but its certain characteristics hinder its direct application in combustion devices. Renewable Energy 181, 1353 -1370 doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.09.117. —Binod Raj Giri.

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Continental using recovered carbon black in solid tires

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Continental recently added recovered carbon black (rCB) to its newly produced Super Elastic solid tires at its tire plant in Korbach, Germany, thus reducing the use of fossil raw materials and CO 2 emissions. The recovered carbon black is supplied by Pyrum Innovations , one of Continental’s partner companies.

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Udokan Copper to cut carbon intensity of copper production up to 75% by 2035

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Russia-based Udokan Copper , the developer of Russia’s largest new copper deposit, outlined scenarios to cut the carbon intensity of copper production up to 75% by 2035, bringing the company closer to its ultimate goal of climate neutrality in the long run. The Udokan Copper deposit has copper resources exceeding 26 million tons.

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U-Haul buys another million gallons of renewable propane to sell at California stores

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

U-Haul—the largest US retailer of propane—has purchased one million gallons of renewable propane to sell at its company-owned and -operated stores across California for the second year in row. No cost increase is passed on to U-Haul customers as a result of the renewable propane initiative. Earlier post.)

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CVR Energy selects Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology for revamp of Wynnewood refinery to renewable diesel, naphtha production

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JANUARY 28, 2021

CVR Energy will base a revamp of its Wynnewood, Oklahoma, refinery on Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology to produce approximately 100 million gallons of renewable diesel and more than 6 million gallons of renewable naphtha per year. Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing then sells and distributes the products.

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Argonne researcher using hydrous ethanol as a dual fuel to lighten the carbon footprint of locomotives

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APRIL 7, 2022

Essam El-Hannouny, a principal mechanical engineer at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, won a Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Award from DOE to expand his research on how a renewable alcohol-based biofuel can serve as a dual fuel to help decarbonize locomotive engines. Earlier post.).

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BNEF: cost of new renewables rises as inflation starts to bite

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JULY 1, 2022

Global benchmarks conceal a range of country-level estimates that vary according to market maturity, resource availability, project characteristics, local financing conditions and labor costs. While demand for low-carbon technologies in the energy sector bounced back strongly in the second half of 2021, supply has struggled to keep up.

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Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

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APRIL 7, 2020

Blue hydrogen is produced from gas using steam methane reforming, with related carbon emissions offset. Green hydrogen is produced from renewable energy using electrolysis. Ammonia does not produce any on site carbon emission when consumed in a power plant. Source: ARENA (Australian Renewable Energy Agency).

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New route for synthesis of jet-range cycloalkanes and aromatics from lignocellulose-derived platforms

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MARCH 13, 2022

Researchers in China report the synthesis of jet-fuel range C 10 and C 15 polycyclic alkanes and aromatics with furfuryl alcohol and isoprene, two platform compounds which can be derived from lignocellulose. In this work, two three-step routes were developed for the synthesis of renewable polycyclic alkanes and aromatics, respectively.

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UGA study: carinata-based SAF can deliver about 65% relative carbon savings compared to conventional jet fuel

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OCTOBER 17, 2021

A team at yhe Universiy of Georgia has estimated the break-even price and life cycle carbon emissions of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) derived from oil obtained from Brassica carinata—a non-edible oilseed crop—in the Southeastern United States. With co-product credit only, the break-even price ranged from $0.34

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LLNL report lays out technology pathways for California to become carbon-neutral and then -negative by 2045; 3 pillars of negative emissions

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have identified a suite of technologies to help California to become carbon-neutral—and ultimately carbon-negative —by 2045. The key finding of this report is that carbon neutrality is achievable. —“Getting to Neutral”.

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Renmatix and Gevo to evaluate feasibility of cellulosic hydrocarbons for renewable jet and gasoline

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

and Renmatix, the leader in affordable cellulosic sugars, announced a joint development agreement to evaluate the commercial feasibility of creating renewable jet fuel by integrating Renmatix’s Plantrose Process ( earlier post ) with Gevo’s GIFT technology and alcohol to jet process ( earlier post ). —Patrick Gruber, Ph.D., CEO of Gevo.

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NSF awards UCSD team $39M to improve integration of distributed energy resources into grid; EV batteries also

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Most utilities struggle with the fact that renewable and distributed energy sources are not as stable as traditional sources, such as natural-gas power plants. A major current obstacle to the adoption of such technologies in the operations of real energy systems is the development of realistic test cases on a realistic scale.

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Mercedes-Benz AG and Hydro to partner on a sustainable aluminum supply chain

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Hydro will deliver its first volumes of aluminum with a carbon footprint below 3.0 The product will be introduced to a range of Mercedes-Benz models including the electric EQ models. Hydro is working on two specific low-carbon lines: REDUXA (primary production) and CIRCAL (recycled aluminum). —to Mercedes-Benz in 2023.

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REG files 5 renewable diesel pathway applications for California LCFS

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AUGUST 24, 2017

REG has submitted five pathways for the production of renewable diesel (RD) from a variety of feedstocks—rendered used cooking oil; non-rendered used cooking oil; corn oil; tallow; and soy oil—to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) for consideration as Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways.

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BMW Group to invest more than €2B in Hungarian plant Debrecen by 2025; new high-voltage battery assembly

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NOVEMBER 26, 2022

With the next generation of batteries (Gen6) for the NEUE KLASSE, range will improve by up to 30%, and the charging speed will be up to 30% faster. The BMW Group is particularly focused on keeping the carbon footprint and consumption of resources for production as low as possible, starting in the supply chain.

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British Columbia is first Canadian province to release its own hydrogen strategy

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JULY 10, 2021

Establishing ambitious carbon-intensity targets and a regulatory framework for carbon capture and storage. British Columbia (BC) has the resources to produce both green and blue hydrogen with low carbon intensity. More than 98% of BC’s electricity is renewable, enabling the production of green hydrogen via electrolysis.

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Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Chan School of Public Health, and consulted by dozens of experts in academia, updates ethanol’s carbon intensity score to reflect how continuous improvements in technology and practices have driven further emissions reductions in the lifecycle of ethanol and will lead to net zero renewable fuel in the future. gCO 2 e/MJ (range of 37.6

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U Delaware team develops efficient catalyst for production of renewable jet-fuel-range alkanes from biomass under mild conditions

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AUGUST 16, 2017

A team at the University of Delaware has synthesized renewable jet-fuel-range alkanes by hydrodeoxygenation of lignocellulose-derived high-carbon furylmethanes over ReO x -modified Ir/SiO 2 catalysts under mild reaction conditions (170 ˚C, 5 MPa). Their paper is featured on the cover of the journal ChemSusChem. Cheng, Z.,

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ABB and Hydrogen Optimized expand hydrogen partnership, including a strategic investment

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AUGUST 25, 2022

The signing follows the two companies’ showcase of their green hydrogen technologies at the 23 August 2022 German-Canadian Atlantic Renewable Hydrogen Expo in Stephenville, Newfoundland, which was attended by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

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Hydrogen Green Canada Water

ICL team assesses relative costs of carbon mitigation for 12 H2 production paths; trade-off between cost and level of decarbonization

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A team at Imperial College London has examined the relative costs of carbon mitigation from a lifecycle perspective for 12 different hydrogen production techniques using fossil fuels, nuclear energy and renewable sources. An open-access paper on their work is published the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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Researchers propose using AC and ventilation systems for decentralized production of carbon-neutral synthetic fuels

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MAY 5, 2019

Compact plants are to separate CO 2 from the ambient air directly in buildings and produce synthetic hydrocarbons which can then be used as renewable synthetic oil. Envisioned modular, on-site renewable hydrocarbon synthesis system based on CO 2 capture from thin air. In addition, they expect carbon efficiency—i.e.

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JBEI researchers engineer bacterium to produce diesel-range biofuel using CO2 as sole carbon source

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JULY 26, 2013

A team of researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has engineered the bacterium Ralstonia eutropha —a microbe now used to produce biodegradable plastic—for the production of fatty acid-derived, diesel-range methyl ketones. eutropha is making the ketones from carbon dioxide while E.

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CARB publishes 2020 CI values for electricity as transportation fuel: average 82.92 gCO2e/MJ, up from 2019

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MARCH 10, 2020

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Executive Officer has certified the 2020 annual update to the carbon intensities (CI) of the lookup table pathways for a) California Average Grid Electricity Used as a Transportation Fuel in California and b) Electricity Supplied under the Smart Charging or Smart Electrolysis Provision.

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Lamborghini unveils Lanzador electric concept

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The energy is provided by a new generation high-performance battery, which also ensures a long range. Finding the right balance between power, performance, range and aerodynamics is certainly one of the biggest challenges during development, but challenge is a cornerstone within Lamborghini R&D. Active Aerodynamics.

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Global Bioenergies starts scale-up of its second process: renewable acetone and isopropanol

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

Global Bioenergies has started the scale-up phase of a process converting renewable resources into acetone and isopropanol. The markets for both these 3-carbon compounds are well established and worth billions of dollars. These compounds can subsequently be converted into propylene, a key molecule in the plastics industry.

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

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JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. CRI have a proven track record in renewable methanol, working up and down the value chain. I’m excited to be working with them.

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Shell Gamechanger Accelerator Powered by NREL selects two green hydrogen startups for fourth cohort

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APRIL 11, 2021

The new companies are focused on creating electrochemical systems that can help reduce carbon emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors and represent the program’s fourth cohort. GCxN provides promising cleantech startups with technical resources to accelerate product commercialization while de-risking investment.

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Hydrogen Green Polymer Power

Carlsbad, CA using NEXBTL renewable diesel for city fleet

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JULY 6, 2016

The City of Carlsbad is now fueling its city fleet with Propel Diesel HPR (High Performance Renewable). Refined from renewable biomass through Neste’s NEXBTL hydrotreating technology, Neste Renewable Diesel meets the ASTM fuel quality standards required by automotive manufacturers.

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Renewable Fleet Diesel Alternative Fuels

Honda targeting 100% BEV & FCEV sales in N America by 2040; new e:Architecture EVs coming in second half of this decade

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APRIL 26, 2021

In China, the company has been introducing EV models while utilizing local resources; Honda will further accelerate this approach from here forward. Honda will also further pursue the utilization of local resources, which includes strengthening our collaboration with CATL for the supply of batteries. Advanced Battery Technology.

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PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Methane derived from CO 2 and renewable H 2 sources is an attractive fuel, and it has great potential as a renewable hydrogen carrier as an environmentally responsible carbon capture and utilization approach. —Heldebrant et al. Different methods for converting CO 2 into methane have long been known. Heldebrant, D.,

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Toyota to build first MW-scale 100% renewable power and hydrogen generation station

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Toyota Motor North America announced that it will build the world’s first megawatt-scale carbonate fuel cell power generation plant with a hydrogen fueling station to support its operations at the Port of Long Beach. When it comes online in 2020, Tri-Gen will generate approximately 2.35 MW of electricity and 1.2

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Study finds copper catalysts work better at converting CO2 to renewable fuel when they gain and lose oxygen atoms

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JULY 20, 2020

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Caltech have found that copper that was once bound with oxygen is better at converting carbon dioxide into renewable fuels than copper that was never bound to oxygen. These scanning electron microscopy images show the copper catalyst structure at different stages.

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Lifecycle analysis of Amyris renewable jet from sugar cane finds “substantial potential” to mitigate GHG emissions, but a wide range of potential outcomes

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Monte Carlo results for the net life cycle emissions of the renewable jet fuel from sugar cane. 95g CO 2 eq/MJ range. Farnesane is the renewable hydrocarbon molecule that will compose the renewable jet fuel. However, the renewable jet fuel strongly benefits from bagasse and trash-based cogeneration.

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Renewable Emissions Brazil Range

DOE to award $35M for bioenergy feedstock and algae R&D

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

DE-FOA-0002423 ) Topic Areas ins the FOA support DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Improvements in productivity with traditional carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) supply.

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China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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Neste Oil to recover CO2 at its renewable diesel refinery in Singapore

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Neste Oil Singapore Pte Ltd and National Oxygen Pte Ltd (NOX), one of the one of the largest industrial gas manufacturers in Singapore, have signed an agreement to install a carbon dioxide recovery and liquefaction plant at Neste Oil’s renewable diesel (NExBTL) refinery in Singapore.

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Singapore Oil Renewable Diesel

NREL, MIT, WSU team develops process to convert lignin to aromatic blendstock for 100% sustainable aviation fuel

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Although electrification has shown promise toward reducing the carbon footprint of passenger vehicles, aviation remains dependent on hydrocarbon fuels due to their high energy density relative to even the most advanced battery technologies available today. A paper on their work is published in Joule. Stone et al. —Stone et al.

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Ethanol producer to integrate renewable diesel production from corn distiller oil

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JULY 25, 2014

Ethanol producer East Kansas Agri-Energy LLC (EKAE) intends to integrate renewable diesel production at its ethanol plant in Garnett, Kansas. Renewable diesel will be made from the corn distillers oil (CDO) already produced at the plant along with other feedstocks purchased on the market. —EKAE President & CEO Jeff Oestmann.

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Renewable Diesel Oil Production

Resource report concludes Galvanic’s lithium prospect among most prolific in North America

Novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces could reduce steelmaking emissions by 88%; closed-loop carbon recycling

Audi introduces longer range and AWD quattro versions of Q4 e-tron compact electric SUV

First carbon-neutral lithium extraction project to start in Germany

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

KAUST researchers show blending ammonia with DME yields low-carbon fuel with combustion properties similar to gasoline

Continental using recovered carbon black in solid tires

Udokan Copper to cut carbon intensity of copper production up to 75% by 2035

U-Haul buys another million gallons of renewable propane to sell at California stores

CVR Energy selects Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology for revamp of Wynnewood refinery to renewable diesel, naphtha production

Argonne researcher using hydrous ethanol as a dual fuel to lighten the carbon footprint of locomotives

BNEF: cost of new renewables rises as inflation starts to bite

Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

New route for synthesis of jet-range cycloalkanes and aromatics from lignocellulose-derived platforms

UGA study: carinata-based SAF can deliver about 65% relative carbon savings compared to conventional jet fuel

LLNL report lays out technology pathways for California to become carbon-neutral and then -negative by 2045; 3 pillars of negative emissions

Renmatix and Gevo to evaluate feasibility of cellulosic hydrocarbons for renewable jet and gasoline

NSF awards UCSD team $39M to improve integration of distributed energy resources into grid; EV batteries also

Mercedes-Benz AG and Hydro to partner on a sustainable aluminum supply chain

REG files 5 renewable diesel pathway applications for California LCFS

BMW Group to invest more than €2B in Hungarian plant Debrecen by 2025; new high-voltage battery assembly

British Columbia is first Canadian province to release its own hydrogen strategy

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

U Delaware team develops efficient catalyst for production of renewable jet-fuel-range alkanes from biomass under mild conditions

ABB and Hydrogen Optimized expand hydrogen partnership, including a strategic investment

ICL team assesses relative costs of carbon mitigation for 12 H2 production paths; trade-off between cost and level of decarbonization

Researchers propose using AC and ventilation systems for decentralized production of carbon-neutral synthetic fuels

JBEI researchers engineer bacterium to produce diesel-range biofuel using CO2 as sole carbon source

CARB publishes 2020 CI values for electricity as transportation fuel: average 82.92 gCO2e/MJ, up from 2019

Lamborghini unveils Lanzador electric concept

Global Bioenergies starts scale-up of its second process: renewable acetone and isopropanol

Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

Shell Gamechanger Accelerator Powered by NREL selects two green hydrogen startups for fourth cohort

Carlsbad, CA using NEXBTL renewable diesel for city fleet

Honda targeting 100% BEV & FCEV sales in N America by 2040; new e:Architecture EVs coming in second half of this decade

PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

Toyota to build first MW-scale 100% renewable power and hydrogen generation station

Study finds copper catalysts work better at converting CO2 to renewable fuel when they gain and lose oxygen atoms

Lifecycle analysis of Amyris renewable jet from sugar cane finds “substantial potential” to mitigate GHG emissions, but a wide range of potential outcomes

DOE to award $35M for bioenergy feedstock and algae R&D

China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

Neste Oil to recover CO2 at its renewable diesel refinery in Singapore

NREL, MIT, WSU team develops process to convert lignin to aromatic blendstock for 100% sustainable aviation fuel

Ethanol producer to integrate renewable diesel production from corn distiller oil

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