article thumbnail

Diamond Green Diesel to boost renewable diesel capacity to 1.2B gallons/year; $1.45B expansion project

Green Car Congress

Next, these fats are processed into renewable diesel by: Hydrotreating: Using high pressure hydrogen to remove the oxygen (which is converted to water). Valero is a Fortune 50 company based in San Antonio, Texas, and it operates 15 petroleum refineries with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 3.2

Diesel 397
article thumbnail

DOE awards $1.3M to two projects testing fuel cell technology in refrigerated trucks

Green Car Congress

A fuel cell can potentially provide a clean, quiet and efficient alternative by powering the electric motor. and for a San Antonio, Texas, food distribution center for the H-E-B grocery store chain. —Kriston Brooks. That truck will make deliveries for a Sysco Corp. food distribution facility in Riverside, Calif.,

Fuel 262
article thumbnail

Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

Green Car Congress

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa. Earlier post.).

Coal 186
article thumbnail

US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

Geographical distribution of Clean Cities Recovery Act awards. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative.

article thumbnail

American Process Waste-to-Cellulosic Ethanol Project Launches in Michigan

Green Car Congress

In November 2008, API, in partnership with San Antonio’s Valero Energy Corporation, received $4 million from the COEE program to establish a pilot scale biorefinery at the Decorative Panels International hardwood plant in Alpena.

Michigan 225
article thumbnail

Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Sequoia

Clean Fleet Report

Clean Fleet Report was invited to Toyota’s U.S. Toyota gave us time on an off-road course with some up-and-down sections, a water feature and an open dirt track. Clean Fleet Report had the opportunity to drive the Sequoia while pulling a 6,500-pound boat and trailer. Power to tow. Getting Dirty. Story by John Faulkner.

Toyota 92
article thumbnail

Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

Green Car Congress

The final SuperTruck demonstrator ran a five-day, 312-mile (502-kilometer) roundtrip route on Texas Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Dallas, at a weight of 65,000 lbs (29,484 kg) GVWR at a speed of 65 mph (105 km/h), where it achieved an average result of 12.2 engine brake thermal efficiency. mpg (19.26

2009 150