Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2019

In a major new report on hydrogen, the International Energy Agency says that the time is right to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future. A wide variety of fuels are able to produce hydrogen, including renewables, nuclear, natural gas, coal and oil. —Dr Birol.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

the developer of a process for harvesting algae and cleaning up oil & gas water, announced that its second original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) agreement will target oil service companies in the Canadian oil sands market. LH was an early private investor in Athabasca Oil Corporation. OriginOil, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

—Joe Gorder, Valero Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, To produce renewable diesel, Diamond Green Diesel first pretreats used cooking oil and inedible animal fats to remove impurities. billion pounds of used cooking oil annually. The US restaurant industry generates an estimated 2.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion. Alder Energy will convert miscanthus, a highly promising biomass crop, to SAF through their advanced pyrolysis oil technology, a process that utilizes heat, pressure, and solvents to deconstruct the miscanthus into oils for conversion to SAF.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

McDonald describe their study of converting methanol (MTG) and a mixture of methanol and glycerol (MGTG) into gasoline-range hydrocarbons using a bench-top, fixed-bed microreactor. The technology of converting methanol into gasoline was discovered and commercialized more than 3 decades ago. Tropsch synthesis (FTS).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

The majority (62%) of the plantations were located on the island of Sumatra, and more than two-thirds (69%) of all industrial plantations were developed for oil palm cultivation, with the remainder mostly being Acacia plantations for paper pulp production. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2014

of China (COMAC) opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel. billion liters) of biofuel could be made annually in China from used cooking oil. Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

After cleaning up your leaves with a , flip the switch and convert it into a vacuum to clean up the remaining dust and debris left behind. Today’s deal is on the SnapFresh 20V 2-in-1 leaf blower which doesn’t use gas or oil to help with yard cleanup.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Monolith , a leader in clean carbon black production, signed a collaboration agreement and letter of intent (LOI) with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, one of the world's largest tire companies. Monolith’s carbon black enables manufacturers such as Goodyear to meet sustainability goals and demand for clean materials.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tootbus is currently operating buses that run on hydrotreated vegetable oil but is adopting BEV and solar technology with VEV’s help. Tootbus describes itself as the world’s first clean energy sightseeing bus company, specializing in hop-on hop-off tours around Europe, including Bath, London, Paris, and Brussels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. The CNG is offloaded and used to replace fuel-oil and propane which can save customers up to 40% on fuel costs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 26%. Companies burning coal can reduce their CO2 emissions by 50% when converting to natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2013

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar last week announced the Department of the Interior’s final plan for encouraging research, development and demonstration (RD&D) of oil shale and oil sands resources on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Earlier post.).

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We They just have a different perspective on the future.” “We Everyone’s asking: How do we transition?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

has licensed Honeywell’s UOP methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology to convert methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. The MTO process, jointly developed by Honeywell’s UOP and INEOS, converts methanol from crude oil and non-crude oil sources such as coal or natural gas to ethylene and propylene.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2016

The plants will be based on BTL’s Fast Pyrolysis Oil (FPO) technology which converts biomass to oil through a rapid pyrolysis process. The fast pyrolysis technology mixes biomass particles and hot sand in a reactor which transforms the material into pyrolysis oil.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. can meet its emissions goals The Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit —REPEAT—which you developed at Princeton with Evolved Energy Research , influenced Congress to create massive incentives for clean-energy tech.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has landed its third technology license for its methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology, which converts methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. China’s Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Company Ltd. China’s Shandong Yangmei Hengtong Chemicals Co. also licensed Honeywell UOP’s advanced MTO solution.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

HEET, a company with experience developing alternative energy technologies, will focus on ways to convert discarded cooking oil into a component of sustainable aviation biofuel at the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

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.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2013

one of the world leaders in algae-based “Green Crude” oil production, and Phillips 66, an integrated energy manufacturing and logistics company, have entered a strategic joint development agreement aimed at taking production of algae crude oil a significant step toward commercialization. San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Infinium electrofuels facilities being developed in Brazoria County will convert renewable power into green hydrogen and combine it with industrial-sourced carbon dioxide to produce ultra-low carbon fuels using Infinium proprietary technology. MMBOE of estimated proved oil and natural gas reserves as of 31 December 2020, of which 98% is oil.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

CH utilizes water to reduce hydrogen and catalyst consumption and quickly and inexpensively converts plant oils into stable intermediate oil products which are very similar to petroleum crude oil. Aemetis, Inc., In May of this year, CLG joined ARA’s ReadiJet Alternative Fuel Initiative for drop-in biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuel technology to produce renewable diesel from vegetable oil. With HydroFlex, customers can convert low value feedstocks to renewable fuels that qualify for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit. Canada-based Covenant Energy Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2011

has selected Envergent Technologies LLC, a Honeywell company, to perform the engineering design for a project that will use Envergent’s RTP Rapid Thermal Processing technology ( earlier post ) to convert palm biomass to renewable heat and electricity. The RTP liquid fuels will be used to generate renewable electricity and heat.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2021

The Sportage will be launched with a range powertrains, including clean gasoline and diesel IC engine technology. Technical innovations include solenoid valve control, a variable capacity oil pump, an electric thermostat and an optimized lubricant and cooling setup. From launch, a 1.6-liter 265 N·m) torque.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

has launched a new initiative to convert its 170-vehicle fleet to hybrid and clean diesel vehicles. Alon’s retail segment, Alon Brands, is extending the clean theme to the nearly 1,000 FINA locations in its network. Independent refiner Alon USA Energy, Inc. Alon USA Energy, Inc., Alon USA Energy, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The new process uses a combination of catalysts in a single unit to clean and remove oxygenates and other contaminants from the feedstock, and then isomerize the feed to improve its cold-flow properties. Two-stage designs can process feedstocks including used cooking oils and animal fats, and produce renewable jet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2010

and scientists and engineers at Columbia University, Iowa State University (ISU) and the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to support work on production and testing of bio-dispersants that can replace the chemical dispersants currently used for oil spill management. Tags: Biomass Oil Synthetic Biology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , they reported demonstrating for the first time that CO 2 captured from air can be directly converted to CH 3 OH in 79% yield using the new homogeneous catalytic system. They then heated the solution, converting 79% of the CO 2 into methanol. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

In recent years, a growing number of utilities responsible for clean water have moved from strict wastewater treatment to a broader model of water-resource management. With the right technology, it’s possible to convert wastewater into renewable power, along with chemicals, fertilizers, and reusable water.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

By converting various types of local waste, such as green waste, municipal solid waste, organic waste, and methane from municipal solid waste, into clean fuels, Raven SR offers a sustainable solution for the reliable and long-term production of SAF.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

The ethanol plant is fully integrated into the functions and logistics of St1 oil refinery in Gothenburg and has an annual production capacity of 5 million liters (1.3 In the hydrolysis stage, the feedstock is diluted with warm water in order to convert it into slurry. million gallons US) of advanced bioethanol.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 19, 2022

Thanks to Covid-induced supply chain issues and Russia’s war with Ukraine, oil prices have surged to over $100/barrel at times. That and the dearth of refining capacity (converting crude oil to gasoline/diesel) has pushed the price of gasoline and diesel to record highs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2012

The Boeing-COMAC Technology Center’s first research project will explore opportunities to refine waste cooking oil, often described in China as “gutter oil,” into sustainable aviation biofuel. Finding ways to convert discarded “gutter oil” into jet fuel could enhance regional biofuel supplies and improve biofuel’s affordability.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Amogy, a developer of energy-dense ammonia power solutions ( earlier post ), and Trafigura , one of the largest physical commodity trading groups in the world, are partnering to study the use of ammonia as a carrier to transport clean hydrogen from point of production to point of consumption.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2022

stake in Biojet AS , a Norwegian biofuels company that plans to convert forestry and wood-based construction waste into lower-emissions biofuels and biofuel components. ExxonMobil’s majority-owned affiliate, Imperial Oil Ltd., ExxonMobil is acquiring a 49.9%

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. The cleaned distillates are then pumped to the storage tanks. (A

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