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JANUARY 11, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office has published a report, titled Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet and Gaseous Waste Streams: Challenges and Opportunities. These feedstocks can be converted into renewable natural gas, diesel, and aviation fuels, or into valuable bioproducts. quadrillion Btu.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Oberon’s rDME fuel is a cost-effective, low-carbon, zero-soot alternative to petroleum diesel. Traditional clean-burning propane can offer immediate opportunities to reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector compared to gasoline and ultra-low sulfur diesel. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 8, 2022

Hyzon Motors , a global supplier of zero-emissions hydrogen and fuel cell powered commercial vehicles, announced that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has certified Hyzon’s Class 8, 7, and 6 Repowers as exempt from emission requirements, enabling the company to sell fuel cell electric trucks in California.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

These vehicles are responsible for moving 72% of all the goods we consume —such as the orders we place on Amazon that are later delivered to our doorstep, or the fresh groceries we buy from the local markets—but they burn over 44 billion gallons of diesel fuel every year, emitting 432 million metric tons of GHG emissions.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Clean Energy Fuels Corp., North America’s largest provider of natural gas for transportation, is commercially offering a biomethane vehicle fuel— Redeem —made from waste streams such as landfills, large dairies and sewage plants directly to fleets around the country and at 35 public Clean Energy stations throughout California.

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JUNE 11, 2021

Oberon Fuels, producer of clean-burning dimethyl ether (DME) transportation fuel, has begun production of the first renewable DME (rDME) in the United States, and the only current commercial production of this in the world. Propane is already known for its versatile, cost-effective and clean burning attributes.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Greyrock Energy, a developer of a gas-to-liquids (GTL) process that produces synthetic diesel, will participate with Tsinghua University of Beijing, China and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of Reno, Nevada to quantify the positive impact on air quality from the use of synthetic diesel fuels as compared with petroleum derived diesel fuels.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Waste feedstocks are defined in the enabling legislation specifically as “ previously used or discarded solid, liquid or contained gaseous material with heating value resulting from industrial, commercial or household food service activities that would otherwise be stored, treated, transferred or disposed. The Clean Energy Biofuels Act.

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MARCH 7, 2018

The California Air Resource Board (CARB) is awarding $7 million to CALSTART to develop a Class 8 truck that will achieve a 90% reduction in NO x along with a 15-20% fuel efficiency improvement. This program will demonstrate the first diesel engine to comply with the state standard. California’s ultra-low NO x emissions standard is 0.02

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MARCH 25, 2021

The funds will be used to retire a Tier 0 diesel locomotive and to replace it with a zero-emission switching locomotive using advanced hydrogen technology. Most switcher locomotives in California use an average of 50,000 gallons per year per switcher potentially leading to a reduction of more than 12 million gallons of diesel per year.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

Scientists from the University of Birmingham launched a major research project to investigate how “clean cold” could help to achieve almost all of the United Nations’ (UN) global Sustainable Development Goals. Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding of $2,605,370 for clean transportation projects. will receive $1,211,370 to design and install a new system to pre-process solid food waste for use in two existing anaerobic digesters at a solid waste facility in Chino.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

and Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced an agreement for Ryder to switch the fuel at their stations in Orange and Fontana, CA, to Clean Energy’s Redeem renewable natural gas (RNG)—i.e., The 2014 baseline CIs for gasoline and diesel are 96.48 Clean Energy is on track to deliver 40 million gallons of Redeem in 2015.

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JUNE 9, 2014

has received a Certificate of Conformity from the US Environmental Protection Agency applicable for diesel-to-natural gas engine conversions of all Mack E7 electronic engines up to model year 2006. Furthermore, we look forward to finalizing the development of the Detroit Diesel Series 60 and Caterpillar C15 engine conversion kits.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

The new Ford EcoBlue diesel engine production line at Dagenham Engine Plant will reduce water and energy consumption by more than 50%. Dagenham Engine Plant is Ford’s largest diesel engine production facility globally, and produced the first EcoBlue diesel engine ( earlier post ) in April this year. The all-new 2.0-liter

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. These reductions have come from strong efforts to reduce on-road vehicle emissions, especially diesel particulate matter.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Audi testing of synthetic ethanol (Audi e-ethanol = Joule Sunflow-E) and synthetic diesel (Audi e-diesel = Joule Sunflow-D), produced in partnership with Joule ( earlier post ) in a pressure chamber and optical research engine has shown that the Audi e-fuels often perform better than their conventional counterparts. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 4, 2011

A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 2, 2016

The City of Santa Monica, California has awarded Clean Energy a multi-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) contract to fuel its Big Blue Bus (BBB) fleet of vehicles. BBB began using Redeem by Clean Energy in January 2015. Through this commitment, clean burning RNG and the new 0.02 Earlier post.). ISL G Near-Zero 0.02 Earlier post.)

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MARCH 6, 2012

Four new corporate partners—Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia—are joining the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Clean Fleets Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that assists the nation’s largest fleet operators in reducing the amount of gasoline and diesel they use nationwide.

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AUGUST 4, 2019

Funded by Pennsylvania’s share of the settlement with Volkswagen Group of America, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)is committing funding for a range of clean energy transportation projects on our roads, at schools, and at marine ports and airports. Valley Waste Service, Inc.: million settlement with Volkswagen.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Dorsan uses proprietary technology to create fungal-based biocatalysts that can convert non-food biomass and waste streams into diesel fuel and a variety of food and fragrance products. —ATI-Clean Energy co-director Mitch Jacobson. Dorsan Biofuels , Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Using a proprietary small-scale process, Oberon Fuels focuses on the production of renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) from waste and/or renewable resources. With only a 20% blend of rDME, propane’s carbon intensity (CI) value is reduced from 83 gCO 2 e/MJ to 11 gCO 2 e/MJ. —Rebecca Boudreaux, Ph.D., president of Oberon Fuels.

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APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs [ 3 ] are a disruptive technology that will help revolutionize both the clean transportation and the clean stationary energy sectors of our economy. PHEVLERs Provide Value to the Drivers PHEVLERs use the Existing Energy Infrastructure PHEVLERs use Clean Fuels to Reduce Air Pollution. He has a Ph.D. Table of Contents.

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APRIL 9, 2019

In this approach the engine would provide comparable (or possibly greater) efficiency than a diesel engine while also providing around 90% lower NO x emissions than present cleanest diesel engine vehicles. Ethanol or methanol would be employed to increase knock resistance. —Daniel Cohn. and Bromberg, L.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In this retrofit solution, Orange EV converts existing diesel terminal trucks to pure electric. Starting with the customer’s own diesel truck, Orange EV replaces the power train and control systems while refurbishing the rest of the truck to like-new condition.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

million gallons per year of renewable synthetic diesel (RenDiesel) for ground service equipment operations at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) beginning in late 2012, when the plant that will produce the fuel is scheduled to go into service. Tags: Biomass Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) Diesel Gasification. Rentech, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

—and clean liquid synthetic transportation fuels from natural and associated gas, as well as from biomass and other fossil fuels (XTL). There are worldwide initiatives underway to reduce the amount of flared and vented gases which waste valuable natural resources and contribute to CO 2 emissions.

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APRIL 16, 2014

While any project that meets the eligibility requirements is eligible to apply, the Department has identified five key technology areas of interest: advanced grid integration and storage; drop-in biofuels; waste-to-energy; enhancement of existing facilities; and efficiency improvements. Waste-to-Energy. Drop-in Biofuels.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace. University of California, San Diego (UCSD): $1 million to use advanced solar forecasting to optimize campus distributed energy resources on the UCSD campus.

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MARCH 6, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced 16 major US employers and two stakeholder groups have joined the Workplace Charging Challenge ( earlier post ), while another 3 US corporations have joined the National Clean Fleets Partnership. National Clean Fleets Partnership.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Highly turbocharged alcohol-fueled direct-injection spark-ignition (DISI) engines operated at a high compression ratio could be as or more efficient than diesel engines while also providing advantages of lower vehicle cost, lower emissions and higher power, according to a recent modeling study by Leslie Bromberg and Daniel Cohn at MIT.

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MAY 1, 2014

The California Air Resources Board announced that Ford Motor Company has agreed to fines totaling $2,960,000 for violations of air quality laws related to the sale of vehicles with non-compliant On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) systems in California. Officials estimate the money will support loans for about 90 clean-diesel vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the development of a commercial scale biorefinery facility for the production of renewable jet or diesel fuel. Synthetic diesel fuel produced from the Rentech Process meets ASTM D-975 specifications. Biomass-to-liquids company ClearFuels Technology Inc. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Diesel Drives the Future’ tour spanning the length of California. Diesel Drives the Future’ demonstration drive, one of the Audi A3 TDIs achieved 39.7 The Audi A3 TDI has an EPA average highway fuel economy rating of 42 mpg on traditional clean diesel fuel. Earlier post.). Throughout the ‘Eureka!

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

One of the things that we’re going to be talking about today is investing in the kind of technology that will allow us to use coal, our most bountiful natural resource here in the United States, without polluting our planet. million gallons (mg), or 0.004% of total fuel; and the biomass-based diesel standard is being set at 1.15

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JULY 12, 2011

billion venture capital fund over the next 10 years, Chesapeake NG Ventures Corporation (CNGV), dedicated to identifying and investing in companies and technologies that will replace the use of gasoline and diesel with natural gas and natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuels. per gallon cheaper than gasoline and diesel; and. —Aubrey K.

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