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JANUARY 16, 2013

The plants being contemplated are expected to have an attractive environmental footprint as they would process these waste streams with a low emissions profile. We believe that our technology offers the ability to cleanly use these waste and landfill materials in an environmentally responsible way to produce a variety of high value products.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. process, making a slow carbon conversion reaction ten times faster.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Waste Management and Genomatica, an industrial biotech company targeting sustainable chemicals ( earlier post ), have formed a strategic joint development agreement to research and advance Genomatica’s technology and manufacturing processes to enable production of intermediate and basic chemicals from syngas made from municipal solid waste.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Synthesis Energy Systems’ (SES) 95%-owned Hai Hua joint venture project in Shandong Province, China, has completed a successful commercial-scale gasification demonstration, converting lignite coal from the Inner Mongolia region of China to syngas. Earlier post.). Francis Lau, SES’ Chief Technology Officer.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

million in federal funding for cost-shared projects that will develop technologies that utilize CO 2 from coal-fired power plants to produce useful products. Research has shown that CO 2 can be converted to a variety of commodities, but because of the low energy state of CO 2 , the production costs would be prohibitive in many cases.

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MARCH 31, 2019

To permanently reduce CO 2 emissions, steelmaker ArcelorMittal has developed a low-emissions technology strategy, which targets not only the use of alternative feedstocks and the conversion of CO 2 emissions, but also the direct avoidance of carbon (Carbon Direct Avoidance, CDA). The project costs amount to around €65 million (US$73 million).

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

SGCE) for the demonstration and commercialization of the Group’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology, primarily for Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) and Waste-to-Liquids (WTL) applications. Under the terms of the JDA, SGCE will have lead responsibility for commercializing the Group’s FT technology for BTL, WTL and Coal-to-Liquids applications.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

The SCSA takes the life-cycle analysis approach to identify energy consumption and environmental sustainability hotspots that could be mitigated through improved process materials and energy conversion efficiencies. Renewable natural gas and lactic acid production from wet waste feedstocks. Green ammonia. O 2 (NMC 532).

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APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). It also reduces cost by avoiding the need for hot-gas cleanup and F-T catalysts. Carbonaceous materials—e.g.,

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JULY 22, 2010

Funded with $106 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—matched with $156 million in private cost-share—the selections highlight the potential opportunity to use CO 2 as an inexpensive raw material that can help reduce carbon dioxide emissions while producing useful by-products. Touchstone Research Laboratory Ltd.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. In prior work with DOE, MTR has advanced membrane CO 2 capture technology for coal power plants through small engineering scale testing and studies. ION Clean Energy Inc.

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JUNE 24, 2011

Transphorm says its Total GaN solution reduces power waste by 90%, and simplifies the design and manufacturing of a wide variety of electrical systems and devices, including motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles. GaN (gallium nitride) power electronics provider Transphorm Inc.

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MAY 8, 2012

Transphorm’s solutions cut energy waste by 50% today and simplify the design and manufacturing of a wide variety of electrical systems and devices, including motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles. In the motor segment alone, Transphorm’s innovations create the potential to save 2.5

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AUGUST 25, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $30 million to help lower the costs of the onshore production of rare earths and other critical minerals and materials from domestic coal-based resources. ( However, rare earth elements occur naturally, including in domestic coal and coal wastes.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Unlike carbon capture and storage technologies that remove carbon dioxide emissions directly from large point sources such as coal power plants, NETs remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or enhance natural carbon sinks. However, it is currently limited by high cost.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

biomass, coal, petroleum coke, and wastes) for the production of an ultra-clean syngas. OmniGas has been demonstrated at bench-scale and is now on track for a one ton per day (tpd) prototype demonstration, using coal and biomass as the feedstock, in mid-2010.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

Most of the methods currently under development involve converting biomass or waste, while there are also approaches to directly produce liquid transportation fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, typically using photosynthesis. Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Transphorm says that its solutions cut energy waste by 20% and simplify the design and manufacturing of a wide variety of electrical systems and devices, including motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles. At the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), Transphorm Inc. motor drives).

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JANUARY 20, 2024

“At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore. The first was the American NS Savannah , built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 How is it arranged?

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MAY 13, 2011

TCX is the company’s new proprietary technology for ethanol production that builds on its acetyl platform and integrates new technologies to produce ethanol using basic hydrocarbon feedstocks—natural gas, coal and pet coke now, with biomass and waste planned for the future. Earlier post.). Source: Celanese. Earlier post.).

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JULY 5, 2011

Major investments will be needed worldwide in the developing and scaling up of clean energy technologies; sustainable farming and forestry techniques; climate-proofing of infrastructure; and in technologies reducing non-biological degradable waste production, according to the report.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Because the use of natural gas for transportation requires compressing, liquefying, or conversion, it is important to determine the best use of natural gas as a transportation fuel. Cost considerations on the total infrastructure or cost of ownership were also outside the scope of this work but are nevertheless important, they team noted.

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JULY 10, 2010

Regardless of the oil extraction technique used, some are more efficient than others, and getting to the oil is usually very expensive in terms of capital and energy costs. Instead of trying to extract algal oil, we have determined that it is much more cost-effective to focus our attention on the production of algal fatty acids.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 (NREL, Johnson Matthey Catalysts). per gallon. of Georgia).

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MARCH 13, 2016

High conversion efficiency NO x after-treatment and particulate filters. Waste heat recovery. Under CERC, 4 pairs of US and Chinese consortia are operating collaboratively on 4 technical tracks: Advanced Coal Technologies with Carbon Capture, Utilization and/or Sequestration. Combustion control and optimization technology.

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JUNE 5, 2023

It is a liquid alcohol fuel produced from a variety of feedstocks, including natural gas, coal, biomass, or even carbon dioxide. Even though compressed air results no air pollution, its inefficiency in conversion and low energy density makes it less competitive. A short explanation of each fuel is also presented. . #2

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MAY 7, 2009

Hydrogen production costs are already competitive with gasoline. Projected vehicle costs have been reduced by 75%. It would truly be a government waste to squander them by walking away just as success is in sight. Fuel cell buses operating in revenue service achieve twice the fuel economy of diesel buses.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Thousands of tons of the gas are made each year by refineries, petrochemical plants and other industries as a byproduct of processes that remove sulfur from petroleum, natural gas, coal and other products. The phrase ‘game-changer’ is overused, but in this case, it applies. —Naomi Halas.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. Chu said that it was highly unlikely that the US, Russia, China and India, which account for two-thirds of the coal reserves, “ will turn their back on coal anytime soon.”.for At geological storage densities of CO 2 (0.6

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Energix Research executed the GTL process via the syngas and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis route at a high conversion rate (87%) and selectivity rate (99%). Energix expects to develop affordable, micro GTL plants to monetize underutilized resources, such as abandoned natural gas fields, coal bed methane (CBM) fields, flared gases, etc.

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JULY 10, 2010

Specifically, low cost and energy-efficient processes are sought that can be demonstrated and validated under field conditions to meet needs of the nascent algal biomass industry. High-temperature, high-strength, lower-cost permanent magnets (PMs) are needed for traction motors for HEVs and PHEVs. saline water). Buildings Technologies.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

US $5 PER KILOGRAM Cost of green hydrogen today. Almost all hydrogen produced today is designated as brown, black, or gray, meaning it was generated by burning natural gas or coal. Conventional, or gray, hydrogen: $1.50 In 2021, global hydrogen demand was 94 million tonnes, most of it used in refining and in chemical industries.

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APRIL 25, 2011

A parallel step to the fuel conversion is the separation of the by-product of hydrolysis, glycerol, from the sweet water. This step increases the energy efficiency of the process as well as minimizes waste streams. This mitigates transportation costs of both the feedstock and the produced fuel. Step 3: Cracking and reforming.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . So why haven’t FCEV becoming as prolific as other electric cars?

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. The report estimates dollar values for several major components of these costs. When such market failures occur, a case can be made for government interventions—such as regulations, taxes or tradable permits—to address these external costs, the report says. Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”.

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MAY 27, 2009

The anaerobic digester is fed the waste from the distillation process and the wastes from 2,000 dairy cattle and 10,000 beef cattle being raised on the site. It is believed Valero purchased the plants at 30% of their original construction cost. (In All CAFOs have significant, concentrated, waste streams.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Green Car Congress recently had a quick conversation with John Warren, Director of Government Relations & Project Development for Osage Bio Energy in Glen Allen, VA. Part of the process btus come from the waste-steam from an electric cogeneration plant next to the facility. As a result, the carbon impact of the process is reduced.

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