Remove Coal Remove Corporation Remove Engine Remove Waste
article thumbnail

UC Riverside researchers receive two grants to advance steam hydrogasification reaction for waste-to-fuels

Green Car Congress

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. Earlier post.). diesel, gasoline, jet) at low cost.

Waste 210
article thumbnail

DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

Green Car Congress

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. These efforts aim to design initial engineering studies to develop technologies to capture CO 2 generated as a byproduct of manufacturing at industrial sites.

Carbon 236
article thumbnail

Capstone Turbine releases ultra low emission CR200 kW certified to ARB requirements for landfill gas applications

Green Car Congress

Capstone Turbine Corporation released the CR200 Low Btu microturbine product; landfill gas applications are a key market for the Capstone CR200 200 kW. Capstone microturbines are capable of burning waste gases with methane contents as low as 30%, which can be challenging for competing combustion technologies. (CPS)

Gas 218
article thumbnail

Lux Research provides snapshot of oil majors’ investments in alternative fuels; BP leads investment frequency

Green Car Congress

Lux Research has investigated the trends of corporate financing of alternative fuels from oil majors, based on a non-exhaustive database of more than 1,000 deals and partnership engagements from 2000 through September, 2014. Total and Chevron are the most active corporate investors in the fermentation domain.

article thumbnail

Maverick Synfuels introduces affordable small-scale methane gas-to-liquid modular methanol plants

Green Car Congress

The Maverick Oasis factory-built Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) methanol plants are modular, and can be rapidly deployed onsite to produce thousands of gallons per day of methanol from natural gas or methane-rich waste gas. —Jeff Harrison, Maverick’s Chief Engineering Officer.

Gas 210
article thumbnail

Sundrop Fuels partners with ThyssenKrupp Uhde for inaugural drop-in biogasoline plant

Green Car Congress

The process was developed in 1926 by Rheinbraun AG in Germany for lignite coal; in the 1970s, Rheinbraun (now RWE) improved the process by operating the gasifier at a higher temperature to increase the carbon conversion and to improve of the quality of the syngas produced. ThyssenKrupp Uhde is a world leader in coal and biomass gasification.

Fuel 210
article thumbnail

Diversified Energy Hits Gasifier Development Milestones in DOE-Sponsored Program

Green Car Congress

Diversified Energy Corporation has successfully completed several key milestones in an advanced gasification development program being sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Earlier post.). Earlier post.) The 24-month, $5.2M Earlier post.).

Energy 218