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JULY 2, 2013

In contrast to arguments that peak conventional oil production is imminent due to physical resource scarcity, a team from Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz has examined the alternative possibility of reduced oil use due to improved efficiency and oil substitution. 2010, to above 140 $/bbl in constant 2010 dollars).

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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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JULY 22, 2018

West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. Additional processing and refining separates the oxides from their tight bonds and further groups them into light rare earths and heavy rare earths. —Paul Ziemkiewicz.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Pyrolysis bio-oils are produced by the thermal decomposition of biomass by heating in the absence of oxygen at more than 500 °C; fast pyrolysis of biomass is much less expensive than biomass conversion technologies based on gasification or fermentation processes. Solid arrows: Pyrolysis oil is directly passed over the zeolite catalyst.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

The IMO fuel sulfur content regulation will have a significant global impact on both the refining and the shipping industries. As a result, both industries will experience rapid change and significant cost and operational impacts, according to new analysis from IHS Markit. Heavy fuel oil (HFO) is the predominant marine fuel.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The study was commissioned by the European Oilseed Alliance (EOA), the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) and the European Vegetable Oil and Proteinmeal Industry (FEDIOL). Even for conventional oil production fields, because larger existing fields get depleted, the extraction efforts increase while smaller fields are taken in operation.

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APRIL 5, 2016

coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. However, in contrast to other processes which partially condense the volatile gases to form pyrolysis oil, in the Altex system, the volatile gases are fed directly to a second non-catalytic reactor.

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JUNE 1, 2016

Pöyry Forest Industry Oy in Finland, noted that: The magnitude of the recovery process is often not fully appreciated. This makes black liquor the fifth most important fuel in the world, next to coal, oil, natural gas, and gasoline. tons of black liquor dry solids. Vakkilainnen, from. Globally over 1.3 Globally over 1.3

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DECEMBER 15, 2013

By 2040, hybrids are expected to account for about 35% of the global light-duty vehicle fleet, up from less than 1% in 2010. In 2010 China had only about five light-duty vehicles per 100 people, while India had less than two per 100 people; this compares to about 75 vehicles for every 100 people in the United States. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Continued growth of on-road travel increases energy use later in the projection period because current fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards require no additional efficiency increases for new light-duty vehicles after 2025 and for new heavy-duty vehicles after 2027. trillion miles in 2018 to 3.5 Other findings.

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MAY 14, 2020

Botryococcus features an exceptionally high growth rate and high hydrocarbon oil content; IHI’s fuel is based on the hydroprocessing of oil from Botryococcus braunii (Bb oil). Syngas, or its components, can also come from other industrial processes. IHI also began work with Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. s petroleum-based jet.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

In recent years, interest in the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis has increased significantly and thus it makes possible to produce synthetic motor fuels by using alternative energy resources as raw materials such as natural gas, coal, and biomass.

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OCTOBER 3, 2015

Shale oil: developed energy and GHG emissions intensities of U.S. shale oil production with operation data from Bakken and Eagle Ford plays. Oil sands: updated GHG emission intensities for Canadian oil sands pathways for surface mining and in-situ technologies.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

The Annual Energy Outlook 2011 (AEO2011) Reference case released yesterday by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) more than doubles the technically recoverable US shale gas resources assumed in AEO2010 and added new shale oil resources. Beyond 2020, CAFE standards for both passenger cars and light-duty trucks are held constant.

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AUGUST 19, 2007

The Ugly Coal sucks, there's really no two ways about it. But not all use of coal is alike. The Good About half our electricity comes from coal, and that will change, at best, slowly as we move to renewables. That includes the worst, most coal dependent areas. Support knows no party. It's the plug, stupid.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

The Outlook for Energy identifies a significant evolution in the trade of oil and other liquids. A major shift is seen as North America will likely become a net exporter of liquids by 2020 as supplies of tight oil, natural gas liquids and bitumen from oil sands increase. billion in 2040. In 2010 it was only 60 million.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Today ethylene is primarily manufactured from crude oil in a process known as cracking, but the ongoing price volatility and the finite availability of crude oil have caused a surge for an alternative manufacturing approach: its synthesis from methanol in the methanol-to-olefins (MTO) process.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

The five different fuel groups were those derived: from conventional petroleum; from unconventional petroleum; synthetically from natural gas, coal, or combinations of coal and biomass via the FT process; renewable oils; and alcohols. million bpd. Reduced GHG impact. For CTL, life-cycle GHG emissions would roughly double.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Further, the fossil fuel share of primary energy consumption falls from 82% in 2011 to 78% in 2040 as consumption of petroleum-based liquid fuels falls, largely because of the incorporation of new fuel efficiency standards for light-duty vehicles. Domestic oil production will rise to 7.5 quadrillion Btu in 2011 to 14.0 than in AEO2012.

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MARCH 21, 2016

The light olefins ethylene, propylene, and butylene—usually made from petroleum—are key building blocks for chemical industry, and are starting materials for making plastics, synthetic fibers, and coatings. Currently, the production of lower olefins primarily involves the thermal cracking of lighter fractions of petroleum.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

Blended with a petroleum gasoline blendstock, these bio-blendstocks are designed to improve engine efficiency for light-duty, boosted-spark ignition (BSI) engines. These pathways include methanol derived from natural gas, flare gas, biomass, renewable natural gas, coal, and black liquor. O 2 (NMC 532).

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JANUARY 20, 2024

The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. The industry now faces serious pressure to pick up the pace. body that governs the industry, representatives doubled down on carbon-reduction ambitions, setting a net-zero emissions goal for 2050.

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JUNE 7, 2017

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder projects the emission impacts of the widespread introduction of inexpensive and efficient electric vehicles into the US light duty vehicle (LDV) sector. power plants and refineries) and in turn to the transportation, residential, industrial, and commercial end-use sectors.

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JUNE 12, 2021

Soot particles from oil and wood heating systems as well as road traffic can pollute the air in Europe on a much larger scale than previously assumed. Black carbon is associated with primary emissions from combustion processes from anthropogenic sources (car, domestic heating and industry) or biogenic sources (e.g. forest fires).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind can indeed be light everywhere and the grid still needs vast extra investment to transfer wind power from northern Scotland to southern England. As for batteries,it would take billions of pounds to build ones that could keep the lights on for a few hours let alone a week. . Energy Solutions. Gas is the only answer.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s Englon SC7 sedan was the first methanol-fueled car to receive approval from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Methanol can be produced from a range of renewable sources and fossil-fuel based feed-stocks; in practice methanol is mainly produced in coal-rich China from coal. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

PRELIM uses a more comprehensive range of crude oil quality and refinery configurations than used in earlier models and can quantify energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with detail and transparency the better to inform policy analysis, the duo suggests. Click to enlarge. By 2010 this fraction had increased to 15%.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The DOE-QTR defines six key strategies: increase vehicle efficiency; electrification of the light duty fleet; deploy alternative fuels; increase building and industrial efficiency; modernize the electrical grid; and deploy clean electricity. Vehicle efficiency has the greatest short- to mid-term impact on oil consumption.

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JUNE 10, 2011

On a life-cycle basis this advantage is reduced, the MIT report notes, because the GHG emissions in production and distribution, including methane leakage, are greater for natural gas than for oil products. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. million bpd of oil. Tcf/year, equivalent to 1.3

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Researchers in the Netherlands have demonstrated the direct conversion of synthesis gas through a Fischer-Tropsch process to C 2 through C 4 light olefins with selectivity up to 60 wt.% For several decades, research groups have attempted to develop iron-based catalysts to direct product selectivity of the FT synthesis toward light olefins.

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MARCH 18, 2013

Light-duty vehicles (LDVs) in the US may be able to reduce petroleum use by 50% by 2030, and by 80% by 2050; and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80% by 2050, according to the newly published results of a two-year study by a committee convened by the National Research Council. Source: NRC. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

Large scale production of methanol from natural gas and coal is a well-developed. Sufficient feedstock of natural gas and coal exists to enable the use of non-renewable methanol as a transition fuel to renewable methanol from biomass, they suggested. Methanol from non-renewable coal or natural gas could be used as a bridging.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Houston Advanced Research Center ( HARC ) and the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University are establishing a collaborative research program to promote advanced technology for low-impact oil and gas drilling.

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APRIL 14, 2015

The Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) released today by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that US energy imports and exports will come into balance—a first since the 1950s—because of continued oil and natural gas production growth and slow growth in energy demand. Tcf in the High Oil and Gas Resource case.

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MARCH 27, 2023

And I’m part of a group at Microsoft that’s called Research for Industry, and we’re overall part of Microsoft Research, but we’re specifically focusing on transferring technology and computer science to solving industry problems. And specifically, how do you apply recent advances in machine learning in the HPC to carbon capture?

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MARCH 20, 2017

The German government requested IEA and IRENA to shed light on the essential elements of an energy sector transition that would be consistent with limiting the rise in global temperature to this level. Gt by 2050 to limit warming to no more than two degrees above pre-industrial temperatures. Coal use would decline most rapidly.

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