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New 3-step process for conversion of kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel

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Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. Pöyry Forest Industry Oy in Finland, noted that: The magnitude of the recovery process is often not fully appreciated. Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem. Vakkilainnen, from.

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Fast action on black carbon, ozone and methane could help limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees C

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Global benefits from full implementation of the identified measures in 2030 compared to the reference scenario. ventilation air from coal mines. Replacing coal by coal briquettes in cooking and heating stoves. sector in industrialized countries. for 2030 and beyond. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge. °C (2.7 °F),

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Secrets of a Danish Castle

Baua Electric

My kids still look at me askance when I explain how many of us in this community of fishermen and farmers were intimate with outhouses and coal-burning stoves and heaters well into the 1970s. Industrial-size fields diminished to patches of farmlands, with Bronze Age grave mounds protruding like dark citadels.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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By partnering with these two industries. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Kwong said Toyota is concerned PHEVs might just replace gas problems with more coal emissions, since the cars will require more electricity from utilities. This is unusual.

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