Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2023
Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution to urban areas—more so than other freight or passenger trains— according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis. The results indicate coal trains add on average 8.32
Green Car Congress
JULY 18, 2023
NYK will install a variable compression ratio system (VCR system) on two large LNG-fueled coal carriers to be built at Oshima Shipbuilding Co., This will be the first time for VCR systems to be installed on vessels, including existing vessels that use heavy fuel oil as their main fuel. Cross section view of the VCR system.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 28, 2017
On 27 October 2016, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) announced that beginning on 1 January 2020, the maximum sulfur content allowed in marine bunker fuel will be reduced from 3.50% mass by mass (m/m) to 0.50% m/m (35,000 ppm to 5,000 ppm)—five years earlier than many expected. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
APRIL 23, 2013
Tesoro Corporation subsidiary Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company LLC and Savage Companies have formed a joint venture to develop and to operate a new 120,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) crude-by-rail unloading and marine loading facility at the Port of Vancouver, Wash., subject to approval by regulatory agencies and Port Commissioners.
Green Car Congress
JULY 18, 2018
The Oleo Sponge, a patent-pending technology to clean oil spills invented at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, performed successfully in an experiment conducted off the coast of Southern California. After the oil is wrung out, Oleo Sponge can be used again.
Plugs and Cars
APRIL 3, 2010
Small patches of oil were seen Sunday from a coal-carrying ship that ran aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Authorities fear an oil spill would cause environmental damage to the world's largest coral reef. tons (65,000 metric tons) of coal from the Queensland port of Gladstone to China. It has 1,000 U.S.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
It is a key enabler to achieving net-zero in manufacturing fertilizers, in the marine sector where it can be used as a zero-carbon bunkering fuel, and for co-firing in thermal power generation. Green ammonia is produced from green hydrogen, which in turn is produced from renewable electricity (solar and wind) via an electrolysis process.
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