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UPS enters into RNG supply agreements with Kinetrex and TruStar; up to 80M gallon equivalents

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UPS has entered into multi-year renewable natural gas (RNG) agreements with Kinetrex Energy and TruStar Energy. We are using both liquid natural gas (LNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG) as bridging fuels to increase our use of RNG. The RNG will be used to fuel UPS’s LNG-powered trucks in Chicago, Columbus, Indianapolis, St.

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ProcessBarron retrofits help Severstal steel plant save 25 GWh/y in energy

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Last year, air, gas and material handling equipment company ProcessBarron retrofitted four 2,750-hp fans that send particulates from an electric arc furnace (EAF) to a baghouse for air pollution control at the Severstal steel plant in Columbus, Miss. per ton, qualifying it for the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Major Industrial Program.

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Battelle wins $6M in contracts to advance carbon management and shale development

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Battelle will address the growing demand for subsurface brine disposal from oil and gas production in the Northern Appalachian Basin (in Ohio and neighboring states) during the next two years. The first project is Systematic Assessment of Wellbore Integrity for Geologic Carbon Storage Using Regulatory and Industry Information.

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Study finds HTL algal biofuels offer 50-70% lifecycle CO2 reduction compared to petroleum fuels; EROI and GHG comparable to or better than other biofuels

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Industry has been exploring a number of different pathways to convert algae biomass into energy including lipid extraction (LE) and subsequent transesterification to produce biodiesel; direct ethanol production; heterotrophic metabolism; or thermochemical conversion of the entire algae cell.

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Sapphire Energy and Phillips 66 parter on co-processing of algae crude oil with conventional crude

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Sapphire Energy is now producing crude oil daily from algae biomass cultivated and harvested at the company’s Green Crude Farm, located in Columbus, New Mexico. Once the study is finished, the companies will work together to complete the EPA certification process to register a new fuel product entering the market.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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The Institute will achieve this through leadership in pre-competitive advanced research and partnerships across defense, aerospace, automotive, energy, and consumer products industries. Collaboration across industry, academia and government provides an opportunity to directly address these challenges in a pre-competitive way.

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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

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National Science Foundation —holds what are termed visioning events, wherein IEEE members and hundreds of other experts from academia, industry, and nonprofits can conceptualize bold ideas. Research energy storage and greenhouse gas capture solutions Identifying technologies to address the climate crisis was ERVA’s first theme.