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SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

US commercial aviation currently consumes approximately 10% of all transportation energy and contributes 2% of the nation’s CO 2 emissions. Conversion Technology Innovation. The roadmap lays out six action areas spanning all activities with the potential to impact those SAF Grand Challenge objectives: Feedstock Innovation.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2021

However, to be commercially viable, the process needs to be improved to yield a higher amount of desirable carbon-rich products. Our group has found that you can do various tricks with the local environment of the catalyst to provide that selectivity. earlier post ). Credit: Berkeley Lab). Adding a second coating becomes challenging.

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APRIL 21, 2023

We are making good progress and already have an even more selective version, which could be a key step for commercializing the process. —Javier Ruiz-Martinez Resources Pavlo I. 2023) “Origin of active sites on silica–magnesia catalysts and control of reactive environment in the one-step ethanol-to-butadiene process.”

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JULY 7, 2022

Under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource ( EMBER ) program ( earlier post ), the team was awarded an initial $4 million in funding R&D in Phase 1 with an option for up to an additional $9 million based on program performance in follow-on phases.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Thanks to the expertise of several project partners, HyFlexFuel proved that HTL biocrudes can be successfully upgraded to drop-in fuels in an industrially-relevant environment, achieving hundreds of hours of continuous operations. —Daniele Castello of Aalborg University.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have demonstrated a new method for the direct conversion of heat to electricity using a multiferroic alloy, Ni 45 Co 5 Mn 40 Sn 10 , which they had discovered earlier (Srivastava 2010). The research team is looking into possible commercialization of the technology. —Srivastava 2011.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

In contrast, previously reported ferrite materials typically exhibit 20% or lower steam to hydrogen conversion. Their work indicates that a synergistic effect of reduced LSF and metallic iron phases is attributable to the exceptional steam conversion. To further enhance this effect, they proposed a layered reverse-flow reactor concept.

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MAY 6, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million in funding to spur the use of US National Laboratory supercomputing resources to strengthen domestic manufacturing.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

The energy conversion rate of this system is higher than that of biomaterial-based systems, but the production pathway cannot tap into potential energy sources such as waste biomass. The main challenge for ammonia is that it is highly toxic and even small accidents can create major risks to the crew and the environment. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 20, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting a project for the hybridization of an existing marine vessel for an award of up to $1,000,000. In November 2007, the Board approved a regulation to significantly reduce diesel PM and NO x from diesel-fueled engines on commercial harbor craft (CHC) vessels.

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JULY 16, 2013

The conventional way to make gasoline from gas is to convert the gas to a synthesis gas, then into methanol, followed by conversion to straight-chain hydrocarbons and finally via reforming into a high-octane hydrocarbon blend. This method of conversion is much more effective and cheaper than the traditional method. Jean-Marie Bassett.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. Cynar system.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Hydrokinetic energy is an abundant renewable resource that can boost grid resiliency and reduce infrastructure vulnerability, but it is currently a cost prohibitive option compared to other energy generating sources. HydroMINE is safe for the marine environment, and extremely robust. University of Washington.

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MARCH 25, 2021

To build the locomotive and demonstrate its operations in a real-world environment. To support commercialization activities to expand the use of hydrogen in the rail sector. Demonstration and validation of this technology will establish a platform for widespread commercialization in the immediate future.

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MAY 5, 2020

Hydrogen as a zero-carbon energy carrier has the potential to transform fundamentally the global energy landscape—but the production must benefit the environment, according to experts at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The implementation of this industrial and commercial ecosystem will take place gradually between 2021 and 2024, replacing the production of new vehicles. Optimizing the battery’s life cycle is a crucial issue for the development of the sector and limiting its impact on the environment.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

BETO’s mission is to develop and transform biomass resources into commercially viable, high performance biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower through targeted research, development, demonstration, and deployment supported through public and private partnerships. Algae utilization, including harvesting, processing, and conversion.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

GAMOW teams will work to close multiple fusion-specific technological gaps that will be needed to connect a net-energy-gain “fusion core," once it is ready, to a deployable, commercially attractive fusion system. The vacuum technology needed to operate a commercial fusion power plant does not currently exist, however.

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APRIL 6, 2018

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new approach for creating new catalysts to aid in clean energy conversion and storage. In this study, researchers looked at the challenges of improving affordability and catalyst efficiency in the conversion and storage of clean energy. —Huang et al. —Professor Chad A.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

This whole-cell system could be explored further for new ways of recycling atmospheric CO 2 into biofuels and other commercial chemical products. The researchers said that the ability of the Fe protein to effect ambient CO 2 reduction opens up new avenues to understand and improve the process of CO 2 conversion. —Rebelein et al.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

which are regulated under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) because of their adverse effects on human health and the environment. In this report, MECA provides our assessment of technologies being commercialized by component suppliers, including MECA members, to help their customers comply with future lower NO x standards.

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MAY 12, 2016

Canada has abundant agricultural and forestry biomass resources, with globally recognized sustainable production and harvesting practices. The biojet will be blended with petroleum jet fuel to meet all technical quality specifications before being introduced into a shared fuel tank at Montreal-Trudeau Airport.

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MARCH 21, 2014

Siluria Technologies, the developer of novel bio-templated catalysts for the economic direct conversion of methane (CH 4 ) to ethylene (C 2 H 4 ) ( earlier post ), unveiled a development unit for producing liquid fuels from natural gas based on Siluria’s proprietary oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) and ethylene-to-liquid (ETL) technologies.

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APRIL 6, 2016

Canada has abundant agricultural and forestry biomass resources, with globally recognized sustainable production and harvesting practices. The biojet will be blended with petroleum jet fuel to meet all technical quality specifications before being introduced into a shared fuel tank at a Canadian airport.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

According to their analysis, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , favorable assumptions for all involved process steps (30% thermochemical energy conversion efficiency; 3000 kWh/(m 2 a) solar irradiation, low CO 2 and heliostat costs) result in jet fuel production costs of €1.28/L kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L. 5b03515.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has put the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) on hold after receiving voucher requests for its entire $142-million budget. More than 100 truck and bus fleets requested funding for vehicles produced by more than 20 manufacturers.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

NO x is extremely difficult to reduce under an oxygen-rich environment. Although its selective catalytic reduction by urea (urea-SCR) has recently been commercialized, the operation window of this technology is severely limited by the decomposition temperature (ca. —Ryu et al. Source: Ryu et al. Click to enlarge. Wright, P.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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MAY 9, 2014

A team from seven US universities and the Korea Institue of Science and Technology, led by George Huber, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has developed an integrated catalytic process for the conversion of whole biomass into drop-in aviation fuels with maximal carbon yields.

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MARCH 7, 2018

The California Air Resource Board (CARB) is awarding $7 million to CALSTART to develop a Class 8 truck that will achieve a 90% reduction in NO x along with a 15-20% fuel efficiency improvement. liter Opposed-Piston Gasoline Compression Ignition (OPGCI) engine. Earlier post.). Zermeno, R.,

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

BETO’s mission is to engage in R&D and demonstration at increasing scale activities to transform renewable biomass resources into commercially viable, high-performance biofuels, and bioproducts and biopower that enable biofuel production. Cross-cutting sustainability, analysis, and strategic communications activities.

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JUNE 19, 2015

The FOA will seek to support projects that facilitate BETO’s goals in Algal Biofuels R&D; Feedstocks Supply and Logistics R&D; and Conversion Technologies R&D. The FOA will describe areas of non-interest (that is, areas that BETO is funding in a significant way) with greater specificity.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

A life cycle analysis from agronomic production to end products will assess the feasibility of a nonfood oilseed as a sustainable resource with minimal negative impact on food crop systems or the environment and will provide needed information for decision-making on camelina production as a replacement for fallow in wheat-based systems.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Mallee is indigenous to Australia and is well adapted to the environment. The pyrolysis thermal conversion process has yet to be recognized by the world’s fuels standards authorities. Eucalyptus mallee trees, grown in Western Australia’s wheat belt, are sustainably harvested and converted to a feedstock.

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JULY 2, 2015

Fraunhofer researchers in Germany have developed a process for the conversion of CO-rich exhaust gases from steel plants into fuels and specialty chemicals. But we have demonstrated on the laboratory scale that this concept works and could be of interest commercially. —Stefan Jennewein of IME, who is coordinating the project.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Grillo solved the challenge of methane’s limited reactivity using a tailored reaction environment and specific activators. The process has been continuously optimized and now achieves almost full conversion at mild reaction conditions, the company said. Source: BASF. Click to enlarge. Background. 1, 127-140 doi: 10.1039/A900157C.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The focus of this program is to help better understand the properties of SSZ-39, with the goal of demonstrating whether SSZ-39 could be a commercially viable SCR catalyst. The grant project is certainly relevant in the context of energy and the environment. —Prof.

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