Remove Commercial Remove Convert Remove Demo Remove Gas
article thumbnail

Vulcan successfully develops, tests and demos in-house lithium extraction technology VULSORB

Green Car Congress

VULSORB demonstrated higher performance and lower water consumption for lithium extraction in Vulcan’s pilot plant, compared with commercially available sorbents tested by the Company. Test work has been carried out on live brine from Vulcan’s commercially operating geothermal renewable energy plant, Natürlich Insheim.

article thumbnail

PNNL biocrude-to-diesel demo passes 2,000-hour catalyst stability milestone

Green Car Congress

A large-scale demonstration converting biocrude to renewable diesel fuel has passed a significant test, operating for more than 2,000 hours continuously without losing effectiveness. It addresses the need to convert biocrude, a mixture of carbon-based polymers, into biofuels. Biowaste to biofuel conversion process.

Diesel 332
article thumbnail

United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

Green Car Congress

United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy. million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process.

article thumbnail

Siluria Technologies announces successful start-up of first demo plant directly converting natural gas to ethylene through OCM

Green Car Congress

This milestone marks the world’s first large-scale production of ethylene directly from natural gas through Oxidative Coupling of Methane (OCM). The demonstration plant is the final scale-up of the OCM process technology and paves the way for Siluria to deploy commercial-scale plants in the 2017/2018 timeframe. Earlier post.)

Convert 150
article thumbnail

Rosneft GTL demo plant to use Oxford Catalysts microchannel FT reactors; targeting use of associated gas

Green Car Congress

Rosneft, an integrated oil company majority-owned by the Russian government, has selected technology from Oxford Catalysts Group PLC for a small-scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facility designed to convert associated gas—i.e., Rosneft has a stated objective and budget to reduce flaring and make better use of associated gas.

Gas 218
article thumbnail

Japan launches first global hydrogen supply chain demo project; liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) technology

Green Car Congress

Hydrogen gas will then be extracted from the liquid in Kawasaki and supplied to consumers. In the supply country, hydrogen, chemically fixed to toluene, is converted by a hydrogenation reaction into methylcyclohexane (MCH), a liquid at ambient temperature and pressure, for storage and transport. Chiyoda’s SPERA Hydrogen Technology.

Brunei 218
article thumbnail

Global Bioenergies reports first production of green isobutene at demo plant

Green Car Congress

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation.

Global 150