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JUNE 23, 2015

IH 2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermochemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks. GTI experts invented, tested, and patented IH 2 technology and are providing ongoing commercialization support.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Juniper GTL LLC President Vianney Valès announced the company will invest $100 million to renovate a dormant steam methane reformer in the Westlake, Louisiana area and convert it to a natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility, producing waxes, drilling fluids, diesel and naphtha. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The NSF grant will address challenges that remain before the renewable strategy can be applied practically on a commercial scale. Earlier this year, Wang received a three-year, $240,000 research grant from the Houston-based Robert A. —Rafael Verduzco. Welch Foundation for related research.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

All fuels are distributed nationally by HYPERFUELS based in Houston, Texas. Gevo’s business model converts existing ethanol plants into bio-refineries to make isobutanol. Gevo has executed initial commercial-scale production runs at its isobutanol facility in Luverne, Minn., an affiliate of LANXESS Corporation, among others.

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JULY 25, 2011

Houston-based Terrabon, Inc. Started in April of 2011, a customized production process for DARPA will be engineered, constructed and operated at Terrabon’s Bryan, TX demonstration facility in an effort to yield 6,000 liters of jet fuel through the use of the company’s MixAlco technology in preparation for commercialization of this technology.

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AUGUST 20, 2011

GlycosBio), an international biochemical company commercializing high-value biochemicals, and Solix BioSystems, Inc. These preliminary experiments demonstrated the potential for Solix’s algae oil to be converted into a range of valuable specialty chemicals through GlycosBio’s suite of proprietary biocatalysts. —Daniel Monticello.

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APRIL 18, 2012

Pilot plant operation is a critical step along the IH 2 technology commercialization pathway, as it provides valuable information to confirm and refine commercial design. gallon in commercial production. The timeline to market is short, with commercial introduction expected in early 2014. billion gallons.

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JUNE 9, 2010

CIRI) and Houston-based. Laurus Energy have formed Stone Horn Ridge LLC, a company created to commercialize syngas from underground coal gasification (UCG). As its first commercial application, Stone Horn Ridge will produce syngas to fuel a 100MW power plant in Southcentral Alaska.

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MAY 12, 2014

Biosynthetic Technologies utilizes a chemical reaction process to convert fatty acid into a new molecule structure called an estolide. API certification marks an important step in the commercialization process and paves the way for use by motor oil manufacturers. Petroleum synthetic oils typically score between 6.0

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

The announcement of the fuel cell bus follows New Flyer’s unveiling of a battery-electric propulsion system to the Xcelsior transit bus lineup at the American Public Transit Association Expo tradeshow in Houston, Texas. DC power is converted to AC power and is supplied to each of these major systems separately.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Anderson Chair professor of physics at the University of Houston and one of the corresponding authors of the paper. But earlier work faltered because lead-containing telluride, despite its strong thermoelectric properties, can’t be used commercially because of the health risks associated with lead, Ren said.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Shell Lubricants announced the arrival of its first shipment of gas-to-liquid (GTL) base oil at the Port of Houston. The product, the first from the Qatar-based Pearl GTL plant to reach the Americas, will be stored at a hub in Houston and routed to Shell Lubricants’ GTL-enabled blending facilities throughout the United States.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Gevo and Sasol Chemical Industries Limited (Sasol) have entered into a definitive commercial isobutanol off-take agreement commencing in 2012. On June 15, 2011 Gevo and Redfield Energy, LLC (Redfield) entered into a definitive joint venture (JV) to convert Redfield’s 50 mgpy ethanol plant into an isobutanol plant.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL Sponsor: Nokia Bell Labs Corecipients: INGEBORG J. IEEE RICHARD W. IEEE JACK S.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

CORE BioFuel Inc., he ZFI Gasoline produced by the MKS Process will be a 92 octane, carbon-neutral alternative to conventional gasoline produced from petroleum sources.

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APRIL 3, 2015

The Rice study was made possible by the participation of the Houston Department of Public Works and Engineering, which helped Rice’s research team set up a test involving 12 open-topped 600-gallon tanks at one of the city’s satellite wastewater treatment plants in July 2013. Some tanks contained fish that preyed upon algae-eating zooplankton.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The IH 2 process converts virtually any type of non-food biomass feedstock—such as wood, agricultural residues, algae, and aquatic plants. GTI has licensed the IH2 technology to CRI Catalyst Company (CRI), an international company headquartered in Houston, TX, for worldwide deployment. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 4, 2015

Researchers at the University of Houston, with their colleagues at Boston College, have created a new thermoelectric material—germanium-doped magnesium stannide (Mg 2 Sn 0.75 Ge 0.25 )—intended to generate electric power from waste heat with greater efficiency and higher output power than currently available materials.

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JUNE 27, 2010

a Canadian biofuel company that is commercializing a biomass-to-gasoline production process, will pursue an additional production facility to be possibly located in northwest Montana. The dried wood chips are fed into a gasifier where they are converted to a synthesis gas and inert ash. CORE BioFuel Inc.,

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APRIL 25, 2021

Researchers from the University of Houston, with colleagues at the University of São Paolo in Brazil, have demonstrated how copper-resistant bacterium from a copper mine in Brazil convert CuSO 4 (copper sulfate) ions into zero-valent Cu (metallic copper). An open-access paper on their research is published in Science Advances.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Enerkem uses a thermochemical gasification process to produce a uniform syngas, which is subsequently converted into liquid fuels, such as ethanol, as well as biochemicals. Enerkem’s technology can convert one tonne of raw material (dry base) into 360 liters (95 gallons) of cellulosic ethanol. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JUNE 19, 2012

Fast pyrolysis—the rapid heating of biomass to intermediate temperatures (400-600 °C) in the absence of oxygen and the rapid cooling of the resulting vapors to bio-oil—is an efficient method to convert all fractions of biomass, including lignin, into a liquid product: pyrolysis oil. Catalysts, noted Iisa et al.

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JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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JULY 22, 2011

We now have sales commitments in place for all three of TCEP’s main commercial products—electric power, urea for fertilizer, and CO 2 for enhanced oil recovery—and that is obviously key to getting this project underway. converted to CO 2 and the steam would be converted to additional H 2 in the syngas stream.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The new superjunction structure will surpass the theoretical trade-off between on- resistance and breakdown voltage observed in conventional unipolar GaN, leading to more efficient and cheaper power converters. University of Houston. Integrated System for Electromicrobial Production of Butanol from Air-Captured CO 2 - $1,953,397.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

Thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences into electric voltage; a TEG in a vehicle is designed to convert waste heat to power. GMZ Energy, a provider of advanced nano-structured thermoelectric generation technology, was co-founded by MITs Professor Gang Chen and collaborator Zhifeng Ren of the University of Houston.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will convert local landfill gas (LFG), a renewable fuel source, to compressed natural gas and develop five CNG fueling stations throughout the metro-Atlanta area. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles.

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JULY 3, 2012

Gevo produced the ATJ fuel from isobutanol at its hydrocarbon processing demonstration plant near Houston, Texas, in partnership with South Hampton Resources. Together, we have proven that ATJ fuel is a technically viable and promising alternative for both military and commercial applications. —Gevo President and COO Chris Ryan.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. plants, and it is a liquid that can be extracted readily, separated, and converted into biodiesel fuel. converted into a fuel mixture that is comparable to diesel or. University of Houston.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Centennial, CO, developing technology to biochemically convert coal to methane at large scale and low cost. CoolPlanetBioFuels , Camarillo, CA, developing technology that converts low-grade biomass into high-grade fuel and carbon that can be sequestered. GE, NRG Energy, Inc. Ciris Energy , Inc.,

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