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VTT and Neste to build integrated Power-to-Liquids demo facility; CO2 capture, green hydrogen and e-fuels production

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Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale. E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing internal combustion engines. —Lars Peter Lindfors, Senior Vice President Innovation at Neste.

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Stora Enso building €10M pilot plant to produce hard carbon from lignin; electrode materials

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The pilot plant will be located at Stora Enso’s Sunila Mill in Finland. This investment is another step on our transformation journey to explore new ways to replace fossil-based, scarce and high-cost materials with renewable alternatives. Stora Enso has been producing lignin industrially at its Sunila Mill in Finland since 2015.

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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biogas to methanol.

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Stora Enso’s pilot plant for producing lignin-based carbon materials for batteries now operational

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By converting lignin separated from wood into carbon-based anode materials, the synthetic and non-renewable graphite material can be replaced. With Lignode, we can provide a bio-based, cost-competitive and high-performance material to replace the conventionally used graphite.

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Compact pilot plant for solar to liquid fuels production

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Partners from Germany and Finland in the SOLETAIR project are building a compact pilot plant for the production of gasoline, diesel and kerosene from solar energy, regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. A direct air capture unit developed by the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) extracts carbon dioxide from air.

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Review of co-processing of biocrudes in oil refineries

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In an open-access paper in the journal Energy & Fuels, a team from VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Ghent University, provides an overview of co-processing options for such bio-liquids.

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Neste Oil and Stora Enso Begin Environmental Impact Assessment for Commercial-Scale BTL Plant to Produce F-T Diesel from Wood Biomass

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Neste Oil’s and Stora Enso’s joint venture, NSE Biofuels Oy ( earlier post ), will begin environmental impact assessments for a commercial-scale biomass-to-liquids (BTL)biorefinery at Porvoo and at Imatra in Finland.

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