Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

Australia’s CSIRO, together Australasian aviation partners, is leading a study to help develop a sustainable aviation fuels industry. Called the Sustainable Aviation Fuels Road Map, the study aims to accelerate the development and commercialization of a sustainable aviation fuels industry in Australia and New Zealand.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2020

Further development and testing is needed to adapt DFI to engines for real-world use, but this approach combined with oxygenated fuel could translate into cleaner, more cost-effective MCCI engines that run on diesel with renewable content. Renewable Feedstocks to Produce Commercially Viable Diesel Blends.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

At the current pace of research and development, replacing gasoline and diesel with renewable fuel alternatives could take some 131 years, according to a new University of California, Davis, study using a new sustainability forecasting approach based on market expectations. The forecast was published online 8 Nov.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Associate Professor Akshat Tanksale from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Monash University and co-corresponding author, says OME (oxymethylene ethers) are among a number of fuel alternatives that are attracting increasing attention for their net-zero carbon emitting properties. —Akshat Tanksale.

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Hydrogen Diesel Fuel CO2 221

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A full lifecycle analysis of Bio-SNG production undertaken by North Energy Associates found that for many types of feedstock, the lifecycle CO 2 e savings of Bio-SNG compared with fossil fuel alternatives are typically ~90%. Cost of carbon abated for transport applications. Click to enlarge. Cost of carbon abated.

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Carbon Cost Of Transportation CO2 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2015

Permitting Processes Streamlining and Standardization and CEQA and Permitting Training and Assistance: Streamline and standardize permitting processes, and provide education about the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and permitting processes to encourage development of alternative fuels and vehicle technology infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

While vehicle efficiency will be the most important and most cost-efficient way to reduce transport-emissions, biofuels will still be needed to provide low-carbon fuel alternatives for planes, marine vessels and other heavy transport modes, and will eventually provide one fifth (2.1 —Bo Diczfalusy.

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Transportation Fuel Conversion CO2 225

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2010

Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) will jointly carry out engineering, economic analysis and move into the development of renewable biojet fuel that will also look into ways for production and supply, with the support of Airbus. Earlier post.)

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Qatar Renewable Fuel Alternative Fuels 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2017

The California Energy Commission is issuing a solicitation ( GFO-17-901 ) to provide up to $3 million in funding for innovative, pre-commercial low-carbon fuel production processes that result in the development of bio-oil as an intermediate fuel with wide-scale adoption potential used for renewable jet fuel production.

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Oil Renewable California Fuel 150

Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2013

While there are questions as to whether farming seaweed as an alternative to fossil fuels can be a commercially viable business, the eleven project partners are hop[.]. Seaweed farming trials in north-western island of Kerrera, Scotland aim to assess whether the crop would make a good source of biofuel. Biofuels'

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Lower cost operation due to replacing diesel with lower cost fuel alternatives. The vehicles to be demonstrated must be subjected to typical engine operation such as that encountered by public transit buses, fire trucks, heavy-duty on-road commercial work trucks, vocational construction trucks, class 8 long-haul trucks, etc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By investing not only in sustainable fuel but also in fleet renewal, engine retrofitting, and efficiency projects, we tackle the impact of the logistics supply chain. The fuel alternative is being implemented to improve Grundfos’ linehaul between its production sites Bjerringbro, Denmark and Longeville-Les-Saint-Avold, France.

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CO2 Diesel Climate Carbon 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

The program will involve research on crosscutting technologies that will accelerate the development of advanced reactor concepts, including fuels, materials, and reactor modeling. The program also investigates small and medium-sized reactor concepts. Actual project funding will be established during contract negotiation phase.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

OME1 is made from methanol on a commercial scale and has a cetane number of 38; it can be mixed with additives to produce OME1a diesel fuel (CN 48).). The growth of the world’s population is putting ever-increasing demands on energy and especially fossil fuels.

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Fuel Ford Powered Power 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2015

The real issue is the lack of commercially available very low carbon intensity fuel alternatives. If the objective is to get the oil companies to drive compliance through their own investment choices, than causing them to kill a large amount of their gasoline business within a decade is not going drive this change.

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Oil San Francisco Gasoline Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) R&D team released its current position paper on critical R&D challenges facing the alternative jet fuel industry, highlighting near-, mid-, and long-term priorities.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 7, 2024

The real game changer, however, is that if institutions and the government take the initiative to get public-sector banks to look at every commercial vehicle favourably and get financing for it, there’ll be adoption. Their timely establishment, however, is critical to support the growing demand for LNG as a fuel alternative.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2011

US President Barack Obama announced that the US Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will jointly invest up to $510 million ($170 million each) during the next three years in partnership with the private sector to produce advanced drop-in aviation and marine biofuels to power military and commercial transportation.

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