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One-step process for production of renewable diesel blendstock from soybean oil

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in Israel report the development of a comercially-viable, one-step catalytic hydrotreating process for the conversion of soybean oil to renewable diesel-type fuel in a paper in the journal Fuel. The conversion of soybean oil to green diesel was carried out on Pt/SAPO-11-Al 2 O 3 catalyst in a trickle-bed reactor. 2013.04.044.

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Israel, Fiat Chrysler, Iveco and Magneti Marelli to partner on automotive natural gas technologies

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Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), through the Israel Fuel Choices Initiative (IFCI), signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Iveco (a Brand of CNH Industrial) and Magneti Marelli (FCA Group) for co-operation in the development of natural-gas-based automotive technologies.

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Indian Oil Corp exploring hydrogen to use as eco-friendly fuels 

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Indian Oil Corp exploring hydrogen to use as eco-friendly fuels . Indian Oil Corporation’s research and development (R&D) centre is exploring how the hydrogen can be used as fuel since early 2000s in their recent test the hydrogen has been mixed with the compressed natural gas (CNG) to make H-CNG. Indian Oil Corp.

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Evogene Castor Oil Demonstrates Suitability as Biojet Feedstock

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Biojet produced from castor varieties under development by Israel-based Evogene, Ltd. Under the agreement, biojet produced from Evogene castor oil through UOP’s Green Jet technology, is expected to undergo additional advanced testing by NASA and AFRL. The analysis was conducted by Evogene, Inc., In April 2009 Evogene Inc.

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BGU researchers developing more efficient process for hydrogenation of CO2 to synthetic crude

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers are developing a process to hydrogenate carbon dioxide to produce a renewable alternative for crude oil. The advance is made possible in part using nanomaterials that significantly reduce the amount of energy required in the catalytic process to make the crude oil. Moti Herskowitz.

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Primus Green Energy to produce biojet fuel

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Israel Corp. a US subsidiary of Israel Corporation’s renewable energy unit IC Green Energy Ltd., has developed a gasification-based process to convert agricultural biomass into standard automotive fuels at a competitive production cost compared with the price of oil. unit reports biomass fuel breakthrough Globes.

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Evogene establishing subsidiary for developing advanced feedstock for biofuel

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Israel-based Evogene Ltd. Included in the activities that are being transferred from the parent company to Evofuel is the development and commercialization of castor bean varieties for Brazil as well as the biofuel research and development activities located in Israel.

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