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Rolls-Royce announces new hydrogen engine program; updates on hybrid-electric research

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Rolls-Royce is launching a new leading-edge hydrogen program and also given a further update on its research into hybrid-electric power as it continues to pioneer new forms of aviation sustainability. The company has further ambitions to move this on to a flight test phase as part of the program in the long term.

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Cellulosic fuels company KiOR reveals “substantial doubts” about its viability; funding needed by 1 April

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In its Form 10-K (annual report) filed with the SEC on 17 March, cellulosic renewable fuels company KiOR said it has “ substantial doubts about [its] ability to continue as a going concern ”. KiOR is aiming to reduce its cost structure by, among other things, decreasing natural gas consumption by the facility. Earlier post.).

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EmberClear completes technical feasibility study for a natural gas to liquids project in Natchez, MS

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has completed the technical feasibility study for a natural gas to liquids project in Natchez, Mississippi. EmberClear has access to an 800-acre site along the Mississippi River. The site is served by American Midstream’s Midla pipeline system that intersects three interstate gas pipelines. EmberClear Corp.

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UPS plans to build 9 additional LNG stations at cost of ~$50M

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UPS plans to invest approximately $50 million to build an additional nine liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations, bringing the total number of stations to 13. The expansion will include on-site fueling stations in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. Phoenix, Ariz.,

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ProcessBarron retrofits help Severstal steel plant save 25 GWh/y in energy

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Last year, air, gas and material handling equipment company ProcessBarron retrofitted four 2,750-hp fans that send particulates from an electric arc furnace (EAF) to a baghouse for air pollution control at the Severstal steel plant in Columbus, Miss. million for the plant’s reduction in electricity consumption in October 2013.

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CoolPlanet BioFuels claims conversion yield of 4K gallons gasoline per acre biomass

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On an energy basis, that yield is about 12 times greater than current corn ethanol production levels, the company noted. The giant miscanthus was developed at the University of Mississippi and provided from a high yield plot by Repreve Renewables. —Mike Cheiky, Cool Planet’s founder and CEO. Earlier post.).

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China to be Site of First Commercial Implementation of TRIG Coal Gasifier

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(Beijing Guoneng) has awarded KBR a contract to provide licensing, engineering services and proprietary equipment for the implementation of KBR’s and Southern Company’s Transport Integrated Gasification technology (TRIG) at a power plant operated by Dongguan Tianming Electric Power Co., that is managed and operated by Southern Company.

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