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Lamborghini unveils Lanzador electric concept

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Lamborghini unveiled the Lanzador electric concept at Monterey Car Week—a vision of a future purely-electric fourth series production Lamborghini. The concept for the fourth model is not just a technical demonstrator but also a refined laboratory on wheels in terms of sustainable materials.

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Veolia launches largest project to produce bio-methanol from pulp mill waste

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Using the A-Recovery+ concept from ANDRITZ, the plant has a capacity to produce 6.3 Black liquor is the waste byproduct from the kraft pulping process after pulping is completed. The advantage of our industrial concept is that it is replicable at around 80% of the pulp mills worldwide. —Estelle Brachlianoff, COO of Veolia.

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European project HARARE seeks to produce iron and non-ferrous metals from waste using hydrogen as reductant

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HARARE stands for “Hydrogen As the Reducing Agent in the REcovery of metals and minerals from metallurgical waste”. At the core of the HARARE concept is the use of hydrogen gas to reduce the iron oxide without process-related CO 2 emissions. Most of the waste remains as such and is dumped in large landfill sites. tonnes of slag.

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Sumitomo Rubber and Sumitomo Electric to join Sumitomo Riko, LanzaTech project

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In November 2022, LanzaTech and Sumitomo Riko Company entered into a joint-development agreement to reuse rubber, resin and urethane waste for the production of a key chemical intermediate, isoprene. Earlier post.) Sumitomo Rubber along with Sumitomo Electric will be taking part in this joint development.

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TMRC consortium awarded second phase of DOE contract targeting production of mixed rare earth oxides from PA coal waste

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Texas Mineral Resources Corp. The Texas Mineral Resources consortium objective is to install a self-contained, modular and portable pilot plant at a Jeddo Coal Pennsylvania site, capable of producing 1-3 metric tons of rare earth oxides derived from coal waste material from Pennsylvania anthracite coal.

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ElectraTherm and Navy to demonstrate shipboard waste heat recovery

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ElectraTherm, a leader in distributed, waste heat to power generation, is working with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Creare, and the US Naval Academy (USNA) to demonstrate gas turbine waste heat recovery as part of a Small Business Innovation Research project. Hot water is the only fuel consumed by the Power+.

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PNNL team finds biocrude from kelp and fish waste via hydrothermal liquefaction could be viable fuel for remote Alaskan communities

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Using existing fish processing plants, kelp and fish waste can be turned into a diesel-like fuel to power generators or fishing boats in rural, coastal Alaska, according to a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The waste-to-energy fuel could then be used to power generators or fishing boats.

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