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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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USDA has reached an agreement with Silicon Valley Bank to provide a $91-million Biorefinery Assistance Program loan guarantee to Cool Planet to help the company finish construction on an advanced biofuel plant at the Port of Alexandria in Louisiana. The output of these processing stations is connected to an array of catalysts.

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Study shows uncovers how beetle gut microbes serve as reactor for fuel production

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To understand the complex connections that make up the O. Understanding how evolution has solved the complex lignocellulose to fuel conversation process can help us design better industrial mimics and find novel enzymes or pathways. Credit: Javier Ceja-Navarro/Berkeley Lab). We study them because they are a natural model biorefinery.

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EIA: planned capacity additions to US crude oil pipeline infrastructure should relieve Cushing bottleneck

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With added flows into Cushing from the north and west, and limited pipeline capacity to move crude from Cushing to Gulf Coast refineries, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil has traded at a substantial discount to crudes such as Louisiana Light Sweet and Brent. Another prominent project is Tallgrass’ planned Pony Express conversion.

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Phillips 66 to convert Alliance Refinery to terminal facility

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The conversion is expected to take place in 2022. The Alliance Refinery, located on the Mississippi River in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, 25 miles south of New Orleans, employs approximately 500 employees and 400 contractors. The refinery can also receive foreign crude oil by pipeline connected to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port.

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DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

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ConocoPhillips will demonstrate new advancements that improve conversion efficiency and economies of scale for carbon capture systems at a petcoke-based 683-megawatt integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant adjacent to its existing refinery in Sweeny, Texas. DOE Share: $1,719,464). Archer Daniels Midland Corporation.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Louis, San Antonio/Austin, and Oklahoma City as well as a refueling corridor along I-10 in Louisiana (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles). The project will include the purchase and conversion of 283 alternative fuel vehicles for numerous fleets including taxis, cities, schools, and delivery vehicles. Total DOE award: $12,299,828.

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DOE awarding $33M for carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation

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REEACH projects seek to create innovative, cost-effective, and high-performance energy storage and power generation sub-systems for electric aircraft, with a focus on fuel-to-electric power conversion technologies. The proposed system is projected to operate in cruising phase of flight with a 66% energy conversion efficiency.

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