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JUNE 25, 2012

Werner Funk, president and chief executive officer of Omnitek Engineering, noted this customer’s nationwide commitment to convert all of its more than 18,000 refuse collection trucks to operate on natural gas through a multi-year program comprised of diesel engine conversions and the purchase of new natural gas trucks.

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MARCH 26, 2021

A large-scale demonstration converting biocrude to renewable diesel fuel has passed a significant test, operating for more than 2,000 hours continuously without losing effectiveness. It addresses the need to convert biocrude, a mixture of carbon-based polymers, into biofuels. Biowaste to biofuel conversion process.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

McDonald describe their study of converting methanol (MTG) and a mixture of methanol and glycerol (MGTG) into gasoline-range hydrocarbons using a bench-top, fixed-bed microreactor. The technology of converting methanol into gasoline was discovered and commercialized more than 3 decades ago. Tropsch synthesis (FTS).

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JUNE 1, 2016

Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. The kraft process converts wood into wood pulp for paper production. 2016) “Green Diesel from Kraft Lignin in Three Steps” ChemSusChem doi: 10.1002/cssc.201600172.

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MARCH 8, 2016

A team led by researchers from the University of Oxford has developed a simple but highly selective catalytic process for the direct hydrodeoxygenation of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into diesel-range alkanes under mild conditions over a Pd/NbOPO 4 catalyst. Resources. This approach has low selectivity, however. —Tsang et al.

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JULY 3, 2016

In their paper, the team investigated an integrated system that converts CO 2 released from fossil fuel-burning power plants to synthetic diesel fuel via a combination of the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to CO and the FT process, which uses CO and H 2 from electrolysis) as feedstocks. —Li et al. Stubbins, and Paul J.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Researchers from Japan and Mexico have developed a one-step hydrotreatment process over catalysts containing Ni-Mo and solid acids for the conversion of vegetable oils (Jatropha, palm and canola) to renewable diesel and LPG fuels. Jatropha oil produced the highest yield (wt %) of renewable diesel (83.5%), with 4.9%

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MAY 18, 2018

(SoCalGas) introduced an innovative new solar-powered hydrogen generation system during the California Air Resources Board Technology Expo and Symposium at the University of California, Riverside. STARS converts a record-setting 70% of solar energy into chemical energy. This is the equivalent of 25 gallons of gasoline or diesel fuel.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

There has been growing interest in the potential for converting glycerol—a relatively large (about 10 wt %) byproduct of the conventional production of biodiesel (fatty acid methyl esters)—into solketal (2,2-dimethyl 1,3-dioxalane-4-methanol) for use as an oxygenated fuel additive or diesel combustion promoter.

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MARCH 21, 2016

In the journal Angewandte Chemie , Chinese scientists report on a new bifunctional catalyst that converts syngas to lower olefins (C 2 -C 4 ) with high selectivity. The first step in such a process would involve the conversion of these materials into syngas through either gasification or steam reforming.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Researchers from three US national labs (Berkeley, Pacific Northwest and Sandia) has demonstrated a separation-free, ionic-liquid (IL)-based process to convert biomass to an advanced biofuel (the sesquiterpene bisabolene). They achieved high titers of bisabolene relative to those previously obtained using a multi-step process.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. Tags: Catalysts Diesel Fuels. A hat-tip to Harold!).

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OCTOBER 8, 2017

Researchers at Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have devised a method of converting a waste product generated by the conversion of algae into bio-crude into a usable and valuable commodity. Converting algae to biofuels can utilize a two-step process. —Fernandez et al. Schmidt, Marie S.

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JUNE 25, 2020

The Orange County Transportation Authority board has approved a draft plan outlining how the agency will convert the OC Bus fleet to 100% zero-emission technology by 2040. OCTA’s zero-emission bus rollout plan will now be submitted to the California Air Resources Board.

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JULY 11, 2018

A “well-to-wheel” life cycle assessment (LCA) by a team from synthetic fuels producer Greyrock ( earlier post ), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has determined the potential reduction of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutant emissions from the use of synthetic fuels directly converted from flare gas. billion liters (18.8

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OCTOBER 22, 2016

A new analysis from Argonne National Laboratory, funded by the US Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), shows the potential of an algae fractionation process to produce renewable diesel fuel with 63%–68% lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than conventional diesel. Fractionation process flow diagram.

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JUNE 23, 2014

So far this year, the team has integrated the T2B2 aftertreatment in the dynamometer environment and is in the process of convert the demonstration vehicle to the T2B2 configuration. The approach that Cummins and partners have taken features: Replacing the aluminium V8 gasoline engine and emission control system with smaller diesel (2.8-liter)

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The NSF Engineering Research Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources ( CISTAR ) will develop technologies for responsible conversion of alkanes—light hydrocarbons including methane, ethane and propane—into more valuable liquid fuels, including gasoline and diesel fuels.

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APRIL 28, 2014

The process has also the potential to produce any other type of fuel for transport applications, such as diesel, gasoline or pure hydrogen in a more sustainable way. Aviation Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels Solar Solar fuels' The H 2 :CO molar ratio of the syngas can be controlled in a range from 0.25 Scheffe J.R.,

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The grant enables CP to increase the number of hydrogen locomotive conversions in the project from one to three and add hydrogen production and fueling facilities. With the grant announced today, CP will build upon its early program research to convert an additional line-haul locomotive and a yard switcher locomotive.

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APRIL 27, 2019

Using WEO as the reaction medium not only made the recovery of the UPO easier but also converted WEO into a major component of the UPO. In general, the thermochemical conversion of STs is a thermal decomposition process that produces recyclable solid, liquid and gaseous products. —Liu et al. —Lou et al. 2019.03.129.

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JUNE 3, 2011

The University of Texas at Arlington has licensed technology for converting natural gas to synthetic liquid fuels (GTL) in portable units at a cost lower than current market rates to 1 st Resource Group Inc. UT Arlington engineering and science researchers designed a portable conversion unit utilizing their microreactor and process.

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JULY 11, 2017

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), one of the organizations at the root of uncovering the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal ( earlier post ), has published a new analysis of developments and trends in advanced diesel engine technology. The new diesel paper is part of this series. Background.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

Cycloalkanes are important components of not only traditional vehicle fuels such as gasoline and diesel, but also jet fuels, such as Jet-A/Jet-A1/JP-8. In addition, the hemicellulose fraction of the biomass is hydrolyzed in the same step of lignin conversion, with easy separation of the resultant xylose.

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JULY 24, 2015

A team at South China University of Technology has developed a one-pot process to convert the diesel distillate and residual oil fractions in bio-oil into high-quality fuels by catalytic hydrocracking with combined CoMoS/Al 2 O 3 and HZSM-5 catalysts. of liquid products from the catalytic conversion of the medium and heavy fractions.

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MARCH 7, 2014

Vertimass LLC, a California-based start-up company, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) technology that directly converts ethanol under moderate conditions at one atmosphere without the use of hydrogen into a hydrocarbon blend-stock for use in transportation fuels. Catalytic conversion of to hydrocarbons (2012).

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AUGUST 9, 2010

Researchers at Tohoku University (Japan) have developed an efficient method for converting glucose into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) in the presence of CrCl 3 catalyst by using the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium chloride as solvent. HMF can be converted into plastics, petroleum or diesel fuel extenders, or into diesel fuel.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

That liquid is stored in a tank and can then be converted back into conventional fuel at the service stations using renewable electricity. Simple heat and mass flows for CO 2 capture from diesel engine exhaust: exhaust cooling, TSA cycle, product CO 2 compression, and liquefaction. Sharma and Maréchal. —François Maréchal.

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JUNE 16, 2016

Researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), China Lake report on a solvent-free process for the conversion of 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD)—a renewable alcohol that can be prepared in high yield from biomass sugars—to a complex mixture of 2-ethyl-2,4,5-trimethyl-1,3-dioxolanes and 4,5-dimethyl-2-isopropyl dioxolanes.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Uncovering the mechanism behind the reaction helps support the potential economic viability of ORNL’s own direct biofuel-to-hydrocarbon conversion approach. This has renewed interest in the conversion of ethanol to hydrocarbon blend-stock and other industrial chemicals. The mechanism of ethanol conversion is still being debated. …

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

The converted Bit Viking. Wärtsilä Corporation has completed the conversion of the 25,000 dwt product tanker Bit Viking from heavy fuel oil to liquefied natural gas (LNG) operation. The conversion enables the Bit Viking to qualify for lower nitrogen oxides (NO x ) emission taxes under the Norwegian NO x fund scheme.

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JULY 21, 2022

The ceria—which is not consumed but can be used repeatedly—converts water and CO 2 injected into the reactor into syngas, a tailored mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Subsequently, syngas is sent into a gas-to-liquid converter, where it is finally processed into liquid hydrocarbon fuels that include kerosene and diesel.

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APRIL 29, 2012

The country’s total recoverable resources are seen at more than 100 trillion cubic feet, industry officials and analysts have said. PetroSA is also the developer of conversion of olefins to distillate (COD) technology. PetroSA operates a GTL plant at Mossel Bay; part of the technology is under license from SASOL.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2012

This enables the production of gasoline, diesel, and jet range fuels and other co-products such as heating oil and chemicals. DOE thus is seeking information regarding the relevancy of these technical barriers, technology readiness level, and resource needs. where biomass is liquefied with near-super critical water); and.

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MARCH 13, 2018

A common approach to reducing NO x emissions from diesel engines is the use of Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR); the system converts NO x to nitrogen and water via the addition of ammonia. However, SCR only delivers satisfactory results at an exhaust gas temperature well above 200 ?C. —Marberger et al.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Non-edible carbohydrates are converted to renewable diesel-range liquids via two consecutive catalytic steps. A team at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) has designed a new simple, energy-efficient process (that also does not require any organic solvents) for the production of renewable diesel from biomass waste.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion.

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