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SITA UK and Cynar to build UKs first commercial plants to convert waste plastic to diesel

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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. Cynar system. Pyrolysis then commences and the plastic becomes a vapor.

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CO2-to-chemicals company Liquid Light raises $15M Series B financing; process scale-up and application validation

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Start-up Liquid Light, a developer of process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide ( earlier post ), has closed a $15-million Series B financing. New investors include Sustainable Conversion Ventures, which focuses on renewable fuels and chemicals investments.

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BMW i Ventures announces lead investment in Mangrove Lithium Series A; green lithium refining technology

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BMW i Ventures announced a lead investment in the Series A-1 financing round of Vancouver-based Mangrove Lithium. Mangrove’s patent-pending, proprietary technology uses electrochemical processes to convert lithium chloride and lithium sulfate directly into lithium hydroxide.

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Waste Management Makes Strategic Investment in Waste-to-Fuels Company Enerkem

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The Enerkem process has four steps: feedstock pre-treatment; gasification; syngas conditioning; and conversion. The closing of this new round of financing, which generated C$53.8 The closing of this new round of financing, which generated C$53.8 The syngas is converted to products using a sequential catalytic conversion process.

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ADEME awarding €3.1M to Global Bioenergies and IBN-One plant project

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Financing a first of its kind plant, based on an innovative technology is always a challenge. Progress in engineering and forecasted prices for our products now higher than initially anticipated are fueling our optimism regarding the plant’s financing within the new schedule. Global Bioenergies will soon be receiving €2.6

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Mangrove raises $3M from BDC Capital to accelerate deployment of battery-grade lithium processing systems

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Canada-based Mangrove Lithium closed a $3-million financing from BDC Capital’s Cleantech Practice. The platform technology is also being commercialized for conversion of waste brines to chemicals and desalinated water. Mangrove says that its process recovers more than 90% of the lithium from lithium concentrates.

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Fulcrum BioEnergy demonstrates integrated process to convert MSW to jet and diesel; $4.7M DoD grant to begin plant engineering

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has successfully demonstrated the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW)—household garbage—into jet and diesel fuels. For that process, Fulcrum uses a two-stage thermochemical process involving gasification of municipal solid waste (MSW) followed by the catalytic conversion of the syngas to ethanol.

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