Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2019

The funding will help Sierra Energy further develop and commercialize its FastOx gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. Waste is fed into the top of the gasifier vessel through an airlock. Purified oxygen and steam are injected into the base.

Sierra 316

Sierra Waste Energy Companies 316

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2019

Researchers at Henan Polytechnic University in China have hydrotreated the oil derived from hydrothermal liquefaction of scrap tires (STO) with waste engine oil (WEO) using five different activated carbon-supported noble metal catalysts—Pd/C, Pt/C, Ru/C, Ir/C, and Rh/C—for the production of liquid fuels. —Lou et al.

Oil 220

Oil Waste Diesel Engine 220

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

Further development on range across temperature variations, heavy hauling, fine tuning auxiliary load to avoid waste, increased number of hours on current and additional units will support continued technological evolution. The conversion work will be done at CSX’s Huntington, West Virginia locomotive shop.

Hydrogen 370

Hydrogen Kansas City West Virginia Fuel 370

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2022

The companies agreed to enter a strategic partnership to reduce the carbon intensity of renewable diesel and aviation fuel. They will also drive the development of innovative, cost-effective chemical processing solutions to improve the conversion of plastic waste into new plastics.

Renewable 170

Renewable Diesel Carbon Fuel 170

Green Car Congress

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. The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base.

Diesel 332

Diesel Waste Convert Washington 332

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 30, 2022

Critics of electrification often call early retirement of long-life diesel trucks and buses an expensive waste - but this EV conversion program is giving diesels a new lease on life with an EV conversion!

Conversion 111

Conversion Waste Diesel Electric 111

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

The Abfallentsorgungs-Gesellschaft Ruhrgebiet mbH ( AGR ), a waste management company in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has put a converted DAF CF 340 hydrogen fuel cell truck into operation as part of the EU-funded HECTOR (Hydrogen Waste Collection Vehicles in North West Europe) project.

Convert 444

Convert Hydrogen Parts Fuel 444

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Fulcrum BioEnergy has selected Gary, Indiana as the location of its Centerpoint BioFuels Plant, which will convert municipal solid waste (MSW) into low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel. a highly efficient and economic gasification system for the conversion of the MSW feedstock to syngas.

Indiana 259

Indiana Waste Fuel Building 259

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2020

In a three-year Business Finland BioFlex project, VTT—the Finnish state-owned research agency—and partners are exploring how suitable fuel oils made from biomass and waste plastics are for power plants and ship diesel engines. Internal-combustion engine power plants use natural gas or heavy fuel oil in diesel engines.

Waste 170

Waste Oil Finland Power 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In exchange for long-term, discounted fuel contracts with fleets, Hydra installs hydrogen-diesel co-combustion conversion kits into existing semi-trucks and provides the fueling infrastructure for green hydrogen sourced from chemical producers such as Chemtrade.

Hydrogen 301

Hydrogen Fleet Commercial Green 301

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In Australia, QUT researchers and Mercurius Australia are partnering on a pilot plant to prove the economic viability of turning sugarcane waste into either jet and diesel fuel or chemicals that could be used to make plastic soft drink and beer bottles.

Convert 250

Convert Australia Waste Diesel 250

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2020

has been awarded part of The Queensland Waste to Biofutures (W2B) Fund to support the development of waste to biofutures projects in Queensland, Australia. For this project, Gevo is evaluating the most likely 2G biomass to carbohydrate conversion process to use in conjunction with its proven carbohydrate to low carbon biofuel process.

Waste 186

Waste Minnesota Australia Renewable 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2022

Upon completion of Rodeo Renewed, the converted facility will no longer process crude oil and instead use waste oils, fats, greases and vegetable oils to produce an initial 800 million gallons per year (over 50,000 barrels per day) of renewable transportation fuels, including renewable diesel, renewable gasoline and sustainable aviation fuel.

Renewable 195

Renewable Conversion San Francisco Commercial 195

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

Convert 418

Convert Denmark Waste Conversion 418

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2016

Fulcrum BioEnergy, the parent company of Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, has applied for a new fuel pathway under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCSF) for its process of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into Fischer-Tropsch (“FT”) diesel fuel. For 2016, the target for diesel and diesel substitutes is 99.97

Waste 150

Waste Diesel Sierra Nevada 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The 22 selected projects fall into five topic areas for the “Bioenergy Technologies Office Scale-Up and Conversion” funding opportunity ( earlier post ): Scale-Up of Biotechnologies. Affordable, Clean Cellulosic Sugars for High Yield Conversion. Separations to Enable Biomass Conversion. Residential Wood Heaters.

Emissions 272

Emissions Waste Conversion Gas-Electric 272

Green Car Congress

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.

Waste 294

Waste Renewable Diesel Energy 294

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

UK-based ULEMCo—a spin-out from Revolve Technologies focused on conversions of diesel vehicles to hydrogen dual fuel operation—has collaborated with Aberdeen City Council (ACC) to deliver the first hydrogen dual fuel road sweeper. The project represents the first such conversion of a DAF vehicle. Injection system.

Hydrogen 255

Hydrogen Fuel Conversion Waste 255

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Under this agreement, the alliance will use Petron’s proprietary cellulosic ethanol (G2.0E) technology with a variety of locally available agriculture/forestry residuals (wastes) and woody biomass, integrated with production of green hydrogen using SBI’s proprietary, Gölu-H2 technology for commercial production of low-carbon, high-purity-hydrogen.

Hydrogen 221

Hydrogen Carbon Green Waste 221

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

Waste Management (WM) is introducing 25 new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueled trucks to collect waste and recycling in 2012 as a result of being awarded a collection district by the City of Ottawa. The trucks also run quieter than traditional diesel engines, resulting in less noise pollution.

Waste 225

Waste Gas Fuel North America 225

Green Car Congress

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. Cynar system. A hat-tip to Harold!).

Waste 231

Waste Convert Diesel Commercial 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2011

has entered into an agreement with Rock-Tenn Company to convert mill by-product waste into fuel using JBI’s Plastic2Oil technology. Naphtha is similar in many respects to gasoline, and fuel oil is similar in many respects to diesel fuel. JBI’s P2O process converts waste plastic into fuel without the need of further refinement.

Waste 218

Waste Conversion Fuel Commercial 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2013

The Westinghouse plasma gasification unit is designed to take approximately 100 tons per day of biomass waste and convert it into clean syngas. The clean syngas is then to be converted into diesel fuel and other transportation fuels at the Kaidi facility.

Waste 270

Waste China Convert Clean 270

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Despite the decision to de-emphasize microbial oil, Neste Oil emphasized that cellulosic waste will continue to play an important role in its research strategy, adding that it remains committed to its goal of further extending its feedstock base and making greater use of waste and residues in this area in particular. Background.

Oil 310

Oil Renewable Diesel Waste 310

Green Car Congress

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.

Waste 186

Waste Conversion Universal San Diego 186

Green Car Congress

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. The second converts that bio-oil into biofuel, which can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

Waste 150

Waste Convert Oil Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

has received a Certificate of Conformity from the US Environmental Protection Agency applicable for diesel-to-natural gas engine conversions of all Mack E7 electronic engines up to model year 2006. We anticipate conversions of refuse collection trucks will comprise a large portion of the Mack E7 business. —Werner Funk.

Convert 210

Convert Diesel Gas EPA 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2022

Hyzon’s Repower program allows customers to exchange their used diesel trucks for conversion to fuel cell electric using Hyzon’s proprietary fuel cell technology. Repowering vehicles is expected to be a more time- and capital-efficient approach for fleets to decouple from diesel, given 16+ month lead time for new diesel trucks.

Emissions 170

Emissions Fuel Motor Motors 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2020

A Korean research team has developed a technology that can be used to mass-produce aviation-grade fuels from wood wastes. Large volumes of lignin are generated as waste in the pulping processes that are used to produce paper. The results of the study were published in the latest issue of Energy Conversion and Management.

Fuel 351

Fuel Production Oil Waste 351

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

The objective of the project is to develop new catalytic processes for the conversion of waste into drop-in biofuels fully interchangeable with hydrocarbon fuels, such as conventional gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Enerkem Inc.,

Waste 199

Waste Renewable Fuel Canada 199

CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Diesel-to-electric conversions are helping to ease the electric truck bottleneck while contributing to the sparkling green economy of the future.

Gas-Electric 119

Gas-Electric Conversion Economy Gas 119

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

A recently completed European project coordinated by Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF) demonstrated the technical feasibility of a Bi 2 Te 3 -based thermoelectric generator (TEG) for waste heat recovery for application to a diesel light-duty truck (LDT). Fuel Efficiency Waste Heat Recovery'

Waste 236

Waste Cheap MPH Gasoline-Electric 236

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

Carbon 186

Carbon Diesel Audi Fuel 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2013

DIBANET aimes to advance the art in several key areas in diesel miscible diesel production. DIBANET focuses on the conversion, by non-biological means, of the lignocellulosic biomass residues and wastes of Europe and Latin America to platform chemicals, such as levulinic acid and furfural, and biofuels. Source: DIBANET.

Diesel 225

Diesel Waste Ireland Universal 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Together with the partners Ineratec GmbH ( earlier post ) and Energiedienst Holding AG , the company has plans for a new pilot facility for the production of e-diesel in Laufenburg, in Canton Aargau (Switzerland). The company is now taking the next step in e-diesel production. Audi is systematically building on its e-fuels strategy.

Audi 170

Audi Diesel Carbon Power 170

Green Car Congress

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. —Pegallapati and Frank (2016).

Diesel 150

Diesel Renewable 2016 Convert 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2013

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.

Grant 199

Grant Convert Diesel Engine 199