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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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MARCH 6, 2020

Neste, the leading provider of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, has acquired a minority stake in Sunfire GmbH , a developer of high-temperature electrolysis technology. One of these fields of innovation is Power-to-X.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Airbus has joined a consortium that includes Virgin Australia, Renewable Oil Corporation, the Future Farm Industries CRC, Canadian biofuels company Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation and GE to study a new pathway for the production of sustainable aviation fuels from mallee trees using fast pyrolysis and subsequent bio-oil upgrading.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Thanks to the expertise of several project partners, HyFlexFuel proved that HTL biocrudes can be successfully upgraded to drop-in fuels in an industrially-relevant environment, achieving hundreds of hours of continuous operations. The decarbonization of the transportation sector will require large volumes of renewable fuels.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Dongfu One integrates on-site hydrogen production, smart energy conversion management, safety monitoring and control, as well as loading and unloading systems. The partners said that the successful test validates the feasibility and stability of direct seawater electrolysis technology in a real ocean environment. Resources Xie, H.,

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JUNE 3, 2023

Rio Tinto has successfully completed the full transition of its heavy machinery from fossil diesel to renewable diesel at its Boron, California operation, making it the first open pit mine in the world to achieve this milestone. Rio Tinto US Borax used Neste MY Renewable Diesel during the trial. billion gallons (5.5

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APRIL 7, 2010

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations & Environment Jackalyne Pfannenstiel kicked off the first of several energy forums to look at ways to increase biofuels production and meet the Navy’s renewable energy needs. Navy Environment and Energy.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Electrochaea GmbH, a European provider of renewable methane technology, has established a California-based US subsidiary, Electrochaea Corporation, to accelerate the commercial roll-out of its technology in North America. This gas can be directly injected into the existing natural gas grid or used immediately.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Pertamina and Eni signed a Memorandum of Understanding to investigates synergies of their respective technologies, expertises and know-how, for jointly evaluating new collaboration opportunities in the areas of circular economy, driver for strategic development for Eni and its subsidiaries Syndial (Environment) and Versalis (Chemicals).

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

With a carbon intensity under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard of about negative 300, dairy biomethane is highly valuable, but needs to be collected at the dairy, pipelined to a central processing facility, then cleaned and compressed for use as Renewable Natural Gas in converted diesel trucks and other natural gas vehicles.

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AUGUST 16, 2009

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) led off a day-long symposium on advances in CO 2 conversion and utilization being held at the 238 th American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting, which began today in Washington, DC. Earlier post.). Robert Dorner. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide.

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OCTOBER 25, 2020

The team optimized the production system by varying different parameters, such as radiance, inorganic carbon level, and periodicity of medium renewal. 2 ethylene at 1.54% light to ethylene conversion efficiency. fold improvement in the light to ethylene conversion efficiency as compared to the cell suspension.

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MAY 31, 2019

Rotterdam The Hague Airport and a European consortium led by EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft mbH signed a cooperation agreement to develop a demonstration plant that produces renewable jet fuel from air. This plant aims to be the first worldwide to offer renewable jet fuel from air to the market.

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JANUARY 26, 2014

Israel-based NewCO2Fuels (NCF), a subsidiary of GreenEarth Energy Limited in Australia, reported completion of stage 1 testing of its proof-of-concept system for the conversion of CO 2 into fuels using solar energy. Driving the system using a solar-based heat source (100% renewable). Concept of the NCF process. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Hydrokinetic energy is an abundant renewable resource that can boost grid resiliency and reduce infrastructure vulnerability, but it is currently a cost prohibitive option compared to other energy generating sources. The 11 SHARKS projects are: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. University of Virginia.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and their colleagues have devised a novel catalytic method to produce renewable acrylonitrile (ACN) using 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP), which can be biologically produced from sugars. Conceptual process diagram for renewable ACN production from biomass sugars.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

bigelovii is a leafless, C3, succulent annual salt marsh plant that produces an oilseed on seawater irrigation in coastal desert environments; the oil from the seeds is suitable for biofuel production. Plants called halophytes show even more promise than we expected as a source of renewable fuel for jets and other vehicles.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

The BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment funding opportunity is jointly funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office and Advanced Manufacturing Office. Partners include Allonia and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Participants in GTI’s project included Cargill, Johnston Timber, Aquaflow, Blue Marble Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Michigan Technological University. GTI says that renewable gasoline (RG) produced by the IH 2 process results in more than 90% lower greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum-based fuels.

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MAY 9, 2014

Integrated processing of hardwood to renewable jet and chemicals. Huber (2014) “Production of renewable jet fuel range alkanes and commodity chemicals from integrated catalytic processing of biomass,” Energy Environ. Click to enlarge. Maravelias, Robert Malina, Steven R. Barrett, Raul Lobo, Charles E. Wyman, James A.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

A variety of technologies have been developed to produce renewable jet fuels from biomass feedstocks. For instance, UOP/Honeywell and Neste developed the hydrogenated esters and fatty acids (HEFA) processes to upgrade vegetable oils and animal fats to renewable jet/diesel fuels. Cyclic hydrocarbons (i.e. —Yang et al.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Ten of these projects are new while the rest received renewed funding based both on their achievements to date and the quality of their proposals for future research. Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC).

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

CRDL) have commenced discussions on joint research aimed at accelerating development and implementing advanced technologies in the field of energy and the environment. To this end, they will pursue improvements in conversion efficiency and reductions in cost for both solar batteries and solar power generation systems.

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APRIL 11, 2014

The material’s selectivity for oxygenates, with ethanol as the major product, demonstrates the feasibility of a two-step conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuel that could be powered by renewable electricity, the team suggests in their paper published in the journal Nature. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Catalysts Ethanol'

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Premier of Québec François Legault, and the Minister of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change and Minister responsible for the Laval region, Benoit Charette, unveiled the 2030 Green Economy Plan (PEV 2030) and its first 2021-2026 implementation plan, with an envelope of $6.7 billion over five years. A target of 1.5

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APRIL 21, 2023

Orlyk, Christophe Calers, and Stanislaw Dzwigaj (2017) “Ethanol Conversion into 1,3-Butadiene by the Lebedev Method over MTaSiBEA Zeolites (M = Ag, Cu, Zn)” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 5 (3), 2075-2083 doi: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b01728 6b01728 Chung, SH., Shoinkhorova, T.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Strategy for the conversion of solid cellulose to liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Following the conversion of cellulose into the monofunctional 5-nonanone, there are several catalytic upgrading approaches that can be applied to produce diesel and jet fuel components. B: Environ. Source: Serrano-Ruiz et al Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 2, 2013

Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. Project VGV uses surplus electricity generated by renewable and nuclear sources to produce hydrogen via electrolysis.

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JUNE 25, 2020

OCTA has already gradually transitioned its fleet over the years, from diesel-burning buses to clean-burning renewable compressed natural gas (CNG) buses with near-zero-emission engines. OCTA’s zero-emission bus rollout plan will now be submitted to the California Air Resources Board. More than half of that funding—$12.5

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JULY 27, 2009

Joule Biotechnologies uses proprietary, highly-engineered product-specific organisms to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Such yields would far eclipse productivity levels of current bio- or renewable fuels. There is no question that viable, renewable fuels are vitally important, both for economic and environmental reasons.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The flexible platform is expected to facilitate optional, convenient integration with energy storage and renewable energy, and supports vehicle-to-grid integration. Imagen relies on commercialization partners like Volta to accelerate the deployment of our high power density, silicon carbide-based power conversion platforms.

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MAY 18, 2015

Global Bioenergies and its partner Audi ( earlier post ) announced that the first batch of renewable gasoline using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway has been produced. This first batch of renewable gasoline represents a historic milestone. Earlier post.) —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Now, researchers from the University of Nevada and Washington State University have developed a novel efficient biphasic tandem catalytic process (biTCP) for synthesizing cycloalkanes from renewable terpenoid biomass (such as 1,8-cineole). A paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Green Chemistry. —Yang et al.

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MARCH 9, 2014

This material, a p-type (100) gallium phosphide (GaP) semiconductor functionalized with molecular hydrogen-producing cobaloxime catalysts via polymer grafting, has the potential to address one of the major challenges in the use of artificial photosynthesis to make renewable solar fuels. —Krawicz et al. —Gary Moore.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

These are the people who in the face of science that says we must transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy or destroy the futures of our children and all who come after them, still want to drill for oil that should never be burned. The people whose business model is to wreck the ecology and the climate and profit from it.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

51-year-old Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. a pioneer in materials science and renewable energy technologies, today voluntarily filed a petition for relief under Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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JUNE 4, 2013

Using advanced biochemical analysis and X-ray imaging techniques, researchers from the University of York, University of Portsmouth and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the USA have determined the structure and function of a key enzyme used by the gribble ( earlier post ) to break down wood. Click to enlarge. —Kern et al.

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