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AUGUST 30, 2011

The company says that some of the most promising projects are the Turbosteamer ( earlier post ); the Thermoelectric generator (TEG) ( earlier post ); engine encapsulation; and a waste heat exchanger for oil heating. Research project Turbosteamer: comparison of the heat exchanger generation 1 (top) and generation 2 (bottom). Click to enlarge.

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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.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Starting from a energy-based powertrain simulation model validated on experimental data from the PHEV, the researchers conducted a first- and second-law analysis to identify the potential for engine waste heat recovery, considering a variety of driving cycles and assuming the vehicle operating in charge-sustaining (HEV) mode.

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APRIL 5, 2015

The latest version of the MYPP presents a merged conversion R&D section; the renaming of the demonstration and market transformation area; and emerging work in wet waste-to-energy feedstocks. BETO is interested in the potential of four kinds of wet-waste feedstocks: The non-recyclable organic fraction of landfill solid wastes.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cool Planet’s biogasoline blendstock is 100% compatible with pump gasoline. Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. One of the catalytic conversion processes creates the high-octane gasoline blendstock.

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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).

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JUNE 10, 2020

Researchers led by a team at Washington State University (WSU) have developed a unique and inexpensive nanoparticle catalyst that allows a solid-oxide fuel cell to convert logistic liquid fuels such as gasoline to electricity without stalling out during the electrochemical process. —Qusay Bkour, lead author. Gray, Steven R. Saunders, M.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A study by a team at the University Putra Malaysia concluded that the gasification of empty fruit bunch (EFB), a waste of the palm oil industry, could, if scaled up, produce hydrogen at a supply cost of $2.11/kg One kilogram of hydrogen contains approximately the same energy as one gallon of gasoline.). Salmiaton, W.A.K.G. 2010.10.023.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Liter) for gasoline or diesel using a blend of algae and waste feedstocks, using the latest growth, harvesting and fuel conversion technologies from OriginOil and other innovators. OriginOil’s model analyzes the entire algae production process at scale, integrating the latest advances in growth, harvesting and fuel conversion.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

has entered into a joint development program with the Energy & Environmental Research Center ( EERC ) at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks for converting a wide variety of biomass and waste into bio-butanol. Syntec Biofuel Inc. This is concerning, as it uses food resources to produce fuel. Michael Jackson, CEO of Syntec.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

The US Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with Ecopetrol, the largest oil company in Colombia, to process the residue from sugar cane and palm oil harvesting into fuel ethanol for blending with gasoline. NREL has a pilot plant at its Golden, Colo.,

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

320-390 °C, 200-420 bar) aqueous phase process which converts biomass containing cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin into a high-octane gasoline fraction. Immediate applications include processing municipal sewage sludge, processing waste streams from the ethanol industry and converting algae to fuel. James Catallo and Thomas Junk.

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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.,

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. process, making a slow carbon conversion reaction ten times faster.

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

The BioBoost project concentrates on dry and wet residual biomass and wastes as feedstock for de-centralized conversion by fast pyrolysis, catalytic pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization to the intermediate energy carriers oil, coal or slurry. Depending on the synthesis path, either diesel or gasoline can be generated.

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JULY 16, 2013

Topchiev Institute for Petrochemical Synthesis ( TIPS ) on marketing a new technology developed by TIPS to convert flared gases into hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline. This method of conversion is much more effective and cheaper than the traditional method. —Kolesnikova et al. The benefits of this are manifold.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Strategy for the conversion of solid cellulose to liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Since levulinic acid is obtained by acid hydrolysis of lignocellulosic wastes, this route can potentially serve to produce liquid transportation fuels from biomass. 2010) Conversion of cellulose to hydrocarbon fuels by progressive removal of oxygen.

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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.

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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' The researchers tackled this issue in two ways.

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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.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

Biomethane and biopropane can both be made from waste feedstocks such as food waste, farm waste and sewage and both are in volume production already. Compared to the vehicle range using gasoline, the LPG/biopropane tank provides a further 90% of this range and the CNG/biomethane tank provides a further 70% of this range.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

They found that, on a life cycle basis in comparison to gasoline, the direct to ethanol technology can provide a 67% to 87% reduction in carbon footprint on an energy equivalent basis for initial ethanol concentrations (given in weight percent) ranging from 0.5% MJ/MJEtOH down to 0.20 g CO 2 e/MJEtOH down to 12.3 wt % to 5 wt %.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

The results of vegetable oil sludge cracking reaction show that the product consists of fractions such as dry gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasoline, light cycle oil (LCO), and (heavy cycle oil) HCO, which are similar to those of petroleum cracking process. —Nam et al.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

for an award of up to $1,200,000 to further its development of Biomass-to-Gasoline (BTG) technology—a novel thermochemical process that converts biomass into a clean, high-octane gasoline-compatible fuel. The product is the high-octane blend of gasoline-compatible alcohols. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 4, 2014

Lignocellulosic biomass, which is the only sufficiently prevalent sustainable resource for conversion into liquid transportation fuels, is the most abundant organic material on Earth. The lignin is generally considered a waste product and burnt to produce energy, although that thought is changing.

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DECEMBER 25, 2014

EEB is produced from organic waste, including (and initially) sewage treatment bio-solids—the leftover, dirt-like organic material that remains after a community’s wastewater is treated. Testing showed that blending EEB with diesel significantly reduces soot emissions, similar to how ethanol reduces emissions when blended with gasoline.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

WTW energy demand and GHG emissions for EV and PHEV drivetrains for various electricity sources; gasoline ICE vehicle is solid square, hybrid the hollow square. Included in the analysis are fuel cell, electric, hybrid-electric and conventional ICE drivetrains; energy carriers include gasoline, diesel, CNG, biogas, hydrogen and electricity.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Battelle researchers have developed a mobile catalytic pyrolysis unit that converts biomass materials such as wood chips or agricultural waste into bio-oil. Conversion of the bio-oil to an advanced biofuel is a key element of Battelle’s ( earlier post )—and many others’—research.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Enerkem’s advanced biofuels facility has successfully completed all the necessary steps required by the EPA and is the first municipal-waste-to-cellulosic-ethanol plant to receive approval to sell in the United States. The EPA has established that cellulosic biofuels reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 60% when compared to gasoline.

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MAY 18, 2019

The ethers can be used as cetane-improvers in diesel fuel, while the olefins can be hydrogenated and blended with gasoline or oligomerized and hydrogenated to jet-range paraffins. The numbers depicted are carbon flows based on a process in which Guerbet coupling is performed at 50% conversion and etherification is performed at 65% conversion.

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MAY 15, 2021

These fermentation processes create carbon as a byproduct, with some processes wasting more than 1/3 of this carbon as CO 2 emissions. The carbon-optimized conversion technology developed under this project can be integrated with multiple CO 2 sources, such as corn grain ethanol refining (near-term) and direct air capture (mid-long term).

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

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

These drop-in fuels could be used to replace gasoline without engine modification. GLBRC is working to increase the efficiency of biomass conversion. Designing new platform microbes capable of producing targeted bioproducts from conversion residues created when producing specialty biofuels. Source: GLBRC. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Aquaflow chair Barrie Leay says wild micro algae, wood waste, bagasse and other green municipal waste can now all be converted to the next generation of biofuels, including bio-gasoline, bio-diesel and jet fuel. He says the unique chemical qualities of algae can be maximized within a mix of other biomass streams. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 14, 2015

China’s shift toward alternative fuels in order to cut its reliance on imported oil is creating large opportunities, notably in natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and in the conversion of coal to ethanol, according to a new report from Lux Research. However, logistical barriers exist, notably in biomass and waste collection.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The enzyme enables more cost-efficient conversion of biomass to ethanol and performs 1.5 Cellic CTec3 allows the cost of producing ethanol from biomass to approach the level of corn ethanol and gasoline, according to the company. Both plants will convert municipal solid waste into biofuel. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 10, 2012

Researchers in Spain have obtained high-quality transportation fuels (gasoline with RON >80 and diesel with cetane number >70) from oil obtained by the thermal cracking of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) using a bifunctional catalyst comprising Ni (7 wt %) deposited on a hierarchical Beta zeolite (Ni/h-Beta). —Escola et al.

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