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Ørsted proposes to develop one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen plants: SeaH2Land

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Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, together with the major industrial companies in the North Sea Port cluster, have launched the SeaH2Land vision for a gigawatt scale project to reduce carbon emissions in the Dutch-Flemish industrial cluster with renewable hydrogen.

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KAUST team seeks improved catalysts for Lebedev ethanol-to-butadiene process for renewable rubber

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Now, researchers at KAUST, with colleagues in the Netherlands, are using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study silica-magnesia catalyst formation under real wet-kneading conditions. The method involves combining solid catalyst precursors in water under continuous mixing. —Javier Ruiz-Martinez Resources Pavlo I.

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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biogas to methanol.

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Neste Oil launches sales of NExBTL renewable naphtha; plastics feedstock and biocomponent for gasoline

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Neste Oil—the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel—has launched the commercial production and sales of renewable naphtha for corporate customers; the company is one of the first to supply bio-naphtha on a commercial scale. Neste Oil also produces commercial volumes of NExBTL renewable aviation fuel.

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Construction support vessel Acta Centaurus to be fitted with Wärtsilä hybrid propulsion system

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The Acta Centaurus , a DP2 walk-to-work construction support vessel owned by Netherlands-based Acta Marine, will thus gain fuel consumption and environmental benefits through being able to operate the vessel with less running engines at more optimized load. The order with Wärtsilä was placed in May 2019.

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EU research project IDEALFUEL seeks to develop marine low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from biomass; Bio-HFO

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Due to environmental concerns and national as well as international regulations associated with fossil based HFOs, there is a considerable need for cleaner, renewable and economic alternatives for the maritime industry. To achieve this goal, the IDEALFUEL consortium plans to devise an efficient and cost-effective two-step chemical process.

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Wärtsilä and partners to pursue greater fuel efficiency for shipping in 3-year EU-funded project SeaTech

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The proposed engine power generation innovation is built around achieving ultra-high energy conversion efficiency. The renewable energy based propulsion innovation is a biomimetic dynamic wing mounted at the bow of the ship to augment propulsion in moderate and heavy sea conditions.

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