Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

bp has begun producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from used cooking oil in co-processing process with crude oil at its plant in Lingen, Germany. Fats, Oils and Greases (FOG) co-processing is one of nine ASTM-approved conversion processes for SAF production.

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Oil Germany Legal Washington 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

In Italy, Eni and Hera signed a partnership agreement with the aim of converting used vegetable oil into renewable diesel for Hera’s waste collection vehicles. The agreement revolves around household waste vegetable oil, such as that used for frying, collected by Hera in around 400 roadside containers and about 120 collection centres.

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Waste Oil Renewable Diesel 207

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Topsoe and Steeper Energy , a developer of biomass conversion technologies, signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution. The process conditions are carefully chosen to promote reaction pathways that favor high yields of high-quality renewable oil.

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Waste Energy Oil Conversion 293

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

In 2021, the United States returned to importing more petroleum (which includes crude oil, refined petroleum products, and other liquids) than it exports following its historic shift to being a net exporter of petroleum in 2020, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). million b/d. million b/d in 2023. million b/d.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2023

MAN Energy Solutions has signed a Conversion Commitment Agreement with Seaspan Corporation (Seaspan), a global leader in containership ownership and management in collaboration with Hapag-Lloyd, one of the leading global liner shipping companies. This agreement includes 45 optional engine retrofit solutions.

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Fuel Conversion Mariner Fleet 370

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Fortiva Hemi brings novel enzymes to liquefaction that deliver greater than 10% oil yield improvement and up to 1% ethanol yield gain above Novozymes’ industry leading Fortiva Revo liquefaction solutions. Novozymes believes that increasing the efficiency of corn oil extraction could be significant in advancing bioethanol production.

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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.

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Renewable Conversion San Francisco Commercial 195

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. —Liu et al.

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Oil Waste Diesel Engine 220

InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

An EV with a Gulf Oil livery may be a bit confusing, but who cares when it looks this good?

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Oil Conversion Porsche 122

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2013

The Government of Canada is supporting a three-year project that will result in the construction of a $19-million, demonstration-scale facility in Alberta that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels. Algae Algal Fuels Biorefinery Canada Oil sands'

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Oil-Sands Canada Oil Conversion 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

Replacing all fuels made from oil and gas with zero-net-carbon fuels could reduce approximately 25% of global carbon emissions, making this one of the largest levers that modern society has in the fight against climate change. Aqueous CO 2 electrolysis with base-metal catalysts. to C 2 fuel products such as ethanol.

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Gasoline Carbon Conversion BMW 321

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2012

the developer of a technology to extract oil from algae, plans to co-develop an integrated system with the US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for direct conversion of raw algae into a renewable crude oil that can be used by existing petroleum refineries. OriginOil, Inc., This may well support the U.S.

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Idaho Oil Conversion Renewable 236

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium is aiming to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. This is cost competitive with Ultra-Low Sulfur Fuel Oil (ULSFO) which current, 2019, price level is €450-550/tonne. The participants are Vertoro B.V. (NL);

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Mariner Oil Fuel Cleaner 273

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2016

A team led by researchers from the University of Oxford has developed a simple but highly selective catalytic process for the direct hydrodeoxygenation of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into diesel-range alkanes under mild conditions over a Pd/NbOPO 4 catalyst. Resources. Zhuang, M. Gong and Y. doi: 10.1039/C5CC10419J.

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Oil Conversion Diesel Range 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2023

More than three-fourths of all oil and gas production in the US Gulf of Mexico has a lower greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity than the basin-wide average, according to a new S&P Global Commodity Insights analysis. However, about 78% of the total production was found to be beneath that average.

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Mexico Gas Oil Global 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

After useful oils are extracted from waste tires, this carbon residue has until now had near-zero value, Tour said. The lab calculated electricity used in the conversion process would cost about $100 per ton of starting carbon. Elements besides carbon were vented out for other uses. wt % for tire carbon black and 0.05

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Waste Conversion Portland Carbon 243

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A team from the University of Science & Technology of China in Hefei has developed a three-step process for the conversion of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into cycloparaffinic and aromatic biofuels in jet fuel range. —Wu et al. The team analyzed the products by Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). —Wu et al.

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Oil Conversion Fuel Range 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Effective immediately, applications for the conversion and conversion of seagoing ships to liquefied natural gas (LNG) as marine fuel can be submitted to the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI). The aim of the BMVI funding program is to promote the use of LNG in German maritime shipping.

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Conversion Fuel Mariner IDEA 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Wärtsilä Corporation has completed the conversion of the 25,000 dwt product tanker Bit Viking from heavy fuel oil to liquefied natural gas (LNG) operation. The conversion enables the Bit Viking to qualify for lower nitrogen oxides (NO x ) emission taxes under the Norwegian NO x fund scheme. The converted Bit Viking.

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Conversion Oil Fuel Mariner 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Clariant has conducted tests on approximately 30 tons of miscanthus provided by INA, Croatia’s leading oil and gas company. INA is a consortium member of the publicly funded project “GRowing Advanced industrial Crops on marginal lands for biorEfineries” ( GRACE ).

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Conversion Croatia Romania Commercial 255

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.

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Oil Renewable Diesel Waste 310

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Researchers from Japan and Mexico have developed a one-step hydrotreatment process over catalysts containing Ni-Mo and solid acids for the conversion of vegetable oils (Jatropha, palm and canola) to renewable diesel and LPG fuels. Jatropha oil produced the highest yield (wt %) of renewable diesel (83.5%), with 4.9%

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Oil Diesel Renewable Conversion 230

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

The majority (62%) of the plantations were located on the island of Sumatra, and more than two-thirds (69%) of all industrial plantations were developed for oil palm cultivation, with the remainder mostly being Acacia plantations for paper pulp production. Earlier post.).

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Climate 314

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. We are also conducting experiments to examine the suitability of the oils for applications.

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Waste Oil Finland Power 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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Oil Conversion 2020 Oil-Sands 252

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

The proposed facility conversion, known as the Rodeo Renewed project, stands to have an initial production capacity of 800 million gallons per year (50,000 barrels per day) of renewable diesel (RD), renewable gasoline (RG), and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Renewable fuels production at Rodeo is expected to begin in early 2024.

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Renewable Fuel San Francisco Oil 221

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2023

The renewable units in Cheyenne (6,000 BPD) and Sinclair (10,000 BPD) are from the conversion of crude oil refinery assets whereas the Artesia (9,000 BPD) renewable unit is a grassroots renewable facility. These facilities utilize Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology for the conversion of waste and bio-feedstock into renewable diesel.

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Renewable Diesel Wyoming New Mexico 195

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2018

The analysis considered a scenario where distillers sorghum oil is recovered from distillers grains with solubles (DGS) at dry mill plants that produce biofuel from grain sorghum and where the remaining reduced-oil DGS co-product is used as animal feed. This is long over-due and very welcome news for the renewable fuels industry.

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EPA Oil Renewable Diesel 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2020

soybean and tall oil fatty acids)—can be transformed into alkane products in high yields (up to 95%). A substantial amount of fatty acids are produced as low-value by-products in fat and oil processing and the pulp industry. Huang et al. Industrial low-value fatty acid mixtures—e.g.,

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Diesel Conversion Range Hydrogen 291

Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

A possible answer, though, might lie in oil wells. The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. But we can still reduce the carbon [cost] of that oil.”

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Solar Oil Convert Molten Salt 119

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The plant will use a proven conversion process, leveraging recent process improvements and technologies to increase sustainability and efficiency. Additionally, the JV is seeking to enable use of green energy to power the conversion process, thereby minimizing and eventually avoiding reliance on natural gas as is the conventional approach.

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Portugal Conversion Lithium Ion Gas-Electric 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass).

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Conversion Jordan Ozone Coal 281

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2022

This is because even in hydrogen engines, exhaust gases such as nitrogen oxide and small amounts of particles and unburned hydrocarbons are produced from the engine oil pathway. Among other things, SCR technologies with urea-water solution are used as reducing agents for optimum nitrogen oxide conversion.

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Exhaust Hydrogen Engine Conversion 460

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil Company and founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy (CFAE), is joining the Fuel Freedom Foundation (FFF) Advisory Board. There will not be enough oil to stay on the path we’re on globally over the short- and medium-, let alone the long-term. We need a competitor for oil.

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Alternative Fuels Oil Transportation Fuel 295

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2023

and the City of Cushing, Oklahoma announced that Southern Rock Energy Partners, LLC (SREP) has selected Cushing as the site for its 250,000 BPD next-generation, full conversion crude refinery. Cushing is the delivery point for West Texas Intermediate, a blend of US light sweet crude oil streams traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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Oklahoma Denver Energy Oil 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The catalyst shows a carbon dioxide conversion through hydrogenation to hydrocarbons in the aviation jet fuel range of 38.2%, with a yield of 17.2%, and a selectivity of 47.8%, and with an attendant low carbon monoxide (5.6%) and methane selectivity (10.4%). In brief, the Fe–Mn–K catalyst shows a CO 2 conversion of 38.2%

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Convert Fuel CO2 Conversion 505

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The coal-rich Powder River Basin is also experiencing a turnaround in oil production, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent resurgence is occurring predominantly in the Wyoming portion of the basin, which is also the main source of the Basin’s historical oil production. Click to enlarge.

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