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MAY 24, 2019

Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark and Haldor Topsoe, with colleagues from the Danish Technological Institute and Sintex have developed a “ disruptive approach to a fundamental process ” by integrating an electrically heated catalytic structure directly into a steam-methane–reforming (SMR) reactor for hydrogen production.

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JUNE 9, 2014

Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 11, 2013

Researchers at the University of Bristol (UK) have developed a new family of catalysts that enables the conversion of ethanol into n-butanol—a higher alcohol with better characteristics for transportation applications than ethanol—with selectivity of more than 95% at good conversion. —Professor Duncan Wass.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

Celtic Renewables Ltd, a spin-out company from from the Biofuel Research Centre (BfRC) at Edinburgh Napier University, has signed a memorandum of understanding with malt whisky producer Tullibardine for the use of its whisky by-products for feedstock for the production of bio-butanol. Celtic Renewables’ process.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Green2Black is an efficient closed-loop process that recycles its waste products. Using microalgae produced on site, plant biomass and organic waste, Muradel’s energy-efficient subcritical water reactor converts them in minutes to a crude oil that is functionally equivalent to fossil crude. Muradel algae pond. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 14, 2012

The research projects, conducted in partnership with private industry, national laboratories and universities, support the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative, a collaborative national effort to make solar power cost-competitive with traditional energy sources by the end of the decade. CSP awards. million in fiscal year 2011.

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AUGUST 21, 2010

Suzanne Budge at the Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology at Dalhousie University to assist Solarvest in the characterization of lipids and fatty acids in algae. The continuous bio-production of hydrogen.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. —Licht et al.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium (CTAC) —a $20-million initiative designed to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells less expensive, more efficient and develop new markets for solar cell products. efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity. competitiveness.

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APRIL 12, 2013

Additionally, we need to find the best enzyme mixture to convert that cellulose into sugar. We have discovered a fungus from the digestive tract of a horse that addresses both issues—it thrives on lignin-rich plants and converts these materials into sugars for the animal. —Michelle A. Resources.

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JULY 6, 2017

Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Michigan State University have devised a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels by designing and genetically engineering enzyme surfaces so they bind less to the lignin in biomass. Enzymes cost about $0.50 —Shishir Chundawat.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Each combination of enzymes will be tested on pretreated agricultural waste that can first be converted into sugars and then into bio-based products and advanced biofuels. Novozymes has already reduced the cost of enzyme production for biofuels by 90%. million (2008-2012). Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

The zeolite catalyst then converts these hydrogenated products into light olefins and aromatic hydrocarbons in a yield as much as three times higher than that produced with the pure pyrolysis oil. The products can be tuned to change with different market conditions. Credit: Science , Vispute et al. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. James Dumesic, have developed a process to convert aqueous solutions of ?-valerolactone GVL has previously been identified as a potential feedstock in the production of both energy and fine chemicals. Credit: Bond et al., Click to enlarge. Bond et al. Jesse Bond.

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APRIL 5, 2010

A spinout from work at the University of South Florida is developing a new Fischer-Tropsch-based (FT) process to produce hydrocarbon transportation fuels—initially jet fuel—from biomass. COSI has engineered its catalyst to be tunable via variation in the thickness of the eggshell, generating a highly selective product.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and Unitel Technologies, has says it has developed and successfully demonstrated a cost-effective catalytic method for making jet biofuel from renewable products such as plant and animal triglycerides and/or fatty acids. AliphaJet’s BoxCar process first converts crude fat feedstock into fatty acids and glycerol.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

A common farm weed could make a jet fuel with fewer production-related environmental impacts than other biofuels, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at The Ohio State University. Energy use efficiency of pennycress-based HRJ production was estimated to be 3.9–5.5 Energy allocation method was used for the analysis.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

The project aims to demonstrate that co-production of high volume commodity fuels and low volume, high value co-products enables profitable biorefineries at commercial scale. Technology collaborators also include the Renewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Tech and the University of Tennessee,Knoxville. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of South Africa are proposing replacing the final purification steps of conventional bio-ethanol production with a simple gasoline-blending step. The nature of the fermentation process dictates that fermentation products are dilute, comprised primarily of water.

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DECEMBER 28, 2010

In a process of adjustments to the original yeast, Yong-Su Jin at the University of Illinois and his colleagues converted it to one that will consume both types of sugar faster and more efficiently than any strain currently in use in the biofuel industry. The biofuel industry uses this yeast to convert plant sugars to bioethanol.

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JULY 1, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four research and development projects designed to bring next-generation biofuels on line faster and to drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass. University of Oklahoma (up to $4 million). Oak Ridge National Laboratory (up to $2.1

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Researchers from Stanford University and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have engineered and demonstrated a solid-oxide electrochemical cell (SOC) with a porous ceria electrode that achieves stable and selective CO 2 electrolysis beyond the thermodynamic carbon deposition threshold. This could also reduce production costs.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

This development could mean reducing enzyme costs from about $1 per gallon of ethanol to about 10 cents or less, with an overall reduction in the cost of the production of cellulosic biofuels of 30% or more. The challenge is to lower the cost of processing low cost biomass sources into fuels. D” equals day.

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JULY 20, 2015

For example, a bio-ethanol production facility could make bio-MEG from the CO 2 byproduct that results from converting plant material into ethanol. The technology has the potential to reduce both the environmental footprint and the cost of producing MEG. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 2, 2023

Heliostats are mirrors that track the sun in order to reflect highly concentrated sunlight to a receiver, where it can be stored as heat for long-duration energy storage and converted into electricity. In parallel, a wireless radio frequency computer simulation of the demonstration system will be developed.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

million for five projects to develop advanced biofuels and bioproducts that will help drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from biomass. These products not only will help reduce carbon emissions, but also advance the department’s work to enable the production of drop-in biofuel at $3 per gallon by 2022.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

A team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists is developing a way to combine underground CO 2 storage and geothermal energy production. Schematic of system for coupling CCS with geothermal energy production. The technology could help offset the cost of geologic carbon storage. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 25, 2014

EEB is produced in a complex reaction mixture along with at least 2 high-value chemicals used as intermediates in several manufacturing sectors; the resulting biofuel is a mix of products from esterification of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) with ethanol. Vitruvian has modeled production costs at $2.58-3.73 per gallon.

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JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel. 6b00665.

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MAY 3, 2011

In two open-access papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academies (PNAS), a team from Arizona State University describes the genetic modification of cynanobacteria to produce and secrete fatty acids for renewable biofuel production, as well as a Green Recovery strategy to convert cyanobacterial membrane lipids into fatty acids.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. Develop a process to produce microalgae directly from CO 2 in air at high productivities, thereby decoupling algal growth from CO 2 sources. The Ohio State University in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Green Biologics. BETO awards.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

He gave the example of a visitor to the University of Oxford who sees colleges and a splendid library and then asks, “But where is the university?” The category mistake is obvious: A university is an institution, not a collection of buildings. percent of the 1943-45 gross domestic product.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Isochrysis extraction and fractionation scheme with yields given in parentheses for the different products obtained from each step. The researchers developed a method for the isolation of pure alkenones from Isochrysis biomass in parallel with biodiesel production. However, a key obstacle is the cost of the Isochrysis biomass.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and colleagues have engineered a new strain of the yeast S. As a result, their xylose-converting strain consumed glucose and xylose faster and produced more ethanol than the wild type strain.

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JULY 13, 2013

The new 750-volt products are suited for use in commercial vehicles and applications demanding very high output performance. This technology is particularly advantageous at high voltages and will improve efficiency, weight, size and therefore reduce the costs of the total system, according to the company. With a maximum output of 3.5

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Existing investors VantagePoint Capital Partners, BP Ventures, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, and Osage University Partners also participated in this round. Liquid Light’s core technology is centered on low-energy catalytic electrochemistry to convert CO 2 to multi-carbon chemicals, combined with hydrogenation and purification operations.

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