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APRIL 22, 2020

The technology takes energy from the grid and converts it to direct current (DC) voltage. Once the energy is transferred to the secondary coil across the air gap it is converted back to DC, charging the vehicle’s battery pack.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Clean Energy Fuels Corp delivered 143 million gallons of Redeem Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) last year as robust sales of the carbon-neutral transportation fuel continued in 2019, closing out the year with significant deals throughout North America.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Triggered by the successful completion of a first series of tests of its renewable isobutene for a high-value application, Clariant has now ordered a larger batch of renewable isobutene from Global Bioenergies for a second phase of evaluation. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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JULY 11, 2016

Global Bioenergies, IBN-One and Lantmännen Aspen, world market leader in alkylate gasoline for two- and four-stroke small engines, have entered into a partnership on renewable isooctane ( earlier post ) for specialty fuel applications. Global Bioenergies delivered the first batch of renewable isooctane to Audi in May 2015. billion).

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

Global Bioenergies has started the scale-up phase of a process converting renewable resources into acetone and isopropanol. In a further process, these two compounds can be converted to propylene, a key petrochemical building block with a market valued in excess of US$100 billion. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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JULY 4, 2016

France-based Global Bioenergies announced that its German subsidiary, Global Bioenergies GmbH, secured a €400,000 (US$446,000) grant from the BMBF (the German federal ministry for research and education) to finance a 14-month-project aimed at producing renewable gasoline additives. million tons per year). Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

UOP LLC used its renewable jet fuel process technology ( earlier post ) to convert oil from camelina, an inedible plant, to renewable jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Earlier post.). savings compared to petroleum jet. Earlier post.).

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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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JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 9, 2018

In partnership with its key technology providers InEnTec and LanzaTech, Aemetis successfully optimized the integration of an advanced arc furnace and gas fermentation technologies to convert waste biomass into low carbon, renewable cellulosic ethanol and fish meal. Grain sorghum is considered a lower carbon feedstock than corn.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Global Bioenergies has developed a conversion process based on fermentation for renewable resources (residual sugars, agricultural and forestry waste) into isobutene, one of the petrochemical building blocks that can be converted into ingredients for cosmetics, gasoline, kerosene, LPG and plastics.

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AUGUST 12, 2017

The California Energy Commission is issuing a solicitation ( GFO-17-901 ) to provide up to $3 million in funding for innovative, pre-commercial low-carbon fuel production processes that result in the development of bio-oil as an intermediate fuel with wide-scale adoption potential used for renewable jet fuel production.

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JUNE 16, 2022

million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021. Dimensional’s technology can run on all forms of renewable energy.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Global Bioenergies, the developer of a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has completed a private placement with qualified French and international investors. million (US$11.7 million), representing 17.48% of the company’s share capital.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Researchers from three US national labs (Berkeley, Pacific Northwest and Sandia) has demonstrated a separation-free, ionic-liquid (IL)-based process to convert biomass to an advanced biofuel (the sesquiterpene bisabolene).

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Evonik Industries has demonstrated the use of bacteria to convert syngas to pure 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid (2-HIBA) under industrial conditions. Both the chemically-produced and biotech-produced products can be converted to methyl methacrylate (MMA). 2-HIBA is a precursor used in the manufacture of PLEXIGLAS. —Thomas Haas.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Biosynthetic Technologies holds exclusive rights to patented technology that converts fatty acids into high-performance synthetic oils that can be used in lubricant, personal care and other chemical sectors. These biosynthetic base oils exhibit many superior characteristics to petroleum-based lubricant oils.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The project is slated to use advanced enzyme and microbial techniques to convert 10,000 tons of sugar beets harvested throughout the year into 285,000 gallons of advanced biofuel ethanol. The award is made through the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, created by Assembly Bill 118.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

an advanced renewable fuels and biochemicals company, has harvested 12- to 15-foot tall biomass sorghum grown in Central California that was produced using proprietary seed genetics from Nexsteppe , a provider of optimized sorghum feedstock solutions. Aemetis’ 60-million gallon per year ethanol plant in California converts sugars to biofuels.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

a synthetic biology company focused on developing renewable hydrocarbon biofuels ( earlier post ), are partnering to explore potential business opportunities for the conversion of sugarcane into renewable jet fuel. The University of Queensland, Australia (UQ) and US-based Amyris Biotechnologies Inc., Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JUNE 2, 2009

BC Hydro, General Electric (GE) and Powertech are collaborating on the demonstration of a Hydrogen Assisted Renewable Power System (HARP)—a clean power solution for remote, off-grid communities—in the town of Bella Coola, British Columbia.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Gevo, a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, recently announced that it had presented positive test results from fit-for-purpose testing of its renewable kerosene produced from isobutanol to ASTM’s alcohol to jet (ATJ) task force (D02J006 Alcohol to Jet TF). Gevo’s renewable jet. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 8, 2014

The test provides a proof-of-concept for an NRL-developed process to extract CO 2 and produce hydrogen gas from seawater, subsequently catalytically converting the CO 2 and H 2 into fuel by a gas-to-liquids process. The gases are then converted to liquid hydrocarbons by a metal catalyst in a reactor system.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Butagaz, a leading French brand distributing gas in bottles and tanks, is partnering with Global Bioenergies to incorporate batches of bio-isobutene produced at Global Bioenergies’ demo plant as early as 2017 and later by the first commercial bio-isobutene plant once built in France. bio-isobutene.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Amyris engineers microbes to convert sugar to hydrocarbon fuels. Micrograph of fermentation fluids from production of Amyris Renewable Diesel (Nov 2007). The initiative can culminate in a demo flight, by early 2012, of an Embraer E-Jet using GE engines and belonging to Azul Linhas Aéreas. Source: Amyris. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

million OTTO-R project for the production of gasoline from “green” methanol produced from CO 2 , water and renewable electricity. STF first converts natural gas-based synthesis gas to methanol in an isothermal reactor; the methanol is then transformed into high-octane gasoline via the intermediate methanol.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

has entered into letter of intent agreements with three sugar and ethanol producers in Brazil—Bunge Limited, Cosan and Açúcar Guarani with the purpose of partnering for the production of high value renewable specialty chemicals and fuels. Amyris Brasil, a wholly owned subsidiary of synthetic biology company Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

The vehicle was converted by Tokyo R&D, and is scheduled to hit the streets on regular local routes in Toyama, a coastal city located on the Sea of Japan. In July, EnerDel and ITOCHU joined with longtime EnerDel customer THINK to convert electric drive delivery trucks for Japan’s postal service. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Unlike sugar-based biofuel producers, Joule directly and continuously converts solar energy into liquid fuels, without costly raw materials, pretreatment or downstream processing. The initial output of the SunSprings plant will be ethanol. —Peter Erich, President of Joule Fuels.

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JULY 10, 2010

The algal fatty acid product is catalytically decarboxylated and converted into paraffinic hydrocarbons (alkanes), followed by mild hydrocracking and hydroisomerization to make biojet fuel comprised of C 10 -C 15 branched paraffins. Cellulosic bio-alcohols – thermochemical conversion of renewable resources into liquid fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, a company developing a processes to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has joined aireg (Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.) Earlier post.) We are very excited about Global Bioenergies’ membership in our initiative.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

This isobutanol is destined for the solvents and specialty gasoline blendstock markets, as well as to supply our demo plant in Silsbee, TX, to convert our isobutanol into hydrocarbons such as bio-jet fuel and isooctane. Gevo has also developed technology to produce hydrocarbon products from renewable alcohols.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Should the lab and pilot work prove successful and scalable, they will place a demo plant in Malaysia, Burton said. LanzaTech envisions using partner technology to convert the acetic acid to lipids—i.e., Part of the challenge is locating sufficient quantities of hydrogen to enable large scale use of the CO 2 in waste gases.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

The parties will work together to convert this mill to produce Amyris renewable products with first production targeted for the 2011-2012 harvest season. It is also possible to produce renewable drop-in diesel and jet fuel with performance equal to or better than existing biofuels and oil-based fuels. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The patent-pending technology has been developed in collaboration with the Professorship of Renewable Energy Carriers at ETH Zurich. Bottom: 3D model of sunfire SOEC (left) and the demo plant (right). Nearly 80% of that can be converted into synthetic diesel. PtL = Power-to-Liquids. Source: sunfire. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 10, 2016

diesel engines and wanting to convert their fleet to natural gas. The City of Petaluma received a $3 million grant to design and operate an anaerobic digestion system to produce 150,000 gasoline gallon equivalents of renewable natural gas from food and beverage waste and use the gas to fuel refuse trucks.

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