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Strategic Biofuels licenses Johnson Matthey-bp FT CANS technology for Louisiana plant

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Strategic Biofuels has selected Johnson Matthey’s (JM’s) Fischer Tropsch (FT) CANS technology—co-developed with bp—for its Louisiana Green Fuels project (LGF) in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. The reactor design combines the advantages of fixed bed tubular reactors with slurry phase systems.

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Strategic Biofuels successfully tests carbon capture and storage for renewable diesel plant

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Strategic Biofuels announced that its Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Test Well Program was successfully completed at the company’s Louisiana Green Fuels Project (LGF) in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. LGF is the first renewable diesel fuel project to achieve this milestone.

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Renewable Energy Group collaborates with Iowa State University on hydrotreater pilot plant for renewable diesel

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REG converts waste and byproduct fats and oils into biodiesel and renewable diesel. Renewable diesel is produced through a catalytic process utilizing heat, pressure and hydrogen—hydrotreating—to convert feedstocks into a hydrocarbon fuel that is chemically similar to traditional diesel.

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Juniper GTL to invest $100M to retrofit plant to new small-scale GTL facility in Louisiana

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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Juniper GTL LLC President Vianney Valès announced the company will invest $100 million to renovate a dormant steam methane reformer in the Westlake, Louisiana area and convert it to a natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility, producing waxes, drilling fluids, diesel and naphtha.

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SpaceX sleuths spot third drone ship under construction in Louisiana

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The design is set to be very similar to Just Read the Instructions droneship. julia_bergeron and I have been tracking the location of barge 'Marmac 302', set to be converted into A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship. The post SpaceX sleuths spot third drone ship under construction in Louisiana appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

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gigawatt hours (GWh) of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels across multiple projects, with the first project slated for 500 megawatt hours (MWh) in Louisiana. DG Fuels expects to complete its Louisiana SAF project by mid-2022. The Louisiana facility is the company’s first major project.

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Sundrop Fuels selects Louisiana site for planned first biogasoline facility

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a gasification-based drop-in advanced biofuels company ( earlier post ), has agreed to purchase about 1,200 acres of land near Alexandria, Louisiana, for the planned construction and operation of its first production facility. Sundrop Fuels drop-in advanced biofuel is designed to cost as much or less than petroleum-based transportation fuels.

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