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JULY 23, 2011

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Hybrid Vehicle Team will work with the UW-Madison Engine Research Center to test implementations of Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) engines being developed by UW mechanical engineering professor Rolf Reitz and his colleagues. One hurdle, though, will be the fuel infrastructure.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Amyris received the Small Business award for its renewable hydrocarbon farnesane for use as diesel and jet fuel. Farnesene is a building block hydrocarbon that can be converted into a renewable, drop-in replacement for petroleum diesel without certain drawbacks of first-generation biofuels. Professor Shannon S.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $12 million to fund three small-scale projects in Illinois, Wisconsin, and North Carolina that aim to commercialize novel conversion technologies to accelerate the development of advanced, drop-in biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JUNE 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy is awarding up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects in California, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, that will advance the technology improvements and process integration needed to produce drop-in advanced biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals. Virent (up to $13.4

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MAY 4, 2010

Reaction pathway for conversion of GVL to liquid transportation fuels. These C 18 –C 27 compounds are in the molecular weight range suitable for jet and diesel fuel applications. 2010) Production of liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels by oligomerization of biomass-derived C 9 alkenes Green Chem., Source: Alonso et al.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

Virent’s production of paraxylene at its Madison, Wisconsin laboratory, has reached a capacity of 10 tons per year which will allow Virent to serve the needs of multiple collaborators for product validation and market demonstrations. The company has broadened its product offerings for renewable chemicals through this process.

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APRIL 21, 2010

A paper on their initial results was published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. It also has physical and chemical properties that make it attractive as an additive and extender for motor fuels. GVL is also being examined as an intermediate for the production of transportation fuels. —Bruno et al.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Conversion of 2,3-Butanediol to Biojet Fuel: Scale-up and Technoeconomic Analysis of Energy-Efficient Separations and Fermentative Diol Production.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The new investments will go toward a wide range of research, development, and demonstration projects that aim to reduce the price and improve the efficiency of plug-in electric, alternative fuel, and conventional vehicles. Fuel Efficiency Improvements in Passenger Vehicles and Commercial Trucks. Vehicle Technologies Program Awards.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

8,053,615, 8,017,818 and 7,977,517, cover the production of various liquid fuels and chemicals related to its recent announced partnership with The Coca-Cola Company ( earlier post ) and its ongoing partnership with Royal Dutch Shell ( earlier post ). Three of the patents, US Patent Nºs. The additional two patents, Patent Nºs.

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AUGUST 24, 2011

Virent’s BioForming platform can produce drop-in gasoline, diesel or jet fuels from plant sugars. Virent’s biogasoline was found to cause “no harm” to vehicles in comparison to Shell’s baseline fuel. Virent’s biogasoline was found to cause “no harm” to vehicles in comparison to Shell’s baseline fuel. Source: Virent.

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MAY 18, 2019

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin Madison and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering have devised a two-stage process by which an alcohol such as ethanol or 1-butanol can be converted with high yields into distillate-range ethers and olefins by combining Guerbet coupling (the coupling of two alcohol molecules) and intermolecular dehydration.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Studies of various land-use efficiencies for various biofuels and processes by Volvo AB show, in the lower two bars, the high efficiency of DME as a diesel substitute. Addressing methanol marketers at the conference, LeBlanc noted that converting methanol into DME offers the methanol industry a new market for its product.

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MARCH 23, 2010

and Shell have successfully started production at the first demonstration plant converting plant sugars into gasoline and gasoline blend components, rather than ethanol. The biogasoline fuel molecules have higher energy content than ethanol and deliver better fuel economy. Virent Energy Systems, Inc. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 26, 2009

These projects put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy-efficient light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and establish 542 refueling locations across the country. Selected projects, by size of award, are: State of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program. Total DOE award: $14,999,905.

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APRIL 23, 2012

The internal combustion engine is a chemical process, not a thermodynamic cycle, Foster said, and all of the energy in the fuel is theoretically available to be converted into work. Non-ideal processes actually destroy the work potential of the energy in the fuel. Combustion irreversibilities of fuels are unavoidable.

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JULY 26, 2012

Through the joint Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) , USDA and the DOE are working to develop economically and environmentally sustainable sources of renewable biomass and increase the availability of renewable fuels and biobased products. The oils will be hydrotreated to produce diesel and jet fuel.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Composite body electric buses: Replace conventional diesel transit buses with 35-ft composite body electric transit buses.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

The funding will support 40 projects across 15 states and will help improve the fuel efficiency of next generation vehicles. Advanced fuels and lubricants. This project will determine levels at which higher alcohols and other advanced oxygenated fuel components can be readily integrated into the existing fuel supply (i.e.,

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JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. Over the past two years, research has focused on a multistep approach for converting cellulosic biomass to transportation fuels.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Strategy for the conversion of solid cellulose to liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Dumesic and his team earlier had reported a process for the catalytic upgrading of levulinic acid to 5-nonanone—a hydrophobic intermediate that can be catalytically upgraded to diesel and jet fuels—with the intermediate formation of ?-valerolactone

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Researchers in China have generated gasoline fuel with a research octane number of 95.4 valerolactone (GVL)—the highest octane number reported for biomass-derived gasoline fuel—using an ionic liquid catalyst. In the study, they converted biomass-derived ?-valerolactone from biomass-derived ?-valerolactone

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison led by Dr. James Dumesic have developed a streamlined process for converting lignocellulosic biomass into chemicals or liquid transportation fuel. Based on the yields achieved, this process is comparable in the production of fuels with the production of ethanol by fermentation.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

A team of researchers led by James Dumesic and George Huber, both now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have demonstrated how C 5 sugars derived from hemicellulose can be converted into a high-quality petroleum refinery feedstock via a four-step catalytic process. Source: Olcay et al. Click to enlarge. —Olcay et al.

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JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In It is much more than that.

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MAY 11, 2010

Depending on the reactants used in the esterification, the resulting valerates, which have good fuel properties, may be blended with gasoline or diesel. The GVL is upgraded to C 9 alkenes, which they then oligomerize over an acid catalyst to produce longer chain alkenes that, after hydrogenation, can be used as drop-in fuels.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

Virent’s fuel products can enter the market using existing pipelines to power current vehicles at high blend rates. Virent has proven it can transform cellulosic, non-food sugars into environmentally superior hydrocarbon fuels with the same energy content and performance as petroleum fuels. Virent Energy Systems Inc.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Butene can be converted into liquid fuels by oligomerization reactions. A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison led by Dr. James Dumesic has developed an improved, streamlined process for the conversion of biomass to butyl esters and γ-valerolactone (GVL). The red arrows represent streams that are recycled.

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