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MAY 28, 2021

Biocrude oil produced via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of biomass could provide a low-carbon supplement for transportation fuel supply. Now, researchers in the US and China report achieving the distillation of pilot-scale HTL biocrude derived from food processing waste. 1) values of gasoline, diesel, and Jet A fuels, respectively.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

The company says that some of the most promising projects are the Turbosteamer ( earlier post ); the Thermoelectric generator (TEG) ( earlier post ); engine encapsulation; and a waste heat exchanger for oil heating. —Jürgen Ringler, Team Leader for Thermal Energy Converters at BMW Group Research and Technology. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R-CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste.

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JUNE 23, 2015

IH 2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermochemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks. IH 2 hydrocarbons produced from these feedstocks span the gasoline, jet and diesel range.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Under this project, Algenesis will demonstrate a scaled supply process for generating polyurethane monomers at sufficient quantity to produce a line of prototype consumer products with our corporate partners. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. This will be offered at the university pump in a 10:90 mixture with gasoline. all of which are ?ve-

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In addition, around half the vehicles that will be on the road in 2030 have already been sold—most with gasoline or diesel engines. to make synthetic gasoline, diesel, gas, or kerosene. The chemical structures and basic properties of gasoline remain intact, so even vintage cars can run on synthetic gas. Then add carbon.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

Supply chain sustainability analysis (SCSA) of six biofuel production pathways. Blended with a petroleum gasoline blendstock, these bio-blendstocks are designed to improve engine efficiency for light-duty, boosted-spark ignition (BSI) engines. Renewable natural gas and lactic acid production from wet waste feedstocks.

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DECEMBER 13, 2015

IH2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermo-chemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks. CRI will supply the proprietary catalysts for the unit. Earlier post.). of Ontario, Canada.

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JULY 11, 2017

LanzaTech’s first commercial facility converting waste emissions from steel production to ethanol will come online in China in late 2017. LanzaTech has developed a gas fermentation process based on biological catalysts to make fuels and chemicals from a range of waste gases instead of sugars and yeast.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2017

CRI/Criterion Catalyst Company LTD (CRIUK), a global catalyst technology company wholly owned by Royal Dutch Shell, has 2 *-Technology-Licensed-Biozin-Holding">awarded an FEL-2 license agreement for the IH 2 technology which converts biomass to liquid transportation fuels ( earlier post ), to Norway-based Biozin Holding AS (BZH).

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Separately, Gevo has also been awarded a contract by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to supply biojet fuel to the US Air Force (USAF). The NARA project envisions developing a new, viable, aviation fuel industry using wood and wood waste in the Pacific Northwest, where forests cover almost half of the region. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For the first time, the energy needed will be supplied from the renewable source of hydropower. For some years now, Audi has been conducting research into climate-friendly, CO 2 -based fuels such as e-gas, e-gasoline or synthetically manufactured e-diesel fuel. Earlier post.)

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MAY 27, 2010

As part of the agreement, COFCO and Sinopec will build a cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant for which Novozymes will supply the enzymes. In February, Novozymes launched new Cellic CTec2, an enzyme product enabling the biofuel industry to produce cellulosic ethanol at a price competitive with gasoline and conventional ethanol.

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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. In the fuel sector, it is presently used to manufacture isooctane, ETBE and MTBE which are valuable compounds used in gasoline mixes. These tests were based on wheat straw extracts supplied by Clariant.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will partner with Johnson Matthey, a global specialty chemicals company, in a five-year, $7-million effort to produce economically drop-in gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from non-food biomass feedstocks. It will not include anything that is actually food for humans.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Governor Perry made the announcement in Laredo, where he and city officials announce the benefits of a water treatment project that will purify 50,000 gallons per day of brackish water for potable use in Laredo’s water supply system using Terrabon technology.

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APRIL 18, 2012

Woody biomass has been successfully fed through the IH 2 pilot plant, and has been converted to gasoline, kerosene and diesel product, comparable to those produced in the R&D project phase. IH 2 technology does not compete with the public food supply to provide the fuel needed for transportation markets. billion gallons.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

Tesoro expects that converting renewable biomass into biocrude will enable existing refining assets to produce fuels with lower carbon intensities (CIs) at a significantly lower capital and operating cost than competing technologies.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Accenture has identified 12 technologies that it concludes have the potential to disrupt the current views of transport fuels supply, demand and GHG emissions over the next 10 years. Waste-to-fuel. The production of transport fuel from waste is a nascent technology, largely in the lab and pilot stages of commercialization at present.

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APRIL 16, 2013

The renewed agreement focuses on future goals—such as designating personnel, evaluating current and potential feedstock types and systems, developing multiple feedstock supply chains, developing state and local public-private teams, communicating results, and issuing periodic reports.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

The successful design, research and teamwork resulted in the Mercedes-Benz PU106A Hybrid Power Unit, which has not only been the dominant powertrain in this first season under the new Formula One rules, but is also arguably among the most thermally efficient gasoline powertrains ever produced, with a claimed thermal efficiency of greater than 40%.

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JULY 29, 2015

Neste, Renewable Energy Group (REG) and Solazyme will supply renewable diesel to UPS to help facilitate the company’s shift to move more than 12% of its purchased ground fuel from conventional diesel and gasoline fuel to alternative fuels by the end of 2017.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Red Rock adds a proven technology pathway to Joule’s own Helioculture technology and strengthens Joule’s platform for global supply of carbon neutral fuels, the two said. The transaction is expected to close during the coming 30 days. The company is poised to begin construction of its first refinery located in Lakeview, Oregon in early 2016.

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JULY 12, 2011

billion venture capital fund over the next 10 years, Chesapeake NG Ventures Corporation (CNGV), dedicated to identifying and investing in companies and technologies that will replace the use of gasoline and diesel with natural gas and natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuels. per gallon cheaper than gasoline and diesel; and. Sundrop Fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In battery-driven powertrains, heating and cooling can play a significantly greater role than in gasoline or diesel engines, since without a combustion engine, the vehicle does not have a generous supply of heat. For example, heat is released when supplying the electric motor with electricity.

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APRIL 7, 2014

Surplus electricity generated from renewables could be stored in batteries or could be converted via power-to-gas technology into synthetic methane (SNG), liquid fuels or hydrogen. The supply temperature of -169°C is a key enabler for harvesting low grade waste heat sources (around 100°C) such as combustion engine cooling systems.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

Johnson-Matthey will produce the catalysts that turn the lipids in the methane into fuel, while Illinois-based Lanza Tech, a pioneer in waste-to-fuels technology, has signed on to take the bench-scale plan to the commercial level, if it is successful. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

The water supply for the biomass sorghum crop was lower-quality pump water containing salts that typically damage crops. Aemetis’ 60-million gallon per year ethanol plant in California converts sugars to biofuels.

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JUNE 25, 2013

The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. The waste heat given off during methanation is used as process energy in the adjacent biogas plant, significantly increasing overall efficiency. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The baseline CI value for gasoline is 95.86 The energy consumption data for the rendering process was taken from eight existing rendering plants that currently supply Neste. Once the rendered tallow has been converted to renewable diesel, the finished fuel is transported an estimated 7,677 nautical miles by ocean tanker to Los Angeles.

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APRIL 27, 2017

This new Volkswagen system adds a compact lithium-ion battery to the 12-volt vehicle electrics, with the battery supplying the electric consumer units with power when coasting. liter and high torque of 66 kW (90 PS) that is being shown at the Vienna Motor Symposium is bivalent: it can be run on gasoline or CNG. liters/100 km.

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JUNE 7, 2023

An electric vehicle is a type of vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion instead of an internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel. It converts electrical energy from the battery into mechanical energy to drive the vehicle’s wheels.

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JULY 3, 2010

Researchers from North Carolina A and T State University have converted swine manure to bio-oils by using ethanol as a solvent in an autoclave in the reaction temperature range of 240-360 °C without any catalyst. Animal waste has tremendous energy potential. Bio-oils can be upgraded to transportation fuels.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

All new plug-in-hybrids by Audi use a turbo-charged gasoline engine with direct injection that works together with an electric motor that is integrated in the transmission. A lithium-ion battery beneath the luggage compartment floor supplies the electrical energy. The battery capacity is identical to that of the Audi A8 PHEV.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

The BioEnergy Center, located near Vero Beach, Florida, is a commercial-scale project that will produce eight million gallons (24kta) of advanced biofuels and six megawatts (gross) of renewable power annually from renewable biomass including local yard, vegetative and household wastes. The INEOS Bio process has three main steps: Gasification.

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MARCH 5, 2013

Like electric hybrids, the hydraulic hybrid system is able to support gasoline and diesel engines in ranges where they do not work at optimum efficiency. The kinetic energy captured during braking is converted into hydraulic energy and stored in the pressure accumulator. Hydraulic hybrid powertrain. Click to enlarge.

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