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MAY 10, 2023

million to 10 industry-led projects to advance nuclear technologies, including two aimed at expanding clean hydrogen production with nuclear energy. A well-established downstream syngas-to-synfuel conversion process, such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, converts the syngas to liquid synfuel for a total projected cost of less than $4/gallon.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Southampton have transformed optical fibers into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy. The unique methodology presents a potentially feasible solution for renewable energy, the elimination of greenhouse gases and sustainable chemical production.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Our technology will be used to directly convert renewable hydrogen and CO 2 to methanol, which is further converted into plug-and-play gasoline. The power requirement for the plant will be 2 GW, where 90% is consumed by electrolyzers for the green hydrogen production process.

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APRIL 5, 2021

announced the completion of a facility in Tokyo that will convert sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen fuel for fuel cell mobility and power generation. A new facility in Tokyo that will convert sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen gas for fuel-cell vehicles is nearing completion. Renewable hydrogen systems manufacturer Ways2H Inc.

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AUGUST 19, 2021

Located near Beulah, North Dakota, the Synfuels Plant will be transformed into the largest and lowest-cost, blue hydrogen production facility in the United States. This production will use locally sourced feedstock and employ established production and carbon capture processes.

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JUNE 28, 2021

The production of HTL fuels from three different feedstock classes shows the flexibility of the process. HTL has several key-advantages, of which the most important are: Flexible production potential: The HTL conversion technology taps into a huge global bio-resource with local variety of primary biomasses.

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JULY 10, 2020

Air Products, ACWA Power and NEOM signed an agreement for a $5-billion world-scale green-hydrogen-based ammonia production facility powered by renewable energy. —Seifi Ghasemi, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer for Air Products. million tons per year of green ammonia using Haldor Topsoe technology.

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AUGUST 14, 2021

The Port of Corpus Christi Authority (Port of Corpus Christi) and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC (Howard/HEP) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) stating their intention to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services facility into the region’s first blue hydrogen production facility.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

As of 2026, Audi will only launch all-electric models onto the global market, gradually phasing out production of its combustion models by 2033. Based on this clear decision made as part of its Vorsprung 2030 corporate strategy, Audi is now taking steps to prepare its global facilities for the production of all-electric cars.

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JULY 8, 2022

The Volkswagen Group broke ground for its first cell factory in Salzgitter; production will start in 2025. With immediate effect, responsibility for global battery business is to be held by the newly created company “PowerCo”. The Volkswagen Group is bundling its global battery activities in the European company (SE) PowerCo.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LiOH⋅H 2 O) is a crucial precursor for the production of lithium-ion battery cathode material. The Guben converter will have a capacity of 24,000tpa—enough to support about 500,000 EVs. Earlier post.)

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MAY 11, 2023

HIF Global, the world’s leading eFuels company, intends to deploy the new technology to produce eSAF at its second US eFuels facility— its first eSAF facility in the US. Honeywell’s UOP eFining is a methanol-to-jet fuel (MTJ) processing technology that can convert eMethanol to eSAF reliably and at scale. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

Global Bioenergies has succeeded in the production of bio-sourced propylene by direct fermentation. This marks the first time an entirely biological production process—i.e. Global Bioenergies is one of the few companies worldwide developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

A team at the University of Idaho has demonstrated that glycerol, a byproduct from biodiesel production, could be used as a substrate for producing drop-in gasoline-range biofuel. The technology of converting methanol into gasoline was discovered and commercialized more than 3 decades ago. Tropsch synthesis (FTS).

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Fulcrum produce biofuel on a commercial scale by chemically converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into transportation fuels. has been expanding investments in green businesses and technologies to achieve its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in response to global climate change. Founded in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and Air Products Chairman, President, and CEO Seifi Ghasemi announced a $4.5-billion Air Products is a world-leading industrial gas company that produces and transports hydrogen and other essential industrial gases to many customer facilities in Louisiana, across the US Gulf Coast and around the world.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Air Products plans to invest approximately $500 million to build, own and operate a 35 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen at a greenfield site in Massena, New York, as well as liquid hydrogen distribution and dispensing operations. The commercial operation of this facility is targeted to begin in 2026-2027.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the IAA Summit in Munich, HIF Global, together with Porsche AG, Volkswagen Group Innovation and MAN Energy Solutions, announced the development and installation of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) unit at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration facility in southern Chile in 2024. Water, a potential by-product, is drained off. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 20, 2023

Brazil-based Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a global market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, announced a project to evaluate an investment in producing carbon-negative bio-based polypropylene (PP) in the US. This new U.S-based

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JULY 9, 2022

The MATHESON Facility will have a nameplate capacity exceeding 30 mmscfd hydrogen production and the capability to process a range of feedstocks, including renewable naphtha and other co-products from Vertex’s renewable diesel production, as well as natural gas, as necessary.

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MARCH 24, 2021

Production of the Audi Q4 e-tron has finally started in Zwickau. At the multi-brand plant in Zwickau, the Audi Q4 e-tron will be rolling off the same production line as the Volkswagen ID.4 The Volkswagen plant there has been converted to an all-electric plant and is now an integral part of the Group’s electric offensive.

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MAY 11, 2023

USJC), a subsidiary of global semiconductor foundry United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), announced a joint collaboration to produce insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBT), which have entered mass production at the 300mm fab of USJC. Production is expected to reach 10,000 wafers per month by 2025. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Amogy, a developer of energy-dense ammonia power solutions ( earlier post ), and Trafigura , one of the largest physical commodity trading groups in the world, are partnering to study the use of ammonia as a carrier to transport clean hydrogen from point of production to point of consumption.

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JANUARY 30, 2021

Volkswagen’s Transparent Factory in Dresden has begun series production of the battery-electric ID.3. This makes it the second production site for the ID.3 family—from initial advice and test drives, to production visits, co-constructing the ID.3 MEB production network. family and the MEB. 4 CROZZ and ID.4

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Utilization of renewable solar energy is crucial for addressing the global energy and environmental concerns and achieving sustainable development. In this regard, photocatalytic water splitting has attracted significant interest as a cost-effective means to convert sustainable solar energy into valuable chemicals. Credit: DICP.

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JUNE 1, 2022

The startup of the site for production of renewable fuels is expected in second half of 2022. The Braya refinery is strategically located with world-class logistics assets to source global feedstocks and to sell the produced renewable fuels into the United States, Canada and Europe.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Global Bioenergies has achieved a yield exceeding 87% of the final target during the complete production phase, at laboratory scale, of its bio-isobutene process. The productivity is also progressing quickly. In addition, the new strains show a markedly better productivity.

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APRIL 27, 2022

Ford has begun full production of F-150 Lightning electric pickup at the ultra-modern Rouge Electric Vehicle Center within Ford’s historic Rouge Complex. Ford has 200,000 reservations for the Lightning and is expanding the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center to ramp up production to a planned annual run rate of 150,000 in 2023.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Audi is preparing to convert its entire network of global production factories to manufacture electric vehicles as it gears up to compete in the auto industry’s future. The post Audi is converting all factories to produce EVs as it phases out gas cars appeared first on Electrek.

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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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JUNE 11, 2021

Oberon Fuels, producer of clean-burning dimethyl ether (DME) transportation fuel, has begun production of the first renewable DME (rDME) in the United States, and the only current commercial production of this in the world. Oberon Fuels’ pilot DME production plant in Brawley, California.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Global Bioenergies will soon be receiving €2.6 Progress in engineering and forecasted prices for our products now higher than initially anticipated are fueling our optimism regarding the plant’s financing within the new schedule. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies. million and IBN-One €0.5 Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 27, 2021

It will be the 7 th largest global automotive supplier (in the top-5 in Europe and in the top-10 in Americas and Asia), with a significantly enhanced profile in terms of businesses and customer reach. billion in Electronics and Software, the new Group will operate 24 production sites and 21 R&D centers. billion (US$4.4

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JULY 14, 2022

Rio Tinto is investing US$188 million to increase the production capacity for low-carbon, high value aluminum billets at its Alma smelter in Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec by 202,000 metric tonnes. The investment is expected to generate nearly US$160 million in economic benefits for Québec.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Indonesia converted 10 motorcycles to electric under pilot project . Indonesia has launched a pilot project to convert combustion engine motorcycles into electric vehicles as part of its national drive to make the transportation more eco-friendly said the energy ministry. million electric cars on the roads by 2030.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Toshiba Corporation has developed large-scale production technology for electrolysis electrodes that realize high level efficiency in Power to Gas (P2G) technology while reducing the use of iridium, one of the world’s rarest precious metals, to 1/10. Practical application requires reduction of the iridium used.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Global Bioenergies has produced “second-generation” isobutene, in a push to diversify accessible feedstock towards cheaper resources. Global Bioenergies recently established collaborations with nine companies from three continents developing the most promising technologies to convert various resources (straw, bagasse, wood.)

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