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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

A chemical engineer from the University of Houston is leading a $2.1-million Catalytic converters clean vehicle exhaust into nitrogen, water and carbon dioxide. Current catalytic converters use precious metals, including platinum and palladium, to eliminate the main pollutants emitted by internal combustion engines.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

IH 2 is a new thermochemical process that employs a catalyzed fluidized bed hydropyrolysis step followed by an integrated hydroconversion step to directly convert biomass into high-quality, fungible hydrocarbon fuels. GTI has licensed the IH 2 technology to CRI Catalyst Company (CRI), in Houston, Texas. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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APRIL 25, 2011

Houston Business Journal. The Houston-based oil and gas equipment maker received the order from Diamond Green Diesel LLC. The project will use the UOP/Eni Ecofining process to convert recycled animal fats, recycled cooking oils and other feedstocks into renewable diesel fuel. Dresser-Rand Group Inc. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 12, 2009

It’s feasible that by converting their tractor fleets ports could reduce emissions from this source by 80 percent for nitrogen oxides, 50 percent for carbon dioxide and significant amounts of other criteria pollutants. Houston, and New York City. Mobile, Ala.,

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JULY 21, 2021

Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion. Louis have the highest concentration of superusers among US metro areas.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

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. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 8, 2022

United Airlines Ventures (UAV) and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV) announced a collaboration with Houston-based biotech firm Cemvita Factory to commercialize the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) intended to be developed through a new process using carbon dioxide and synthetic microbes.

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Mati Carbon , a Houston-based startup developing a sequestration technique called enhanced rock weathering, won the grand prize of $50 million. Paris-based NetZero received $15 million for extracting carbon from agricultural waste and converting it to biochar using pyrolysis.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

The MTG process first dehydrates methanol to dimethylether (DME); an equilibrium mixture of methanol, DME and water is then converted to light olefins (C 2 -C 4 ). G2X Energy will use natural gas to produce methanol, then convert methanol to final gasoline for 90% of its production. gasoline range. Source: EMRE. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 6, 2010

The 200 new hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) join roughly 20,000 low-emission and alternative-fuel vehicles already in use and have been deployed in Austin, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Before this latest deployment, UPS was operating 50 hybrid electrics in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. Earlier post.).

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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment have created a scalable photocatalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel. A reaction cell (left) and the photocatalytic platform (right) used on tests of copper-iron plasmonic photocatalysts for hydrogen production from ammonia at Syzygy Plasmonics in Houston.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

All fuels are distributed nationally by HYPERFUELS based in Houston, Texas. Gevo’s business model converts existing ethanol plants into bio-refineries to make isobutanol. Gevo has executed initial commercial-scale production runs at its isobutanol facility in Luverne, Minn., an affiliate of LANXESS Corporation, among others.

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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. CRI Catalyst Company of Houston, Texas has been granted exclusive worldwide licensing rights. Earlier post.).

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JULY 25, 2011

Houston-based Terrabon, Inc. MixAlco converts low-cost, readily available, non-food, non-sterile biomass into valuable chemicals such as acetic acid, ketones and alcohols that can be processed into renewable fuels. has been awarded a $9.6-million, Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 11, 2014

Thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences into electric voltage; a TEG in a vehicle is designed to convert waste heat to power. GMZ Energy, a provider of advanced nano-structured thermoelectric generation technology, was co-founded by MITs Professor Gang Chen and collaborator Zhifeng Ren of the University of Houston.

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DECEMBER 24, 2013

Researchers led by a team from the University of Houston have characterized the platinum group elemental composition of PM 2.5 and PM 10 emissions—mainly from gasoline-fueled light-duty vehicles (LDVs)—in the Washburn Tunnel in Houston Texas as a mechanism for better determining the contribution of LDVs to particulate emissions.

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AUGUST 20, 2011

These preliminary experiments demonstrated the potential for Solix’s algae oil to be converted into a range of valuable specialty chemicals through GlycosBio’s suite of proprietary biocatalysts. Based on the successful production of ethanol from the oil, additional studies are planned to convert the oil to other higher value chemicals.

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JUNE 9, 2010

CIRI) and Houston-based. Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) uses air/oxygen injection and production wells drilled from the surface to enable the coal in non-mined coal seams to be converted in situ into product gas containing mixtures of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and other gases.

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JUNE 12, 2012

A hybrid vehicle is defined as a motor vehicle with at least two different energy converters and two different energy storage systems on board the vehicle for the purpose of propelling the vehicle. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis with projects ranked according to the cost per ton of NO x reduced by the project.

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

The announcement of the fuel cell bus follows New Flyer’s unveiling of a battery-electric propulsion system to the Xcelsior transit bus lineup at the American Public Transit Association Expo tradeshow in Houston, Texas. DC power is converted to AC power and is supplied to each of these major systems separately.

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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. GTI has licensed the IH 2 technology to CRI Catalyst Company (CRI), a company headquartered in Houston, TX, for worldwide deployment.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Roque works as a contractor for Space Station Safety at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. for their employees, Roque was inspired to convert his own car- a 1974 Aztec-7- into electric. has proven that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to convert a gas car into an electrically powered vehicle.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The IH 2 process converts virtually any type of non-food biomass feedstock—such as wood, agricultural residues, algae, and aquatic plants. GTI has licensed the IH2 technology to CRI Catalyst Company (CRI), an international company headquartered in Houston, TX, for worldwide deployment. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Centennial, CO, developing technology to biochemically convert coal to methane at large scale and low cost. CoolPlanetBioFuels , Camarillo, CA, developing technology that converts low-grade biomass into high-grade fuel and carbon that can be sequestered. Ciris Energy , Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Rice engineer, physicist and chemist Naomi Halas and collaborators describe a one-step, light-driven method that uses gold nanoparticles to convert hydrogen sulfide into high-demand hydrogen gas and sulfur in a single step. Known as the Claus process, it produces sulfur but no hydrogen, which it instead converts into water.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Shell Lubricants announced the arrival of its first shipment of gas-to-liquid (GTL) base oil at the Port of Houston. The product, the first from the Qatar-based Pearl GTL plant to reach the Americas, will be stored at a hub in Houston and routed to Shell Lubricants’ GTL-enabled blending facilities throughout the United States.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

CORE BioFuel Inc., he ZFI Gasoline produced by the MKS Process will be a 92 octane, carbon-neutral alternative to conventional gasoline produced from petroleum sources.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

On June 15, 2011 Gevo and Redfield Energy, LLC (Redfield) entered into a definitive joint venture (JV) to convert Redfield’s 50 mgpy ethanol plant into an isobutanol plant. On 26 July, Gevo and South Hampton Resources (SHR) signed an agreement to build a hydrocarbon demonstration plant at SHR’s facility near Houston, TX.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Anderson Chair professor of physics at the University of Houston and one of the corresponding authors of the paper. Telluride has been studied for years, said Zhifeng Ren, M.D. Ren suggested it could boost the efficiency of coal-fired power plants or other industrial plants from 40% to as much as 48%.

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MAY 5, 2011

Additionally, KMP will invest approximately $220 million to build a new crude/condensate pipeline with a capacity of approximately 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) that will initially transport 50,000 bpd of condensate for Petrohawk from its production area in the Eagle Ford to the Houston Ship Channel.

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MAY 12, 2014

Biosynthetic Technologies utilizes a chemical reaction process to convert fatty acid into a new molecule structure called an estolide. The company plans to build a large, full-scale facility, possibly in the Houston, Texas area within the next two years.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Houston created an efficient, simple-to-manufacture core/shell photoanode with a highly active oxygen evolution electrocatalyst shell (FeMnP) and semiconductor core (rutile TiO 2 ) for the photoelectrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (PEC-OER) for solar water splitting.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Earlier this year, Wang received a three-year, $240,000 research grant from the Houston-based Robert A. —Rafael Verduzco. Welch Foundation for related research.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

for GTI’s Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion (IH 2 ) technology, which converts biomass directly into cellulosic gasoline and diesel hydrocarbon blendstocks. The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with CRI/Criterion Inc., CRI/Criterion Inc., Integrated Hydropyrolysis and.

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MAY 21, 2013

We are already converting our vehicle fleet and currently have a drilling rig using natural gas as well, so the next step is to utilize the technology on a hydraulic fracturing site. s oil and gas division with headquarters in Houston, Texas. Reduced costs, as natural gas can be a less expensive fuel option than diesel. —Dan O.

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