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Cool Planet and Acritaz Greentech to build $60M commercial biorefinery in Malaysia

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Acritaz will work with Cool Planet to use biomass raw materials local to the region that include palm plantation waste products such as empty fruit bunches, wood, and bark waste to make renewable, cellulosic fuels for the Asian market. The plan is to begin construction on the first plant in 2014.

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Stellantis signs binding agreement with Element 25 for manganese sulphate supply for EV batteries; sourced in Australia, processed in US

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Sarawak Malaysia remains a favorable location for a second E25 HPMSM facility subject to approval of federal government incentives. The processing circuit proposed for the HPMSM facility is based around taking E25 manganese ores and converting them via a proprietary hydrometallurgical process developed by Element 25.

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Petronas and LanzaTech partner on CO2 to chemicals technology

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LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, and Petronas, the national oil company of Malaysia, will work together to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals using CO 2 as the carbon source. —Haida Shenny Hazri, CEO of PTVSB.

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LanzaTech closes $55.8M Series C round; PETRONAS on board as investor

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LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, has closed its Series C round with new investment totaling US $55.8 LanzaTech uses a proprietary fermentation process to convert gases (including industrial waste gases and gas derived from any biomass source) into fuels and chemicals.

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Dynamotive and Genting BioOil extend MOU

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Canada-based Dynamotive and Genting Bio-Oil Sdn Bhd (GBO) of Malaysia have extended their August 2011 memorandum of understanding (MOU) through December 2012. GBO supports the development and production of bio-oil from empty fruit bunches, a waste material of the palm oil industry, using pyrolysis technology.

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Libertine LPE free piston technology targeting power generation, waste-heat recovery and range-extended EV applications; feasibility study with PETRONAS

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Unlike a conventional internal combustion engine, a free piston engine does not have connecting rods and a crank shaft to govern each piston’s movement and convert the reciprocating action into rotary motion. A free piston engine is a heat engine with pistons that move back and forth to extract work from a fluid, or to act as a pump.

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LanzaTech exploring lipids production as part of its CO2 to acetic acid plans; pathways to renewable fuels

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Should the lab and pilot work prove successful and scalable, they will place a demo plant in Malaysia, Burton said. Part of the challenge is locating sufficient quantities of hydrogen to enable large scale use of the CO 2 in waste gases. LanzaTech envisions using partner technology to convert the acetic acid to lipids—i.e.,

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