Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2019

Even as electrified vehicles penetrate the short distance transportation market, high energy density transportation fuels remain essential to long distance transportation. bacteria, fungi, and algae) may be grown on non-arable land and with saline water, wastewater or/and produced water from mineral and petroleum extraction.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Imperial College of London have published in the journal Science joint research on potential breakthroughs in a new membrane technology that could reduce emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil. —Thompson et al. Imperial College London.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2023

Construction, including site preparation, geotechnical drilling, water pipeline development and associated infrastructure, has commenced. Established in 1906 and operationally headquartered in Chicago, EXP is a global leader in oil, gas and chemicals. Phase 1 production is expected to commence in the second half of 2026.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

Researchers in Europe led by a team from ETH Zurich have designed a fuel production system that uses water, CO 2 , and sunlight to produce aviation fuel. We are the first to demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain from water and CO 2 to kerosene in a fully-integrated solar tower system. Zoller et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

the developer of a process for harvesting algae and cleaning up oil & gas water, announced that its second original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) agreement will target oil service companies in the Canadian oil sands market. LH was an early private investor in Athabasca Oil Corporation. OriginOil, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2022

Phillips 66 made a final investment decision Wednesday to move forward with Rodeo Renewed, the project to convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, into one of the world’s largest renewable fuels facilities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters. Water from mining of oil sands and oil shale. Heavy metals in soil.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. Offering realistic market potential, the technology paves the way for the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals. Methanol is regarded as a commodity or bulk chemical.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

—Joe Gorder, Valero Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, To produce renewable diesel, Diamond Green Diesel first pretreats used cooking oil and inedible animal fats to remove impurities. billion pounds of used cooking oil annually. The US restaurant industry generates an estimated 2.3

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Pyrolysis bio-oils are produced by the thermal decomposition of biomass by heating in the absence of oxygen at more than 500 °C; fast pyrolysis of biomass is much less expensive than biomass conversion technologies based on gasification or fermentation processes. The products can be tuned to change with different market conditions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

have demonstrated for the first time that genetically engineered marine algae can be just as capable as fresh water algae in producing industrially relevant products such as enzymes or biofuels. What our research shows is that we can achieve in marine species exactly what we’ve already done in fresh water species. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

The majority (62%) of the plantations were located on the island of Sumatra, and more than two-thirds (69%) of all industrial plantations were developed for oil palm cultivation, with the remainder mostly being Acacia plantations for paper pulp production. —Miettinen et al. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Argent has a fleet of about 20 pieces of equipment comprising wheel loaders, excavators, bobcats and a couple of water trucks. All of the renewable products Neste distributes in North America are made from 100% renewable and sustainably sourced waste materials such as used cooking oil, rendered fats and greases. <>/div>.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

After one year on the market, the enzyme Novozymes Avantec is now used to produce more than 20% of total corn ethanol volumes in the US. Another enzyme, Novozymes Spirizyme Achieve, is used to produce more than 10% of US corn ethanol after being on the market for only four months. On average, Avantec increases ethanol yield by 2.5%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

New Oil Resources , a company commercializing a near-critical (i.e., The process uses catalyst and high water temperatures to dissolve the biomass and produce the chemical products. Several of these chemicals can be marketed directly as green, renewable consumer products or modified for that market.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

SOLVE adds a solvent to the steam in SAGD (basic operation depicted above) to reduce energy input and water consumption. The production well extracts the bitumen to surface heavy oil production facilities. SAGD is the predominant in-situ recovery method currently used in Canada’s oil sands. Source: StatoilHydro.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Phillip Savage at the University of Michigan has found that with appropriate parameters, hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) can convert 65% of wet algae (a Nannochloropsis species) into biocrude in one minute. They saw their best results, with about half of the algae converted to biocrude, after treating it for 10 to 40 minutes at 570 degrees.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Comstock proposes to build a pre-pilot scale system to demonstrate a novel new pathway to convert its biointermediates from forestry residues and other forms of lignocellulosic biomass into renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, gasoline, and marine fuel at dramatically improved yield, efficiency, and cost. Comstock Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Energy Vault’s advanced gravity energy storage solutions are based on the proven physics and mechanical engineering fundamentals of pumped hydroelectric energy storage, but replace water with custom-made composite blocks, or “mobile masses”, which do not lose storage capacity over time.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

The conclusion of the successful open season confirmed strong market support for a pipeline with approximately 900,000 bbl/d of firm, long-term contracts to transport crude oil from the oil sands area in Western Canada to Eastern Canadian refineries and export terminals. TransCanada Corporation is moving forward with the 1.1

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JUNE 10, 2013

The technology also increases corn oil extraction by 13%, while saving 8% energy. A typical US ethanol plant uses around 36 million bushels (900,000 tons) of feed-grade corn per year to produce 100 million gallons of fuel ethanol, 300,000 tons of animal feed (DDGS) and 8,500 tons of corn oil. Avantec was introduced in October 2012.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

CH utilizes water to reduce hydrogen and catalyst consumption and quickly and inexpensively converts plant oils into stable intermediate oil products which are very similar to petroleum crude oil. Aemetis, Inc., In May of this year, CLG joined ARA’s ReadiJet Alternative Fuel Initiative for drop-in biofuels.

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Chevron Oil Renewable Diesel 225

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

The supply will be produced by Raven SR at facilities planned for major global markets outside Japan to serve specific international routes of each airline. Global SAF supply currently comprises 0.03% of total jet fuel consumption due to a limited supply of feedstock like used cooking oils and tallow.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We We have a lot of Tesla drivers in Houston because the oil execs see them as a status symbol with cool technology. Showing a home-brew EV.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In November 2018, NEXT announced its selection of Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining technology to convert renewable feedstocks into renewable diesels and related co?products. As a drop-in fuel, NEXT’s renewable diesel is a perfect fit with our existing fuels business and will allow us to integrate this advanced fuel seamlessly into our supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

The first Etanolix plant delivered to the international market by Finland-based St1 Biofuels Oy was inaugurated in Gothenburg, Sweden last week. The ethanol plant is fully integrated into the functions and logistics of St1 oil refinery in Gothenburg and has an annual production capacity of 5 million liters (1.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Power steering is electric and as a result we don’t need to check the power steering oil level as there isn’t any. Priuses can burn oil. Even though it is normal (for all cars), hybrids can develop a thirst for oil after a few hundred thousand kilometers. Two out of our four Priuses burn oil. My 2005 burns about 0.3-0.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

The feasibility study follows a deal to convert sustainable electricity into green hydrogen for SkyNRG. The plant, which would convert renewable electricity into green hydrogen via water electrolysis, could be scaled up from 20 megawatts to at least 60 megawatts—allowing for production of 9,000 tons of green hydrogen per year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This is helping to reduce technological barriers and improve the suitability of vehicles with fuel cell drives for the mass market. Fuel cells are also sensitive to oil admixtures. The electric compressor used to compress the supply air flow must therefore be oil-free. Water separators. Compressor. Humidifier.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Recent successful field tests at its Colony Mine with the Electrofrac process for converting the kerogen in oil shale to producible oil and gas is prompting ExxonMobil to try again for a research and development lease from the Interior Department for a larger trial. barrels of water for each barrel of oil produced, he said.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2021

EFT has applied our upgrading technology to a wide range of non-FT feedstocks such as algae oils, plant oils and plastics. It also has considerable expertise in upgrading technologies for making fuels and chemicals. Both of our configurations are highly integrated, modular and repeatable.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

and Chemtex, a global technology and engineering company wholly-owned by Italy’s Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi, are collaborating to develop and produce sustainable detergent alcohols for use in the household products market. Codexis will market products resulting from the collaboration. Codexis, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2014

The EA288 is designed to meet the requirements of different markets. weight) and market regulations. extension of the oil return and blow-by channels to the parting plane of the oil pan. extension of the oil return and blow-by channels to the parting plane of the oil pan. The dual oil and vacuum pump unit.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The conversion of coal to liquid fuels is especially relevant in coal-rich countries that have to import oil for their supply of liquid fuels—such as China. China represents the largest coal market in the world and is expanding its coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology by ~2% per year. —Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2016

Siluria and Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions have agreed to work as partners in the commercialization—including marketing and licensing—of the jointly developed process technologies resulting from the collaboration. The ethane subsequently undergoes dehydrogenation to form ethylene and water. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2012

ARA has developed a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g., crop oils and animal fats) to non-ester biofuels—renewable fuels that are pure hydrocarbons indistinguishable from their petroleum counterparts. ARA scientists developed the CH PROCESS using high temperature water to create biocrude.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Traditional conversion technologies of algal biomass to biofuels have mainly included lipid extraction or pyrolysis for biodiesel, hydrotreated renewable diesel, or bio-oil production. HTL uses subcritical water as the chemical driving force to convert biomass to a carbon-rich biocrude. The yield of biocrude was 44.5 ± 4.7%

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