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OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. Novel inorganic-organic perovskites for photovoltaics.

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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 11, 2015

Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities have developed a catalytic process to convert corn stover lignin into hydrocarbons (C 7 –C 18 )—primarily C 12 –C 18 cyclic structure hydrocarbons in the jet fuel range. The work is featured on. the cover of the December issue of the RSC journal Green Chemistry.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. is investing $1 million in a partnership with Trent University Biomaterials Research Laboratories, based in Peterborough, Ontario. In addition, the Ontario Soybean Growers organization will work with Elevance and Trent University on a major industrial research project.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

signed a binding, definitive Master Framework Agreement (MFA) to collaborate on providing renewable, low carbon, low particulate, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and renewable premium gasoline in India and neighboring countries. The renewable isobutanol will be aggregated and transferred to various refineries.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Hundreds of millions of gallons of drop-in 100% SAF will be unlocked. Comstock Inc.,

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APRIL 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award nearly $18 million to four innovative pilot-scale biorefineries in California, Iowa and Washington that will produce and test drop-in renewable biofuels that meet military specifications for jet fuel and shipboard diesel. The projects selected for negotiation are: Frontline Bioenergy LLC (up to $4.2

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JULY 25, 2015

Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan, with a colleague at the University of Tsukuba, have devised a process to convert squalane, a C 30 algae-derived branched hydrocarbon, to smaller hydrocarbons—without skeletal isomerization and aromatization—over ruthenium on ceria (Ru/CeO 2 ).

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Renewable fuels and chemicals company Virent and petroleum refiner and marketer Tesoro have reached an agreement for Tesoro to become Virent’s new strategic owner. The chemical intermediates from the APR step can also be converted into distillate range hydrocarbon components through a condensation step followed by conventional hydrotreating.

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JULY 31, 2017

An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light-activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have disclosed a new method to convert lignin, an important component of biomass waste, into simple chemicals. Lignin, which accounts for nearly 30% of the organic carbon in the biosphere, is a complex material containing chains of six-carbon rings.

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MARCH 26, 2021

A large-scale demonstration converting biocrude to renewable diesel fuel has passed a significant test, operating for more than 2,000 hours continuously without losing effectiveness. —John Holladay, PNNL scientist and co-director of the joint Bioproducts Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and Washington State University.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

Celtic Renewables Ltd, a spin-out company from from the Biofuel Research Centre (BfRC) at Edinburgh Napier University, has signed a memorandum of understanding with malt whisky producer Tullibardine for the use of its whisky by-products for feedstock for the production of bio-butanol. Celtic Renewables’ process.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Researchers at Washington University in St. A team of biologists and engineers modified Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 (TIE-1) so that it can produce a biofuel using only three renewable and naturally abundant source ingredients: carbon dioxide, solar panel-generated electricity and light. —Wei Bai. Ranaivoarisoa, T.O.,

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Neste Oil plans to use yeast and fungi to convert waste into oil for NExBTL feedstock. Neste Oil has completed the first phase of its project to build a pilot plant for producing microbial oil for use as a feedstock for NExBTL renewable diesel. A number of partners have been involved in this work, including Aalto University.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Terrabon’s pathway to renewable hydrocarbon fuel produces ketones, which are then processed using conventional refinery technology. Carl Rush, vice president of Organic Growth at Waste Management. MixAlco is an acid fermentation process that converts biomass into organic salts. Click to enlarge. Waste Management, Inc.

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JUNE 26, 2020

In addition, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is seeking to ban HFO use in Arctic waters. Due to environmental concerns and national as well as international regulations associated with fossil based HFOs, there is a considerable need for cleaner, renewable and economic alternatives for the maritime industry.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

SEAT will participate until 2023 in the Life Landfill Biofuel project (recently approved by the European Commission) the goal of which is to obtain renewable gas from municipal landfills. For this reason, converting waste into vehicular biofuel is one solution to this environmental challenge.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin led by Dr. Jim Dumesic report the conversion of the hemicellulose fraction of lignocellulosic biomass to furfural and levulinic acid using biphasic reactors with alkylphenol solvents in a new paper in the journal ChemSusChem. Source: Gürbüz et al. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Scientists from a team spanning Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a scalable, integrated bioelectrochemical system that uses bacteria to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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JULY 12, 2011

a provider of licensable commercial micro-crop technology globally, has entered into an agreement with CRI Catalyst Company LP (CRI) to use Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion technology (IH 2 ) for the conversion of PetroAlgae’s micro-crop residues into renewable fuels. PetroAlgae Inc., Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 10, 2021

“Stubborn” metals, however—which include elements such as platinum, iridium, ruthenium, and tungsten, among others—are very difficult to convert into thin films because they require extremely high temperatures (usually more than 2,000 degrees Celsius) to evaporate. —William Nunn, first author.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and Unitel Technologies, has says it has developed and successfully demonstrated a cost-effective catalytic method for making jet biofuel from renewable products such as plant and animal triglycerides and/or fatty acids. AliphaJet’s BoxCar process first converts crude fat feedstock into fatty acids and glycerol. AliphaJet , Inc.,

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MAY 28, 2019

Raising the penetration of renewable —an intermittent—sources of energy into the grid will require large scale electrical energy storage and retrieval. These microbes can absorb electricity into their metabolism and use this energy to convert CO 2 to biofuels.

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AUGUST 28, 2010

and scientists and engineers at Columbia University, Iowa State University (ISU) and the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to support work on production and testing of bio-dispersants that can replace the chemical dispersants currently used for oil spill management. In the paper, BIO cites Dr. P.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

The zeolite catalyst then converts these hydrogenated products into light olefins and aromatic hydrocarbons in a yield as much as three times higher than that produced with the pure pyrolysis oil. Hydrogen required in these processes should preferably be obtained from renewable sources, such as by the reforming of biomass-derived feedstock.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Possible pathways for microbial lipids-based renewable aviation fuels. Source: Dr. Shulin Chen , University of Washington. HRJ is produced from renewable oils (lipids) by methods common in petroleum refining. Integrated Processes for Converting CO 2 and. Organic Residues to Lipid-based Biofuels. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. North Carolina State University. Oregon State University. University of Cincinnati. University of Maryland - College Park. Princeton University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Duke University.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted Aemetis, an advanced fuels and renewable chemicals company formerly known as AE Biofuels, approval to produce ethanol using grain sorghum and biogas at its converted corn ethanol plant to generate D5 Advanced Biofuels Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs).

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JANUARY 7, 2010

has entered into a joint development program with the Energy & Environmental Research Center ( EERC ) at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks for converting a wide variety of biomass and waste into bio-butanol. Click to enlarge. Syntec Biofuel Inc. This is concerning, as it uses food resources to produce fuel.

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MARCH 22, 2011

The new Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000467) notes that moving beyond ethanol to hydrocarbon fuels will become increasingly important as blend walls are reached and the ability to meet legislated renewable fuel requirements necessitates the incorporation of fungible fuels.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Amyris received the Small Business award for its renewable hydrocarbon farnesane for use as diesel and jet fuel. Farnesene is a building block hydrocarbon that can be converted into a renewable, drop-in replacement for petroleum diesel without certain drawbacks of first-generation biofuels. coli bacteria and Saccharomyces (e.g.

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JUNE 19, 2014

US Hybrid has been a key supplier of balance-of-plant components such as cathode air blowers, DI pumps and power converters to UTC and other fuel cell suppliers for over a decade. The Hawaii Natural Energy Institute is an organized research unit of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) of the University of Hawaii at M?noa

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Australia-based renewable fuels company Muradel has launched Australia’s first integrated demonstration plant for the sustainable conversion of algae into green crude, as a first step towards a commercial plant with the potential to produce 80 million liters (21 million gallons US, or about 500,000 barrels) of crude oil per year.

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