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MARCH 30, 2022

Raven SR, a US-based renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), plans to build a waste-to-hydrogen production facility in Aragón, Spain, following the opening of its subsidiary Raven SR Iberia in Zaragoza, announced earlier this month. About 15% of feedstock is converted into a solid bio-carbon which can potentially be sold.

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JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

the strategic investment arm of South Korea’s SK Group, was part of a $50-million investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy, a US-based waste-to-fuels company. Fulcrum produce biofuel on a commercial scale by chemically converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into transportation fuels. Founded in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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JUNE 4, 2014

Siemens recently introduced an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module for industrial plants or power stations for the conversion of waste heat to electricity. The Siemens system can generate electricity from waste heat of only about 300 ?C. The new Siemens Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) module. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company; Chevron New Energies, a division of Chevron USA; and Hyzon Motors are collaborating to commercialize operations of a green waste-to-hydrogen production facility in Richmond intended to supply hydrogen fuel to transportation markets in Northern California.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The funding will help Sierra Energy further develop and commercialize its FastOx gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. Waste is fed into the top of the gasifier vessel through an airlock. Purified oxygen and steam are injected into the base.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

to convert organic waste to produce green hydrogen at a site in Richmond, California. The Raven SR Steam/CO 2 Reformation process also presents a valid alternative to electrolysis converting waste rather than precious and limited water resources for green hydrogen production.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Biomass feedstocks can be produced by municipal solid waste (MSW) streams and algae and converted into low-carbon fuels that can significantly contribute to the decarbonization of transportation sectors that face barriers to electrification, such as aviation and marine. Federal share. Cascadia Consulting Group. University of Toledo.

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JULY 26, 2023

Enerkem, a producer of bio-methanol from mixed waste at commercial scale, and Dimeta, a joint venture between the two of the largest off-grid energy suppliers, are initiating feasibility studies for the development of two large-scale projects that will convert waste into renewable and recycled carbon dimethyl ether (DME).

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MAY 27, 2022

The technology converts carbon emissions from steel mills or gasified waste biomass directly into MEG. The carbon capture technology uses a proprietary engineered bacterium to convert carbon emissions directly into MEG through fermentation, bypassing the need for an ethanol intermediate, and simplifying the MEG supply chain.

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DECEMBER 24, 2014

An EU-funded project, Biogas2PEM-FC , has developed a system to convert the toxic waste from olive oil production into electricity. The waste from olive oil production—which contains pesticides and toxic organic compounds, is acidic and with a high salinity—is environmentally harmful and costly to discard.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Haldor Topsoe is determined to take a leading position in the green hydrogen space, and has established a focused green hydrogen organization to accelerate its business. The new organization will leverage Topsoe’s insights into solid oxide electrolysis.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

In the Netherlands, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and its partners have developed a new type of aviation fuel produced using bio-based waste streams from the agriculture industry. The BioJet Fuel project is evaluating the complete value and production chains of biofuels from wet organic waste streams for the aviation sector.

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JUNE 3, 2014

SUEZ Environnement and Déinove ( earlier post ) are collaborating on an R&D program to explore the development of a process to convert organic urban waste into ethanol using Deinococcus bacteria. This organic waste is currently mainly recovered via composting and methanization.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Fulcrum BioEnergy has selected Gary, Indiana as the location of its Centerpoint BioFuels Plant, which will convert municipal solid waste (MSW) into low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel. Once operational, the Centerpoint plant will divert and process approximately 700,000 tons of waste from the Greater Chicago area.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

With the goal of boosting the circular economy, energy efficiency and emissions reduction, SEAT is currently working on the Life Methamorphosis project to obtain biomethane from previously selected waste and animal slurry from a farm in Lleida.

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OCTOBER 8, 2017

Researchers at Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have devised a method of converting a waste product generated by the conversion of algae into bio-crude into a usable and valuable commodity. Converting algae to biofuels can utilize a two-step process. —Fernandez et al. Schmidt, Marie S.

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APRIL 26, 2023

This partnership will allow Cap Clean to produce high-quality renewable fuels from various biomass and bio-wastes feedstocks for the difficult-to-abate transportation sector using modular systems capable of rapid production scale-up. The demand for SAF over the next 10 years is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 10 – 15%.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

ElectraTherm, a leader in distributed, waste heat to power generation, is working with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Creare, and the US Naval Academy (USNA) to demonstrate gas turbine waste heat recovery as part of a Small Business Innovation Research project. Hot water is the only fuel consumed by the Power+.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

developed wet combustion technology to convert waste organic materials, particularly rice husks, to hydrogen and other value-added materials using water in a novel hexagonal batch reactor. in a 18-month project to further develop wet combustion technology invented by Science System Corporation Shion Inc.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China report a two-step method for the synthesis of jet-fuel-range high-density polycycloalkanes from polycarbonate waste under mild conditions. Plastics are a family of organic polymers which are widely used in our life. Since 1950s, about 6.3 Tang et al.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

By converting various types of local waste, such as green waste, municipal solid waste, organic waste, and methane from municipal solid waste, into clean fuels, Raven SR offers a sustainable solution for the reliable and long-term production of SAF.

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OCTOBER 28, 2017

Researchers in China have developed a novel free-piston linear generator (FPLG) to recover exhaust waste heat efficiently from a vehicle engine. The FPLG can be used in a small-scale organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system and can directly convert the thermodynamic energy of working fluid into electricity. —Tian et al.

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DECEMBER 23, 2022

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company, and Chart Industries will collaborate globally on the liquefaction, storage, and transportation of hydrogen as well as pure carbon dioxide produced from Raven SR’s non-combustion Steam/CO 2 Reformation process of converting waste to renewable fuel.

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JUNE 30, 2013

Abengoa recently inaugurated a demonstration plant using Waste-to-Biofuels (W2B) technology. The plant has a capacity to treat 25,000 tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) from which it will obtain up to 1.5 Such an integrated solution result in less than 10% of managed MSW being sent to landfill as inert waste.

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JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors. The possible impact of using off-gases from this sector is considerable.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

Waste-to-biogas company Anaergia Inc. Biogenic carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide that is released during the decomposition of organic matter such as food waste. All Anaergia plants use organic waste material to produce biogas, which is composed of methane and carbon dioxide.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The shortlisted proposals include plants aiming to produce jet fuel from: Combining carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere with hydrogen from water; Alcohol derived from wastes; Everyday household and commercial black bag rubbish; and. Shortlisted organizations: Advanced Biofuel Solutions Ltd. alfanar Energy Ltd. Lanzatech UK Ltd.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The Raven SR technology is a non-combustion thermal process for converting organic waste and landfill gas to hydrogen and Fischer-Tropsch synfuels. This combination will allow Raven SR to produce high-quality synthetic fuels at higher than currently feasible volumes within small, modular systems.

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APRIL 11, 2012

The Canada-based Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE) is providing up to $6 million in funding to leverage a total project value of up to $14 million for a partnership between Domtar and Battelle Memorial Institute to develop and deploy a fast-pyrolysis-based system to convert wood waste to drop-in transportation fuel.

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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. The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office has published a report, titled Biofuels and Bioproducts from Wet and Gaseous Waste Streams: Challenges and Opportunities. These feedstocks can be converted into renewable natural gas, diesel, and aviation fuels, or into valuable bioproducts.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Waste Management, Inc. has invested in waste-to-fuel company Terrabon, LLC. Waste Management is the leading provider of comprehensive waste management and environmental services in North America. Waste Management is the leading provider of comprehensive waste management and environmental services in North America.

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MAY 12, 2011

Waste Management has made a strategic investment in Agnion Energy , Inc. Waste Management joins other investors in Agnion including,Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Munich Venture Partners and Wellington Partners. Waste Management wants to maximize the value of the materials it manages. Agnion’s Heatpipe-Reformer.

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JUNE 1, 2010

An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Sandia has been working on “Sunshine to Petrol” technologies for a number of years. Source: Sandia. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 3, 2014

Start-up Enogia and IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) are forming a strategic partnership for the joint development and marketing of a range of Rankine technologies to convert heat into electricity. Created in 2009, Enogia specializes in ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) systems converting waste heat into electricity.

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MAY 3, 2023

Anaergia’s supply of renewable natural gas (RNG) will be produced from food waste and municipal wastewater at the company’s SoCal Biomethane plant in Victorville, California and will be sold and delivered to FuelCell Energy through Anew, the exclusive RNG marketer for the Victorville facility. The fuel cells will also produce a net 2.3

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