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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. Resources. Lindstad, S.E. Tranell, T. Færden and J.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

DE-FOA-0002423 ) Topic Areas ins the FOA support DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources.

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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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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Their paper was presented at the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division 2012 Fall Technical Conference by Marcello Canova, assistant professor at OSU; lead author was Philipp Skarke, from the University of Stuttgart Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Automotive Engineering. —Skarke et al. The OSU EcoCAR PHEV powertrain.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the research demonstrates how lignin-derived compounds can first be converted to muconic acid via a biological process. Muconic acid can then be separated from the biological culture and catalytically converted into adipic acid. —Vardon et al. Approximately 2.5

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MAY 29, 2011

Researchers at Utah State University report on an engineered bacterial enzyme—a molybdenum (Mo) nitrogenase—capable of converting carbon monoxide into usable hydrocarbons in a reaction similar to Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. expressed if sufficient Mo is present in the cell. Nitrogenase is the bacterial enzyme responsible.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Global Bioenergies has produced “second-generation” isobutene, in a push to diversify accessible feedstock towards cheaper resources. Various companies are presently de-bottlenecking the conversion of second-generation materials into fermentable sugars. Earlier post.) into fermentable sugars.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Scientists of Ural Federal University and the Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) have developed and successfully tested the technology of joint non-waste processing of electric furnace and ladle slag to obtain pig iron and Portland cement clinker. —Oleg Sheshukov, lead author. Background.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This expander uses a nozzle to convert the potential energy of the high-pressure refrigerant into a high-velocity stream, which then impinges on the turbine that is directly connected by a shaft to a generator. … The team presented its work in the International Journal of Refrigeration. —Barta et al. 2019.12.027.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). In CCTF, the source of CO 2 determines the net carbon intensity of the fuel, Kreutz says.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Transphorm says that its solutions cut energy waste by 20% and simplify the design and manufacturing of a wide variety of electrical systems and devices, including motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles. is showcasing a GaN-based, dc-to-dc boost converter running at more than 99% efficiency.

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MARCH 21, 2018

In a paper presented at the 255 th National Meeting of the ACS, the team described an innovative integrated process to convert renewable and recycled carbon into High Octane Low Carbon Gasoline blends. It’s a major breakthrough that could enable the development of a new non-oxygenated biofuel made from waste on a commercial scale.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Leveraging biomass presents a potential avenue to contribute to the global objective of achieving a carbon-neutral human society. Lignocellulosic biomass, a renewable and abundant resource, holds great promise for sustainable production of valuable chemicals and fuels, currently derived mainly from oil.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Martin Linck provided an update on the progress toward commercializing the GTI Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion (IH 2 ) process, with a presentation of new data on IH 2 developed from a continuous 50 kg/day pilot plant. Sustainable Energy presenting experimental data from their 0.45 Earlier post.). per gallon, Linck said.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

needed to produce this fuel from the surrounding air, turning a greenhouse gas into a resource. Present studies suggest that a pure fuel cost of between €1.20 Innovative biofuels, which are, for example, produced from waste materials, are useful—however, the supply is limited. This creates a virtuous cycle in which the CO?

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JUNE 25, 2018

Researchers from Hokkaido University and their colleagues in Japan and Taiwan have more than doubled the ability of a material to transform wasted heat into usable electricity by significantly narrowing the space through which spread electrons move, according to a new open-access study published in the journal Nature Communications.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Evonik Industries has demonstrated the use of bacteria to convert syngas to pure 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid (2-HIBA) under industrial conditions. Waste gas is one example of a source of syngas. Both the chemically-produced and biotech-produced products can be converted to methyl methacrylate (MMA). —Thomas Haas.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. In the fuel sector, it is presently used to manufacture isooctane, ETBE and MTBE which are valuable compounds used in gasoline mixes. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 17, 2011

at Harsco’s world headquarters in Pennsylvania, taps into Harsco’s leadership serving the worldwide steel industry, in combination with LanzaTech’s proprietary bioenergy technologies for reducing the carbon footprint of integrated steelmaking operations by converting waste gas to ethanol and high value chemicals.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Micro-organisms found in the wildfire-prone rainforests of India are an potential resources for biochemical production, as they are accustomed to the challenging conditions following a forest fire. The fungi are adapted to growing on burned wood where similar inhibitors are present as in pretreated lignocellulose.

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APRIL 19, 2023

To improve recyclability, this Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Magna Services of America (Magna) aimed at developing ShAPE to demonstrate the potential for converting Al industrial scrap directly into sub-scale automotive components. 2023.01.005.

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MAY 21, 2009

Waste Management, Inc. The joint venture is expected to process waste from the country’s increasingly segmented commercial and industrial waste streams to produce a range of synthetic fuels and chemicals as well as to generate electricity. Joe Vaillancourt, managing director at Waste Management. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 17, 2018

Global Bioenergies (GBE), the company developing a process converting renewable resources into isobutene via fermentation ( earlier post ), and SkyNRG, world market leader in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), will collaborate to accelerate the commercialization of Global Bioenergies’ approach to process isobutene into a jet fuel blending component.

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APRIL 28, 2024

In 2023, IX Energy presented a retrofitted Tata LCV. First one was with a government think-tank ISGF (India Smart Grip Foundation) in which we drove our converted electric truck from Farrukh Nagar to Chandigarh travelling almost 320 km one-way. How has the business picked up since then? Since then, we have done multiple trials.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Researchers from Delft University of Technology have engineered the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to increase ethanol yield from biomass waste by eliminating production of glycerol (glycerol production is essential to reoxidize NADH produced in biosynthetic processes), reoxidizing NADH instead by the reduction of acetic acid to ethanol.

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MAY 29, 2020

And sorbents are not only expensive, but they generate a huge amount of physical waste—similar to the diaper landfill issue. The sponge is quickly and easily converted into a smart sponge (or “OHM sponge”) with a selective affinity for oil. Skimmers don’t work in rough waters or with thin layers of oil. —Vikas Nandwana.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology enables low cost production of sustainable alcohols and chemicals from waste gas resources that are completely outside the food value chain. The use of lignin opens up a new biomass waste stream for making economic renewable jet fuel. Earlier post.). Source: FAA. .

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MAY 10, 2018

. … Low density polyethylene (LDPE), which is predominantly used as a packaging film and takes a big portion of total plastic waste, also increasingly employed and disposed without recycling and reuse. The next step for the team is fabricating a larger battery utilizing this concept. Kim, Harif D. Fontecha, Kyungho Kim, and Vilas G.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. SCF Technologies presentation (2008).

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JULY 30, 2012

Panasonic has developed an artificial photosynthesis system using a gallium nitride photoelectrode and a metal catalyst which uses sunlight to convert CO 2 mainly to formic acid (an important intermediate in chemical synthesis) at an efficiency (solar energy to chemical energy) of 0.2%—a Click to enlarge. Hiroshi Hashiba et al.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have developed a “high-gravity” one-pot process for producing ethanol from cellulosic biomass that gives unprecedented yields while minimizing water use and waste disposal. —Xu et al. —Blake Simmons. Feng Xu, Jian Sun, N.

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OCTOBER 22, 2016

In some algal biofuel production methods, lipids are extracted from algae and converted to renewable diesel, while the non-lipid components of the algae are converted to biogas. The study is published in the journal Algal Research. The carbohydrate-rich stream, produced via acid hydrolysis, is fermented to ethanol. 2016.06.019.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

The standard deviation of each value is also presented (±). In modeling algae production, the researchers selected open ponds as being the most promising option at present. 1.0 ± 0.14. switchgrass. 2.9 ± 0.27. 2.4 ± 0.18. 0.57 ± 0.21. The need to minimize the upstream impacts is the first overarching outcome from this analysis.

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APRIL 20, 2011

In a paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , Hiren Mulchandani and Adam Brandt note that oil shale contains large amounts of stored chemical energy—more than 1 trillion barrels of oil equivalent is present in the Green River formation of the United States alone. secondary use of waste heat. Heat source.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A group of researchers at the City College of New York is developing a new way to generate power for planes and road vehicles based on short, flexible piezoelectric cantilever beams which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity. There are two mechanisms which contribute to the driving forcing of the beam. Yiannis Andreopoulos.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Power inverters convert direct current into the alternating current that powers the vehicle. Additive manufacturing helped researchers explore complex geometries, increase power densities, and reduce weight and waste while building ORNL’s 30 kW prototype inverter. The prototype stems from a two-year $1.45-million DOE 2020 target.

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MARCH 22, 2010

ECP’s Dr. Albin Czernichowski, a professor with the University of Orleans, France, presented two papers on different aspects of the system today at the 239 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Francisco. This step deals with all complex molecules and converts them into hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

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