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Altalto waste-to-jet fuel plant advances in UK; BA, Shell, Velocys

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Velocys is leading the development of the project and has assembled all the technology components into a standardized integrated design. British Airways intends to purchase jet fuel produced at the plant for use in its aircraft. million gallons US) of cleaner-burning sustainable jet and road fuel each year.

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Waste-to-biofuels company Enerkem raises C$280M, its largest financing round

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a leading waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, has completed a C$280-million (US$223 million) investment round—its largest to date. The technology converts non-recyclable, non-compostable municipal solid waste into methanol, ethanol and other widely-used chemicals. Canada-based Enerkem Inc., Earlier post.).

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United purchasing 15M gallons of renewable jet fuel from AltAir Fuel; Honeywell’s UOP Green Jet

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United Airlines executed a definitive purchase agreement with AltAir Fuels ( earlier post ) for cost-competitive, sustainable, bio-synthetic paraffinic kerosene at commercial scale. The process produces a bio-synthetic paraffinic kerosene (bio-SPK) or Green Jet Fuel that is then blended with standard jet fuel for use in flight.

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California Energy Commission awards $750K to Electricore to study standardization of plug-in vehicle batteries

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. $750,000 to research value-based design options for the standardization of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) batteries. The project survey will include identifying barriers to standardizing, researching methods to implement battery system standards, and recommending potential paths to the commercial adoption of battery standards.

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ANA signs offtake agreement with LanzaTech for alcohol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel

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for the purchase of alcohol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) beginning in 2021. PNNL developed a unique thermocatalytic process for converting ethanol into ATJ-SPK. The first step of the process is to convert the ethanol into ethylene (“dehydration”). Earlier post.). ANA signed a partnership agreement with Mitsui & Co.,

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Eindhoven University of Technology to make biofuels from its own wood waste; cyclic oxygenate CyclOx and ethanol

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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. In addition, this fuel meets the planned EU standard which specifies that fuels must have 10% biofuel content in 2020.

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FedEx Converts 92 Delivery Trucks to Hybrids, Expanding Hybrid-Electric Fleet by 50%

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has added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting standard FedEx delivery trucks to hybrid-electric systems. The converted hybrids were developed with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) and Eaton Corporation, which provided the hybrid-electric systems ( earlier post ). FedEx Corp.

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