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JUNE 11, 2021

Oberon Fuels, producer of clean-burning dimethyl ether (DME) transportation fuel, has begun production of the first renewable DME (rDME) in the United States, and the only current commercial production of this in the world. Once delivered, rDME can be converted to renewable hydrogen at the point of use.

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JULY 5, 2023

All three facilities have now successfully been put into operation and deliver renewable diesel into the United States transportation market. These facilities utilize Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology for the conversion of waste and bio-feedstock into renewable diesel.

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MARCH 18, 2019

Even as electrified vehicles penetrate the short distance transportation market, high energy density transportation fuels remain essential to long distance transportation. Algal biocrude obtained from CIJMs converts successfully into biodiesel, and cascades of CIJMs increase the net lipid production.

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AUGUST 14, 2021

The Port of Corpus Christi Authority (Port of Corpus Christi) and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC (Howard/HEP) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) stating their intention to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services facility into the region’s first blue hydrogen production facility.

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AUGUST 19, 2016

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has issued a request for information ( DE-FOA-0001607 ) on lower-grade waste heat recovery technologies. quadrillion BTU of energy was wasted mainly in the form of heat. Thus, ARPA-E is keenly interested in waste heat conversion in this temperature range. Q of waste heat.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Battelle researchers have developed a mobile catalytic pyrolysis unit that converts biomass materials such as wood chips or agricultural waste into bio-oil. As currently configured, the Battelle-funded unit converts one ton of pine chips, shavings and sawdust into as much as 1,300 gallons of wet bio-oil per day.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We expect low-carbon fuel policies to continue to expand globally and drive demand for renewable fuels, and to that end, we are applying our liquid fuels expertise to continue to expand our long-term competitive advantage in low-carbon transportation fuels with the expansion of DGD. This enables the fuel to be used in cold weather.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

This facility will be built and operated by a joint venture partnership formed by Enerkem, a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company, and GreenField Ethanol, Canada’s largest ethanol company. This waste-to-biofuels production facility will help reduce greenhouse emissions, fossil fuel imports and landfilled volumes.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Biomass energy consumption in the United States grew more than 60% from 2002 to 2013, the growth due almost entirely to increased consumption of biomass to produce biofuels, primarily ethanol but also a smaller amount of biodiesel and other biomass-based diesel fuels, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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JUNE 24, 2015

Alphabet Energy, founded in 2009 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, announced the availability of its thermoelectric generator PowerModule as a standalone product, available to meet the specific application needs of a range of industries, including transportation. an implied efficiency of about 2.5%—saving

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APRIL 28, 2022

In June, 2021, Oberon produced the first renewable DME (rDME) in the United States. Because rDME is similar to propane in its chemical structure, it can be blended with propane, transported in the same trucks, and used in similar applications, while notably reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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JUNE 17, 2022

Avfuel Corporation is making a multimillion-dollar investment in Alder Fuels—a company that is developing technologies for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at scale by converting abundant biomass into sustainable low-carbon, drop-in replacement crude oil that can be used in existing refineries to produce aviation fuel.

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JULY 29, 2019

will use Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and machine learning to rapidly improve catalysts which are imperative to the efficiency and economy of the United States by making energy production, manufacturing and transportation more efficient and eco-friendly. Awards include: Accustrata Inc. TDA Research Inc.

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Teslarati

MARCH 29, 2023

The United States Department of Treasury’s battery sourcing guidance might slash EV Tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The batteries in an electric vehicle must source at least 40% of its minerals from the United States or a country with a free trade agreement to qualify for the IRA’s EV tax credits.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Greyrock Energy, a company founded in 2006 to develop technologies for the modular, distributed, production of transportation grade diesel fuel from natural gas, has completed testing of its premium gas-to-liquids (GTL) synthetic diesel fuel at an advanced heavy-duty diesel engine dynamometer laboratory.

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MAY 25, 2017

Among the awards of interest from a fuels and transportation perspective are: AWARD TABLE. Production of C 5 hydrocarbons from waste biomass. Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. Description. Visolis, Inc. Trash2Cash-Energy LLC.

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APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. secondary use of waste heat. Waste heat from conversion.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Equivalents of the two patents in this case have also been approved in numerous other jurisdictions around the world, including places where smaller scale GTL might be deployed, such as the United States and Canada, and countries where FT reactors and other associated equipment might be manufactured, such as Japan and South Korea.

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JANUARY 21, 2011

TXE is engaged in developing a gasification facility in Beaumont, Texas that will convert petroleum coke, an oil refining waste product, into hydrogen and pipeline quality carbon dioxide. This site is uniquely suited for a gasification facility that converts waste petroleum coke into clean energy products.

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JULY 1, 2013

In the United States, the transportation sector accounts for two-thirds of total US oil consumption and about one-third of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrocarbon-based biofuels made from non-food feedstocks, waste materials, and algae can directly replace gasoline and other fuels.

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MAY 7, 2015

Fulcrum BioEnergy has awarded a $200-million fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Abengoa for the construction of Fulcrum’s first municipal solid waste (MSW) to transportation fuels facility, the Sierra BioFuels Plant. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 17, 2017

is the largest commercial advanced biofuel facility in the United States. The Diamond Green Diesel facility converts inedible oils and other waste feedstocks to produce Honeywell Green Diesel, a high-quality renewable fuel. High-cetane diesel can be blended with cheaper low-cetane diesel to meet transportation standards.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

In September, Gevo received a $5-million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the development of biojet fuel from woody biomass and forest product residues. Honeywell’s UOP is a recognized leader in refining process technologies to convert natural oils, animal fats and biomass to sustainable green fuels.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

Johnson-Matthey will produce the catalysts that turn the lipids in the methane into fuel, while Illinois-based Lanza Tech, a pioneer in waste-to-fuels technology, has signed on to take the bench-scale plan to the commercial level, if it is successful. —Phil Pienkos, NREL’s principle investigator on the liquid to diesel project.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

unit volume of ethanol can replace 1 unit volume of gasoline in terms of energy. Ethanol blended fuels are widely used in Brazil, the United States, and Europe. Bioethanol is being produced converting carbon-based agricultural feedstock such as sugar cane, bagasse, grain, barley, potatoes.

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MAY 16, 2016

This project will engineer cyanobacteria for the production of ethyl laurate, which is easily converted to “drop-in” ready biofuels or bioproducts. This uses carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), water, and light as the main inputs, and does not waste carbon and energy by limiting the amount of biomass produced. Duke University.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Once operational, the facility is expected to convert 600,000 tons of energy grasses per year into an estimated 20 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol using the Beta Renewable’s PROESA enzymatic hydrolysis process. The plant will produce biofuel for eastern transportation markets using non-food biomass feedstocks.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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JANUARY 13, 2011

SBI) ( earlier post ), a fiber preparation and pretreatment company, creating a company with comprehensive capabilities for converting non-food cellulose (wood chips, energy crops and organic solid waste) into ethanol and high value co-products. Mascoma recently announced the acquisition of SunOpta BioProcess Inc.

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MARCH 30, 2014

Computational tools for catalyst design: The ability to convert methane gas directly to liquid methanol at often-remote recovery sites would significantly alter the storage, transport, and use of the gas. Their findings will provide new insights into the politics of energy policy in the United States.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

United States Automotive Materials Partnership, LLC. United States Automotive Materials Partnership, LLC. Thermoelectric and enabling engine technology : Three projects awarded to improve the efficiency of thermoelectric devices to convert engine waste heat to electricity. General Motors, LLC.

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MAY 18, 2019

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin Madison and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering have devised a two-stage process by which an alcohol such as ethanol or 1-butanol can be converted with high yields into distillate-range ethers and olefins by combining Guerbet coupling (the coupling of two alcohol molecules) and intermolecular dehydration.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. OPX Biotechnologies Inc.

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JUNE 22, 2012

Algae-derived biofuel will directly impact the generation of transportation fuels (biodiesel, ethanol, and petroleum), and as part of the future of renewable fuel it will also impact many environmental and economic resources. microorganisms, enzymes, chemicals), will determine the quantity and nature of waste produced.It

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Use EV's Refining, Transporting, Pumping Oil causes huge pollution So not only does fuel pollute when we burn it in our cars, we are also using a huge amount of electricity just to pump the oil that makes the fuel. Then that oil needs to be transported, most of the oil is pumped through pipelines.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. The Eaton team has targeted the data center sector, as it is quickly becoming a major consumer of electricity in the United States.

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