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MAY 30, 2016

Licella’s Cat-HTR technology may add significant value to Canfor Pulp’s kraft process by creating new products from Canfor Pulp’s waste streams. Limited, which in turn is a subsidiary of Ignite Energy Resources Ltd. IER), an Australian public unlisted natural resource and energy technology development company.

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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 ). Kreutz used what he called a bifurcated climate regime—i.e., their CO 2 (e.g. ~90%)

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

With a nameplate capacity of 100 tons/year, the demo plant will allow the conversion of various resources (industrial-grade sugar from beets and cane, glucose syrup from cereals, second-generation sugars extracted from wheat straw, bagasse, wood chips…), into high-purity isobutene. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

The Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) program ( DE-FOA-0001211 ) seeks to accelerate biomass yield gains (especially energy sorghum) through automated, predictive and systems-level approaches to biofuel crop breeding.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

The H2@Scale initiative will develop and enable the deployment of transformational technologies that produce and utilize green, low-cost hydrogen to achieve an economically competitive, deeply decarbonized future energy system across sectors. Click to enlarge. Increased energy system resiliency and flexibility.

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APRIL 30, 2022

The consortium will showcase these systems at both Damon and Moment Energy’s new facilities in Vancouver BC, demonstrating manufacturing scale-up of components, assembly systems and targeting design for a near zero waste production operation. However, the cost of producing MEAs is high and the durability is often poor.

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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.).

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JUNE 1, 2012

will receive $5 million to develop, build and test a pilot facility to demonstrate an innovative gasification process to produce renewable biomass diesel from local municipal solid waste, including green refuse, railroad ties, construction and demolition waste, and plastics that typically wind up in landfills. SacPort Biofuels Corp.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

year plans and roadmaps, with a concomitant focus of the majority of its resources on a limited number of “highest probability of success” pathways/approaches to ensure that the program initiatives are supported at a critical mass (both in terms of dollars and time) for maximum impact. Specifically: the current cost of high?energy

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This funding is intended to help demonstrate and commercialize innovative technologies to lower the high initial costs of geothermal development and help make the operational deployment of low temperature geothermal units more economical. Historically, this coproduced hot water has been treated as a waste product.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

The proposed system uses a low-cost GlidArc plasma reactor to clean synthesis gas generated by simple gasification; the cleaned product gas is then compressed for processing by the compact plate reformer. In urban areas, waste cooking oil from restaurants could be the raw material. per gallon. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

Their hybrid approach combines the highly efficient light harvesting of inorganic semiconductors with the high specificity, low cost, and self-replication and -repair of biocatalysts. thermoacetica–CdS system directs ~90% of photosynthetic products toward acetic acid, reducing the cost of diversifying to other chemical products.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

Most of the methods currently under development involve converting biomass or waste, while there are also approaches to directly produce liquid transportation fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, typically using photosynthesis. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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APRIL 5, 2016

coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. lower cost) and gasification/F-T processes (e.g., In a patent application published 1 December 2015, Altex described the basic approach for its synthetic fuels processes. —US 9199889.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Included in the 34 FY2010 SBIR Phase I awards are the following biofuel and emissions-reduction projects: Technology Specialists, “Thermochemical Biofuels Production from Biomass Waste Materials”, $70,000. This project will develop and evaluate a new process for converting biomass waste into diesel fuel.

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MAY 9, 2012

Turbo boost can be controlled by changing the timing of the exhaust valves—no waste gate is required. In testing, BorgWarner observed fuel consumption improvements of 2% at low speeds to 12% at high speeds with VEMB, according to Thomas. Total cost of implementation is much less than $10/1%, he said. and Sisson, J.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

GVL is produced by hydrogenation of levulinic acid, which can be produced, potentially at low cost, from agricultural waste by commercial-scale process. The catalytic system described in this report provides an efficient and inexpensive processing strategy for GVL. Bond, David Martin Alonso, Dong Wang, Ryan M. West, James A.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Technologies that stretch today’s assets and resources. These are “no-regret” technologies, as they represent actions that can be made today to make a significant impact on CO 2 , energy security and the optimization of local resources. The biggest challenge is in the deconstruction stage, with high costs for pretreatment and enzymes.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

However, managed EV adoption can reduce the cost of achieving GHG reductions through a RES, they concluded in their paper published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. They considered biomass, wind, solar, and municipal waste resources within the Eastern Interconnection eligible to meet RESs.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

This common core also provides greater confidence in the robustness of prototypes, while minimizing the cost of variants further supports the development of 48V systems. SR machines are ideally suited to this concept of low cost development, while reducing the cost of production components. —Nick Pascoe.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production. The team intends to demonstrate high-purity (greater than 98% by volume, preferably above 99.5%

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JULY 10, 2010

Specifically, low cost and energy-efficient processes are sought that can be demonstrated and validated under field conditions to meet needs of the nascent algal biomass industry. Algae cultures tend to be relatively dilute, and the energy requirement to remove water from the cultures can be a significant portion of the energy balance.

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MAY 4, 2018

This FOA addresses gaps in current research and development (R&D) which hinder better utilizing waste streams (e.g. Applications are invited that address early stage R&D challenges that are best addressed with the resources (equipment and personnel) based within the Agile BioFoundry consortium. model host organisms with industrially?

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MAY 15, 2015

The projects are funded through ARPA-E’s two newest programs, Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) and Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and Assembly (ALPHA), which both seek to develop low-cost technology solutions. These projects have been selected for negotiation of awards; final award amounts may vary.

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MARCH 21, 2013

The facility will create biodiesel from renewable waste-based materials such as used cooking oil from restaurants. They are available only for new natural gas and propane vehicles that meet all California Air Resources Board emission requirements. The tool will increase the efficiency and lower costs of solar photovoltaic systems.

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JULY 17, 2013

Schematic comparing the cost and dispatchability of PV to CSP with thermal storage. The “PV+Storage” box includes the high cost of electrical storage for PV. Penetration of PV will ultimately be limited unless breakthrough technologies enable hours of electricity generated by PV to be cost-effectively stored. Source: ARPA-E.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. that substantially reduce costs of the motor. American Superconductor will develop a new, low-cost.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline.

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DECEMBER 20, 2015

Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low-Cost Automotive Magnesium (Mg) Sheet Components. Advances for the Production of Low Cost Electric Drive Vehicle Motors. per pound of weight saved. Dissimilar metal joint systems are limited to aluminum, steel, magnesium, and carbon fiber composites.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

In particular, silicon nanowires (SiNW) are widely studied as a promising anode material for high-capacity LIBs due to its low cost of fabrication and volume production potential. As a result, high-capacity LIB technologies are currently under development at lab scale with silicon nanostructured anode materials. —Li et al.

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DECEMBER 17, 2016

REFUEL projects will convert low-cost renewable energy into a transportable chemical fuel and use these fuels for transportation applications, while reducing production costs and environmental impact. team will develop a modular reactor for producing ammonia using air and water at low temperatures. FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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APRIL 10, 2012

Some specific improvements which are of interest, but are not limited to, include: new low-cost materials, improvements in manufacturing processes, speed or yield, improved cell/pack design minimizing inactive material, significant improvement in specific energy (Wh/kg) or energy density (Wh/L), and improved safety. Hydrogen Storage.

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JUNE 24, 2015

While the value to the original automotive battery owner is restricted primarily to the elimination of end of service costs (battery extraction, disposal, recycling, etc.), Repurposing processed batteries should be demonstrated to confirm that a product of adequate reliability can be provided at low cost. Resources.

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JULY 22, 2009

As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. How does the US deal with local and state economies with high carbon economies and little renewable resources? It is not how can we get low cost capital to take more risk.

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AUGUST 25, 2012

They also demonstrated that the production of biodiesel using the lipids extracted from sewage sludge (SS) could be economically feasible because of its remarkably high yield of oil and low cost, as compared to conventional biodiesel feedstocks. 75% of the total production costs.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

Because exhaust-driven reforming uses only waste engine heat, it avoids this efficiency hit, the authors note. However, they add, this benefit comes at the cost of a substantial design complication: the reformer must serve as both a reactor and a heat exchanger between the fuel and the exhaust stream. —Sall et al. Sall, David A.

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DECEMBER 4, 2010

Jay Keasling discusses the potential of metabolic engineering for the microbial production from simple, readily available, inexpensive starting materials of a large number of chemicals that are currently derived from nonrenewable resources or limited natural resources. agricultural and forest waste, dedicated energy crops, etc.)

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