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JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Imperium Renewables, and Mesa Engineering.

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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. The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation.

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JULY 4, 2016

France-based Global Bioenergies announced that its German subsidiary, Global Bioenergies GmbH, secured a €400,000 (US$446,000) grant from the BMBF (the German federal ministry for research and education) to finance a 14-month-project aimed at producing renewable gasoline additives. million tons per year). million tons per year). Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

UOP LLC used its renewable jet fuel process technology ( earlier post ) to convert oil from camelina, an inedible plant, to renewable jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Earlier post.). savings compared to petroleum jet. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Butagaz, a leading French brand distributing gas in bottles and tanks, is partnering with Global Bioenergies to incorporate batches of bio-isobutene produced at Global Bioenergies’ demo plant as early as 2017 and later by the first commercial bio-isobutene plant once built in France. bio-isobutene.

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JULY 10, 2010

a process engineering and design firm ( earlier post ), has filed a patent application for a new technology for making biofuels from microalgae that focuses on the production of fatty acids rather than the extraction of algal oil. de-oiled algal biomass. Unitel Technologies, Inc., Bio-ammonia – fertilizer from biomass.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Gevo, a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, recently announced that it had presented positive test results from fit-for-purpose testing of its renewable kerosene produced from isobutanol to ASTM’s alcohol to jet (ATJ) task force (D02J006 Alcohol to Jet TF). Gevo’s renewable jet. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

These first-generation industrial biotechnology processes involve the use of plant oils, grains, and sugars as raw materials for fermentation. That makes us less dependent not only on fossil-based raw materials, but also on renewable resources that could potentially compete with the food supply. —Thomas Haas.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Maersk’s investment will be used to develop further and to commercialize Vertoro’s patented liquid lignin technology, and it will enable Vertoro to build a demo plant, which will become operational in 2022. Like fossil oil, Goldilocks can be used as a platform for fuel, chemical and material applications. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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JUNE 1, 2017

The decision triggers investments of around NOK 2 billion (US$238 million), realizing a 60-70% cost reduction per MW from the Hywind demo project in Norway. The wind farm will power around 20,000 households. Production start is expected in late 2017. —Irene Rummelhoff, Statoil’s executive vice president for New Energy Solutions.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Neste Oil’s and Stora Enso’s joint venture, NSE Biofuels Oy ( earlier post ), will begin environmental impact assessments for a commercial-scale biomass-to-liquids (BTL)biorefinery at Porvoo and at Imatra in Finland. The demo facility is being used to develop technologies and engineering solutions for a commercial-scale plant.

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MARCH 9, 2018

It isn’t dependent on crude oil, it is compatible with the existing infrastructure and it offers the prospect of a closed carbon cycle. Audi engineers are now examining the combustion and emission behavior of the renewable fuel in a test engine. Audi and its development partners Global Bioenergies S.A. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Should the lab and pilot work prove successful and scalable, they will place a demo plant in Malaysia, Burton said. The conversion process is being investigated at various institutions and LanzaTech has managed to take acetic acid from its CO 2 conversion broth and make an oil. This is now being developed further, says Burton.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

For the first time, we are bringing the tremendous benefits of modular and linear scale to renewable fuel production, which has been notoriously hampered by batch processes, ponds and fermentation tanks that simply cannot scale without more land, more money and unpredictable results. —Peter Erich, President of Joule Fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The Swedish Energy R&D Board will provide an investment grant for the demonstration at industrial scale of the Chemrec technology for production of the renewable motor fuels BioDME (dimethyl ether) and Biomethanol. billion liters) of diesel oil annually, Chemrec says. billion gallons US, or about 34.8

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

The parties will work together to convert this mill to produce Amyris renewable products with first production targeted for the 2011-2012 harvest season. It is also possible to produce renewable drop-in diesel and jet fuel with performance equal to or better than existing biofuels and oil-based fuels. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 28, 2009

The study was based on camelina grown in Montana by Sustainable Oils and processed into renewable jet and diesel fuels using UOP hydroprocessing technology. It is estimated that the state of Montana alone could support between 2 and 3 million acres of camelina, generating 200 to 300 million gallons of oil each year.

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MAY 12, 2015

Global Bioenergies has successfully converted renewable resources first into gaseous isobutene via fermentation, which was then subsequently catalytically oligomerized into a mix of fuel-range liquid hydrocarbons, including iso-octane. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Our target will now be to purify the different components of this mix.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

Volpe Center, to accelerate commercial availability of alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) renewable drop-in aviation fuel. A demo flight with the new fuel is planned in 12-18 months, with commercialization targeted for 2014. The use of lignin opens up a new biomass waste stream for making economic renewable jet fuel. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 30, 2009

It was also the first demo flight using a combination of three sustainable biofuel feedstocks—camelina (84%), jatropha (less than 16%), and algae (less than 1%)—as well as the first one using Pratt & Whitney engines. “We Jennifer Holmgren, General Manager of UOP Renewable Energy and Chemical. Sustainable Oils, Inc.

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

It also generates renewable natural gas as a product. The focus on fuels without the chemicals is missing the point, and missing the model that has worked for over 200 years, and that’s the oil companies. gram ($20/kg) at its demo facility, according to Ogilvie. Kelly Ogilvie, speaking at the Algae Biomass Summit. Kelly Ogilvie.

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JULY 10, 2009

Ignite Energy Resources (IER), developer of a supercritical water technology, and TRUenergy have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a commercial demonstration plant that will apply IER’s direct coal-to-oil and upgraded dry coal process to the brown coal at TRUenergy’s Yallourn mine in Australia.

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MARCH 16, 2009

UNIDO-India will be completing the consortium of team members involved with the project and undertaking liaison activities in collaboration with the Indian Minister of New and Renewable Energy and ICHET, which is based in Turkey and is funded by the Turkish Ministry of Energy.

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APRIL 5, 2016

This project is funded by a ~$1-million grant from the California Energy Commission under the auspices of its Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Testing Program. Our most recent successful biomass project involves the design and construction of a recirculating fluid catalyst demo plant for RTI International.

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JULY 9, 2010

where he worked with Continental Airlines in helping to achieve the first US commercial demo flight using an algae-oil blend.). The process employs viable, high growth rate, high oil content algae strains. All routes from algae to ‘drop-in’ fuels such as renewable diesel and jet fuel require hydrogen and hydrotreating.

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JULY 21, 2012

Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. That’s a big sum. Hydroprocessing.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) and the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) are teaming up with utilities to support four hydrogen demonstration projects at nuclear power plants. DOE estimates that a single 1,000-megawatt reactor could produce up to 150,000 tons of hydrogen each year.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

The aim is to demonstrate the integrated production of e-Crude, a synthetic crude oil substitute, by the end of August 2019—the first in a 2-step process of this magnitude made possible by co-electrolysis. The global demand for electrolysis technologies to produce green, renewable hydrogen is estimated at more than 3,000 gigawatts.

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MAY 15, 2024

If we can be in a professional hearing protector to use on airports, construction sites, mines, whatever you use, factories, oil rig platforms, you can do almost anything. We run the factories on 100 percent renewable energy. And they develop a technology, and it’s a great demo technology. So that’s where we are totally unique.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

This choice replaces the conventional engine valve train—valves, seats, guides, seals, springs, rockers, camshaft, bearings, timing chain, and oil lubrication—with a simple set of holes in the cylinder wall. Compared with oil-lubricated bearings, air bearings have lower friction and simpler seals. headquarters to see it run.

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