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JULY 12, 2012

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) announced that $18 million in grants are available to eligible businesses, governmental entities, school districts, and individuals to replace older medium-duty or heavy-duty gasoline or diesel vehicles with natural gas vehicles or repower the vehicles with natural gas engines.

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DECEMBER 24, 2013

and PM 10 emissions—mainly from gasoline-fueled light-duty vehicles (LDVs)—in the Washburn Tunnel in Houston Texas as a mechanism for better determining the contribution of LDVs to particulate emissions. The objectives of this research are to (1) comprehensively characterize wide suite of elements in PM 2.5 Emissions'

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JANUARY 28, 2021

CVR Energy will base a revamp of its Wynnewood, Oklahoma, refinery on Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology to produce approximately 100 million gallons of renewable diesel and more than 6 million gallons of renewable naphtha per year. Topsoe will deliver basic engineering, license, proprietary equipment and catalyst for HydroFlex.

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JANUARY 20, 2014

The newly formed Scuderi Split-Cycle (SSC) Engine Consortium is having its first meeting at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas on 23 January. The company’s prototyping and simulation work to date has been on a spark-ignited gasoline (Otto) platform. —Stephen Scuderi. —Stephen Scuderi.

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JUNE 1, 2012

Motiva, the joint venture between Shell and Saudi Aramco, marked the completion of a five-year construction project that more than doubled the daily processing capacity of the Motiva Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas to 600,000 barrels of crude. million gallons/day gasoline. > million gallons/day of ultra low sulfur diesel.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

Under laboratory-simulated diesel exhaust conditions, this mixed-phase oxide material was superior to Pt in terms of cost, thermal durability, and catalytic activity for NO oxidation. Mullite is not only easier to produce than platinum, but also better at reducing pollution in diesel engines. Kyeongjae Cho. CO 2 + 2NO, NO 2 + C?CO

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

has launched a new initiative to convert its 170-vehicle fleet to hybrid and clean diesel vehicles. headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, operating primarily in the South Central, Southwestern and Western regions of the United States. Independent refiner Alon USA Energy, Inc.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

The process uses as its feedstock virtually any kind of nonfood biomass material—including wood, cornstalks and cobs, algae, aquatic plants and municipal solid waste—and produces gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel. IH 2 technology has the capability to produce gasoline at a cost of less than $2.00 —Martin Linck.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

It processes ANS (Alaskan North Slope), Middle Eastern and West African crudes and supplies 25% of the Los Angeles gasoline demand. The refinery supplies approximately 20% of the Southern California gasoline market and 50% of the jet fuel to the LAX Airport. The closing is expected to happen before mid-2013. million gallons/day.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

The three drop‐in fuels demonstrated during the Miami event were: PurFuels Ethanol‐Free Reformulated Gasoline using Isobutanol (GEVO) and TXCeed corrosion inhibitor: A blend of 16.1% biobutanol and gasoline that reduces CO 2 emissions by up to 30% relative to conventional fossil‐based gasoline.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

In 2021, the energy index group made up 54% of the GSCI, and two crude oil benchmarks, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent crude oil, accounted for approximately 70% of the weighting in the energy sector index. The index is a weighted average of commodity prices, and the index updates the weight it allocates to each commodity every year.

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MAY 23, 2019

By switching from diesel fuel to RNG, UPS vehicles fueling at 18 company-owned and operated natural gas stations across 12 states will realize a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions—as much as 1,074,000 metric tons of GHG over the life of the agreement. El Paso, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.;

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MARCH 29, 2010

The challenge kicked off on Saturday, 27 March with 48 vehicles testing on the Houston, Texas street course. For both categories, teams can use any conventionally available energy source, including fuels such as diesel, gasoline and liquid petroleum gas (LPG), as well as alternative fuels such as hydrogen, biomass and solar.

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AUGUST 22, 2014

Construction of the pipeline will enhance the refinery’s long-term ability to produce gasoline, diesel and jet fuel for the greater Memphis and eastern Arkansas area. Nearly 100% of its production is in light products, including regular and premium gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and petrochemicals. Valero acquired it in 2005.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

The limited availability and economic viability of E85 fuel means that the vast majority of AFVs owned by individuals burn traditional fuels (gasoline and diesel). Gasoline and diesel electric hybrids are not AFVs as defined in the Energy Policy Act of 1992; their predominant fuel source is not an alternative fuel.

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MARCH 20, 2013

Among the new pathways to be considered is the production of renewable diesel from Australian tallow at Neste Oil’s Singapore plant. Others are sugarcane molasses ethanol from Guatemala; mixed feedstock to biodiesel from Texas; and a new ARB-staff-developed pathway for North American landfill gas. Neste Oil renewable diesel: 33.46

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The project would convert wood biomass into drop in biofuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel. The first two plants are expected to be in Mississippi, with additional sites planned in Georgia and Texas. Re-Crude is refined into gasoline and diesel blendstocks that are compatible with existing fuel infrastructure.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently granted Ensyn Corporation ( earlier post ) Part 79 registration for its renewable diesel product, RFDiesel. FCC units are found in most refineries worldwide and are used to produce gasoline and diesel from vacuum gas oil (VGO). The RTP process is actually an analog to FCC.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

According to California Air Resource Board (ARB) estimates, Redeem sourced from landfill gas can enable up to a 90% reduction in carbon emissions when displacing diesel or gasoline. g CO 2 e/MJ for gasoline and 94.71 g CO 2 e/MJ for diesel. or more per gallon compared to current diesel and gasoline prices.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Ensyn ( earlier post ) has been granted a key regulatory approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its renewable gasoline product, RFGasoline. This approval follows the recently announced Part 79 approval of Ensyn’s renewable diesel product, RFDiesel. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

Air Products plans to construct a new 180-mile long pipeline connecting its existing Louisiana and Texas hydrogen pipeline systems, creating the world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network. Once complete, Air Products’ hydrogen pipeline supply network will stretch from the Houston Ship Channel in Texas to New Orleans, La.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

HollyFrontier Corporation, an independent petroleum refiner and marketer that produces high value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other specialty products, plans to construct a new renewable diesel unit (RDU) at its Artesia, New Mexico refinery (Navajo Refinery).

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Air Products had operated two hydrogen pipeline systems in Texas and Louisiana before joining them with a new 180-mile segment. billion cubic feet of hydrogen per day to Louisiana and Texas customers. The company announced the pipeline project in 2010 and placed it onstream in August 2012 to begin supply of more than 1.2

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JULY 28, 2015

Chevrolet has introduced the diesel version ( earlier post ) of its 2016 Colorado midsize pickup truck. Duramax turbo-diesel, the Colorado’s maximum trailering capacity rises to 7,700 pounds (3,492 kg) on 2WD models, with estimated fuel economy projected by GM to top the already segment-leading efficiency of the gas models (27 mpg (8.7

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JULY 22, 2013

announced the start-up of its 135 million standard cubic feet per day (scfd) hydrogen plant serving the Valero refinery Port Arthur, Texas and other customers. Hydrocrackers are used to break down hydrocarbon molecules in heavier crude oil to produce premium transportation fuels, such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels, that burn cleaner.

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MAY 19, 2023

Many states and municipalities are all-in on EVs, but the shift has some wondering how they’ll make up for the tax shortfall from falling gasoline sales. A popular solution that gets tossed around is to add a tax to EV registrations to help recoup the lost revenues, and Texas recently passed a new law to remedy the problem.

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JULY 29, 2015

UPS announced agreements for up to 46 million gallons of renewable diesel over the next three years, constituting a 15-fold increase over prior contracts and making UPS one of the largest users of renewable diesel in the world. Neste, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

GTL systems from the companies can also be used to process coal and biomass assets providing the ability to convert these natural gas streams into useable products including diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel. Currently, INFRA’s team is performing start-up operations on a 100 bpd demonstration plant (M100) located in Wharton, Texas.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

The Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion (IH 2 ) is an advanced pyrolysis technology which utilizes low pressure hydrogen together with a proprietary catalyst to cost-effectively converts biomass directly into renewable gasoline, jet and diesel hydrocarbon blendstocks. —Nick Gerritsen. In July, PetroAlgae Inc.,

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JULY 2, 2010

As one example, while Elevance’s olefin metathesis platform can deliver renewable diesel and jet from renewable oils ( earlier post ), the company’s primary initial commercial focus is on higher-value chemicals. For fuel applications, Avantium has demonstrated the use of Furanics as a bio-based component for diesel, gasoline and jet fuel.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Consumer gasoline demand, measured by total motor gasoline deliveries, was 9.6 compared with July 2018, even as gasoline prices were 3.6% Year-to-date through July, gasoline demand fell by 0.4% Year-to-date through July, gasoline demand fell by 0.4% mb/d in July—a decrease of 1.4% from June and 0.4%

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OCTOBER 9, 2010

For both categories, teams can use any conventionally available energy source, including fuels such as diesel and gasoline as well as alternative fuels such as hydrogen, biomass, solar and, now, electric plug-in. 28 th Shell Eco-marathon Europe: May 26-28, 2011, at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz track in Germany.

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JULY 9, 2010

Researchers at Texas A&M University have concluded that the MixAlco process (developed there) to convert biomass to fuels and chemicals—under a base-case capacity of 40 dry tonne feedstock per hour— requires a total capital investment of $5.54/annual annual gallon of hydrocarbon fuels (US $3.79/annual annual gallon of ethanol equivalent).

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MAY 21, 2010

a gallon for gasoline and diesel fuel. California, Texas, Florida, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Michigan lead the way with more than 4,000 additional jobs apiece by 2030. Savings of 100 billion gallons of diesel and gasoline between 2010 and 2030. All states would experience net job growth.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Source: Texas A&M. Finally, the various fuels will be tested to ensure that they can be used in place of conventional diesel, gasoline and jet fuels. The goal is to create fuels that can be used in place of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel—though jet fuel will be the most technically challenging. Dunaliella.

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APRIL 7, 2016

Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B. Most importantly, catalytic hydrocracking of hydrocarbons from this alga results in petroleum-equivalent fuels of gasoline, kerosene and diesel.

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JULY 2, 2014

The Optiblend kit displaces diesel with natural gas (up to 70%) or other alternative fuels, without modifications to the internal components or the stock fuel management system. When required, the system allows the engine to run on 100% diesel. These blends were patented in 1990 for spark- and compression-ignition engines.

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