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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Neste MY Renewable Diesel: Reduces CO 2 emissions by up to 75% relative to conventional fossil‐based diesel fuel. EcoGen Ethanol‐free Gasoline with Renewable Content by VP Racing: A partially renewable gasoline that reduces CO 2 emissions by up to 30% more than E10 gasoline and does not contain ethanol.

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MAY 21, 2014

Renewable Energy Group, Inc. The Geismar facility, completed in 2010, was the first large scale renewable diesel biorefinery built in the US. REG is a long-term customer of ours, buying fats, oils and greases to make renewable fuel, and we hope to continue that relationship. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

A policy analysis by two University of Illinois researchers argues that Congress should minimally modify, not repeal, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). As a result, in its latest setting of the percentage standards for the four fuel categories covered for 2013, EPA specified biomass-based diesel (1.28 Renewable Biomass.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company’s engine technology enables low-carbon, renewable fuels such as ethanol to be integrated easily into existing diesel engine platforms, offering a lower-emission, lower-cost solution than diesel fuel. Using soot-free fuels also eliminates the need for a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF).

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MAY 24, 2021

ADM plans to build North Dakota’s first dedicated soybean crushing plant and refinery to meet fast-growing demand from food, feed, industrial and biofuel customers, including producers of renewable diesel. —North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.

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JUNE 4, 2022

For example: In Iowa, Southwest Renewable Energy LLC is receiving a payment of $3 million. In Illinois, Adkins Energy is receiving a $774,000 payment. Its biomass-based diesel production suffered a market loss on almost 3.5 These biofuel producers experienced unexpected market losses on a combined 3.7 million gallons of ethanol.

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MAY 9, 2012

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, signed an agreement to license technology to Emerald Biofuels LLC to produce Honeywell Green Diesel at a facility in Louisiana. Honeywell Green Diesel is a drop-in replacement for traditional diesel. In 2008, Honeywell’s UOP partnered with Ensyn Corp.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Oberon Fuels, the first company to produce renewable DME (rDME) in the US, is a supporting partner. in Darrien, Illinois, for a project entitled “High Pressure Fast Response Direct Injection System for Liquified Gas Fuels Use in Light-Duty Engines”. As an energy-dense, cost-effective means to transport and store renewable hydrogen.

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APRIL 13, 2022

million for infrastructure for renewable fuels through the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program: To expand the infrastructure for renewable fuels derived from US agricultural products, USDA is announcing $5.6 For example, in Illinois, Power Mart Express Corp., DBA PME, is receiving a $2.9-million

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Early this year, CRI acquired exclusive global sublicensing rights for the IH 2 technology from Illinois-based Gas Technology Institute (GTI) where the technology was developed. GTI says that renewable gasoline (RG) produced by the IH 2 process results in more than 90% lower greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum-based fuels.

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DECEMBER 18, 2010

TetraVitae Bioscience has completed a successful demonstration of its process to produce renewable n-butanol in a corn dry-mill pilot plant. In addition, n-butanol and derivatives are promising candidates as diesel blendstocks. n-butanol is an important intermediate in the coatings, plastics, personal care, and packaging industries.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

New Holland Agriculture, a global agricultural equipment brand of CNH Industrial, unveiled a methane-powered concept tractor at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois. The tractor is as easy to refuel as one powered conventionally with diesel, using a single nozzle, and with comparable filling time.

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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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DECEMBER 8, 2017

The American Lung Association oversees the Clean Air Choice program throughout the United States promoting alternative renewable fuels such as biodiesel and E85, partnering with fleets to replace legacy diesel engines, and by supporting the clean-air advantages of electric and hybrid vehicles.

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JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

EnerDel’s new 3rd generation MHPS is designed for both remote and grid-tied microgrid applications that depend on diesel generators as the primary power source and is expected to be commercially available later this year. Today, diesel generators are the primary electrical generation source for remote microgrids. Ideal Power Inc.,

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APRIL 21, 2009

Oregon-based Diesel Brewing has launched an initiative to manufacture cellulosic biobutanol from biomass and dairy farm manure. Biobutanol can be blended into conventional gasoline or diesel stocks without engine modifications. Results showed that butanol mixed with diesel can reduce emissions of criteria pollutants.

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MAY 10, 2024

Lignocellulosic biomass, a renewable and abundant resource, holds great promise for sustainable production of valuable chemicals and fuels, currently derived mainly from oil. Ethanol, a renewable fuel (CH 3 CH 2 OH), is commonly blended with gasoline to boost octane levels and reduce carbon monoxide and other emissions contributing to smog.

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MAY 30, 2023

Similar to what is happening in the automotive world, farm machines will become more reliant on state-of-the-art technology with automation, satellite navigation, data collection, and making the move to electrification or renewable fuels. One of the leaders in farm machine technology is John Deere & Company , based in Moline, Illinois.

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APRIL 18, 2012

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) hosted an open house at its new Pilot-Scale IH 2 Plant in Chicago, Illinois to demonstrate the successful efforts to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel conversion. Earlier post.). gallon in commercial production. gallon in commercial production. —David Carroll, GTI President and CEO.

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JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. RFS2 becomes effective on 1 July 2010. In 2009, the United States produced 10.75

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MAY 2, 2016

Corpus Christi Regional Transit Authority (CCRTA) has renewed a three year operations & maintenance contract with Clean Energy representing approximately 3 million gasoline gallon equivalents (GGEs) over the three year term of the contract. Clean Energy has supplied the City with LNG for more than a decade.

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JULY 29, 2021

The projects, funded through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Vehicles Technology Office (VTO), address the two largest contributors to transportation sector emissions: passenger cars and light-duty trucks account for nearly 60% of emissions and medium- and heavy-duty trucks account for nearly 25%. 2,604,870.

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JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Stoichiometric Spark Ignition Propane Engine with Diesel Efficiency Parity.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Decontamination of Non-recyclable MSW and Preprocessing for Conversion to Diesel. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Innovation and optimization of the Szego Mill for reliable, efficient, and successful up-scaling of the deacetylation and mechanical refining process for biofuel production.

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Waste Conversion Universal San Diego 186

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Composite body electric buses: Replace conventional diesel transit buses with 35-ft composite body electric transit buses.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Researchers at UC Berkeley have devised a new process that integrates chemical catalysis with extractive fermentation selectively to produce gasoline, jet and diesel blend stocks from lignocellulosic and cane sugars at yields near their theoretical maxima. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 11, 2009

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. The carbon footprint of the plant is designed to be near zero as the fuels and power would be produced only from renewable feedstocks. Rentech, Inc. ,

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JULY 19, 2012

Since 2007, variations of an LCFS policy have been adopted by California (LCFS); the European Union (Fuel Quality Directive, FQD); and British Columbia (Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Requirement Regulation, RLCFRR). Set a target of reducing the carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel by 10 to 15 percent by 2030.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Demonstrate plug‐in electric vehicles through local showcases in key markets throughout major metropolitan areas in seven Midwest states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Illinois Institute of Technology. American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest. Drive Oregon. 993,450. . Federal funding.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. converted into a fuel mixture that is comparable to diesel or. converted into a type of diesel fuel. National Renewable. sorghum and switchgrass. molecules in oilseeds.

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JUNE 16, 2015

Biofuel solutions such as farnesane have been proposed; however, these offer only modest GHG reduction benefits and the wide boiling range requirement for jet fuels sets a limit on the amount of single-component renewable fuels that may be blended. —Balakrishnan et al.

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JANUARY 28, 2023

Greenpeace , on the other hand, argues that sales of all diesel and petrol vehicles, including hybrids, must end by 2030 to meet such a target. As electricity increasingly comes from renewables, total electric vehicle GHG emissions will continue downward, but that will take at least a decade or more to happen everywhere across the U.S.

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