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billion to add additional renewable products production capacity in Singapore. The decision is based on a growing global market demand for low-carbon solutions in transport and cities, aviation, polymers and chemicals. The investment will extend Neste’s renewable product overall capacity in Singapore by up to 1.3

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MARCH 26, 2021

A large-scale demonstration converting biocrude to renewable diesel fuel has passed a significant test, operating for more than 2,000 hours continuously without losing effectiveness. The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

There will also be a shift in the polymer product portfolio to include higher levels of post-consumer recycled content. INEOS O&P UK operates the Olefins and Polymers petrochemical plants at Grangemouth. The Petroineos JV operates the Grangemouth Refinery.

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The machine uses thermal cracking, which breaks down the long chains of polymers into shorter chains through the use of heat in the absence of oxygen. Neste has extensive experience of handling low-quality waste and residue raw materials, such as renewable waste and residue oils and fats, and processing them into high-quality products.

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JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Phase 1: Renewable energy. The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

The goal of the project is to continue to develop a circular carbon economy that replaces the petroleum-based chemicals in consumer products with algae-derived and biodegradable polymers. Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000. Comstock Inc.,

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MARCH 21, 2011

a distributor of industrial and automotive aftermarket products and lubricants, plan to form a joint venture for the production, marketing and distribution of finished renewable lubricants for the North American market. The joint venture would market and sell lubricants employing Amyris’s synthetic renewable base oils derived from Biofene.

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AUGUST 19, 2011

has signed a multi-year supply agreement for several hundred tons of Amyris renewable squalane with Nikko Chemicals Co., Squalane is a high-end moisturizing ingredient used in a wide range of cosmetics today, currently sourced from shark liver oil or refined olive oil. Amyris, Inc. for distribution in the Japanese market.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

UOP’s Ecofining process produces drop-in hydrocarbon fuel replacements from natural oils. CNPC will evaluate the installation of a demonstration-scale UOP/Eni Ecofining process unit ( earlier post ) for the production of renewable diesel fuel, as well as a larger-scale unit at an existing or new CNPC refinery site. Source: UOP.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

International oil and gas major Total and renewable fuels and chemicals company Amyris, Inc. signed agreements to expand their current R&D partnership ( earlier post ) and to form a joint venture to develop, produce and commercialize a range of renewable fuels and products. Amyris modifies farnesene to become renewable diesel.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Royal DSM, together with its automotive component specialist partner KACO, has developed a lightweight multi-functional crankshaft cover in EcoPaXX , DSM’s bio-based polyamide 410, for the latest generation of diesel engines developed by the Volkswagen Group. Bio-polymers Diesel Engines Weight reduction'

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Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, and REMONDIS, one of the world’s largest privately owned recycling, service and water companies, have signed an agreement to collaborate in the development of chemical recycling of plastic waste.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Flint Hills Resources Renewables, LLC, a leading US ethanol producer, will become a customer of Edeniq, Inc., Edeniq’s OilPlus corn oil extraction process is also being deployed at one Flint Hills plant and plans call for two others. OilPlus combines mechanical and chemical treatments to improve corn oil recovery.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo has a low capital cost retrofit strategy for ethanol plants to produce isobutanol for direct use; for use in the production of plastics, materials, rubber and other polymers; and for use in the production of hydrocarbon fuels. Isobutanol for the production of plastics, fibers, rubber and other polymers. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 16, 2009

In this role, Ryan will be responsible for business development in converting isobutanol into chemicals, jet fuel, gasoline, diesel, and fuel blendstocks. The company is focused on the development of advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals based on isobutanol and its derivatives. Gevo was founded in 2005 by Drs. We like that a lot.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

has commissioned its third industrial-scale commercial facility—its first in the US—for the production of Biofene, its renewable farnesene. Amyris, Inc. The production facility is located in Decatur, Ill., at a facility owned by Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas, Inc., an affiliate of Tate & Lyle PLC. Paraíso Bioenergia S.A.,

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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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JANUARY 29, 2009

The EERC has already demonstrated the production of 100% renewable jet fuel via a thermocatalytic cracking and separation process that can directly replace petroleum derived jet fuel through a project with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Diesel Fuel. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Naphtha Sample.

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AUGUST 27, 2011

Dumesic and co-workers have shown that APP can convert dissolved biomass derived compounds (including sugars, sugar alcohols, bio-oils, cellulose or even lignin) into hydrogen, light alkanes, liquid alkanes, and oxygenates. Thus, Li et al. ” Resources. Ning Li, Geoffrey A. Tompsett, Taiying Zhang, Jian Shi, Charles E.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Lipids, in turn, are a proven pathway to jet, diesel and gasoline. 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. Earlier post.). that conversion wouldn’t actually happen in a LanzaTech bioreactor.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Richard Gross, professor of chemical and biological science at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), has developed a method for producing a strong, highly ductile bioplastic using yeast and fatty acids of plant oils. Gross (2010) Biosynthesis of Monomers for Plastics from Renewable Oils. —Richard Gross.

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JUNE 16, 2011

a developer of integrated renewable products, plans to establish a collaboration with Wilmar International Limited, one of the largest global agribusiness groups. In June 2010, Wilmar entered into an agreement to form a joint venture with Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. Amyris, Inc., Earlier post.). (ERS) Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

announced that the US Army has successfully flown the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on a 50:50 blend of Gevo’s ATJ-8 (Alcohol-to-Jet)—a renewable, drop-in alternative fuel for JP8 derived from isobutanol. Three pathways to SPK: FT (left); hydrogenated oil (center); ATJ (right). Bio-isobutanol company Gevo, Inc.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE’s) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) issued an Incubator Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOAs) for a total of approximately $10 million. ( Temperature Combustion (LTC), (2) Dilute Gasoline Combustion, and (3) Clean Diesel Combustion.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Amyris’s sugar cane-derived Biofene forms the basis for a wide range of products varying from specialty products such as cosmetics, perfumes, detergents and industrial lubricants, to transportation fuels such as diesel and jet fuel. In addition, it maintains excellent flexibility, even at low temperatures. Kuraray was established in 1926.

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Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Decontamination of Non-recyclable MSW and Preprocessing for Conversion to Diesel. ASU’s Polymer-enhanced Cyanobacterial Bioproductivity (AUDACity). Alkaline Carbon Capture and Expression-Streamlined Spirulina Cultivated in Air for Reliable Bioproducts, Oil, and Nutrition. AMP Robotics.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

million through the Biorefinery Assistance Program for its project to demonstrate an integrated algal biorefinery process that will cultivate algae in ponds, and will use dewatering and oil extraction technology to produce an intermediate that will then be processed into drop-in green fuels such as jet fuel and diesel. 17,944,902.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Lignin is a complex chemical compound (a cross-linked amorphous phenolic polymer) and is the biomass component with highest energy content (9,000 - 11,000 Btu/lb compared to 7,300 - 7,500 for cellulose, Johnson 2002). The biofuels feedstock will be primarily a diesel-like stream. Jim Flatt, President of Mascoma. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 22, 2009

Virent Energy Systems is receiving one of five 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards (Small Business Award) for its BioForming process—a water-based, catalytic method to make gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel from the sugar, starch, or cellulose of plants that requires little external energy other than the plant biomass.

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JULY 2, 2010

The Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, held this week in Washington DC, highlighted a range of developing pathways for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels for transportation. Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JUNE 28, 2021

For the study, which is published in an open-access paper in the journal Fuel , OME 3-5 was blended with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), rapeseed methyl ester (RME) and the C 8 -alcohol 2-ethylhexanol (an isomer of n-octanol) to ensure miscibility. Three blends were designed with an oxygen content of 6.4, —Preuß et al. 2021.121275.

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MAY 4, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) issued four funding opportunities (FOAs) totaling up to $78 million to support early-stage bioenergy research and development under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO). Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Co?Optima) food lignocellulosic biomass.

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MAY 7, 2015

Gevo has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Alaska Airlines to purchase Gevo’s renewable jet fuel and fly the first commercial flight on alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ). Alaska Airlines was the first US airline to fly multiple commercial passenger flights using a biofuel from used cooking oil. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 16, 2017

Like other oilseed crops, such as canola, soybean and corn, carinata oil is extracted when the harvested seed is crushed. Unlike those crops, carinata is not meant for human food consumption; the oil it produces is intended for industrial use, mainly in the production of bio- and jet-fuels. 2013.09.012. 2015.09.031.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI, a highly efficient, latest-generation V6 diesel engine, delivers 190 kW (258 hp) of power and 600 N·m (442.5 Making their world premiere in a diesel engine are active engine mounts in the Audi Q7 e-tron 3.0 Their outer skin is made from aluminum-coated polymer and this in turn brings weight advantages. TDI quattro.

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The engines shall have extremely low engine-out nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and particulate matter (PM) as a target; and shall have efficiency similar to state-of-the-art direct injection diesel engines (i.e., High voltage and solid polymer composite electrolytes. Alloy or Li metal anodes. Li/air and Li/S systems.

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Other specific features that contribute to the engine’s refinement include: A small balance-shaft mounted longitudinally in the oil sump. The integration of a stamped steel plate in the oil pan at the bottom of the aluminum sump also reduces noise radiation. liter turbo engines from new medium-displacement gasoline and diesel families.

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