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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Forest products company SCA and St1 have entered a joint venture in Sweden to produce and sell renewable HVO diesel and biojet fuel. SCA will supply tall oil to the joint venture for feedstock and will invest approximately SEK 0.6 billion (US$71.7 million) in the company.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Swedish oil and distribution company Preem AB in April will begin sales of diesel blends containing 15% renewable diesel produced from tall oil as well as 5% biodiesel. The renewable diesel blend, Preem Evolution Diesel, will provide 16% lower carbon dioxide emissions, according to the company. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 25, 2010

Soot particulates generated from the combustion of renewable diesel fuels produced from hydrotreated vegetable oils have similar oxidation properties and surface structures to those generated from fossil diesel, according to a new study by researchers from Finland and Sweden. Messing, Teemu Sarjovaara, Martti Larmi, L.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, has opened a new office in Hoofddorp, in greater Amsterdam which will serve as the global hub for the growing Renewable Aviation business. Neste is now also launching Neste MY Renewable Diesel to climate-conscious fleet customers in the Netherlands.

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MAY 31, 2023

From May 2023 onwards, two tankers transporting Neste’s renewable diesel from Finland to Sweden will be fueled with a lower-emission marine fuel: Neste Marine 0.1 At the refinery, renewable raw materials are processed together with fossil raw materials in the conventional refining process. Co-processed. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 19, 2017

Neste began production of renewable diesel 10 years ago at the Neste Porvoo refinery in Finland. Neste has since become the leading circular economy company in biofuels and reduced GHG emissions from traffic by more than 33 million tons, based on production of the renewable bio-hydrocarbon fuel. Earlier post.)

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MAY 5, 2017

Scania has launched a large-scale renewable diesel (HVO) pilot for employees based in Södertälje, Sweden, enabling them to fuel their cars with renewable diesel. In Sweden, HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) is mainly produced by rape seed oil and waste from the food industry.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Hamburg airport in Germany has started using Neste’s renewable diesel as a solution to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. The fuel produced by Neste consists entirely of premium-quality renewable diesel. Diesel” by Neste’s customer Tool Fuel, a company specialized in the distribution of renewable fuel.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

Volvo Trucks will begin field testing in Sweden and the UK in 2010 of heavy-duty diesel trucks fuelled by a combination of methane gas and diesel. Following further analysis, the company is now focusing on two renewable fuels: DME and methane gas + diesel (biomethane plus biodiesel). Earlier post.) The optimum—i.e.

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JANUARY 20, 2014

At the end of December 2013, Volvo Construction Equipment’s (CE) Braås facility, a 45,000 m 2 -site in southern Sweden, which specializes in the design and manufacture of articulated haulers, became powered entirely by renewable energy sources, including wind, biomass and hydropower. generated from renewable sources).

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APRIL 26, 2021

Vattenfall Energy Trading GmbH, a wholly-owned entity of Vattenfall AB, offers UK businesses, including operators of hydrogen electrolyzers, the option to purchase renewable electricity, generated by harnessing renewable energy sources such as wind and solar through Power Purchase Agreements.

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MARCH 3, 2012

Scania is putting 8 ethanol-fueled trucks in operation for its own goods transport services at its production facilities in Södertälje, Sweden. The switch from diesel will reduce carbon dioxide emissions from its internal goods transport by about 70%, the company said. Earlier post.).

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JULY 21, 2022

Toyota’s toughest, body-on-frame models in Europe are to be made compatible with HVO100 diesel, a non-fossil fuel made from 100% renewable sources such as waste cooking oil. Both the Land Cruiser and Hilux will join the Proace family of light commercial vehicles in being compatible with HVO100 diesel.

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JUNE 4, 2019

The zero-tailpipe emission feature of the fuel cell bus’ operation will be complemented by zero-emission hydrogen production from renewable energy sources, yielding a “well-to-wheel” emission-free transportation solution. This is comparable to diesel. per kilometer. Hydrogen is the zero-emission solution for heavy-duty applications.

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MARCH 29, 2021

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, has joined the eFuel Alliance , an interest group dedicated to the industrial production of synthetic fuels based on hydrogen and CO 2 from renewable sources. —Ralf Diemer, Managing Director of the eFuel Alliance.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Replacing fossil fuels with Neste’s renewable fuels reduced global climate emissions altogether by a 8.3 The emission reduction is calculated by comparing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of the renewable fuels that Neste produces in a year to the life cycle emissions of conventional European diesel.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

to 7.7%) and diesel cars (from 52.7% New vehicle diesel share in Western Europe, 1990 to Jan-Oct 2009. Among the smaller countries in terms of manufacturing, production was down more than 58% in Austria and Sweden. Tags: Diesel Engines Europe Sales. In total, 14.5 million new cars were registered in 2009; 1.6%

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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. Earlier post.). billion gallons US, or about 34.8

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APRIL 15, 2014

During recent tests of Hybricon Bus Systems’ new Arctic Whisper (HAW) urban bus in Umeå, Sweden ( earlier post ), the Opbrid B?sbaar Ultrafast Charging lets us heat with clean electricity instead of a diesel fuel burning heater. The Arctic Whisper is configured as a series hybrid, with a 50 kW diesel backup system.)

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Studies of various land-use efficiencies for various biofuels and processes by Volvo AB show, in the lower two bars, the high efficiency of DME as a diesel substitute. Chemrec is currently building BioDME production plants in Sweden. It will produce up to 40 million gallons of BioDME or other renewable motor fuels a year.

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JUNE 28, 2009

Scania’s ethanol bus features a modified diesel engine running on a mixture of 95% ethanol with 5% ignition improver. Scania’s bus sales in Sweden began 2009 very strongly, and some 100 such vehicles have been registered so far this year. Earlier post.) Scania’s third-generation CI ethanol engine.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Sweden-based Preem has developed a renewable diesel from tall oil in a process that first esterifies the tall oil through the addition of methanol, then distills the tall oil is distilled in a vacuum to separate the raw tall diesel from the tall oil pitch. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 1, 2016

Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. Since black liquor is derived from wood, it is the most important renewable bio-fuel, particularly in Sweden and Finland. Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Propane-rich off-gas is produced during Neste’s NExBTL renewable diesel process; the gas is usually recovered during the Stabilization and Recycle stages of the process. BioLPG is Calor’s first renewable product offering that sees the company commit to reducing its carbon footprint and to become fully renewable by 2040.

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JUNE 21, 2010

Scania’s ethanol bus features a modified diesel engine running on a mixture of 95% ethanol with 5% ignition improver. The buses will be equipped with Scania’s third generation five-cylinder 270 hp ethanol diesel engines, which meet Euro 5 and EEV emission standards. Earlier post.). Deliveries will begin in August.

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JUNE 1, 2009

We are investing in an industrial joint venture to series-produce plug-in hybrid cars in Sweden in 2012, cars that can be powered by both electricity and diesel. These will combine a front-wheel drive diesel engine with a rear-wheel drive electric motor, powered by an 11.3 Tags: Diesel Hybrids Plug-ins. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. In 2017, gasoline cars became more popular (53% of new registrations) than diesel cars (45%) for the first time since the monitoring started.

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JUNE 26, 2009

The SEK 500 million ($64 million, €45 million) grant application is for an industrial scale production plant for renewable automotive fuel from biomass through gasification of black liquor. Planned location for the plant is the Domsjö biorefinery complex in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. Estimated project completion is late 2012.

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JUNE 28, 2021

A team at Chalmers University (Sweden) has tested blends of OME 3-5 , HVO and RME in a light- and heavy-duty CI engine. Performance and emissions were compared to the reference fuels fossil diesel and HVO in a single-cylinder light duty and heavy duty compression ignition engine at different loads. Preuß et al. —Preuß et al.

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AUGUST 11, 2009

Chemrec’s pulp mill-integrated BioDME (dimethyl ether) biorefinery demonstration plant project will break ground in September in Piteå, Sweden, with expected biofuel production by mid-2010. Using renewable feedstock, the produced biofuel will have a carbon footprint of less than zero. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 28, 2017

Preem, the largest fuel company in Sweden, and Vattenfall have concluded an agreement to investigate the potential Vattenfall’s providing of hydrogen gas in the large scale production of biofuel for the Swedish market. Many different solutions are also needed. Preem’s contribution is to make fuels that are as green and efficient as possible.

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JUNE 7, 2013

DME offers diesel-quality performance with a high cetane number and low auto-ignition temperature, but burns cleanly without producing any soot. Volvo has been testing Bio-DME in Sweden since 2009. It is an excellent compression ignition fuel which, like diesel, requires no separate ignition mechanism. DME and diesel.

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APRIL 6, 2017

CHC fuels—which are also being evaluated by the US Navy for inclusion in the JP-5 spec ( earlier post )—use a catalytic hydrothermolysis process that chemically converts renewable feedstocks such as triglycerides, plant oils, and fatty acids into a mixture of paraffins, cycloparaffins, aromatics, olefins, and organic acids.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

million) grant from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), the JIVE 2 project will deploy 152 fuel cell electric buses across 14 European cities throughout France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK. Coordinated by Element Energy , and supported by a €25-million (US$31.2-million)

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JULY 7, 2010

liters of diesel per 100 kilometers (71.3 liters diesel equivalent/100 km (74 mpg US) and a range of 450 kilometers (280 miles) in NEDC, thanks to 700 bar H 2 tanks. liters diesel equivalent/100 km (74 mpg US) and a range of 450 kilometers (280 miles) in NEDC, thanks to 700 bar H 2 tanks. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Five years ago, the Dagenham Diesel Centre in the UK became the world’s first automotive plant to meet all its electricity needs from two giant on-site turbines. Ford’s Dunton Technical Centre (UK) is also powered by electricity from renewable sources. litre Duratorq TDCi engine production line.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Through this non-exclusive and renewable agreement, GE and PSA Peugeot Citroën seek to develop a new EV mobility offer in Europe that will enable B2B customers to overcome the current EV constraints (mileage, charging time, vehicle size). million globally.

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