Emissions, Pollution, Renewable and Waste

Raven SR & Hyzon Motors to build up to 100 waste-to-hydrogen hubs

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APRIL 28, 2021

Raven SR , a renewable fuels company, and Hyzon Motors Inc., At the hubs, which can be built at or near landfills, Raven SR will convert mixed and multiple organic wastes, including municipal solid waste, greenwaste, food waste, medical, paper, etc. 22 CCR § 66260.10 Definitions and 40 CFR § 260.10 Definitions).

Waste

Waste Hydrogen Building Motor

Neste charters two new lower-emission tankers from Terntank; methanol and sails

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APRIL 3, 2023

Neste has signed an agreement to charter two new lower-emission product tankers from Terntank. The tankers will transport a wide variety of liquid cargoes including renewable raw materials such as waste and residue oils and fats to Neste’s refineries.

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Emissions Renewable Waste Pollution

bp ventures invests $10M in waste-to-biomethanol company WasteFuel; offtake MoU

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JULY 7, 2023

bp ventures has committed $10 million, leading the Series B investment round, in WasteFuel , a California-based biofuels company that will use proven, scalable technologies to convert bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower carbon fuels, such as biomethanol. billion metric tons by 2050.

Waste

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GTI quantifies opportunity to produce low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) from wood wastes

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

GTI has released a site-specific engineering design titled “ Low-Carbon Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Wood Wastes ”. GTI led a team of engineers and scientists to produce a blueprint for converting an existing biomass facility into an RNG production site, using the wood waste feedstock and some of the existing infrastructure.

Waste

Waste Carbon Gas Renewable

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 Deaths attributable to household air pollution and ambient particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and overall in Africa, 1990–2019. The most disturbing finding was the increase in deaths from ambient air pollution.

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Africa Pollution 2019 Ethiopia

Anaergia to supply RNG to FuelCell Energy to create renewable hydrogen supporting Toyota’s port facility

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MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc. The fuel cells will also produce a net 2.3

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Renewable Hydrogen Supplies North America

European project HARARE seeks to produce iron and non-ferrous metals from waste using hydrogen as reductant

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

HARARE stands for “Hydrogen As the Reducing Agent in the REcovery of metals and minerals from metallurgical waste”. At the core of the HARARE concept is the use of hydrogen gas to reduce the iron oxide without process-related CO 2 emissions. Most of the waste remains as such and is dumped in large landfill sites. tonnes of slag.

Waste

Waste Hydrogen Norway Pollution

SK invests in Fulcrum BioEnergy to accelerate production of low-carbon fuel from waste

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

the strategic investment arm of South Korea’s SK Group, was part of a $50-million investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy, a US-based waste-to-fuels company. Fulcrum produce biofuel on a commercial scale by chemically converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into transportation fuels.

Waste

Waste Carbon Fuel Production

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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MAY 21, 2020

The plant will feature SGH2’s technology, which will gasify recycled mixed paper waste to produce green hydrogen that reduces carbon emissions by two to three times more than green hydrogen produced using electrolysis and renewable energy, and is five to seven times cheaper. That’s why our partnership with SGH2 is so important.

Waste

Waste Hydrogen Green California

Eni and Hera Group partner on conversion of used vegetable oil to renewable diesel for waste collection vehicles

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NOVEMBER 24, 2018

In Italy, Eni and Hera signed a partnership agreement with the aim of converting used vegetable oil into renewable diesel for Hera’s waste collection vehicles. The agreement revolves around household waste vegetable oil, such as that used for frying, collected by Hera in around 400 roadside containers and about 120 collection centres.

Waste

Waste Oil Renewable Diesel

Raven SR partners with Republic Services to produce commercial green hydrogen from waste in N California, starting summer 2022

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company, is collaborating with Republic Services Inc. to convert organic waste to produce green hydrogen at a site in Richmond, California. The Richmond facility will be co-developed by the partners, with Hyzon investing up to 75% in the equity and offtake from the waste-to-hydrogen hub.

Waste

Waste Hydrogen California Commercial

Renewable natural gas flowing into SoCalGas pipelines from Calgren dairy digester pipeline cluster

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FEBRUARY 16, 2019

SoCalGas) and biogas producer Calgren Dairy Fuels announced that renewable natural gas produced at Calgren’s dairy digester facility in Pixley, California is being injected into SoCalGas pipelines. In August 2018, SoCalGas began receiving renewable natural gas into its system from CR&R, Inc.’s Southern California Gas Co.

Renewable

Renewable Gas Waste Gas-Electric

Phillips 66 makes final investment decision for $850M conversion of refinery to renewable fuels facility; commercial operation in 1Q 2024

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MAY 12, 2022

Phillips 66 made a final investment decision Wednesday to move forward with Rodeo Renewed, the project to convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, into one of the world’s largest renewable fuels facilities. million cars off California roads each year.

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Renewable Conversion San Francisco Commercial

Poor air quality to remain a problem in India despite pollution control policies

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APRIL 1, 2019

in 2030 even if India were to comply with its existing pollution control policies and regulations. However, aligning sustainable development policies to the implementation of advanced emission control technologies could provide NAAQS-compliant air quality to about 85% of the Indian population. levels by 20-30% over the next five years.

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Pollution India Emissions 2015

Waste-to-biofuels company Enerkem produces bio-DME

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer Enerkem has successfully produced a clean, renewable bio-dimethyl ether (Bio-DME), a by-product of biomethanol, that could replace the use of diesel fuel in the transportation sector. Diesel fuels are three times more polluting than a waste-derived DME-based fuel.

Waste

Waste Companies Diesel Pollution

Graforce plasma electrolysis for efficient generation of hydrogen from industrial waste water; partnering with Audi

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

Berlin-based Graforce Hydro GmbH, the developer of a plasma electrolyzer—the Plasmalyzer —is applying its technology for the highly efficient generation of hydrogen from industrial waste water. Nitrogen oxide emissions are also reduced by up to 60%. Only purified water and oxygen remain as waste products.

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Water Waste Audi Hydrogen

DOE awards $4M to two DME projects

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Oberon Fuels, the first company to produce renewable DME (rDME) in the US, is a supporting partner. The partners will use the funding to develop new technologies to deliver efficient engine operations with near-zero emissions. As an energy-dense, cost-effective means to transport and store renewable hydrogen.

Waste

Waste Cleaner Emissions Renewable Wisconsin

Bosch trialing Neste renewable diesel; aims to offer renewable and synthetic fuels at all company filling stations in Germany

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Since early November, the cars chauffeuring the management board members of Robert Bosch GmbH have been running on fully renewable diesel. diesel,” this fuel is synthesized mainly from by-products and waste materials. diesel reduces the CO 2 emissions of these cars by around two-thirds, or 65%, from well to wheel. Since C.A.R.E.

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Renewable Germany Diesel Fuel

Blue World Technologies starts series production of methanol fuel cells

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

The high electrical efficiency of the fuel cell systems will enable efficient use of e-fuels, such as methanol, that through power-to-x can be manufactured as a renewable fuel ensuring a net-zero operation. Waste heat can also be used for additional energy recovery. no gas purification is needed on the reformat gas.

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Clean Energy Zero Now truck orders surpass 250; heavy-duty trucks fueled by renewable natural gas

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MAY 13, 2019

has reached agreement with trucking firms to lease or purchase more than 250 new heavy-duty trucks, fueled by its Redeem RNG (renewable natural gas). The ISX12N is certified by California Air Resources Board (CARB) to reduce smog-forming NO x emissions by 90% compared to the current engine standard. Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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Clean Cleaning Renewable Gas

Argonne and NGO Energy Vision case studies demonstrate success of renewable natural gas as transport fuel

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R-CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste.

Renewable

Renewable Gas Transportation Fuel

Oberon Fuels secures $2.9M grant from California for first production of renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) in US

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JUNE 14, 2019

Oberon Fuels, a producer of clean-burning dimethyl ether (DME) transportation fuel ( earlier post ), has been awarded a grant for $2,876,139 from the California Energy Commission (CEC) for a first-of-its-kind, multi-phase project to produce the first renewable dimethyl ether (rDME), a clean-burning, ultra-low-carbon transportation fuel, in the US.

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Grant Renewable California Fuel

Argonne releases GREET 2020

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

The GREET (Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation) tool provides a common, transparent platform for lifecycle analysis (LCA) of of the energy and environmental effects of a wide variety of transportation fuels and vehicle technologies in major transportation sectors (i.e., PFAD to Renewable Diesel.

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2020 Gas-Electric Lithium Ion Mariner

Volvo LX1 series hybrid wheel loader demonstrates 50% improvement in fuel efficiency; renewable diesel in the engine

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JULY 13, 2017

As well as the improvement in fuel efficiency and reduction in emissions, the LX1 also offers a significant reduction in noise pollution compared to its conventional counterparts. Testing began at the Redwood Landfill and Recycling Center, a green waste composting site in the northern part of the state. Waste Management Inc.

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Volvo Renewable Diesel Hybrid

Aemetis completes expansion of India biodiesel plant one year ahead of schedule; 60M gallon annual capacity

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

We see our focus on reducing the carbon intensity of our renewable fuels as an expanding competitive advantage compared to petroleum fuels. Petroleum diesel emissions are a significant contributor to poor air quality and health issues in India.

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India Oil Renewable Pollution

California Air Resources Board posts revised draft of strategy to reduce “Super Pollutants”

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs are a category of pollutants which remain in the atmosphere for a relatively brief period, but have global warming potentials that are much higher than those of CO 2. Black carbon.

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Pollution California Emissions Climate

California Governor signs new super-pollutants legislation into law; black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

signed SB 1383 , establishing the nation’s toughest restrictions on super pollutants including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane. Sources of these super pollutants include petroleum-based transportation fuels, agriculture, waste disposal and synthetic gases used in refrigeration, air conditioning and aerosol products.

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Pollution Carbon California Climate Change

UNICEF: 300M children worldwide breathing air exceeding WHO pollution guidelines by 6x or more

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Almost one in seven of the world’s children, 300 million, live in areas with the most toxic levels of outdoor air pollution—six or more times higher than international guidelines set by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO)— according to a new UNICEF report. No society can afford to ignore air pollution.

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Pollution Nigeria Asia Africa

Co-Optima FY20 report highlights advances in engines-fuels research

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MAY 6, 2021

A report released this week highlights the most significant breakthroughs of the last year in the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) initiative, with details on findings that could translate into significant greenhouse gas (GHG) and tailpipe emissions reductions. Source: DOE.

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Engine Fuel Emissions Renewable

British Airways invests in LanzaJet; SAF offtake agreement

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FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The fuel produced at the plant will deliver a reduction of more than 70% in greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional fossil jet fuel, equivalent to taking almost 27,000 petrol or diesel cars off the road each year. The plant in Georgia is due to begin construction this year. Fuel could be produced by 2025.

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Georgia Carbon Fuel Emissions

California ARB releases proposed strategy to reduce impact of short-lived climate pollutants

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APRIL 12, 2016

The California Air Resources Board released a new draft of California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy to significantly reduce the near-term climate impacts of these potent pollutants. Together, SLCPs represent about 12% of California’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory. Governor Edmund G.

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Pollution Climate California Carbon

California ARB releases draft plan to cut short-lived climate pollutants

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released a draft Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy. The draft strategy describes proposed actions the State will take to move forward aggressively to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs). Black Carbon.

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Pollution Climate California Carbon

SoCalGas reduces CNG price by $0.26 per gallon at its fueling stations by using LCFS credits

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MARCH 27, 2019

The LCFS program is administered by the California Air Resources Board and seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels by 20% through 2030. Under the program, fuels that help lower GHG emissions, such as natural gas, generate LCFS credits. Natural gas costs significantly less than gasoline or diesel per GGE.

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Price Fuel Gas Gas-Electric

Baker Institute team says fossil fuel subsidies need global reform

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

There is evidence that fossil fuel subsidies are socially inequitable, that they encourage smuggling and waste, and distort economies in ways that undermine economic efficiency while harming the environment and the climate,” wrote Jim Krane, the Wallace S.

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Saudi Arabia Global Fuel Oil

Tenneco exploring synthetic fuels for climate-neutral mobility; NAMOSYN project

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JULY 23, 2021

Tenneco is putting its 100-plus years of powertrain expertise in improving vehicle fuel efficiency and reducing emissions to work to explore synthetic fuels (e-fuels) as a viable near-term solution to further maximize the efficiency and minimize the carbon footprint of internal combustion engines (ICE).

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Climate Fuel Emissions Engine

ARPA-E to award up to $5M to investigate extracting rare earth and other critical minerals from macroalgae

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APRIL 29, 2023

Seaweeds accumulate trace metals in such an efficient way that this process is sometimes used to clean up polluted harbors. It would be transformative if we could harness that capability to harvest the critical rare earths we need for a net-zero economy in a low-impact way using this natural ability.

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Wind Pollution Mariner Energy

DOE announces $79M for bioenergy research and development

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MAY 4, 2019

The FOA topics will advance DOE’s Bioenergy Technology Office’s (BETO) objectives to reduce the price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Efficient Wood Heaters: Develop technologies to reduce emissions and increase efficiency of wood heaters for residential heating.

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Waste Conversion Fuel Pollution

Cyclone Power Technologies Receives Purchase Order for Two 10kW Waste Oil Gensets

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies has received a purchase order from its licensee Phoenix Power Group (PPG) for two waste oil power generators. The new Phoenix 10kW waste oil generator will be powered by Cyclone’s WHE-25 engine—a compact, scalable waste heat engine—using a specially designed, clean emissions combustion chamber.

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Waste Oil Purchase Phoenix

Neste Oil showcasing NExBTL renewable aviation fuel at the Paris Air Show

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JUNE 17, 2011

Neste Oil will take part in the Paris Air Show this June to showcase its NExBTL renewable aviation fuel. In June ASTM voted to approve renewable aviation fuels produced by hydrotreating bio-based feedstocks for use in air traffic. “We are aiming for growth as a supplier of renewable aviation fuel.” Earlier post.)

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Renewable Oil Fuel Maintenance

Canada, US and Mexico commit to align light- and heavy-duty fuel efficiency and GHG standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively

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JUNE 30, 2016

As part of that effort, the leaders committed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from light- and heavy-duty vehicles by aligning fuel efficiency and/or GHG emission standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively. Collaborating on cross-border transmission projects, including for renewable energy. 50% clean power target.

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Mexico Canada Standards Light

Study finds renewable diesel blends deliver fuel consumption and CO2 benefits in Euro 5 engines

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APRIL 24, 2018

In a next step, they plan to validate these results with the WLTP and RDE emission tests. It can be produced from many kind of non edible vegetable oils, animal fats, waste oils and consists of a mixture of paraffinic hydrocarbons in diesel boiling range, free of sulfur, oxygen and aromatics. —Napolitano et al. 2018.02.097.

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Diesel Engine Fuel CO2

MIT team proposes flex-fuel gasoline-alcohol engine PHEV long-haul trucks

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APRIL 9, 2019

In this approach the engine would provide comparable (or possibly greater) efficiency than a diesel engine while also providing around 90% lower NO x emissions than present cleanest diesel engine vehicles. Ethanol or methanol would be employed to increase knock resistance. —Daniel Cohn. and Bromberg, L.

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MIT Gasoline Engine Fuel

EU research project IDEALFUEL seeks to develop marine low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from biomass; Bio-HFO

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JUNE 26, 2020

The use of heavy fuel oils (HFOs) contributes to global warming due to the fossil origin of these fuels and, moreover, generating non-negligible emissions of pollutants such as sulfur oxides. IDEALFUEL seeks to develop methods to convert woody residual and waste materials such as sawdust and wood chips into renewable marine fuels.

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Mariner Oil Fuel Cleaner

All Audi production sites will manufacture all-electric vehicles by 2029

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

By 2030, Audi aims to cut its absolute environmental impact in the areas of primary energy consumption, power plant emissions, CO 2 equivalents, air pollutants, local water risk, and wastewater and waste volumes in half, compared with the 2018 figure.

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All-Electric Audi Manufacturer Electric Vehicles

Raven SR & Hyzon Motors to build up to 100 waste-to-hydrogen hubs

Neste charters two new lower-emission tankers from Terntank; methanol and sails

bp ventures invests $10M in waste-to-biomethanol company WasteFuel; offtake MoU

GTI quantifies opportunity to produce low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) from wood wastes

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

Anaergia to supply RNG to FuelCell Energy to create renewable hydrogen supporting Toyota’s port facility

European project HARARE seeks to produce iron and non-ferrous metals from waste using hydrogen as reductant

SK invests in Fulcrum BioEnergy to accelerate production of low-carbon fuel from waste

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

Eni and Hera Group partner on conversion of used vegetable oil to renewable diesel for waste collection vehicles

Raven SR partners with Republic Services to produce commercial green hydrogen from waste in N California, starting summer 2022

Renewable natural gas flowing into SoCalGas pipelines from Calgren dairy digester pipeline cluster

Phillips 66 makes final investment decision for $850M conversion of refinery to renewable fuels facility; commercial operation in 1Q 2024

Poor air quality to remain a problem in India despite pollution control policies

Waste-to-biofuels company Enerkem produces bio-DME

Graforce plasma electrolysis for efficient generation of hydrogen from industrial waste water; partnering with Audi

DOE awards $4M to two DME projects

Bosch trialing Neste renewable diesel; aims to offer renewable and synthetic fuels at all company filling stations in Germany

Blue World Technologies starts series production of methanol fuel cells

Clean Energy Zero Now truck orders surpass 250; heavy-duty trucks fueled by renewable natural gas

Argonne and NGO Energy Vision case studies demonstrate success of renewable natural gas as transport fuel

Oberon Fuels secures $2.9M grant from California for first production of renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) in US

Argonne releases GREET 2020

Volvo LX1 series hybrid wheel loader demonstrates 50% improvement in fuel efficiency; renewable diesel in the engine

Aemetis completes expansion of India biodiesel plant one year ahead of schedule; 60M gallon annual capacity

California Air Resources Board posts revised draft of strategy to reduce “Super Pollutants”

California Governor signs new super-pollutants legislation into law; black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane

UNICEF: 300M children worldwide breathing air exceeding WHO pollution guidelines by 6x or more

Co-Optima FY20 report highlights advances in engines-fuels research

British Airways invests in LanzaJet; SAF offtake agreement

California ARB releases proposed strategy to reduce impact of short-lived climate pollutants

California ARB releases draft plan to cut short-lived climate pollutants

SoCalGas reduces CNG price by $0.26 per gallon at its fueling stations by using LCFS credits

Baker Institute team says fossil fuel subsidies need global reform

Tenneco exploring synthetic fuels for climate-neutral mobility; NAMOSYN project

ARPA-E to award up to $5M to investigate extracting rare earth and other critical minerals from macroalgae

DOE announces $79M for bioenergy research and development

Cyclone Power Technologies Receives Purchase Order for Two 10kW Waste Oil Gensets

Neste Oil showcasing NExBTL renewable aviation fuel at the Paris Air Show

Canada, US and Mexico commit to align light- and heavy-duty fuel efficiency and GHG standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively

Study finds renewable diesel blends deliver fuel consumption and CO2 benefits in Euro 5 engines

MIT team proposes flex-fuel gasoline-alcohol engine PHEV long-haul trucks

EU research project IDEALFUEL seeks to develop marine low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from biomass; Bio-HFO

All Audi production sites will manufacture all-electric vehicles by 2029

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