Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

Biocrude oil produced via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of biomass could provide a low-carbon supplement for transportation fuel supply. Upgrading of the HTL biocrude is necessary for transportation grade fuel. 21.3%) compared to the biocrude oil, leading to values of 1.97, 0.003, 0.004, and 52.0 1 , respectively.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2023

The fuel used is Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME) (biodiesel) and is based on renewable and sustainable sources, mainly waste cooking oil. No feedstock related to palm oil or palm oil production is used. It is therefore sustainable in accordance with the EU Renewable Energy Directive.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

bp has acquired a 30% stake in Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), the UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO). GBF’s products are made from renewable feedstocks such as vegetable oils, animal oils and fat. It is fully compatible with gas oil and significantly cleaner than EN590 (automotive diesel fuel).

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JUNE 1, 2023

Europe’s growing use of animal fats to power its cars and planes is becoming increasingly unsustainable, according to a new study by Cerulogy funded by European NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). Airlines such as Ryanair and Wizz Air have recently struck large deals with oil suppliers for what are termed ‘sustainable aviation fuels’ (SAF).

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NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Neste and CIM, part of NOVEN Group in France, the leading independent French group of companies providing oil storage and supply services, are collaborating to enable the supply of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel into France. —Jonathan Wood, Vice President Europe, Renewable Aviation at Neste.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses. The method is already being tested in Texas, North Dakota, and most recently in New Stanton, Pa.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The partnership will begin with a project in the battery anode space with the development of a novel process for the production of hard carbon from bio-waste. Using readily available, sustainable bio-waste material will provide Sparc with a strong environmental value proposition when compared with conventional sources of hard carbon.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Royal Dutch Shell will build an 820,000-tonnes-a-year biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery. Once built, the facility will be among the largest in Europe to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel made from waste.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

Leading global heavy lift shipping and offshore transportation and installation contractor Jumbo, and commercial, sustainable marine biofuel company GoodFuels, are partnering to test Goodfuels’ marine Bio-Fuel Oil on an offshore decommissioning project.

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Oil Mariner Fuel Netherlands 207

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2023

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. At the refineries, products such as renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) will be loaded for transport.

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APRIL 9, 2022

It has been designed to use less uranium and produce almost a third less long-lived radioactive wastes compared with water reactors in operation today. This will not only provide cleaner energy for vital British industries to move away from expensive fossil fuels, but could also be used for cleaner power, transport and potentially heat.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

The plant, built for North European Bio Tech Oy (NEB), recycles feedstocks such as food industry biowaste and process residue from local bakeries and bread from shops that is past its sell-by date into ethanol for transport fuel. St1 is a leader in waste-based ethanol production and production technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2023

Synthetic fuels from renewable energy sources will be needed to reach the climate goals in the full transport sector. In spite of increasing electric mobility in the transport sector, we will continue to need liquid fuels for a long time. So-called “refuels” promise to reduce CO 2 emissions by 90% compared to conventional fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2023

The renewable units in Cheyenne (6,000 BPD) and Sinclair (10,000 BPD) are from the conversion of crude oil refinery assets whereas the Artesia (9,000 BPD) renewable unit is a grassroots renewable facility. These facilities utilize Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology for the conversion of waste and bio-feedstock into renewable diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

Source: LowCVP, Element Energy. The UK’s LowCVP has published twin reports which set out how the UK could meet its 2020 targets defined in the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive, and proceed on a pathway to decarbonize road transport fuel in the period to 2030 and beyond. Illustrative impact of the fuel roadmap. Click to enlarge.

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Renewable Transportation Fuel Energy 255

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APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. Chemical energy in shale. Heat source.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As part of a White House roundtable to launch the Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) Grand Challenge to decarbonize the aviation sector by 2050 ( earlier post ), the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $64.7 Quasar Energy Group will use an anaerobic digestor to convert food waste to SAF precursors. Award amount: $2,800,000).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Diamond Green Diesel is owned by Valero Energy Corp. The Diamond Green Diesel facility converts inedible oils and other waste fats into a high-quality renewable diesel fuel. This standard requires a minimum volume of transportation fuels sold in the US to contain renewable fuel as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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JUNE 24, 2015

Alphabet Energy, founded in 2009 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, announced the availability of its thermoelectric generator PowerModule as a standalone product, available to meet the specific application needs of a range of industries, including transportation. an implied efficiency of about 2.5%—saving

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We expect low-carbon fuel policies to continue to expand globally and drive demand for renewable fuels, and to that end, we are applying our liquid fuels expertise to continue to expand our long-term competitive advantage in low-carbon transportation fuels with the expansion of DGD. billion pounds of used cooking oil annually.

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Diesel Renewable Green San Antonio 397

Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2023

HVOlution is a biofuel produced from waste raw materials, vegetable residue and oils produced from crops that not in competition with the food chain. Depending on their needs, Multicard provides a tailor-made offering for the supply of all energy carriers available at Eni service stations, including the new HVOlution fuel.

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AUGUST 12, 2017

The California Energy Commission is issuing a solicitation ( GFO-17-901 ) to provide up to $3 million in funding for innovative, pre-commercial low-carbon fuel production processes that result in the development of bio-oil as an intermediate fuel with wide-scale adoption potential used for renewable jet fuel production.

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Oil Renewable California Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2023

Rolls-Royce has approved its mtu Kinetic PowerPacks, based on the mtu Series 4000 and 1600 diesel engines, for use with renewable diesel (HVO/Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) and the other synthetic diesel fuels of the EN15940 standard. Part of the energy stored in the flywheel is used to drive the generator that begins producing electrical power.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Phillips 66 and Renewable Energy Group, Inc. Planned feedstocks include a mix of waste fats, oils and greases, including regionally-sourced vegetable oils, animal fats and used cooking oil. Phillips 66 is a diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company.

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Renewable Diesel Energy Washington 278

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2019

London-based AP Ventures has made a follow-on investment in Greyrock Energy , Inc. Greyrock’s systems are designed to transform a variety of gas resources (including natural gas, flare gas, bio-gas, natural gas liquids, and other feedstocks) into premium transportation fuels. a provider of small-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

and Eni signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to explore potential cooperation on sustainable mobility initiatives in the commercial vehicle sector in Europe and accelerate the decarbonization of transport. IVECO, a brand of Iveco Group N.V. High-quality HVO biofuel can be used in its pure form in all of the most recent diesel engines.

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Commercial Italy Vehicles Hydrogen 281

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2013

Neste Oil is beginning the commercial use of tall oil pitch as a feedstock for refining into transportation fuel. Up until now, it has not been possible to use tall oil pitch, a residue produced by tall oil refiners ( earlier post ), as a commercial-scale feedstock for fuel refining purposes. Earlier post.).

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Oil Commercial Finland Fuel 230

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JUNE 23, 2016

Australia-based Southern Oil and JJ Richards & Sons, joint venture partners in the Northern Oil Refinery at Yarwun, Australia, are building a new $5.3-million million dollar biocrude and biofuel laboratory in central Queensland on the site of the recently announced Northern Oil Advanced Biofuels Pilot Plant. —Time Rose.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2012

The California Energy Commission unanimously approved funding of $35,031,310 to projects that will accelerate the development of green fuels and technology in California. These awards are provided through the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. SacPort Biofuels Corp.

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California Transportation Green Energy 240

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The California Energy Commission adopted its 2014 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) Update, which outlines, among many things, how the state is working to transform the transportation system to zero- and near-zero technologies and fuels to meet its climate and clean air goals.

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Transportation Climate Energy Gas-Electric 150

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JANUARY 12, 2022

stake in Biojet AS , a Norwegian biofuels company that plans to convert forestry and wood-based construction waste into lower-emissions biofuels and biofuel components. The agreement with Biojet AS advances ExxonMobil’s efforts to provide lower-emissions products for the transportation sector. ExxonMobil is acquiring a 49.9%

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United Kingdom Norway Waste 2000 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

GS Engineering & Construction (GS E&C) has selected GE to supply the produced water evaporation and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) system for the Blackgold Oil Sands project, located near Conklin, Alberta. Blackgold is owned and operated by a subsidiary of the Korean National Oil Corp. A subsidiary of the Korean National Oil Corp.

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Oil-Sands Waste Oil Water 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the European Union rose slightly in 2017, mostly because of the transport sector. The rise is mostly due to the increase of oil consumption from road transport. The rise was mostly driven by the road transport sector. emissions increase in 2017 from 2016. in 2017 from 2016.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 2, 2023

The US will waste a lot of time, money, and energy on bad decarbonizing transportation approaches and end up less competitive as a result.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding of $2,605,370 for clean transportation projects. will receive $1,211,370 to design and install a new system to pre-process solid food waste for use in two existing anaerobic digesters at a solid waste facility in Chino.

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