This new Vermont plant turns Ben & Jerry’s waste into clean energy
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MAY 29, 2025
Ben & Jerrys organic waste is now creating clean energy for the Vermont grid, thanks to a new PurposeEnergy plant in St.
NYK Line invests in waste-to-biofuel company
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AUGUST 29, 2022
NYK Line has invested in Japan-based Sustainable Energy Co. which has developed its own integrated subcritical-water organic-waste power-generation system (ISOP) system, which decomposes organic substances using subcritical-water-treating technology and ultimately produces green energy products such as biofuels.
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Alfa Laval introduces E-PowerPack ORC waste heat recovery system for ships
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MARCH 13, 2022
Alfa Laval is introducing the E-PowerPack waste heat recovery system for ships. Able to convert waste heat directly into electrical power, the E-PowerPack uses Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology to reduce ship fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. The E-PowerPack will be a vital part of achieving the energy balance.
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DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel
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JANUARY 3, 2022
Meanwhile, wet waste feedstocks, such as animal manure and fats, oils, and greases (FOG), represent another important category of resources that could be utilized to produce MCCI bioblendstocks due to its abundant availability. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016.
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Rice lab’s flash Joule heating extracts rare earth elements from waste at high yields
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FEBRUARY 10, 2022
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has successfully extracted valuable rare earth elements (REE) from waste at yields high enough to resolve issues for manufacturers while boosting their profits. The activation strategy is feasible for various wastes including coal fly ash, bauxite residue, and electronic waste.
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TU/ecomotive develops waste-free car with UBQ: Luca
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OCTOBER 13, 2020
With this zero-waste car, the team wants to show that waste can be a valuable material with a multitude of applications. Luca, the world’s first Zero-Waste car. During the UBQ conversion process, the unsorted residual waste stream is reduced into its more basic natural components. Photo by Bart van Overbeeke.
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Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects
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OCTOBER 31, 2021
Energy Vault, a company developing grid-scale gravity energy storage solutions, has entered into an energy storage system agreement with DG Fuels, a developer of renewable hydrogen and biogenic-based, synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and diesel fuel. Under the terms of the agreement, Energy Vault agreed to provide 1.6
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Idemitsu launches feasibility study in Japan into clean hydrogen production from waste
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APRIL 16, 2023
Idemitsu Kosan, one of Japan’s leading producers and suppliers of energy, has launched a feasibility study of clean hydrogen production in Japan generated from waste, including municipal waste. The goal is to launch a first hydrogen production facility around 2030 capable of processing 200-300 tons of waste per day.
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Topsoe enters agreement with Steeper Energy to introduce complete waste-to-biofuel solution
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JANUARY 27, 2023
Topsoe and Steeper Energy , a developer of biomass conversion technologies, signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution. The end-products include Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), marine biofuel, and renewable diesel from waste biomass. Steeper Energy was founded in 2011 and is backed by TOM Capital.
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New waste-to-hydrogen plant in Tokyo to convert wastewater sludge into H2 for vehicles and power generation
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APRIL 5, 2021
and its shareholder and technical partner Japan Blue Energy Co. The waste-to-hydrogen facility, located at the Sunamachi Water Reclamation Center near Tokyo Bay, will process 1 ton of dried sewage sludge per day, to generate 40 to 50 kilograms of hydrogen per day, enough to fuel 10 passenger vehicles or 25 fuel-cell e-bikes.
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Veolia launches largest project to produce bio-methanol from pulp mill waste
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APRIL 7, 2022
Black liquor is the waste byproduct from the kraft pulping process after pulping is completed. Our biorefinery project with Metsä Fibre is in line with Veolia’s strategy to develop local energy loops allowing decarbonization and energy sufficiency. Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski plant. —Estelle Brachlianoff, COO of Veolia.
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Synova, SABIC and Technip Energies partner to produce olefins and aromatics from plastic waste
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DECEMBER 6, 2022
an affiliate of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), and Technip Energies recently signed a Joint Development and Cooperation Agreement to collaborate on the development and realization of a commercial plant which will produce olefins and aromatics from plastic waste. Synova, SABIC Global Technologies B.V., Synova’s process.
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New ARPA-E program to award $40M to reduce fuel waste 10X from advanced nuclear reactors
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MAY 20, 2021
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $40 million in funding for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program that will limit the amount of waste produced from advanced nuclear reactors, protecting the land and air and increasing the deployment and use of nuclear power as a reliable source of clean energy.
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Toshiba integrated hydrogen energy system starts operation at Toranomon Hills Business Tower in Tokyo
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JUNE 21, 2020
Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) announced that its hydrogen-based autonomous energy supply system H2One, which Toshiba ESS delivered and installed on the rooftop of Toranomon Hills Business Tower (Minato-ku, Tokyo), has started full-scale operation with the opening of commercial facilities.
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Raven SR waste-to-hydrogen plant in California to be powered by INNIO Jenbacher’s Ready-for-H2 engines
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AUGUST 12, 2022
Raven SR plans to use INNIO’s Jenbacher engines [60 Hz] with a “Ready for H2” option to produce renewable energy. The energy system will power and heat Raven SR’s S-Series hydrogen production facility at a sanitary landfill in Richmond, California. tons of organic waste per day and produce up to 2,000 metric tons per year of hydrogen.
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VSPC boosts energy density of LFP cells up to 25% by incorporating manganese; LMFP
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DECEMBER 7, 2020
Lithium Australia subsidiary VSPC reports significant progress towards improving the energy density of LFP (lithium ferro phosphate) Li-ion battery cells by adjusting its proprietary manufacturing processes to incorporate manganese into the cathode active material during production.
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DOE awards $100M for Energy Frontier Research Centers
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JULY 6, 2020
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $100 million in funding for 10 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a twenty-first-century energy economy.
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Utah-based Energy Fuels to enter commercial rare earth business in Q1-2021
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DECEMBER 26, 2020
Energy Fuels Inc. Energy Fuels expects to process this monazite at its 100%-owned White Mesa Mill starting in Q1-2021, recover the contained uranium, and produce a marketable mixed REE carbonate, representing an important step toward re-establishing a fully-integrated US REE supply chain. Chalmers, President and CEO of Energy Fuels.
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Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction partners with RevoTech on production of hydrogen from waste plastic
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MAY 13, 2021
Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has embarked on the development of technology for producing hydrogen using waste plastic and vinyl. The company has signed a business partnership MOU with RevoTech, a company that specializes in the continuous pyrolysis of waste plastic. —Doosan Heavy CSO Yongjin Song.
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Nauticol Energy & Enhance Energy plan to capture up to 1M tonnes of CO2 annually from blue methanol production and distribution
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MARCH 24, 2021
Nauticol Energy and Enhance Energy have entered into an agreement to work collaboratively for the capture and sequestration of up to one million tonnes of CO 2 each year from Nauticol’s planned $2-billion Blue Methanol facility to be built near Grande Prairie, Alberta.
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W?rtsil? & Vantaa Energy Ltd. to cooperate on a carbon-neutral synthetic biogas production project
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MAY 20, 2020
The technology group Wärtsilä and Vantaa Energy Ltd., a Finnish energy company, have signed an agreement on a joint concept feasibility study for a Power-to-Gas facility at Vantaa Energy’s waste-to-energy plant in the city of Vantaa in the capital region.
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UCalgary, Rice team uses flash joule heating to manufacture graphene from petroleum waste
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DECEMBER 30, 2022
Here, we report the bulk-scale conversion of asphaltenes into a stable, naturally occurring form of carbon, namely, graphene, using a single-step, low-cost, energy-efficient, recyclable, scalable, and sustainable technique called flash joule heating (FJH). —Saadi et al.
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GM heat pump recovers energy from EV battery to power heating & propulsion while helping conserve range: Ultium Energy Recovery
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APRIL 26, 2022
GM is introducing a patented heat-pump in its Ultium-based EVs that captures and repurposes waste energy from the battery. Through the Ultium Platform’s energy recovery system, this waste energy can increase a vehicle’s range, reduce battery energy needed for heating, increase charging speed and even enable sportier driving.
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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.
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Simple process transforms PET plastic into a nanomaterial for supercapacitors
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AUGUST 14, 2020
UC Riverside (UCR) engineers have developed a way to recycle PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic waste, such as soda or water bottles, into a nanomaterial useful for energy storage. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Energy Storage. Mihri Ozkan & Cengiz Ozkan/UCR). —Professor Cengiz Ozkan.
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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations
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OCTOBER 15, 2020
The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each.
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DOE awards $3M to MP Materials for project to extract rare earths from fossil fuel waste streams
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MAY 17, 2021
MP Materials has received a $3-million award from the Department of Energy (DOE) to complete a feasibility study, working with the University of Kentucky (UK), on a system to produce rare earth oxides, metals, and other critical materials recovered from coal by-products.
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LanzaTech’s waste gas-to-SAF facility receives £25M from UK Department for Transport
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DECEMBER 23, 2022
LanzaTech’s Project DRAGON, which stands for Decarbonizing and Reimagining Aviation for the Goal Of Netzero, will convert waste gases into synthetic kerosene for use in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The feedstock for the planned facility would be waste gases, including potentially from Tata Steel’s adjacent steelworks in Port Talbot.
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Samsung Heavy and Seaborg to develop floating nuclear power plant combined with hydrogen and ammonia plants
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APRIL 9, 2022
An optional solution is to place a hydrogen or ammonia production plant next to the floating nuclear power plant utilizing the CO 2 -free fission energy to produce hydrogen and ammonia. In the harbor, a transmission cable will be connected to the electric grid onshore. This provides significant safety benefits.
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LanzaTech, Northwestern, ORNL engineer microbe to convert industrial waste gases to acetone or isopropanol
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FEBRUARY 22, 2022
A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have engineered a microbe to convert molecules of industrial waste gases, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, into acetone and isopropanol (IPA). —Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech.
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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”. There are three megatrends currently driving inevitable future increases in demand for metals: the transition to the use of renewable energy sources; the increased use of electric cars; and the development of smart cities.
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TAMU researchers propose single-step strategy for recycling used nuclear fuel
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MAY 5, 2020
Texas A&M University (TAMU) engineering researchers have devised a simple, proliferation-resistant approach for separating out different components of nuclear waste. A typical nuclear reactor uses only a small fraction of its fuel rod to produce power before the energy-generating reaction naturally terminates.
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IBM and Samsung unveil novel semiconductor design that could enable 85% energy reduction compared to scaled finFET: VTFET
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DECEMBER 16, 2021
IBM and Samsung Electronics jointly announced a breakthrough in semiconductor design utilizing a new vertical transistor architecture (VTFET) that demonstrates a path to scaling beyond nanosheet, and has the potential to reduce energy usage by 85% compared to a scaled fin field-effect transistor (finFET).
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Vertimass and European Energy to partner on CO2 to hydrocarbons via methanol pathway
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JANUARY 13, 2022
Vertimass and European Energy have completed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to integrate technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and converting it into hydrocarbon products around the world. —Søren Knudsen Kær , Head of Technology, Power-to-X of European Energy. —Vertimass CEO Charles Wyman.
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California Energy Commission awards Sierra Northern Railway team nearly $4M to demonstrate hydrogen switching locomotive; H2RAM
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MARCH 25, 2021
The California Energy Commission has awarded GTI and Sierra Northern Railway nearly $4,000,000 to fund the design, integration, and demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell switching locomotive to support the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstrations in Rail and Marine Applications at Ports (H2RAM) initiative. —Ted Barnes, Director of R&D at GTI.
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Renewable fuels company Raven SR announces $20M strategic investment from Chevron, ITOCHU, Hyzon Motors and Ascent Hydrogen Fund
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AUGUST 18, 2021
a waste-to-fuels company, closed a $20-million strategic investment from Chevron USA, ITOCHU, Hyzon Motors and Ascent Hydrogen Fund. Raven SR plans to build modular waste-to-green hydrogen production units and renewable synthetic fuel facilities initially in California and then worldwide. Raven SR Inc., Earlier post.). 22 CCR § 66260.10
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CSIRO’S Circular Economy Roadmap charts path to triple job creation
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JANUARY 25, 2021
The National Circular Economy Roadmap found innovation is crucial to realizing Australia’s largest economic gains, which will come from designing new products and materials, including through advanced manufacturing, and in embracing new business models that will create domestic and export markets for waste streams. billion by 2036.
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JULY 19, 2021
The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded $3.7 Selected projects will use HPC to address complex challenges, from improving additive manufacturing processes to increasing the lifecycle energy efficiency of jet-engine components to improving the performance of materials used to convert CO 2 into high-value chemicals and products.
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Renewable Energy Group collaborates with Iowa State University on hydrotreater pilot plant for renewable diesel
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OCTOBER 6, 2021
Biofuels producer Renewable Energy Group joined Iowa State University (ISU) at the BioCentury Research Farm (BCRF) to mark the start of a new hydrotreater pilot plant. REG converts waste and byproduct fats and oils into biodiesel and renewable diesel.
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China’s first integrated methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station now in operation
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FEBRUARY 25, 2023
The new Service Station can save costs on hydrogen production, storage and transportation by more than 20% compared to traditional hydrogen refueling stations; it is intended to become a pilot model to lead the development of China's hydrogen energy industry. As part of Sinopec’s commitment to becoming China’s No.1
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Carrier partners with ConMet to advance zero-emission transport refrigeration solutions
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JANUARY 27, 2022
Carrier is further expanding its electrification capabilities through a new alliance with ConMet , adding trailer wheel-based power generation that captures energy that otherwise would be wasted during braking events. The eHub system can also utilize stored battery energy to power the eHub motors to propel the vehicle forward.
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LSBU researchers investigating metal hydride hydrogen storage for buses
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DECEMBER 2, 2020
On demand, the hydrogen is released from the hydride (endothermic reaction), utilizing the waste heat of the fuel cell. Among the issues facing the use of metal hydrides for hydrogen storage is the energy required to get hydrogen in and out of the material. From Adelhelm & Jongh (2011). EP/T022760/1. EPSRC funding award. Resources.
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DOE awarding $46M to 8 companies to support commercial fusion energy development
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JUNE 4, 2023
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $46 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002809 ) to eight companies advancing designs and research and development for fusion power plants. For the first 18 months of DOE’s program, CFS milestones focus on its commercially relevant net energy fusion device, called SPARC. Focused Energy Inc.
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EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF
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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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