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MAY 20, 2009

Enerkem GreenField Alberta Biofuels (EGAB) has successfully completed the necessary environmental regulatory process and has been granted a permit to commence construction of a commercial facility to produce biofuels and green chemicals from sorted municipal solid waste in Edmonton, Alberta. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 4, 2022

It’s also often produced using corn and other crop feedstocks, but this approach is dependent on crops that otherwise could be used to grow food or waste feedstocks. Our process aims to rebalance the overabundance of carbon in our environment and instead reuse it for meaningful applications. —LanzaTech CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Scania, a member of the Volkswagen Group, is developing a fuel cell refuse truck together with Renova, a waste handling company in western Sweden, fuel cell manufacturer Powercell Sweden AB, and JOAB, a manufacturer of truck bodies. FFI focuses on the areas of Climate, Environment and Safety.

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MAY 18, 2021

Historically, clean-burning fuels, and those that are easy to make from waste CO 2 streams or syngas, have failed to ignite using MCCI. In a high-temperature environment, any fuel will behave like diesel fuel, having short ignition delay and burning as it is injected in a mixing fuel plume. In fact, it increases power by 25%.

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MARCH 10, 2016

The California Energy Commission awarded the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) a $1-million grant to demonstrate a production-intent advanced version of the Cummins Westport Inc. This in turn protects the environment from excess emissions due to engine issues and prevents costly progressive engine damage. CWI) ISB6.7 G natural gas engine.

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AUGUST 28, 2010

The US National Science Foundation has awarded a one-year, $200,000 RAPID Response grant to synthetic biology company Modular Genetics , Inc. The National Science Foundation's RAPID Response grant appropriately highlights this unique ability of synthetic biology. The NSF funds will be used to produce and test these bio-dispersants.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

Maximum funding available for this grant solicitation, which was issued in January, was $37.69 Commission in Sacramento, California, and execution of a grant agreement. Environ Strategy Consultants, Inc. 2,422,740 to develop a system for anaerobic digestion of food waste to create. Tulare County Compost & Biomass Inc.

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JUNE 28, 2011

The researchers say the material could use waste heat from a car’s exhaust to produce electricity for charging the battery. The research is also tentatively funded by a small seed grant from the University of Minnesota’s Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment. Srivastava, V., and James, R. doi: 10.1002/aenm.201000048.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. Lee Huang of Eneron Inc. will receive $95,000 to research a gas stove burner that is 30% more efficient than conventional gas stove burners.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

million grant by the US Department of Energy to improve the growth and efficiency of biofuel-producing algae through the alteration of their microbiomes. The project also aims to reduce wasted byproducts of photosynthesis by targeting microbiomes that can more efficiently recycle it back to carbon dioxide for the algae to grow better.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

million in the form of repayable advances, following last July’s achievement of a technical and financial milestone in the ISOPROD project funded by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), which involves Global Bioenergies, Cristal Union and L’Oréal around the IBN-One first plant project. million and IBN-One €0.5

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

Abengoa will also issue 4,020,124 warrants for Class B shares with an exercise price of €0.01, which will grant First Reserve the right to acquire additional Abengoa shares and a right to receive an amount equivalent to dividends paid per share over a five year period.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $6,949,624). DOE grant:$5,349,932). DOE Grant: $4,000,000). DOE grant: $1,999,447). Earlier post.) Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects).

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MARCH 5, 2010

The loan guarantee is a part of USDA’s Section 9003 Biorefinery Assistance Program authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill, which provides loan guarantees for commercial-scale biorefineries and grants for demonstration-scale biorefineries that produce advanced biofuels or any fuel that is not corn-based.

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MAY 9, 2013

A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Analysis conducted by BlueSky leveraging R&D efforts from the FAA Office of Environment & Energy (AEE) regarding CO 2 emissions contributions from aircraft technology, operational improvements, and SAF. Source: US Aviation Climate Action Plan.

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APRIL 25, 2018

The project—Building Genome-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments ( BuG ReMeDEE )—was awarded a $6-million grant by the National Science Foundation in October 2017. The BuG ReMeDEE consortium includes industrial partners LanzaTech (US) and Bijson Innovations Pvt.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Generate 25% less waste in facilities and operations as a percent of revenue. In 2020, Cummins will launch a strategic community environmental program to align its efforts and affirm its commitment to the environment as one of the company’s three community priority areas.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

The BioEnergy Center, located near Vero Beach, Florida, is a commercial-scale project that will produce eight million gallons (24kta) of advanced biofuels and six megawatts (gross) of renewable power annually from renewable biomass including local yard, vegetative and household wastes. The INEOS Bio process has three main steps: Gasification.

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JULY 9, 2012

billion (US$10 billion) for the 2013 work program will support projects and ideas that will boost Europe’s competitiveness and tackle issues such as human health, protecting the environment and finding new solutions to growing challenges linked to urbanization and managing waste. In total, €8.1 billion (US$13.3-billion) billion (US$1.5

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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. CalSEED is administered by New Energy Nexus.

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JULY 10, 2010

An emphasis on bio-fuels, which are suitable for an SOFC and derived from sources (such as cellulosic biomass, agricultural residues, or municipal solid waste) that do not compete with food supply, is required. However, they must accommodate high ripple currents, in a high temperature environment.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

MOF manufacturing techniques have been limited as they are costly, slow and require large quantities of solvents, which can be toxic and harmful to the environment. Granting of the patent enabled the formation of MOF Technologies from Queen’s spin-out arm QUBIS. —Prof.

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

Preliminary estimates published in the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) annual trends and projections assessments show a 0.6% While the EU remains on track to meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, updated data shows Member States cannot afford to take progress beyond that date for granted. emissions increase in 2017 from 2016.

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JUNE 11, 2015

Bpifrance granted Global Bioenergies a “Zero Percent Interest Innovation Loan” (Prêt à Taux Zéro Innovation) to adapt its isobutene process to certain specific industrial environments. million (US$1.6-million) million) financing from Bpifrance on the isobutene program. million interest-free loan over seven years. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The California Energy Commission has issued a competitive grant solicitation ( PON-12-606 ) to award up to a combined $28.59 Environment Tool (STREET) generated the final maps using drive time to major intersections to define boundaries of “polygons”. Click to enlarge. million for new hydrogen refueling stations in 25 selected areas.

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APRIL 25, 2013

The team hopes to extend its testing to a 3-meter sphere, and then scale up to a 10-meter version to be tested in an undersea environment, if funding becomes available. The work was supported by a grant from the MIT Energy Initiative. MIT has filed for a patent on the system.

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MARCH 7, 2018

In 2017, engineers from Achates presented a paper (2017-01-0638) at the SAE World Congress (WCX 17) describing the development of a 55% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) commercial heavy-duty opposed-piston engine without the use of a waste heat recovery system or turbocompounding. Zermeno, R.,

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AUGUST 1, 2013

A team of University of Michigan researchers has been awarded a $2-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify and to test naturally diverse groups of green algae that can be grown together to create a high-yield, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective system to produce next-generation biofuels.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. The HiUCV is targeted to halve the overall carbon emissions per tonne of waste collected of current best-in-class Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCVs) in the urban environment.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

million zero-emissions vehicle grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, the new Proterra battery-electric buses will replace these older CNG buses, resulting in the elimination 3.1 SJC has already launched a number of initiatives to address the concerns and interests of the community and the environment. Funded in part by a $3.8-million

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A PhD student has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship grant to tackle the issue of plastic waste at crime scenes. The post Investigating the growing problem of plastic waste at crime scenes appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1

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JUNE 22, 2018

million) from ADEM (French Environment & Energy Management Agency), which operates the Investissements d’Avenir (Investments in the Future) program on behalf of the French government. This payment from ADEME adds to the grant prepayment of the four new European projects recently announced.

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MARCH 10, 2019

Therefore, being able to produce defect free slabs (by making it right, first time, every time) would lead to a huge benefit in terms of energy savings and reduction of CO 2 emissions during the steelmaking process by minimizing wastes and increasing quality and yield.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The pair has received $850,000 in grants to support the fabrication and testing of a prototype of the K6 engine; Shedd says he expects to have a prototype running by late fall or early winter. Slowly decompressing the gases would waste less of that energy and make for a much quieter engine. —Timothy Shedd.

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MAY 6, 2009

Battelle is granting an exclusive license to Genifuel Corporation for a process developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to convert algae into renewable synthetic natural gas (SNG) for use in pipelines and power generation. Battelle operates PNNL for the US Department of Energy. Genifuel President Jim Oyler. doi: 10.1002/bbb.74.

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