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Norwegian startup Blastr Green Steel is planning to establish a green steel plant with an integrated hydrogen production facility in Inkoo, Finland. Blastr’s project—the green steel plant together with the integrated hydrogen facility—will be among the largest industrial investments in Finland. —Hans Fredrik Wittusen.
Black liquor is the waste byproduct from the kraft pulping process after pulping is completed. The refinery, owned and operated by Veolia, will be adjacent and partly built into Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski plant in Finland. Veolia Group designs and provides solutions for water, waste and energy management.
North European Bio Tech Oy (NEB) has made an investment decision concerning the construction of a bioethanol plant on the Renforsin Ranta industrial estate in Kajaani, Finland. The company is also building plant in Gothenburg to produce ethanol from food industry waste and residue; the plant will be delivered by St1 Biofuels.
Neste is piloting its first electric vehicle charging service targeted to logistics companies in Finland. at their site in the Konala area in Helsinki, Finland. The pilot project supports Neste’s and Niemi’s climate strategies and helps Niemi, the leading moving and logistics company in Finland, to reduce its climate emissions.
Neste recently launched a renewable diesel made entirely from waste and residues under the brand name Neste MY Renewable Diesel at select service stations in the Helsinki region today, 9 January 2017. During January, sales of Neste MY will also expand to select Neste Truck stations for heavy traffic in Finland.
The hydrogen station is the first to be supplied by hydrogen produced from domestic waste. The new H2Station builds upon similar stations delivered in the past 12 months for Denmark, Norway and Finland.
This year’s Balex Delta oil spill response exercise, which is held annually under the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, is taking place today in the sea area outside Helsinki, Finland. The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE is coordinating the exercise.
Biogas facilities produce renewable gas mainly by fermenting biological waste. In countries with a large forestry sector, such as Finland or Sweden, there is a high potential for the production of SNG from waste wood.
Neste has made the final investment decision to commence construction of upgrading facilities for liquefied plastic waste at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. With the investment of €111 million, Neste will build the capacity to upgrade 150,000 tons of liquefied waste plastic per year.
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In addition to increased production capacity, the enhanced raw material pre-treatment capacity onsite increases Neste’s capability to process more challenging waste and residue raw materials. Amsterdam (AMS) in the Netherlands, and Helsinki Airport (HEL) in Finland. This strengthens its position as the world’s leading SAF producer.
A 1978 study by researchers in Finland estimated the tall oil pitch yield from the tall oil refining process at between 15-40%, depending upon the quality of the original tall oil. Fuel refined from tall oil pitch will be distributed to service stations in Finland this spring. Earlier post.).
According to the report by Finland’s YLE, once the NExBTL renewable fuel passes certification—expected next spring— Finnair is prepared to use the new fuel on “a significant proportion” of its flights. Earlier post.).
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Finland-based Neste has submitted three new Tier 2 Pathways for California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) for renewable diesel produced at its Porvoo, Finland refinery. Two pathways are for Renewable Diesel from Tallow & Animal Fat and one is for Renewable Diesel from Used Cooking Oil (UCO). gCO 2 e/MJ.
The fuel, which qualifies as an advanced biofuel in the US, was produced at the company’s Porvoo refinery in Finland from waste fats. Neste Oil recently supplied its first batch of NExBTL renewable diesel to the US market.
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The investment in Singapore will include additional logistics capabilities and enhanced raw material pretreatment for the use of increasingly low-quality waste and residue raw materials also for the existing refinery. NEXBTL technology can make top-quality renewable products out of nearly any waste and residue fats and vegetable oils.
Utilizing Neste Oil’s proprietary NExBTL technology, the plant can make flexible use of almost any vegetable oil or waste fat in the production of premium-quality renewable diesel. The plant employs approximately 150 people, consisting of 110 Neste Oil employees and 40 service provider personnel.
In April, the company started operating a hydrometallurgical facility in Harjavalta, Finland that is today Europe’s largest closed-loop recycling facility. In March, Fortum Battery Recycling started its first commercial operations in Germany, Kirchardt, as the first mechanical processing plant was opened.
It uses a variety of renewable feedstocks to produce NExBTL, including palm oil and side stream products of palm oil production from Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as waste animal fat from Australia and New Zealand. Neste Oil’s Porvoo refinery in Finland has already been ISCC certified in November 2010.
million) from the EU’s FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme), is aimed at developing technologies to produce cellulosic ethanol from agricultural and forestry waste, such as straws and wood chips, via a fermentation pathway. Source: Universita Degli Studi di Milano. Click to enlarge. The NEMO project, which has received funding of €5.9
Porvoo is the first city in Finland to start using Neste MY Renewable Diesel, produced 100% from waste and residues, in all of its diesel-fueled vehicles during this year. —Sam Holmberg, Vice President responsible for Neste's Marketing and Services business area in Finland.
NC State scientists Dr. Dimitris Argyropoulos, Finland Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. Elon Ison, assistant professor of chemistry and a green chemistry specialist, received the grant via the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) for their research "Catalytic Oxidation Chemistry Aimed at Upgrading Lignin.”.
The positive result was made possible by Neste’s increased production volumes at its renewables-producing refineries in Finland, the Netherlands, and Singapore. Waste and residues account nearly 80% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage.
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