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MARCH 26, 2022

Austria-based OMV, an international, integrated oil, gas and chemicals company, announced its intention to become a net-zero (Scope 1, 2 and 3) company by no later than 2050. The Refining & Marketing business is to become a leading European provider of sustainable fuels, feedstock, and mobility solutions. Refining & Marketing.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

The agency granted the funding in September 2010. The syngas resulting from gasification is purified and then upgraded in a methanation plant to biogas with a quality comparable to natural gas to enable the two types of gases to be mixed in the gas network, until the natural gas is phased out.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The Swedish Energy R&D Board will provide an investment grant for the demonstration at industrial scale of the Chemrec technology for production of the renewable motor fuels BioDME (dimethyl ether) and Biomethanol. The Domsjö plant will have the capacity to supply more than 2,000 heavy trucks with fuel. Earlier post.).

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Energy Sweden Renewable Grant 239

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AUGUST 11, 2009

Chemrec’s pulp mill-integrated BioDME (dimethyl ether) biorefinery demonstration plant project will break ground in September in Piteå, Sweden, with expected biofuel production by mid-2010. Primary gas cleaning and cooling also takes place here, using the Chemrec DP-1 gasifier plant for this service. EU BioDME project website.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted a testing exemption to Renergie, Inc. Hydrous ethanol is currently used in Brazil and Sweden, and hydrous E10-15 is currently being used under the European BEST project in the Rotterdam area. to investigate the in-vehicle use of different blends of hydrous ethanol.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

The EU-funded three-year NELLHI project has concluded after successfully developing a new stack design of solid oxide fuel cells, from an all-European supply chain. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) produce the highest efficiencies of any electrical generation, above combustion engines, gas turbines or other fuel cells.

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JULY 21, 2013

The ix35 Fuel Cell. Five Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell models ( earlier post ) are joining the London Hydrogen Network Expansion (LNHE) project. The ix35 Fuel Cell is Hyundai’s fourth-generation fuel cell vehicle, and its first to enter production. Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell. Click to enlarge. Under the hood. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 7, 2013

Volvo also revealed ongoing customer field testing of DME trucks in the US (with Safeway and Martin Transportation), as well as its partnership in the customer trials with startup DME producer Oberon Fuels. Oberon Fuels is the first company to announce plans to commercialize DME fuel production in North America. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 30, 2022

It is taken for granted, and most people have no idea how it is made. The combustion of natural gas or a liquid fuel heats the mixture to about 1,050 °C, and the molten glass is then poured from a ceramic spout onto a 6-centimeter-thick layer of molten tin, at a temperature of 230 °C. Plate glass , like steel, is all around us.

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JULY 27, 2009

There has been some scientific debate for years over whether oil and natural gas hydrocarbons could have been created deeper in the Earth and formed without organic matter (abiogenic petroleum), in addition to their formation from living organisms that died, were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediment in the Earth’s crust.

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