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First China-developed hydrogen fuel cell locomotive starts trial runs

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The first China-developed hydrogen fuel cell hybrid locomotive—from core power to main components—has started trial runs on a 627 km railway line for coal transport in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. said that the hydrogen fuel cell hybrid locomotive has a design speed of 80 km/h. Source: Xinhua.

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Envidity launches $1B UCG-GTL project in Mongolia

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announced the commitment of funds to launch a US$1-billion underground coal gasification gas-to-liquids (UCG-GTL) project in Mongolia. Envidity says that its project has been recognized and encouraged by Senior Mongolian Government officials as a viable way to tackle the issue of Mongolian fuel self-sufficiency. —Wesley Clark.

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4,500th GE Evolution Series Locomotive enters service; reductions in fuel consumption and emissions

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GE Transportation’s 4,500 th more fuel efficient Evolution Series Locomotive has entered revenue service. The Evolution Series represents a $400-million investment the most technologically advanced, fuel-efficient and low-emissions heavy haul freight locomotive to-date.

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Next Fuel, Inc. signs definitive agreement to field test coal-to-gas technology in China; Chinese partner makes strategic investment

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Next Fuel, Inc., The company also announced that persons affiliated with Future Fuel made the second part of a $2-million strategic investment in Next Fuel and now own 1 million shares of common stock, which exceeds 10% of Next Fuel’s outstanding shares, and a representative of the investor group joined the Board of Directors.

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Fluid thermal processing of Mongolian oil sands

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The study appears in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Israel’s Brack Capital Energy (BCE) is exploring for oil sands reserves in the Xing’an region of Inner Mongolia. investigated the thermal reaction performances of Inner Mongolia oil sand bitumen in a confined fluid-bed reactor. —Zhang et al. Zhang et al.

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Topsoe to provide technology for first commercial size dynamic green ammonia plant in China

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Establishing a commercial size green ammonia plant in Baotou, really is a breakthrough in China for producing carbon neutral fuels and chemicals. Inner Mongolia is very rich in wind energy resources, and Mintal Hydrogen estimates that the areas wind resources has the potential of being developed into a total output capacity of 150 gigawatt.

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Duke study finds China’s synthetic natural gas plants will have heavy environmental toll; 2x vehicle GHG if used for fuel

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As part of the largest investment in coal-fueled synthetic natural gas plants ever, the central Chinese government recently approved construction of nine large-scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters of synthetic natural gas annually.

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