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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Renewable fuels and chemicals company Virent and petroleum refiner and marketer Tesoro have reached an agreement for Tesoro to become Virent’s new strategic owner. The acquisition will support the scale-up and commercialization of Virent’s BioForming technology for the production of low carbon bio-based fuels and chemicals.

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DECEMBER 17, 2022

conducted the first original equipment manufacturer test flight of an ultralong-range business jet powered by 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). SAF is typically a blend of a renewable synthetic paraffinic kerosene (SPK) fuel—such as HEFA—and petroleum-based Jet A fuel. Advantages of a 100% drop-in SAF.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. Maximizing solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency in photo-electrochemical cells. Batteries Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Fuels Solar'

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is partnering with 21 states through the Biofuel Infrastructure Partnership (BIP) nearly to double the number of fueling pumps nationwide that supply renewable fuels to American motorists.

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APRIL 28, 2023

The round included participation from one of North America’s largest commercial fleets, Chevron Renewable Energy Group, and Pittsburgh regional investors including: Idea Foundry, Inc., The Vector System is an advanced fuel system upgrade that integrates into existing engines without significant modifications.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

The states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas are home to a quarter of the US population and consume 30% of electric power generated in the US. As a consequence, the Midwestern states have some of the highest levels of renewable energy on their grids.

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JULY 14, 2022

Other fuels that play a role in commercial trucking include gasoline (23%) and compressed natural gas (0.4%). This enables new diesel engines to achieve near-zero emissions with increasing fuel efficiency and lower carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. Electric and other categories each register less than 1%.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) awarded more than $4 million in funding to test novel applications of dimethyl ether (DME) as a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. Oberon Fuels, the first company to produce renewable DME (rDME) in the US, is a supporting partner.

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JULY 11, 2023

are electric, and the remainder are gasoline or other fuels. are powered by diesel, gasoline (22.9%), compressed natural gas (0.46%), other (ethanol, fuel cell, LNG, propane, 0.85%) and electric (0.09%). There isn’t a one-size or one-fuel fits all answer. are advanced diesel technology; 2.1% are CNG, 0.3%

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MAY 9, 2014

Integrated processing of hardwood to renewable jet and chemicals. The researchers expect that in its current state, the proposed technology could deliver jet fuel-range liquid hydrocarbons for a minimum selling price of $4.75 Biomass refining is complex, and bio-based aviation fuels are difficult targets. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

Lignocellulose, or lignin, is ubiquitous in biomass, and yet it is highly-resistant to the chemical, biological, and other processes historically used for the conversion and refining of biomass into renewable products.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin led by Dr. Jim Dumesic report the conversion of the hemicellulose fraction of lignocellulosic biomass to furfural and levulinic acid using biphasic reactors with alkylphenol solvents in a new paper in the journal ChemSusChem. Source: Gürbüz et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 22, 2012

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded a team led by Dr. Rolf Reitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison a $2-million grant to develop a tool to characterize the performance of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) drop-in fuels.

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MAY 1, 2013

Virent has delivered 100 gallons of its bio-based jet fuel to the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for testing purposes. The validation plan includes fit-for-purpose, fuel system and combustor rig testing. The plant was constructed at the company’s facility in Madison, Wisconsin under a $1.5-million

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Reaction pathways for conversion of GVL to butenes and CO 2 , and the integrated conversion of GVL to both a liquid stream of alkenes for use in transportation fuels and a gaseous stream rich in CO 2 that is appropriate for further processing options. Credit: Bond et al., Click to enlarge. Jesse Bond.

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JUNE 4, 2022

For example: In Iowa, Southwest Renewable Energy LLC is receiving a payment of $3 million. USDA is making payments to 195 biofuel production facilities to support the maintenance and viability of a significant market for agricultural producers of products such as corn, soybean or biomass that supply biofuel production. million gallons.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants (WERC, LLC) last week was awarded $1.5 million by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy as one of 40 projects to target new innovations and accelerate the development of the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 10, 2017

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is in charge of licensing the technology. For example, the same pathway could be used to produce two other plastic precursors—1,4 butanediol and 1,6-hexanediol—currently derived from petroleum and which together represent an annual market of more than $6 billion.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Renewable fuels and chemicals company Virent has established a strategic consortium with Tesoro, Toray, Johnson Matthey and The Coca-Cola Company focused on completing the development and scale up of Virent’s BioForming technology to produce low carbon bio-based fuels and bio-paraxylene (a key raw material for the production of 100% bio-polyester).

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

million for five projects to develop advanced biofuels and bioproducts that will help drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from biomass. Fractional collection of the fuel product allows for the different fractions to be used as blend-stock for gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel. Biomass Biorefinery Fuels'

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is [link] about $11 million to 20 new projects to help states and local governments to develop the infrastructure, training, and regional planning needed to help meet the demand for alternative fuel cars and trucks, including vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, and propane. Bay Area Air Quality.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Of them, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center ( GLBRC ), led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, had a goal of turning more of the corn plant—the stalk and leaves that makes up the stover—into ethanol, while developing perennial plants like switchgrass and miscanthus (also called silvergrass) into potential feedstocks.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology of South Korea has demonstrated the feasibility of using proton-exchange-membrane (PEM) reactors electrocatalytically to reduce biomass-derived oxygenates into renewable fuels and chemicals.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Lignin can be utilized as a renewable source for creating valuable aromatic chemicals, which have various industrial applications and can be used as the building blocks for fragrances, flavors, and novel bio-based foams and adhesives.

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APRIL 4, 2013

Emphasis in the next five years will be on bringing new methods and discoveries to maturity, developing new lines of research, and accelerating the transformation of scientific breakthroughs into new technologies that can transition to the marketplace.

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JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. Tags: Biomass Fuels. RFS2 becomes effective on 1 July 2010. billion gallons.

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MAY 26, 2022

An opposed piston engine with hydrogen combustion could well provide the best-known thermal efficiency from a reciprocating engine, with the potential to match the in-vehicle efficiency of a hydrogen fuel cell. with an air/fuel equivalence ratio (lambda) ? ? Fuel Injection. The only criteria emission of concern is NO x.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

The company has broadened its product offerings for renewable chemicals through this process. Virent’s production of paraxylene at its Madison, Wisconsin laboratory, has reached a capacity of 10 tons per year which will allow Virent to serve the needs of multiple collaborators for product validation and market demonstrations.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Amyris received the Small Business award for its renewable hydrocarbon farnesane for use as diesel and jet fuel. Farnesene is a building block hydrocarbon that can be converted into a renewable, drop-in replacement for petroleum diesel without certain drawbacks of first-generation biofuels. Professor Shannon S.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

The 20 CNG fueled vehicles will now be added to the existing fleet of Ryder diesel-powered vehicles that already supports Postal Fleet Services’ mail distribution operations. Ryder also operates Liquefied to Compressed Natural Gas (LCNG) fuel stations at its Fontana and Orange, Calif., Lafayette, La., Jackson, Miss.,

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MAY 4, 2010

Reaction pathway for conversion of GVL to liquid transportation fuels. These C 18 –C 27 compounds are in the molecular weight range suitable for jet and diesel fuel applications. 2010) Production of liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels by oligomerization of biomass-derived C 9 alkenes Green Chem., Source: Alonso et al.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Renewable cellulosic fuels and chemicals startup Hyrax Energy has licensed an ionic liquids hydrolysis technology developed in the laboratory of Ron Raines, a University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemistry professor and a Hyrax founder, from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation ( WARF ). Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that 21 states will receive $100 million in grants through the Biofuel Infrastructure Partnership (BIP) to add infrastructure needed to supply more renewable fuel to drivers in the US. Since announcing the program in May 2015, the US. North Carolina. North Dakota. Pennsylvania. South Dakota.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have disclosed a new method to convert lignin, an important component of biomass waste, into simple chemicals. Stahl sees lignin as a key to future biorefineries that would use renewable biomass rather than petroleum as the feedstock to produce fuels or chemicals while reducing environmental impact.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

GVL has previously been identified as a potential feedstock of interest in the production of both fuels and fine chemicals. Not requiring hydrogen or precious metal catalysts could contribute to a lower cost for a commercial-scale version of the process than some other renewable hydrocarbon fuel technologies. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Synergistic Thermo-Microbial-Electrochemical (T-MEC) Approach for Drop-In Fuel Production from Wet Waste. 10,000,000.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

This latest milestone reinforces Ryder’s ongoing commitment to assist companies, across multiple industries reduce fuel costs, lower carbon output, and meet their environmental objectives. Ryder plays an important role in advancing the environmental sustainability of commercial transportation and logistics.

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