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Anheuser-Busch transitioning 30% of dedicated fleet to renewable natural gas

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Anheuser-Busch is transitioning more than 180 trucks—representing approximately 30% of its dedicated fleet—to Renewable Natural Gas (RNG). In 2014 and 2015, Anheuser-Busch converted 160 diesel-fueled trucks in Houston and St. Louis to fleets powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) engines.

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WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make n -butanol. Here we have harnessed the power of microbes to convert carbon dioxide into value-added multi-carbon compounds in a usable biofuel.

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UPS enters into RNG supply agreements with Kinetrex and TruStar; up to 80M gallon equivalents

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UPS has entered into multi-year renewable natural gas (RNG) agreements with Kinetrex Energy and TruStar Energy. We are using both liquid natural gas (LNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG) as bridging fuels to increase our use of RNG. The RNG will be used to fuel UPS’s LNG-powered trucks in Chicago, Columbus, Indianapolis, St.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Louis , Mo. Selected Labs and Partners. Ames Laboratory.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Solid Power Inc. AOI 05: Improved Efficiency of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Natural Gas and Propane (LPG) Engines. Development of a Heavy-Duty Direct-Injection Spark- Ignition Natural Gas Engine. Achates Power. Gas Technology Institute. Sila Nanotechnologies. American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. Purdue University.

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Commercial dewatering enzyme could reduce costs of grain ethanol production

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This could significantly reduce the amount of electricity, natural gas, energy and water needed for production of grain ethanol and its marketable byproducts. Washington University in St. The stillage was transferred first to an evaporator and then to a dryer powered by natural gas for another round of moisture reduction.

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Westinghouse and Ameren Missouri partner in pursuit of DOE funds to develop and license small modular reactor technology

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The diversity of public and private providers represented by the alliance is a powerful statement to the Department of Energy that there is a US market for SMRs. The alliance with all of our Missouri partners represents an unprecedentedly powerful case for SMR investment funding. Louis area.

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