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JANUARY 10, 2021

Researchers from Oregon State University College of Engineering, with colleagues from Cornell University and the Argonne National Laboratory, have used advanced experimental tools to provide a clearer understanding of an electrochemical catalytic process that’s cleaner and more sustainable than deriving hydrogen from natural gas.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

“ California is rolling out the carpet for Californians who choose these ultra-clean hydrogen powered electric cars and for the companies that make them ,” said Air Resources Board Chairman Mary D. California state agencies are collaborating on a range of initiatives to support the goal of 1.5 Earlier post.). —Chairman Nichols.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

The new legislation considers zero-emission cars to include battery-electric, hydrogen, and plug-in electric vehicles. As per an anonymous senior government official , Canada’s federal government will pass a new regulation requiring all new vehicles sold in the country by 2035 to be zero-emission cars.

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JULY 5, 2022

electric or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles). In moving to adopt regulations that focus on emissions throughout the lifecycle of fuels, Canada is following similar approaches that already exist in British Columbia, California and Oregon. Compliance category 2: supplying customers with low carbon intensity fuels (e.g., ethanol, bio-diesel).

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MARCH 21, 2009

Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Oregon have shown photobiological hydrogen production from one type of cyanobacteria ( Synechocystis sp. A paper on their work was published earlier this year in the International Journal of Hydrogen energy. They also produce some hydrogen, though.

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MARCH 29, 2021

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, has joined the eFuel Alliance , an interest group dedicated to the industrial production of synthetic fuels based on hydrogen and CO 2 from renewable sources.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The three winning companies are: Umpqua Energy , a startup company based in Medford, Oregon, is using an Argonne National Laboratory technology to develop a system that allows a gasoline engine to operate in an extreme lean burn mode in order to increase gasoline mileage.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Washington, Oregon, Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York adopted the ACC II regulations in 2022. The NJ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will begin considering the potential adoption of the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) regulation implemented by the California Air Resources Board.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

ZEVs include vehicles powered by electricity or hydrogen fuel cells. California’s ZEV mandate requires automobile companies to produce for sale a certain percentage of zero emission vehicles, such as electric and hydrogen fuel cell. Georgia offers a zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) tax credit of 20% of the cost, up to $5,000.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Understanding how the gut microbiome populations interact to deconstruct lignocellulosic materials to sugars or potential biofuels such as hydrogen and methane could potentially aid in the optimization of industrial cellulosic degradation. —Jennifer Pett-Ridge, a Lawrence Livermore National Lab biogeochemist and a co-author.

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JULY 27, 2021

Oregon drivers who purchase or lease new electric vehicles whose MSRP is below $50,000 can receive the Oregon Standard Rebate Program , a rebate of up to $2,500 depending on the vehicles’ battery size. . The amount of the credit depends on the tax year and whether the car or truck is purchased, leased, or converted. Connecticut.

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JULY 3, 2020

Researchers at the University of Oregon have advanced the effectiveness of the catalytic water dissociation reaction in bipolar membranes. Boettcher, a professor in the UO’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and founding director of the Oregon Center for Electrochemistry. —Sebastian Oener.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Those clever minds at the University of Oregon have made a potentially significant breakthrough for hydrogen storage – that could yet influence the fuel cell cars of the future. They have developed a boron-nitrogen-based liquid-phase storage material for hydrogen that works at room temperature.

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JUNE 1, 2016

Xfuels (49%) is contributing its Hydrogen Recovery Technology (HRT) and will also use the site for a pilot project for its combined Carbon/Hydrogen Fuel Cell technology. Converde (51% share) purchased the wells early May with the intent to build a pilot Gas To Liquids (GTL) plant on the site.

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APRIL 13, 2016

The 2016 SAE World Congress is again featuring a technical track (PFL 720) on advances in hydrogen fuel cell vehicle technology, followed by a technical expert panel discussion (PFL 799) on the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen infrastructure. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 23, 2015

A new study from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) and E4tech finds that the targets adopted or proposed by British Columbia, California, Oregon, and Washington to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels can be met with a range of low-carbon fuel options. Click to enlarge. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 20, 2009

Concept for hydrogen gas coproduction from cellulosic ethanol byproduct streams. Researchers at Oregon State University have demonstrated the gasification of water-soluble biomass constituents in supercritical water in a microchannel reactor under isothermal, continuous flow condition at short residence times to produce a hydrogen-rich gas.

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MAY 4, 2018

Velocys plc, a developer of microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (FT) biorefineries, has received a “notice to proceed” action to commence manufacturing the FT reactors and catalyst for the Red Rock Biofuels LLC ( RRB ) biorefinery that will be located in Lakeview, Oregon. Velocys’ role will be as a licensor for its technology to the project.

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JULY 15, 2020

States signing the MOU are: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Oregon State University Oregon State University, in conjunction with a separate project funded by the EU through Universities of Bremen (Germany) and Tromso (Norway), will assess the response of methane hydrates to environmental changes at the Svalbard continental margin, part of Norway’s continental shelf. University of Oregon.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

The governors of 8 states—California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—have signed a memorandum of understanding ( MoU ) to take specific actions to put 3.3 Electric (Battery) Fuel Cells Hybrids Hydrogen Plug-ins Policy'

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A team led by researchers at Oregon State University have demonstrated that diffusion may not be necessary to transport ionic charges inside a hydrated solid-state structure of a battery electrode. So far, most attention has been devoted to devices operating on metal ions, starting with Li and looking down the periodic table. Source: OSU.

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MARCH 20, 2023

The California rule does stipulate that automakers could also sell hydrogen-powered vehicles as they wane off diesel. Six states, including New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Oregon, Washington state, and Massachusetts, are expected to follow California’s lead and implement these regulations as well.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Oregon State University, Freshwater Recovery System for Hydraulic Fracturing (FRESH-Frac) Using a Thermally-Actuated Nozzle-Demister – $2,972,000. Oregon State University (OSU) is developing a system for extracting clean irrigation water from hydraulic fracturing wastewater using low-grade solar or industrial waste heat.

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DECEMBER 29, 2011

While dreams of a "Hydrogen Highway" along the West Coast have languished, the states of Washington and Oregon are moving ahead on plans to make Interstate-5 the first "electric highway" in the nation.

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JUNE 6, 2012

Honda debuted the 2013 Fit EV at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show and announced plans to begin leasing the battery-electric commuter vehicle to customers in select California and Oregon markets during the summer of 2012, followed by an East Coast rollout in 2013.

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MARCH 5, 2010

and InEnTec LLC, plans to develop a plasma gasification facility at Waste Management’s Columbia Ridge Landfill in Arlington, Oregon. The clean syngas may then be converted into transportation fuels such as ethanol and diesel, or industrial products such as hydrogen and methanol.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

States joining with California on the effort to accelerate deployment of zero-emission trucks and buses are Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. —CARB Chair Mary D.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

For the ethanol process, the acetic acid is then converted to an ester which is then hydrogenated to make ethanol. To get the hydrogen necessary to convert the ester to ethanol, ZeaChem takes the lignin residue from the fractionation process and gasifies it to create a hydrogen-rich syngas stream. Earlier post. ).

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JUNE 15, 2011

ClearEdge will install its ClearEdge5 system at 10 different businesses in California and Oregon, while PNNL will monitor the systems and measure the energy savings. A Fuel Processor in the system reforms the natural gas into ultra-clean hydrogen through a catalytic process.

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MARCH 22, 2018

The High Performance scenario differs from Steady Progress by having more aggressive deployment assumptions on cellulosic fuels, passenger ZEVs, heavy duty natural gas vehicles, and on carbon capture at ethanol refineries and green hydrogen use at petroleum refineries. Malins (2018) Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

ZeaChem’s process combines the outputs of two traditional ethanol production pathways (fermentation of sugars and gasification of biomass) into a third catalytically-driven step—hydrogenation—to produce ethanol. The acetic acid is converted to an ester which is then be reacted with hydrogen to produce ethanol.

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MAY 29, 2014

Eight partnering states released their Multi-State ZEV Action Plan as the first promised milestone for the bi-coastal collaboration to pave the way for increasingly large numbers of zero emission vehicles: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Startup WattEV opened a huge public truck charging depot at the Port of Long Beach , and has big plans for a West Coast charging corridor: hubs in Bakersfield, San Bernardino and Gardena, California are on the drawing board, and the company recently won two grants to build hubs near Sacramento and Salem, Oregon.

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OCTOBER 23, 2014

The other seven states—Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—account for more than 135,000 vehicles. In October 2013, the 8 states signed a memorandum of understanding to take specific actions to put 3.3 Californians have purchased or leased more than 100,000 ZEVs. million by 2025.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Naphtha is recycled to the partial oxidation unit with remaining tail gas to be reformed to hydrogen and carbon monoxide. USDA is negotiating three additional loans for biorefineries in Iowa, North Carolina and Oregon. The plant will be the first of what the company expects to be several bio jet fuel plants throughout the country.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

million for hydrogen fuel cell buses. Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit will receive funding to purchase New Flyer 60' zero-emission fuel cell electric buses with supporting hydrogen infrastructure. CUMTD will produce hydrogen on-site partially from renewable sources. Oregon Department of Transportation. 1,450,000.

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