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JUNE 18, 2021

million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. Historically, clean-burning fuels, and those that are easy to make from waste CO 2 streams or syngas, have failed to ignite using MCCI.

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Diesel Engine Fuel Iowa 321

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

High-density polyethylene (HDPE) grocery bags can be successfully pyrolyzed to alternative diesel fuel, according to a new study by a team from the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service ARS.

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MARCH 9, 2022

LanzaTech, a company that has developed gas fermentation technology to transform waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging and other products that people use in their daily lives, will go public through a merger with AMCI Acquisition Corp. II (AMCI), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy.

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JULY 28, 2009

Using electrolyzed water rather than harsh chemicals could be a more effective and environmentally friendly method in the pretreatment of ethanol waste products to produce an acetone-butanol-ethanol fuel mix, according to research conducted at the University of Illinois. coli on fresh fruits and vegetables.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

The term ‘biofuels’ encompasses solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels primarily derived from biomass, including animal and plant wastes and residues. Bioethanol, can be derived from various sources such as sugar, corn, wheat, agricultural wastes, molasses, macroalgae, microalgae, and seaweed. Dr. Gogoi is also Asst.

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MARCH 23, 2021

They are based out of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Virginia.

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DECEMBER 5, 2020

Conversion of the lithium chloride to carbonate using a conventional process is ongoing, and is being performed by a third-party OEM/vendor in Plainfield, Illinois. The plant utilizes the company’s proprietary LiSTR technology and is designed to process continuously an input tail brine flow of 50 gallons per minute (gpm; or 11.4

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

The LanzaTech facility will recycle industrial waste gases from steel manufacturing to produce a low cost ethanol intermediate: “Lanzanol.” LanzaTech captures the waste gas from refineries and manufacturing plants and feeds the CO-rich gas to microbes that consume the gas and produce ethanol. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Farley believes the plants in Michigan, Kentucky, and Illinois that were affected by the UAW’s strike are “on track to reach full production schedules in the coming days.” Ford will also work to lower costs and eliminate waste throughout its operations. All told, we are refreshing about half of our U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The expansion spans three new states, including Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin and adds additional locations to the company’s Texas EV program. to install 30 EV charging stations at 15 Kohl’s locations across Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin. Additionally, Kohl’s has expanded its partnership with ECOtality, Inc.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

B20 Club: The B20 Club is a partnership of the Illinois Soybean Association Checkoff Program and the American Lung Association in Illinois, recognizing Illinois-based fleets running on biodiesel blends of 20% or greater for at least six months of the year.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Manufacturing Institute announced approximately $35 million to support research and development (R&D) that will enable US manufacturers to increase the recovery, recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of plastics, metals, electronic waste, and fibers.

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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2016 Ford Manufacturer Energy 256

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Colorado State University. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2,089,647. . Yale University.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thankfully, we are on track to reach full production schedules in the coming days at our assembly plants in Michigan, Kentucky and Illinois that were affected during the strike. It’s also imperative that we continue to attack cost and waste throughout our operations. Now, we are getting back to work as one Ford team. volume in 2024.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) have been awarded $2 million over the course of two years to fund studies on hybrid fuel cells from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). Earlier post.).

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Fuel Hybrid Gas-Electric Illinois 225

Teslarati

MAY 6, 2021

Rivian R1T deliveries are only a few weeks away, and the EV maker isn’t wasting any time preparing for it. Rivian is actively recruiting Field Specialists in the following states: Ohio, Texas, Nevada, California, Washington, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Florida, Utah, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, and Colorado.

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MAY 2, 2016

Republic Services, an industry leader in US recycling and non-hazardous solid waste, will be switching its California-based fleet to Redeem Renewable Natural Gas. Clean Energy designed and built the station for PDC which provides hazardous waste disposal to clients in 11 states throughout the Midwest.

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Hawaii Clean Cleaning Gas 150

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This generates a calculation of the expected amount of greenhouse gases, criteria air pollutants, solid waste, water use, energy input, water emissions, water withdrawal and consumption, land use changes, and energy return on investment. To use the tool, a user first selects the energy source to be analyzed and the desired reporting units.

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Fuel Coal Climate Change Illinois 236

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JULY 17, 2020

Municipality of Anchorage Department of Solid Waste Services. Pilot Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Deployment for Municipal Solid Waste Collection. Waste Not, Want Hot? Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. . $500,000. Louis Vehicle Electrification Rides for Seniors (SiLVERS). Shelby County Government. 399,999.

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MAY 30, 2023

One of the leaders in farm machine technology is John Deere & Company , based in Moline, Illinois. Biodiesel/renewable diesel and ethanol, produced from plant waste such as soy beans, corn and sugar cane, are currently being used in ground transportation and home heating.

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All-Electric Illinois Brazil Gasoline-Electric 94

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APRIL 18, 2012

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) hosted an open house at its new Pilot-Scale IH 2 Plant in Chicago, Illinois to demonstrate the successful efforts to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel conversion. Earlier post.). —David Carroll, GTI President and CEO.

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Fuel Houston Chicago Convert 225

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MARCH 15, 2011

Under the agreement, Tate & Lyle will dedicate a demonstration-scale production facility in Decatur, Illinois, for exclusive use by Genomatica for the scale-up of the Bio-BDO process. Genomatica is ramping its process to 13,000-liter fermenters followed by an integrated downstream process for BDO recovery and purification.

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North America Illinois Renewable Commercial 199

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JANUARY 3, 2013

Johnson-Matthey will produce the catalysts that turn the lipids in the methane into fuel, while Illinois-based Lanza Tech, a pioneer in waste-to-fuels technology, has signed on to take the bench-scale plan to the commercial level, if it is successful.

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Washington Diesel Fuel Engine 210

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

During his time at MIT, Penfield developed a course that made the second law of thermodynamics—which states that the more energy is transferred or transformed, the more of it is wasted—accessible to first-year students. He also was an electrical engineering professor at Illinois Tech , in Chicago. Louis, Axelrod joined the U.S.

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MIT St. Louis San Jose Highlander 89

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000. The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

—Stephen Klippenstein, a senior scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois who was not involved in this research. That’s important, Green points out, since waste oil is among the largest hazardous waste streams in the United States. I certainly am already convinced by their conclusions.

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Minnesota Fuel MIT Green 218

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MAY 11, 2009

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. The primary feedstock for the Rialto Project will be urban woody green waste such as yard clippings, for which Rentech is currently negotiating supply agreements.

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California Power Powered Building 170

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APRIL 21, 2009

Diesel Brewing’s process gasifies wood wastes, agricultural residues and manure into a syngas that is cleaned and fed into a catalytic reactor and purification system to generate a suite of alcohols containing butanol, ethanol and methanol. We don’t want to merely make electric power from these waste products. —Jeff Raines.

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JUNE 17, 2012

Waste water disposal from oil and gas production, including shale gas recovery, typically involves injection at relatively low pressures into large porous aquifers that are specifically targeted to accommodate large volumes of fluid.

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Oil-Sands Gas Water Oil 250

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

These permeable silicone beads could be a “sliced-bread” breakthrough for CO 2 capture—efficient, easy-to-handle, minimal waste, and cheap to make. Hardin IV of Harvard University; and Elizabeth Glogowski of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. William Bourcier and Chris Spadaccini, all of LLNL; James O.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Woody biomass, municipal waste potential. Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Virginia. 0.3% (this is only for dedicated energy crops and woody biomass from logging waste). 2.0% (mostly woody biomass).

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JUNE 26, 2021

Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. BioBlend Renewable Resources (Elk Grove Village, Illinois). BioBlend Renewable Resources (Elk Grove Village, Illinois). Beam Suntory, Inc.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., He is with Dixie State College in St. George, Utah. Vladimir Vysotskii, Ph.D.,

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

These plants will be fueled by coal, natural gas, biomass, and waste plastics and incorporate carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies. The Coal FIRST Initiative recognizes the importance of hydrogen production from coal, biomass, and waste plastics.

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Coal Carbon Hydrogen Nebraska 186

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Benefits include faster production rates and reduced material waste than standard wet chemistry processes. Compared to the wet chemistry processes typically used for synthesizing these materials today, Argonne’s FSP process can deliver cost savings due to faster production rates and reduced material waste. Source: ANL.

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