Industrial, Industry, International and Louisiana

Syrah begins production of active anode material in Louisiana – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Syrah Resources , an industrial minerals and technology company, has become an integrated natural graphite active anode material (AAM) supplier outside China, processing natural graphite from Syrah’s Balama Graphite Operation in Mozambique.

Louisiana

Louisiana Mozambique Tax Credit Production

Diesel Technology Forum: 57% of all commercial diesel trucks on the roads in US are near-zero emissions models

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2023

Next in the rankings is Utah (66.2%), Pennsylvania (66.0%), the District of Columbia (65.4%), Texas (63.6%), Oklahoma (62.6%), Florida (62.3%), Illinois (60.6%), Louisiana (59.2%), and Wisconsin (59.1%). Nationwide, for every electric commercial truck on the road, there are nearly 1,100 powered by internal combustion engines.

Diesel

Diesel Commercial Emissions District of Columbia

J.D. Power: US growing increasingly divided on EV adoption

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Power, EV adoption in the US is growing increasingly divided, with the most active states for EV adoption already on the path to parity with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles and consumers steadily pulling back on EV purchases in the least-active states. Industry-wide, Tesla currently accounts for 63% of all EV sales year to date.

South Dakota

South Dakota North Dakota Power Powered

Biden authorizes release of more than 180M barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve; 1M bpd for 6 months

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

The SPR is a US Government complex of four sites with deep underground storage caverns created in salt domes along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coasts. This SPR release was part of a coordinated effort among the 31 members of the International Energy Agency (IEA). The newly authorized drawdown will come from all four storage sites.

Oil

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Nutrien and EXMAR partner to build vessel powered by low-carbon ammonia

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2021

Nutrien and EXMAR support the decarbonization of shipping and the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Green House Gas (GHG) Strategy to reduce emissions. Their new collaboration aims to reduce Nutrien’s maritime transportation emissions significantly and to enable the commercial development of an ammonia-fueled vessel.

Carbon

Carbon Building Power Powered

DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The project will build a new plant in Chattanooga to produce 30,000 metric tons per year of graphite targeted at the electric vehicle industry. Syrah Technologies , Phase 3 Expansion of Syrah’s Commercial-Scale Natural Graphite Active Anode Material Facility in Vidalia, Louisiana, $219,820,610. Gabriel, Louisiana, $100,000,000.

Parts

Parts Batteries Battery Lithium Ion

DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the capture carbon dioxide from industrial sources for storage or beneficial use. Steven Chu, Science Large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage selections (by amount of DOE award) include: ConocoPhillips. The first phase of these projects will include $21.6

Carbon

Carbon Industrial Industry Coal

Darling International and Valero Considering Forming a Joint Venture for Renewable Diesel

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Darling International and a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation are taking initial steps towards the formation of a joint venture to build a facility capable of producing more than 10,000 barrels/day or (135 million gallons per year) of renewable diesel on a site adjacent to Valero’s St. Charles refinery near Norco, Louisiana.

Renewable

Renewable International Diesel Louisiana

USDA awarding $136M to five major research projects focused in part on developing cellulosic drop-in aviation fuels

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

University partners from the states of Washington, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Iowa will lead the projects, which focus in part on developing aviation biofuels from tall grasses, crop residues and forest resources. The project aims to develop a regional source of renewable aviation fuel for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Louisiana

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EIA: US Gulf Coast refinery demand for hydrogen increasingly met by merchant suppliers

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2019

Hydrogen demand is expected to continue to rise as International Maritime Organization regulations that limit the sulfur content in marine fuels take effect on 1 January 2020. As global demand for distillate fuel oil has increased and sulfur content regulations have become more stringent, refineries have needed to use more hydrogen.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen 2017 2012 Louisiana

Valero providing construction financing for Valero-Diamond renewable diesel JV

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2011

A subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation will provide financing to Diamond Green Diesel LLC, a previously announced joint venture project between Darling International and Valero Energy Corporation ( earlier post ), for the construction of its renewable diesel facility in Norco, Louisiana. Charles refinery near Norco, Louisiana.

Financing

Financing Renewable Diesel Louisiana

Air Products Creating Largest Hydrogen Pipeline Supply Network; 1B Cubic Feet Per Day

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Air Products plans to construct a new 180-mile long pipeline connecting its existing Louisiana and Texas hydrogen pipeline systems, creating the world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network. Hydrogen is widely used in petroleum refining processes to remove impurities found in crude oil such as sulfur, olefins and aromatics.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Supplies Louisiana Production

New HERE-SBD index identifies EV leaders and laggards in the US and Europe

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The number of EVs on the road versus internal combustion engine vehicles – EV fleet share. This also prevents over-supply enabling charge point operators to turn a profit, sustaining its industry. How quickly you can charge – the average power capacity of public EV chargers. Highlights of the HERE – SBD Automotive EV Index.

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Air Products to increase supply of H2 to Marathon’s Garyville, La. refinery by 25 MMscf/day

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2011

The new pipeline extension, which is in the project execution phase, will connect Air Products’ Texas hydrogen system to the Louisiana hydrogen system. It will supply the Louisiana and Texas refinery and petrochemical industries with over one billion cubic feet of hydrogen per day.

Supplies

Supplies Louisiana Production Hydrogen

US DOE offers $241M conditional loan guarantee to renewable diesel plant based on UOPs hydrotreating/isomerization process

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is offering a conditional commitment to Diamond Green Diesel, LLC, the proposed joint venture between Valero Energy Corporation and Darling International Inc. The project will produce renewable diesel fuel primarily from animal fats, used cooking oil and other waste grease streams. UOP is a Honeywell company.

Renewable

Renewable Diesel Louisiana Corporation

Shell to build LNG units in Gulf Coast and Great Lakes regions; two additional LNG for transport corridors in North America

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

million tons per annum) at its Shell Geismar Chemicals facility in Geismar, Louisiana, in the United States. Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana. Click to enlarge.

North America

North America Transportation America Building

Opinion: Politicians Are Lying About Biden's EPA Rule

The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

It's not a ban on cars or internal-combustion engine cars. or no cars at all, but at the end of the day that’s not their decision,” said Elizabeth Murrill, the attorney general of Louisiana, a major oil and gas producing state that has been involved in a series of lawsuits challenging the Biden E.P.A. It's just not.

EPA

EPA Louisiana Climate Change Gas-Electric

DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2010

The universities—located in Georgia, Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, California, and New York—will investigate the technology needed for the efficient operation of turbines using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. Louisiana State University and A&M College , Baton Rouge, La.

Coal

Coal Universal North Dakota Power

Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Under the cap-and-trade system, industries regulated by it—the largest being power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement—are given limits on their total emissions, and companies can purchase emission reductions from others in lieu of reducing emissions themselves. 100% for some agricultural processes. Inadequate Oversight of DOEs.

Carbon

Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions

Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

For example, a covered source (an entity in the power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement industries) can make reductions beyond its compliance obligations and then sell these reductions as credits to other covered sources. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions from agricultural operations or specific industrial processes (GWP = 298).

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Emissions 2008

The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2023

This 6-minute documentary, about the restoration of a 1758 grand orrery —so called because it includes the outer planets—is worth watching because it shows the internal gears and clockwork mechanisms: A predecessor to the orrery was the armillary sphere , which featured a ball representing Earth at its center and stars rotating around it.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Brazilian government’s dedication to the ethanol industry declined and incentives given by the government wore off, causing hydrous ethanol-fueled vehicle production to decline in the late 1980s to early 1990s. When the car is filled at the pump, an internal system analyses the mix of the two fuel types and adjusts accordingly.

Transportation

Transportation Fuel Renewable Gasoline-Electric

EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

North America

North America El Paso America New Mexico

EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

North America

North America El Paso America New Mexico

Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

ºF) above pre-industrial temperatures. Such perception is at odds with most projections; for example, the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change suggested in March that while some societies might be able to cope with a “two-degree world” through aggressive adaptive strategies, impacts could be “significant” even below 2 ºC.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. Earlier post.) Hydroprocessing.

Renewable

Renewable Fuel Oil Diesel

Ford will use module-less LFP batteries from CATL

Push EVs

JULY 21, 2022

Ford expects a compound annual growth rate for EVs to exceed 90% through 2026, more than double forecasted global industry growth. Our team has been actively engaged with partners in the United States and around the world,” said Lisa Drake, Ford Model e vice president, EV Industrialization. “We It’s a very competitive landscape.

Ford

Ford F-150 North America Batteries

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Renergie was formed for the initial purpose of raising capital to develop, construct, own and operate a decentralized network of ten modular-designed small advanced biofuel manufacturing facilities (SABMFs) in the parishes of the State of Louisiana which were devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ]. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. They are looking at cutting the nation’s greenhouse gas output by targeting, in separate ways, three major sources of emissions: electric utilities, transportation and industry.

Gas

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

EV Driven

Syrah begins production of active anode material in Louisiana – Charged EVs

Diesel Technology Forum: 57% of all commercial diesel trucks on the roads in US are near-zero emissions models

J.D. Power: US growing increasingly divided on EV adoption

Biden authorizes release of more than 180M barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve; 1M bpd for 6 months

Nutrien and EXMAR partner to build vessel powered by low-carbon ammonia

DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

Darling International and Valero Considering Forming a Joint Venture for Renewable Diesel

USDA awarding $136M to five major research projects focused in part on developing cellulosic drop-in aviation fuels

EIA: US Gulf Coast refinery demand for hydrogen increasingly met by merchant suppliers

Valero providing construction financing for Valero-Diamond renewable diesel JV

Air Products Creating Largest Hydrogen Pipeline Supply Network; 1B Cubic Feet Per Day

New HERE-SBD index identifies EV leaders and laggards in the US and Europe

Air Products to increase supply of H2 to Marathon’s Garyville, La. refinery by 25 MMscf/day

US DOE offers $241M conditional loan guarantee to renewable diesel plant based on UOPs hydrotreating/isomerization process

Shell to build LNG units in Gulf Coast and Great Lakes regions; two additional LNG for transport corridors in North America

Opinion: Politicians Are Lying About Biden's EPA Rule

DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

EAA National Board nominations from across North America

EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

Ford will use module-less LFP batteries from CATL

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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