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JULY 26, 2023

Enerkem, a producer of bio-methanol from mixed waste at commercial scale, and Dimeta, a joint venture between the two of the largest off-grid energy suppliers, are initiating feasibility studies for the development of two large-scale projects that will convert waste into renewable and recycled carbon dimethyl ether (DME).

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) and the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) have published a new guidance document, “ Measuring Recycled Content of Automotive Products.”. R3: Recycled portion of purchased raw material, including materials recovered or generated by other industries.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

In the Netherlands, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and its partners have developed a new type of aviation fuel produced using bio-based waste streams from the agriculture industry. Although it does not yet meet all industry requirements for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), it is getting close, the researchers say.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Haldor Topsoe is determined to take a leading position in the green hydrogen space, and has established a focused green hydrogen organization to accelerate its business. The new organization will leverage Topsoe’s insights into solid oxide electrolysis.

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MAY 18, 2019

Since 2010, SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, has improved its production-related environmental footprint by 34% on average with measures to emit less CO 2 and fewer volatile organic compounds, generate less waste and consume less water and energy. less waste. and 30.9%, respectively. and 30.9%, respectively.

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MAY 26, 2021

CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, launched a new $68-million Hydrogen Industry Mission. CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall said the mission-based partnership was the key to creating a new industry for the future energy needs of Australia and the world.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

million metric tons of electronic waste in 2019, up more than 21% over five years, according to the United Nations’ most recent assessment. Only about 17% of that e-waste was recycled, and what happens to the rest can be detrimental for both human health and privacy. The world generated a record 53.6 John Shegerian couldn’t agree more.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

By converting various types of local waste, such as green waste, municipal solid waste, organic waste, and methane from municipal solid waste, into clean fuels, Raven SR offers a sustainable solution for the reliable and long-term production of SAF.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

The chemists developed a battery cathode based on organic materials, which could reduce the EV industry’s reliance on scarce metals. This material consists of many layers of TAQ, an organic small molecule that contains three fused hexagonal rings. Automaker Lamborghini has licensed the patent on the technology.

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OCTOBER 28, 2017

Researchers in China have developed a novel free-piston linear generator (FPLG) to recover exhaust waste heat efficiently from a vehicle engine. The FPLG can be used in a small-scale organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system and can directly convert the thermodynamic energy of working fluid into electricity. —Tian et al. 2017.08.031.

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APRIL 11, 2020

In a three-year Business Finland BioFlex project, VTT—the Finnish state-owned research agency—and partners are exploring how suitable fuel oils made from biomass and waste plastics are for power plants and ship diesel engines. In theory, bio- or waste-based fuel oil could be identical to fossil fuel oil in chemical composition.

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JUNE 3, 2014

SUEZ Environnement and Déinove ( earlier post ) are collaborating on an R&D program to explore the development of a process to convert organic urban waste into ethanol using Deinococcus bacteria. This organic waste is currently mainly recovered via composting and methanization.

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JULY 6, 2016

DuPont Industrial Biosciences has introduced OPTIMASH AD-100, a new enzyme product that will help biomethane producers improve biogas yields and process robustness, which is expected to ultimately increase their revenue and profitability.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Waste and recycling company Republic Services, Inc. has deployed 23 compressed natural gas (CNG) solid waste and recycling trucks to serve customers throughout the Twin Cities area. The Company owns two local recycling processing centers, and is a leading collector of industrial waste and commercial organic food waste.

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MARCH 18, 2016

The four-year projet ORCNext , aimed at developing knowledge and design tools for next generation of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs), has concluded that waste heat recovery efficiency can be increased by 20 to 25% through appropriate cycle selection, efficient expanders, appropriate control and less oversizing of the heat exchangers.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Waste Management, Inc. has invested in waste-to-fuel company Terrabon, LLC. Terrabon is the developer of a carboxylic acid fermentation platform licensed from Texas A&M University for the conversion of biomass to fuel intermediates that can then be upgraded into industrial chemicals and renewable gasoline. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

As more industries adopt AR and VR, it is imperative for individuals to understand the key applications and capabilities relevant to their respective fields. Evolving landscapes of the manufacturing, agricultural, and gaming industries. Experts have forecasted that global revenue from the VR gaming content industry will grow from $1.8

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The UK Department for Transport has shortlisted 8 industry-led projects to receive a share of £15 million (US$21 million) in the Green Fuels, Green Skies (GFGS) competition for the development of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) production plants in the UK. Shortlisted organizations: Advanced Biofuel Solutions Ltd. billion (US$2.3

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JUNE 12, 2015

A major Dutch initiative designed to investigate how waste can be used as a raw material to produce chemicals has more than doubled in size since being launched late last year. Together, the 14 partners have all the expertise needed to make the initiative a success, from waste collection to conversion to industrial plants and sales.

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JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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MARCH 26, 2021

The biocrude oil came from many different sources, including wastewater sludge from Detroit, and food waste collected from prison and an army base. The research showed that essentially any biocrude, regardless of wet-waste sources, could be used in the process and the catalyst remained robust during the entire run.

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MARCH 23, 2023

The goal of this Topic Area is to improve the economics and reliability of gasification and syngas cleanup systems by eliminating technical barriers for conversion of renewable carbon and waste feedstocks to low carbon fuels. Topic 2: Strategic Opportunities for Decarbonization of the Chemicals Industry Through Biocatalysts.

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MARCH 24, 2016

has acquired exclusive rights to LanzaTech’s patented technology for the conversion of agricultural waste, forest waste, dairy waste and construction and demolition waste (CDW) to ethanol in California. Aemetis, Inc. Aemetis is the first licensee of the LanzaTech technology in North America.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. This then results in an overall efficiency improvement in the GTL process.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

DE-FOA-0002423 ) Topic Areas ins the FOA support DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Development of novel methods for rapid/real-time measurements.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

In a consensus statement , the group addresses key principles that must guide the growth of a European sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry as well as the market uptake for SAF in aviation in general to provide real and durable reductions in the environmental impacts of aviation.

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APRIL 16, 2014

British Airways and its partner Solena Fuels announced that the UK GreenSky facility to convert landfill waste into jet fuel ( earlier post ) will be built in Thames Enterprise Park, part of the site of the former Coryton oil refinery in Thurrock, Essex. Click to enlarge. High Temperature Gasification. FT Wax Upgrading.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

A joint research project by RWE Power and biotechnology company BRAIN AG has discovered specialist micro-organisms that directly feed on CO 2 -containing flue gases from lignite-fired power stations and that can grow at temperatures of 60 °C (140 °F). They examined more than 3,000 micro-organisms.

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DECEMBER 4, 2022

Each of the participating organizations brings their unique specific technical perspective to the project. Deep Isolation’s nuclear waste repository leverages directional drilling to isolate spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in deep boreholes located underground in suitable rock formations.

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MAY 3, 2023

Anaergia’s supply of renewable natural gas (RNG) will be produced from food waste and municipal wastewater at the company’s SoCal Biomethane plant in Victorville, California and will be sold and delivered to FuelCell Energy through Anew, the exclusive RNG marketer for the Victorville facility. The fuel cells will also produce a net 2.3

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

Pyrolysis oil from scrap tires and biomethane from organic waste can replace fossil raw materials in manufacturing plastics with virgin material properties. The BASF ChemCycling project targets plastic waste that is not recycled mechanically for technological, economic or ecological reasons.

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MARCH 4, 2016

the core company of the Teijin Group’s carbon fibers and composites business, announced that its German subsidiary Toho Tenax Europe GmbH (TTE) would participate in a technology development project aimed at contributing to Industry 4.0, Toho Tenax Co., Earlier post.). Resin transfer molding (RTM) is used for the molding process.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Waste Management has made a strategic investment in Enerkem, a developer of a thermochemical (gasification and catalytic synthesis) process to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals from biomass and waste, as part of Enerkem’s new financing round. Tim Cesarek, managing director of Organic Growth at Waste Management.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

A team at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) has designed a new simple, energy-efficient process (that also does not require any organic solvents) for the production of renewable diesel from biomass waste. The first step is the conversion of biomass into furfural—an established industrial process.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Waste Management and Genomatica, an industrial biotech company targeting sustainable chemicals ( earlier post ), have formed a strategic joint development agreement to research and advance Genomatica’s technology and manufacturing processes to enable production of intermediate and basic chemicals from syngas made from municipal solid waste.

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MARCH 16, 2021

These partners were Greenergy (UK), Europe’s largest waste-based biodiesel producer; Rexon Energy (Singapore), an exporter of UCO to the EU; Bensons Products (UK), a UCO collector; and Valley Proteins (USA), a UCO collector and exporter. Bioledger Ltd.

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JULY 6, 2020

In recognition of the importance of teams in energy research, the EFRC program brings together researchers from multiple disciplines and institutions—including universities, national laboratories, industry, and nonprofit organizations—and combines them into synergistic, highly productive teams.

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