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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake have synthesized a new class of renewable diesel fuels from a methyl ketone and diols including 2,3-butanediol, 1,2-propanediol, and ethylene glycol. This approach has already been investigated for the production of gasoline range fuels and solvents, and diesel fuel additives.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. Novel inorganic-organic perovskites for photovoltaics. efficiency, low-cost silicon solar cells. Investigator: Hongjie Dai, Chemistry.

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MARCH 22, 2020

The Road Map stresses the versatility of hydrogen as an enabler of the renewable energy system; an energy vector that can be transported and stored; and a fuel for the transportation sector, heating of buildings and providing heat and feedstock to industry. billion MMBTU per year. Inc; Audi; Chevron; Cummins Inc.; Toyota; and Xcel Energy.

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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. Algae Productivity Exceeding Expectations (APEX) (up to $20M).

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AUGUST 4, 2019

-lyase (CSE)—is performed at pH 9 in a buffered aqueous solution, under ambient conditions, and utilizes the low-cost precursors Cd acetate, L-cysteine, graphene oxide, and a poly-L-lysine linker molecule. Solar-driven water splitting is a promising route towards a renewable energy-based economy.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

In any case, when we switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we reduce but do not eliminate environmental damage. Current versions of renewable energy such as solar cells and windmills do far less damage to the environment than oil rigs, fracking, and strip mining, but they do damage the environment.

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JUNE 26, 2020

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium is aiming to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. Although cleaner fuels are available, many companies opt for HFOs due to their low cost. However, HFOs are banned in the national waters of many countries.

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JUNE 16, 2009

The company is focused on the development of advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals based on isobutanol and its derivatives. Gevo’s technology enables the cost-effective, practical production of renewable hydrocarbons such as isooctene and isooctane for the gasoline market, renewable jet fuel and renewable diesel blendstocks.

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APRIL 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award nearly $18 million to four innovative pilot-scale biorefineries in California, Iowa and Washington that will produce and test drop-in renewable biofuels that meet military specifications for jet fuel and shipboard diesel. The projects selected for negotiation are: Frontline Bioenergy LLC (up to $4.2

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

In the UK, CNG Fuels launched its renewable biomethane fuel, the most cost-effective and lowest-carbon alternative to diesel for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs). It therefore offers fleet operators the chance to significantly reduce running costs and emissions.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

We’re now able to deliver a full suite of ‘Near Zero’ emissions options for the on-highway market, and we feel these products give the industry an economically viable way to reduce emissions while maintaining performance and low cost of operation. —Tom Hodek, Cummins Westport Sales and VPI Program Director.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued ( DE-FOA-0001065 ) a request for feedback on biological hydrogen production research and development (R&D) pathways, barriers, issues and opportunities for development of technologies that can ultimately produce low cost hydrogen that meets DOE goals.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

California-based Biosynthetic Technologies, in partnership with Albemarle, announced that operations of a demonstration production plant for biosynthetic lubricant oil within Albemarle’s existing Baton Rouge facility have commenced. The new plant incorporates and validates every aspect of the low-cost continuous-flow manufacturing process.

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MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 4, 2015

This industry ultimately has the potential to provide fermentation processes with low-cost sugars derived from abundant resources. Preliminary tests have resulted in successful second-generation isobutene production at the laboratory scale, with process performances similar to the ones observed using wheat-derived glucose.

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JUNE 15, 2015

A team at McGill University in Canada has developed a reversible hydrogen storage/release system based on the metal-catalyzed hydrogenation and photo-induced dehydrogenation of organic cyclic hydrocarbons at room temperature. under visible light illumination (420–600 nm) without any other energy input. Credit: ACS, Li et al.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

BASF Future Business GmbH and PURAC, subsidiaries of BASF SE and CSM nv, respectively, are cooperating for the joint production development of bio-based succinic acid. The major technical hurdles for the development of succinic acid as a building block, the DOE report concluded, included the development of very low-cost fermentation routes.

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MAY 25, 2017

Production of C 5 hydrocarbons from waste biomass. Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. This proposal aims to solve these problems by converting organic waste into chemicals with widespread use in polymer and transportation industries.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Now we are accelerating Direct Air Capture technology that enables efficient and low-cost CO 2 capture—the future of CO 2 recycling. At the same time, we need CO 2 as a raw material in many production processes. We want to put an industrial direct air capture, or DAC, procedure into series production.

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JUNE 9, 2017

million for 30 new projects aimed at discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen production and storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles. Precursor Development for Low-Cost, High-Strength Carbon Fiber. The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $15.8

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Under the Master Agreement, Aemetis has predominant exclusive rights to use the InEnTec Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM) gasification equipment and technology for cellulosic ethanol production until 2024. The PEM system uses heating from electrically conducting gas (a plasma) to convert the feedstock (usually waste) to valuable products.

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JULY 11, 2017

These projects are to deliver high-impact tools and techniques for increasing the productivity of algae organisms and cultures. Lumen Bioscience is focusing on agricultural production of algae on otherwise non-productive land in rural eastern Washington State, with the ultimate goal of creating new agricultural jobs in that region.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Bisabolene is a chemical precursor to bisabolane—a potential renewable diesel and jet fuel that phase separates readily when released to the fermentation broth, enabling efficient recovery via two-phase extractive fermentation with an organic overlay. —Sundstrom et al. This is also the first such demonstration with R.

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MARCH 12, 2010

Heterogeneous WOCs generally have the advantages of low cost, ease of interface with electrode systems, and critically, oxidative stability, but they are harder to study and thus optimize than homogeneous catalysts and they tend to deactivate by surface poisoning or aggregation. Tags: Hydrogen Production Solar. 5 s -1 at pH 8.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Schneider also organized the worldwide standardization for electric and fuel cell vehicle infrastructure. As we prepare for production testing, durability and manufacturing, it was necessary to hire one of the top fuel cell pioneers in the world. He will also lead the development of the Nikola R&D Center in Phoenix.

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MARCH 30, 2015

Maverick Synfuels announced the availability of the Maverick Oasis BG Gas-to-Liquid methanol plant product line. In September 2014, Maverick had introduced its Oasis GTL plants, small-scale, modular methane-to-methanol production plants that can be co-located at the methane source. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. —Alice Jackson, president, Xcel Energy-Colorado.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Separations play a critical role in biofuel production and that fundamental research in the are, including the identification of transformative approaches, is needed to generate separation technologies that will enable larger-scale production, according to a report on a workshop convened earlier this year by the National Science Foundation.

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JUNE 3, 2014

The UGA research group engineered a synthetic pathway into the organism, introducing genes from other anaerobic bacterium that produce ethanol, and constructed a pathway in the organism to produce ethanol directly. bescii lacks the ability to make ethanol, 70% of the fermentation products in the engineered strain were ethanol [12.8

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JUNE 18, 2012

Hedrick of the IBM Almaden Research Center in the Academic Category for developing a broad class of highly active, environmentally benign organic catalysts for synthesizing biodegradable and biocompatible plastics. Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., His approach also uses a low-cost feedstock.

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MAY 16, 2018

household garbage that would otherwise be landfilled—into a low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel product. By converting waste into low-carbon transportation fuel, Fulcrum provides a real solution to the aviation industry’s commitment to reduce carbon emissions. —Jim Macias, Fulcrum’s President and CEO.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Innovation and optimization of the Szego Mill for reliable, efficient, and successful up-scaling of the deacetylation and mechanical refining process for biofuel production. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Synergistic Thermo-Microbial-Electrochemical (T-MEC) Approach for Drop-In Fuel Production from Wet Waste. Project title.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Preliminary analysis performed by the national laboratories on the H2@Scale concept indicated that nearly a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible by 2050 via such large-scale hydrogen production and use. Example H2@Scale Topics. Click to enlarge. Proposals will be due by 15 September 2017.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. DE-FOA-0001026 ). Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Source: ARPA-E.

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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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MAY 1, 2014

A new project launched by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and led by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will work in support of H 2 USA, the public private partnership introduced in 2013 by the Energy Department and industry stakeholders to address the challenge of hydrogen infrastructure.

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