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Primus Green Energy, partner commission FEED study on new GTL plant; gasoline the end product

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The proposed joint venture plant will be a scaled-up version of Primus’s demonstration plant in New Jersey, which has safely and successfully produced methanol and gasoline. A series of catalytic fixed-bed reactors convert the syngas into gasoline and water via methanol and dimethyl ether intermediates. Primus Green Energy Inc.,

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ExxonMobil develops efficient new technology to dehydrate natural gas; exclusive license to Sulzer

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The “in-line” cMIST (Compact Mass transfer and Inline Separation Technology) could be deployed at both land-based and offshore natural gas production operations and represents a step-change in efficiency and a concomitant significant reduction in operational footprint. —Torsten Wintergerste, president of Sulzer’s Chemtech division.

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BASF Opens Production Facility for High-Temperature Membrane Electrode Assemblies

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BASF officially opened its BASF Fuel Cell production facility in Somerset, New Jersey. BASF markets its MEA products under the brand name Celtec. This eliminates the need for air humidifiers, water pumps, tanks, valves and cleaning systems.

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Primus Green Energy produces 100-octane gasoline at commercial demonstration gas-to-liquids plant; improvement to STG+ technology

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a gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology and solutions company that transforms methane and other hydrocarbon gases into gasoline and methanol ( earlier post ), has successfully produced 100-octane gasoline at its commercial demonstration plant in Hillsborough, New Jersey. The products are cooled and condensed. Syngas-to-Gasoline.

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What’s In It For Me?

Creative Greenius

And because my parents cared more about eduction for their children than almost everything else, they moved us from our apartment in Brooklyn in 1968 when I was 11 to bucolic Westfield, New Jersey. . And that’s exactly the life I have enjoyed, moving to Southern California within a year of graduating high school in New Jersey.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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I believe that the loss of industry players Solyndra, Evergreen, and SpectraWatt opens the market for more innovative solar companies to succeed with smarter tactics and mainstream products that fit into existing manufacturing models. New Jersey is second only to California in adoption of solar infrastructure.

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Why Hydrogen power is not the answer

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Most of the hydrogen on Earth exists in molecular forms such as water and organic compounds. We can’t just dig Hydrogen up from the ground we must create hydrogen from either Water or from organic compounds, and this requires a lot of energy. As a gas hydrogen or H2. is colorless, odorless, tasteless non-toxic, and highly combustible.