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JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Another project in Sweden will create a first-of-a-kind methanol plant converting CO?, Another project in Sweden will produce a new fiber from pulp to substitute polyester in textile applications.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Aurobay was formed as a stand-alone business in 2021 when Volvo Cars Powertrain Engineering Sweden, including its Skövde-based engine plant and the related R&D team, along with its engine plant in China and other relevant assets, were carved out from Volvo Car Group. —Javier Varela, chief operating officer and deputy CEO at Volvo Cars.

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JUNE 8, 2015

The first Etanolix plant delivered to the international market by Finland-based St1 Biofuels Oy was inaugurated in Gothenburg, Sweden last week. The Etanolix production process starts with receiving feedstock that has high carbohydrate concentrations, such as bakery waste. The refinery staff will operate the Etanolix plant.

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JULY 10, 2020

PowerCell Sweden AB will participate in an EU project that will develop and operate a refuse truck with fuel cells for Renova AB, western Sweden’s leading environmental enterprise within recycling and waste management. Renova’s end customer, the City of Gothenburg, wants to increase testing of fuel-cell-powered refuse trucks.

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JULY 21, 2022

Toyota’s toughest, body-on-frame models in Europe are to be made compatible with HVO100 diesel, a non-fossil fuel made from 100% renewable sources such as waste cooking oil. It is made from vegetable oil (palm, rapeseed) or waste-based feedstock (for example used cooking oil).

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MAY 27, 2021

Volvo Cars announced that its Torslanda site in Sweden is its first car manufacturing plant to reach fully climate-neutral status. This makes Torslanda the second plant in its overall manufacturing network to reach this status, after the Skövde engine plant in Sweden became climate-neutral in 2018. Torslanda plant.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Scania, a member of the Volkswagen Group, is developing a fuel cell refuse truck together with Renova, a waste handling company in western Sweden, fuel cell manufacturer Powercell Sweden AB, and JOAB, a manufacturer of truck bodies. The truck will feature a fully electrified powertrain as well as an electrified compactor.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

The country’s Transport Workers’ Union said on Wednesday that it would no longer collect Tesla’s garbage and waste at its showrooms and service centers as another act of solidarity with IF Metall. “This type of sympathy action is very rare. Norway Model 3 is now up to #12 in Q4. Top 10 seems possible.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Basic operation of the Opcon Powerbox ORC waste heat recovery system. Opcon, the Sweden-based energy and environmental technology Group, will install an Opcon Powerbox—an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) waste heat recovery system—on one of Wallenius’ ships. Tags: Ports and Marine Waste Heat Recovery. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

H2 Green Steel is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with its first green steel plant under development in Boden, northern Sweden. The founder and largest shareholder of H2 Green Steel is Vargas, which is also co-founder and one of the larger shareholders in Swedish battery maker Northvolt. The plant will also maximize circularity.

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BMW Green CO2 Sweden 259

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MARCH 22, 2023

The new cooperation agreement between Boliden and Volvo Trucks means that two heavy, electric Volvo trucks will be used in Boliden’s Kankberg mine, outside Skellefteå in northern Sweden. Once the stope is mined, media such as water, power supply and ventilation are retreated, as the stope is backfilled with waste material. g/t Au, 9.9

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JUNE 28, 2022

Sundsvall Energi will partner with Liquid Wind to be the host and provide carbon dioxide for the second commercial-scale—100,000 t—electrofuel facility in Sweden. The two facilities will also be closely integrated to exchange steam, waste heat and other process medias to maximize use of resources.

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APRIL 9, 2010

MHI) has completed its first unit of the STG (Super Turbo Generating) System, a marine-use, high-efficiency, combined power generation system that utilizes waste heat and the exhaust gas from diesel engines. Tags: Engines Ports and Marine Waste Heat Recovery. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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MAY 19, 2020

The construction sector accounts for a quarter of CO 2 emissions, in Sweden and globally. If you were to optimize the transportation of materials, excavation masses and waste, for example, large gains could be made. We could be better at transport logistics in Sweden. Replacement of cement clinker as a binder in concrete.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The BMW Group will also source steel produced using hydrogen and green power from northern Sweden for its European plants from 2025 onwards, reducing CO 2 emissions by up to 95%. The BMW Group already established a closed-loop material cycle for sheet steel waste from BMW Group Plant Leipzig with Salzgitter AG more than five years ago.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Volvo Trucks delivered its first all-electric vehicles on 19 February: a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden.

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Volvo Electric Electrical Sweden 305

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Looking for an innovative rear loader tipper body, Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks located a suitable product from the Dutch waste disposal specialist Geesinknorba : the entire body is driven electrically. Around 40 Econics are used in the narrow streets of this London borough.

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MAY 5, 2017

Scania has launched a large-scale renewable diesel (HVO) pilot for employees based in Södertälje, Sweden, enabling them to fuel their cars with renewable diesel. In Sweden, HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) is mainly produced by rape seed oil and waste from the food industry. HVO can reduce CO 2 emissions by up to 90%.

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JUNE 19, 2017

The figure is almost equal to the total annual GHG emissions from road transport in Finland and Sweden. Neste has become the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel from waste and residues. Waste and residues already account for nearly 80% of the raw materials of Neste MY Renewable Diesel. million tons in ten years.

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MAY 1, 2020

Liquid Wind is developing its first commercial-scale eMethanol facility in Sweden and plans to establish 6 facilities by 2030 before expanding internationally. Liquid Wind, in partnership with its consortium of experts, Consortium, will convert waste CO 2 and renewable electricity into eMethanol, a carbon-neutral fuel.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The greatest carbon emission reduction—90%—can be reached when fossil diesel is replaced with neat or 100% Neste MY Renewable Diesel refined entirely from waste and residue raw materials, such as animal fat from meat processing waste, used cooking oils, and waste and residues from vegetable oil processing.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In 2019, Empyro was acquired by the waste processing company Twence. In 2019, BTG-BTL received its first orders for almost identical copies of the Empyro plant for delivery to companies in Sweden and Finland, where sawmill waste such as sawdust will be used for producing pyrolysis oil.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

The European Commission has approved under EU State aid rules an Important Project of Common European interest (IPCEI) jointly notified by Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden to support research and innovation in the common European priority area of batteries.

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MARCH 22, 2017

It is currently being field tested in the US by Volvo CE’s customer Waste Management—the largest environmental services and recycling company in North America. Skanska Sweden is providing logistical solutions, application relevance and job site knowledge. So far, feedback has been positive.

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Volvo Concept Sweden Electric 150

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

A number of groups have recently or are currently investigating the use of free piston engine power generation applications with a focus on automotive, including work at West Virginia University (WVU), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

DME is synthesized from methanol, whether produced from coal, natural gas or biomass such as harvested forestry wastes. Chemrec is currently building BioDME production plants in Sweden. It has operating biorefinery plants in operation in Sweden and is actively pursuing opportunities with US pulp mills. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

As the world transitions to sustainable transportation through electric vehicles (EVs), some are considering ways to reduce EV battery waste. Additionally, the press release notes that Volvo began using Connected Energy’s E-STOR system at its Gothenburg, Sweden facility , which is used to analyze response rates to the electrical grid.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

While smaller Kiruna and Bromma airports in Sweden have already tested 100% renewable diesel in their ground fleet, Oslo Gardemoen Airport can be considered the first European biohub in aviation after it started offering renewable jet fuel to all airlines visiting the airport in January 2016.

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MAY 25, 2010

A study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden found that Swedish biofuels produce between 65 and 148% less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline and diesel, even when direct and indirect land use changes are taken into account. Co-production of biogas and ethanol from wheat was also analyzed. 68% from biodiesel (RME).

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JANUARY 20, 2014

At the end of December 2013, Volvo Construction Equipment’s (CE) Braås facility, a 45,000 m 2 -site in southern Sweden, which specializes in the design and manufacture of articulated haulers, became powered entirely by renewable energy sources, including wind, biomass and hydropower.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Sweden-based Preem has developed a renewable diesel from tall oil in a process that first esterifies the tall oil through the addition of methanol, then distills the tall oil is distilled in a vacuum to separate the raw tall diesel from the tall oil pitch. Lars Peter Lindfors, Neste Oil’s Senior Vice President, Technology.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2017

The IH 2 (Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion) process converts virtually any type of non-food biomass feedstock—such as wood, agricultural residues, algae, aquatic plants and cellulosic fractions of municipal waste—to gasoline, jet and diesel range hydrocarbon fuels and/or blend stocks.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

Earlier this month, SEKAB announced that it is ending its operation and collaboration agreement for maintenance and operation of the cellulosic ethanol pilot plant owned by EPAB (Ethanol Pilot of Sweden AB).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

In Sweden there are some 20 similar plants, producing biogas for use in cars and other vehicles. The plant we have studied is fairly representative of an average biogas plant that processes waste and manure. More than 23,000 vehicles in Sweden drive on biogas. Mikael Lantz. Full report (in Swedish).

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AUGUST 7, 2010

Coordinated by the Paper and Fibre Institute (PFI) in Norway, The Bio-oil Refinery Project involves Aston University and several partners from Norway and Sweden. Biomass liquefaction is done by fast pyrolysis, a pretreatment technology that is very flexible with respect to feedstock.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Chemrec’s black liquor gasification (BLG) technology converts the black liquor waste stream from the paper pulping process into synthesis gas. Chemrec’s corporate offices, development efforts and engineering will remain in Sweden.

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