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AVL Presenting Fuel Cell Commuter at Expo Shanghai 2010

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AVL says that the substantial advantage of the AVL Fuel Cell Commuter (AVL FCC) is its continuous availability due to the significantly reduced charging time: refueling with hydrogen only takes a few minutes, while charging a battery takes a few hours. Tags: Brief. The AVL Fuel Cell Commuter. Click to enlarge.

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New Process Boosts Gasoline Production from the Catalytic Cracking of Vegetable Oil Under Refinery Conditions

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By incorporating nickel onto a base commercial FCC (fluid catalytic cracking) Ecat (equilibrium catalyst) and co-feeding hydrogen into the reaction system under realistic FCC operations (525 °C, 1.1 Catalytic cracking of vegetable oils to gasoline, diesel and light olefins similar to the standard FCC process in refineries.

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Optimizing Bio-oil Produced Via Biomass Fast Pyrolysis with FCC Catalysts

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The team conducted catalytic fast pyrolysis of corncob with different percentages (5, 10, 20, and 30% by volume) of fresh fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst (FC) and spent FCC catalyst (SC) in bed materials in a fluidized bed. Tags: Brief. Therefore, the stability of the bio-oil should be improved.

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New BASF Catalyst Helps Refiners Meet Higher Diesel Demand

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BASF Catalysts has introduced a proprietary new technology that enables petroleum refiners to utilize their current gasoline-oriented fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) units to meet the increased global demand for diesel fuel. Catalysts based on DMS technology are used in more than 120 commercial FCC units worldwide.

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Honeywell UOP Technology Selected to Support Conversion of Biomass to Fuel at California Renewable Energy Facility

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These catalysts can meet the stringent requirements for today’s products, including the production of feedstocks for downstream processing such as naphtha reforming, isomerization, or FCC and resid catalytic cracking. Tags: Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) Catalysts. In 1990, UOP joined forces with Unocal to create the Unicracking technology.

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Ford Decides Against Dumping AM Radio

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According to the Associated Press , the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and National Association of Broadcasters praised the legislation, which was backed by Sen. They want modern vehicles to add features and be superior to what came before or at the very least something approaching the status quo with a lower price tag.

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New Albemarle Catalyst Boosts Refinery Gasoline Yields

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GO-ULTRA is the first fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) product to be offered from the company’s new ONYX manufacturing technology process. Tags: Brief. The new “GO-ULTRA” products can deliver these results while also providing a marked improvement in bottoms cracking capabilities.

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