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per gallon in 2010 US dollars depending on the projected level of technology achieved. The potential WTG CO 2 emission reduction with low carbon grid electricity indicates the potential role electrochemical CO conversion can play in low carbon liquid fuel when the electricity grid is highly renewable or decarbonized. 6b00665.

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APRIL 5, 2010

The results, they say, are broadly relevant to reactions involving the use of IL-H 2 O mixtures (as solvents, reactants, or catalysts), including, but not limited to, organic catalysis, electrochemistry, and biomass processing or conversion. Chen (2010) Ionic Liquid-Water Mixtures: Enhanced Kw for Efficient Cellulosic Biomass Conversion.

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AUGUST 11, 2009

Chemrec’s pulp mill-integrated BioDME (dimethyl ether) biorefinery demonstration plant project will break ground in September in Piteå, Sweden, with expected biofuel production by mid-2010. Carbon conversion and sulfate reduction in this process is near 100%. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 24, 2014

Biodiesel producer Renewable Energy Group, Inc. a synthetic biology company developing fermentation-derived drop-in renewable fuels and chemicals ( earlier post ), for a purchase price of up to $61.5 This acquisition is a major step in realizing REG’s strategy to expand into the production of renewable chemicals and other products.

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JULY 30, 2010

Researchers at LS9 have discovered an alkane biosynthesis pathway in cyanobacteria; i.e., a metabolic pathway that produces alkanes—the major hydrocarbon constituents of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel—in a direct, simple conversion from sugar. del Cardayre (2010) Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes. Schirmer et al. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 26, 2014

Israel-based NewCO2Fuels (NCF), a subsidiary of GreenEarth Energy Limited in Australia, reported completion of stage 1 testing of its proof-of-concept system for the conversion of CO 2 into fuels using solar energy. Driving the system using a solar-based heat source (100% renewable). Concept of the NCF process. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Accordingly, LanzaTech has begun look at the industrial conversion of acetic acid/acetate to lipids, and has demonstrated this. that conversion wouldn’t actually happen in a LanzaTech bioreactor. Another challenge is—assuming successful large scale commercialization is possible—what to do with all the resulting acetic acid.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Specifically, the team will explore recent advances in scalable thermochemical conversion technologies, which enable the production of advanced liquid biofuel and co-products on-site. There are many benefits to using beetle-killed wood for renewable fuel production.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

reported a major step forward in its development of renewable fuels, achieving direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. This achievement marks a critical step towards making renewable diesel fuel a reality at high volumes and competitive costs.

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

million contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) via the US Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center to develop and demonstrate technology that will produce renewable jet fuel from isobutanol supplied by Gevo, Inc. —Jim Rekoske, vice president and general manager for Renewable Energy & Chemicals at Honeywell’s UOP.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Gross (2010) Biosynthesis of Monomers for Plastics from Renewable Oils. The material development and performance in the solid state has been successfully completed; research into converting the plastic to diesel is currently under way. Wenhua Lu, Jon E. Ness, Wenchun Xie, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jeremy Minshull, Richard A.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. That number is in my opinion conservative, and consistent with a slight reduction in the rate of peat conversion. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 20, 2012

For this production run, Albemarle will use NAWCWD alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) technologies (developed by Michael Wright, Benjamin Harvey and Roxanne Quintana, earlier post ) to process Cobalt’s bio n-butanol into renewable jet fuel at its Baton Rouge, La. processing facility. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Alcohol to Jet. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 29, 2013

announced that Wuhan Kaidi, which purchased a Westinghouse Plasma gasifier design, and plasma torch systems, from Alter NRG in 2010, has successfully completed the commissioning of the unit at its demonstration facility in Wuhan, China. Alter NRG Corp. Under the contract, Alter NRG has access to operational data from the Kaidi facility.

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JUNE 25, 2021

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and PBF Chalmette Refinery Manager Steven Krynski announced that the company is studying the possible conversion of an idled refinery unit into a renewable diesel production complex. Bernard Parish—to retain 516 existing jobs at the refinery. Bernard Parish consider the project.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2013

100% Renewable Hydrogen Refueling Station Competition. Should the SAE International standard not be available, the station(s)/dispenser(s) is to be capable of providing three 7-kg Type A for 70 MPa fills per hour, according to Technical Information Report (TIR) SAE J2601: 2010. Renewable Hydrogen Requirements. Fueling protocols.

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MARCH 14, 2010

The platinum-rhenium catalyst showed the highest conversion, along with high selectivity for C 18. They found that at temperature as low as 543 K (270 °C), a platinum catalyst on a zeolite support (Pt/H-ZSM-5) achieved approximately 100% conversion into hydrocarbons, with selectivity to C 15 -C 18 hydrocarbons of 79.0%. Murata et al.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Strategy for the conversion of solid cellulose to liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Following the conversion of cellulose into the monofunctional 5-nonanone, there are several catalytic upgrading approaches that can be applied to produce diesel and jet fuel components. H + : acid sites; Me: metal sites; MeO x : metal oxide sites. B: Environ.

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MARCH 28, 2014

The BIC process processes renewable feedstocks such as plant oils, tallow, and waste vegetable oil into 100% drop-in diesel and jet fuels, which meet petroleum specs without blending, as well as naphtha that can be used as a gasoline blend stock. A US patent was granted to ARA in 2010 on the CH process. — Rob Sues, CEO of ARA.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences have demonstrated the conversion of levulinic acid (LA) to γ-valerolactone (GVL) by heterogeneous catalysts without using external hydrogen. Qing-Xiang Guo (2010) Conversion of Levulinic Acid and Formic Acid into ?-Valerolactone

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JULY 27, 2009

Joule Biotechnologies uses proprietary, highly-engineered product-specific organisms to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The company’s first product offering, SolarEthanol fuel, will be ready for commercial-scale development in 2010. Such yields would far eclipse productivity levels of current bio- or renewable fuels.

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JULY 15, 2022

Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct. Earlier post.).

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The new agreement, which includes partners from the commercial aviation sector, follows the initial success of the 2010-2012 “Farm to Fly” initiative. In July 2010, USDA, Airlines for America, Inc. The federal government and its partners hope to support the annual production of 1 billion gallons of drop in aviation biofuel by 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Biofuel ISOCONVERSION Process comprises: ARA’s Catalytic Hydrothermolysis (CH) process for the conversion of plant oils into a high quality crude oil intermediate. A US patent was granted to ARA in 2010 on the CH process. The technology is proven in mature pilot systems.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

million of further funding directly to the Group over the balance of 2009 and 2010. Güssing is a prime location for demonstrating bio-conversion technologies such as BTL, as it has a commercial-scale biomass gasifier (using wood chips as feedstock), operational since 2005, that supplies supports a power station with an output of 4.5

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JULY 23, 2010

Researchers at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, in collaboration with Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, DTU, are investigating the high-temperature co-electrolysis of CO 2 and H 2 O using solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) to produce a syngas for conversion into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Researchers in Viet Nam and Belgium have developed a catalytic cracking process to convert vegetable oil sludge to renewable hydrocarbon fractions. Le Thi Hoai Nam, Tran Quang Vinh, Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan, Van Dinh Son Tho, Bao-lian Su (2010) Preparation of bio-fuels by catalytic cracking reaction of vegetable oil sludge.

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This material, a p-type (100) gallium phosphide (GaP) semiconductor functionalized with molecular hydrogen-producing cobaloxime catalysts via polymer grafting, has the potential to address one of the major challenges in the use of artificial photosynthesis to make renewable solar fuels. —Krawicz et al. —Gary Moore.

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MARCH 25, 2010

and Genencor, a division of Danisco A/S, have established a research collaboration to develop an integrated fermentation, recovery and purification system for producing BioIsoprene from renewable raw materials for use in tires. BioIsoprene product will serve as a renewable and cost-competitive alternative to isoprene.

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The budget picture for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. FY 2010 Budget requests are in green, the FY 2009 additional appropriation (Recovery Act funding) is in red. President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2010 $26.4 However, the FY 2010 budget complements the $38.7 Click to enlarge. billion for DOE.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2012

(MHI), jointly with SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc), will begin an energy storage system demonstration project using the power grid in the UK’s Orkney Islands, which has a high proportion of renewable energy generation in relation to demand. The energy storage system will be installed at SHEPD’s Kirkwall Power Station.

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JULY 2, 2010

The Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, held this week in Washington DC, highlighted a range of developing pathways for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels for transportation. Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

LanzaTech uses non-food renewable resources to produce ethanol and also 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD), a key building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels. Its crude steel production for 2010 was 33.7 billion in 2010. million tons. of consolidated revenue: US$476 million of US$28.1

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Joule, a bioengineering startup, is developing its Helioculture technology—a system that leverages highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 to usable transportation fuels and chemicals. The plant will be operational within the first half of 2010. Joule Biotechnologies, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

a developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, has received a term sheet for a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program supporting a more than $1-billion biofuels project. KiOR, Inc., Earlier post.) —Fred Cannon, President and CEO of KiOR.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

DuPont has made substantial investments in renewable fuels and has committed more than $200 million to the Nevada biorefinery, which will utilize corn stover. This optimized conversion process is being deployed in the facility in Nevada, Iowa. Earlier post.)

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We currently expect to begin making fuel and ramping up production rates during the third quarter of 2010. The new facility is designed to convert fats, greases and oils supplied by Tyson Foods into as much as 75 million gallons of renewable fuels per year. Jeff Bigger, director of the Dynamic Fuels Management Committee.

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