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AUGUST 29, 2012

Neste Oil plans to use yeast and fungi to convert waste into oil for NExBTL feedstock. Neste Oil has completed the first phase of its project to build a pilot plant for producing microbial oil for use as a feedstock for NExBTL renewable diesel. 8 million (US$10 million) by Neste Oil. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

The 2011 Ford Explorer is 85% recyclable. The 2011 Explorer uses 25% recycled fiber in its interior fabrics, including seat upholstery, bolster and carpeting. Soy foam has helped Ford reduce its annual petroleum oil usage by more than 10,500 barrels, and is up to 24% more renewable than petroleum-based foam.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Neste Oil is beginning the commercial use of tall oil pitch as a feedstock for refining into transportation fuel. Up until now, it has not been possible to use tall oil pitch, a residue produced by tall oil refiners ( earlier post ), as a commercial-scale feedstock for fuel refining purposes. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 13, 2011

A new Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) study shows finds that oil from algae grown in outdoor raceway ponds located in the Gulf Coast, the Southeastern Seaboard and the Great Lakes could replace 17% of the United States’ imported oil for transportation. That’s 17% of the petroleum that the U.S. Wigmosta, Andre M.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies and its licensee Phoenix Power Group (PPG) have announced positive results of preliminary emissions testing of the combustion system of the Phoenix 10, the first small-scale waste oil power generator. The Phoenix 10 demonstrated emissions of only 0.14 —Doug Petty, Vice President of PPG.

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MARCH 2, 2012

Twelve of Canada’s oil sands producers have formed a new alliance, Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), focused on accelerating the pace of improving environmental performance in Canada’s oil sands through collaborative action and innovation.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

of China (COMAC) opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel. billion liters) of biofuel could be made annually in China from used cooking oil. Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

A team at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) has designed a new simple, energy-efficient process (that also does not require any organic solvents) for the production of renewable diesel from biomass waste. The process described herein opens new routes for producing high quality diesel from waste biomass. and Villandier, N.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Neste Oil, developer of the NExBTL process for renewable diesel, and agritrader Raisioagro have launched a research project to investigate the potential of straw as a raw material for producing NExBTL renewable diesel via Neste’s microbial oil technology. The cells are then harvested and the oil recovered. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The waste plastics to hydrocarbon fuels liquefaction technology is based on pyrolysis and distillation. The objective of the new agreement is to build 10 UK plants dealing with 60,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste per year and to commission the first plant in London by end 2011. Cynar system.

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JUNE 3, 2011

GD = HVO; RSO = Rapeseed Oil; SBO = Soybean oil; Biodiesel = Transesterified lipids. If HVO is produced from waste feedstocks with low upstream impacts, the high conversion efficiency of the HVO production process will make HVO the preferred fuel to BTL from any woody feedstock, even woody waste. Sunde et al.

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JULY 16, 2013

and The Linde Group will expand their partnership to commercialize a new industrial-scale conversion technology needed to upgrade algae biomass into crude oil. Today, this Green Crude Farm is operating year-round and producing barrels of crude oil daily. Sapphire Energy, Inc.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Finnair plans to begin commercial use of NExBTL renewable jet fuel from Neste Oil beginning next spring. Lufthansa earlier announced that it will begin a six-month trial of NExBTL renewable jet fuel in April 2011 with an Airbus A321 on scheduled commercial flights on the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Hamburg route. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Neste Oil celebrated the grand opening of its NExBTL renewable diesel refinery in the Port of Rotterdam. The start-up of the Rotterdam refinery took place in September 2011. The facility is capable of using Neste Oil’s wide feedstock base consisting of a variety of vegetable oils, by-products of vegetable oil refining (e.g.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

Within that, reported methane emissions from the sector decreased by 12% since 2011, with the largest reductions coming from hydraulically fractured natural gas wells, which have decreased by 73% during that period, according to the data. from the previous year.

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AUGUST 28, 2010

KiOR, developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, will receive a $75-million state-backed loan from Mississippi to bring the first three of its full-scale production facilities to the state. The first site will be built in Columbus, Mississippi and could open by the end of 2011. Clarion Ledger.

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APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. secondary use of waste heat. Waste heat from conversion.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e., million (US$12.8

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JULY 30, 2010

Million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE. The goal of the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE is to inspire entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists worldwide to develop innovative, rapidly deployable, and highly efficient methods of capturing crude oil from the ocean surface. million prize purse. Dave Gallo, Ph.D.,

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MARCH 8, 2011

Neste Oil celebrated the grand opening of its ISCC-certified renewable diesel plant in Singapore. It uses a variety of renewable feedstocks to produce NExBTL, including palm oil and side stream products of palm oil production from Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as waste animal fat from Australia and New Zealand.

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

energy sector will spur a flurry of M&A and investment activity in 2011 as renewable energy. Sustainable Industries Predictions for 2011 include: Cap and Trade Discarded by Congress in National Energy Policy. Rising Oil Prices Lead to Investments in Natural Gas. Waste to Energy Technology Ready for Prime Time.

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MAY 27, 2010

Enzyme company Novozymes, COFCO, a leading producer and supplier of processed agricultural products, and Sinopec, the world’s third-largest oil refiner, signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering the next steps towards commercialization of cellulosic biofuel in China. Earlier post.). —Michael Christiansen, President, Novozymes China.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Neste Oil and St1 have begun working together on a fuel project as part of the TransEco development program coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Simo Honkanen, Senior Vice President, Sustainability and HSSE, Neste Oil. We believe that Finland needs a range of alternative biofuel solutions as we go forward.

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JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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JUNE 20, 2011

billion in 2011 to $98.5 The 2011 award winners are: Greener synthetic pathways: Genomatica, San Diego, Calif. Genomatica has been producing BDO at pilot scale in 3,000 liter fermentations since the first half of 2010, and is moving to production at demonstration scale in 2011. billion by 2020. per million Btu.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

A new study on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the conversion and degradation of peatland in palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia has determined that past studies have generally significantly underestimated emissions associated with palm oil grown on peatland. Southeast Asia.

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APRIL 15, 2011

liter three-cylinder diesel engine will start in June 2011. liter turbo-diesel engine will be manufactured at GM India’s Talegaon plant in Maharashtra and will be launched on the Chevrolet Beat in the second half of 2011.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

In 2011, USDA provided Sapphire Energy a $54.5-million million loan guarantee to build a refined alga oil commercial facility. In continuous operation since May 2012, the plant is producing renewable algal oil that can be further refined to replace petroleum-derived diesel and jet fuel. is an example of the use of this program.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology enables low cost production of sustainable alcohols and chemicals from waste gas resources that are completely outside the food value chain. The use of lignin opens up a new biomass waste stream for making economic renewable jet fuel. Earlier post.). 50,000 for Futurepast, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2012

To be eligible for these funds, an advanced biofuels producers must have enrolled in the program by 31 October 2011, even if the producer has an existing contract with the Agency. These include cellulose, sugar and starch, crop residue, vegetative waste material, animal waste, food and yard waste, vegetable oil, animal fat, and biogas.

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APRIL 6, 2011

WVO collects and removes water, food particles and other impurities from waste vegetable oil then ships the bio feedstock to a processing company that produces an 80/20 diesel/biodiesel blend (B20) that will be used to fuel hundreds of food delivery trucks at the US Foodservice-Columbia Division in Lexington, SC.

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MAY 21, 2014

a leading supplier of diesel and gas engines, in 2011. They have been successfully tested with product gases from many different sources, including landfill; waste water treatment plants; animal manure digestion processes (cow, pig, chicken); farm waste; cassava; starch; wine dredges; palm oil mill effluent (POME); and more.

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MAY 25, 2011

aviation fuel at the scale or speed needed to achieve industry goals, the report focuses on a portfolio of options, including different conversion technologies and sources of potentially sustainable biomass, including oilseeds, forest residues, solid waste, and algae. environmental conditions and spur regional economies.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A three-year biofuel trial organized by Neste Oil, Helsinki Region Transport (HSL), and Proventia has recently been completed, and the results have shown that Neste Oil’s NExBTL renewable diesel can significantly reduce local emissions that have a direct impact on urban air quality.

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JULY 13, 2015

The partners said the project will demonstrate the added value of recycling waste streams, not only by reducing emissions at source, hence reducing ArcelorMittal’s direct carbon footprint, but by keeping fossil fuels in the ground through the production of commodity chemicals and fuels that would otherwise be made from oil.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Bio-based diesel products are advanced biofuels that are derived from biomass sources that include vegetable oils and wastes oils from renewable sources. The final action follows careful review of the many comments and additional information received since EPA proposed the volume in 2011. billion gallons.

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