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AUGUST 22, 2013

The European Union-funded PowerDriver project—a two-year, €3-million (US$4-million) research project initiated in February 2012 to turn exhaust gas waste heat into electricity using thermoelectric generator (TGEN) technology—has completed simulation work on on a potential automotive application.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 66 research projects to receive a total of $130 million in funding through its “OPEN 2012” program. Select projects in OPEN 2012 include: ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Advanced Fuels. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste.

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million) construction costs for the first commercial plant in Europe using its waste-to-ethanol BioEnergy Process Technology. million gallons US) of carbon-neutral road transport fuel and generate more than 3MW of electricity for export from over 100,000 tonnes per year of biodegradable household and commercial waste.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

The California Energy Commission is seeking proposals to provide funding for the development of new, California-based biofuel production facilities that can sustainably produce low carbon transportation fuels. Commercial Facilities. gCO 2 -eq/MJ). Corn grain is not an acceptable feedstock. gCO 2 -eq/MJ). Background.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The UK’s Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) has announced six winners of the Low Carbon Urban Mobility Technology Challenge —a competition to identify and promote low carbon innovations with the potential to cut carbon emissions and other environmental impacts arising from transport in cities. SusMobil Ltd.

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APRIL 14, 2013

UK-based TMO Renewables (TMO) and Usina Santa Maria Ltda have entered into an agreement to form a joint venture to build the first commercial production plant in Brazil to convert sugar cane waste (bagasse) to cellulosic bioethanol. In September 2012, TMO signed a Letter of Intent to secure long-term supply of feedstock.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Siemens Metals Technologies and LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, have signed a ten-year co-operation agreement to develop and market integrated environmental solutions for the steel industry worldwide. metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is emitted. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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This work is in an early stage of development with an aim to commercialize within the next several years. By utilizing waste carbon resources, we are decoupling the production of butadiene from today’s commodity feedstocks. INVISTA and LanzaTech first announced their gas fermentation collaboration efforts in 2012.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Proposed allocation of 2011-2012 investment plan. The staff of the California Energy Commission has prepared a draft 2011-2012 Investment Plan for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, its third year of program funding. Produce alternative and renewable low-carbon fuels in California. Anticipated.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. In the first phase of the project the university will install fuel pumps, in 2012. all of which are ?ve-

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. 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. HEET) to clean contaminants from waste oils and convert it into jet fuel at a rate of 160 gallons (650 liters) per day.

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MAY 13, 2014

Leading nylon producer INVISTA and LanzaTech signed a research and development agreement focused on the development of gas-fermentation process technology for the production of industrial chemicals from carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas feedstocks using proprietary INVISTA host organisms and metabolic pathways.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The facility will convert more than 500,000 metric tonnes of waste biomass feedstock into synthesis gas (BioSynGas) every year, using Solena’s proprietary plasma gasification technology. A carbon-based catalyst is used to enhance gasification in the bed above the torches. The Solena Group, Inc., Earlier post.). Do, CEO of Solena.

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JANUARY 26, 2014

NewCO2Fuels was founded in 2011 to commercialize a technology developed by Prof. In passing the Stage 1 testing, NCF demonstrated technology that successfully dissociates CO 2 into CO and oxygen in a heating environment, simulating the industrial waste heat sources that will be used as one of two energy sources in the commercial product.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

million) to six projects to further develop the UK’s low carbon vehicle capability. Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle. The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. Plug-in Car Grant.

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

Neste Oil can also produce a NExBTL synthetic paraffinic kerosene as a discrete, and already approved, commercial aviation fuel.). Sustainable renewable diesel can be made via the hydrotreating of vegetable oils, waste cooking oil and waste animal fats. Aviation Bio-hydrocarbons Diesel'

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JULY 12, 2013

The UK government and automotive industry are investing £500 million (US$755 million) each over the next 10 years in an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) to research, to develop and to commercialize the technologies for the low carbon vehicles of the future. million vehicles in 2012. Low carbon liquid fuels.

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Red Wolf, formed in 2010, is in the process of raising $3 million through an equity offering to commercialize the thermal-chemical catalytic process. This reaction step results in a saturated, straight chained hydrocarbon with one less carbon than the reacted FFA (i.e. Hydrolysis. a C 18 free fatty acid yields a C 17 hydrocarbon).

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The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. 3D-Printed Ceramic Thermocatalytic CO 2 Reactor with High Carbon Conversion and Energy Efficiencies - $3,100,104. The Ohio State University.

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JUNE 26, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation process uses proprietary microbes to capture and reuse carbon-rich waste gases, reducing emissions and pollutants from industrial processes such as steel manufacturing, while making fuels and chemicals that displace those made from fossil resources. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 26, 2017

The pilot project is scheduled to run for roughly one year, during which time Osaka Gas will test operate a 250 Nm 3 /h biogas refining facility that assumes commercial deployment. ABC will use the refined methane gas as fuel in its own natural gas powered vehicles.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Global investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) tripled to $3 billion, and that in hydrogen was $1.5 Europe’s performance was driven by a record year for electric vehicle sales, and the best year in renewable energy investment since 2012. Commercial EV investment declined from $12 billion in 2016 to $4 billion in 2020.

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JUNE 30, 2015

the developer of a process for converting municipal solid waste into low-cost sustainable aviation biofuel. Fulcrum expects its first alternative fuels plant to begin commercial operation in 2017. United Airlines made a $30-million equity investment in US-based Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc., Earlier post.)

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MAY 28, 2013

has successfully demonstrated the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW)—household garbage—into jet and diesel fuels. For that process, Fulcrum uses a two-stage thermochemical process involving gasification of municipal solid waste (MSW) followed by the catalytic conversion of the syngas to ethanol. Earlier post.).

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JULY 19, 2012

The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings from the past several years of work: a Technical Analysis Report (TAR) and Policy Design Recommendations. We have done so in a companion report, National Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Technical Analysis Report (TAR).

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MARCH 26, 2013

This new funding for advanced manufacturing—as well as the $54 million invested in 13 projects during the first round of selections in June of 2012 ( earlier post )—is to serve as a ground floor investment in CEMI. Earlier post.) Lead organization. Description.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Neste Oil plans to use yeast and fungi to convert waste into oil for NExBTL feedstock. The technology is designed to produce feedstock for NExBTL renewable diesel by using yeast and fungi to convert sugars from waste and residues into oil highly efficiently. Commercial-scale production is expected by 2015 at the earliest.

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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. The other, a commercial-scale plant, is to be in production in 2012. Chemrec pioneered the Fuels-from-the-Forest biofuels biorefinery concept, which can produce BioDME. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JUNE 4, 2013

United Airlines executed a definitive purchase agreement with AltAir Fuels ( earlier post ) for cost-competitive, sustainable, bio-synthetic paraffinic kerosene at commercial scale. AltAir will produce low-carbon, renewable jet fuel and other renewable products. —AltAir CEO Tom Todaro. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) announced that the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center will conduct two new research projects on air traffic management to support the long-term efficiency, capacity and safety of China’s air traffic system. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

SLCPs include black carbon (soot), methane and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—the fastest-growing source of GHG emissions in California and globally—which are used as refrigerants, aerosol propellants and insulation. Black carbon. SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

announced it would seek to reduce carbon emissions intensity from its FedEx Express aircraft and improve the fuel efficiency of its FedEx Express vehicle fleet by 20% by 2020, as compared with its 2005 performance. Continued on-the-road deployments of all-electric commercial vehicles in cities around the globe. In 2008, FedEx Corp.

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MARCH 6, 2012

Collectively, the National Clean Fleets Partners operate more than a million commercial vehicles nationwide, accounting for more than 12% of all commercial vehicles on American roads. Since 2009, Best Buy has reduced its carbon emissions from fuel use by 21%. Best Buy joined the partnership in March 2012.

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JULY 31, 2012

Farnesene is a 15-carbon isoprenoid hydrocarbon molecule that forms the basis for a wide range of products varying from specialty chemical applications to transportation fuels. Under the latest announcement, Total agreed to fund $30 million during the third quarter of 2012. We are appreciative of Total’s ongoing support of Amyris.

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MARCH 23, 2019

Heat exchangers are critical to efficient thermal energy use in a variety of applications, including electricity generation, nuclear reactors, transportation, petrochemical plants, waste heat recovery, and many more. These will be able to operate at temperatures above 1100 °C (2012 °F) and at pressures above 80 bar (1160 psi).

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JUNE 20, 2015

Boeing is working with the aviation industry to approve green diesel for commercial aviation by amending the HEFA (Hydroprocessed Esters And Fatty Acids) biojet specification approved in 2011. —Mike Sinnett, vice president, Product Development, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Boeing’s Green Diesel concept, in three slides.

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Ah cell uses a silicon-based alloy for the negative electrode instead of carbon, and offers a volumetric energy density of 800 Wh/L, compared to the 620 Wh/L in the current 2.9 Ah cell will be mass-produced in fiscal 2012 ending in March 2012. Ah (FY 2012) 4.0Ah (FY 2013). The newly-developed high-capacity 3.4 Ah and 4.0

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