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DECEMBER 3, 2014

GMZ Energy, a market leader in the development of high-temperature thermoelectric generation (TEG) solutions, has successfully demonstrated a 1,000W TEG designed for diesel engine exhaust heat recapture in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. This announcement follows GMZ’s June 2014 demonstration of its 200W diesel TEG. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

Boeing has completed the world’s first flight using “green diesel,” a renewable, drop-in hydrocarbon biofuel that is widely available and used in ground transportation. The company powered its ecoDemonstrator 787 flight test airplane with a blend of 15% NExBTL renewable diesel from Neste Oil and 85% petroleum jet fuel in the left engine.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

The process uses as its feedstock virtually any kind of nonfood biomass material—including wood, cornstalks and cobs, algae, aquatic plants and municipal solid waste—and produces gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel. GTI anticipates full-scale commercial plants converting 2,000 tons a day will be operating by 2014.

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JULY 31, 2012

Under the enhanced collaboration, Total reaffirms its commitment to Amyris’ technology and dedicates its $82-million funding budget over the next three years exclusively for the deployment of Biofene, Amyris’ renewable farnesene, for production of renewable diesel and jet fuel. We are appreciative of Total’s ongoing support of Amyris.

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MARCH 25, 2014

liter diesel engine and passenger car. The results, reported in a paper in the journal Fuel , show that iso-HVO has much better engine performance than BD and slightly better than HVO, but slightly worse than petro-diesel. The 16 tested fuels included petro-diesel and 2%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 50% of BD, HVO, and iso-HVO blended diesel.

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MARCH 5, 2015

Over the last few years, Neste Oil has become the world’s largest producer of renewable fuels from waste and residues. In 2014, the company produced nearly 1.3 billion liters, 423 million gallons US) of renewable fuel from waste and residues. Aviation Bio-hydrocarbons Diesel Fuels' million tonnes (1.6

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JANUARY 19, 2015

In a study investigating the effect of the water and free fatty acid (FFA) content in waste chicken fat from poultry processing plants on the production of renewable diesel (not biodiesel), researchers in Thailand have found that both higher FFA and water content improved the biohydrogenated diesel (BHD) yield.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

billion over the 2010-2014 period for the US Department of Energy (DOE) to support a broad range of research activities for advanced technology vehicles. The US House yesterday passed by a vote of 312-114 a bill that would authorize additional appropriations totalling $2.85 other research areas as determined by the Secretary.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As a very rough benchmark on yield, cellulosic gasoline and diesel company KiOR, which uses a different pathway for fuel production (the production of renewable crude from biomass followed by catalytic cracking to upgrade to fuels), calculates that one bone dry ton of woody biomass contains hydrocarbons approximately equal to 2.8 gallons US).

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MAY 4, 2018

The New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) will, for the first time, use renewable diesel, a low-emissions, 99% petroleum-free fuel, to power more than 1,000 City government vehicles, including in large vehicles such as sanitation trucks. Most renewable diesel use is currently concentrated in California.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the 5 winners of the 2014 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, including biotechnology companies Amyris and Solazyme, Inc. Amyris received the Small Business award for its renewable hydrocarbon farnesane for use as diesel and jet fuel.

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MARCH 14, 2013

Objectives for the program, which runs from April 2010 through April 2014, include: Demonstrate 50% thermal efficiency improvements in test cell; Demonstrate a 50% drive-cycle freight efficiency improvement; Demonstrate 68% freight efficiency improvement on 24hr cycle; and. Earlier post.) Today’s long-haul trucks typically achieve between 5.5

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JUNE 24, 2015

Tested in Alphabet Energy’s first product, the E1 Thermoelectric Generator (there are 32 PowerModules in an E1, which was introduced in October 2014), the PowerModule directly accepts exhaust heat with a temperature ranging from 350 – 600 °C and transforms it into DC electricity, delivering up to 850 watts of power. 2014.11.002.

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APRIL 15, 2013

Joule has engineered photosynthetic biocatalysts that convert waste CO 2 into hydrocarbons through a patented, continuous process. Joule has been successfully scaling its process for making ethanol (Sunflow-E) while also developing long-chain hydrocarbons for diesel (Sunflow-D). —William J. Sims, President and CEO of Joule.

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MAY 21, 2014

Dresser-Rand will showcase its Guascor biogas engines—with ratings from 140 to 1240 kW—to visitors attending the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) Biennial Conference & Exhibition 2014. a leading supplier of diesel and gas engines, in 2011. Dresser-Rand acquired Grupo Guascor S.L.,

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JANUARY 1, 2013

kWh pack (down from 4 kWh), are capable of achieving a speed of 45 mph (72 km/h)or greater, and must be acquired after 31 December 2011 and before 1 January 2014. The extension now carries through to qualified production beginning before 1 January 2014. Incentives for biodiesel and renewable diesel are extended to 31 December 2013.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the development of a commercial scale biorefinery facility for the production of renewable jet or diesel fuel. The project is currently expected to be operational by early 2014. Synthetic diesel fuel produced from the Rentech Process meets ASTM D-975 specifications.

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JUNE 20, 2015

Boeing announced the next phase in ecoDemonstrator 757 testing today, including its first flight with US-made “green diesel” ( earlier post ) and two new environment-related technologies. In 2014, Boeing proposed the possibility of using green diesel at a low blending ratio to produce aviation drop-in fuel. bio-oils and fats).

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

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. Applications for biorefinery assistance are due by 30 January 2014. In 2011, USDA provided Sapphire Energy a $54.5-million

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JANUARY 13, 2022

This combination takes advantage of European Energy’s expertise in capturing carbon dioxide from waste sources (carbon dioxide produced from anaerobic digestion, power production, fermentations, and cement manufacture) to produce methanol, as well as Vertimass’ technology to convert that methanol into jet, diesel, and gasoline fuels and chemicals.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

SG Preston, a Philadelphia-based bioenergy company, is partnering with IHI E&C , a Houston-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) subsidiary of Japan’s IHI Corporation , to develop and to construct a series of commercial-scale renewable diesel and jet fuel manufacturing plants, initially in the US Midwest and Canada.

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JULY 29, 2015

UPS announced agreements for up to 46 million gallons of renewable diesel over the next three years, constituting a 15-fold increase over prior contracts and making UPS one of the largest users of renewable diesel in the world. Neste, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Together with the partners Ineratec GmbH ( earlier post ) and Energiedienst Holding AG , the company has plans for a new pilot facility for the production of e-diesel in Laufenburg, in Canton Aargau (Switzerland). The company is now taking the next step in e-diesel production. Audi is systematically building on its e-fuels strategy.

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MARCH 27, 2014

Source: EUR 26236 EN - 2014 Click to enlarge. Broadly, the study found that ongoing developments in gasoline / diesel engine and vehicle technologies will continue to contribute to the reduction of energy use and GHG emissions. Today, the WTW GHG emissions for CNG lie between gasoline and diesel. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

The researchers found that biodiesel has many advantages over regular diesel even in a very low blend percentage, including low emissions of particulate matter, combustion elements (mainly sulfur), elemental carbon, and carbon monoxide. Ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) was used as base fuel. Biodiesel may produce high NO x emissions.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

Thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences into electric voltage; a TEG in a vehicle is designed to convert waste heat to power. An automotive TEG is intended to improve fuel economy by power from waste heat to reduce the electric generator load on the engine. Earlier post.). W/cm 2 to 6.0 Click to enlarge.

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MAY 23, 2019

UPS has used more than 28 million gallons of RNG in its ground fleet since 2014. This is equivalent to planting 17,000,000 trees, removing 228,000 cars off the road or recycling 374,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill. —Mike Casteel, UPS director of fleet procurement. Atlanta, Ga.; Chattanooga, Tenn.;

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The EPA determined that biogas-based DME produced from the Oberon process resulted in an approximate 68% reduction in greenhouse gases when compared to baseline diesel fuel. It requires a simple diesel engine and has simple propane-like handling properties. Earlier post.) —Elliot Hicks, Oberon COO and co-founder.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

The program’s 2012-2014 plan calls for investing $330 million between 2014 and 2015 in innovative technologies that provide benefits to electric ratepayers served by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Colony Energy Partners Tulare, LLC: $5 million to construct a digester for processing waste that will produce 2.8

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APRIL 18, 2012

The pilot plant studies will provide validation of the operational and performance factors which are key to achieving commercial deployment in 2014, when total advanced biofuels RFS mandates are 3.75 The timeline to market is short, with commercial introduction expected in early 2014. billion gallons.

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MAY 9, 2013

A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Volvo currently offers VNM and VNL daycabs powered by spark-ignited gas engines, and VNL daycabs equipped with Volvo’s proprietary D13-LNG compression ignition engine will be available in 2014. When produced from biomass or biogas, DME can provide up to a 95% CO2 reduction compared with diesel.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

Huber’s patent-pending technique offers a low-cost, single-step process for turning sawdust, woody stalks and other waste biomass into gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil and valuable chemical commodities such as benzene, toluene and xylenes. The company hopes to open a commercial biofuel production plant by 2014.

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MARCH 16, 2010

The Carbon Trust has created a consortium of British businesses led by Axion Energy, a division of the Axion Group , to pioneer the development of an advanced, commercially viable pyrolysis process to turn municipal and wood waste into transport biofuel. The Carbon Trust is investing £7 million (US$10.6 per liter—US$1.72

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JUNE 18, 2014

The authors also concluded that in all cases, the supply of double counting fuels (FAME/HVO from waste oils, Ethanol 2G, Biomass To Liquid diesel) is critical. Advanced fuels include hydro treated vegetable oil (HVO), biomass to liquid (BTL) and ethanol made from waste or lignocellulosic material (E2G). Element Energy, 2014.

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APRIL 24, 2014

The analysis by Eric Chow, John Heywood and Raymond Speth, presented as a paper at the recent SAE 2014 World Congress, seeks to quantify the reductions in consumption and GHG if new vehicles designed to use the higher-octane fuel were deployed. Diesel remains a small fraction. —Chow et al. Heywood, J., and Speth, R.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

The new Sonata Hybrid is just one of Hertz’s greener rental choices available in the Green Traveler Collection, a line of hybrid, electric and clean diesel vehicles. All of the Green Traveler cars have fuel efficiency ratings starting at 33+ highway mpg. Hertz believes it has one of the most fuel-efficient rental fleets in the industry.

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