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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. Commercial-scale production is expected by 2015 at the earliest.

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MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. Palm oil represents approximately 20% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage annually. Increased pressure is created as the belt passes over rollers which decrease in diameter.

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JUNE 24, 2015

Alphabet Energy, founded in 2009 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, announced the availability of its thermoelectric generator PowerModule as a standalone product, available to meet the specific application needs of a range of industries, including transportation. an implied efficiency of about 2.5%—saving

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MARCH 14, 2012

In 2011, 49% of the raw materials that Neste Oil used to produce its renewable fuel was certified—an increase of 28 percentage points on the figure for 2010, and nearly quadruple in terms of tonnage. Neste Oil aims to increase its usage of certified raw materials a further 10 percentage points on the 2011 figure during 2012.

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JULY 9, 2015

The roadmap explored the use of six feedstocks: municipal waste, microalgae, natural oils, waste food oil, non-edible biomass and woody biomass. —Shinji Suzuki, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Tokyo. Commencement of fuel supplies in FY 2020.

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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 this phase the CyclOx will still be produced by an external party from mineral oil. all of which are ?ve-

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

United’s purchase agreement with Alder surpasses the previous record set by the airline in 2015 through its investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy with its option to purchase up to 900 million gallons of SAF. —Darius Adamczyk, Honeywell chairman and CEO. Alder’s research is supported by the U.S.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

North European Bio Tech Oy (NEB) has made an investment decision concerning the construction of a bioethanol plant on the Renforsin Ranta industrial estate in Kajaani, Finland. Implementation planning will begin immediately, and construction will be launched in summer 2015. The plant is projected to begin production in mid-2016.

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OCTOBER 3, 2015

The Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Group has released GREET 2015 models and associated reports. Shale oil: developed energy and GHG emissions intensities of U.S. shale oil production with operation data from Bakken and Eagle Ford plays.

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MAY 26, 2009

Neste Oil laid the foundation stone for its NExBTL renewable diesel plant in the Port of Rotterdam. With this plant in the Netherlands, Neste Oil will become the leading renewable diesel producer supplying Europe from the Netherlands. Matti Lievonen, President and CEO of Neste Oil. million barrels).

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MAY 14, 2020

Botryococcus features an exceptionally high growth rate and high hydrocarbon oil content; IHI’s fuel is based on the hydroprocessing of oil from Botryococcus braunii (Bb oil). Syngas, or its components, can also come from other industrial processes. IHI also began work with Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. s petroleum-based jet.

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JUNE 18, 2015

Etihad Airways, together with Boeing, Total, Takreer and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, launched a joint industry roadmap for the sustainable production of aviation biofuels in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Feedstocks including cellulosic biomass and municipal wastes are gasified. Earlier post , earlier post.).

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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. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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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 20, 2015

using a blend of 95% petroleum jet fuel and 5% sustainable green diesel, a renewable drop-in bio-hydrocarbon fuel meeting ASTM International’s standard for Diesel Fuel Oils (D-975). bio-oils and fats). made green diesel is another positive step toward reducing our industry’s use of fossil fuel. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 2, 2015

The technology came about during one of Fraunhofer’s internal preliminary research projects and through individual projects with industrial partners. In addition to the exhaust gases, syngas—similar gas mixtures from home and industrial waste incineration—can also be used for the engineered process. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

However, due to high production costs, they remain an insignificant portion of the market, at less than 0.25% of the total global volume of oil products. The World Bank reported that in 2015 that China produced approximately 2.08 billion gallons/year for China’s diesel vehicle fleet.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

growth in the industry over the next decade, Pike expects production volumes to fall short of an estimated 71.8 continue to pour into the industry. Key trends identified in the report include: Oil prices are expected to climb over the next decade, driving increased interest in. growth in the global biofuels industry.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This project allows EIFER to research steam electrolysis technology, which has been tested and evaluated at the cell and stack level in our laboratories for several years now, at the systems level as part of its industrial application. Two smaller modules were put into operation at Boeing back in 2015. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Power steering is electric and as a result we don’t need to check the power steering oil level as there isn’t any. That 10 years is now only applicable for the Generation 3 made from 2010-2015, but at least there are options. Priuses can burn oil. Two out of our four Priuses burn oil. My 2005 burns about 0.3-0.4

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APRIL 6, 2015

Researchers at Lund University (Sweden) have developed an optimized two-phase enzymatic (lipase) system for the conversion of plant oils to biodiesel. Applied to the solvent-free ethanolysis of rapeseed oil, the system delivered a yield of 96% under mild conditions. Under the mild conditions used, chemical catalysts were inefficient.

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JUNE 17, 2024

Renewable diesel is becoming available at fleet card locks Renewable diesel, a substitute for conventional petroleum diesel, is produced from renewable resources such as natural fats, vegetable oils and greases. Renewable diesel is a drop-in alternative to petroleum diesel and requires no vehicle modifications.

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In addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as these projects become commercial they have the potential to create more than 600 jobs by 2015. Used cooking oil and other waste material will be diverted from landfills and used to produce up to 1,000 gallons a day of biodiesel to be used locally. Propel Biofuels, Inc.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Texas is famous the world over for two things on a massive scale: oil and droughts. Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought problem and also makes it possible to pump more oil out of the ground. Salttech’s DyVaR: Dynamic Vapor Recovery.

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It’s a situation reminiscent of the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal from 2015. No matter how you slice it, Deutsche Umwelt Hilfe seems hellbent on ending diesel-based transportation and it’s difficult to overstate just how much influence it has over German regulators and the industry at large. Image: BMW] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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between 2017 and 2021, as a combination of higher oil prices, emerging mandate. drive increased investment in the industry, the report finds. After healthy growth over the past decade, the global biofuels industry is entering a new era marked by feedstock flexibility, product neutrality, and sustainability, the report notes.

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On the other hand, drivers of other vehicles waste considerable time making special trips to refuel their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles at the liquid fuel station or their battery electric vehicle (BEV) at the rapid recharging station. 5 ] Increasing numbers of drivers can get PEV charging at their workplace. [ 23 ] , [ 24 ].

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APRIL 5, 2016

In a patent application published 1 December 2015, Altex described the basic approach for its synthetic fuels processes. coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. Carbonaceous materials—e.g., Carbonaceous materials—e.g.,

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JUNE 2, 2016

BBB began using Redeem by Clean Energy in January 2015. Crankcase emissions are captured and redirected through the CCV filter, where oil is removed, before sending the gases back to the intake manifold to be reintroduced to the combustion chamber. version that is also EPA and ARB certified for the heavy-duty trucking industry in 2018.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

The product of four years of testing and research and outreach to industry, environmental organizations, labor unions, and other stakeholders, the vehicle and engine performance standards will cover model years 2021-2027, and apply to semi-trucks, large pickup trucks and vans, and all types and sizes of buses and work trucks.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Two new reports—one on technology, the other on policy— released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) outline pathways to improve the fuel efficiency of combustion-engined road vehicles by 50% by the middle of the century, saving as much as four-fifths of current annual global oil consumption.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Neste Oil succeeded in achieving its target of increasing its use of waste and residue raw materials for refining into NExBTL renewable fuels by more than 400,000 tons in 2012: a total of 742,000 tons of these raw materials were used compared to 330,000 tons in 2011. Neste Oil used a total of 2.1

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AUGUST 18, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its latest set of proposed standards to reduce emissions of methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the oil and natural gas industry. The proposal also includes incentives to spur the oil and gas industry to minimize leaks.

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The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme initiated by the government in March 2020, aims to significantly enhance domestic manufacturing capabilities across various industries. This sectoral expansion is expected to further stimulate economic activity and drive industrial development.

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APRIL 27, 2015

The DOE’s specific challenge was to demonstrate at least 1,000 hours of bio-oil hydrotreatment on a single catalyst charge, while producing a fuel product suitable as a transportation fuel-blend stock at commercially realistic yield. This produces a vapor, which is then condensed to form bio-oil. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The 21CTP is a cooperative research and development (R&D) partnership including four federal agencies—the US Department of Energy (DOE), US Department of Transportation (DOT), US Department of Defense (DOD), and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—and 15 industrial partners. Finding 3-1. Recommendation 3-2. Navistar, Inc.

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