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Continental Aerospace Technologies finalizing HVO testing for use in CD-100 engine series

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JULY 26, 2023

HVO is a renewable and carbon-neutral fuel alternative. In addition to vegetable oils, this premium quality fuel product can be produced from tallow and used cooking oil. Hydrotreated vegetable oil is one of many sustainable alternative fuels. The CD-155 and CD-170 run on both jet fuel and diesel (DIN EN590).

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Engine Oil Fuel Alternative Alternative Fuels

Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

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JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study.

Carbon

Carbon Market Alternative Fuels Vehicles

Ninety per cent of vehicles to use alternative fuels?

Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

It may be an aggressive prediction – but a report by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute is suggesting that 90 per cent of vehicle fleets in the USA, China, Western Europe, Brazil and Japan could be running on alternative powertrain/fuels by 2050.

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Alternative Fuels Fuel Fuel Alternative Brazil

UK University makes biofuel breakthrough

Green Cars News

MAY 17, 2010

There may be a new alternative to petrol and ethanol in the form of the liquid biofuel dimethylfuran – DMF. Tags: Biofuels Green cars Latest news Alternative Fuels alternative vehicle fuels biofuel dimethylfuran DMF Innospec University of Birmingham.

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Universal Fuel Alternative Alternative Fuels Petrol

Clean Cities Autogas Vehicle Conversion Program Rolls Out First of 1,189 LPG Cars in Virginia

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JULY 29, 2010

Administered by Virginia Clean Cities at James Madison University, the program will deploy nearly 1,200 propane Autogas vehicles, reducing air pollutants such as carbon monoxide, soot and smog-causing emissions when compared to traditional gasoline vehicles.

Virginia

Virginia Conversion Clean Cleaning

West Virginia Univ. receives $1.15M grant for second hydrogen production-fueling station in state; focus on fossil-fuel-to-hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium at West Virginia University (WVU) has received a $1.15-million million grant to develop the state’s second hydrogen production-fueling station.

West Virginia

West Virginia Virginia Hydrogen Grant

CAAFI R&D team releases critical challenges position paper and white papers for alternative jet fuel industry

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AUGUST 6, 2013

The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) R&D team released its current position paper on critical R&D challenges facing the alternative jet fuel industry, highlighting near-, mid-, and long-term priorities. Detailed analyses of fuel chemistry effects on fuel properties to enhance.

Industrial

Industrial Industry Fuel Alternative Fuels

LanzaTech receives $3M contract from FAA for alcohol-to-jet project; one of 8 awards worth total of $7.7M

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

In October, Virgin Atlantic, in partnership with LanzaTech and Swedish Biofuels, announced the development of a low-carbon, synthetic jet fuel kerosene produced from industrial waste gases with half the carbon footprint of the standard fossil fuel alternative. at an ICAO sustainable alternative fuels workshop in October.

Alternative Fuels

Alternative Fuels Renewable 2011 Waste

Ford Europe leading project investigating DME and OME1 as low carbon, near zero particulate fuels; power-to-liquids pathways using CO2

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

million) research project to investigate the use of alternative fuels that could offer customers the power and performance of modern internal combustion engines with environmental benefits comparable to an electric vehicle. The growth of the world’s population is putting ever-increasing demands on energy and especially fossil fuels.

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Fuel Ford Powered Power

UC Davis report finds LCFS compliance costs may rise rapidly; recommends offsetting measures

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

Any forecast of future economic outcomes under the LCFS requires knowledge of the availability of alternative fuels at different market prices, the cost of producing each fuel, long-run trends in alternative fueling infrastructure, consumer preferences for alternative fuel and alternative fuel vehicles, as well as many other unknowns.

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Davis Alternative Fuels Boston Consulting Group Price

Toyota to start algae biofuel research project

Green Cars News

MAY 24, 2010

Toyota may be well established as the hybrid car leader but it hasn’t turned its attention away from other alternative fuels. According to a report in The Nikkei, Toyota will team up with Chuo University and Japan’s Agriculture Ministry to begin a research project with the aim to produce biofuel from the algae Pseudochoricystis.

Toyota

Toyota Alternative Fuels Fuel Alternative Green Cars

Study finds renewable fuel mandates alone not likely to lower carbon intensity of biofuels; the importance of localized LCAs and optimized low carbon fuel standards

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NOVEMBER 19, 2011

The authors then incorporated the LCA results into multiple policy scenarios to demonstrate the effect of policy configurations on the use of alternative fuels. renewable fuel standards—and LCFSs. These results provided a contrast between volumetric mandates—i.e., —Boies et al. not every LCFS is the same.

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Carbon Fuel Standards Renewable

Study Concludes That Large-Scale Transport of Ethanol Could Negate Its Economic and Environmental Benefits Compared to Gasoline

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

A new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) concludes that the emissions associated with the transport of ethanol could negate its potential economic and environmental benefits compared to gasoline. The analysis emphasizes the importance of regional alternative fuel strategies. Click to enlarge. Wakeley et al.

Transportation

Transportation Gasoline 2009 Emissions

Researchers Propose New Method for Life Cycle Impact Assessment; Transportation Fuels as a Case Study

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FEBRUARY 8, 2009

A pair of researchers from Purdue University and Rochester Institute of Technology are proposing a new approach to Lifecycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), designed to represent simultaneously multiple weights spaces and the sensitivity of the rank ordering to uncertain or multiple stakeholder values expressing different priorities.

Transportation

Transportation Fuel 2009 Gas-Electric

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Continental Aerospace Technologies finalizing HVO testing for use in CD-100 engine series

Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

Ninety per cent of vehicles to use alternative fuels?

UK University makes biofuel breakthrough

Clean Cities Autogas Vehicle Conversion Program Rolls Out First of 1,189 LPG Cars in Virginia

West Virginia Univ. receives $1.15M grant for second hydrogen production-fueling station in state; focus on fossil-fuel-to-hydrogen

CAAFI R&D team releases critical challenges position paper and white papers for alternative jet fuel industry

LanzaTech receives $3M contract from FAA for alcohol-to-jet project; one of 8 awards worth total of $7.7M

Ford Europe leading project investigating DME and OME1 as low carbon, near zero particulate fuels; power-to-liquids pathways using CO2

UC Davis report finds LCFS compliance costs may rise rapidly; recommends offsetting measures

Toyota to start algae biofuel research project

Study finds renewable fuel mandates alone not likely to lower carbon intensity of biofuels; the importance of localized LCAs and optimized low carbon fuel standards

Study Concludes That Large-Scale Transport of Ethanol Could Negate Its Economic and Environmental Benefits Compared to Gasoline

Researchers Propose New Method for Life Cycle Impact Assessment; Transportation Fuels as a Case Study

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