Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2009

Waste feedstocks are defined in the enabling legislation specifically as “ previously used or discarded solid, liquid or contained gaseous material with heating value resulting from industrial, commercial or household food service activities that would otherwise be stored, treated, transferred or disposed. The Clean Energy Biofuels Act.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

has brought 67 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) solid waste and recycling trucks to serve customers throughout southern New Jersey and in Philadelphia. These trucks run cleaner and quieter, and will help to make the local environment healthier for future generations. The new CNG fleet will replace older diesel-powered trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2010

has entered into a joint development program with the Energy & Environmental Research Center ( EERC ) at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks for converting a wide variety of biomass and waste into bio-butanol. The EERC is one of the leading developers of cleaner, more efficient energy and environmental technologies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Kirklees Council (UK) has begun operating an all-electric waste collection van which is recharged with electricity generated partly with the waste it collects. Waste collected from the bins will be taken to the Energy from Waste (EfW) plant at Emerald Street, Huddersfield. The Edison. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

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. X1) from a biological feedstock, more specifically, from lignocellulosic biomass (also known as plant waste/residue).

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JUNE 25, 2013

In terms of investment in innovation for cleaner energy, the plan calls for: Investment in advanced fossil energy projects. In addition, the President has directed his Administration to purchase cleaner alternatives to HFCs whenever feasible and transition over time to equipment that uses safer and more sustainable alternatives.

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Green Car Congress

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.,

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The benchmarks include: Food loss and waste: Advance our work toward the United States’ goal to reduce food loss and waste by 50% in the United States by the year 2030. Finally, USDA has set benchmarks; these targets will help measure progress toward meeting the food, fiber, fuel, feed, and climate demands of the future.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2009

PetroCard , a fuels distributor, and Waste Management, a provider of comprehensive waste management services, announced the grand opening of a “Clean N’ Green Fuel” compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in South Seattle— the first public-access CNG facility in the city.

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Electrek

MARCH 20, 2023

Africa received its first heavy-duty commercial electric truck this past week, a Volvo Trucks FE Electric garbage truck (waste collector). more… The post Africa’s waste industry just got a whole lot cleaner with its first electric garbage truck appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

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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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

million metric tons of electronic waste in 2019, up more than 21% over five years, according to the United Nations’ most recent assessment. Only about 17% of that e-waste was recycled, and what happens to the rest can be detrimental for both human health and privacy. The world generated a record 53.6 We have so, so, so many devices.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The flight marks Malaysia Airlines’ commitment to make SAF the cleaner and more viable energy option for regular flights by 2025. Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel is produced from sustainably-sourced, 100% renewable waste and residue raw materials, such as used cooking oil and animal fat waste.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2016

Processing one ton of rare earths can produce 2,000 tons of toxic waste. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a cleaner method to extract rare earth metals. Current process for separating rare-earth metals is time consuming, expensive, and dangerous. Now, researchers from the Harvard John A.

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JUNE 11, 2021

As part of a $6-million project funded in part by a grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Oberon is converting waste methanol into rDME at its upgraded facility in Brawley, Calif. Given the compatibility of these two molecules, we can immediately offer an even cleaner alternative for the transportation sector and beyond.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Ecology, a transportation and logistics company in California, has switched its fleet of more than 600 trucks to run on Neste MY Renewable Diesel and is reporting cleaner fuel filters, fewer maintenance problems and reductions in tailpipe emissions.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

Conventional nuclear power uses nuclear fission which involves the splitting of a large unstable nucleus into smaller elements and generates long-lived radioactive waste. Viable fusion energy approaches must confine high-temperature plasmas at sufficient density for long durations.

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Innovation News Network

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Upgrading to smart waste management systems can create cleaner, greener and more spacious urban environments. The post The importance of a smart waste management system appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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MARCH 31, 2017

The center is also helping to pioneer efforts to turn forestry, agricultural and municipal waste into transportation fuels, with a new demonstration plant being built at the site. Specialists at STCB work closely with experts from external industrial partners, universities and institutes.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This agreement will mark the completion of Metro’s 5-year goal to transition its diesel fleet to cleaner, low-carbon fuel, with 2,400 buses now running on RNG—the first renewable and commercially available vehicle fuel made entirely from organic waste.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Volvo Trucks delivered its first all-electric vehicles on 19 February: a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. We will continue to develop our electrified offering.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

A team of international researchers are investigating a new metal-organic framework (MOF) material that might help in nuclear fuel recycling and waste reduction by capturing volatile radionuclides such as xenon and krypton that evolve into reprocessing facility off-gas in parts per million concentrations. Waste avoidance.

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MAY 30, 2022

The new study led by Associate Professor Filippo Giustozzi at RMIT University provides a sustainable solution to UV protection for roads, with results published in the Journal of Cleaner Production. This acts so effectively as a sunscreen for roads that it actually makes the surface last twice as long as regular bitumen. 2022.131372.

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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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MARCH 22, 2018

The cleaner sweeper has been adapted by retrofitting a standard EURO 6 DAF truck to run on both diesel and hydrogen fuel. In September 2017, ULEMCo reported completing the first hydrogen fuel conversion for a UK commercial waste company. —Amanda Lyne, CEO of ULEMCo.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

ReactWell , LLC, has licensed a novel waste-to-fuel technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to improve energy conversion methods for cleaner, more efficient oil and gas, chemical and bioenergy production. Yang Song is now employed with ReactWell as lead scientist.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Located on a 327-acre site at the Port of Columbia, the LGF plant plans to convert 1 million tons of forestry waste feedstock into cleaner-burning renewable diesel and is projected to produce 31.8 million gallons of biofuels per year once in operation.

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Green Car Congress

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. Click to enlarge. Construction of the plant is on-schedule and on-budget.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

has signed an EPA Test Vehicle Agreement with Waste Connections of Colorado, Inc. In addition, the introduction of natural gas through APG’s dual fuel system does not impact diesel engine power or pulling torque and will assist in extending the engine’s oil life as natural gas is a cleaner burning fuel compared to diesel.

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JUNE 3, 2021

The company will produce its XRD renewable diesel from vegetable oil, fats and waste cooking oils through a proprietary process. UrbanX holds a license for Chevron Lummus Global’s patented ISOCONVERSION process which produces the cleaner fuel from waste feedstock, in a joint development with Applied Research Associates.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2011

GE claims that among all of the current treatment methods, its solution is more reliable, cleaner for the environment and uses the residual energy at a higher efficiency rate. —Teng Daochun, chairman, Jiangsu Tianue Energy & Chemical Group Co. COG is a byproduct of the coking manufacturing process.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

LPG already provides our customers with a cleaner rural energy choice to the high-carbon fuel alternatives many are dependent on in off-grid areas. Biopropane means this option will become even cleaner. Neste Oil’s Rotterdam refinery primarily produces premium-quality renewable diesel (NExBTL) from various bio-based inputs and waste.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

(Oberon envisions that the modular design can be deployed to remote stranded gas locations that would otherwise be difficult to harvest or to industrial operations where it can utilize waste CO 2 streams to increase output. Oberon also can use biomethane—landfill natural gas or waste (agricultural) natural gas&madsh;in its process.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

British Airways will invest in LanzaJet’s first commercial-scale Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Georgia and acquire cleaner burning sustainable aviation fuel from the plant. BA expects the fuel to be available to power a number of its flights by the end of 2022. Fuel could be produced by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

The Fulton facility will produce 19 million gallons of ethanol per year from woody biomass, mill residue, and other cellulosic waste. was established to deploy a commercially ready, patented and proven Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis Technology Process (the Arkenol process) for the profitable conversion of cellulosic waste materials to ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

A team led by Kanazawa University in Japan has developed a cleaner method for the recycling of several rare earths (REs) such as yttrium (Y) and europium (Eu) used as phosphors in fluorescent lamps (FLs). These are already used to remove toxic metals from solid waste. Begum, Ryuta Murase, Kento Ishii, Hikaru Sawai, Asami S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

Although cleaner fuels are available, many companies opt for HFOs due to their low cost. Due to environmental concerns and national as well as international regulations associated with fossil based HFOs, there is a considerable need for cleaner, renewable and economic alternatives for the maritime industry.

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