Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

has started site construction for Phase 2 of its first waste-to-fuels project, the Sierra BioFuels Plant (Sierra). Sierra will be the nation’s first commercial-scale plant converting a municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstock—i.e., Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. —Jim Macias, Fulcrum’s President and CEO.

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Sierra Fuel Tahoe Convert 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2016

Fulcrum BioEnergy, the parent company of Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, has applied for a new fuel pathway under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCSF) for its process of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into Fischer-Tropsch (“FT”) diesel fuel. inerts, high moisture content waste) are sent to the landfill.

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Waste Diesel Sierra Nevada 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Fulcrum’s Sierra BioFuels Plant to enter the final phase of DOE’s Loan Guarantee Program. The Fulcrum plant uses a 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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Sierra North America Waste Nevada 186

Green Car Congress

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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Grant Convert Diesel Engine 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2015

Fulcrum BioEnergy has awarded a $200-million fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Abengoa for the construction of Fulcrum’s first municipal solid waste (MSW) to transportation fuels facility, the Sierra BioFuels Plant. Earlier post.). The end syngas product is very clean with zero sulfur content.

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Sierra Gas United States Waste 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

As each of the following stages heat and compress the biomass, it will outgas commercially viable bio-intermediary compounds that are then taken off to catalytic reaction chambers. Construction of the initial plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2015 with commercial operations beginning in early 2016. Earlier post.).

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Conversion Renewable Water Gasoline 308

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

Fulcrum plans to supply biocrude produced from municipal solid waste to Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company LLC (TRMC) to process as a feedstock at its Martinez, California Refinery. Virent, Inc.: Earlier post.).

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Renewable Sierra Nevada Corporation 150

Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. There’s nothing that’s really running at commercial scale. It’s a great sustainability story. It’s not efficient at all.

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Building Battery Batteries Lithium Ion 112

Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. There’s nothing that’s really running at commercial scale. It’s a great sustainability story. It’s not efficient at all.

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Building Battery Batteries Charging 52