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AUGUST 22, 2012

CH utilizes water to reduce hydrogen and catalyst consumption and quickly and inexpensively converts plant oils into stable intermediate oil products which are very similar to petroleum crude oil. Aemetis, Inc., In May of this year, CLG joined ARA’s ReadiJet Alternative Fuel Initiative for drop-in biofuels.

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JULY 10, 2023

MAN Energy Solutions has signed a Conversion Commitment Agreement with Seaspan Corporation (Seaspan), a global leader in containership ownership and management in collaboration with Hapag-Lloyd, one of the leading global liner shipping companies. This agreement includes 45 optional engine retrofit solutions.

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JUNE 10, 2020

Replacing all fuels made from oil and gas with zero-net-carbon fuels could reduce approximately 25% of global carbon emissions, making this one of the largest levers that modern society has in the fight against climate change. Aqueous CO 2 electrolysis with base-metal catalysts. to C 2 fuel products such as ethanol.

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Gasoline Carbon Conversion BMW 321

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AUGUST 9, 2012

KBR and Shell Global Solutions International B.V. In addition to hydrocracking and hydrotreating, KBR will also market, sell and provide technology and design packages for Shell Global Solutions deep-flash, high-vacuum unit distillation and thermal conversion technologies worldwide.

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JUNE 19, 2012

At last month’s World Renewable Energy Forum 2012 in Denver, Colorado, researchers from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory presented papers on two different approaches to upgrade pyrolysis oils to hydrocarbon fuels or fuel intermediates. In short, bio-oil needs to be upgraded to produce a fungible liquid transportation fuel.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

A new report from Pike Research forecasts that the global natural gas vehicle (NGV) sector is poised for a new period of growth. Globally, Pike Research forecasts that the NGV market will grow at a CAGR of 5.5% to reach just more than 3 million vehicles (including conversions) by 2015. million in 2008. Energy security.

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APRIL 26, 2011

a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, signed an engineering and consulting agreement with Mustang Engineering, LP for the conversion of Gevo’s renewable isobutanol to biojet fuel. Gevo projects that the cash operating cost for its hydrocarbon fuel is competitive with $65 per barrel crude oil (without incentives).

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MARCH 16, 2011

The NextGen line of oils, with 50% recycled oil, will include conventional, synthetic blend and high mileage offerings. Valvoline, a leading independent marketer of motor oil, has introduced its NextGen line of motor oils, featuring the inclusion of 50% recycled base oil. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Pike Research forecasts that the global market for biofuels will more than double over the coming decade, increasing from $82.7 BGPY in 2011) would represent just 7% of the estimated global transportation fuels market in 2021. The Americas are projected to account for 71% of global biofuels production. billion in 2011 to $185.3

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JUNE 26, 2020

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium is aiming to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. This is cost competitive with Ultra-Low Sulfur Fuel Oil (ULSFO) which current, 2019, price level is €450-550/tonne. The participants are Vertoro B.V. (NL);

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

The global capacity for carbon capture in 2030 is set to increase sixfold from today’s level, to 279 million tons of CO 2 captured per year, according to research company BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) newly released 2022 CCUS Market Outlook. of global emissions. In 2021, some 73% of captured CO 2 went to enhanced oil recovery operations.

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JULY 20, 2020

The ability to produce aviation-grade fuel from oil derived from wood waste—which up until now has been difficult due to the high viscosity of the oil—could help international aviation companies comply with new emissions regulations scheduled to go into effect in 2027. Lignin constitutes 20 to 40 percent of lignocellulose.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Oil palm supplies more than 30% of world vegetable oil production. The study, published as an open access paper in the journal Nature Climate Change , shows that deforestation for the development of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo is becoming a globally significant source of carbon dioxide emissions.

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MARCH 20, 2012

Pike Pulse Grid for oil majors commercializing biofuels. With “easy oil” increasingly difficult to source and with an obvious stake in the future of the $2 trillion transportation fuel market, the world’s largest oil companies have begun charting strategies to bring biofuels to market at scale. Source: Pike Research.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). —Schnell et al.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

an advanced fuels and renewable chemical company, signed an expanded, global license agreement with Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) for the production of renewable jet and diesel fuel by the conversion of existing biofuels and petroleum refineries. —Leon de Bruyn, Managing Director of Chevron Lummus Global.

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JUNE 28, 2021

So far, renewable diesel and jet fuels are mainly derived from plant oils, but the EU Renewable Energy Directive limits the use of biofuel from food and feed crops since they do not meet sustainability requirements when produced at large scale.

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JULY 20, 2012

Global emissions of CO 2 increased by 3% last year, according to the annual report “Trends in global CO 2 emissions”, released by the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). At 3%, the 2011 increase in global CO 2 emissions is above the past decade’s average annual increase of 2.7%.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Topsoe and Steeper Energy , a developer of biomass conversion technologies, signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution. The process conditions are carefully chosen to promote reaction pathways that favor high yields of high-quality renewable oil.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

s Rialto Renewable Energy Center for the conversion of biomass to transportation fuels. The unconverted fractionator bottoms product can be fed to an FCC unit or lube oil hydrofinishing unit, or it can be recycled back to the process for full conversion to lighter high-value products.

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MAY 12, 2011

Energy executives expect continued volatility in the price-per-barrel of oil for the remainder of the year, with 64% predicting crude prices to exceed $121 per barrel. Only 35% think current crude prices are near the high they expect for oil this year, predicting the peak will be between $111 and $120 per barrel. —John Kunasek.

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JUNE 10, 2011

MIT and the IEA both have newly released reports exploring the potential for and impact of a major expansion in global usage of natural gas, given the current re-evaluation of global supplies. Globally, natural gas vehicles are a small fraction, on the order of 1%, of the close to 900 million vehicles in the vehicle parc.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Johnson Matthey has launched HyCOgen, a technologyt designed to play a pivotal role in enabling the conversion of captured carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

Pike forecasts that the global market for biofuels will increase from $82.7 between 2017 and 2021, as a combination of higher oil prices, emerging mandate. Pike projects that the Americas will account for 71% of global biofuels production. billion in 2011 to $185.3 billion by 2021. A more robust growth is expected.

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MARCH 28, 2014

and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) achieved a key development milestone with their 100 barrel/per day (4,200 gallon/per day) demonstration-scale Biofuels ISOCONVERSION (BIC) facility in St. The BIC Process combines: ARA’s Catalytic Hydrothermolysis (CH) process for the conversion of plant oils into a high quality crude oil intermediate.

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JULY 19, 2011

million (US$2-million) equity investment in Global Bioenergies, representing a 3.6% million (US$2-million) equity investment in Global Bioenergies, representing a 3.6% Butadiene is one of the major building blocks of the petrochemical industry and is presently exclusively produced from oil. Earlier post.).

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JULY 5, 2011

It is rapidly expanding energy use, mainly driven by fossil fuels, that explains why humanity is on the verge of breaching planetary sustainability boundaries through global warming, biodiversity loss, and disturbance of the nitrogen-cycle balance and other measures of the sustainability of the earth’s ecosystem.

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MARCH 18, 2012

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Global Bioenergies has closed a €1.4-million stake of Global Bioenergies. stake of Global Bioenergies. In July 2011, Global Bioenergies and Synthos signed a partnership agreement to develop a biological process for the production of a second molecule, butadiene. million (US$2.2 Accordingly, Synthos now owns a 3.6%

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JUNE 19, 2012

Another advantage, Zimmerman noted, is that the supercritical carbon dioxide, which acts as a solvent for oil, can be tuned to extract only specific components from algae oils, saving time and resources. Such tuning is not possible with conventional solvents.

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APRIL 17, 2018

Global Bioenergies (GBE), the company developing a process converting renewable resources into isobutene via fermentation ( earlier post ), and SkyNRG, world market leader in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), will collaborate to accelerate the commercialization of Global Bioenergies’ approach to process isobutene into a jet fuel blending component.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Fortiva Hemi brings novel enzymes to liquefaction that deliver greater than 10% oil yield improvement and up to 1% ethanol yield gain above Novozymes’ industry leading Fortiva Revo liquefaction solutions. Novozymes believes that increasing the efficiency of corn oil extraction could be significant in advancing bioethanol production.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

A new study on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the conversion and degradation of peatland in palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia has determined that past studies have generally significantly underestimated emissions associated with palm oil grown on peatland. Southeast Asia.

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MARCH 6, 2020

The company’s patented technology allows the production of renewable hydrogen as well as the direct conversion of water and CO 2 into raw material for petrochemical products. It enables the production of emission-free renewable hydrogen and conversion of CO 2 into fuels, chemicals and materials.

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APRIL 6, 2013

Chemical technologies include the hydrotreatment of oils; catalytic decarboxylation; and methanol production. These diesel-type hydrocarbons, also referred to as hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) or a renewable diesel, can also be tailored to meet aviation fuel requirements. cellulosic ethanol. Output capacities are in the range of.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Chen’s group developed the process to produce alkanes and aromatics in the jet fuel range by microwave-induced pyrolysis of intact biomass (Douglas fir) integrated with hydrotreating upgrading of pyrolysis oil. However, high hydrogen gas consumption and severe reaction conditions were needed in this process. —Yang et al.

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APRIL 2, 2013

We want to enable the brightest and the best to develop their ideas, and benefit from Shell’s expertise and global reach, so that we can get these technologies up and running in our projects as fast as we can. Their pilot plant in the Middle East taps heat from the sun to generate steam for enhanced oil recovery.

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