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AUGUST 13, 2020

Production of renewable diesel bioblendstocks through reductive etherification of alcohols and ketones. The first-of-its-kind continuous catalytic process was designed to reduce production costs relative to batch chemistry, the prior state-of-the-art technology. Hafenstine et al. —Derek Vardon, an NREL researcher and co-author.

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JUNE 17, 2024

A Fuel Switch for Today Continues To Evolve In the past, renewable diesel was considered a niche product that failed to attract mainstream investor interest. Today, it is a cost-neutral way for fleet owners to achieve their goals by allowing them to convert an entire diesel-powered fleet to alternative fuel overnight.

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JUNE 3, 2023

The storage battery market is expected to continue growing in light of the spread of renewable energy and electrified vehicles, as well as the global trend toward carbon neutrality.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. The mineral perovskite is a promising, low-cost material for enhancing the efficiency of silicon solar cells. efficiency, low-cost silicon solar cells.

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MARCH 2, 2023

The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. h is achieved with an estimated raw active materials cost of $7.02 mAh cm −2 , a discharge duration of 28.2 Weller et al.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

A team led by Dr. Michael Grätzel at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland has developed a highly efficient and low-cost water-splitting cell combining an advanced perovskite tandem solar cell and a bi-functional Earth-abundant catalyst. Jingshan Luo, post-doctoral researcher, explains how. Credit: EPFL.

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MAY 25, 2023

The Clean Fuels & Products Shot supports the national goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 by developing the sustainable feedstocks and conversion technologies necessary to produce crucial fuels, materials, and carbon-based products that are better for the environment than current petroleum-derived components.

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APRIL 28, 2021

Raven SR , a renewable fuels company, and Hyzon Motors Inc., into locally produced, renewable hydrogen for Hyzon’s fleet of zero-emission commercial vehicles. Raven can also easily process natural and renewable gases alone or combined with solid waste. As part of the agreement, Hyzon is acquiring a minority interest in Raven SR.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $33 million in funding to support innovative hydrogen and fuel cell research & development (R&D), infrastructure supply chain development and validation, and cost analysis activities. ( Efforts in both areas are to be coordinated with the Million Mile Fuel Cell Truck consortium.

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JANUARY 11, 2014

The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. Consequently they maintain peak discharge power for less than an hour before they are drained, and are therefore ill-suited to store intermittent renewables.

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MARCH 9, 2020

The production of such alkanes from renewable biomass instead of fossil resources is very attractive and important for sustainable energy and chemical supply. A substantial amount of fatty acids are produced as low-value by-products in fat and oil processing and the pulp industry.

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APRIL 26, 2016

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $30 million in funding for a new program for technologies that use renewable energy to convert air and water into cost-competitive liquid fuels. ( Comparative costs of current different energy delivery options for transportation.

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JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. UW-Madison has long been known for its expertise in biomass conversion. UW-Madison has long been known for its expertise in biomass conversion.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

DE-FOA-0002423 ) Topic Areas ins the FOA support DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Development of novel methods for rapid/real-time measurements.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

A team from Saudi Aramco Research and Development Center has developed a novel low-cost, high-octane gasoline blend component it calls SuperButol. Overall single pass conversion is 14 vol%. It is mandated for use in gasoline in many countries. Process flow diagram for Butenes to Butanols (BTB) pilot plant. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Bisabolene is a chemical precursor to bisabolane—a potential renewable diesel and jet fuel that phase separates readily when released to the fermentation broth, enabling efficient recovery via two-phase extractive fermentation with an organic overlay. —Sundstrom et al.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

A team led by Dr. Stuart Licht at The George Washington University in Washington, DC has developed a low-cost, high-yield and scalable process for the electrolytic conversion of atmospheric CO 2 dissolved in molten carbonates into carbon nanofibers (CNFs.) —Ren et al.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

The strategic investment and alliance aims to expand the feedstock flexibility of Renmatix’s proprietary Plantrose process beyond rural biomass to include materials derived from cost-effective and readily available urban waste material such as that managed by Waste Management.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

Ethanol conversion to hydrocarbons as a function of temp. Benefits of the catalyst technology include: A single step conversion of ethanol into a hydrocarbon blend stock without the addition of hydrogen. Graph showing hydrocarbon distribution in product stream of 10% ethanol after catalytic conversion over Cu-ZSM-5 at 400° C at 12.5

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JANUARY 24, 2014

Biodiesel producer Renewable Energy Group, Inc. a synthetic biology company developing fermentation-derived drop-in renewable fuels and chemicals ( earlier post ), for a purchase price of up to $61.5 This acquisition is a major step in realizing REG’s strategy to expand into the production of renewable chemicals and other products.

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MAY 18, 2021

Independent studies, including the recently completed Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study, point to the need for renewably fueled combustion turbines—available for limited periods—to achieve reliable 100% renewable electricity. Green hydrogen is the key to reliably achieving 100% renewable energy.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Hydrogen, as clean and renewable energy, is an ideal fuel for internal combustion engines. The direct-injection (DI) hydrogen engine can offer large power with low cost and rely less on hydrogen purity. High conversion efficiency of NO x emissions of more than 99.5% A paper on the study appears in the journal Fuel.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

1 ) and ammonia conversion (>99%) at a significantly reduced operating temperature (. Although the need to build a global clean energy supply network has been noted worldwide, there are constraints when it comes to transporting renewable energy in the form of electricity across long distances. mol-H 2 g cat ?1 Credit: KIST.

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MARCH 7, 2021

Solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) technology is attractive because of unrivaled conversion efficiencies—a result of favorable thermodynamics and kinetics at higher operating temperatures. The SOEC is mainly built of abundant and low-cost ceramic materials in a metal housing. The facility is expected to be operational by 2023.

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APRIL 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award nearly $18 million to four innovative pilot-scale biorefineries in California, Iowa and Washington that will produce and test drop-in renewable biofuels that meet military specifications for jet fuel and shipboard diesel. The projects selected for negotiation are: Frontline Bioenergy LLC (up to $4.2

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MARCH 3, 2014

If hydrogen production is to be distributed and produced in small-scale devices, it would be attractive if the subsequent conversion of H 2 into a liquid fuel could also be performed in simpler, low-pressure decentralized units. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Catalysts Methanol'

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake have synthesized a new class of renewable diesel fuels from a methyl ketone and diols including 2,3-butanediol, 1,2-propanediol, and ethylene glycol. g L -1 in E. coli, while Ralstonia eutropha was shown to produce up to 180 mg L -1 from CO 2 and H 2. —Harrison and Harvey.

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MARCH 7, 2014

In a 2012 presentation, the inventors said that the direct conversion process delivers a liquid hydrocarbon fuel yield of ~54-55% at 310°C, with ~6-7% ethylene and ~39% water byproducts, making the technology more cost-effective than previous approaches. Catalytic conversion of to hydrocarbons (2012). —Chaitanya Narula.

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JUNE 3, 2014

Here we report the direct conversion of switchgrass, a nonfood, renewable feedstock, to ethanol without conventional pretreatment of the biomass. Direct conversion of biomass to ethanol represents a new paradigm for consolidated bioprocessing, offering the potential for carbon neutral, cost-effective, sustainable fuel production.

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JUNE 26, 2020

The IDEALFUEL project aims to create sustainable alternatives by developing new efficient and low-cost methods to produce low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from wood-based non-food biomass. Although cleaner fuels are available, many companies opt for HFOs due to their low cost.

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AUGUST 21, 2022

SK E&S and SK Plug Hyverse—a joint venture (JV) formed in January of this year by SK E&S and Plug Power—will work with Korea Southeast Power Generation (KOEN) to cooperate with green hydrogen and green ammonia projects based on renewable energy resources in Korea and abroad. million tons in 2030 and 27.9

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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. Aemetis, Inc., Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

The researchers’ initial analysis suggests that the spiky textured surface of the catalysts provides ample reactive sites to facilitate the carbon dioxide-to-ethanol conversion. This could help to balance a grid supplied by intermittent renewable sources. —Adam Rondinone. Hensley, D. Bonnesen, P. Liang, L., Sumpter, B.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Hydrokinetic energy is an abundant renewable resource that can boost grid resiliency and reduce infrastructure vulnerability, but it is currently a cost prohibitive option compared to other energy generating sources. The 11 SHARKS projects are: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. University of Virginia. Emrgy, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

regarding the use of sustainably sourced agricultural residues and woody biomass as a feedstock for producing cellulosic alcohols and energy-dense renewable liquid hydrocarbons. The company expects it can be commercialized effectively when cost-effective sources of these sugars meet sustainability goals.

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MAY 3, 2012

and Algasol Renewables, a technology company with a technology for low-cost cultivation of microalgae for biofuels and high value products, intend to collaborate on the development of an integrated algae growth and harvesting system. —Miguel Verhein, executive director of Algasol Renewables. OriginOil, Inc.

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