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JUNE 29, 2011

Gevo, a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, recently announced that it had presented positive test results from fit-for-purpose testing of its renewable kerosene produced from isobutanol to ASTM’s alcohol to jet (ATJ) task force (D02J006 Alcohol to Jet TF). Gevo’s renewable jet. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a a startup developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), successfully completed an on-road demonstration of its proprietary technology that enables a heavy-duty truck diesel engine to operate on low-carbon and carbon-negative fuels, including 100% renewable plant-based fuels.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Test work has been carried out on live brine from Vulcan’s commercially operating geothermal renewable energy plant, Natürlich Insheim. VULSORB demonstrated higher performance and lower water consumption for lithium extraction in Vulcan’s pilot plant, compared with commercially available sorbents tested by the Company.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

a synthetic biology company focused on developing renewable hydrocarbon biofuels ( earlier post ), are partnering to explore potential business opportunities for the conversion of sugarcane into renewable jet fuel. The University of Queensland, Australia (UQ) and US-based Amyris Biotechnologies Inc., Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Global Bioenergies reported that runs using wheat straw hydrolysate provided by its partner Clariant were successfully performed in its Leuna demo plant, leading to the production of cellulosic isobutene for the first time at this scale. million by the Bio Based Industry- Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU) as part of the H2020 program.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Clean Energy Fuels Corp delivered 143 million gallons of Redeem Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) last year as robust sales of the carbon-neutral transportation fuel continued in 2019, closing out the year with significant deals throughout North America.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The project is slated to use advanced enzyme and microbial techniques to convert 10,000 tons of sugar beets harvested throughout the year into 285,000 gallons of advanced biofuel ethanol. The award is made through the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, created by Assembly Bill 118.

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APRIL 8, 2014

The test provides a proof-of-concept for an NRL-developed process to extract CO 2 and produce hydrogen gas from seawater, subsequently catalytically converting the CO 2 and H 2 into fuel by a gas-to-liquids process. The gases are then converted to liquid hydrocarbons by a metal catalyst in a reactor system.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Amyris engineers microbes to convert sugar to hydrocarbon fuels. Micrograph of fermentation fluids from production of Amyris Renewable Diesel (Nov 2007). The initiative can culminate in a demo flight, by early 2012, of an Embraer E-Jet using GE engines and belonging to Azul Linhas Aéreas. Source: Amyris. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

The demonstration plant utilizes Primus’ proprietary STG+ technology, which is a four-reactor catalytic process that converts syngas derived from natural gas or other feedstocks to gasoline, jet fuel, diesel or aromatic chemicals directly, without the need for further treatment. Primus Green Energy, Inc. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

has entered into letter of intent agreements with three sugar and ethanol producers in Brazil—Bunge Limited, Cosan and Açúcar Guarani with the purpose of partnering for the production of high value renewable specialty chemicals and fuels. Amyris Brasil, a wholly owned subsidiary of synthetic biology company Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

The vehicle was converted by Tokyo R&D, and is scheduled to hit the streets on regular local routes in Toyama, a coastal city located on the Sea of Japan. In July, EnerDel and ITOCHU joined with longtime EnerDel customer THINK to convert electric drive delivery trucks for Japan’s postal service. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Biosynthetic Technologies holds exclusive rights to patented technology that converts fatty acids into high-performance synthetic oils that can be used in lubricant, personal care and other chemical sectors. These biosynthetic base oils exhibit many superior characteristics to petroleum-based lubricant oils.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Unlike sugar-based biofuel producers, Joule directly and continuously converts solar energy into liquid fuels, without costly raw materials, pretreatment or downstream processing. The initial output of the SunSprings plant will be ethanol. —Peter Erich, President of Joule Fuels.

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JULY 11, 2016

Global Bioenergies, IBN-One and Lantmännen Aspen, world market leader in alkylate gasoline for two- and four-stroke small engines, have entered into a partnership on renewable isooctane ( earlier post ) for specialty fuel applications. Global Bioenergies delivered the first batch of renewable isooctane to Audi in May 2015. billion).

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Triggered by the successful completion of a first series of tests of its renewable isobutene for a high-value application, Clariant has now ordered a larger batch of renewable isobutene from Global Bioenergies for a second phase of evaluation. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Evonik Industries has demonstrated the use of bacteria to convert syngas to pure 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid (2-HIBA) under industrial conditions. Both the chemically-produced and biotech-produced products can be converted to methyl methacrylate (MMA). 2-HIBA is a precursor used in the manufacture of PLEXIGLAS. —Thomas Haas.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The patent-pending technology has been developed in collaboration with the Professorship of Renewable Energy Carriers at ETH Zurich. Bottom: 3D model of sunfire SOEC (left) and the demo plant (right). Nearly 80% of that can be converted into synthetic diesel. PtL = Power-to-Liquids. Source: sunfire. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 4, 2016

France-based Global Bioenergies announced that its German subsidiary, Global Bioenergies GmbH, secured a €400,000 (US$446,000) grant from the BMBF (the German federal ministry for research and education) to finance a 14-month-project aimed at producing renewable gasoline additives. million tons per year). Earlier post.)

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MAY 18, 2015

Global Bioenergies and its partner Audi ( earlier post ) announced that the first batch of renewable gasoline using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway has been produced. This first batch of renewable gasoline represents a historic milestone. Earlier post.) —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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JULY 10, 2010

The algal fatty acid product is catalytically decarboxylated and converted into paraffinic hydrocarbons (alkanes), followed by mild hydrocracking and hydroisomerization to make biojet fuel comprised of C 10 -C 15 branched paraffins. Cellulosic bio-alcohols – thermochemical conversion of renewable resources into liquid fuels.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

Global Bioenergies has started the scale-up phase of a process converting renewable resources into acetone and isopropanol. In a further process, these two compounds can be converted to propylene, a key petrochemical building block with a market valued in excess of US$100 billion. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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MAY 5, 2015

Global Bioenergies has delivered the first batch of isobutene from renewable resources to Arkema six months ahead of the projected schedule. The isobutene will be converted into methacrylic acid—a key component of acrylic paints—at a pilot unit operated by Arkema. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Should the lab and pilot work prove successful and scalable, they will place a demo plant in Malaysia, Burton said. LanzaTech envisions using partner technology to convert the acetic acid to lipids—i.e., Part of the challenge is locating sufficient quantities of hydrogen to enable large scale use of the CO 2 in waste gases.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

The parties will work together to convert this mill to produce Amyris renewable products with first production targeted for the 2011-2012 harvest season. It is also possible to produce renewable drop-in diesel and jet fuel with performance equal to or better than existing biofuels and oil-based fuels. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Global Bioenergies has developed a conversion process based on fermentation for renewable resources (residual sugars, agricultural and forestry waste) into isobutene, one of the petrochemical building blocks that can be converted into ingredients for cosmetics, gasoline, kerosene, LPG and plastics.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

Volpe Center, to accelerate commercial availability of alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) renewable drop-in aviation fuel. These alcohols are then converted, using technology from LanzaTech’s partner Swedish Biofuels, to jet fuel that is fully equivalent to petroleum jet fuel, or that can be blended with petroleum. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 9, 2018

In partnership with its key technology providers InEnTec and LanzaTech, Aemetis successfully optimized the integration of an advanced arc furnace and gas fermentation technologies to convert waste biomass into low carbon, renewable cellulosic ethanol and fish meal. Grain sorghum is considered a lower carbon feedstock than corn.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

This isobutanol is destined for the solvents and specialty gasoline blendstock markets, as well as to supply our demo plant in Silsbee, TX, to convert our isobutanol into hydrocarbons such as bio-jet fuel and isooctane. Gevo has also developed technology to produce hydrocarbon products from renewable alcohols.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Partnering with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Cobalt completed multiple fermentation campaigns in a 9,000 liter fermenter, exceeding the target yield and other performance metrics for a commercial-scale facility. Tests resulted in high sugar conversion and high yields of butanol. Pretreatment.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Researchers from three US national labs (Berkeley, Pacific Northwest and Sandia) has demonstrated a separation-free, ionic-liquid (IL)-based process to convert biomass to an advanced biofuel (the sesquiterpene bisabolene).

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

an advanced renewable fuels and biochemicals company, has harvested 12- to 15-foot tall biomass sorghum grown in Central California that was produced using proprietary seed genetics from Nexsteppe , a provider of optimized sorghum feedstock solutions. Aemetis’ 60-million gallon per year ethanol plant in California converts sugars to biofuels.

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AUGUST 12, 2017

The California Energy Commission is issuing a solicitation ( GFO-17-901 ) to provide up to $3 million in funding for innovative, pre-commercial low-carbon fuel production processes that result in the development of bio-oil as an intermediate fuel with wide-scale adoption potential used for renewable jet fuel production.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

A demo flight with the new fuel is planned in 12-18 months, with commercialization targeted for 2014. convert the resulting ethanol into a synthetic jet fuel. The investment in renewable fuels is part of our wider program to reduce carbon through measures such as using new, more fuel-efficient aircraft and supporting a.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Global Bioenergies, the developer of a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has completed a private placement with qualified French and international investors. million (US$11.7 million), representing 17.48% of the company’s share capital.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Additionally, the team expects to see a significant reduction in the time to produce these vehicles, which in this case, are converted to battery-power, using existing platforms such as the Ford E-450 chassis. The vehicle can travel up to 100 miles on a single charge, and will offer quiet, comfortable rides to the city’s residents.

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