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APRIL 6, 2016

Global Bioenergies has purified its bio‐isobutene to 99.77%, a polymer‐grade level. Global Bioenergies routinely produces isobutene batches using its industrial pilot located in Pomacle‐Bazancourt, eastern France. —Thomas Buhl, Head of business development at Global Bioenergies.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

McDonald describe their study of converting methanol (MTG) and a mixture of methanol and glycerol (MGTG) into gasoline-range hydrocarbons using a bench-top, fixed-bed microreactor. The technology of converting methanol into gasoline was discovered and commercialized more than 3 decades ago. Tropsch synthesis (FTS). 5 Catalysis.”

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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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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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APRIL 17, 2017

US-based biotech startup Amfora and CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the federal government agency for scientific research in Australia) signed an agreement to advance development and commercialization of technology to produce oil in the leaves and stems of plants as well as the seeds. Source: CSIRO.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

Global Bioenergies, a France-based industrial biology company developing. European leader in the rubber industry, announced the discovery of a direct biological pathway to convert renewable resources into butadiene, a light olefin core to the petrochemical industry. million) milestone payment to Global Bioenergies.

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JULY 21, 2015

Global Bioenergies has adapted its bio-isobutene process, first developed with glucose as a resource, for the use of sucrose, the main component of sugar cane and sugar beet. Isobutene is a key chemical building block that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals. Earlier post.).

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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).

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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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APRIL 27, 2012

Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Earlier post.).

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JULY 21, 2022

The aviation sector is responsible for about 5% of global anthropogenic emissions causing climate change. It relies heavily on kerosene (jet fuel)—a liquid hydrocarbon fuel typically derived from crude oil. (A) Steinfeld says his team is working intensively on improving the design to increase the efficiency to values over 15%.

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JUNE 11, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, the developer of a one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefins, has obtained new €1.4-million —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies. million (US$1.6-million) million interest-free loan over seven years.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Compatibility of the renewable isobutene produced by Global Bioenergies with commercial bottled butane offers new potential to contribute towards reaching France’s CO 2 emissions reduction target. They are extracted from natural gas or from crude oil refining. There is currently no renewable source of butane.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Raven SR signed memoranda of understanding (MOU) to supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to All Nippon Airways (ANA) and to Japan Airlines (JAL) for major global routes. The supply will be produced by Raven SR at facilities planned for major global markets outside Japan to serve specific international routes of each airline.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs are a category of pollutants which remain in the atmosphere for a relatively brief period, but have global warming potentials that are much higher than those of CO 2. Black carbon.

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JULY 19, 2016

formed in 2011 to produce renewable base oils and lubricants from Amyris’ Biofene—Amyris’s brand of a renewable, long-chain, branched hydrocarbon molecule called farnesene (trans-ß-farnesene). Base oils, currently derived from the crude oil refining process, are the building blocks of lubricating oils. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis.

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APRIL 21, 2022

The global push to convert the world to electric vehicles will cause supply chain complexities that could undermine the alternative energy transition in the United States, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Global Nickel Trade and Chinese Dominance. Nickel is no exception.

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2021

—Philip Landrigan, director of Boston College’s Global Observatory on Pollution and Health. Africa is part of a global toll taken by air pollution, which killed an estimated 6.7 The African continent is undergoing a massive transformation, the co-authors note. billion in 2020 to 4.3 billion by 2100. Only AIDS causes more deaths.

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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. Fast pyrolysis can convert about 70% of the mass and energy into the liquid product.

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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 11, 2018

A “well-to-wheel” life cycle assessment (LCA) by a team from synthetic fuels producer Greyrock ( earlier post ), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has determined the potential reduction of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutant emissions from the use of synthetic fuels directly converted from flare gas. billion liters (18.8

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Oil shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen—a solid organic precursor to oil and gas—from which hydrocarbon gases and liquids (HCs) can be obtained through the application of heat. Mbbl of shale oil from 2.7 More recently, OSEC has proposed using the Petrosix process, another oil shale retorting technology.

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APRIL 2, 2015

Siluria’s OCM technology is the first commercially viable process to directly convert natural gas to ethylene, a key building block for the global petrochemicals industry and a new basis from which to produce transportation fuels. The oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) converts methane into ethane and ethylene (C 2 hydrocarbons).

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

The blue hydrogen energy complex will produce more than 750 million standard cubic feet per day of blue hydrogen for Air Products’ pipeline customers in the US Gulf Coast and blue ammonia for global hydrogen markets, including transportation/mobility.

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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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FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Increasing crude processing intensity and energy intensity with worsening oil quality. OQ: Crude feed oil quality. Switching to heavy crude oil and synthetic crude oil derived from oil sands bitumen in refineries could double or triple refinery emissions and add 1.6-3.7 PI: Crude processing intensity.

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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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MAY 10, 2024

The increase in global energy demands, diminution of fossil fuels , and its harmful effects on the environment have attracted the use of lignocellulosic biomass as an alternative sustainable source for chemicals, materials, and liquid fuels. Currently, biomass contributes 10% (5 x 10 -19 kJ) to global energy consumption.

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MAY 27, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene. The lab has since adapted the process to convert plastic waste into graphene and to extract precious metals from electronic waste. Wyss et al. Wyss et al. Wyss, K.M., De Kleine, R.D., Couvreur, R.L.

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JULY 26, 2015

The Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST) of the National Research Council (NRC) will host an interactive, multidisciplinary public workshop scheduled for May 2016 that will focus on identifying gaps and opportunities in catalysis research in an era of shifting feedstocks from crude oil to natural gas for chemical production.

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JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Q&A with Jon Jacobs of Westwater Resources Everyone in the EV industry is talking about the IRA and the BIL, two sets of federal regulations that include strong incentives for automakers to establish domestic supply chains for EV raw materials and components. Charged : Graphite’s a hot property these days. Tell us about Westwater’s plans.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

The system boundary included pennycress production, logistics, oil extraction and conversion to HRJ, wastewater treatment, and electricity and steam generation. For this study, the researchers estimated the environmental impacts of growing pennycress, transporting it to a biorefinery and converting it to a usable jet fuel.

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MAY 12, 2015

Global Bioenergies has successfully converted renewable resources first into gaseous isobutene via fermentation, which was then subsequently catalytically oligomerized into a mix of fuel-range liquid hydrocarbons, including iso-octane. —Rick Bockrath, Vice President for chemical engineering at Global Bioenergies.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) will consider at its December 2011 meeting amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation. Staff proposes to convert the current application process into a certification program to facilitate more expeditious reviews of Method 2A/2B submittals. Earlier post.).

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