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JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals. Ding et al. —Prashant Nagpal.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

has developed proprietary, breakthrough processes that convert either low-carbon isobutanol or low-value fusel oils—a mixture of alcohols that are byproducts from fermentation processes such as alcohol production—into renewable diesel. Gevo expects this to open yet another door for Gevo products.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. The research, accepted for publication in Applied and Environmental Microbiology raises the possibility of converting atmospheric CO 2 to commodity chemicals.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Wrightspeed and Matthews Specialty Vehicles are teaming up to develop, convert, and deliver battery-powered and range-extended electric buses, trucks, and specialty vehicles with industry-leading performance, efficiency, and total cost of ownership. The Matthews vehicles will be designed to have gross vehicle weight (GVW) up to 53,000 lbs.,

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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).

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JUNE 25, 2021

The Port of Antwerp is converting a tug to methanol propulsion. The consortium aims to demonstrate the feasibility of renewable methanol as a future-proof fuel for carbon-neutral shipping. The European Commission approved the project this week.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. The round was fully funded by Anglo American.

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APRIL 28, 2021

Raven SR , a renewable fuels company, and Hyzon Motors Inc., At the hubs, which can be built at or near landfills, Raven SR will convert mixed and multiple organic wastes, including municipal solid waste, greenwaste, food waste, medical, paper, etc. As part of the agreement, Hyzon is acquiring a minority interest in Raven SR.

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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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APRIL 11, 2020

The hydrogen is stored and can be converted by fuel cells in vehicles back into electricity that powers them. The hydrogen produced during electrolysis can be injected into the gas grid, used as fuel, converted into methane or methanol, and made available as industrial feedstock. © Fraunhofer IFF.

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JUNE 19, 2014

The projects, which are funded through ARPA-E’s new Reliable Electricity Based on ELectrochemical Systems (REBELS) program, are focused on improving grid stability, balancing intermittent renewable technologies, and reducing CO 2 emissions using electrochemical distributed power generation systems. Lead organization. Lead organization.

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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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JUNE 4, 2013

AltAir will produce low-carbon, renewable jet fuel and other renewable products. United has collaborated with AltAir Fuels since 2009 and has agreed to buy 15 million gallons of lower-carbon, renewable jet fuel over a three-year period, with the option to purchase more. Aviation Bio-hydrocarbons Fuels'

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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. Novel inorganic-organic perovskites for photovoltaics. The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5

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JULY 17, 2015

The City of Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus (BBB) has become one of the country’s first municipal transit authorities to convert its fleet to renewable natural gas (RNG), rated 90% cleaner than diesel. Renewable Methane Gas is processed through a filtration and refining process and transported via pipeline to end users.

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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 The resulting catalysts selectively convert a diversity of feedstocks to a final product in a single-step fermentation process.

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JUNE 14, 2021

The European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) published a policy brief showing that delivery of large amounts of renewable hydrogen over long distances could be cost-effective. This finding is important because access to sufficient amounts of renewable hydrogen at low cost is essential for achieving a climate neutral Europe by 2050.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have engineered a microbe to convert molecules of industrial waste gases, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, into acetone and isopropanol (IPA).

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JUNE 2, 2021

Haldor Topsoe is determined to take a leading position in the green hydrogen space, and has established a focused green hydrogen organization to accelerate its business. The new organization will leverage Topsoe’s insights into solid oxide electrolysis.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

million Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) OPEEN+ grant to develop a method to convert natural gas into carbon nanotubes for materials that can replace metals in large-scale applications. With our new concept, we will convert directly natural gas into materials made of carbon nanotubes.

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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. The contract also includes continued operation and maintenance for the length of the agreement.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have disclosed a new method to convert lignin, an important component of biomass waste, into simple chemicals. Lignin, which accounts for nearly 30% of the organic carbon in the biosphere, is a complex material containing chains of six-carbon rings.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company, and Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to integrate their respective technologies into an advanced system for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Cool Planet Energy Systems, a renewable fuels and biochar company ( earlier post ), closed on its targeted $100 million Series D financing. Catalytic Conversion: Cool Planet has developed a number of proprietary catalytic conversion processes to convert these useful hydrocarbon components into different types of fuels.

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MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc. The fuel cells will also produce a net 2.3

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JUNE 4, 2012

Researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division (NAWCWD) at China Lake have developed a process for the synthesis of high energy density renewable fuels through the selective dimerization of α-pinene, camphene, limonene and crude turpentine using the heterogeneous catalysts Nafion, Nafion SAC-13, and Montmorillonite K-10.

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APRIL 18, 2014

A number of renewable jet and diesel fuels have been now developed that can be broadly classified as synthetic paraffinic kerosenes (SPKs). Remarkable progress has been made in the direct production of renewable fuels and oils by organisms including cyanobacteria, bacteria, algae, and yeast. earlier post , earlier post ).

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

The process, known as biphasic tandem catalytic process (biTCP), synthesizes cyclic hydrocarbon compounds for jet fuel from terpenoids, the natural organic chemical compounds found in many plants. A variety of technologies have been developed to produce renewable jet fuels from biomass feedstocks. Cyclic hydrocarbons (i.e.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R-CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Aemetis awarded an engineering services contract to Worley for the Aemetis ‘Carbon Zero’ renewable jet and diesel plant in Riverbank, California. The Aemetis Carbon Zero renewable jet and diesel project is designed to hydrotreat renewable oils with hydrogen from orchard and forest wood waste. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

A new study from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) demonstrates the conversion of lignin-derived compounds to adipic acid, an important industrial dicarboxylic acid produced for its use as a precursor to nylon, plasticizers, lubricants, polyesters, and other popular products and chemicals. Approximately 2.5

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Marathon Petroleum Corporation selected Topsoe as the technology provider for renewable fuels production at the Martinez Renewable Fuels Facility in California. The facility, part of Marathon’s 50/50 joint venture with Neste, utilizes Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology to convert bio-feedstock into renewable diesel.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

With Fulcrum’s first plant under construction, this partnership accelerates the construction schedule for Fulcrum’s next renewable jet fuel plants. The Fulcrum process begins with the gasification of organic material in the waste feedstock to a synthesis gas (syngas)—primarily carbon monoxide, hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Raven SR, a US-based renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), plans to build a waste-to-hydrogen production facility in Aragón, Spain, following the opening of its subsidiary Raven SR Iberia in Zaragoza, announced earlier this month. About 15% of feedstock is converted into a solid bio-carbon which can potentially be sold.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The funding will help Sierra Energy further develop and commercialize its FastOx gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. BNP Paribas SA, Twynam Investments Pty Ltd, Formica Ventures AB, and The March Fund I LP. —Mike Hart, Sierra Energy’s CEO.

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MARCH 10, 2023

GW of Silyzer 300 polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzers that will use renewable energy to separate hydrogen from water, resulting in approximately 300,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year. HIF and Siemens Energy are engaged in front end engineering and design for 1.8

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JANUARY 31, 2020

Neste and Outotec have jointly verified the viability of applying Neste MY Renewable Isoalkane as a fully bio-based diluent for extracting metals in hydrometallurgical processes. All renewable raw materials used in producing Neste MY Renewable Isoalkane are sustainably produced.

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