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A consortium comprising Engie Solutions, Siemens Gas and Power, Centrax, Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European universities is implementing the HYFLEXPOWER project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement 884229). million, of which €10.5
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Phase 1: Renewable energy. The system produces high-purity hydrogen gas at elevated pressures.
Haru Oni will produce green hydrogen via electrolysis using renewable energy from the wind. Empresas Gasco provides research and development for the production of synthetic gas. In this first stage, Porsche will use the eFuel for its Porsche Experience Centers and the Porsche Mobil 1 Super Cup. The potential of eFuels is huge.
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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. In 2019 Clean Energy provided an estimated 16 million gallons of Redeem to UPS.
UOP LLC used its renewable jet fuel process technology ( earlier post ) to convert oil from camelina, an inedible plant, to renewable jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Earlier post.). savings compared to petroleum jet. Earlier post.).
This demo, the largest to date, is a major milestone for us. The ship received approximately 20,000 gallons of a 50-50 blend of an algae-derived, hydro-processed algal oil and petroleum F-76 from the Defense Fuel Supply Point at Naval Base Point Loma. How can we have an impact? More than 50 percent of our fuel goes to maritime use.
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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A large-scale demonstration converting biocrude to renewable diesel fuel has passed a significant test, operating for more than 2,000 hours continuously without losing effectiveness. Just as crude oil from petroleum sources must be refined to be used in vehicles, biocrude needs to be refined into biofuel. —John Holladay.
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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.).
Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. RIMPAC and Green Fleet demo.
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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science research agency, has 2 -based-power-generation-project/">joined the Joint Industry Partnership (JIP) of the Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) project known as STEP Demo.
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Azul Airlines, Embraer and GE announced that Amyris’s renewable jet fuel sourced from Brazilian sugarcane has successfully passed all required testing and will be used during a demonstration flight on an Azul E195 aircraft powered by GE’s CF34-10E engines. Amyris, Inc.,
Commonwealth Edison; Con Edison; CPS Energy; DTE Energy; Duke Energy; Manitoba Hydro; Northeast Utilities; Pacific Gas & Electric Company; PJM Interconnection LLC; Sacramento Municipal Utility District; San Diego Gas & Electric; Southern Company; Southern California Edison; and Tennessee Valley Authority.
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has commissioned its up to 100,000 gallon-per-year natural gas-to-gasoline pre-commercial demonstration plant at its Hillsborough facility. To date, Primus’ primary investor has been IC Green Energy, the renewable energy arm of Israel Corp. Primus Green Energy, Inc. Earlier post.).
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LanzaTech’s proposed gas-to-liquids platform. The development of the CO 2 fermentation system leverages LanzaTech’s existing reactor system and gas fermentation knowledge. Should the lab and pilot work prove successful and scalable, they will place a demo plant in Malaysia, Burton said. Source: LanzaTech. Click to enlarge.
Some of the features included in our technology can be traced back to the nineties when we designed and built several first-of-its-kind slurry-based coal liquefaction and supercritical CO 2 extraction demo units. Cellulosic bio-alcohols – thermochemical conversion of renewable resources into liquid fuels.
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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A demo flight with the new fuel is planned in 12-18 months, with commercialization targeted for 2014. The CO-containing gas enters the process at the bottom of a bioreactor, and is dispersed into a liquid medium where it is consumed by LanzaTech’s proprietary microbes as the reactor contents move upward in the reactor vessel.
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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Volpe Center, to accelerate commercial availability of alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) renewable drop-in aviation fuel. LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology enables low cost production of sustainable alcohols and chemicals from waste gas resources that are completely outside the food value chain. Earlier post.).
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Global Bioenergies has delivered the first batch of isobutene from renewable resources to Arkema six months ahead of the projected schedule. This is in line with our fundamental belief that the fermentative production of a gas facilitates the scaling up efforts. Earlier post.) This hypothesis is being confirmed day after day.
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