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Grön Fuels, LLC’s renewablediesel and jet fuel option facility at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge is based on Topsoe’s proprietary HydroFlex hydrotreating and H2bridge hydrogen technologies, including an option to capture ~1 million tons per year of bio-CO 2 for carbon sequestration in suitable deep saline aquifers located below the project site.
The flagship project MethanQuest was launched in September 2018, and on it a total of 29 partners from research, industry and the energy sector have come together to work on processes for producing hydrogen and methane from renewables and for using them to achieve climate-neutral mobility and power generation.
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The two companies will demonstrate the performance of biodiesel (B20) and renewablediesel (R55) in revenue service on Wabtec Tier 3 and Tier 4 Evolution Series locomotives in California. The rail industry is intently focused on reducing its environmental footprint by exploring emerging technologies. Earlier post.).
CNH Industrial has entered into an exclusive, multi-year licensing agreement for electrification technologies with Monarch Tractor , a US-based AgTech company specializing in fully electric autonomous tractors. The company has secured several hundred working farms as preliminary customers.
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has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuel technology to produce renewablediesel from vegetable oil. The 6,500 barrels-per-day renewablediesel unit will be built in Saskatchewan, Canada, and is scheduled to go into operation early in 2024. Canada-based Covenant Energy Ltd.
C above pre-industrial levels, and preferably 1.5 °C. In addition, around half the vehicles that will be on the road in 2030 have already been sold—most with gasoline or diesel engines. One path to achieving this is with renewable synthetic fuels (e-fuels). to make synthetic gasoline, diesel, gas, or kerosene.
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has 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. Aemetis, Inc.
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