Remove Engine Remove Renewable Remove Supplies Remove Waste
article thumbnail

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

Green Car Congress

An open-access paper on their results is published in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Meanwhile, wet waste feedstocks, such as animal manure and fats, oils, and greases (FOG), represent another important category of resources that could be utilized to produce MCCI bioblendstocks due to its abundant availability.

Waste 434
article thumbnail

Chevron, Cummins team on renewable natural gas engine demonstration with Walmart

Green Car Congress

Chevron USA, a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, announced definitive agreements to supply fuel linked to renewable natural gas for a Walmart Inc. demonstration of Cummins’s new 15-liter natural gas engine for heavy-duty trucks ( earlier post ).

Chevron 370
article thumbnail

Building materials recycler switches fleet to Neste renewable diesel

Green Car Congress

Since forming in 2013, Argent Materials, a San Francisco Bay Area recycler of concrete and asphalt, and supplier of aggregate such as crushed rock, entry, cutback, sand, backfill and base rock for construction projects, has diverted more than a billion pounds of waste from local landfills. There’s no change in engine performance.

Renewable 448
article thumbnail

Neste and CIM collaborate to supply sustainable aviation fuel to France to support SAF blending obligations

Green Car Congress

Neste and CIM, part of NOVEN Group in France, the leading independent French group of companies providing oil storage and supply services, are collaborating to enable the supply of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel into France. We have also announced the expansion of our Rotterdam renewables refinery.

France 410
article thumbnail

bp ventures invests $10M in waste-to-biomethanol company WasteFuel; offtake MoU

Green Car Congress

bp ventures has committed $10 million, leading the Series B investment round, in WasteFuel , a California-based biofuels company that will use proven, scalable technologies to convert bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower carbon fuels, such as biomethanol. billion metric tons by 2050.

Waste 284
article thumbnail

Aemetis selects Worley to provide engineering for renewable jet and diesel production plant; Axens technology

Green Car Congress

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.

Renewable 186
article thumbnail

Fulcrum BioEnergy successfully produces first low-carbon synthetic crude oil from landfill waste at its Sierra BioFuels Plant

Green Car Congress

Fulcrum BioEnergy, a clean energy company pioneering the creation of renewable, drop-in transportation fuels from landfill waste, successfully produced a low-carbon synthetic crude oil using landfill waste as a feedstock at its Sierra BioFuels Plant, the world’s first commercial-scale landfill waste-to-fuels plant.

Sierra 221