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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. James Dumesic, have developed a process to convert aqueous solutions of ?-valerolactone Not requiring hydrogen or precious metal catalysts could contribute to a lower cost for a commercial-scale version of the process than some other renewable hydrocarbon fuel technologies.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin led by Dr. Jim Dumesic report the conversion of the hemicellulose fraction of lignocellulosic biomass to furfural and levulinic acid using biphasic reactors with alkylphenol solvents in a new paper in the journal ChemSusChem. Source: Gürbüz et al. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

First Green will invest in early-stage companies that focus on developing methods to convert renewable carbon—such as non-food biomass and carbon dioxide—to fuels and chemicals, and applications of clean or green technologies in the conventional energy process, sometimes known as green-black technologies.

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JUNE 22, 2012

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded a team led by Dr. Rolf Reitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison a $2-million grant to develop a tool to characterize the performance of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) drop-in fuels.

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MAY 15, 2021

As a result, there is a critical need to create new pathways for biofuel conversion that reduces carbon waste, prevents the loss of CO 2 emissions, and in turn, maximizes the amount of renewable fuel a conversion process yields. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Stanford University.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

Vilsack highlighted the announcement with a visit to Michigan State University, a grant awardee. Fiscal year 2012 awards include: University of Arizona, $36,000. Arizona State University, $350,000. University of Georgia, $345,689. University of Florida, $496,996. University of Florida, $497,851.

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AUGUST 27, 2022

Cornell’s Center for Alkaline-Based Energy Solutions (CABES) has received renewal funding of $12.6 CABES was one of 42 centers awarded funding in 2018; this year, more than $540 million was given out to 65 universities and national labs. million grant from the DOE Office of Science.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Renewable fuels and chemicals company Virent and petroleum refiner and marketer Tesoro have reached an agreement for Tesoro to become Virent’s new strategic owner. Tesoro will operate Virent as a wholly owned subsidiary which will be located in Madison, Wisconsin. Earlier post.).

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MAY 4, 2010

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have demonstrated that it is possible to achieve good yields of renewable hydrocarbons in the molecular weight range suitable for jet and diesel fuel applications through the processing of C 9 alkenes produced from biomass-derived ? Source: Alonso et al. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Adam Brown of the International Energy Agency; Professor Timothy Donohue of the University of Wisconsin-Madison/ Great Lakes Bioenergy; Dr. Arthur Grossman of Solazyme, Inc.; Professor Lonnie Ingram of the University of Florida; Professor Jay D. The scientific organizers of the conference are Professor Stephen P.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Renewable cellulosic fuels and chemicals startup Hyrax Energy has licensed an ionic liquids hydrolysis technology developed in the laboratory of Ron Raines, a University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemistry professor and a Hyrax founder, from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation ( WARF ). Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 15, 2018

Lignocellulose, or lignin, is ubiquitous in biomass, and yet it is highly-resistant to the chemical, biological, and other processes historically used for the conversion and refining of biomass into renewable products.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison led by James Dumesic have developed a catalytic process to convert cellulose into liquid hydrocarbon fuels (diesel and gasoline), using a cascade strategy to achieve the progressive removal of oxygen from biomass, allowing the control of reactivity and facilitating the separation of products.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory will receive up to $2.5 Researchers have been exploring the microbial synthesis of muconic acid from renewable carbon sources. The University of Wisconsin of Madison, Wisconsin will receive up to $3.3 Natureworks, LLC of Minnetonka, Minnesota will receive up to $2.5

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MAY 26, 2022

—James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Bourns College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants (WERC, LLC) last week was awarded $1.5 million by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy as one of 40 projects to target new innovations and accelerate the development of the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Amyris received the Small Business award for its renewable hydrocarbon farnesane for use as diesel and jet fuel. Farnesene is a building block hydrocarbon that can be converted into a renewable, drop-in replacement for petroleum diesel without certain drawbacks of first-generation biofuels. Professor Shannon S.

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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 is the only large volume renewable feedstock that contains aromatics. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has filed a patent application on the process.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

The CBiRC is based at Iowa State University in partnership with Rice University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of Mexico, the University of Virginia, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Of them, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center ( GLBRC ), led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, had a goal of turning more of the corn plant—the stalk and leaves that makes up the stover—into ethanol, while developing perennial plants like switchgrass and miscanthus (also called silvergrass) into potential feedstocks.

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APRIL 10, 2017

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is in charge of licensing the technology. For example, the same pathway could be used to produce two other plastic precursors—1,4 butanediol and 1,6-hexanediol—currently derived from petroleum and which together represent an annual market of more than $6 billion.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Fertilizer applied to cornfields in the central US—including states such as Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin—is the primary source of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi River system, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Nitrate output columns represent mean values and the 80% credible intervals from modeling. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

compressed natural gas (CNG) cylinder tracking system and Renewable. The Lake Michigan Corridor Alternative Fuel Implementation Initiative, which includes Southeastern Wisconsin, greater Chicago and Northern. University, North. University of Central. Forwarding Wisconsin’s Fuel Choice will expand highway road signage to.

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JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. This technology could potentially allow larger diesel and jet fuel molecules to be produced from renewable sources. —Professor Huber.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

Molar carbon selectivities for different renewable petroleum refinery feedstocks obtained by hydrocycloaddition and hydrodeoxygenation of condensed furfural–acetone mixtures. These renewable feedstocks can be further processed in existing petroleum refineries to make common refinery products. Source: Olcay et al. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 17, 2012

Two professors from MIT and UC Davis have released a paper challenging the recent claims by the Renewable Fuel Association (RFA) and US Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack that ethanol production decreased gasoline prices by $0.89 Smith is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Oberon Fuels, the first company to produce renewable DME (rDME) in the US, is a supporting partner. The funded projects include: University of Wisconsin Madison for “Efficiency Mixing Controlled Compression Ignition Combustion of Propane DME Blends”. WM International Engineering L.L.C. WM International Engineering L.L.C.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology of South Korea has demonstrated the feasibility of using proton-exchange-membrane (PEM) reactors electrocatalytically to reduce biomass-derived oxygenates into renewable fuels and chemicals.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences have demonstrated the conversion of levulinic acid (LA) to γ-valerolactone (GVL) by heterogeneous catalysts without using external hydrogen. A paper on their work appeared online 24 September in the journal ChemSusChem. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Lignin can be utilized as a renewable source for creating valuable aromatic chemicals, which have various industrial applications and can be used as the building blocks for fragrances, flavors, and novel bio-based foams and adhesives. Earlier post.) The total funding for the four MEGA-BIO awards is $13.1

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APRIL 8, 2015

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota and Argonne National Laboratory will explore ways to produce renewable plastic precursors and other substances from biomass with a recently announced $3.3-million million grant from the United States Department of Energy. Part of a $13.4-million

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JULY 22, 2011

Regulatory hurdles are hindering the successful commercialization of emerging liquid biofuels, according to a new study by University of Illinois law professor Jay P. Slating, a regulatory associate with the University of Illinois Energy Biosciences Institute. Wisconsin Law Review ; Illinois Public Law Research Paper No.

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JULY 26, 2012

Through the joint Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) , USDA and the DOE are working to develop economically and environmentally sustainable sources of renewable biomass and increase the availability of renewable fuels and biobased products. University of Wisconsin ($7 million). Michigan State University.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. North Carolina State University. Oregon State University. University of Cincinnati. University of Maryland - College Park. Princeton University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Duke University.

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JULY 29, 2021

The projects, funded through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Vehicles Technology Office (VTO), address the two largest contributors to transportation sector emissions: passenger cars and light-duty trucks account for nearly 60% of emissions and medium- and heavy-duty trucks account for nearly 25%. General Motors.

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JUNE 27, 2017

According to a new study led by a team at Duke University, airborne particulate matter and dust are cutting solar photovoltaic energy output by more than 25% in certain parts of the world, with roughly equal contributions from ambient PM and PM deposited on photovoltaic surfaces. —Michael Bergin. 7b00197.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The research team, which included DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and several university partners, used a novel approach to examine dissolution processes of platinum at the atomic and molecular level. Lopes, P.P., 2020) “Eliminating dissolution of platinum-based electrocatalysts at the atomic scale.”

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