(Mitsubishi Gas Chemical/Federal Accounting Standards Foundation) Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer: Shunichi Kito; hereinafter referred to as “Idemitsu Kosan”) and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.(Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Masashi Fujii;
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Back TO HOMEDecarbonizing the Aviation Sector: Global Bioenergies Extends Its Technological Process to the Production of e-SAF
(Global Bioenergies) a unique e-SAF with a record selectivity rate of 95% compared to existing technologies; a complementary approach to ASTM-certified SAF technology, substituting a plant-based resource for a synthetic resource -- Global Bioenergies announced today that it has adapted its process for
July 11, 2024 Read Full Article
HIF Global and Enap Sign Agreement to Accelerate Use of eFuels in Chile
(HIF Global and Enap) First collaboration for carbon-neutral eFuels in the Chilean market eFuels can be used in today’s cars without any changes to engines or infrastructure -- - HIF Global, the world’s leading eFuels company, and Chile’s state-owned petroleum company Enap signed
January 11, 2024 Read Full Article
Renewable Fuels from Green Refineries
Nicolaus Dahmen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/IEA Bioenergy Task 34 Newsletter Direct Thermochemical Liquefaction) ... REF4FU starts from hydrogen, pyrolysis oil based on bio-residues, such as straw or waste wood, methanol from renewable feedstocks, as well as Fischer-Tropsch oil that corresponds to
September 27, 2023 Read Full Article
US$ 4 bn Investment on Green Hydrogen Launched in Uruguay
(Merco Press) Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Thursday announced that US$ 2 billion will be invested in the construction of a green hydrogen plant in Paysandú. The work to begin this year will employ between 1,500 and 3,200 jobs and the
June 17, 2023 Read Full Article
I Love Electric Vehicles – and Was an Early Adopter. But Increasingly I Feel Duped
by Rowan Atkinson (The Guardian) ... Electric vehicles may be a bit soulless, but they’re wonderful mechanisms: fast, quiet and, until recently, very cheap to run. But increasingly, I feel a little duped. When you start to drill into the
June 05, 2023 Read Full Article
#86. Creating Sustainable Transport Energy Options for Everyone
by Tammy Klein (Transportation Energy Strategies) Dr. Amer Amer, Chief Technologist at Aramco, is leading the charge on R&D to improve the sustainability of transport fuels. Hear more about Aramco’s work in this area, what he thinks is the most
February 20, 2023 Read Full Article
Royal Air Force Completes World-First Sustainable Fuel Military Transporter Flight
(U.K. Ministry of Defence) The RAF and industry partners have carried out a world-first 100% sustainable fuel flight using a military aircraft of its size, and the first of any aircraft type in the UK. -- First time an aircraft
November 22, 2022 Read Full Article
eFuels, by Land and Sea, Get Their Grips on the Ships, Road Trips
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) For more than a decade we have been covering the emergence of e-Fuels — renewable fuels made from (usually waste) CO2 and green hydrogen, the latter conventionally obtained by splitting water using spare, intermittent renewable power. It’s
September 26, 2022 Read Full Article
New Collaboration Sets SWISS to Become First Customer in 2023 for Synhelion’s Sun-to-Liquid Aviation Fuel
by Christopher Surgenor (GreenAir Online) SWISS and the Lufthansa Group have entered into a strategic collaboration with solar aviation fuel pioneer Synhelion, which will enable SWISS to become the first airline to use sun-to-liquid fuel. Synhelion has developed a key technology for
March 30, 2022 Read Full Article
Fuels of the Future
(Wärtsilä/Hellenic Shipping News) How do you create carbon neutral, synthetic fuels? Where can they be used? What can be done to accelerate decarbonisation – and, eventually, to replace the use of fossil fuels altogether? – Meet Power-to-X, the new superhero. Decarbonisation
July 26, 2021 Read Full Article
Minister O’Regan Launches Call for Proposals under $1.5-Billion Clean Fuels Fund to Grow Clean Fuels Market across Canada DEADLINE: September 29, 2021
(Natural Resources Canada) The Government of Canada is building a low-emissions energy future to strengthen the economy, create good, middle-class jobs and support workers in our natural resource sectors. Producing and using cleaner fuels in our buildings, vehicles and industries
June 23, 2021 Read Full Article
Top 5: What It’s Really Going to Take to Reach Net Zero
by Tammy Klein (Transportation Energy Strategies) ... Reaching Net Zero: It’s going to be hard and requires action by governments this decade to get there, says both the ITF and IEA in separate studies. Renewable & Low-Carbon Liquid Fuels Platform: The
May 27, 2021 Read Full Article
Mining the Sky for CO2 with Metal Trees, Towers and Pumps
by John Fialka (E&E News) ... "Can we afford not to do this?" was the way Steve Oldham, the CEO of Carbon Engineering, headquartered in Squamish, British Columbia, put it in a recent TED Talk. He estimated that climate-related damages will
January 07, 2021 Read Full Article
Catalyzing Conversations on Clean Energy Transitions
by Paula Gant (Medium.com/GTI) ... GTI is particularly curious about ways to leverage gases, fuels, and infrastructure in new, cleaner systems. We see continued robust demand for gases and liquid fuels well through mid-century. We are curious about finding ways to
January 05, 2021 Read Full Article
Porsche and Siemens Energy, with Partners, Advance Climate-Neutral eFuels Development
(Porsche) Porsche, Siemens Energy and a lineup of international companies are developing and implementing a pilot project in Chile that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels (eFuels). In the pilot phase,
December 03, 2020 Read Full Article
Porsche Begins Investing in Synthetic Fuels to Keep Classics on the Road
by Ronan Glon (Hagerty) Let’s leave 2020 behind for a moment and travel to 2040. Government regulations have escorted the internal combustion engine off of the global stage, every car sold new is powered by either electricity or hydrogen, and
November 12, 2020 Read Full Article
Clean Fuel Standard a Second Carbon Tax, says Saskatchewan’s Minister of Energy and Resources
by Brian Zinchuk (MSN/The Canadian Press/Estevan Mercury) In its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 million tonnes per year, the federal government is working developing a new “Clean Fuel Standard,” and that is ringing alarm bells for the
September 22, 2020 Read Full Article
Rich in Sun or Wind? Here’s How Your Country Can Export Renewables
by Marc Engelhardt (Siemens Enegy) Green e-methanol is the ideal basis for a variety of alternative fuels and chemical compounds concentrated in universal e-Fuel hubs, according to Siemens Energy innovation expert Ireneusz Pyc. The idea, known for some time, has now
August 06, 2020 Read Full Article
Biofuel for Ships: Diesel and Gasoline Sourced from Renewables
by Iris Kumpmann (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft/Tech Xplore) ... Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT in Oberhausen have been looking into alternative climate-friendly fuels. They are now able to produce a renewable biofuel that can be converted
May 05, 2020 Read Full Article
New Capital Investment in Clean Fuels Will Help Drive Canada’s Economic Recovery and Growth
(Advanced Biofuels Canada) Clean Fuel Standard is key to attracting over $12 billion in advanced biofuels projects -- ... To inform clean fuel sector development, Advanced Biofuels Canada (ABFC) conducts an annual member survey to capture project-based data on capital investments
April 01, 2020 Read Full Article
Biofuels Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 96%
by Steve Hanley (Clean Technica) There is nothing inherently wrong with internal combustion engines. The problem is the fuels we use to run them emit billions of tons of greenhouse gases every year, gases which cause the Earth to get hotter.
December 04, 2019 Read Full Article
Keep Calm and Make Oil?: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Infra’s GTL Tech
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Infra Technology has developed and patented a Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) technology (INFRA.xtl), based on the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process, for the production of light synthetic oil and clean liquid synthetic transportation fuels from natural and associated gas,
November 11, 2019 Read Full Article
New Study Compares Potential of Different Decarbonisation Options in Road Transport
(VTT) Sustainable fuels could play an important role in reducing transport emissions even as electric vehicles become cheaper says a new study from VTT and the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. While electric vehicles are becoming cheaper, sustainable fuels could
October 11, 2019 Read Full Article
Synthetic Fuels Could Shrink Carbon Footprint
by Vicky Just (University of Bath/Phys.org) Synthetic fuels, made using carbon captured from the air, farm waste or biomass, could help the transport sector reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and meet "net-zero" greenhouse gas emission goals. A policy briefing by the
October 01, 2019 Read Full Article
A Step Closer to Decarbonising Long-Haul Road Transportation
(Cordis/Phys.Org) ... Supported by the EU COLHD project, a recent report sheds light on the obstacles impeding the wide adoption of AF solutions in Europe. "Our research shows there is no common European support strategy towards AFs, and a clear lack
May 24, 2019 Read Full Article
Residual Biomass to Gasoline: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide ABLC Guide to Bioliq Pilot Plant
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Karlsruher Institut für Technologie’s Bioliq pilot plant is producing synthetic fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic, ash rich biomass. Bernd Zimmerlin from Karlsruher Institut für Technologie gave this illuminating presentation on the technology behind the magic, from fast
December 11, 2018 Read Full Article
Electricity-Based Fuels: As Much as Needed for the Sake of the Climate, as Little as Possible for the Sake of Efficiency
(Agora Verkehrswende and Agora Energiewende) ... The production of power-based synthetic fuels is a multi-stage process. First, clean energy from wind or PV electrolyzes water into hydrogen and oxygen. Then, the hydrogen is combined with carbon dioxide to create gaseous or
May 09, 2018 Read Full Article
Top 10 Wood Waste Projects – Not Letting Waste Go to Waste
by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) ... Regardless of which side of the fence you are on, the chopping continues and there are literally tons of wood waste left behind that doesn’t get used up, but we can all agree we
October 02, 2017 Read Full Article
Biofuel Plant Construction Set to Begin
by Vanessa Dietz (The Daily Mining Gazette) ... SynSel Energy Inc., of Elmhurst, Illinois, chose Ontonagon as one of two U.S. sites to build advanced biofuels plants that will produce synthetic gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels the company sells in commodities
August 10, 2017 Read Full Article
Turning Sewage Sludge into Fuels and Hydrogen
(Recycling Magazine) TO-SYN-FUEL is a project funded by Horizon 2020 EU’s new research and innovation programme, with the aim to build-up, operate and demonstrate the production of Synthetic Fuels and Green Hydrogen from waste biomass. ... Twelve SME, industrial, and scientific partners,
May 17, 2017 Read Full Article
Highlighting the Allure of Synfuels, Exxon Played Down the Climate Risks (Part 5)
by John H. Cushman Jr. (InsideClimate News) In the 1980s, Exxon lobbied to replace scarce oil with synthetic fossil fuels, but it glossed over the high carbon footprint associated with synfuels. Early in the 1980s, ... Exxon believed oil supplies could not
October 23, 2015 Read Full Article
New Audi E-Fuels Project: E-Diesel from Air, Water and Green Electricity
(Audi) New Audi activity in the development of CO2-neutral fuels; Pilot plant for e-diesel production opened in Dresden; Audi partnership with Climeworks and sunfire Audi is active in the development of CO2-neutral, synthetic fuels. The latest project is a pilot plant in Dresden
November 26, 2014 Read Full Article
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