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POET LLC acquires biofuels facility in Tennessee

POET LLC, the world’s largest producer of biofuels, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Green Plains Obion, a bioethanol facility in northwestern Tennessee, increasing the company’s production capacity by 120 million gallons and improving its access to southeastern…

New dual-fermentation process enables sustainable palm-oil substitute

LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) has announced a new technology advancement aimed at innovative feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production. Having successfully commercialized its technology to produce ethanol for SAF via the Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) process, the team’s most recent…

Mura Technology announces plans for new advanced-recycling facility in Singapore

Mura Technology Ltd. (London) announced plans to develop a 50,000-ton/yr facility in Singapore. This marks a significant milestone in the company’s expansion across Asia, joining existing facilities operated under license from Mura by Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation in Japan and currently…

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Avenues for Decarbonizing the Steel Industry

Energy- and carbon-intensive, steel production is categorized as one of the most “hard-to-abate” industries, making the scaleup of decarbonization technologies crucial not only for steelmakers themselves, but for every downstream industry in the supply chain Responsible for some 9% of…

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Facts At Your Fingertips: Battery Chemistries for Stationary Energy Storage

Storing energy to smooth the intermittency of wind and solar power can be accomplished in a number of ways, including mechanical (pumped hydro, flywheels, compressed air and others), thermochemical (phase-change materials and molten salts, for example), chemical (conversion of electricity…

Syzygy Plasmonics to use Honeywell UOP Fischer-Tropsch technology for SAF facility

Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com) today announced that Syzygy Plasmonics (Houston, Tex.; www.plasmonics.tech) , a global leader in electrified biogas-to-SAF technology, will use Honeywell UOP Fischer-Tropsch (FT) UnicrackingTM technology to make sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from dairy waste and renewable energy at…

Circularix starts up commercial recycling facility in Florida

Circularix (Los Angeles, Calif.; www.circularix.com), a leading U.S.-based producer of food-grade recycled PET (rPET resin), today announced the successful completion and commercial start-up of its new recycling facility in Ocala, Fla. The site complements Circularix's flagship facility in Hatfield, Pa. and significantly expands…

Plastic Energy and SABIC announce production of first batch of TACOIL from waste plastic

Plastic Energy (London, U.K.; www.plasticenergy.com), a global leader in chemical recycling, has announced the production of its first batch of TACOIL™ at its joint venture plant with SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) in Geleen, the Netherlands. This marks a key…

TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell announce first CO2 transported from cement manufacturing area to subsea storage

TotalEnergies (Paris, France; www.totalenergies.com) and its partners, Equinor (Stavanger, Norway; www.equinor.com) and Shell (London, U.K.; www.shell.com), announce that the first CO2 volumes were successfully transported by vessel from Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik, Norway to Northern Lights’ facilities in Øygarden.…

Velocys and Sekisui Chemical sign MoU for e-SAF production technology

Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (Osaka City, Japan; www.sekisuichemical.com) and Velocys Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.velocys.com) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) establishing a strategic partnership to advance production technology for electro-Sustainable Aviation Fuel (e-SAF), a CO2-derived synthetic fuel. This partnership…