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Research could make new alternative coal fuel processes more environmentally and economically competitive with petroleum-based processes DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Southern Research Institute today announced it has entered into a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Energy to test an innovative method for producing liquid transportation fuels from coal and biomass thereby improving the economics and lifecycle impacts of coal-to-liquid (CTL) and...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The United States has been relying on crude oil for more than a century. While it has played a vital role in driving modern innovation—transportation, plastics, detergents and even clothing—crude oil has also contributed to dangerous global warming. With the burgeoning threat of climate change, researchers from Princeton have outlined how the US could end reliance on petroleum and move to synthetic fuels. The US could use a...
Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin In a well-known fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin used magic to weave straw into gold. Today, scientists are reversing that formula — using gold to turn straw (and other forms of biomass) into today's global currency: energy. The magic involves a special nanocatalyst, in which minute particles of gold dot the surface of titanium-oxide. The forces that emerge from the combination of these two materials are strong enough to...
LONDON, November 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlights - Purchase of 933,687 new Group shares at 135p per share by an affiliate of Ventech Engineers - 44% premium to the closing mid-market share price on 16 November 2012 - Raises GBP1.3 million for the Group - Agreements signed with Ventech: - Oxford Catalysts will be Ventech's preferred supplier of FT technology for North America - Ventech will have...
Refueling U.S. Navy vessels, at sea and underway, is a costly endeavor in terms of logistics, time, fiscal constraints and threats to national security and sailors at sea. In Fiscal Year 2011, the U.S. Navy Military Sea Lift Command, the primary supplier of fuel and oil to the U.S. Navy fleet, delivered nearly 600 million gallons of fuel to Navy vessels underway, operating 15 fleet replenishment oilers around the globe. From Seawater to CO2 Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research...
LONDON, September 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlights - Group selected to supply FT technology for 1,000 bpd commercial GTL plant for Calumet at its Karns City, Pennsylvania site - Majority / all project funding will be supplied by Calumet - Plant design to be complete by end 2012 - Final 'decision to proceed' expected in H1 2013; revenues to the Group of: - $10 million during 2013 and 2014 - Over...
GUELPH, Ontario, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --W2 Energy, Inc. (OTC: WTWO) announces plans to initiate the immediate opening of their new state of the art Fischer-Tropsch laboratory in Catonsville, MD. Catonsville, MD is 20 minutes from W2 Energy's Columbia, MD office and is home to the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, whose campus is well known for their strong engineering program as well as programs featuring renewable energy. The new laboratory will produce and...
By studying samples from carbon-rich meteorites, scientists with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center say they have discovered that the building blocks of life can be created and maintained in extreme heat, not just in cooler conditions as had previously been believed. In a Friday press release, the U.S. space agency reports that experts from the Greenbelt, Maryland facility's Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory studied 14 samples and discovered "minerals that indicated they had experienced...
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynamic Fuels, LLC and Mansfield Oil Company have signed an agreement to supply renewable diesel to Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE / NSC), one of the nation's largest transporters of coal and industrial products. Norfolk Southern has primarily been using a 100% pure Dynamic Fuels renewable diesel at its Meridian, Mississippi rail yard since early January. Dynamic Fuels, a 50/50 venture owned by Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE / TSN) and...
MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Research from SRI International has identified a promising new way to produce liquid transportation fuels from coal without consuming water or generating carbon dioxide. Based on data from bench-scale tests, SRI engineers estimate that the capital cost for a full-scale plant using SRI's process would be less than half that of a conventional coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant that uses a process called Fischer-Tropsch synthesis...
