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NxtGen making demonstration units of SynGas generator available

NxtGen Emission Controls is releasing an evaluation version of its syngas generator for lab use. NxtGen is developing and has been field testing a portable syngas generation system for diesel vehicles that can help clean up emissions with lower fuel consumption and cost than existing particulate filter and urea injection systems. Syngas is mix of predominantly hydrogen and carbon monoxide and is produced in the vehicle from diesel fuel and exhaust gases. The syngas is combustible and is used to regenerate the particulate filters and lean NOx ... Read more →

DoD orders up portable biofuel plants for military use Xavier Navarro

The U.S. Department of Defense has selected two companies, Diversified Energy and Velocys, to design a mobile biofuel manufacturing plant that would process organic waste from military installations. ...

Exciting new fuel for 1940: coal gas! Jeremy Korzeniewski

Quick! Get that child away from this ticking-time-bomb of a coal gas-powered bus! Seriously, this particular bus was modified with a huge balloon on the roof to hold a manufactured fuel from coal ...

New method to obtain cheap natural gas from coal Xavier Navarro

GreatPoint, a company made by three enterpreneurs from Boston (Andrew Perlman, Avi Goldberg and Aaron Mandell) has announced that they have created a cheap method to obtain natural gas from coal. ...

Making biofuels from the papermaking industry's black liquor waste Jeremy Korzeniewski

Sometimes, people just need to make the best with what they have got to work with. This is what paper mills are trying to do by burning the "black liquor" waste which is a leftover remnant of ...

The DOE, Conoco-Phillips and LSU work to increase ethanol's efficiency, want to make it from coal 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The headlines for this story indicate that a team from LSU, Oak Ridge National Lab, Clemson, Conoco-Phillips and the Department of Energy are trying to make ethanol a more efficient fuel. I don't know that this is the case, as it seems that what they are trying to do is manufacture ethanol from the ...

Making biofuels with small, fast reactors located close to biomass sources 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Researchers at the University of Minnesota are working on a new method to create syngas from biomass which can then be burned directly to make electricity or converted to many different liquid fuels that we use today. There are already processes being used to create syngas, but this particular one ...

Advanced Plasma Power technology converts garbage into gas 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

As recently as January we reported on plasma vaporisation technology capable of turning organic waste material into hydrogen and carbon monoxide, a mixture called synthesis gas, or syn-gas, that can be used as a fuel or as a valuable feedstock in further chemical processes. The company in question ...


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