JCAP researchers are focused on achieving the major scientific breakthroughs needed to
produce liquid transportation fuels from a combination of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, using artificial photosynthesis.
Berkeley Lab scientists are exploring whether a common soil bacterium can be engineered to
produce liquid transportation fuels much more efficiently than the ways in which advanced biofuels are made today.
One of the most important take - home points, to me, was the authors» endorsement of a rising role for natural gas as a feedstock for
producing liquid transportation fuels.
Southern Research Institute has entered into a $ 1.5 - million cooperative agreement with the US Department 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 coal - biomass - to - liquid (CBTL) processes.
Not exact matches
Coal - to -
liquid fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15 — 20 % of current
fuel consumption in the
transportation sector (2 — 3 million barrels per day; the lower estimate holds if coal is also used to
produce coal - and - biomass - to -
liquid fuels) and would have lifecycle CO2 emissions similar to petroleum - based
fuels.
«There is a pressing need for a game - changing approach to
produce alternative, drop - in,
liquid transportation fuels by sustainable, technologically viable and environmentally acceptable emissions processes from abundant, low - cost, renewable materials.
Liquid fuel providers —
producing and selling diesel
fuel, gasoline, or biofuels — and electricity providers — «
fuelling» plug - in hybrid vehicles with electricity generated with renewable energy — can now compete for the
transportation dollar.
Biofuels:
Liquid fuels and blending components
produced from biomass feedstocks, used primarily for
transportation.
In a new working paper, WRI calculates that providing just 10 percent of the world's
liquid transportation fuel in the year 2050 would require nearly 30 percent of all the energy in a year's worth of crops the world
produces today.
Fast pyrolysis is rapidly heating biomass (including corn stalks) without oxygen to
produce liquid bio-oil, which can be upgraded to
transportation fuels.
The term output means some or all of the
liquid or gaseous
transportation fuels produced from the project, as specified in the loan agreement.
The term coal - to -
liquid fuel means any
transportation - grade
liquid fuel derived primarily from coal (including peat) and
produced at a qualified coal - to -
liquid facility.
The term qualified coal - to -
liquid facility means a manufacturing facility that has the capacity to
produce at least 10,000 barrels per day of
transportation grade
liquid fuels from a feedstock that is primarily domestic coal (including peat and any property which allows for the capture,
transportation, or sequestration of by - products resulting from such process, including carbon emissions).
He also suggests that air capture could contribute to de-carbonizing the
transportation sector by permitting us to combine hydrogen
produced by water electrolysis with captured carbon dioxide to
produce liquid fuels.
Adding insult to injury electricity, even were it free to
produce at centralized generation facilities, can not practically replace
liquid hydrocarbon
fuels for lack of distribution capacity to local consumption and lack of storage capacity for
transportation.
Transportation, which accounts for about 40 percent of the world's energy use, relies overwhelmingly on
liquid fuels produced from oil.
No doubt the same thing is happening along much of the west coast of Canada, which is why China's sanctioning of coal to
liquid technology to
produce transportation fuel is directly significant to North Americans, and why it is so important to help China become more reliant on efficient processes and products.