Clean fuels

Waste methane will be captured from hog farms and converted into RNG.

Linde and PBF Energy have broken ground for a hydrogen plant being built with PBF’s subsidiary.

13 letters from international companies have been signed for purchases of isobutene and derivatives.

The company has signed a long-term agreement with FirstElement Fuel Inc.

True Zero’s retail hydrogen fuelling stations equipped with technology to double capacity.

Praxair will build two vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) plants at the facility, which is under construction and expected to start up operations in early 2020.

As the EPA finalises ethanol volumes for 2019 and biodiesel volumes for 2020 under the Renewable Fuel Standard, the American Petroleum Institute urged the agency to protect consumers from the ethanol blendwall and to continue to reject efforts by some to reallocate volumes from small refinery exemptions.

Specified alternatives include methanol, DME and ammonia.

The feedstock for the fuel is derived from recycled waste plastics.

The EIA’s Today in Energy report finds that renewable diesel net supply to California’s fuel market has increased since the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard programme went into effect in 2011.

The unit will allow 100% recovery of sludge from Sausheim wastewater treatment plant, which can be recovered as energy.

Pre-commercial system aimed at demonstrating the viability of the company’s method of producing renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water.

Propane inventories in the Midwest United States had been lower than the previous five-year average for much of 2018, but in recent weeks, net additions to inventories increased Midwest propane to levels higher than the previous five-year average.

Neste and Clariant are set to join forces to develop and make new sustainable material solutions.

Capacity additions will include a renewable naphtha finishing facility in the form of a second plant.