“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.” -- William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
Fuel is one of a number of newsletters produced by HartEnegy (http://www.hartenergy.com/). I like it because it covers new developments in fuels technology, regardless of the source of the fuel. Remaining cognizant of the broad range of fuel sources, established and emerging, is important to desulfurization research, not to mention a host of other specific research ares.
Below I highlight three articles from a recent issue that caught my eye. I actually read the entire issue. It is well written, and provides clues to markets and technologies that are worth further online research.
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How Will Refiners Meet Diesel/Renewable Fuels Demands in Next 10 Years?
Q&A with catalyst provider Albermarle provides insight and possible technology solutions for addressing refiner challenges.
IN: Fuel (March 2011)
What I like about the Albemarle Interview … a technologist’s view of how technologies will respond to the markets.
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Enabling the Navy’s Great Green Fleet by Louise Poirier
Amid persistent concerns about supplying the enormous energy demands of the United States’ armed forces the military is pursuing alternatives, and the Department of the Navy is leading the way.
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"First and foremost [these fuels] have to be able to operate and perform without any changes to the weapons systems, so they have to be what we call drop-in replacement," Kamin explained. "The aircraft or the ship can't know the difference, or shouldn't know the difference, whether it's getting a fully petroleum-based jet or ship propulsion fuel or it's receiving fuel that's produced partly from a non-petroleum source.
“Hicks pointed out that with about 280 ships and 3,700 aircraft in operation today, and the the fact that this fleet will be used for the foreseeable future, "it's really critically important that we don't absorb any infrastructure changes because we really can't" because of major cost concerns that would arise with trying to convert all those vessels to use a different fuel.”
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Algal Biofuel Developments in the EU by Lois Hobson, Neftalí López López, Kyriakos Maniatis, Maëlle Soares Pinto and Frank Rogalla
Lois Hobson, Business Manager, Centre for Process Innovation, Wilton Centre (lois.hobson@uk-cpi.com)
Neftali Lopez Lopez, Project Development Manager, Abengoa Bioenergia Nuevas Tecnologias
Kryriakos Maniatis, Principal Administrator, European Commission, DG ENER
Maelle Soares Pinto, Director, Biofuels, Europe & Africa, Hart Energy
Frank Rogalla, Director of Innovation and Technologhy, Aqualia Gestion Integral del Agua
A discussion of three large-scale demonstration projects currently underway, supported by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Program.
Hart Energy will undertake the common dissemination of the three large-scale industry-led projects aimed at demonstrating the production of algal biofuels along the whole value chain, covering strain selection to algae cultivation and production, oil extraction, biofuel production and biofuel testing in transportation applications.
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