The California Air Resources Board has adopted a regulation that requires truck and engine manufacturers to reduce the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from new heavy-duty trucks by 90 percent starting in 2027. NOx from heavy-duty trucks is one of the main sources of air pollution, creating smog and threatening respiratory health. This regulation requires the
Developer and manufacturer of high-performance natural and synthetic graphite sheets, NeoGraf Solutions, has been awarded a $2mn grant by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for the development of graphite bipolar plates for heavy-duty fuel cell applications. NeoGraf says it will use the grant to develop flexible, low-cost bipolar plates for heavy-duty fuel cell applications
Saudi Aramco has notified at least seven buyers across Asia that it would supply full contractual volumes of crude oil in October, though none of them asked for additional supplies despite deep price cuts, sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday. The full allocation comes as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
Rolls-Royce and Flanders Electric have agreed to develop a retrofit concept for hybridizing mining trucks that can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 30%. It integrates MTU engines, batteries, and hybrid control systems, and Flanders drive train solutions. The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding enabling them to offer a scalable retrofit kit
Maersk’s investment will be used to further develop and commercialize Vertoro’s patented liquid lignin technology, and it will enable Vertoro to build a demo plant, which will become operational in 2022. The output of this plant will be used to develop marine fuels in partnership with Maersk as well as other applications for the materials
Fluidized bed reactors are widely used in material processing industries for processes that require good heat and mass transfer between particles and gas. The energy provided to the fluidized bed typically comes from the warm gas that fluidizes the bed as well. Fluidisation is a technology in which a bed of solid particles is transformed
Developing 100% renewable fuel for motorsport racing, TotalEnergies plans to showcase this product in the upcoming season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), including the 2022 Le Mans 24 Hours, and the European Le Mans Series (ELMS). Races are a major driver of innovation: the extreme conditions and challenges encountered in endurance racing, such
Pine needles will no longer be a source of forest fires causing losses worth crores every year as scientists at Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry in Nauni have devised a method to convert these into enthanol, a green biofuel. The scientists of the Department of Basic Sciences had been on the mission
How can shipowners comply with the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and improve the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) of a vessel without reducing sailing speeds? In this article we take a closer look at the potential routes for compliance and the alternative technologies available to improve energy efficiency. In June this year, the IMO’s
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) has announced that, through a subsidiary, it has signed time charter contracts for four newbuilding LNG carriers with NOVATEK Gas & Power Asia Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Russia’s Novatek. The vessels will be constructed at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME), and are slated for