Biomethane
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Sainsbury’s Begins Food Delivery With Biomethane-Fueled Heavy-Duty Truck
August 18, 2008
Sainsbury’s is beginning daily food deliveries from its depot in Bristol (UK) to the supermarket’s new environmental store in Dartmouth—a 500 km (311 miles) round trip—using a Mercedes-Benz Axor truck fueled with biomethane produced from landfill gas.
The truck is retrofitted with UK-based Clean Air Power’s Genesis Dual-Fuel system, which enables heavy-duty diesel engines to operate primarily on natural gas, with diesel fuel acting as a “liquid spark plug”. (Earlier post.) Using biomethane from landfills can save up to 60% in CO2 emissions compared with diesel fuel, according to Sainsbury’s.
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Gasrec, BOC and SITA UK Begin Production of Liquid Biomethane for Vehicle Fuel
June 19, 2008
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| Overview of the Gasrec process. Click to enlarge. |
Gasrec, the UK’s first commercial producer of liquid biomethane fuel; BOC, a member of the global gases and engineering Linde Group; and SITA UK, one of the UK’s leading recycling and waste management companies, have begun production of liquid biomethane (LBM) fuel from the Gasrec plant at SITA UK’s Albury landfill site in Surrey, UK.
The Albury plant will produce approximately 5,000 tonnes of LBM per year, sufficient to fuel up to 150 heavy-duty or up to 500 light-duty vehicles, depending on their fuel source (i.e. dedicated gas or dual fuel), mileage, load and duty.
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House Sends Energy Bill to President Bush; New Renewable Fuel Standard
December 18, 2007
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| The new Renewable Fuel Standard in the energy bill calls for a rapid acceleration in the production of cellulosic biofuels (red), and a capping of corn ethanol at 15 billion gallons per year. Click to enlarge. |
By a 314 to 100 vote, the US House of Representatives passed the energy bill (H.R.6) that had come back from the Senate, thereby sending the package of programs to the White House. President Bush has indicated that he will sign the bill into law before the end of the year.
In addition to raising CAFE standards to an average 35 mpg by 2020 (earlier post), the bill also contains some provisions that provide a major increase in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS); the electrification of transportation; improved standards for appliances and lighting; energy savings in buildings and industry; energy savings in government and public institutions; support for research into solar, geothermal, marine and hydrokinetic energy technologies, and energy storage for transportation and electric power; research, development and demonstration of carbon capture and sequestration; the modernization of the electric grid; and a variety of other initiatives.
