Building a green fleet - Bangkok Post


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Building a green fleet
Bangkok Post
Scania buses from Sweden, running on ED95 fuel, have started trial runs in Bangkok. Stockholm had its first biofuel bus, which cut up to 90% of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel, in 1989. Now its goal is to have 50% of public transportation running on ...

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Taurus Energy, Lund, Chalmers win $1.2M grant for next-gen biofuels R&D - Biofuels Digest

Taurus Energy, Lund, Chalmers win $1.2M grant for next-gen biofuels R&D
Biofuels Digest
In Sweden, the Swedish DOE (Energimyndigheten) has awarded $1.2 million in support of a shared 2nd generation ethanol research project to Taurus Energy AB in cooperation with the Department of Chemical Engineering at Lund University and Chalmers ...

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Agronomist fights for 'truths' about ethanol industry - Tri-State Neighbor

Agronomist fights for 'truths' about ethanol industry
Tri-State Neighbor
Scania has done better than that for 15 years, and their engines can run on 100 percent biodiesel without any modifications, too, said the company. Sweden is now using it in more than 600 buses in the country and is expanding it to use in trucks, too.

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Stop the biomass blackout: say no to the UK's destructive bioenergy policies - The Ecologist

Stop the biomass blackout: say no to the UK's destructive bioenergy policies
The Ecologist
Most readers will be only too well aware how palm oil for biofuels causes rainforest destruction on, say, Sumatra, threatening the lives and livelihoods of indigenous peoples and decimating wildlife, such as orangutans, elephants and rhino.

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Metso to supply world's largest recovered fuel fired boiler to Sweden's ... - Industrial Fuels and Power

Metso to supply world's largest recovered fuel fired boiler to Sweden's ...
Industrial Fuels and Power
The principal fuel for the new boiler will be recovered fuel prepared from municipal waste, and the new boiler also has possibility to burn biofuel. Compared with current boilers, the new system will give the plant a more flexible fuel mix.

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Metso to supply world's largest recovered fuel fired boiler to Mälarenergi's ... - Reuters

Metso to supply world's largest recovered fuel fired boiler to Mälarenergi's ...
Reuters
Metso Corporation's press release on January 19, 2012 at 11:00 am local time Metso will supply Mälarenergi's combined heat and power plant (CHP) in Västerås, Sweden, with the world's largest recovered fuel fired boiler. The new boiler with a fuel input ...
Metso boiler bound for Swedish CHP plant Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production Magazine
Metso supplies boiler fired by recovered fuel to CHP plant The Engineer

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UPM to sell paper packaging unit for $170 mln - Reuters

UPM to sell paper packaging unit for $170 mln
Reuters
* To sell unit to Sweden's Billerud for 130 mln euros * Oct-Dec underlying profit 147 mln euros vs forecast 136 mln * Says expects to increase profits this year * UPM shares up 4.5 pct, Billerud down 0.8 pct By Eero Vassinen HELSINKI, Feb 1 (Reuters) ...

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