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Fit for purpose tests to ensure fuel quality
02 February 2021 – New synthetic and biogenic fuels have the potential to replace petroleum-based gasoline and diesel as well as heating oil and to make mobility and heat generation more climate-friendly in the future. In Part 2 of our short series of articles, we explained that to achieve this, they need to be operationally safe, i.e. drop-in capable, and compatible with ...
Rapeseed oil fuel suitable for injection systems of modern agricultural machinery
18. Dezember 2020 – From a technical point of view, rapeseed oil fuel is suitable for use in modern agricultural machinery. This is the conclusion of a research project that tested the compatibility of fuel-carrying components of diesel engines for tractors and other agricultural machinery with vegetable oil fuel.
Congress “Fuels of the Future 2021”
09 December 2020 - Of 18. until 22 January 2021 takes place the international specialized congress fuels of the future 2021 as on-line meeting. Klaus Lucka from TEC4FUELS GmbH will report in the biodiesel session on 19.01.2020 about current approaches in research to prevent premature fuel aging. Ageing phenomena of biodiesel and strategies to avoid ...
New low CO2 fuels in application technologies
01 December 2020 – In order to bring future low-CO2 fuels to technical maturity, it is important to optimise the manufacturing processes and ensure their compatibility with existing technical systems. Although regenerative fuels are new, the application technology issues remain the same.
Greenhouse gas-reduced heating oil
13 November 2020 – Greenhouse gas-reduced heating oil, one third of which consists of renewable components based on residual materials, is now undergoing a two-year practical test in 21 residential buildings. TEC4FUELS, as a testing company, supports the field test by procuring suitable fuels and advising the associations and companies involved.
Methanol – a platform for low CO2 fuels
22 October 2020 – Methanol is one of the chemicals that could also play an increasingly important role in the production of low-greenhouse gas fuels in the future.
Technology Forum “New Liquid Energy Sources“
13 October 2020 – In the "Technology Forum - New Liquid Energy Sources" we would like to provide impulses and intensify the dialogue with decision-makers and experts in the energy sector across industries and sectors. Click here for the program and registration.
Methanol as fuel
29 September 2020 – Establishing the technical basis for standardization of methanol fuels in Europe is the subject of a current research project. The project involves a consortium of universities, research institutes, industrial companies and small and medium-sized enterprises as partners. The partners in the “Methanol Standard” project aim to pave way ...
Online conference on the future of liquid energy sources
14 August 2020 – The European fuel oil association Eurofuel and the National Oilheat Research Alliance (NORA) from the USA will be organizing a virtual conference on the topic "Future of liquid energy sources" for the first time this year. Every Wednesday on four consecutive dates (19 August to 9 September) from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. CEST, ...
Activity report 2018/ 19 of OWI and TEC4FUELS published
15 July 2020 – OWI Science for Fuels gGmbH and TE4FUELS GmbH offer an insight into their current research and development activities in their newly published activity report 2018/ 19.
Development of sustainable marine fuels
25 June 2020 – In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium aims to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. The use of heavy fuel oils (HFOs) contributes to global warming due to the fossil origin of these fuels and, moreover, generating non-negligible emissions of pollutants ...
Fuel Science – From Production to Propulsion
5 June 2020 – The 8th International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence will be held online from 23 to 25 June 2020. As in previous years, the upcoming conference will reflect the interdisciplinary orientation of the work in the Cluster of Excellence and will cover a broad spectrum ...
TEC4FUELS is now a UFOP member
30 April 2020 - In March 2020, TEC4FUELS GmbH is a member of the Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants. (UFOP) as a member. UFOP is a political lobby of companies, associations and institutions involved in the production, processing and marketing of domestic oil and protein plants. ...
REDIFUEL – first results from laboratory tests
31 March 2020 Development of a high-quality low CO2 biofuel. In the EU research project "Redifuel", which is active since the end of 2018, the substitute fuel produced at the beginning of the project, which simulates the final "Redifuel", [...]
CO2-reduced fuels in practical tests
11 February 2020 – TEC4FUELS supports model projects Household heating with oil fired burner systems are also expected to meet climate targets in the future: through greater efficiency, the direct integration of renewable energies and the [...]
TEC4FUELS joins FVV Research Association
09 December 2019 – Innovation network as multiplier Tec4Fuels GmbH has become a member of the Forschungsvereinigung für Verbrennungskraftmaschinen e.V. (FVV) (Research Association for Combustion Engines) in November 2019. Against the backg [...]
TEC4FUELS supports in lubricant technology
26 November 2019 Tec4Fuels is not only active in the fields of fuels, but also in lubricant technology and helps its customers to overcome challenges in this field. Tec4Fuels employee Simon Eiden, who is already M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechn [...]
“Green” heating oil is possible
07 November 2019 Oil heating systems could become more climate-friendly in the future "Green" heating oil is possible - and thus also a more climate-friendly operation of oil heating systems. This was the central statement made by Dr. Haj [...]
Technology forum discusses perspectives of liquid energy carriers
27 September 2019 - Greenhouse gas-neutral fuels 150 experts from science and industry discussed the future of renewable fuels at the 3rd Technology Forum "New Liquid Energy Sources" on 26 September in Hamburg. In addition to presenting va [...]
Redifuel – Determination of a fuel matrix
11 September 2019 - Surrogate fuel for further investigations selected To enable the initial screening of the “Redifuel” at early project stages, surrogate fuels must be selected due to the limited availability of the final product at the [...]