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syn·fu·el

 (sĭn′fyo͞o′əl)
n.
A liquid or gaseous fuel derived by chemical processes from feedstocks such as coal, shale, tar sand, or biomass.

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synfuel

(ˈsɪnˌfjuːəl)
n
(Chemical Engineering) a synthetic fuel substituting as a petroleum product
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syn•fu•el

(ˈsɪnˌfyu əl)

n.
liquid or gaseous fuel manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
[1970–75, Amer.]
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The Basin Electric Dakota Synfuel credits for the historical amount of CO they emit.
Gu Dazhao, general manager of Shenhua's Science and Technology Development Department stated that the company's synfuel production from coal-to-liquids (CTL) projects is to increase to three million metric tons per annum in 2015 and 11 million tons in 2020, from around one million tons currently.
The theme of this year's conference is "Roadmap to Active Deployment of Cleaner Coal Technologies" which covers a wide spectrum of important topics on gasification, coal to liquid, synfuel, power generation and environmental issues.
CO2 emissions are almost completely avoided when biomass is used to produce synfuel (BTL).
Canada is becoming increasingly important as the world's leading producer of oil sands, or bitumen--a thick, gooey, viscous material that must be dug out of the ground and treated in various energy-intensive ways before it can be converted into synthetic petroleum fuel (synfuel).
It's one thing to blow a few billion on synfuel projects and the like.
A C-17 cargo and passenger jet flew with synfuel blend in one tank.
Synfuel from coal and gas could supply all our needs here in Australia at less than half the current price of oil.
Rising the fastest were the number of synfuel projects, which grew 15%, while gas processing projects increased 15% and refining projects rose 11%.