Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

Anthropogenic global greenhouse gas emissions increased by 15% between 2000 and 2005, a sharp increase in the expected rate of growth, according to a new report from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). It also provides data on greenhouse-gas emissions for the 20 years preceding the 1990 Kyoto protocol.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2020

The development of new ultrahigh-temperature materials with compatible coatings and manufacturing technologies has the potential to increase gas turbine efficiency up to 7%, which will significantly reduce wasted energy and carbon emissions. The proposed program aims to develop refractory metal alloys (such as Mo, Nb etc.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Aquaflow chair Barrie Leay says wild micro algae, wood waste, bagasse and other green municipal waste can now all be converted to the next generation of biofuels, including bio-gasoline, bio-diesel and jet fuel. The first site has been identified on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, while others are being researched for suitability.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2011

m 3 (2,510 gallons US) in 2000 to approximately 3.5 Ford’s latest water reduction initiatives are designed to build on the success the company has had with its Global Water Management Initiative that launched in 2000. Between 2000 and 2010, Ford reduced its global water use by 62%, or 10.5 m 3 (925 gallons US) in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2019

According to the review, early development (1970-2000) of techniques for describing atmospheric chemical reactions involved adding a chemical reaction one-by-one to the mathematical description, each followed by laboratory testing using an environmental chamber, and comparing the simulations with the results. Goliff & Rosa M.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2016

Currently, many ships still run with their generators at a set speed, regardless of the power requirement, creating a surplus of wasted energy. For a large cruise ship, for example, up to 6% (or up to 2000 tons of fuel) of annual savings can be achieved by engine speed optimization.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2017

The researchers analyzed samples of PM obtained from light-duty diesel engine transient cycle emission tests with two biodiesel feedstocks—soybean (SOY) and waste vegetable oil (WVO)—blended with ultralow sulfur petrodiesel at five different volume percentages of biodiesel, Bxx (B0, B10, B20, B50, and B100).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

ExxonMobil signed an agreement with REG in January 2016 to study the production of biodiesel through fermentation of renewable cellulosic sugars from sources such as agricultural waste. Since 2000, ExxonMobil has spent about $8 billion to develop and deploy lower-emission energy solutions across its operations.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

General Motors said that 52% of its worldwide facilities are now landfill-free; i.e., all waste generated from normal operations is reused, recycled or converted to energy. GM employees focus first on decreasing the amount of waste generated, and then work to recycle the unavoidable waste.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2017

RNG, also known as biomethane, can be derived from many abundant and renewable sources, including decomposing organic waste in landfills, wastewater treatment and agriculture. The company has driven more than one billion miles since 2000 with its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. Chicago, Ill.; Earth City, Mo.;

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

This includes a 30% reduction in CO 2 emissions from Honda products, and significant CO 2 reductions from the company’s plants and other operations, compared with year 2000 levels. The wind turbine project is among a number of other initiatives at Honda plants to reduce energy use and waste from manufacturing operations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Lux Research has investigated the trends of corporate financing of alternative fuels from oil majors, based on a non-exhaustive database of more than 1,000 deals and partnership engagements from 2000 through September, 2014. However, it is also interested in cellulosic ethanol with its funding of Qteros, Mascoma Corporation, and Enerkem.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

of it, producing 2000 m 3 /day (528,000 gallons US/day) of process water and 220 m 3 /day (58,000 gallons US/day) of distilled water for various end-user applications. The plant will treat 2400 m 3 /day (634,000 gallons US/day) of wastewater and reuse 92.5%

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

California has already cut anthropogenic black carbon emissions by more than 90% since the 1960s, and existing measures are projected to cut mobile source emissions by 75% and total anthropogenic emissions by nearly 60% between 2000 and 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2012

in the period 2000-2010. Although in the literature several works can be found wherein the plastics are directly hydrocracked, in our approach, a previous thermal cracking stage was included because several stages are required with real plastic wastes to avoid catalyst deactivation by the impurities present in the waste feed.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

The group is committed to making transportation fuel from agricultural waste, energy crops and forest biomass. The demo plant will have a capacity of 5 MT per day and has been designed so that it can be scaled up to 2000 MT per day. Distillation, evaporation, energy optimization, and waste stream handling round out this last phase.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

A new regulation on the recyclability of motor vehicles will significantly limit the waste production from end-of-life vehicles (ELV). reprocessed in a production process of waste materials for the original purpose or for other purposes but excluding energy recovery). Japan also introduced similar legislation in 2002(Act No.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2013

MQL reduces oil mist generation; biological contamination of coolant; waste water volume; costs for capital equipment; and regulatory permitting. Between 2000 and 2012, Ford reduced global water use by 62%—about 10 billion gallons. MQL also improves recycling and transport of coolant contaminated chips. Studies (Faverjon et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

However, black carbon emissions from these sources have declined significantly, as well—by almost 30 percent since 2000. … The largest source of black carbon emissions in California, by far, is wildfire. An average wildfire season contributes two-thirds of current black carbon emissions in California.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

IH 2 technology is a continuous catalytic thermochemical process which converts a broad range of forestry/agricultural residues and municipal wastes directly into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels and/or blend stocks. gallon at 2000 tonne dry feed/day scale on a USGC (US Gulf Coast) basis using a full stand-alone design.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2012

Expanding its environmental initiatives to its dealer body is the logical next step in the company’s effort to reduce waste, energy use and CO2 emissions across the full spectrum of its operations and throughout the lifecycle of Honda and Acura products, including at the point of sale.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2016

Implementation of a detailed plan for reducing waste gas to flares. combustion efficiency at all times when waste gases are vented. Strict internal leak definitions: 500 ppm for valves and 2000 ppm for pumps. Installation of flare gas recovery systems. A refinery-wide flare cap. Operate with a minimum of 96.5%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2011

Microalgae can grow in waste or sea water and offer vastly superior biomass yields per hectare; furthermore, CO 2 removed from the atmosphere during photosynthetic growth of the plant offsets CO 2 released during fuel combustion. Case 1 is based on algal fuel production, with oilcake and glycerol as waste material. tons/ha/year).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The harvested algae was processed using hydrothermal liquefaction at 350 °C (autogenous pressures up to 2000 psig) for 1 h using 3 g of freeze-dried algae and 50 mL of water. Algal biofuel technologies that do not address these concerns are likely to have limited viability. The yield of biocrude was 44.5 ± 4.7% carbon, 10.1% hydrogen, 4.4%

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

Ford began researching the use of sustainable materials in its vehicles in 2000 and uses a number of them, including: Kenaf, a tropical plant in the cotton family, is used in the door bolsters of Ford Escape. According to the United Nations Environment Program, 5 billion metric tons of agricultural biomass waste is produced annually.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

During his time at MIT, Penfield developed a course that made the second law of thermodynamics—which states that the more energy is transferred or transformed, the more of it is wasted—accessible to first-year students. He also established MIT's master's degree in engineering. He earned a bachelor's degree and Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Oil sands mines produce waste material called tailings; the waste materials have been difficult to reclaim and have grown larger than projected. Over the past decade, production from oil sands more than doubled from 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2000 to 1.35 mbd by 2030, according to the report.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The oxygen reduction reaction takes place at the fuel cell’s cathode, creating water as its only waste. The team created the iron-platinum shell by decomposing iron pentacarbonyl [Fe(CO) 5 ] and reducing platinum acetylacetonate [Pt(acac) 2 ], a technique Sun first reported in a paper published in 2000 in the journal Science.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2009

The ACARE (Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe) targets are specifically defined and require reductions by 2020 (relative to best practice in 2000), of CO 2 emissions per passenger-km by 50%, NO x emissions by 80% and noise by 50%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. An added benefit of the conversion program is that it not only reduces pollution but also extends the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production and creating a reduce-and-reuse program.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

The hybrid LCA model for their study combined physical inventories from the Ecoinvent database and monetary inventories from environmentally extended input-output (IO) tables for the year 2000 developed for the EXIOPOL project. Large (small) parts cause 99% (1%) of totals due to spare parts.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

World ethanol production for transport fuel tripled between 2000 and 2007 from 17 billion to more than 52 billion liters (13.7 use biomass to produce a material and the recover the energy content of the resulting waste); and mineral-based solar energy systems. World Transport Biofuel Production. billion gallons US) liters.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2010

Estimated carbon emissions and uptake, 1850-2000, including the Earth’s as yet unidentified carbon sink. One knowledge gap is the so-called “missing carbon sink”, a phenomenon that has been studied extensively for the past three decades. Source: Woods Hole. Research Center Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2010

With the AMG Performance package, the engine delivers 875 N·m of torque at 2000 rpm, with a constant 900 N·m available between 2500 and 3750 rpm. MCT 7-speed sports transmission with Controlled Efficiency mode and stop-start function. This reduces the load on the engine and makes for fuel savings of around 0.15

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Demand for plastics—the key driver for petrochemicals from an energy perspective—has outpaced all other bulk materials (such as steel, aluminium, or cement), nearly doubling since 2000. In the CTS, petrochemicals become the only growing segment of global oil demand.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

These standard trucks used in the retrofit programme were models from 2000 or 2001 with 300,000-500,000 miles on the clock. The aim of the conversion programme is not only to reduce pollution but also to extend the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production. The powertrain equipment was replaced with a Cummins 6.7l

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Since 2000, electricity has been the only economic sector that has seen continuous and significant improvements in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With a growing economy, Californians are consuming more, and waste is increasing remarkably. million tons of waste, up 7.4% Noel Perry, founder of Next 10. compared to 2016.

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