Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Biochemical conversion route for biomass to biofuels. OBP intends that the process operations to be included within this FOA are limited to pretreatment, hydrolysis, and conversion technologies leading to production of alcohols and other petroleum displacement products. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A Sandia National Laboratories project team, including a number of industry partners, is designing and building a cold-ironing fuel cell system that will be deployed in the Port of Honolulu in 2015. Ports have been a major source of water and air pollution in the US, but remained relatively unregulated until recent years.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

A new catalytic method for converting algal oil to gasoline- or jet-fuel-range hydrocarbons has been developed by the research group of Prof. Watanabe and his team at the University of Tsukuba discovered the heterotrophic alga Aurantiochytrium 18W-13a strain (left) which very rapidly produces squalene (right) from organics in water.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an artificial photosynthetic scheme for the direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO 2 and water using a two-step process involving a biocompatible light-capturing nanowire array with a direct interface with microbial systems. —Liu et al. coli strain. —Liu et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The hydricity process entails integrating solar water power (SWP) cycle and solar thermal hydrogen production technologies and a turbine-based hydrogen power cycle with suitable improvements of each for compatibility and beneficial interaction. coproduced hydrogen has alternate usages in transportation/chemical/petrochemical industries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Current biorefineries undervalue lignin’s potential, largely because selective conversion of lignin has proven to be challenging. Scaling this process and putting it into production alongside current biorefinery production facilities would significantly improve biomass conversion and improve the economics of biofuels and chemicals production.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2017

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a method which boosts the longevity of high-efficiency photocathodes in photoelectrochemical water-splitting devices. A PEC cell absorbs sunlight and converts that energy into hydrogen and oxygen by splitting water molecules.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The plant will convert abundant low-cost natural gas from the Utica and Marcellus shale region into high-value specialty products (solvents, lubricants and waxes), as well as transportation fuels. Pinto recently filed the project’s air and water permits, and is in discussions with regional economic authorities for further local support.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

According to their analysis, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , favorable assumptions for all involved process steps (30% thermochemical energy conversion efficiency; 3000 kWh/(m 2 a) solar irradiation, low CO 2 and heliostat costs) result in jet fuel production costs of €1.28/L kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L. 5b03515.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

The E3SM project will soon convert to an “open development” project. This conversion to open code will allow collaboration with more groups and centers. During this period, the coupled system will run efficiently on the most powerful DOE High Performance Computational Facility computers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

Principal inputs are coal, water, non-carbon electricity, and make-up solvent. Schobert (2015) Click to enlarge. The synthesis gas for indirect liquefaction can be made not just from coal, but from any carbon feedstock that can be converted to synthesis gas. —Schobert (2015). EMS Energy Institute process.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

On the way there, I made a pit stop at a gas station to buy a bottle of champagne as a gift, hoping to start out a conversation with a stranger on the right foot. That 10 years is now only applicable for the Generation 3 made from 2010-2015, but at least there are options. Sometimes the engine water pump might leak.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2015

The hydrogen from electrolysis and CO 2 , delivered by a pipeline, are fed to a plant where the gases are converted in a reverse water–gas shift (RWGS) reactor to syngas (H 2 and CO). The syngas is then further converted to hydrocarbons using Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis. König et al. A feed of 30 t/h of H 2 generated 56.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The EU NEMESIS 2+ project, which ran until June 2015, was coordinated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). During this process, the hydrocarbons in the gas are converted at high temperature into a hydrogen-rich mixture of gases. The efficiency of the process, from start to finish, is approximately 70%. kg/h with an efficiency >80%.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo’s technology platform is high yielding, approaching 94% of the theoretically possible conversion of plant sugars to isobutanol, according to the filing. The straightforward conversion of isobutanol into butenes is a fundamentally important process that enables isobutanol to be used as a building block chemical in multiple markets.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As the assumed annual growth rates for forecast liquid fuels consumption have remained unchanged for 2015-18, the higher baseline 2014 data raises overall consumption through the forecast period. Methanol, like ethanol, is an alcohol with inherent issues such as its solubility in water and corrosiveness. Methanol in China.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2015

More than 80% of lipids were converted to FAME indicating potentially high production for conversion to biodiesel (up to 0.9 Prolific algal growth lowered temperature and levels of total dissolved solids in the tanks and increased pH and dissolved oxygen compared to supply water. T ha -1 y -1 ). 67-79 doi: 10.4490/algae.2015.30.1.067.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

The first generation Sharan made its debut in Geneva in 1995; between 1995 and 2015 more than 800,000 Sharans were sold worldwide. All diesel engines are fitted with an SCR catalytic converter. SCR catalytic converter. more fuel efficient; the most efficient model consumes 5.0 l/100 km (47 mpg US).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

Increasing evidence suggests that biomass can be used much more efficiently (and therefore with less environmental impact) through direct combustion to generate electricity and heat, rather than being converted to liquid fuels such as ethanol. However very few studies include water use impacts. Ravindranath et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

Joule, the developer of a direct, single-step, continuous process for the production of solar hydrocarbon fuels ( earlier post ), has extended its solar CO 2 conversion platform to produce renewable gasoline- and jet fuel-range hydrocarbons. Joule is now commercializing its first product, Sunflow-E, for global availability in early 2015.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

In 2015 we introduced the efficient transformation splitting of CO 2 by electrolysis in molten carbonates to form carbon nanotubes and nanofibers at high yield. The production of synthetic fuels from carbon dioxide (and/or water) has been widely studied and can be efficient. Licht et al. Click to enlarge.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The new superjunction structure will surpass the theoretical trade-off between on- resistance and breakdown voltage observed in conventional unipolar GaN, leading to more efficient and cheaper power converters. The system takes three main inputs: ambient air, water, and a sustainable energy source, and produces butanol with high selectivity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The conversion of the injection system to a common rail design was one of the major changes; the addition of a new lean NO x trap (LNT) to handle NO x emissions was another. It is then converted to ammonia which interacts with NO x on the SCR catalyst to form water and nitrogen. Earlier post.) Source: EPA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle re-fuels in 3–5 minutes, travels up to 300 miles (482 km) on a full tank, and will be available to customers in California beginning in fall 2015. The amount of water on fuel cell electrolyte membranes has a substantial influence on electricity generation efficiency. FC Boost Converter.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2015

Libertine expects the results from rig tests to confirm the system’s potential to convert the high grade heat in the exhaust into electrical power, which can contribute to either powertrain or auxiliary loads. In addition, the system provides a larger single-stage expansion ratio which suits ethanol/water Rankine cycles. 2014.05.041.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Audi presented a range of its ongoing work on electromobility and efficiency—from fuels and systems to full vehicles—under the “Future Performance Days 2015” banner. Conversely, high coating thicknesses for the electrodes produce a high energy density. On the full vehicle side, Audi put forward the Audi Q7 e-tron 3.0

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. An example of a simplified schematic for converting atmospheric carbon dioxide, water, and solar or wind electricity into ethanol, gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Source: Mattershift.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He worked for SolarCity and Tesla between 2015 and 2018 and now for Solar Smart Living (since 2018). In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert. He works in the sustainable energy technologies industry and he is an advocate for change.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2015

Longevity of hydrotreatment catalysts has long been one of the challenges to the commercialization of the conversion of biomass pyrolysis oils to biofuels. Battelle, in a parallel program, has a great deal of experience and knowledge in waste water treatment—i.e., Earlier post.). people who understand how to clean liquids.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

A solid oxide fuel cell-electrolysis thrust aims to optimize conversion efficiency between chemical and electrical energy, lower operating temperatures to increase the lifetime of these devices, and bring down costs. Chiang Yet-Ming (2015). Reversible fuel-electrolysis cells. earlier post ). —Harry Tuller. —Carl Thompson.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Fuel processors (FPs) for stationary fuel cell systems convert raw fuel into hydrogen-rich streams suitable for use in fuel cells. desulfurization); reactors to convert the raw fuel into a hydrogen-rich stream (e.g., water-gas-shift); and. desulfurization); reactors to convert the raw fuel into a hydrogen-rich stream (e.g.,

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He worked for SolarCity and Tesla between 2015 and 2018 and now for Solar Smart Living (since 2018). In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert. He works in the sustainable energy technologies industry and he is an advocate for change.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have proposed a novel two-stage process to convert low-rank coals or biomass wastes under mild conditions to high-quality liquid fuel. Solubles were almost free from water and ash. wt % of brown coal soluble were converted to the liquid fraction (oil), excluding H 2 O. for biomass wastes.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 25, 2023

Installation and maintenance is easier to accomplish in shallow waters. This creates a new need for well-designed subsea cables that can reach longer distances, survive in deeper waters, and better connect our world with sustainable power. Wind turbines for offshore wind farms are starting to be built further out into the ocean.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Furthermore, even the older version PHEV can recharge at a slow rate using local solar, wind, water-derived or other net zero CO 2 fuel. Then as solar, wind, water and other non-fossil fuel industries ramp up, the fossil material industry can shift to different but more lucrative customers.

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