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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the research demonstrates how lignin-derived compounds can first be converted to muconic acid via a biological process. Muconic acid can then be separated from the biological culture and catalytically converted into adipic acid. —Vardon et al. Vardon, Derek R.,

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Researchers at Rice have demonstrated an efficient new way to use solar energy for water splitting. a) Plasmonic photocathode for solar water splitting, consisting of plasmonic nanoparticles in direct contact with water, p-NiO x as an electron blocking layer, and aluminum as the electrode material. (b) Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Toyota Motor continues to lay the foundation for the introduction of its production fuel cell hybrid vehicle in 2015; the company began work on fuel cell technology in 1992. For a full-scale market launch in 2015, the cost of the fuel cell system will be 95% lower than that of the 2008 Toyota FCHV-adv, Tanaka said. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 24, 2015

A team at South China University of Technology has developed a one-pot process to convert the diesel distillate and residual oil fractions in bio-oil into high-quality fuels by catalytic hydrocracking with combined CoMoS/Al 2 O 3 and HZSM-5 catalysts. The light fraction is mostly water. of saturated naphthene; 23.4% 2015.05.002.

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APRIL 14, 2014

2015 Jetta. Volkswagen is presenting the world premiere of the redesigned 2015 Jetta sedan at the 2014 New York International Auto Show. liter 150-horsepower (112 kW) EA288 TDI Clean Diesel engine offered in the 2015 Jetta already conforms to the upcoming LEV3/Tier 3 emissions standard ( earlier post ) in the USA.

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MARCH 18, 2014

liter EA288 diesel engine will power the 2015 Golf, Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Passat, and Jetta, all of which are set to arrive in dealer showrooms in the second half of 2014. With the small circuit, the water warms up very quickly. Unlike many air coolers, this is not cooled by ambient air, but by water.

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

The prototype has consistently delivered a driving range of about 300 miles (~500 km), zero-to-sixty acceleration of about 10 seconds, with no emissions other than water vapor. In addition, the FC system is equipped with Toyota’s high-efficiency boost converter. We’re doing a good job with both and we will launch in 2015.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK have developed a novel reference electrode for polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolyzers (PEMWEs) and used it to measure the electrochemical surface area (ECSA) of Pt catalysts in situ for the first time. 2015.01.005. Brightman et al.

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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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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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JULY 2, 2015

The company also showcased the use of direct water injection to enhance the efficiency of combustion engines at higher performance levels while also significantly reducing fuel consumption and emissions in key driving cycles. BMW Group, Innovation Days Efficient Dynamics 2015: Hydrogen Fuel Cell eDrive Technology. Earlier post.).

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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. —Liu et al.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. The owner told her sales of the products supported the village’s school, which had been destroyed by an earthquake in 2015. A 200-liter solar water heater was installed in the school’s dormitory.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

The company had earlier said the fuel cell sedan would be on sale in Japan before April 2015, and in the US and Europe by summer 2015. The front compartment houses the electric motor, electronic control system and boost converter. Earlier post.). The two tanks store hydrogen at pressures of up to 700 bar. Earlier post.)

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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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OCTOBER 5, 2015

The water supply for the biomass sorghum crop was lower-quality pump water containing salts that typically damage crops. The project was located in the western San Joaquin Valley, which has received a low water allocation from state and federal sources for the past several years.

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MARCH 3, 2015

European launch markets in 2015 will be the UK, Denmark and Germany; more markets will be added in 2017. Toyota said that it is expecting annual volume of 50-100 cars/year in 2015 and 2016. Toyota Mirai at Geneva 2015. Sales of the FCV began in Japan last December. Initial price is €66,000 (US$73,735) + VAT (Germany).

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Toshiba has developed a prototype of a highly efficient molecular catalyst that converts carbon dioxide into ethylene glycol, a useful industrial raw material, without producing other and unwanted by-products. Toshiba’s new molecular catalyst converts carbon dioxide into ethylene glycol via multi-electron reduction.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

In 2013, Oakville Assembly recycled close to 2,000 metric tonnes of wood, cardboard, paper and plastic, saving more than 5,000 cubic meters of landfill space and more than 32 million liters of water. The plant will manufacture the all-new 2015 global Edge and ship it to more than 60 countries.

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JUNE 5, 2017

By the end of 2016, the company had already improved its five major environmental indicators (energy and water consumption, as well as the generation of waste, volatile compounds and CO 2 ) by 33.6%. Energy and water consumption have been reduced by 21.7% In addition, the company has generated 41.4% less waste and 16.2%

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DECEMBER 3, 2016

Our ultimate goal is to demonstrate a flexible catalytic process that selectively converts all the carbon in the lignin into jet fuel-range hydrocarbons at minimal cost. Cort and Bin Yang (2015) “Biomass-derived lignin to jet fuel range hydrocarbons via aqueous phase hydrodeoxygenation” Green Chem. Earlier post.). Tucker, John R.

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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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Hyundai Motor is a world leader in the development of hydrogen fuel cell technology, having opened the world’s first commercial production facility for fuel cell vehicles in 2013, and released the world’s first commercialized hydrogen-powered vehicle, the Tucson Fuel Cell, in 2015.

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Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) under the agency’s OPEN 2015 solicitation ( earlier post ). Part of the gas can also be used to produce the hydrogen (by steam reforming and water-gas shift) needed to upgrade the biocrude via hydrotreating. Marine BioEnergy, Inc.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

These feedstocks can be converted into renewable natural gas, diesel, and aviation fuels, or into valuable bioproducts. For perspective, in 2015, the United States’ total primary energy consumption was about 97.7 quadrillion Btu annually, or about 22.2 billion gallons of gasoline equivalent (GGE). quadrillion Btu.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Researchers at Stanford, with colleagues at University College Cork in Ireland, have shown how to increase the power of corrosion-resistant solar cells, setting a record for solar energy output under water. Four years ago, McIntyre's lab made solar cells resistant to corrosion in water. —Scheuermann et al.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

The MTG process first dehydrates methanol to dimethylether (DME); an equilibrium mixture of methanol, DME and water is then converted to light olefins (C 2 -C 4 ). G2X Energy will use natural gas to produce methanol, then convert methanol to final gasoline for 90% of its production. gasoline range. Source: EMRE.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This in turn raises temperatures inside the catalytic converter, and over time, this can accelerate catalyst deterioration. In addition, excess oxygen in the exhaust can inhibit proper functioning of the catalytic converter and lead to increased emissions of NO x. Phase separation of water and ethanol from gasoline.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Steam electrolyzers ( earlier post ) are excellent for converting electrical energy into chemical energy. Two smaller modules were put into operation at Boeing back in 2015. It is funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg’s BWPLUS program and administered by the European Institute for Energy Research ( EIFER ).

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy (HZB) in collaboration with the School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at Monash University, Australia, have precisely characterized the electronic states of a manganese (Mn) water-splitting catalyst for artificial photosynthesis.

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APRIL 24, 2018

The E3SM project will soon convert to an “open development” project. These critical factors include a) regional air/water temperatures, which can strain energy grids; b) water availability, which affects power plant operations; c) extreme water-cycle events (e.g.

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APRIL 19, 2016

At the 2015 CES, Toyota announced royalty-free use of approximately 5,680 fuel-cell-related patents held globally, including critical technologies developed for the Mirai fuel cell vehicle. FC Boost Converter. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Toyota Fuel Cell System (TFCS). The 2016 paper by Hasegawa et al. low voltage and high current).

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JULY 15, 2016

In 2013, Boeing and SAA launched their sustainable aviation fuels collaboration and in 2014, Project Solaris became the first focus project that converted oil from the Solaris plant seed into bio-jet fuel. All agronomic inputs needed, such as, fertilizer, water, crop protection etc. are similar to traditional tobacco farming.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2012

The specially-designed category D rig is able to operate at water depths up to 1300 meters (4,265 feet) and drill wells down to. The rig is designed for mid-water segments on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), but is also applicable in other regions. The contract period is for eight years with an aggregated value of US$2.66

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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. The first sign of a leaking water pump is the absence of hot air when heating the cabin in cold temperature. One of our 2006s’ needed it changed but this fault is not usual.

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