Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. per GGE, with lifecycle emissions reductions exceeding 80% over petroleum.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

Researchers at Stanford University have devised a new strategy for using CO 2 in the synthesis of multi-carbon compounds. CO 2 reacts readily with carbon-centered nucleophiles—a chemical intermediate species that donates an electron pair to an electrophile to form a chemical bond in relation to a reaction.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

Ford Motor Company is the first automaker to formulate and test new foam and plastic components using carbon dioxide as feedstock. Novomer is commercializing a proprietary catalyst system that transforms waste CO 2 into high performance, low-cost polymers for a variety of applications, including foam and plastic that are easily recyclable.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2016

The fuel cell subtopic includes novel, durable supports for low-platinum group metal (PGM) catalysts for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells. Responding letters of intent are due 6 September 2016 and the application is due 17 October 2016.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2016

A team of researchers at Kyushu University’s International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I 2 CNER) reports devising a method for using a new type of catalyst support for highly active gold nanoparticle catalysts for fuel cells. Credit: International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I²CNER), Kyushu University.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Waste tires fall within the definition of post-consumer plastic waste according to DIN EN ISO 14021:2016-07. In addition, they have a lower carbon footprint than conventional products. The co-operation will thus serve to close the loop for post-consumer plastic waste.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2016

Wellbores drilled to extract oil and gas can be significantly reinforced with a small amount of modified graphene nanoribbons added to a polymer and microwaved, according to Rice University researchers. In lab tests, a polymer-nanoribbon mixture was placed on a sandstone block, similar to the rock that is encountered in many wells.

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MAY 13, 2014

Leading nylon producer INVISTA and LanzaTech signed a research and development agreement focused on the development of gas-fermentation process technology for the production of industrial chemicals from carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas feedstocks using proprietary INVISTA host organisms and metabolic pathways.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2016

Researchers at Durham University in the UK have developed a new approach to breaking down the base rubber in materials such as used tires by the catalytic disassembly of polymer chains—eliminating the need for energy intensive mechanical processes. We anticipate that other polymers which contain carbon double bonds (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

Different from the existing filters based on nonpolar polymers, we found that the polar chemical functional groups (i.e., in polyacrylonitrile (PAN) polymer) are important to have strong binding affinity with PM 2.5. Some other recent developments on using carbon nanotubes and polymer nanofibers are notable examples toward PM 2.5

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MARCH 23, 2016

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a new class of high-performance thermoplastic elastomers for cars and other consumer products by replacing the styrene in ABS (acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene) with lignin, a brittle, rigid polymer that, with cellulose, forms the woody cell walls of plants.

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JULY 14, 2016

Researchers have fabricated dissolvable carbon steel structures using 3D printing technology that can provide temporary support for components of larger stainless steel structures made by additive manufacturing. Simpson (2016) “Dissolvable Metal Supports for 3D Direct Metal Printing” 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Vol.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

Korea’s UNIST, with colleagues from Northwestern University, have successfully developed a new way to increase the activity of perovskite oxide catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and/or the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in rechargeable metal-air batteries and fuel cells simply by adding the conductive polymer polypyrrole.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2016

>34 (carbon plate). >25. Responses are due by 25 March 2016. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) is seeking feedback from the research community, relevant stakeholders, and industry on technical and economic barriers for fuel cell-related technologies. RFI DE-FOA-0001510 ). 2015 status.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

The team reinforced aerospace-grade unidirectional carbon fiber laminate interfaces with high densities (>10 billion fibers per cm 2 ) of aligned carbon nanotubes (A-CNTs) that act as nano-scale “stitches”. Their results are published this week in the journal Composites Science and Technology. —Guzman de Villoria et al.

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JUNE 8, 2016

Currently, carbon fiber (CF) reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites are used to make COPVs. A primary cost driver of the composite materials and processing is the synthesis and conversion of precursor polymer into CF. Another cost driver is the polymer resin. COPVs are typically made using epoxy type resins.

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Scientists from ExxonMobil and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed new free-standing carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membrane technology that could significantly reduce the amount of energy and emissions associated with manufacturing plastics. Results of the research were published in Science. Dong-Yeun Koh, Benjamin A.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Tanaka Precious Metals will be showcasing a number of its hydrogen fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies at FC EXPO 2016—12 th International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Expo,” at Tokyo Big Sight in March. Among the technologies on display will be its first-ever exhibit of electrode catalysts for polymer electrolyte electrolysis cells (PEECs).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2016

This program also calls for polycarbonate production capacities at the site to double to about 400,000 metric tons per year before the end of in 2016. Overall, the carbon footprint of HDI production has been reduced by up to 70%. The new plant is part of an investment program for the site with a volume of more than €3 billion (US$3.3

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2016

With this glass, a rechargeable battery with a metallic lithium or sodium anode and an insertion-compound as cathode may require a polymer or liquid catholyte in contact with the cathode. Murchison and John B Goodenough (2016) “Alternative Strategy for a Safe Rechargeable Battery” Energy Environ. The electrolyte membrane was 0.06

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JULY 12, 2017

Two projects will research, develop, and use integrated computation materials engineering (ICME) techniques to develop low cost carbon fiber from a variety of feedstocks and precursors that can be used to make carbon fiber with less energy and lower cost. ICME Low Cost Carbon Fiber (Area of Interest 2). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2016

A number of approaches have been taken to address these cathode issues, including embedding sulfur into various porous carbons such as activated carbons, macroporous, mesoporous and microporous carbons, generating sulfur-carbon hybrids with well-designed nanostructures. Click to enlarge. doi: 10.1039/C6EE01019A.

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Batteries Battery Lithium Sulfur Carbon 150

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Carbon specialist SGL Group is a development partner in the European joint development project INSPIRE (Integration of Novel Stack Components for Performance, Improved DuRability and LowEr Cost), which has been funded with a €7-million (US$7.4-million) Earlier post.). —Park et al.

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Fuel Carbon Fiber South Carolina Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2015

Solvay is taking a “leadership role” in the development of the Polimotor 2 all-plastic automotive engine to be tested in a race car next year, demonstrating the company’s advanced specialty polymer technologies in light-weighting through metal replacement. Mustang engine, used a combination of carbon fiber, Torlon, epoxy, ceramic and metal.

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Carbon Fiber Polymer Carbon Engine 150

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AUGUST 4, 2010

mpg by 2016. The Sonata Hybrid incorporates a lithium polymer battery. Light-Duty Automotive Technology, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, and Fuel Economy Trends: 1975 Through 2009 Appendix A. Since becoming the fuel economy leader in the 2008 model year (average 30.9 The Sonata Hybrid features a 2.4-liter

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Researchers at the University of Delaware, with a colleague at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, have developed a composite catalyst—nickel nanoparticles supported on nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes—that exhibits hydrogen oxidation activity in alkaline electrolyte similar to platinum-group metals. —Zhuang et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Among 2016 INCITE award recipients: Martin Berzins of the University of Utah received 351 million core hours to study ultra super critical coal boilers, leading to improved efficiency and new designs for safer next-generation coal boilers. Applications for time through the INCITE program once again greatly exceeded the numbers of awards.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

Startup Mattershift says it has achieved a breakthrough in making carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes at large scale. The paper is a characterization study of commercial prototype carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes consisting of sub–1.27-nm-diameter A) SEM image of the CNT membrane surface, showing CNT tips emerging from the polymer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2016

At the upcoming 2016 K Fair—the leading global trade fair for plastics and rubber—in Düsseldorf from 19-26 October, BASF and Hyundai will showcase some of the new lightweighting and high-performance materials technology that went into the car. Catamold is a feedstock for metal injection molding technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The US Department of Energy has announced the 2016 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Topics, covering eight DOE research program organizations. Biogas is primarily comprised of methane and carbon dioxide. Electric drive vehicle batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

They deposited the graphene on a polymer substrate that shrinks when heated. Valentin, Zhongying Wang, Ruben Spitz Steinberg, Jaskiranjeet Sodhi, Ian Y Wong, and Robert H Hurt (2016) “Hierarchical Metal Oxide Topographies Replicated from Highly Textured Graphene Oxide by Intercalation Templating” ACS Nano doi: 10.1021/acsnano.6b05179.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The new technique, reported in an open-access paper in the journal Plant & Cell Physiology , could help lower the cost of converting biomass into lower carbon biofuels and bio-products. Lignin is a polymer necessary to a plant’s health and structure; lignin also permeates plant cell walls and surrounds the sugars trapped inside.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Because it requires less of the rare and costly metal iridium, the new catalyst could bring down the cost of artifical photosynthetic processes that use sunlight to split water molecules—a key step in a renewable, sustainable pathway to produce hydrogen or carbon-based fuels that can power a broad range of energy technologies.

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Water Renewable Charlotte Fuel 170

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APRIL 5, 2016

A finely tuned carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric power generator that captures and uses waste heat, according to researchers at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Carbon nanotubes, which are organic, are lighter and more flexible. —Andrew Ferguson. 2016.33.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

Every tank is made up of several layers: the inner tank made with gas-tight polyamide is wrapped in carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) and glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP). When the latter moves into production in 2018, it will use the second-generation of the technology, shown at CES 2016. mi)—i.e.,

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Studies have found slightly higher emissions of NO x and lower emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) and unburned hydrocarbons in vehicles operating on E15 or E20 compared with those using E0. However, metals used in engines and other vehicle parts have generally not been found to be susceptible to corrosion by low- to mid-blends of ethanol.

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