Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Researchers at Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have devised a method of converting a waste product generated by the conversion of algae into bio-crude into a usable and valuable commodity. The second converts that bio-oil into biofuel, which can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

CompactGTL will build a commercially deployed small-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Kazakhstan. The proposed plant is expected to bring with it significant future commercial and environmental benefits, according to the company. CompactGTL expects to have a fully functioning small-scale GTL plant in operation in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The American Lung Association has been named the 2017 Clean Fuels Champion by Chicago Area Clean Cities (CACC), a nonprofit coalition dedicated to promoting clean-energy and clean-air solutions for transportation in the Chicago area impacting nearly 9 million people. US EPA’s Clean Diesel Program: Diesel emissions account for 6.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At the North American Commercial Vehicle Show (NACV) in Atlanta this week, Bosch is showcasing its portfolio of automated, connected and electrified technologies for commercial vehicles. At NACV, Bosch will debut its 15-inch freely programmable cluster, the largest digital cluster available for the commercial vehicle industry.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

The new Ford EcoBlue diesel engine production line at Dagenham Engine Plant will reduce water and energy consumption by more than 50%. Dagenham Engine Plant is Ford’s largest diesel engine production facility globally, and produced the first EcoBlue diesel engine ( earlier post ) in April this year. The all-new 2.0-liter

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R-CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1-million grant to UC Riverside’s College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) to build a process demonstration unit (PDU) to convert waste biosolids to synthetic diesel fuel. This would be the final step prior to full commercial-scale plant.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

J subcommittee (8 November 2017), ASTM D02 Main committee on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants (18 March 2018) and ASTM General Society Review (1 April 2018). 2017) Click to enlarge. J on Aviation Fuel ballot was submitted to the ASTM membership for review (the “D02.J J Ballot”). Source: Han et al.

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MAY 2, 2018

Meritor has a strategic investment in TransPower and is the exclusive commercial distributor of these systems. (At The ElecTruck system uses high-power electric motors, inverters and batteries to power commercial trucks weighing as much as 80,000 lb.). UQM for e-axles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Production of C 5 hydrocarbons from waste biomass. Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. This proposal aims to solve these problems by converting organic waste into chemicals with widespread use in polymer and transportation industries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

Vesna Najdanovic-Visak, found they are able to combine the processes by using just methanol and a catalyst—removing the need for hexane altogether and saving on chemical waste. Najdanovic-Visak. The process has the potential to enable 720,000 tonnes of biodiesel to be produced each year from spent coffee grounds. 2017.04.041.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2019

and Marks & Spencer to form the LEO Coalition, which will explore the environmental and commercial viability of LEO fuel for shipping. CyclOx is a diesel fuel made by mixing cyclohexanone with diesel. Once blended with diesel, cyclohexanone also decreases soot emissions. Nielsen, Anders Jensen, Line R. Madsen, Flemming H.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The research also confirmed REG Life Sciences technology is capable of achieving substantial reductions of full-lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to traditional diesel fuel. In June 2017, ExxonMobil and partner Synthetic Genomics, Inc. We are excited to take these discoveries to the next level.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

In total, these projects are intended to produce more than 100 million gallons of military-grade fuel beginning in 2016 and 2017 at a price competitive with their petroleum counterparts. Hydroprocessing refines the liquid hydrocarbons to produce jet, diesel, and naphtha fuels. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2018

Since it first began operation in April 2017, the Project Portal “Alpha” truck has logged nearly 10,000 miles of testing and real-world drayage operations in and around the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles while emitting nothing but water vapor. builds on the lessons learned from the launch of the Alpha vehicle in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2015

Fulcrum BioEnergy has awarded a $200-million fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Abengoa for the construction of Fulcrum’s first municipal solid waste (MSW) to transportation fuels facility, the Sierra BioFuels Plant. Earlier post.). The end syngas product is very clean with zero sulfur content.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

These reductions have come from strong efforts to reduce on-road vehicle emissions, especially diesel particulate matter. More than three-quarters of HFC emissions in California come from the use of refrigerants in the commercial, industrial, residential, and transportation sectors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

The ZANZEFF collaboration and the innovative ‘Shore-to Store’ project allow us to move Heavy-Duty Truck Fuel Cell Electric technology towards commercialization. is targeted to meet or exceed that of a diesel-powered truck, while producing water as the only emissions byproduct. particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Additionally, other tree parts go to waste when only the trunk is used, making the process more inefficient and wasteful. When scaled up to a commercial operation, leaves should be removed and may be used for other purposes, such as feed for animals. Chang Dou, Wilian F. Marcondes, Jessica E.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

the global gasoline market will reach an estimated 375 billion gallons per year (BGPY) in 2021, while demand for diesel in ground transportation markets will reach at least 427 BGPY. Ultimately, widespread commercialization will depend on whether these ventures can reach price. commercialization. Pike Research estimates that.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

CHrysler’s current research efforts include various strategies to warm engines and transmissions faster; to have the vehicles run at an ideal set point; and to recapture waste heat. This transmission is now in the new Ram 1500, the Jeep Grand Cherokee (including in the diesel version), and the Dodge Durango. —Chrysler S-1.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The purpose of the 21CTP is to reduce fuel consumption and emissions; increase heavy-duty vehicle safety; and support research, development, and demonstration to initiate commercially viable products and systems. Among the findings and recommendations, by area, from the new report are: ENGINE SYSTEMS AND FUELS. Finding 3-1. Finding 6-3.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The selected project will use a unique class of electrochemical sensors created at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to develop low cost electronics packaging that is manufacturable at high volume and will integrate the LANL sensor into a commercial package that can meet the codes and standards for being deployed at a hydrogen fueling station.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2011

Heavy-duty vehicles include both work trucks and commercial medium and heavy-duty on-highway vehicles as defined by the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). Heavy-duty engines affected by the final standards are generally those that are installed in commercial medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses. Vocational Vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2011

between 2017 and 2021, as a combination of higher oil prices, emerging mandate. Given the scale of development, to date, and the crystallization of interests among a diverse range of stakeholders, widespread biofuels commercialization is no longer a question of “if’’, but “when”. commercialization. industry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle. The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. This project will deliver two prototype lightweight electric vans, with diesel range extender.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2015

The latest version of the MYPP presents a merged conversion R&D section; the renaming of the demonstration and market transformation area; and emerging work in wet waste-to-energy feedstocks. BETO is interested in the potential of four kinds of wet-waste feedstocks: The non-recyclable organic fraction of landfill solid wastes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2017

Researchers from the universities of Kaiserslautern, Bochum, and Rostock have developed a method for producing a petroleum diesel-like fuel from conventional biodiesel (rapeseed oil methyl ester, RME). This innovative refining concept requires negligible energy input (60 °C) and no solvents and does not produce waste. Pfister et al.

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APRIL 15, 2013

Joule has engineered photosynthetic biocatalysts that convert waste CO 2 into hydrocarbons through a patented, continuous process. Joule has been successfully scaling its process for making ethanol (Sunflow-E) while also developing long-chain hydrocarbons for diesel (Sunflow-D). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. So why haven’t FCEV becoming as prolific as other electric cars? Fletcher, S., Hill and Wang.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

In September 2017 , Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. During and after Maria, Casa Pueblo continued to operate a solar-based microgrid it had installed in 2017. Casa Pueblo’s solar-powered radio transmitter was the main means of disseminating news across central Puerto Rico after the 2017 storm.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The program funds projects to encourage the development and use of new technologies and alternative and renewable fuels, including electricity, natural gas, biomethane, hydrogen, and gasoline and diesel substitutes, such as cellulosic ethanol (derived from woody materials, including agricultural waste), and biodiesel from waste grease.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

Joule, the developer of a direct, single-step, continuous process for the production of solar hydrocarbon fuels using engineered cyanobacteria ( earlier post ), announced the successful results from third-party testing of its ethanol fuel (Sunflow-E), setting the stage to obtain certification for commercial use. New financing.

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JUNE 30, 2015

the developer of a process for converting municipal solid waste into low-cost sustainable aviation biofuel. Fulcrum expects its first alternative fuels plant to begin commercial operation in 2017. United Airlines made a $30-million equity investment in US-based Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc., Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

Orange EV’s initial T-Series, a complete re-manufacture of existing trucks, has been operating up to 24+ hours per charge at sites from single shift to 24x7 in: railroad inter-modal, LTL freight, manufacturing, retail distribution, waste management and warehouse container handling. —Mike Saxton, chief commercial officer.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Their approach could enable commercialization of microbial carbohydrate-based lipid production, supporting the renewable production of high-energy fuels such as diesel. Despite much progress, commercialization of microbial oils is limited to the production of high-value commodity chemicals.

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JUNE 13, 2013

Studies suggest that 68 stations are needed by 2017 to support the market. Once operating, the station is expected to displace more than 179,000 gallons of diesel fuel annually as well as reduce harmful emissions. Earlier post.). Fueling infrastructure must be in place to support the successful introduction of these vehicles.

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