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Biofuels- paving the way for low carbon future in mobility – ET Auto

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Given its key role in the Indian biofuel program, ethanol will be the focus of this article. The emissions further drop to ~70% if we consider 2G ethanol which is produced using farm waste. Ethanol production from farm waste such as corn cob, rice husk, wheat straw and sugarcane bagasse, is known as second generation ethanol (2G).

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Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto

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While solar and wind provide carbon-free electricity or H 2 through water splitting, they lack the ability to directly produce carbon-based fuels and chemicals without additional carbon sources. Bioethanol, can be derived from various sources such as sugar, corn, wheat, agricultural wastes, molasses, macroalgae, microalgae, and seaweed.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars invests €1B in new “Full-Flex” car plant in Hungary; Factory 56 applied to full plant

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Thereby we lift the production concept of ‘Factory 56’ to the next level. The body-in-white shop also has new production concepts: From the very first component, the production sequence is defined as in a pearl chain. Modern logistics concepts are also integrated. Today, this requires several specific production lines.

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CNRS researchers exploring two-step thermochemical process to split CO2 for upgrading to synthetic fuels

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In a paper published online in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , they describe results from a series of proof-of-concept experiments. A series of proof-of-concept experiments on CO 2 splitting were performed in a fixed-bed reactor laden with solar produced Zn powder. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef101092u.

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GM to Make Use of Heat Pump Technology to Improve The Efficiency of Their EVs 

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GM will use the technology to collect low-level waste heat and use it in important ways, allowing their EVs to accelerate faster, charge faster, and go further. An automotive-grade heat pump absorbs and recoups waste heat in the vehicle system. But that’s a bit wasteful, and it’s not what electric cars are all about.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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And the Norwegian company H2Carrier recently received approval in principle for its concept for an industrial-scale floating production unit to make green ammonia at sea. The technology to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water has been around for more than 200 years. To meet such targets, it’ll be necessary to build, and build fast.

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ExxonMobil, MIT and Synthetic Genomics team publishes results of LCA on algal biofuels; potential for large reductions in GHG

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Algae have the potential to produce large volumes of fuel per unit area of production on marginal lands using saline water unsuitable for food crops. Thus, algal biofuels could expand transportation energy supplies, without significantly displacing land and water resources that would otherwise have been used for food production.

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