Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

The results, they say, are broadly relevant to reactions involving the use of IL-H 2 O mixtures (as solvents, reactants, or catalysts), including, but not limited to, organic catalysis, electrochemistry, and biomass processing or conversion. A paper describing the work was published 10 March in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Zhang et al.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

Vulcan’s lithium chloride output will be converted into battery-grade lithium hydroxide at the company’s new conversion plant in Frankfurt in the second half of the year, Moreno said. “We’re looking to close the financing in the next probably four to five months,” Moreno added.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Lignocellulosic biomass, a renewable and abundant resource, holds great promise for sustainable production of valuable chemicals and fuels, currently derived mainly from oil. Biomass can be converted into fuels through several steps. Currently, biomass contributes 10% (5 x 10 -19 kJ) to global energy consumption.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a new electrode material for a protonic ceramic electrochemical cell (PCEC) that can efficiently convert excess electricity and water into hydrogen. In this article, we report our findings from the creation of a perovskite TCO electrode PrNi 0.5

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Researchers from Japan and Mexico have developed a one-step hydrotreatment process over catalysts containing Ni-Mo and solid acids for the conversion of vegetable oils (Jatropha, palm and canola) to renewable diesel and LPG fuels. 10 °C by converting some C 15 –C 18 n -paraffins to iso -paraffins and light paraffins on SiO 2 -Al 2 O 3.

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DECEMBER 12, 2015

Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that a metabolic pathway previously only suggested to be functional in photosynthetic organisms is actually a major pathway and can enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds. —Jianping Yu. 2015.187.

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JUNE 10, 2019

Magnetite, among other conversion-type electrode materials (i.e., materials that get converted into entirely new products when they react with lithium), can store more energy than today’s electrode materials because they can accommodate more lithium ions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2010

Researchers at Applied Research Associates’ (ARA) Florida Research Laboratory are developing a catalytic hydrothermolysis (CH) process to convert triglycerides (e.g., The process involves three main production steps: The CH process that converts triglyceride to biocrude. Credit: ACS, Li et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2011

Two separate research collaborations have recently reported advances in the efficiency of thermoelectric materials in converting heat to electricity. The high thermoelectric figure of merit is expected to enable the conversion of 14% of heat waste to electricity. Articles ASAP doi: 10.1021/nl104138t. The study by Biswas et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

Methane monooxygenases (MMOs), found in methanotrophic bacteria, are selective catalysts for methane activation and conversion to methanol under mild conditions; however, these enzymes are not amenable to standard enzyme immobilization approaches. The enzymes retain up to 100% activity in the polymer construct.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

WGS is an endothermic process typically carried out in industry at high temperatures (about 350 °C) with either an iron oxide- or copper-based catalyst to achieve almost complete CO conversion. The most active photocatalyst tested was Au/TiO 2 which achieves CO conversion of about 40% in 4 hours under the tested reaction conditions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2010

The DPF was highly effective at converting gaseous hydrocarbons and PM associated PAH and total nitro-PAH. However, conversion of 1-nitropyrene by the DPF was less than 50% for all fuels. The DPF was highly effective for conversion of carbonyls, with the exception of formaldehyde. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es1008032.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2013

A new spatially-explicit life cycle assessment of five different “sun-to-wheels” conversion pathways—ethanol from corn or switchgrass for internal combustion vehicles (ICVs); electricity from corn or switchgrass for battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and photovoltaic electricity for BEVs—found a strong case for PV BEVs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2019

One of the main challenges of second-generation biofuel production is identifying enzymes produced by microorganisms for use in a cocktail of enzymes to catalyze biomass hydrolysis, in which the enzymes act together to break down the carbohydrates in sugarcane trash and bagasse, for example, and convert them into simple sugars for fermentation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

A 1966 article in ACS’ Chemical & Engineering News described a General Motors press conference at which the automaker outlined research work being done on non-gasoline-based automotive power sources, with a heavy emphasis on the electrical. Electrovan—a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell-powered GMC van. 24, page 55).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

The process would convert much of the organic carbon in oil shale to the char which is left in the subsurface. Conversion to work via. Scale of conversion to work. Waste heat from conversion. The chemical energy contained in the shale is converted to work (e.g., Liquids production EPICC. Chemical energy in shale.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Their approach involves converting radioactive material into short-lived nuclides by absorbing surplus neutrons in the core peripheral portion of a small fast reactor faster than they are generated in the core. Minor actinides are elements synthesized in nuclear fuel other than uranium and plutonium, such as neptunium, americium and curium.

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JANUARY 30, 2014

The researchers found that the nano-porous silver electrocatalyst was 3,000 times more active than polycrystalline silver, a catalyst commonly used in converting carbon dioxide to useful chemicals. Additionally, because it is inorganic, silver remains more stable under harsh catalytic environments. Qi Lu, Jonathan Rosen, Yang Zhou, Gregory S.

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APRIL 14, 2017

The maximum theoretical efficiency of a solar cell is limited by how much photon energy can be converted into usable electrical energy, with photon energy in excess of the semiconductor absorption band edge lost to heat. —Matthew Beard. QDs, which are spherical semiconductor nanocrystals (2-10 nm in diameter), enhance the MEG process.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

Utilizing biodiesel as a fuel option promotes sustainability and reduces dependence on finite fossil fuel resources. Bioethanol is being produced converting carbon-based agricultural feedstock such as sugar cane, bagasse, grain, barley, potatoes. Diesel engines can use biodiesel alone or blended with petroleum fuels. #2

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UC Berkeley have engineered yeast to convert cellulosic sugars and toxic levels of acetate together into ethanol under anaerobic conditions. Acetic acid is toxic to fermenting microorganisms and negatively influences sugar fermentation and biofuel yields. cerevisiae.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

FEBRUARY 9, 2008

Many things have passed through my mind over the past year and a half while converting this vehicle. Here goes (in no particular order): Things That Went Well During the Conversion The 914 AC kit from Electro Automotive is a good one. If you do your own conversion, tap into all these resources whenever you have an issue.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

He also calculated that the system could result in a cost of 2 converted and stored as Ca(HCO 3 ) 2(aq). Rau; CO 2 Mitigation via Capture and Chemical Conversion in Seawater. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es102671x. kg of mineral carbonate aggregate of a specific size class. it did not degas or precipitate. —Greg Rau.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2017

A PEC cell absorbs sunlight and converts that energy into hydrogen and oxygen by splitting water molecules. However, the slow charge transport kinetics and/or large bandgaps that typically define these oxide semiconductors result in very low energy conversion efficiencies. Nature Energy 2, Article number: 16192 doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.192.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

As reported in an open-access paper in Nature’s Scientific Reports , Jialiang Tang and Vilas Pol converted bee pollen and cattail pollen grains into carbon microstructures through a facile, one-step, solid-state pyrolysis process in an inert atmosphere. A vast biomass resource with wide selectivity of morphologies is pollen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2011

Modelled process for the conversion of biomass into liquid transportation fuel. For the model considered, trucking biomass to a central facility without first converting it to PO is estimated to reduce energy efficiency by 1%. Resources. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef200327e. Credit: ACS, Manganaro et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Mascal and Nikitin have previously reported on a biphasic acid/solvent process that converts carbohydrates in biomass feedstocks into the biofuel precursor CMF. To our knowledge, this level of conversion of carbohydrate feedstocks into simple organic molecules is unrivaled in the literature. Earlier post.) —Mascal and Nikitin.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2011

The team also suggested that algae systems can be either net energy positive or negative depending on the specific combination of cultivation and conversion processes used. This is because some crops are more easily converted into energy carriers than others, and this was not included in the previous paper’s system boundaries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2009

The resulting CO can be used to convert water to hydrogen via the water gas shift reaction. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja909038t. The reaction also shows a new economical way to oxidize aromatic aldehydes, and could be applied in pharmaceutical synthesis. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2010

The platinum-rhenium catalyst showed the highest conversion, along with high selectivity for C 18. They found that at temperature as low as 543 K (270 °C), a platinum catalyst on a zeolite support (Pt/H-ZSM-5) achieved approximately 100% conversion into hydrocarbons, with selectivity to C 15 -C 18 hydrocarbons of 79.0%. Murata et al.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

This article is your lighthouse: it will give you some background on what bidirectional EV charging means and how it works. Well, when an EV is charged, AC (alternating current) electricity from the grid is converted to DC (direct current) electricity, the kind that can be used by a car. But how does this work? V2G: Vehicle to Grid.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2014

A new review article in the journal Science highlights emerging opportunities to increase the transformation of lignin to value-added products—i.e., lignin valorization. Ragauskas et al. courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.] Click to enlarge. —Ragauskas et al. Ragauskas, et al.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2010

Measured effects on conversion and yield with and without membrane integration (full symbols=without membrane; empty symbols=with membrane). In addition to high biomass yields in agriculture and forestry, high conversion efficiencies in biomass processing are required. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef9009185.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The conversion of biomass into bio-oil using fast pyrolysis technology is a promising alternative to convert biomass into liquid products—either for direct use or for easier transport and upgrading into higher value products. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef900720m. Credit: ACS, Zhang et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

The concept’s key feature is the use of high-temperature heat from a solar concentrating tower to drive the chemical process of converting biomass to a biofuel, obtaining a near-complete utilization of carbon atoms in the biomass. Energy conversion efficiency (%). Fuel productivity (kg fuel/100 kg resource).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

Conventional steam reforming is not sufficiently reactive to convert biomass constituents to H 2 and CO 2. Phenol was difficult to gasify, and the activation energy for phenol conversion was 264 ± 20 kJ mol -1. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef900227u. Hydrogen gas yields of 8.2 ±0.6 However, when a mixture of 1.6

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In this case, the current “splits” the water, converting it to hydrogen at the cathode. Achieving the necessary current density with lower voltage improves energy conversion efficiency and reduces preparation costs. The work will continue as researchers focus on reducing required voltage. Nielsen, Ran He, Jiming Bao, William A.

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