Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

Researchers at Oregon State University have demonstrated the gasification of water-soluble biomass constituents in supercritical water in a microchannel reactor under isothermal, continuous flow condition at short residence times to produce a hydrogen-rich gas. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Hydrogen gas yields of 8.2 ±0.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has reported the light-driven photoreforming of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin to H 2 using semiconducting cadmium sulfide quantum dots in alkaline aqueous solution. The catalytic nanoparticles were added to alkaline water in which the biomass was suspended. Wakerley, Moritz F.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

Model scope includes all upstream processing of biomass material; conversion to liquid or solid fuel is intentionally excluded. Biofuel conversion processes were excluded from the scope of the analysis. land (ha) energy (MJ) x 10 4 GHG (kg CO 2 e) x 10 4 water (m 3 ) x 10 4 eutrophication (kg PO 4 - equiv). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2014

Researchers at the University of Delaware have developed a highly selective nanoporous silver catalyst capable of electrochemically reducing carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide with 92% efficiency. The carbon monoxide then can be used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals. The researcher reported their findings in Nature Communications.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2024

In our last article, A How-To Guide on Acquiring AI Systems , we explained why the IEEE P3119 Standard for the Procurement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Decision Systems (ADS) is needed. Harvard’s AI Sandbox , for example, enables university researchers to study security and privacy risks in generative AI.

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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. environmental burdens (net energy use, water use, and GHG) per VKT. Credit: ACS, Clarens et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2011

A study by a team from the State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum found that fluid thermal processing of. Hot water extraction method is the most widely used process for separating and recovering bitumen from oil sand; however, note Zhang et al. , Energy & Fuels Article ASAP doi: /10.1021/ef200644.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Earlier post.) —Grimaud et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A team at China’s Southeast University in Nanjing is developing a process to improve the thermal stability and heating value of bio-oil produced using catalytic fast pyrolysis. Multi-stage condensation achieved a good separation of the oil fraction and water. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef900720m. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

However, the method’s large demand for carbonate mineral and water will likely limit its application to coastal sites. Rau; CO 2 Mitigation via Capture and Chemical Conversion in Seawater. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es102671x. Further evaluation is needed of the economics, potential scale, permanence, environmental cost/bene?t,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

To our knowledge, this level of conversion of carbohydrate feedstocks into simple organic molecules is unrivaled in the literature. Because working at higher temperatures afforded no real advantages in terms of carbohydrate to CMF conversion, reactions were generally run below 100 °C to avoid this hydrolysis reaction.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

Researchers at the University of Exeter (UK) have developed a novel p-type LaFeO 3 photoelectrode using an inexpensive and scalable spray pyrolysis method. The nanostructured photoelectrode results in spontaneous hydrogen evolution from water without any external bias applied with a faradaic efficiency of 30% and excellent stability.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

The article is in press in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres , a publication of the American Geophysical Union. That campaign was conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US Department of Energy, universities, and the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are proposing a new process for producing synfuel from biomass using concentrating solar energy as its main energy source. Hydrogen for reverse water gas shift reaction to avoid producing CO 2 during the process is produced by electrolyzing water, driven by solar power.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

One way to mitigate high feedstock cost is to maximize conversion into the bioproduct of interest. This maximization, though, is limited because of the production of CO 2 during the conversion of sugar into acetyl-CoA in traditional fermentation processes. Wiedel, Jennifer Au, Maciek R. Antoniewicz, Eleftherios T.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The city has provided incentives for the purchase of both EVs and charging ports, the installation of heat-pump water heaters , and the installation of solar and battery-storage systems. This situation is not true universally. There are, however, a few potholes that need to be filled to meet the city’s 2030 emission objectives.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Unfortunately, most vehicles of any kind have little or no insulation to prevent the gain or loss of heat from the cabin and, worse, the copious amounts of glass and metal comprising the vehicle body make an efficient collector (or radiator) of heat, bearing more than a passing resemblance to a solar thermal panel for heating water.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes).

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Teslarati

JUNE 20, 2021

Couple this with Elon Musk noting that Autopilot was not involved, and it was no surprise that the crash became a topic for analysis and conversations among Tesla supporters. There was only one problem: the whole premise of the article was false. To add salt to the wound, Texas Rep. The story that emerged was quite remarkable.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Schematic representation of the integrated conversion of hemicellulose and cellulose portions of lignocellulosic biomass to furfural and GVL, using a portion of the GVL as a solvent and the remainder for conversion to butene oligomers as hydrocarbon. 80%) from direct conversion of hemicellulose in corn stover. Alonso et al.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

But sulfate aerosols—the combination of particles and water—can destroy the planet-protecting ozone layer. Faye McNeill’s group at Columbia University. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as "Planet-Cooling Tests Could Start in 2022.". about 0.6 °C. Models suggest that calcium carbonate might be more benign.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use. Mattershift.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

In the catalytic process, rare metals such as platinum, are used in a chemical reaction to convert carbon monoxide and other pollutants to non-toxic carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and water. The US Department of Energy has set a goal of removing 90% of harmful emissions at 150 degrees Celsius or lower. Hensen, Yong Wang & Abhaya K.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Researchers at Nanjing University and Anhui Polytechnic University in China have synthesized zinc orthogermanate (Zn 2 GeO 4 ) ultralong nanoribbons which show promising photocatalytic activity toward the reduction of CO 2 into renewable methane (CH 4 ) and water. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja1068596. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 21, 2024

RenderMan, a project launched by computer graphics pioneer Edwin Catmull , is behind much of today’s computer-generated imagery and animation, including in the recent fan favorites Avatar: The Way of Water , The Mandalorian , and Nimona. headquarters. The ceremony is available to watch on demand. It later was incorporated into RenderMan.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Whipple , who went on to become an expert in water sanitation and to cofound the Harvard School of Public Health) had filed for their first patent: an electric thermometer intended to be used to measure temperature at a distance or in inaccessible places.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

The new analysis follows up on 2011 research that produced a proof of concept of an artificial leaf—a small device that, when placed in a container of water and exposed to sunlight, would produce bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen. volts, is insufficient to power the water-splitting reaction, which needs more than 1.2 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2011

In a Perspective published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , researchers from the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California describe their work on developing the feasible anthropogenic recycling of carbon dioxide. Click to enlarge. The recycling of CO 2.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

Researchers at Penn State University, led by Dr. Bruce Logan, have found that methane can be directly produced using a biocathode containing methanogens in electrochemical systems (abiotic anode) or microbial electrolysis cells (MECs; biotic anode) by a process called electromethanogenesis. Article ASAP. supported this project.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Impacts of Vehicle to Grid on power quality (DC – AC conversion and power injection happens) You may start as follows. When I went through some research articles, it showed that we could do finite analysis methods for the design improvements for Electric Vehicle chassis. Kindly read articles on researchgate or IEEE.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2010

Researchers from The University of Birmingham (UK) and specialty chemicals company Innospec recently performed a series of experiments in a single-cylinder gasoline direct-injection (GDI) research engine to study the performance of the liquid biofuel 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) benchmarked against gasoline and ethanol. water solubility at 25 °C.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have proposed a novel two-stage process to convert low-rank coals or biomass wastes under mild conditions to high-quality liquid fuel. Solubles were almost free from water and ash. The solid soluble is finally obtained after removing the solvent by distillation. for biomass wastes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new low-voltage, single-catalyst water splitter that continuously generates hydrogen and oxygen. In the reported study, the new catalyst achieved 10 mA cm −2 water-splitting current at only 1.51 V V to reach 10 mA cm −2 current (for integrated solar water splitting).

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Plug In India

JANUARY 15, 2022

From the Oben office, went out to one of the closeby watering holes with my friends Uddipan and Prashant. We had a small stop for some coconut water - and found our coconut seller also selling castor seeds. They require just about 1500 litres of water a day to top up their vats. The rest of the water comes from recycling.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Researchers at the University of Waterloo (Canada) have demonstrated a single-step solid acid-catalyzed process with the potential for industrial-scale production of biodiesel from high free fatty acid (FFA) feedstocks. These values can be reduced further by water washing. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef901258b.

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