Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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Conversion Fuel CO2 Polymer 236

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

BASF SE is investing €16 million into Pyrum Innovations AG, a technology company specialized in the pyrolysis of waste tires, headquartered in Dillingen/Saar, Germany. Furthermore, Pyrum intends to build additional tire pyrolysis plants together with interested partners.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste and residue raw materials, has agreed to acquire 100% of Mahoney Environmental (Mahoney), a collector and recycler of used cooking oil in the United States, and its affiliated entities. — Peter Vanacker, President and CEO of Neste.

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Renewable Singapore Waste Oil 243

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2021

Eastman is collaborating with the United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC ( USAMP ) and automotive recycler PADNOS for a concept feasibility study to demonstrate a closed-loop project to recycle automotive-industry mixed plastic waste in the automotive supply chain. That’s why this project is so exciting. —Steve Crawford.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2021

Traditional PEM fuel cells have a relatively low operating temperature, which makes for a low tolerance to hydrogen fuel impurities and makes waste-heat rejection a challenge for vehicles. At high-temperature operation, we can build heavy-duty trucks with a much simpler design, which allows us to significantly reduce the weight.

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Fuel Hydrogen Water Polymer 468

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

mm in engineering acrylate polymers, as well as printing soft structures with exceptionally smooth surfaces into a gelatin methacrylate hydrogel. C) Sequential view of the build volume during a CAL print. Most 3D printers, including other light-based techniques, build up 3D objects layer by layer.

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Light Polymer Building Parts 379

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2019

Most of this is mixed with aggregates such as crushed rock, sand and gravel to create asphalt—the sticky bitumen binds it all together—to build roads. Lignin is a structural polymer in plants and trees that is released as a waste product from a number of industrial processes.

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Netherlands Oil-Sands Waste Polymer 236

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

The consortium will showcase these systems at both Damon and Moment Energy’s new facilities in Vancouver BC, demonstrating manufacturing scale-up of components, assembly systems and targeting design for a near zero waste production operation. Center of Excellence for High Volume Manufacturing of Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Lead: Cummins Inc.;

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Canada Li-ion Emissions Vehicles 304

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

JUNE 19, 2013

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical production process for fermenting methane into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo , lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials.

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Building Energy Asia Waste 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

DE-FOA-0002446 ) This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) builds upon existing efforts funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office to reduce cost, improve performance, and strengthen a domestic supply chain for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and applications. This would be coordinated with the H2NEW consortium.

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Hydrogen Fuel Low Cost Idaho 321

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2017

University of British Columbia (UBC) engineers have used polymeric scrap tire fibers (STF) to develop a more resilient type of concrete that could be used for concrete structures such as buildings, roads, dams and bridges, while reducing landfill waste.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Maersk’s investment will be used to develop further and to commercialize Vertoro’s patented liquid lignin technology, and it will enable Vertoro to build a demo plant, which will become operational in 2022. Lignin is a class of complex organic polymers which form key structural materials in the support tissues of most plants.

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Mariner Green Fuel Universal 243

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

The goal of the project is to continue to develop a circular carbon economy that replaces the petroleum-based chemicals in consumer products with algae-derived and biodegradable polymers. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Comstock Inc.,

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Production Carbon Conversion Mariner 225

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2014

It views gas fermentation as a key enabling technology that will allow the use of potentially advantaged gas feedstocks—such as waste industrial gases including carbon dioxide. INVISTA is one of the world’s leading integrated producers of chemical intermediates, polymers and fibers.

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Gas Polymer Waste Commercial 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2014

It is a widely-used solvent that dissolves other cleaning product additives, such as surfactants, polymers and fragrances, and acts as a viscosity-controlling agent. The new Tide Cold Water will re-purpose more than 7,000 tons of agricultural waste a year. Click to enlarge. —James Collins, Senior Vice President, DuPont.

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Iowa Nevada Polymer Water 231

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Argonne National Laboratory’s team will develop an advanced catalyst for polypropylene (a widely used polymer in consumer and industrial products) synthesis that outperforms conventional catalysts. Argonne National Laboratory. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. FeNix Magnetics, Inc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Temple University.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

This acquisition will enable the development of a powerful technology platform on the basis of CO 2 feedstock, meaning it turns waste into valuable products such as chemicals and plastics. It will extend our capabilities beyond catalytic conversion of biomass. —Tom van Aken, CEO of Avantium.

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Light Convert CO2 Polymer 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

These selections bring total SCALEUP program funding to over $70 million, building on $24 million in previously announced SCALEUP “Fast Track” selections. High-Throughput Manufacturing of Breakthrough Polymer Electrolyte to Enable Low-Cost Solid-State Batteries - $8,000,000. Earlier post.) 24M Technologies, Inc.

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Polymer 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2012

Malic acid is used as a flavor enhancer in the food industry and can be converted into other chemical derivatives used for a variety of plastic, polymer and resin products. This is our first biochemical building block and a major milestone towards building a biochemical industry together with partners.

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Polymer Convert Juice Oil 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Currently, greater amounts of aluminum must be produced than are needed because of manufacturing waste and scrap inefficiencies that increase energy consumption and lead to higher costs to end consumers.

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Manufacturer Batteries Battery Polymer 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. These four-year awards support 27 institutions in 18 eligible jurisdictions. Jason Azoulay.

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Water Puerto Rico West Virginia Energy 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to produce ethanol and chemicals via LanzaTech’s fermentation process using syngas resulting from the gasification of coal.

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Coal China Energy New Zealand 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

Butadiene is a major chemical building block for the petrochemical industry and is presently produced primarily as a by-product of ethylene cracking. About 10 million tonnes are produced each year, of which two-thirds are used to manufacture synthetic rubber, with the last third is used for nylon, latices, ABS plastics and other polymers.

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Polymer 2011 Renewable Africa 279

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, and Petronas, the national oil company of Malaysia, will work together to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals using CO 2 as the carbon source. LanzaTech conceptual gas-to-liquids platform.

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Malaysia CO2 Carbon Oil 268

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2011

The funds will be used to start the industrialization of the company’s process to convert renewable resources into isobutene, a gas which can be converted into liquid fuels and various polymers. straw) into isobutene, one of the key building blocks of the petrochemical industry.

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Industrial Industry Global Polymer 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

This uses carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), water, and light as the main inputs, and does not waste carbon and energy by limiting the amount of biomass produced. This acid, which has several end uses including bio-degradable polymers, fertilizers, and even cosmetics, can be produced at high efficiencies and rates, driving production costs down.

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Arizona Polymer Universal Water 150

Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2023

Matician Like some other robot vacuums we could mention, Matic uses vision to build a map of your home and navigate around looking for messes, but it does create an interesting 3D map as it does so, and provides a live rendering of where the robot is on that map. One unique-ish feature of Matic is that almost everything is done on-robot.

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Clean Cleaning Buy Maintenance 101

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Scanning electron microscopy images of the fracture surfaces indicate that the failure is primarily related to the debonding of the magnetic particles from the polymer binder. In addition, tensile tests performed on four dog-bone shaped specimens yielded an average ultimate tensile strength of 6.60 MPa —Li et al.

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Polymer Manufacturer Waste Industrial 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Our agreement with Cetrel is perfectly aligned with our vision to develop a bio-based society, where biorefineries convert agricultural residues and waste into energy, chemicals, and other materials, thereby substituting fossil fuels. Tags: Bio-polymers Biomethane Brazil Enzymes Plastics.

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Brazil Polymer Waste Convert 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

The report defines bio-based materials as industrial products made from renewable agricultural and forestry feedstocks, which can include wood, grasses, and crops, as well as wastes and residues. These materials may replace fabrics, adhesives, reinforcement fibers, polymers, and other, more conventional, materials.

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Polymer Cars Automobile Standards 218

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Havmøller Those challenges inspired teams of researchers at the University of Copenhagen , the Technical University of Denmark , and Germany’s Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior to build a better wearable-size generator for their purposes: tracking wild animals for, ideally, their whole lives. They said, ‘We don’t know.

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Energy Solar Carbon Fiber Universal 138

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2011

LanzaTech’s technology is likely to support our efforts by harnessing fuel grade ethanol from waste gas stream for partly meeting the requirements for MS blends in the future. Bansal, Chairman, IndianOil, said IndianOil was looking at innovative options in augmenting its energy resources to meet the growing demand of the Indian economy.

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Fuel Polymer Renewable Coal 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2013

When the energy required to build the e-gas facility and wind power generators is included in a comprehensive analysis, CO 2 emissions under e-Gas operation are still less than 30 grams per km (48.28 The CO 2 used in Audi’s e-gas plant is a waste product from a nearby biogas plant, operated by power utility EWE.

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Audi Gas CO2 Gas-Electric 296

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Gas Technology Institute (GTI) will design and build an engineering-scale CO 2 capture system using the Ohio State University transformational membrane process. Georgia Tech Research Corporation plans to develop and test MIL-101(Cr)-based sorbents in the form of powders, in composite polymer/MOF fibers and on the surface of monoliths.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas 236

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2017

A carbon fiber composite ink extrudes from a customized direct ink writing (DIW) 3D printer, eventually building part of a rocket nozzle. Fabricators also tend to overcompensate with material due to performance concerns, making the parts heavier, costlier and more wasteful than necessary. Click to enlarge.

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Polymer Parts 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

In addition, Kokam’s Ultra High Energy NMC batteries have a 96% efficiency, meaning less energy is wasted when the batteries charge or discharge. In the production of its cells, Kokam uses its patented Z-folding manufacturing technique and advanced Lithium Polymer and thin film laminations. —André Borschberg. Source: Kokam.

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Solar Energy Batteries Battery 150