Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

Schematic overview of the primary black-carbon emission sources and the processes that control. the distribution of black carbon in the atmosphere and determine its role in the climate system. Accounting for all of the ways black carbon can affect climate, it is believed to have a warming effect of about 1.1 Source: Bond et al.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Estes is also actively working on two more solar projects in Norfolk, Virginia, and Joliet, Illinois, respectively – all completed in partnership with Dynamic Energy. All told, Estes’ solar projects are projected to generate more than 1,600,000 kWh annually , effectively offsetting approximately 1,180 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

In a new study from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers report devising a new transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) nanoarchitecture for catalytic electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO) in an ionic liquid. —Asadi et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A team from the University of Illinois and startup Dioxide Materials has developed an electrocatalytic system for the reduction of CO 2 to CO—a key component of artificial photosynthesis and thus an enabler for the conversion of CO 2 to synthetic fuels—at overpotentials below 0.2 for formation of the “CO2 ? —i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

University of Illinois. Large Pilot Testing of Linde/BASF Advanced Post-Combustion CO 2 Capture Technology at a Coal-Fired Power Plant The University of Illinois will design, construct, and operate an advanced amine-based post-combustion carbon dioxide capture system at a coal-fired power plant. Echogen Power Systems.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected eight projects to receive almost $25 million in funding to construct small- and large-scale pilots for reducing the cost of CO 2 capture and compression through DOE’s Carbon Capture Program. FuelCell Energy Inc. Source: FuelCell Energy.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

an advanced coal repowering program and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) storage network. With the funds announced today, the partner recipients will repower Ameren’s 200 megawatt Unit 4 in Meredosia, Illinois with advanced oxy-combustion technology. to build FutureGen 2.0,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2011

Schematic illustration of carbon capture and storage at Kevin Dome in Montana. Courtesy Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership. It will be carried out by the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership at MSU. Three companies, Vecta Oil and Gas, SR2020 Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Alkaline Carbon Capture and Expression-Streamlined Spirulina Cultivated in Air for Reliable Bioproducts, Oil, and Nutrition. Topic 7: Scalable CO2 Electrocatalysis. Electrochemical Production of Formic Acid from Carbon Dioxide in Solid Electrolytes. Princeton University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

TEC will be one of the first commercial-scale, coal gasification plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) capability in the US. . billion project, has signed equipment contracts and licensing agreements with Siemens for four SFG-500 gasifiers that will convert Illinois coal into substitute natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

As part of this new initiative, the Department of Energy will partner with the FutureGen Industrial Alliance to select an Illinois host community for the carbon storage site as well as a geologic sequestration research complex and a craft labor training center. In August, DOE announced its intention to fund FutureGen 2.0

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to CO—a key component of artificial photosynthesis—has largely been stymied by the impractically high overpotentials necessary to drive the process. Credit: Science, Rosen et al. Click to enlarge. A silver cathode then catalyzes formation of the final products.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 projects to enhance the capability to simulate, track, and evaluate the potential risks of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations. Researchers will develop systems for tagging CO 2 with carbon-14 at atmospheric level (1 part per trillion) and measuring the carbon-14 CO 2 levels.

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JUNE 16, 2012

By comparison, average households in states like California, New York, Illinois and Michigan use between 562 kwh and 799 kwh monthly. for example, the company uses a new “three-wet” paint application that reduces electricity use along with CO2 and Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions. At Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich.,

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

And hence, while electric vehicles themselves produce zero carbon emissions, charging them increases the amount of electricity generated from fossil fuel energy sources such as coal. And of those states, only two states — the aforementioned Colorado — and Illinois have more than 30% of their electricity from coal.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Stone et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Brian Stone Jr.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2020

DOE’s early stage research for the Coal FIRST Initiative supports the development of electricity and hydrogen energy plants that have net-zero carbon emissions. These plants will be fueled by coal, natural gas, biomass, and waste plastics and incorporate carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

You’ll be helping to cut your carbon footprint and you’ll be doing the South Bay community a good turn. Facts like this from his blog Climate Progress: The University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center — has become weary of having their data misreported by global warming deniers like Will. Shocking ain’t it?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Enhanced Biomimetic Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Gyroid Membrane for High Efficiency Carbon Dioxide Absorption, $250,000. BioBlend Renewable Resources (Elk Grove Village, Illinois).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000. The new Fisher buses will provide more than triple the equivalent fuel economy in all-electric mode and reduce CO2 emissions due to the extensive use of lightweight materials and the large capacity battery system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

improved oilseed crop that uses carbon more efficiently than. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. traditional crops.

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