Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Road Map involves a move to the production and use of hydrogen by all businesses at the Grangemouth site accompanied by carbon capture and storage of at least 1 million tonnes per annum of CO 2 by 2030. There will also be a shift in the polymer product portfolio to include higher levels of post-consumer recycled content.

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Hydrogen Polymer Ireland Carbon 369

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Analysis by the company has identified both near-term and medium-term solutions for the manufacture of items such as transmission casings using advanced composite materials, but favors modern hybrid materials such as metal and polymer matrix composites (MMCs and PMCs) over conventional carbon composite solutions. —Westall, 2014.

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Polymer CO2 2014 Carbon 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

A team of researchers from Canada and the US has developed a system that quickly and efficiently converts carbon dioxide into simple chemicals via CO 2 electrolysis. The electrode architecture enables production of two-carbon products such as ethylene and ethanol at current densities just over an ampere per square centimeter.

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CO2 Production Polymer Water 414

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

DiviGas’ membrane, Divi-H, effectively tackles these two problems, with a new polymer composition inside modules containing tens of thousands of polymeric hollow fibers. The solution presented by DiviGas can operate in refineries, petrochemical plants, ammonia plants, methanol and metallurgical production, power-to-gas systems, gasifiers??,

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Commercial Hydrogen New York Polymer 418

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2014

Woven carbon fiber can act as an electrode for lithium ion batteries. Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car. Photo: Peter Larsson) Click to enlarge.

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Li-ion Electric Vehicles 317

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2013

A chart from EnerG2’s 2012 DOE Merit Review presentation shows different pore profiles for different energy storage applications. Engineering surface area, pore size distribution, and total pore volume can deliver carbon material with a broad range of surface properties. Click to enlarge.

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Li-ion Carbon Standards Energy Storage 281

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Quimera and Altran, its global technological partner of Quimera, will present the “All Electric GT” AEG prototype at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The monocoque chassis is made entirely of carbon fiber to make it lighter and more rigid. Supplied by a series of lithium-polymer EIG batteries, the AEGT can run for about 30 minutes.

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All-Electric Carbon Fiber Polymer Energy Storage 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. Their results are presented in an open access paper published in the journal ACS Central Science.

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Energy Storage Carbon Lithium Sulfur Energy 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

However, at present, no existing technology provides such storage and retrieval at a low financial and environmental cost. Natural photosynthesis already offers an example for storing solar energy at a huge scale, and turning it into biofuels in a closed carbon loop.

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Energy Storage Engine Energy Polymer 274

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Schematics of the (BP-G)/PANI electrode, in which the PANI coating helps retain a stable SEI (I) to prevent continuous formation of poorly conducting Li fluorides and carbonates deep into the BP-G particles (J).

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Charging Taiwan Carbon Polymer 248

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Renault has presented EOLAB, a new prototype which explores ways to deliver ultra-low fuel consumption. In order to cover as many realistic solutions as possible to minimize EOLAB’s weight, the project team also took a look at polymers. Click to enlarge. —Vincent Desmalades, Deputy Project Leader in charge of Processes.

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Plug-in MPG Hybrid Plug 370

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Carbon is seen as an attractive potential cathode material for aprotic (non-aqueous) Lithium-air batteries, which are themselves of great interest for applications such as in electric vehicles because of the cells’ high theoretical specific energy. Given the role of carbon as a possible porous positive electrode for nonaqueous Li?O

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Carbon Li-ion Batteries Battery 240

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2012

Audi is presenting the Audi A6 L e-tron concept at Auto China 2012 in Beijing. In designing car bodies, developers will intelligently use new combinations of materials, including carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP). The A6 L e-tron PHEV concept. Click to enlarge.

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Audi PHEV Concept China 253

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2015

Researchers at Purdue University have shown that adding ultra-smooth submicrometer carbon spheres to motor oil can reduce friction and wear typically seen in engines by up to 25%. Microscopic and spectroscopic investigation of the carbon spheres after the tribological experiments illustrated their excellent mechanical and chemical stability.

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Oil Carbon Engine Fuel Economy 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2018

The project, named SUNRISE (after Synthomer, UCL & Nexeon’s Rapid Improvement in the Storage of Energy), will develop better battery materials based on silicon as a replacement for carbon in the cell anode, and optimize cell designs for automotive application.

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Polymer 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2018

They first prepared porous sulfonated carbon (PSC) from LDPE plastic via microwave-promoted sulfonation. However, each process to optimize the carbon scaffold with functional polymers and carve functional groups on the surface of carbon is too complicated and requires expensive and elaborate techniques. —Kim et al.

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Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery Engine 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. —Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Group. Earlier post.).

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards are presented in five categories: academic, small business, greener synthetic pathways, greener reaction conditions and designing greener chemicals. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the winners of the 2013 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. Cargill, Inc.

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EPA 2013 Green Delaware 271

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

Grzegorz Milczarek from Poznan University of Technology (Poland), and Olle Inganäs from Linköping University (Sweden), have combined lignin derivatives, which are electronic insulators, with polypyrole, a conductive polymer, into an interpenetrating composite suitable for use as a battery cathode. —Milczarek and Inganäs.

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Polymer Batteries Battery Renewable 268

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2020

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) yields long-chain hydrocarbons for the production of gasoline or diesel from carbon monoxide and hydrogen and is an established process in the chemical industry. —Professor Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt from the Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP). Photo: Tiziana Carambia).

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Kits Fuel Polymer Insight 284

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Both current methods of producing bioethanol, reducing carbon dioxide or the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose or lignocellulose, are onerous. Many works consider that obtaining ethanol from acetate would be excessively onerous due to the cost of separating acetate present in wastewaters.

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Polymer Waste Brazil Mariner 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

However, the site and mechanism of formation of the first carbon–carbon bond are still a matter of debate. The small molecule consisting of two carbon atoms and four hydrogen atoms is a basic building block in the manufacture of a wide range of basic chemicals, polymers and plasticisers. 5b00226.

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Coal Carbon China Convert 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2015

Hemicellulose, a natural polymer found in plant cell walls, presents myriad opportunities ranging from power generation to biofuels such as ethanol, as well as the production of natural sugar-based value-added products. Canada-based Cascades Inc., million from the Québec Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs.

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Sodium Polymer Canada Purchase 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

If successful, the proposed technology will offer light- and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers a cost-effective solution to improve vehicle fuel efficiency and reduce transportation carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. Novel Polymer-enhanced Rechargeable Aluminum-Alkaline Battery Technology – $2,000,000. Ionic Materials, Inc.

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Engine San Diego Polymer Lithium Ion 247

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The 70% bio-based EcoPaXX is made principally from topical castor beans and is 100% carbon neutral from cradle to gate. The program is the oldest and largest competition of its kind; this is the 44 th time the awards have been presented. Bio-polymers Engines Materials Sustainability Vehicle Systems Weight reduction'

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Diesel Detroit Polymer Oil 231

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

we present in this work the synthesis of small, uniformly distributed Li 2 S, particles homogeneously coated by a nitrogen-doped carbon layer. The preparation procedure is based on the carbothermal reduction of Li 2 SO 4 in the presence of a carbon precursor, added as the nanoparticle stabilizing amphiphilic polymer. …

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Conversion Li-ion Lithium Sulfur Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

The AEGT all-electric GT racing car designed, built and tested in extreme conditions by Quimera, with technical supervision by Altran, features a carbon fiber monocoque chassis, and a powertrain delivering up to 700 bhp (522 kW). The racer uses high power Lithium Polymer EIG (S. Korea) battery packs.

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Vehicles Carbon Fiber Electric Electrical 252

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells require precise temperature and moisture controls to be at their best. The performance of polymer-electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) and other multiphase flow technologies is significantly dependent on liquid-water management.

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Carbon Fiber Fuel Water Polymer 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Thus, we focus on molecules that consist of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and we found that the polymer (polymethacrylate) bearing pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraone (PYT) as a redox-active core exhibited remarkable charge?discharge discharge ability, although the details are not clear at present. Even after 500 charge?discharge

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Li-ion Charging Batteries Battery 287

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2016

To address these issues, various types of cathode materials, including porous carbon−sulfur, low-dimensional conducting material (such as carbon nanotube and graphene−sulfur), and conducting polymer−sulfur composites, have been exploited to improve the overall electrochemical performance of the Li−S cells. Song et al.

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Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery Carbon 150

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In a new study led by researchers from TU Dresden , researchers created a system made from networks of tiny polymer fibers that, when submerged in a solution meant to replicate the inside of the human body, function as organic transistors. In this way, you can control the number of ions which are in the polymer [fibers] or the electrolyte.

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Future Polymer Personal Parts 129

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In a presentation at the 1 st Conference on CO 2 as Feedstock , held last week in Essen, Germany, LanzaTech CSO Dr. Sean Simpson described the company’s progress on developing a CO 2 pathway. Carbon Dioxide as a Feedstock. Earlier post.). CO 2 to acetic acid fermentation. Source: LanzaTech. Click to enlarge.

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Parts CO2 Renewable Conversion 244

EV Central

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

“The focus for the first Warrego had been for a European release for a number of reasons but mainly due to the availability of hydrogen at customer level in several cities where order status has been high and government support is present to develop the hydrogen economy,” explained Norman. H2X claims a 450km range for the Warrego.

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Hydrogen Ford Fuel Production 144

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

Also, the biobased BDO pathway consumes carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), resulting in a reduction of 70% in CO 2 emissions. Because the chemical industry uses approximately 8% of the world’s fossil fuels, Genomatica’s technology has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by hundreds of millions of tons percent annually.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The Precourt Institute for Energy, the umbrella organization for energy research and education at Stanford, will fund the following four studies: Nanostructured Polymers for High-Performance Batteries. This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries.

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Energy Vehicles Power Powered 239

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Researchers from the University of Arizona, Seoul National University and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed sulfur-rich co-polymers to create cathode materials for lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery applications. Click to enlarge.

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Lithium Sulfur 231

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