Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Scientists in China have developed a process for converting cellulose from plant waste from agriculture and timber harvesting into high-density aviation fuel: a polycycloalkane mixture. Li and his team found that cellulose can be selectively converted to. —Ning Li. 2,5-hexanedione using hydrogenolysis. 2019.02.005.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Meanwhile, component Li 2 O in LiCoO 2 could be reduced to lithium metal vapor or converted into volatile lithium halides (LiF and LiCl) and subsequently be recovered in the flue dust. —Hu et al. Results from the laboratory-scale smelting reduction (carried out at 1550 ?C —Hu et al. 2020.228936.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

This approach helps overcome another issue with lithium-air batteries: As the chemical reaction involved in charging and discharging converts oxygen between gaseous and solid forms, the material goes through huge volume changes that can disrupt electrical conduction paths in the structure, severely limiting its lifetime. 2016.111.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Illustration of a novel room-temperature process to remove CO 2 by converting the molecule into CO. In the presence of the graphite, aided by the energy derived from the plasmons, carbon dioxide molecules (black dot bonded to two red dots) are converted to carbon monoxide (black dot bonded to one red dot. Credit: NIST.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Global Bioenergies, the developer of a process to convert renewable resources into light olefin hydrocarbons via fermentation (with an initial focus on isobutene) ( earlier post ), signed a contribution agreement with the shareholders of Syngip B.V. to transfer all Syngip shares to Global Bioenergies S.A. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2021

Although residues of these slags are stored in dumps, these residues can be converted into valuable industrial products by interaction between the slag components. For this purpose, borate glass, a cheap waste material that also requires processing, was added to it. Sheshukov, O.Y., Egiazar’yan, D.K. Lobanov, D.A. Steel Transl.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

The OHM (oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic) nanocomposite slurry can be used to coat any cheap, commercially available sponge. The sponge is quickly and easily converted into a smart sponge (or “OHM sponge”) with a selective affinity for oil. Stephanie Ribet, a PhD candidate in Dravid’s lab and paper coauthor is pursuing this topic.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). Scientists have long sought a way to convert CO 2 to CO, but traditional electrocatalysts cannot effectively initiate the reaction. —Haotian Wang.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2015

Researchers from A*STAR in Singapore have developed a fungal culture for use in a cheap and efficient method to transform waste oil palm material into biofuels and environmentally friendly plastics. glucosidase can be added to the commercial preparations, which then ramps up the cost of converting oil palm biomass into biofuel and bioplastic.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

It’s a cheap and practical starting point that can be produced from raw biomass with high yield, Mascal said. Because the process does not rely on fermentation, the cellulose does not have to be converted to sugars first. Coauthors on the paper are postdoctoral researchers Saikat Dutta and Inaki Gandarias. Mark Mascal, Dr.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

Published in an open-access paper in the journal Fuel , their findings point to a cheaper, more environmentally friendly and renewable catalyst for processing that uses common bacteria and the metal palladium, which can be recovered from waste sources such as discarded electronics, catalytic converters, street sweeper dust and processed sewage.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2012

coli bacteria to convert glucose into succinic acid in a way that would be competitive with petroleum-based production. The new succinate process developed by Bennett, San and Chandresh Thakker promises to make even better use of a cheap and plentiful feedstock—primarily the indigestible parts of the soybean. 2012.10.154.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

When a voltage is applied across the electrodes of a conventional cell, a current flows and water is converted to oxygen gas at one electrode (the anode) and hydrogen gas at the other electrode (the cathode). We have a solution to this problem that’s made of copper, which is cheap and abundant. —Matthew Kanan. Christina W.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Eutectic alloys are fusible: upon cooling they convert from liquids to intimately mixed solids. Then, you can reduce the microstructure by rolling it, which is an extraordinarily cheap step to convert a microstructure into a nanostructure. Earlier post.). The eutectic microstructure forms naturally because of thermodynamics.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Improved battery technology plus access to cheap renewable electricity open the possibility of battery-electric rail. Economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric.” An open-access paper on their study appears in the journal Nature Energy. Popovich, N.D., Rajagopal, D.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

The funding from A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) will support research teams from A*STAR research institutes and local institutes of higher learning to develop solutions to manage environmental deterioration, pressures on natural resources and climate change brought on by rapid growth and urbanization.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established. So here our isobutene would allow us to integrate this very cheap fossil component into the fuel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Engineers at Iowa State University have developed a hybrid process that combines bio- and electrocatalysis to convert glucose into bio-based unsaturated nylon-6,6—which has the advantage of an extra double bond in its backbone that can be used to tailor the polymer’s properties. Resources. Their study is published in the 12 Feb.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new biologically inspired catalyst that is the first iron-based catalyst that converts hydrogen directly to electricity. The catalyst could support the achievement of more affordable fuel cells. Tianbiao Liu, Daniel L.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

At medium to high loads the engine is operated stoichiometrically, which enables the use of a three-way catalytic converter. One of the issues with which the team is currently grappling is the temperature in the catalytic converter, which needs to reach at least 300 degrees. Energies 6: 3571-3592, doi: 10.3390/en6073571.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

An elegant route toward the development of saturated hydrocarbon fuels based on terpene feedstocks may lie in a biosynthetic approach in which engineered organisms convert cellulose and/or hemicellulose derived sugar solutions into pure terpene products. —Meylemans et al. —Meylemans et al. Meylemans, Roxanne L. 2012.01.062.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

This study unambiguously provides evidence that a cheap and earth-abundant transition metal such as molybdenum can be turned into an active catalyst by the controlled solid-state reaction with soybeans…The preparation of the MoSoy catalyst is simple and can be easily scaled up. One key step is splitting water (water electrolysis).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2024

For example, the other designs I’ve seen would use microwaves in the Wi-Fi range, between 2 and 6 gigahertz, because cheap components are available for those frequencies. If I were to rank the challenges, I would put getting the will, resources, and mindshare behind a project of this magnitude as number one. But yours is at 10 GHz?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In an open-access paper in the journal Nature Communications, the team said that their advance provides a different pathway to design cheap, efficient and sizable hydrogen-evolving electrode by simultaneously tuning the number of catalytic edge sites, porosity, heteroatom doping and electrical conductivity. —Zhou et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Now, aluminum is increasingly important in electronics, particularly as a “green” component that’s cheap, widely available and environmentally benign. Before electrolytic processes were developed in the late 1800s to produce it inexpensively, it was once as costly as silver. Wei Wang, Weimin Liu, I-Ya Chang, Lindsay A. Wills, Lev N.

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DIY Electric Car

JULY 14, 2010

So I am converting a 1984 Pontiac Fiero, well you may ask your self why? So your almost there, ready to take the plunge as well to convert a car from gas to electric or maybe you dino drinker is on its last legs and is going to need to be replaced soon. Picking Your Dream Car for Conversion. You deserve this.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2013

Hydrogenase (H 2 ase) enzymes reversibly converts protons to hydrogen with minimum over potential at physiological pHs with turnover frequency (TOF) of 100 to 10,000 mols of H 2. In addition to that, its reactivity is retained when immobilized on cheap carbon electrodes, which is of significant practical interest. —Dey et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Moreover, it is a cheap carbon source which can increase the atom utilization of CO 2 hydrogenation due to the stoichiometric ratio of C and O atoms, as well as reducing the formation of water. … CH 4 is an ideal H-supplier to replace H 2 in CO 2 hydrogenation as CH 4 has a high H density and is available from a range of sources (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil’s carbon footprint. And oil only seems cheap. But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap. We’ll pre-fund your prototypes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

For the study, the Stanford team used a mild carbonization and activation process to convert the polymer organic frameworks into nanometer-thick sheets of carbon. Our designer carbon is simple to make, relatively cheap and meets all of the critical requirements for high-performance electrodes. —Zhenan Bao. 5b00149.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The overall conversion efficiency of the wired cell indicates that a majority of the current from the solar cell can be converted directly to solar fuels and that a simply engineered functional artificial leaf comprising earth-abundant materials may be realized. —Reece et al. —James Barber. Reece, Jonathan A. Jarvi, Arthur J.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

The researchers devised a one-pot synthesis method that is simple, cheap, scalable and uses only Earth-abundant elements (Al, Ti, O, H, C and S)—and therefore can be used for mass production. They converted the alumina layer to titania (TiO 2 ), a better conductor of electrons and lithium ions when it is very thin.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

During the charging process, the reduced form of the redox shuttle, M red , is first converted to M ox on the oxygen electrode, which in turn oxidizes the Li 2 O 2. The state of the art is to use a solar panel to capture the light, and then use a cheap battery to store the energy. Their hybrid design uses only three. —YiYing Wu.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I think it makes sense for public resources to drive the early rollout. Creating an new industry that converts cheap electricity into a monetized charge session is not necessarily the best way forward. As Richard Lowenthal said to me at the event: "Great deal!" But for whom?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2009

Linc Energy says it can now use this abundant and relatively cheap gas to make synthetic liquid hydrocarbons (with a focus on diesel). “My Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is a process through which coal is converted in-situ (i.e., My aim was to prove that we could take UCG gas and turn it into liquids and we’ve done that.

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