Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

DOE’s Critical Minerals Sustainability Program (previously called the Feasibility of Recovering Rare Earth Elements Program) has demonstrated the technical feasibility of extracting these resources from coal-based materials. Energy Fuels Resources (Lakewood, CO). Texas Mineral Resources Corp (Sierra Blanca, TX). Tetra Tech, Inc.

Coal 207

Coal Design West Virginia North Dakota 207

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

A team from Brown University, Wuhan University of Technology (China), Cal State University Northridge and Harbin Institute of Technology (China) has developed a new catalyst for a highly efficient hydrogen evolution reaction based on core/shell NiAu/Au nanoparticles (NPs). Credit: ACS, Lv et al. Click to enlarge. 5b01100.

China 150

China Ni-Li Hydrogen Water 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2011

A team from the University of Plymouth (UK) and Environment Canada has identified, for the first time, individual soluble naphthenic acids (NA) in the process water resulting from the oil sands industry in Canada. Frank (2011) Diamonds in the Rough: Identification of Individual Naphthenic Acids in Oil Sands Process Water.

Oil-Sands 186

Oil-Sands Water Oil Canada 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

In working to elucidate the chemistry of hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) for the catalytic upgrading of pyrolytic bio-oil to fuel-grade products, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have discovered that water in the conversion process helps form an impurity which, in turn, slows down key chemical reactions.

Water 210

Water Oil Insight San Francisco 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

The 2017 FOA solicited early-stage materials research to advance the Department’s goals of enabling economic and efficient transportation via fuel cell electric vehicles that use hydrogen fuel produced from diverse domestic resources. Advanced Water Splitting Materials. Carnegie Mellon University. University of Connecticut.

Hydrogen 170

Hydrogen Carbon Fiber Fuel Low Cost 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts.

Houston 150

Houston Water Hydrogen Hybrid 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

A team of researchers led by Dr. James Muckerman at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a new class of high-activity, low-cost, non-noble metal electrocatalyst that generates hydrogen gas from water. The result becomes this well-balanced Goldilocks compound—just right.

Low Cost 281

Low Cost Water Hydrogen Delaware 281

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2018

Researchers at Jilin University in China have developed a new class of self-assembled crystalline porous organic salts (CPOSs) featuring high proton conductivity for applications such as proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells. The pores in the salts form one-dimensional channels and can hold water. —Xing et al.

Fuel 218

Fuel Water Polymer Hydrogen 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Researchers at Rice University, with colleagues at Wayne State University, report the development of a new class of quasi-solid-state Li-ion battery electrolytes which have the structural stability of a solid and the wettability of a liquid. —Kaushik Kalaga, lead author of the study. 5b07636.

Lithium Ion 150

Lithium Ion Li-ion F-150 Water 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Researchers at Changchun University of Science and Technology in China have developed a nanobox strategy to improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries. transition metal sulfides have been regarded as a promising class of host materials for Li?S A paper on their work appears in the Journal of Power Sources. 2018.10.032.

Lithium Sulfur 236

Lithium Sulfur Li-ion Batteries Battery 236

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

Nepal 102

Nepal Fort Worth Solar Electric 102

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. In theory, the decomposition potential of water is 4.27

Sodium 218

Sodium Water Li-ion Texas 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2019

A team of researchers led by a group from the University of Maryland has. Combining this cathode with a passivated graphite anode, the team created a 4V-class aqueous Li-ion full cell with an energy density of 460 Wh kg -1 of total composite electrode and about 100% Coulombic efficiency. volts versus Li/Li +. V) and Cl ? Yang et al.

Li-ion 271

Li-ion Conversion Energy Batteries 271

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

Buffers made from phase change material will be integrated into these systems to augment classes of autonomic materials with directed power flow actuation. POETS will be led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Howard University, Stanford University and the University of Arkansas.

El Paso 150

El Paso Engine Power Powered 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

A team led by researchers form Temple University has developed earth-abundant electrocatalysts—Mo 2 C and Ti 3 C 2 MXenes—for the electroreduction of CO 2 to CO. Also, a spontaneous dissociation of absorbed COOH species to a water molecule and absorbed CO on Mo 2 C promote the CO 2 RR. —Attanayake et al.

CO2 186

CO2 Carbon Water Fuel 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2020

The results of the study were published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Another study by Assoc Prof Salvo that was published in 2018 found that households consumed more water from the grid when exposed to air pollution. —Prof Salvo.

Pollution 275

Pollution Singapore Asia Climate Change 275

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

GAMOW projects will work in synergy with publicly and privately funded fusion-development efforts, including ARPA-E’s ALPHA and BETHE fusion programs, and will leverage the technical resources and basic research SC-FES sponsors in these areas. University of California, San Diego. University of Houston.

Fusion 249

Fusion Energy San Diego Los Angeles 249

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The Tri-Gen facility will use bio-waste sourced from California agricultural waste to generate water, electricity and hydrogen. When it comes online in 2020, Tri-Gen will generate approximately 2.35 MW of electricity and 1.2 Earlier post.)

Hydrogen 199

Hydrogen Toyota Renewable Building 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2020

The resulting glassy polymer membranes demonstrated nonthermal membrane fractionation of light crude oil through a combination of class- and size-based “sorting” of molecules. With this application in mind, we created spirocyclic polymers with N-aryl bonds that demonstrated noninterconnected microporosity in the absence of ladder linkages.

Georgia 337

Georgia London Oil Polymer 337

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2020

Using a process known as genomic analysis, University of Georgia scientists have found a strong correlation between antibiotic resistance and heavy metal contamination in an environment. The study reports previous research identified antibiotic-resistance in heavy metal-contaminated streams on the site by examining water samples in the lab.

South Carolina 186

South Carolina Environment Georgia Water 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. Preliminary Design and Techno-Economic Analysis of MWe-Class Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems.

Fuel 170

Fuel South Carolina Low Cost West Virginia 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Of those selected, approximately 43% of OPEN 2018 projects will be led by universities, 35% by small businesses, and the remainder by large businesses, non-profit organizations or federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Drop-In Replacement Materials from Abundant Resources to Double Energy in EV Batteries – $3,100,000.

Engine 247

Engine San Diego Polymer Lithium Ion 247

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Coccolithophores —unicellular, eukaryotic phytoplankton (algae)—have been increasing in relative abundance in the North Atlantic over the last 45 years, as carbon input into ocean waters has increased. The lead author of the paper was Sara Rivero-Calle, a PhD candidate at John Hopkins University. —Anand Gnanadesikan.

CO2 150

CO2 Mariner Carbon Water 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Researchers led by a team at the University of Liverpool (UK) now report in an open-access paper in the journal Nature Communications that they have developed crystalline porous molecular solids where the proton transport occurs in 3D pathway by virtue of the native channel structure and topology. —Liu et al. Chong, Marc A.

Fuel 150

Fuel Water Transportation Universal 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2014

Scientists from Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Technical University of Denmark have identified a new nickel-gallium catalyst that converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide into methanol at ambient pressure and with fewer side-products than the conventional catalyst. —Studt et al.

Low Cost 257

Low Cost Clean Cleaning Production 257

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2016

To account for physical context, samples were classed as lightly, moderately or heavily contaminated, and the loss of each compound was examined for each of those conditions. The other institutions involved in the study are the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and the University of Texas at Austin.

Oil 150

Oil Cleveland Ohio Austin 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2017

Scientists from the University of Birmingham launched a major research project to investigate how “clean cold” could help to achieve almost all of the United Nations’ (UN) global Sustainable Development Goals. The University of Birmingham is a world-leader in clean cold’ expertise. Dearman Engine. It also accounts for 3.3

Clean 150

Clean Cleaning Global Water 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

In a paper being presented at WCX SAE World Congress Experience in Detroit this week, a team from MIT is proposing the use of a flex-fuel gasoline-alcohol engine approach for a series-hybrid powertrain for long-haul Class 8 trucks. Ethanol or methanol would be employed to increase knock resistance. and Bromberg, L.

MIT 247

MIT Gasoline Engine Fuel 247

Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

2014 225

2014 2018 Energy Climate Change 225

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The science return of such a mission could likewise be huge as its rocks have the potential to answer some significant questions about the Moon’s geological past, says planetary scientist Katherine Joy of the University of Manchester. “We

China 103

China Building Water Engine 103

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. (B) Voltammograms recorded between 0.1

Polymer 268

Polymer Batteries Battery Renewable 268

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht have demonstrated the first facile high-yield, low-energy synthesis of macroscopic length carbon nanotubes (CNTs)—carbon nanotube wool—from CO 2 using molten carbonate electrolysis ( earlier post ). The process is constrained by the (low) cost of electricity.

Low Cost 300

Low Cost Carbon CO2 Solar 300

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

A promising class of technologies for carbon dioxide removal is known as bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS), which involves the capture and permanent sequestration of biogenic CO 2 produced during energy conversion. —Sean McCoy. Earlier post.). —Sean McCoy. Sanchez, Nils Johnson, Sean T. McCoy, Peter A.

Carbon 218

Carbon CO2 Tax Credit Store 218

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. In the brief demo, they showed it had a reasonably high loading capacity (holding plant-watering water cans, and lifting bars of aluminum in the factory). Assistant Professor, Florida State University. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Animesh Garg. Asimo , Atlas , T-HR3 , or Digit.

Boston 145

Boston Tesla IDEA Engine 145

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. Class III fuels, high energy intensive fuels with percentage amount of fuel (energy) expended above 12%.

Oil-Sands 150

Oil-Sands Oil Energy Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Beyond the scientific knowledge obtained from the simulation, the team’s biomass system advances computational biophysics’ shift toward complex, multicomponent systems, a move enabled by leadership-class supercomputers. During pretreatment, acid, water, and heat work to remove non-cellulosic biomass from plant material.

Water 150

Water Polymer Insight 2016 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Results of a lifecycle analysis by a team at the University of Michigan suggest that multiple types of natural gas-powered vehicles—i.e., In all three cases, power generation methods were chosen based on best-in-class or near best-in-class components that are nonetheless widely commercially available.

Gas 218

Gas Li-ion Gas-Electric Conversion 218