Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2010

The EU’s DirectFuel project, which launched on 1 October, intends to develop a photobiological process for the direct conversion of sunlight and CO 2 into engine- and infrastructure-ready transport fuels such as propane. The 4-year project will have funding of up to €3.73 million (US$5.1

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

Innovation and optimization of the Szego Mill for reliable, efficient, and successful up-scaling of the deacetylation and mechanical refining process for biofuel production. Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion.

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Waste Conversion Universal San Diego 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2016

million in federal funding for cost-shared projects that will develop technologies that utilize CO 2 from coal-fired power plants to produce useful products. Another option is to use the CO 2 as a reagent to create useful products, such as cement, plastics, or liquid fuels. —DE-FOA-0001622.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Liquid Light has developed proprietary process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide. It will extend our capabilities beyond catalytic conversion of biomass. Renewable chemicals company Avantium has acquired the assets of Liquid Light. —Tom van Aken, CEO of Avantium.

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Light Convert CO2 Polymer 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The particles can be produced at an industrial scale at a low cost, and with minimal environmental impact, providing an attractive pathway toward reducing the world’s greenhouse emissions. x /C catalyst exhibited a 2-fold increase in both activity on a per-site basis and selectivity to C 2+ products as compared to the bulk ?-MoC

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Hydrogen Emissions CO2 Fuel 221

Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

In 2024, the company will invest in 247 new motion plastics products and digital services. More favourable and better solutions for lubrication-free movements, low-cost automation and CO2-reducing products are the focal points. “’igus, make the excavator lubrication-free!

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Start-up Liquid Light, a developer of process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide ( earlier post ), has closed a $15-million Series B financing. New investors include Sustainable Conversion Ventures, which focuses on renewable fuels and chemicals investments.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

The C2CNT team uses low-energy, low-cost technology developed in the Licht lab located at GW’s Virginia Science and Technology Campus to transform carbon dioxide into widely useful and highly valued products—carbon nanotubes. We have solved that problem by inexpensively transforming the CO 2 into a valuable product.

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Carbon Climate Change CO2 Climate 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

Conventional thermal decomposition production of lime (left) versus STEP direct solar conversion of calcium carbonate to calcium oxide (right). The majority (about 60%) of those CO 2 emissions result from the production of lime. The majority (about 60%) of those CO 2 emissions result from the production of lime.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2016

Their hybrid approach combines the highly efficient light harvesting of inorganic semiconductors with the high specificity, low cost, and self-replication and -repair of biocatalysts. thermoacetica–CdS system directs ~90% of photosynthetic products toward acetic acid, reducing the cost of diversifying to other chemical products.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2019

The focus of their study was the theoretical calculations of greenhouse gas CO 2 reductions using CNT composite structural materials when formed with CNTs made from CO 2 , rather than conventional high-CO 2 -emissive production techniques such as CVD. The 1-tonne cement avoided eliminates its CO 2 production emission.

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Carbon Emissions Washington CO2 249

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

Researchers expect to see the new biomaterials in Ford production vehicles within five years. Novomer is commercializing a proprietary catalyst system that transforms waste CO 2 into high performance, low-cost polymers for a variety of applications, including foam and plastic that are easily recyclable. million pounds (1,088.62

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Ford Polymer CO2 Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The seed funding supports early work on concepts that have the potential for very high impact on energy production and use. The TomKat Center looks at generation and conversion, transmission and distribution, storage, and land and water as they pertain to energy for electricity and transportation. TomKat Center awards.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

Combining biomass-to-energy for electricity or biofuel production with CO 2 capture and storage (Bio-CCS) could result in an annual global technical potential of up to 10 gigatonnes of negative CO 2 emissions in the year 2050, according to a study commissioned by IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme to the global energy consultancy company Ecofys.

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Emissions Global CO2 Carbon 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. —Ren et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2016

Based on a Ford Focus, the ADEPT (Advanced Diesel Electric Powertrain) combines low-cost, micro/mild hybrid technologies to reduce CO 2 emissions by an additional 15-20%. This vehicle indicates a pathway to 70g/km at a cost/emissions reduction ratio superior to a full-hybrid solution. liter engine the performance of a 1.8

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2023

The new PNNL carbon capture and conversion system brings the cost to capture CO 2 down to about $39 per metric ton. This is the first known demonstration of integrated low-temperature thermocatalytic capture and conversion of CO 2 to methanol in an economically viable CO 2 capture solvent. —Kothandaraman et al.

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Conversion Carbon Cleaner CO2 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Ecolectro is developing alkaline exchange ionomers (AEIs) to enable low-cost fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies. At the center of Ionic Materials’ innovation is a new polymer-based material that suppresses the formation of unwanted chemical products that prevent aluminum-alkaline batteries from recharging.

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Engine San Diego Polymer Lithium Ion 247

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

They first have applied their technology to the production of a plastic—a promising alternative to polyethylene terephthalate (PET) called polyethylene furandicarboxylate (PEF)—but are now working to apply the new chemistry to the production of renewable fuels and other compounds from hydrogen and CO 2.

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Molten Salt Carbon CO2 Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has commissioned its first SunSprings demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico ( earlier post ), where the company will prove its scalable platform for solar fuel production using a fraction of the land and capital investment required for algae-derived or agricultural biofuels. gallon without subsidies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The objective of this topic is to develop an entirely new paradigm for the production of liquid fuels that could overcome the challenges associated with current technologies. Although photosynthetic routes show promise, overall efficiencies remain low. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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Carbon Plug-in Energy Fuel 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals. —Prashant Nagpal.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Harvesting/Dewatering Technology for Algal Biofuels Production. The Office of Biomass Program (OBP) is seeking Phase III applications to further commercial development of harvesting/dewatering processes—contingent upon successful completion of SBIR Phase I or Phase II development—to support the production of algal biofuels.

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Fuel Motor Motors Motoring 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Typically, this type of electrochemical reaction results in a mix of several different products in small amounts. We’re taking carbon dioxide, a waste product of combustion, and we’re pushing that combustion reaction backwards with very high selectivity to a useful fuel. We discovered somewhat by accident that this material worked.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Application of Advanced Materials Processing to Enable Direct Production of Fast Reactor Fuel Alloys, $1,000,000. Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Highly Efficient Low-Thermal-Budget Hydrogen and Chemical Co-Production via an Electrochemical Activation of Propane, $100,000.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

These include: BioEnergy Engineering for Products Synthesis (BEEPS) (up to $28 million) ( DE-FOA-0001916 ). lignin, CO 2 , and biosolids), improving organic and inorganic catalysts to increase conversion efficiency and decrease costs, and creating high-value performance-advantaged bioproducts to allow for more profitable biorefineries.

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Waste Renewable Conversion Carbon 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. Additively Manufactured High Efficiency and Low-Cost sCO 2 Heat Exchangers – $1,500,000.

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Low Cost Universal Power Powered 207

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

substantial increase in production of fuel per acre of planted. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. Synthetic Crop for Direct Biofuel Production through Rerouting the Photosynthesis Intermediates and Engineering. biomass production. transferred into highly productive energy crops such as.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 29, 2009

A collaboration between the UK’s leading automotive engineering facilities has resulted in the development of the first plug-in retro-fit hybrid conversion of a combustion engine vehicle. This transformed the van into a hybrid vehicle, capable of achieving an all electric range of over 20 km, from one charge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2. In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. Lead batts are around 98% recycled. — jerryd 7.

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