Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

The EMS (Earth and Mineral Science) Energy Institute at Penn State has developed a conceptual novel process configuration for producing clean middle-distillate fuels from coal with some algal input with minimal emissions. Principal inputs are coal, water, non-carbon electricity, and make-up solvent. Background.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

For several months now, 20 teams of Australian high-school students have been designing fuel-cell cars to compete in the country’s inaugural Hydrogen Grand Prix. The task: make the most of a 30-watt fuel cell and 14 grams of hydrogen gas. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The US DOE is soliciting ( DE-FOA-0001051 ) projects for up to $10 million in awards to target technological advancements to lower the cost of producing hydrogen and/or high-hydrogen syngas from coal for use in 90% carbon capture power generation and/or gasification-based liquid (transportation) fuel production: methanol or diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2009

The US Department of Energy has issued up to a $5-million Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000103) to solicit laboratory-level R&D projects to develop novel technologies for producing hydrogen from coal. Electricity and hydrogen together represent one of the most promising ways to achieve these objectives. —DE-FOA-0000103.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have analyzed the water consumption for transportation fuels in the United States using an extended lifecycle system boundary that includes the water embedded in intermediate processing steps. Increases in population, energy and food demand now strain previously abundant sources of water.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2013

Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) have found that noble metal nanoparticles supported on titanium dioxide or cerium dioxide can catalyze the industrially important water gas shift (WGS) reaction for hydrogen production at ambient temperatures using visible light irradiation. Catalysts Hydrogen Production Solar' Energy Environ.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

Generation 2 moves the Haber-Bosch process to renewable sources of hydrogen. The process generates H 2 from natural gas or coal through steam reforming and combines it with N 2 , which has been separated from air by a cryogenic process, to form NH 3. The reaction between N 2 and H 2 requires temperatures in excess of 400 ?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a Request for Information (RFI) ( DE-FOA-0002686 ) on the design, construction and operation of a new facility to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of a full-scale rare earth element (REE) and critical minerals (CM) extraction and separation refinery using unconventional resources.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Energy Conversion and Coal Research and from the research group Photobiotechnology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered a way of increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production in microalgae by a factor of five by using a combined metabolic engineering approach.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2011

A full-scale test of advanced hyperbaric centrifuge technology at a Jim Walter Resources Inc. coal-cleaning plant in Alabama successfully reduced moisture from ultrafine coal waste. which built the initial prototype unit that successfully dewatered fine coal to a level of 13 to 19% moisture at a rate of 30 gallons per minute.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2023

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have fuel flexibility; in addition to hydrogen, various kinds of hydrocarbon fuels, such as natural gas (methane), methanol, ethanol, biofuel, and coal can be used via external steam reforming (ESR) or direct internal reforming (DIR). The best ethanol concentration (60:40 v% ethanol: water) provides 0.83

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2012

Borla will combine this with its diesel exhaust technology to create a low-cost, novel system that doubles as a device to extract potable water from diesel and other internal combustion exhaust. The heat recovered could serve to preheat boiler feed water, thus providing an energy savings.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2011

gasified coal—by eliminating the coking problem. The resulting lower-temperature SOFCs could provide a cleaner, more efficient alternative to conventional power plants for generating electricity from coal reserves. About half of the carbon dioxide is then recirculated back to gasify the coal to coal gas to continue the process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

S 8 ) as a direct ‘rock’ electrode without the need of further surface modifications for hydrogen evolution under acidic conditions. According to their study, artificial pentlandite is just as efficient as the platinum electrodes commonly used today for the electrolytic production of hydrogen from water, but is lower cost.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. by 2050. : Carbon Capture and Hydrogen”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

In the first step, an novel high-temperature technology will process natural gas to obtain hydrogen and carbon. In a subsequent catalytic process step, the hydrogen is then reacted with large volumes of CO 2 , also from other industrial processes, to produce syngas. Compared to other processes, this technology produces much less CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely Auto has invested significant resources in the development and promotion of methanol-fueled engines and vehicles over a long period and has already made progress with this technology in China. cited one study showing that the full lifecycle (well-to-wheel) CO 2 emissions from M85 (with coal-derived methanol) are 2.5 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

The selected projects are intended to improve the economics of IGCC plants and promote the use of the US’abundant coal resources. For example, a 60%-efficient gasification power plant can cut the formation of carbon dioxide by 40% compared to a typical coal combustion plant, the DOE said.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. It is possible to convert it into fuels and a wide variety of chemical products, including those that today are mainly based on fossil resources.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2023

A study led by Norwegian climate center CICERO has found that the global warming effect of leaked hydrogen is almost 12 times stronger than that of CO 2. Unlike exhaust from burning coal and gas that contains CO 2 , burning hydrogen emits only water vapor and oxygen. —Dr Sand The GWP100 of hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected four projects for cost-shared research and development under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), DE-FOA-0002180, Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2013

Three Stanford research teams will receive funding to develop carbon-neutral technologies that produce electricity or hydrogen fuel: Steam-carbon fuel cells. The goal is to design a novel fuel cell that uses coal and water to generate hydrogen, water and a stream of carbon dioxide gas, which can be captured and sequestered.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2022

UC Berkeley chemists created the first such carbon-capture MOF in 2015, and subsequent versions have proved even more efficient at removing carbon dioxide from flue gases, such as those from a coal-fired power plant. The energy savings come from not having to heat the substance to high temperatures. Haiyan Mao et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene. The carbonized plastic was then subjected to high-current flashing, converting 85% of it into graphene while outgassing hydrogen, oxygen, chlorine, silicon and trace metal impurities. Wyss et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. By 2035, cellulosic ethanol and/or coal-and-biomass-to-liquid (CBTL) fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15% of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (1.7–2.5 emissions, according to the report.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

The fleets studied are BEVs, using electricity generated from natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plants; CNGVs, which are internal combustion engine vehicles modified to burn compressed natural gas; and FCVs powered by hydrogen produced from steam methane reforming (SMR) of natural gas. water depletion potential (WDP).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One example of a reductant for the hydroprocessor is hydrogen, which can be obtained from the same source providing hydrogen for other refinery processes. Chevron says tests have shown that this produced water does not inhibit the lignin conversion. In addition, the reductant for the hydroprocessor could also be syngas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2010

The completely integrated industrial process chain will enable various biomasses and fossil resources, in both liquid and solid form, to be applied to produce high-quality biofuels. ammonia, methanol, hydrogen, synthetic fuel) and IGCC plants with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), where hydrogen-rich syngases are required.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2014

One of the key missions of the Office of Fossil Energy is to “ ensure the nation can continue to rely on traditional resources for clean, secure and affordable energy while enhancing environmental protection. ” turbines, fuel cells, hybrids, novel power generation cycles); coal conversion (e.g., International Oil and Natural Gas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

Natural gas extracted from coal beds and methane-rich geologic features must first be purged of hydrogen sulfide before it can be used as fuel. In the conventional Thermal Swing Regeneration process, the gas must first be treated with a solution of chemical sorbents that are dissolved in water.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2011

coal, dead forest wood or biomass. The combination of steam and hydrogen in the steam hydrogasifier offers the flexibility of using feedstock that has high water content. The combination of steam and hydrogen in the steam hydrogasifier offers the flexibility of using feedstock that has high water content.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

However, the resulting bio-oils are typically high in oxygen, water, solids and acids. In the new UMass approach, the hydroprocessing increases the intrinsic hydrogen content of the pyrolysis oil, producing polyols and alcohols. earlier post.). Solid arrows: Pyrolysis oil is directly passed over the zeolite catalyst. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2010

In addition to the methanol, the plant can deliver district-heating water with a thermal duty of 15 MW. Modern interest substituting biomass for coal or natural gas as a gasification or reforming (respectively) feedstock to provide syngas for catalytic conversion to methanol reaches back several decades. Biomass to Methanol.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on potential early markets and deployment opportunities for hydrogen and fuel cells. DOE is seeking to facilitate the market penetration of hydrogen and fuel cell products through higher volume purchases (e.g., Market development RFI.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

GTI’s IH 2 technology is an advanced pyrolysis technology which utilizes low pressure hydrogen together with a proprietary catalyst to remove virtually all of the oxygen present in the starting biomass. The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with CRI/Criterion Inc., Property comparison.

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