Green Car Congress
APRIL 5, 2021
Rice University scientists and their colleagues at C-Crete Technologies have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete. After useful oils are extracted from waste tires, this carbon residue has until now had near-zero value, Tour said. —James Tour.
Green Car Congress
MAY 4, 2018
The contract represents Velocys’s second commercial license, the first being to ENVIA for a gas-to-liquids plant. Enough jet fuel will be produced by the plant to fuel 1,800 round trips per year from Portland, Oregon to San Francisco. Velocys’ role will be as a licensor for its technology to the project. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
As one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, we have the ambition to be the innovation and technology leader also with alternative drive systems. Mercedes-Benz Trucks was the world’s first manufacturer to present a heavy-duty electric truck at the IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in 2016.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 14, 2016
The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners were honored at a ceremony in Portland, Ore. This could reduce the mining of ore which reduces costs, greenhouse gas emissions and waste. This technology could cut energy usage by 85 billion BTUs/year, waste generation by 8.5 on 13 June. million kg/year.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 27, 2015
To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. and anti-idle testing in both a cold chamber and hot chamber. engine brake thermal efficiency.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 21, 2009
Diesel Brewing’s process gasifies wood wastes, agricultural residues and manure into a syngas that is cleaned and fed into a catalytic reactor and purification system to generate a suite of alcohols containing butanol, ethanol and methanol. We don’t want to merely make electric power from these waste products.
Green Car Congress
MAY 25, 2011
aviation fuel at the scale or speed needed to achieve industry goals, the report focuses on a portfolio of options, including different conversion technologies and sources of potentially sustainable biomass, including oilseeds, forest residues, solid waste, and algae. environmental conditions and spur regional economies. —SAFN report.
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