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JULY 9, 2018

For the study, the molar content x of the MH nanocomposites ranged from 0.2 In comparison to equivalent liquid electrolyte cells operated at room temperature, the solid-state cells showed improved properties such as a coulombic efficiency above 98% and a rate capability of around 50% of delivered capacity at 1C-rate. V (vs Li/Li + ).

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Conversion 150

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JULY 9, 2018

For the study, the molar content x of the MH nanocomposites ranged from 0.2 In comparison to equivalent liquid electrolyte cells operated at room temperature, the solid-state cells showed improved properties such as a coulombic efficiency above 98% and a rate capability of around 50% of delivered capacity at 1C-rate. V (vs Li/Li + ).

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Qiang Dai and Christian Lastoskie found that BEVs and FCVs in particular offer significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, especially if carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies are implemented at the fuel conversion facilities. Their study appears in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. … Credit: ACS, Dai and Lastoskie.

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Gas Li-ion Gas-Electric Conversion 218

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MARCH 16, 2012

previous studies have followed the general framework of life cycle assessment (LCA), they have focused almost exclusively on quantifying the energy balance and GHG emissions associated with biofuels production. For gasoline, the study reflects the US context in which crude oil is to a large extent imported and refined domestically.

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Gasoline Water Emissions Minnesota 357

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AUGUST 7, 2015

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new material to catalyze the conversion of CO 2 via hydrogenation to methanol (CH 3 OH): size-selected Cu 4 clusters—clusters of four copper atoms each, called tetramers—supported on Al 2 O 3 thin films. Image courtesy Larry Curtiss; click to view larger.)

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Conversion CO2 Carbon Hydrogen 150

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Gas chromatography comparison of Conoco fuel and a Conoco-CoolPlanet blend. Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. One of the catalytic conversion processes creates the high-octane gasoline blendstock.

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Conversion Renewable Water Gasoline 308

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AUGUST 6, 2011

The team also suggested that algae systems can be either net energy positive or negative depending on the specific combination of cultivation and conversion processes used. In this new study, reported in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , Clarens et al. Earlier post.) Arrow widths are proportional to mass flows.

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Transportation Energy Conversion Water 278

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are very efficient for the direct conversion of chemical fuels to electricity. Conceptual diagram of oxidation-reduction cycle of ceramic fuel cells and comparison of new concept vs. deterioration rate of conventional fuel plates. —Park et al.

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Fuel Polymer Concept Conversion 259

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

AMP will use the Remy HVH250 electric motors in their custom electric vehicle conversions. The first two vehicles available for AMP conversions are the GM Saturn Sky and the GM Pontiac Solstice. By comparison, a full hybrid application yielded only a 5 °C difference between the two motor technologies over the same drive cycle.

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Conversion Motor Motors Motoring 218

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MARCH 2, 2023

The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. In comparison, the energy density for lithium-ion batteries used in commercial electronics and electric vehicles is around 170–250 Wh/kg.

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Molten Salt Grid Design Sodium 396

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APRIL 27, 2012

Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 That number is in my opinion conservative, and consistent with a slight reduction in the rate of peat conversion. Chris Malins.

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Climate 314

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

A team at RWTH Aachen University has identified ethyllevulinate and 2-methyltetrahydrofuran as promising alternatives to cellulosic bioethanol with respect to cost and environmental impact based on a large-scale reaction screening study. Fuel families and fuels in the study. —Ulonska et al. Credit: ACS, Ulonska et al.

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Conversion Fuel Production Energy 150

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JANUARY 3, 2014

The study by a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, reported in the Journal of Power Sources , is novel in three respects, the researchers said. Third, the analysis offers a novel comparison of drivetrain and energy carrier production pathways based on natural resource categories.

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Alternative Fuels Emissions Fuel Switzerland 252

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JANUARY 25, 2019

The 66% increase in fatal crash risk associated with manipulating a cellphone relative to driving when other secondary behaviors were present is a finding of a 2018 study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. The latest data suggest that drivers are using their phones in riskier ways.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

The study by Yan et al. The high thermoelectric figure of merit is expected to enable the conversion of 14% of heat waste to electricity. The high thermoelectric figure of merit is expected to enable the conversion of 14% of heat waste to electricity. The study by Biswas et al. was published in Nature Chemistry.

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Conversion Boston Waste Universal 231

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MAY 6, 2022

These deposits severely limit low-temperature NO x conversion and increase fuel consumption as high-temperature engine operations are required to remove the deposits. Eighteen surfactants underwent a surface tension evaluation study to determine what type and concentration of surfactant is required to maximize surface tension reduction.

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Diesel Emissions Exhaust Engine 284

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JULY 7, 2015

A study by a team from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has found that perennial biofuel crops’ evapotranspiration does not differ greatly from corn. Land conversion to biofuel production is an example of a potential large-scale land cover change.

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Water Climate Change Climate Environment 150

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MARCH 13, 2012

Their analysis suggests that carbon storage loss caused by peatland conversion could be equivalent to as much as 7 years worth of carbon emissions by mining and upgrading (at 2010 levels). An open-access paper on their work is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States (PNAS).

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Oil-Sands Oil Carbon Conversion 270

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

A team at Ford Motor Company’s Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn conducted a detailed study of the effect of ethanol blend level in emissions, using a 2006 model Mercury Grand Marquis flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) operating on E0, E10, E20, E30, E40, E55, and E80 on a chassis dynamometer.

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Emissions Ford Exhaust Engine 294

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Because the use of natural gas for transportation requires compressing, liquefying, or conversion, it is important to determine the best use of natural gas as a transportation fuel. The baseline for comparison is based on a 2012 2.4 Their open access paper is published in the journal Energy. —Curran et al.

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Gas-Electric Gas Fuel Economy PHEV 345

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AUGUST 13, 2014

A catalyst made from a foamy form of copper has different electrochemical properties from catalysts made with smooth copper in reactions involving carbon dioxide, according to a new study by a team from Brown University. The work in the study is part of a larger effort by Browns Center for the Capture and Conversion of CO 2.

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CO2 Production Conversion Hydrogen 291

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Following conversation with industry experts SEALNG recently released an addendum to its Life Cycle GHG Emissions Study on the Use of LNG as Marine Fuel, commissioned in partnership with the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel (SGMF) and conducted by independent consultancy thinkstep.

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Mariner Fuel Alternative Fuels Canada 150

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DECEMBER 25, 2010

A study by a team at the German Aerospace Center (Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) identified autothermal reforming in combination with a water gas shift reactor as the preferred option for on-board reforming of biodiesel and bioethanol into a hydrogen-rich gas suitable for high temperature PEM (HTPEM) fuel cells.

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Aspen Concept Water Gas 199

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MAY 28, 2019

The study supplies information to determine the best design based on needs. Electroactive microbes also allow for the use of other types of renewable electricity to power these conversions. The study was supported by Cornell and the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund.

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Energy Storage Engine Energy Polymer 274

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APRIL 11, 2014

The material’s selectivity for oxygenates, with ethanol as the major product, demonstrates the feasibility of a two-step conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuel that could be powered by renewable electricity, the team suggests in their paper published in the journal Nature.

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Fuel CO2 Carbon Conversion 300

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MAY 20, 2015

For the study, the EDF team used the Technology Warming Potentials (TWP) methodology, which considers the radiative efficiency of both CO 2 and CH 4 and their atmospheric fate as a function of time, thereby providing a view of climate impacts from fuel switching across both short and long time frames. —Camuzeaux et al. L diesel to 11.9

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Climate Diesel Gas Emissions 150

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Schematic of systems considered in the study. Model scope includes all upstream processing of biomass material; conversion to liquid or solid fuel is intentionally excluded. A paper on the study was published online 19 January in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Credit: ACS, Clarens et al. Clarens et al.

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Water Waste Energy Emissions 218

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JULY 14, 2023

Conversely, assets on the upper bound of carbon intensity—responsible for just 10% of total production—generated 35% of the basin’s total GHG emissions. For comparison, the GHG intensity range for 99% total 2021 production across the North Sea study area extends to c. The full range, including outliers, extends up to c.

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Mexico Gas Oil Global 150

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Comparison of areal discharge capacities for planar, 1-fold, 2-fold, and 3-fold batteries. First using a simple folding procedure (shown in the schematic above), they found that the batteries with one fold, two folds, and three folds had approximately 1.9×, 4.7×, and 10.6× the areal capacity compared to a planar battery. Click to enlarge.

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Li-ion Concept Energy Batteries 331

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JUNE 3, 2011

GHG emission comparison between fossil diesel, transesterified lipids, HVO and woody BTL. If HVO is produced from waste feedstocks with low upstream impacts, the high conversion efficiency of the HVO production process will make HVO the preferred fuel to BTL from any woody feedstock, even woody waste. Sunde et al. Click to enlarge.

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Oil Renewable Fuel Waste 239

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

They found that, on a life cycle basis in comparison to gasoline, the direct to ethanol technology can provide a 67% to 87% reduction in carbon footprint on an energy equivalent basis for initial ethanol concentrations (given in weight percent) ranging from 0.5% g/L of cyanobacterial biomass. MJ/MJEtOH down to 0.20 wt % to 5 wt %.

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Carbon Gasoline Gas-Electric Gasoline-Electric 246

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MARCH 28, 2017

The researchers envision that the model-based approach can (i) guide fundamental experimental investigations of the combustion behavior of blended biofuels toward the most favorable mixtures and (ii) identify promising conversion pathways for further elaboration by means of reaction engineering and conceptual process design. Case study.

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Conversion Fuel Hydrogen Design 150

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

This requires estimates of total reserves and resources of each fossil fuel, carbon conversion factors, estimates of historical emissions, and a model to convert carbon dioxide emissions into temperature changes. We conducted some back-of-the-envelope calculations of the potential warming associated with using all available fossil fuels.

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Chicago MIT Tax Carbon 150

Baua Electric

JUNE 19, 2023

Conversion/govern commercials pair the dealership’s stock commercials with shouts to motion, akin to filing a mode on Fb to time table a check power. It’s dry to make sure the place each and every govern is generated, Jamieson mentioned, however it seems that Sellers United’s social media posts have a “shockingly high conversion rate.”

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In fact, although there are indeed environmental and social problems associated with battery production, many scientific studies have demonstrated that the environmental footprint of EVs pales in comparison to that of fossil fuel extraction. See a recent article in The Conversation , which includes links to numerous scientific studies.)

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Charging Federal Program Climate Change Grid 52

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MARCH 12, 2013

For pre-treatments with unconverted xylan, CodeXyme 4X maintains the same high C 6 sugar activity while having additional C 5 sugar conversion. With consistently high sugar conversion, customers are able to convert more sugar into high-value biofuels and bio-based chemicals.

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Convert Conversion 2011 Colorado 218

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APRIL 26, 2009

EBS has a collaborative R&D agreement with Ford, and participated in the study reported at the World Congress. In the study, Ford applied the E85 boosting approach to two engines: an early prototype 3.5-liter Among the conclusions reached in the study: For a 5.0L Earlier post.) PFI engine in a Ford F-150 pickup truck.

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Diesel Ford F-150 Gasoline 170