Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2013

Europe’s tire waste production is 3 million tonnes per year; currently 65% to 70% of used tires end up in landfills. TyGRE’s main idea is to couple a second thermal process—plasma synthesis of silicon carbide—to the preliminary waste tire gasification. It will process about 30 kg of tire waste per hour.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2023

Running these experiments on supercomputers instead of in the real world allows manufacturers to test new ideas while saving energy, time, and resources. Siemens and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will use HPC to enable high-resolution modeling of the C-PCM microstructure to design better materials for waste heat capture.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Concept diagram of an SMA heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. million (subject to final negotiation with DOE) to support building a prototype thermomechanical waste heat recovery system using a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) heat engine to generate electricity from the heat in automotive exhaust. Source: GM.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2017

Last Christmas, Neste jointly cooperated with the Chemical Industry Federation of Finland and other partners in its Christmas waste ham fat campaign. There are many new uses for waste and residues. At the same time, the companies also want to remind home doughnut makers of the correct means of final disposal of waste frying oil.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2021

The built environment is a big contributor to carbon emissions, global energy demand, resource consumption and waste generation. The idea being that tall buildings make optimal use of space, reduce operational energy use for heating and cooling and enable more people to be accommodated per square meter of land.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, setting up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham. Landfill is clearly not an option for this amount of waste.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Dr. Sargent said he developed the idea from reading about the emergence of life on Earth, both in primary literature and popular science books. The investigators used a special pressurized bioreactor filled with H 2 and CO 2 to make the gases available to the microbes. We wanted to try this in the lab.”.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2018

The team which wins the “BA 2119: Future of Fuels Challenge” will receive £25,000 (US$31,900) to help fund further research and a commitment from the airline to work alongside them to incubate their idea. The challenge is being launched as part of British Airways’ Centenary celebrations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

Waste tires have been used mainly for recovering energy sources; only small proportions of the carbon black contained in these tires are recycled, since mineral ash accounts for around 20% of its content. Over the longer term, the idea is to make the transition from a batch process to a continuous process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Waste generated by the facility, which manufactures all Volvo trucks sold in North America, is now recycled, composted or converted to electricity. NRV began in 2003 by first identifying and evaluating all solid and liquid waste streams within the plant. Volvo’s New River Valley (NRV) assembly plant in Dublin, Va.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The special fuel, developed by long-time series partner Aral, consists of 50% high-quality renewable components derived from waste products. We are excited about the idea of reducing CO 2 emissions through the use of waste. It’s great that motorsport is once again playing a pioneering role.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Volvo Cars will showcase a new service for direct delivery to a connected vehicle at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Despite the rise of online shopping, research has also revealed that over a half of people are not at home to receive online deliveries, leading to further hassle and time wasted through failed deliveries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The US Department of Energy estimates that idling from heavy- and light-duty vehicles combined wastes about 6 billion gallons of fuel per year. As vehicles idle at intersections and other locations, fuel is wasted. The fuel savings potential is substantial. —Tom Karnowski.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

By producing 100% renewable diesel from waste fat, the fuel’s carbon footprint can be reduced by up to 90% when compared with regular diesel. At the moment, it is not commercially viable to source waste fats directly from homes or even small restaurants, but that might change in the future. million over each festive season.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Second-generation resources consist in agricultural wastes such as wheat straw or corn stover, as well as wood chips and other forestry leftovers. Third-generation feedstocks consist of inorganic carbon resources, such as carbon dioxide or monoxide from industrial waste, and represent the ultimate alternative in terms of environmental impact.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Waste gas is one example of a source of syngas. Evonik scientists are now working to optimize these ideas and develop them still further. Evonik Industries has demonstrated the use of bacteria to convert syngas to pure 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid (2-HIBA) under industrial conditions. 2-HIBA can also be produced via chemical synthesis.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2013

Ford Fusion is the first global vehicle program from any automaker to use seat fabric made from recycled material, with the potential to recycle enough plastic bottles and post-industrial waste to make 1.5 She says the idea is to one day have all Ford fabrics consist of recycled material. million yards of fabric annually.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

When a car burns gas while sitting at a stop light or idling at the curb, it’s wasting the valuable high-octane fuel better used for acceleration. These and other PNNL advances in chemical separations and vehicle emissions research prompted the separation ideas the team pursued.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

environmental program remains on track to meet its 2018 goals of reducing energy and water consumption as well as the share in waste, CO 2 and solvent emissions at all Volkswagen plants throughout the world by 25% compared with 2010 levels by 2018. The Volkswagen brand’s “Think Blue.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

The proposed idea is to build a small scale process simulator, with both machinery and software components, which mimics aspects of a smart manufacturing system for educational purposes. The goal of this project is to drive out wasted energy in manufacturing facilities through improved information technology. Penn State University.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The only waste product is fresh clean water which could be used to refill the aircraft’s water system throughout the flight. The system would therefore reduce, if not remove altogether, the need for tugs to maneuver aircraft in and out of stands, delivering more efficient turnaround times and increased on-time performance.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2018

The vessel is planned to operate in and around Orkney, which is already producing hydrogen in volume from constrained—and hence otherwise wasted—renewable energy. Support from Scottish Enterprise allowed the idea to be taken from an early feasibility study to the point where the focus can now shift into test and delivery.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The SuperTruck powertrain includes a complex Rankine waste-heat recovery system, which converts heat normally wasted in exhaust into torque, boosting fuel economy by helping to power the vehicle. Not every idea made it to the concept vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The idea is to take as little energy as possible from the internal combustion engine. Waste heat recovery. Renault Trucks has developed a system to recover the waste heat contained in exhaust gases. Diesel Driver Assistance Systems Fuel Efficiency Heavy-duty Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery'

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Chemists at Oregon State University (OSU) have discovered that simple microwave energy can be used to make a very promising group of compounds called skutterudites used in thermoelectric materials for waste heat recovery. Right now large-scale thermoelectric generation of electricity is just a good idea that we couldn’t make work.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

day, representatives from all Volkswagen sites presented their ideas and the measures they have already implemented to reduce the use of resources. The Volkswagen foundry in Hanover uses waste heat from the cooling system in various applications such as heating offices in winter or to heat up drinking water. At the fourth "Think Blue.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This is an exciting idea that has the potential to add a scalable alternative into the portfolio of companies looking to reduce their carbon footprint. The need for a defensible new standard has led to the formation of the group, Blackburn said. —Kenneth Medlock.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Further, his company sells specialized catalyst and anticorrosion materials and services to electroplating, refining, and waste management companies. The winners of our Science Award are an excellent example of innovative and creative ideas in this field. The special prize for applied research is worth €40,000.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace. Colony Energy Partners Tulare, LLC: $5 million to construct a digester for processing waste that will produce 2.8

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

He had heard from a colleague that Zadeh had been toying with the idea of leaving Columbia. At the time, though, he had no clear idea how this would work. That idea came in July 1964. So it is quite possible that if that dinner engagement had not been canceled, the idea would not have occurred to me.”. The Golden Fleece.

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MARCH 8, 2009

We define “green&# by the use of renewable energy, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the savings of energy currently wasted, the most sustainable and conservation-minded water policies, and the most prudent and efficient use of recycling and waste management principles. 4. Waste & Recycling.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

In particular, one of the projects will explore the idea of using cheap and widely available magnesium oxide-based mineral silicates to trap carbon dioxide from industry flue gases via a process known as dry mineral carbonation. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials.

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Green Cars News

MAY 5, 2009

During last month’s SAE 2009 World Congress, Ford presented a research paper into thermoelectric exhaust heat energy recovery. The idea of thermoelectric generation is that the devices produce a voltage potential as a by-product of a difference in temperature. That can then be used to drive an electrical current.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2016

Low-temperature PEM fuel cells that use Nafion are at present being commercialized in fuel cell vehicles, but these cells can operate only at relatively low temperatures and high hydration levels; therefore, they require humidified inlet streams and large radiators to dissipate waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2018

Plus, battery costs are rapidly decreasing and the public is warming up to the idea of electric cars. This scenario could drive down transportation prices considerably while also reducing the need for consumers to own cars, eliminating environmental waste. But things are looking up for electric.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

billion (US$10 billion) for the 2013 work program will support projects and ideas that will boost Europe’s competitiveness and tackle issues such as human health, protecting the environment and finding new solutions to growing challenges linked to urbanization and managing waste. In total, €8.1

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2015

One of the ideas behind the plant and its location was to obtain the CO 2 required for methanation from the biogas plant. When the Audi e-gas plant runs, it supplies the hygienization and amine scrubbing systems in the biogas plant with heat.

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